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| = night and tomorrow. Full report on page 5. | WEATHER. ‘air and moderate temperature fo- Temperature for twenty-four hours } ended 2 p.m. today: Highest, 82, at | 5:00 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 65, at | 5:00 a.m. today | Closing New York Stocks, Page 21. Ghe vening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Member of The Associated f i) paper and also Yesterday’s the use for repubileation of all m credited’ to tt or not otherwise credited in this the Associated Press Press is exclusively entitled to dispatches I the local news published berein. AN rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Net Circulation, 92,429 ! No. 27,467. WASHINGTON D. ©, TUESDAY, JULY C 191 —TWENTY-SIX PAGES. et TWO CENTS. DOORS OF SCHOOL CLOSED 10 CITY'S ‘FOOD BUYING WORK Action by Education Board ‘Comes on Eve of Army Supply Distribution. COMMUNITY CENTERS TO GET MARKET SPACE Co-Operative Buying, Which Has Been Growing Here, Receives Se- vere Jolt Through Ruling. * | will and friendship On the eve of the expected distribu- | tion through the community here of large quantities of surplus Army foods, the board of education, it was learned the death knell for the further of public schoolhouses as stores The board’s new policy, adopted recently in executive session has not been announced publicly. thrown a bombshell into the com- munity center organization, which has developed community co-opera- tive buying through the schools as one of its principal functions. Commissioner Gardiner learned of the decision today. He said it would use It has | centers | | | | |R-34 BRINGS MESSAGE TO SPEAKER OF HOUSE Commons’ Presiding Officer Sends Good Will and Friendship Across Atlantic. ssage from the spéaker of the brought to this 34, was laid before by Speaker Gillett. A me: | ouse of common: country by the Rt the House today It said: “The speaker of the house of com- nons presents his compliments to the ker of the House of Representa- Washington, and takes thi [portunity of the voyage of airs | R-34 to send by this unique method communication a message of good cross the Atian- tic. and to add his fervent hopes for the development and improvement of -m of communication thus in- the m | tives, corpgrated for the benefit of peopfes severally represented by their two great national institutions.’ pees ESE ES EST HOUSE WILL RUSH “DRY ary Committee Made Special Order of Business. 12 HOURS’ DEBATE LIMIT not stop the sale in Washington of| Prohibition enforcement legislation, | can on Water from that the Army supplies, which stored in the fish market. street, and distributed point, and also government owned institutions, Eastern and W: tern markets. Eight community centers have been |¢Tal debace be | as framed by the judiciary committee, s made a special order of business two other District |in the House today by the rules com- the mittee, with an agreement that gen- should not exceed twelve planning to work with the municipal | hours. officials in getting the Army products to local consumers. Must Find Other Places. Unless the board should make an exception to its ruling to permit the carrying out of the Army plan as a temporary measure, the Commission- ers will have to look for distribution depots outside the schools if they con- sider that the three municipal mar- kets do not adequately meet the sit- uation. Mr. Gardiner and John McGrath, who has consented to supervise the dis- tribution, will consider the problem today. Not since community center work had its beginning here has it received such a jolt as that ¢given by the board's action. It is made clear, how- ever, that the ruling in no way, re- tlects a lag of appreciation of. what has been done in the schools to reduce | the cost of living. The new policy springs simply from the conviction of the board that com- | mercial activities in the schools have | Geveloped to the point threaten to interfere with the purposes of the schools. The resolution stating that it was the | tee. sense of the board of education that & hools should not be used as stores was off@sed by Dr. Van Schaick and is un- wersjood to have been adopted unani- mously. it has been read without comment at ® meeting of the secretaries of the sev- eral community centers, held at the Franklin School building. e Question of Extent of Ruling. The community center organization has not yet taken steps to put an end \@ the selling of foods in the school- house stores. There is some question + to whether the ruling applies to joods shipped by parcel post to branch post offices that are located in school buildings. Park View has a branch post office as well as a store in the schoolhouse at Newton and Warder streets northwest. The Patk View School was the first the District to work out commu- nity co-operative buying on a big scale John G. McGrath, who devel- oped the enterprise there, worked up # trade that at one time last winter reached the proportions of a fifty- thousand-dollar-a-year business. Eggs, poultry, butter, lard and other com- modities were received in wholesale slots and sold at a saving to the con- sumers ranging from 15 to ber cent. The board of edueation looked upon this activity with a feeling of satis- faction that an important service was being rendered citizens, but “a grow- ing conviction that sooner or later the enterprise would. reach the point where it no longer would be desi: ble to continue it as a school function. The Petworth, Wilson Normal. Eastern High, Phillips. Ph Miner Normal, Dunbar and Randall centers were not far behind Park View. in setting up Stores in the schools and demonstrating that the cost of living could be reduced through such activ- ities. Attitude of Board. In deciding that these commercial institutions t now be divorced from the District institutions of rning, members of the board es essed the hope that the exy nent conducted would point the way to # permanent soiution of the local food problem. They believe that either the District markets or rented build- ings would b handling cent sirable as food n the shoe Tt was with the greatest hos taney that we decided to prohibit the fur- i » of schools for commercial purposes,” said a member of the today, “but the #reater need education made the action impera However, we believe ve been a just fable periment, and that they something bi rational lead to cer and more practical. The pioneers in this civie service undoubtedly have shown that community co-operation can ac- complish a great Lin reducing the cost of living.” Conference Held Today. Representatives of center department of rred w Commissioner Sux has been m the community hools con- G rdiner det he board of jon be suspend the not only after the Ar s ning season Men nned to ob office motor truck service larg quantities of fruits and for canning The ruling strikes a bard blow a the post office motor truck busi Charles S. Myers, mo ck Lente agent of the Post Office Department, has located and prac for the shipment to the schoolhouse stores here of thousamis of bushels of peaches and other fruits cally arranged Suggestion by Mr. Myers. Mr. Myers 1s hopeful, however, that Commissioners will arrange to re- e at the municipal markets the food that the trucks have been bring- He Com- to the community centers. 4 this suggestion with uer Gardiner today. is Mr. Myers’ opinion that the nd E n and Western the places for the nd Page.) fs It sh market murkets are t id «Continued on When the bill was laid before the| House by the rules committee, there were indications that a bitter fight would be made on the measure. It was agreed to limit debate on the resolution to make the bill in order to one hour. Chairman Campbell of the rules committee said it was thought wise to give more time for debate than that usually \.allotted to ordinary measures. The bill will be set aside tomorrow, which is calendar Wednes- day, and its consideration resumed Thursday, and Mr. Campbell thought it would be’ possible to reach a vote Friday or Saturday. House Committee Minority Would Repeal or Modify Prohibition Enactment | Congregp is urged to repeal the pro- hibition law, or at léast to lift the ban op light wines and beer, in a where they | minority report signed by five mem- rs of the Heuse judiciary commit- which was made public last night. ‘Those who signed the report are Rep- resentatives Igoe (Missouri), Steele (Pennsylvania), Gard (Ohio), demo- crats, and Dyer (Missouri) and Clas- son (Wisconsin), republicans. They basé objections to the enforcement bill reported out by the committee upon three principal grounds, and challenge the power of Congress to pass it because in defining intoxicat- ing liquors it went beyond the o: inal act and was therefore new legis- lation. Contention of Minority. The minority contended that pro hibition enforcement, under the con- stitutional amendment, could only be legally brought about by joint state and federal action. A lengthy dis- cussion of the phrase “concurran! power.” as used in the amendment, with the presentation of Supreme Court opinions on analagous consti- tutional points, was presented to de- velop the conclusion. ‘to which government does the "LEGISLATION . has sounded Measures Framed by Judici- i citizen owe his duty to observe the| cighteenth amendment?” the report said in presenting conclusions of its signers on the point. “The answer is simple. The state surrendered to the federal government prohibition of the manufacture and sale of in- ting liquors for beverage pur- poses and simply reserved the power that in the enforcement of the amend- ment the legislation would be con- current. Concurrent Power Discussed. “We cannot eliminate from Constitution that concurrent power to enforce its provisions was given to both Congress and the several states. No law would be passed in pursu-/ curing the services of a ance to the Constitution which failed to observe this provision. Joint or concurrent legislation is necessary for the enactment of proper enforce- ment legislation. * * © The rea- son for this “reservation of state wer is plainly apparent from the stic legislation now attempted to imposed upon the people, and plainly offensive to probably a ma- ority of them. The widest possible Utude is given to the prohibitory ion, while in the enforcement sec- s the states are reduced to sub- people. Exceeds the Original Act. ‘The minority report held: “That the provisions for the en- forcement of wartime prohibition carry a definition of intoxicating l- quors which extends the prohibition that thes beyond that of the original act, and to xtent ress has not the right now to under the war power. We be- the original act should be re- Co wits lev peal constitutional hat as to section prohi and the concurrent power to rticle by appropriate bill presented is ‘ory that the ac- supreme, and to- concurrent power of ates, bul Koes the beyond the constitutional jy in defining so as to include not in fact in- ndmed time liquors” s that are View Regarding Enforcement. The views of the minority as to en- | fore forth as follows “The provisions for enforcement of the war prohub tion act contain a definition lof intoaccuting liquor which is in ef- lfect new legislation. The act of No- \vember 21, 1918, prohibited the saie of |distilled spirits for beverage purposes jand also beer, wine or other intomicat. ing malt or Vinous liquor for beverage purposes. In the recent cases in New York, where the statute was construed it was held that only intoxicating bev. erages were included, and that beer con. taining 2.75 per cent of alcohol by weight (was within the statute only if intoxicat- ing, which to be determiped us | other questions of fact. Whether or not |the original act of ginal ovember 21, 191s (Continued on Second Page.) PY rate description of the colored assail. ant. woman, away from the scene of the assault, according to their story, he took off, his cap wi his ‘sweating forehead with his left, cut on the back of the left hand. angwered a call in the neighborhood. ‘The fire alarm came at 3:40 o'clock. commissioners | attacks. WOODS SCOURED IN HUNT FOR NEGRO Police Have Clue Which May Lead to Capture of Wom- en’s Assailant. HAS SCAR ON LEFT HAND Tenleytown policé are scouring Thompson's woods, near Cathedral and Connecticut avenues, bordering on Rock Creek Park, on what they be- lieve the straightest and most definite trail of the assailant of four Wash- ington women during the past week. Near the west entrance to the Zoo papers bunched were found many new together as if they had been slept upen during the night. A bakery wagon driver this morning said he, saw a colored man walk north from this spot to the Klingle bridge, cross ing it and proceeding to Ordw street. At tits juncture the man turned and went k to Macomb street, turning west and again cros ing Klingle bridge, going down into Thompson's wood The police believe that this man had been hiding in the woods since the search for the assailant of the women was started. Scores of police are now! in the woods trying to locate him. None Under Definite Charge. Although several persons have been found who saw and can identify the} assailant of Miss Mary Saunders last Saturday afternoon, near the Kirkside golf course, police were holding no suspect on the definite charge up to a late hour this afternoon. ‘Three suspects will be sent today to/ victims of the assailant for identifica-! tion, Miss Saunders, who is at the! Georgetown University Hospital, fail- | ed to identify any of the men. The! others will see the men this after- noon. Four boys—John Mason, Aubrey Bellinger, John McAuliffe and Frank) Perry—who were sitting on a nearby | knoll Saturday afternoon when the! attack on Miss Saunders took place, were placed before the three suspects, | but declared none of them was the man. Scar on Back of Hand. The boys are said to have an accu- As he approached a man and, while running due south,| th his right hand and wiped | | thereby displaying a scar, scratch or) Police regard this as one of the most | definite clues thus far in the case. The time was sgt at before 3:40 p.m. exactly by the boys, who declared that they saw the man before fire engines 1 | Rewards Total $h700--—~-| Rewards offered for the capture of | the assailant of Miss Saunders now total $1,700. The board of county at Rockville today Placed a price of $1,000 on the negro’s head. This is in addition to a reward offered by residents of Chevy Chase, Somerset, Md., and the vicinity. An ef- fort will be made by the board of county commissioners at Rockville to secure an additional sum to bring the | | | total up to or above $2,000. Drastic Step Taken. A vigilance committee has been formed and is now hard at work to lays when the Ku Klux Klan rode to} protect the white women from brutal | Hundreds of posters with big bold! captions of “Vigilance Committee’ ave been scattered throughout the sections in which the assaults oc- curred. The posters read as follows: “Vigilance committee offers $100 in| cash to you in addition to all other rewards for the capture and delivery | or information leading to capture of | negro who committed assaults on) young white woman Saturday even- \ing, July 5, at about 3:30 o'clock p.m., | the} yw s new legislation which | sixth precincts and Detective Joseph | name of the amendment] Years old, whose home is near Rocky | ement of the war-time act were|leged insult offered a woman on 9th i | near the Chevy Chase golf links. To be paid by Charles F. Miller & Co., Bethesda, Md-’ Near-Riot Averted. t Inspector Grant said today that if| the four victims of the attacks all fail to-identify any of the three men held | all of them will be released. he capture of one of them, Wesley | liams, by Sergt. Nally of the fifth precinct, in the Baltimore and Ohio freight yards yesterday threatened a| small-sized riot. It was only by se- motorcycle with a side car, putting the suspect | into it and whisking him away that he was brought safely to police head- quarters, it is stated. The other two suspects are William | A. Smith, who was taken last night by Officers Bradley and Cox of the | seventh precinct, and Arthur Grant, arrested in the Vicinity of Somerset by Officers Smoot and Darnell. Trouble Downtown. ° A riot call received at police head- quarters about 1:30 o'clock this morn ing reported trouble at 9th street and | Grant place, the sender of the call} informing Detective Weedon, night} chief of detectives, that a orowd of, two or three thousand persons was! pursuing a negro. The negro, he stated, had fired several shots at his! pursuers and had taken refuge in an | alley near 10th and H streets. Reserves from the first, second and Morgan of Inspector Grant's staff soon reached the scene and started a search which ended in the capture of | the young colored man, who gave his as Linwood Hill, nineteen Mount, Cc. Lieut. Brown of tne! several *8ixth precinct found him hiding under a bed A revolver was found in a yard near the house in which Hill was | hiding, but he denied ownership of it. He also denied having possessed a weapon. “I hud | some torpedoes that I brought from Baltimore,” he told Capt. Flatcher, “and I exploded them.” | Questioned by Crowd. Policemen who participated in the search for Hill learned from members of a crowd of about 300 persons that Hill had been stopped and asked / about his alleged connection with the; recent assaults on women or an al-| street last night. | Shots were fired and blows were stYuck, and when the colored man, reached the entrance to the alley his! pursuers halted, fearing other shots | might wound them. When Hill was! taken to the first precinct station he was charged with assault to Theodore Kahard, $24 9th street, ‘and | with a simple assault on Geor; | Craig, 711 7th street. ere The’ prisoner told the police he} knew nothing of asaults or insults| offered women. He said he had served | loverseas in the 357th U. S. Infantry | whi and was mustered out at several weeks ago. ‘amp Meade Since that time. | aboard the dirigible, | clared that the R-34' would start to- DELAYED DIRIGIBLE TOFLY TOMORROW: Start to Be Made in Early Morning, “Wind or No Wind,” Says Briton. ITS ENGINES OVERHAULED By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., July 8.—The en- forced stay of the giant British diri- gible, made necessary by repairs to her motors, brought hundreds of vis- itors to Roosevelt Field today. The big airship will not take off on her return trip across the Atlantic ocean until after dawn tomorrow. In making the annnuncement con- cerning the return cruise Brig. Gen. E. M. Maitland, special representa- tive of the British air ministry positively de- morrow morning, “wind or no wind,” although he hoped that weather co: ditions would be favorable. ‘fo Take Southern Track. Maj. Pritchard, after inspecting the dirigible’s engines at 9 a.m. today, said all repairs would be completed by 9 o'clock tonight, and that fuel, water and other supplies would be taken aboard before midnight. Maj. Pritchard said the airship would jrun down the assailant, recalling the | take the southern track, four or five | hundred miles north of the Azores, in view of a favorable forecast of “clear” weather for the next forty-eight hours, made by the weather bureau in Wash ington and received here this morning For one-third of the course on the way over it was said the R-34 probably would strike northerly cross winds, which would not retard her very much. ‘The remaining distance, it was stated, favorable westerly winds would prevail. Mechanics at Work. Mechanics “began work this morn- ing in overhauling the engines of the R-34 preparatory to the beginning of her return flight. Work on the en- gines was rendered impossible on Monday by the swaying of the huge gas bag in the strong wind that swept across Roosevelt Field. Twice last .night the dirigible, which is moored to massive concrete anchors, began to settle toward the Kround, but her movement was de- tected in time for the members of the crew to release a part of the big airship's water ballast, and injury, to the machinery by coming in contact with the ground was prevented. To Sail Over New York. Unless present plans are changed the R-34 will sail over New York and then make directly out to sea. On its homeward journey the R-34 will carry twenty-five pounds of mail. About 100 official letters have been re- ceived at the New York post office from officials in this country con- gratulating British officials on the Success of the trip and about two hun- dred letters had been received yes- terday from newspapers and private individuals marked for transmission to England by the dirigible. Those were all put in the mail bag of the R-34. The postage on each letter was 2 eents, the regular rate. i Maj. G. E. M. Pritchard, executive officer of the dirigible’s crew, discuss- ing the difficulties in keeping the ship free from injury, said: “We did not come any way near los- ing the ship, and allow me to say that it would have been all right if we had lost it. When we planned to come here the British government asked the United States government to build a shed in which to house the | ship during her stay in this country. United States government ‘When the British gov- this it said some- This the efused to do. ernment learned | thing equivalent to ‘all right.” “Feeling that the voyage was well worth the risk, .that it would tend to increase the friendship between the people of the Uhited States and England, and that it would be well worth the cost, even if the ship were lost, the British government author- ized the flight. 600 Men Ready for Action. Last night. in event of any emer- gency which might require their presence, 600 men in khaki were held in reserve. The ship itself remained securely anchored and only a man or two were at the hand ropes, but in the camp buildings the balloon boys were prepared to come running to the rescue should an alarm be sounded. This alarm consists of a series of sirens at Mitchell and Hazelhurst fields. Save for the substitution of Col William N. Hensley, jr, of the avia- tion section of the American Army, for Lieut. Commander Zachary La downe of the American naval aviation service, Maj. Scott said he expected ‘o return With the same crew and pas- engers that he brought to this coun- try. However, he was undecided ether W. W. Ballantine, a former member of the crew who stowed away lon the westbound trip, would be al- |he stated, he had been employed as lowed to make the return journey. driver of motor truck. The police (Co! * xed on Second Paze.s ¥ antine worked a: # member of the ANXIOUS TO KNOW ABOUT THIRD TERN President’s Intentions as to Office Worries Democrats More Than League. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Many are the declarations and state- ments and informative arguments which opponents of the league of na- tions are expecting to hear from President Wilson, democrats in the National Capital is ‘whether or not the President plans to] run for a third term. To them the leaguesfight is a one-sided affair with the republicans alone to be won over as the democrats are solidly behind the league. But the democrats just as much as the republicans are anxious to get ready for 1920 and want to rally behind candidates and get in on the ground floor. Fortunately there is no dearth of candidates. A morning newspaper here today gave the impression that the presidential job might go a-beg- ging because the last revenue bill by making the President's salary subject to the income tax had virtually cut it from $75,000 to $49,000. It used to be $50,000 when Mr. Roosevelt was in office and was in- creased just before Mr. Taft was in- augurated. The increase grew out of high cost of presidential living, which includes the maintenance of the White House and entertainment of guests, domestic and foreign, and a desire to keep a President free from financial embarrassments that might affect his viewpoint toward individ- juals, from whom he might otherwise be compelled to borrow. Expense No Drawback. 'Tis whispered that the reduction of the President's salary by means of the heavy income tax has affected ad- versely men on Capitol who, hitherto, have been considered poten- tial candidates for the presidency. It ihas become the fashion in Washing- ton, anyway, for cabinet officers and others whose salaries have ranged all the way from $12,000 per annum to a single dollar a year to quit their jobs because they couldn't afford to live on such income, but rarely has anybody declined in advance to accept any po- sition, except possibly that of ambassa- dor or minister, because of the meager stipend. Men on Capitol Hill have, year in and year out, looked with covetous eyes toward the White House, expense or no expense. The story -goes that some senators recently have con- fided to friends that “under no cir- cumstances” could they accept the nomination ‘for the presidency. In- variably they have spoken of the large expense of keeping up the White House and conducting them- selves as befits the president of a great country. Called Sour Grapes. Other senators, who are not accus- tomed to think in financial terms, and to whom the high cost of presidential living is a matter of no concern, have been cruel enough to suggest that it ig u case of sour grapes with their colleagues. Even before the argument arose, however, another group of senators interested ip replenishing their own pockets by a good bet now and then began wagering large sums of money that not a member of either the Sen- ate or House would be nominated to the presidency next time on any ticket. And that’s the status of things in the congressional cloak- rooms. There are enough would-be candidates, but none of them, is be- lieved by ‘their fellow senators and representatives to have a chance. Most of the betting and gossiping concerns the republican presidential Possibilities, for up to now the dem- ocrats have been timid about talking of candidates. They haven't known where President Wilson stood in the matter. That’s why an expression from him would relieve the Pomoc ic politicians of much worry. course, if Mr. Wilson wants to r his hold on the democratic party is such that no other democrat in or out of Congress would care to make a contest for the nomination. But if, as seems most likely, Mr. Wilson should make it clear that he does not intend to run, the announcement of candidacies will not long be delayed. Aside, however, from the personal aspects of the democratic presiden- tial situation, there are friends of the league of nations who think it would be wise for Mr. Wilson to make it ab- solutely plain by specific announce- ment that he has no ambition to suc- ceed himself. They say his reception on the forthcoming western trip will partake of less partisan and personal politics if the President will an- nounce that he is through with presi- dential policies and interested only in laying the foundations for a lasting peace. There is evidence that arguments along this line have already come to Mr. Wilson's attention and that some expression direct or indirect may shortly be expected which will show the country that his sole purpose in stumping the country is to bring pub- lic opinion to bear on the American Senate for the benefit of the peace treaty and lengue of nations. BRID but what interests} ALLIED GENERALS TOPROBE IN FIUME Council Also to Name Com- mittee on Norway’s Spitz- bergen Claims. | MR. LANSING’S PROGRAM By the Associated Press, Posed of four generals, gate the recent incidents at Fiume. The supreme council of the peace conference has also decided to appoint a committee of four members to in- quire into Norway’s claims to Spitz- bergen. WPS = ere Norway Presents Claims. PARIS, July 7.—A Norwegian note on war claims, and the repatriation of ‘The Norwegian note was one from the government, presenting claims for ships sunk during the war by subma- rines and damages for sailors’ loss of life. The matter of the repatriation of Armenians in Armenian Russia was referred to Viscount Milner, member of the committee on manda- | tories. Hun Communication Ruling. PARIS, July 7.—Decision | was ! reached today by the council of five to lift the commercial censorship on communications simultaneously with the lifting of the blockade. This decision will not af- fect the censorship on matters of a political nature. Mr. Lansings Return. LONDON, July 7.—Secretary Lan- sing, says a Havas dispatch from Paris, is reported in conference cir- dent Wilson and will leave France tomorrow (Tuesday). i (An Associated Press dispatch June 29 said that Secretary Lansing ex- pected to return to the United States about the middle of July.) Mr. Polk Uninformhtive. Frank L. Polk, Acting Secretary of State, who returned today from a week's vacation with his family at Southhamp- ton, L. L, declined to say whether he would go to Paris to take Secretary Lansing’s place at the peace conference. He said he would discuss the matter with President Wilson and would make ja statement later. Mr. Polk said Mr. Lansing would re- turn to Washington soon, but that the exact date of his departure from Paris had not been determined. i IN FIUME DISPUTE PARIS. July 8—Tomasso Tittoni, | the Italian foreign minister and head | of the Italian delegation to the peace | PARIS, July 8—A commission com-! Armenians were among matters con-; {sidered today by the council of five.! British | with Germany| cles to have been recalled by Presi- | TITTONI-TO SEE KING PRESIDENT’S SHIP IS IN: PARTY HERE ABOUT 10; D.C. READY Will Walk From Train Through Lane of . Fair Girls as - Heralds. Greeting of Columbia in Tableau Posed on P. 0. Steps a Feature. Although President Wikson prob- ably will not reach Washington this evening until after 10 o'clock, he will find a large representation at the Union station ‘including representatives of the Cen- | tral Labor Union, the War Camp Com- | munity rvice and the on- Partis: | League tion The wy Yard the United Marine 1 furnish music. of Band and ate Band wi Pageant at Post Office. A pageant, organized from the Sroups that took part in Washing- ton’s Fourth of July celebration last Friday, will be heid on the steps of | the city post office, so that the Presi- |dent may view it as his automobile enters Massachusetts avenue en route | to the White House. | As the President and Mrs. Wilson lleave the train shed they will walk be a bower of flowers and pa: | | | eneath ito their automobile between long lines of girls dressed as heralds. The rine Band, just outside the station, will Play and a committee headed by Com- missioner Brownlow will extend, official- jly, the greetings of the citizens of the District of Columbia. Rules Governing Public. No throwing of flowers will be allow- ed by the police, nor will photographers be allowed to take any flashlights of the homecoming. Maj. Pullman, superin- tendent of police, and Inspector Gessford will superintend the police arrangements | for handling the crowd. |. The Navy Yard Band will be sta- | tioned near the city post office. where the tableau of Columbia extending a welcome to the President will be illuminated by searchlights. A large number of yeomen (F) will also be present in uniform to greet their commander-in-chief. representing | France, Italy, England and the United | States, has been appointed to investi- | Welcoming Committees. The committee which wil! receive | the President includes the three D: trict Commissioners, J. H. Ralston, of Nations; Harry Hollohan, senting the Central repre Labor Unioi | ular meeting last night, the vote be- plaza, and they will cheer the chief executive as he bile. The hour at which the presidential special will pull into Washington de- pends largely on what dispatch is shown in ca;rrying out the program of welcome in New York this after- noon. Secretary Tumulty has wired that the train is due to leave New York at 5 o'clock. but it is possible that this may be delayed. President's Message Completed. The President's message to be de- livered to the Senate Thursday is com- pleted. The message will take about twenty minutes to read and contains | about 5,000 words devoted to the peace {treaty and protocols and the work of the peace conference. enters his automo- i | i lence subjects are dealt with on broad general lines without taking up the large questions of the treaty in detail, as this probably will come later. when the foreign relations committees ex- amine the details. The President also will have an opportunity to go over these matters with members of the | committee. terms he will have the co-operation of a number of specialists, now re- | turning with the presidential party, 'who have dealt with the detailed |Dranches such as those concerning | reparations, territorial readjustment and economic questions. | Senate Ready to Hear President. | Arrangements were completed to- |day for the appearance of President Wilson before the Senate Thursday to present in open session the treaty | with Germany. In response to an official notifica- tion of the: president’s desires, the Senate adopted a special order for appointment of a committee of five to express the Senate's willingness to comply. The order was offered by Senator tions committee, and was adopted unanimously. President Pro Tempore Cummins appointed as members of the commit- tee Senators Lodge. Borah of Idaho and McCumber of North Dakota, re- publicans, and Hitchcock of Nebras- ka and Williams of Mississippi, dem- ocrats. They also were directed to receive the President on his arrival conference, is anxious to have the Adriatic problems settled as quickly | as possible. Signor Tittoni, who has | gone to Rome for conferences with j King Victor Emmanuel and the cab- | inet on current diplomatic neBotia- | tions, made this known in a long} conversation with one of the Ameri-/ can peace commissioners before his | departure. ‘The particular reason advanced by the Italian peace delegate was the increasing friction between French and Italian troops in Fiume and else- where along the Adriatic, further evidence of which has developed. Signor Tittoni, on leaving, planned to be absent for three days, making a complete report on thegwork he had done from the time of his ar- rival. One of the latest conferences he had was with Secretary of State Lansing and Henry White of the American delegation Sunday morning. Y Man Killed When Plane Falls. PRAGUE, Monday, July 7.—James Ceary, a secretary of the American Y. M. C. A. was killed and an Italian aviator injured when a machine in which they were flying over the Wysehrad bridge fell today. The pilot was doing circus tricks with the air-| plane, and Ceary was operating a| moving picture apparatus, when the} plane fell and was wrecked. Paris Postal Men to Strike. i | | at the Capitol Thursday. GRIEF ALLEGED CAUSE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE NEW YORK, July 8.—Miss Antoi- nette Morales, eighteen years old, said to be the daughter of the late Gen. Luis Morales, an officer in the Mexican army during the Diaz regime. was seriously injured here today when she plunged through a window of her apartment to the street. ‘According to the police, Miss Mo- rales tried to end her life because of grief over the death of her mother Mrs. Edward Verges, who died last night of gunshot wounds inflicted by the girl's stepfather. A few hours be- fore the attempted suicide Miss Mo- rales was found semi-conscious in a gas-filled room. She was revived and While her rescuer went to get her a drink of water she threw herself from the open window. ‘Miss Morales had which she said she “could not without her mother.” ELECTORAL BILL ADOPTED. PARIS, Monday, July 7.—The elec- toral reform bill, with amendments, was adopted today by the chamber of deputies. The vote was 334 to 121. itten a note in live to welcome him home, | Ma- | representing the Non-Partisan League the President was reached at the reg- | It is understood these peace confer-/ In this «examination of the! Lodge, chairman of the foreign rela-| TO WELCOME Returning Executive Is Greeted by Big Guns’ Salute at Sandy Hook. | | Members of the Cabinet on Dreadnaught Meet Home- comers Off the Jersey Coast. By the Assor NEW YORK, July \—The Gearge Washington turned in to her pier at » pam. NEW YORK fle Juiy thi t of warship Washington, bringing Pres! ' son home from France, passed quar- antine and moved on to New York jharbor at 1:30 p.m. today As the transport passed Fort Han cock the guns boomed a presidentin! salute. echoed ten minutes later by | Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsw {The shrill whistles of harbor craf took up the din President and Wife on Bridge. The President and Mr on the bridge of the ington slowly | Up the harbor to her pier at Hoboken jconvoyed by destroyers and welcom ne craft of all descriptions The rails of the transport were lined with returning soldiers cheering and waving their caps. _ The battleship Pennsylvania. bear- ing five members of the President's | cabinet—Daniels, Baker, Lane, G and Wilson—led the . followed by the Oklahoma with the George Wash ington at her stern Clear Way Up Harbor. The George Washington Way up the harbor. Poli patrol boats preceded th and her escort, sending Path excursion craft barges, The President's flag the foremast of the tingtor Except for the wide which the transport bor seemed literally craft of ad a clear nd nav transport ut of their ferries and w G . the har Hed with smal every kind carrying excur ionists who shouted and waved | Welcome to Mr. Wilson. A grea crowd of welcomers also had assem- Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest of the War! bled on the Staten Island shore und |Camp Communion Service, ard other | the New Jersey” site. men and women prominent in local | circles. Slows for High Tide. | The decision of the Central Labor! 4), ~ OR, Union to take part in the reception toj_ The George Washington loafed along up the harbor waiting for high {tide before she swung in to the Ham- |ing unanimous. Every trade and {bUrg-American line piers at Hoboken | calling will be represented in the! This precaution was considered ad throng that gathers on the station | V! sable because the huge steamer Le- viathan occupied the adjoining pier and her stern extends into the river hips moored on both sides of the river were gaily decked with flags, as was the Hamburg-American pier. The transport was being led by two destroyers and one battleship and fol lowed by two destroyers over the regu- lar transport course, which is south of that taken by commercial vessels com- ing across the Atlantic. The transport was under the «: of two battleships, thirty-eight stroyers, one mine sweeper and dirigible ‘balloon. Four of the destroy- ers sailed from Brest ith the President The leading destroyers of the Presi dent's convoy passed the leader of the welcoming fleet six miles south- ort de- east of Ambrose lishtship at 10:30 With a nayal dirigible hovering over her, the George Washington came in sight of the Jersey highlands at 11:0 a.m. The President's transpor! was flying a huge American flax from the stern, the President's flag from the main truck and smaller flags on the jfore and mizzen mastheads. A sea- iplane which went out to meet the | transport was forced to come down on the seas. The George Washington and her convoy passed Ambrose lightship at noon, led by the battleship Pennsyl- vania with Secretary of the Navy Daniels and a party of other govern ment officials on board As the Gearge Washington passed Sandy Hook the President's salute ‘as fired by the guns on shore Make-up of Escorting Craft. Four dreadnaughts and thirty-six destroyers from the Atlantic flee: formed the escort that met the George Washington, with President Wilson aboard, thirty miles east of Sands Hook early today. The presidentia lute from those vessels w of the many welcoming awaiting the President In the harbor were forty-five war ships, headed by the flagship Penn yivania, with Admiral Henry B. Wil son aboard, assigned to join the out Jharbor escort. Vice President Mar shall and members of the cabinet wer: assigned tothe Pennsylvania, while the city’s official welcoming " party s the firs ceremonies headed by Mayor Hylan and Gov Smith, were passengers aboard the municipal crafts Patrol and Correc- tion. Destroyers Again Honored. Among the destroyers in the escort | were the Wilkes, Rowan, Kimberly O'Brien, Nicholson, Winslow, Erics son, Wadsworth and Porter, all of ich were in the United States 4 stroyer escort of twenty-four de stroyers for the transport on Decem ber 13 last from Queenstown. when the President made his first trip to France. On duty for the President's arrival were eleven hundred policemen from the Jersey City and Hoboken forces and several thousand school children were formed in River street to greet the President with “The Star Span- gled Banner” as he left the George Washington to embark for Manhattan on a special ferryboat. Hoboken w a mass of flags in honor of the Presi- dent's return. Immediately after the welcoming exercises in Carnegie Hall President Wilson will go to the Pennsylvania station to take a special train for Washington. BOSTON SALOONS REOPENED. 500 New Licensees Sell 2 3-4 Per Cent Beer. BOSTON, July 8.—Five hundred liquor dealers who received new licenses yesterday permitting the sale of beer, ale and light wines, reopened their places of business here today PARIS, July 8.—The executive com- mittee of the\ Federation of Postal) Employes decided today to join the/ General Labor Federation in its twen- ty-four-hour strike on July 21, ac- coring to Le Journal. ‘The most important feature provides and sold 2% per cent”beer. They ha for the election of members of the been warned by the United State house of deputies by departments tn- stead of arrondissements. Other pro- visions are more or less minor in char- district attorney's office that one of their number would be arrested to- day or tomorrow for Violation of the ° prohibition act in a test case.