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Fair today; ‘warmel r. at 4 p.m.; lowest, 59, at 5 Full report on page 3. WEATHER. tomorrow fair arid Yesterday’s temperature—Highest, 78, a.m. | No. 750—No. 27,500. CONGRESS TO BEGIN ACTION AGAINST H. C. L. TOMORROW; RS OF FOOD FOR D. C. FOUR CA ‘House Committee Will Consider Limiting Time in Storage. MORE THAN 25 ARE CALLED TO TESTIFY Special Attention Is to Be Given to Conditions in Washington. Action by Congress to regulate the ost of living in accordance with rec- mmendations made by President ‘Wilson in his recent message will be begun tomorrow morning, when the House committee on agriculture will take up consideration of the bill re- cently introduced by Representative Hutchinson of New Jersey which would limit the time foodstuffs could be held in cold storage. Especial attention will be given to conditions {n Washington, where the President said congressional action might well be taken first because of its unlimited jurisdiction here. Local representatives of the big packing houses, officials of the Center Market Cold Storage Company and similar industries are expected to acquaint the committee-with the food situation in the National Capital. More than twenty-five witnesses, pl! of them interested in cold storage or related industries, have been asked to testify, among them being Dr. Carl Alsberg, chief of the bureau of chem- istry, and officials of the bureau of markets. “ Secret Service to Be Busy. ‘ while this and other committees re taking up the matter of new Jegislation, the entire secret service eas of the bureau of investigation ‘of the Department of Justice will be following up evidence of hoarding or ‘appropriation: nee to enable the govérnment de- partments to take up the attack on ‘the food problem from every angle. Chairman Cummins of the Senate : on interstate commerce <will appoint a subcommittee’ tomor- 1 vow to tecommend legislation in keep- ing with the President's suggestion ‘that interstate shipments of necessi- ties be controlled by = licensing sys- tem. President Gives Up Trip. President Wilson gave up his wsual week end voyage down the Potomac on board the Mayflower, and except for a short automobile ride Jate yesterday remained at the White House throughout the day. It is ex- pected that he will leave for his peaking tour of the Pacific coast within the next ten days, and it is probable that the high cost of living ‘will share a place with the league of nations in the twenty-five or more mpeeches he intends to make in widely separated parts of the coun- ta Im referring to the need for cold storage legislation, which is expected to form the basis for congressional action, the President said in his mes- wage last Friday: “I earnestly recommend, in the sec- nd place, that Congress pass a law regulating cold storage, as it is regu- lated, for example, by the laws of the etate of New Jersey, which limit the time during which goods may be kept Gn storage,.prescribe the method of @isposing of them if kept beyond the permitted period, and require. that goods released from storage shall ‘in all cases bear the date of their receipt. It would materially add to the serv-| the part of labor to work and loss of ficeability of the law, Yor the ptrpose ‘we now have in view, if it were also ‘prescribed that all goods have plainly marked upon each package the sell- ing or market price at which they went into storage.” Will Get Views of Many. Except for the latter recommenda- tion the President’s ideas are em- bodied in the Hutchinson bill as it now stands. This bill is but one of peveral which the House agriculture committee will consider. Producers, @s well as cold storage men and dis- BELGIUM GETS US. ARMY FOOD Approximately $19,- 000,000 worth of Amer- ican. Army foodstuffs stored at Antwerp and the Hook of Holland has been sold to the Belgian government, the War Department was advised yesterday by Judge Edwin B. Parker, chairman of the liquidation com-, mission now in Europe. The money is payable in three years at 5 per cent interest. MILLIONS WITHOUT FOOD LOOK TOU. 8. Head of Surveys for Ame! can Relief Home After Eight Months Abroad. PROBLEM IS IMMEDIATE By the Associated Press. Austria, Hungary, Rumania and sér- bia. “There are millions of people in Europe who have no food,” he. said, “and who look to the United States to, supply it. Growing of crops abroad is curtailed pending terri- torial adjustments. Governments will not spend millions of dollars for farm implements, even if they.can ob- tain them, to be used on Jand that may shortly be given to a neighboring nation. Left in Political Chaos. “There are nearly 106,000,000 of peo- ple in central Europe. The armistice left these in- political chaos, divided into new states struggling with inex- perienced governments, their tran: portation disorganized, with scarcity of coal, great depreciation of curren- cy, acute struggles between labor and capital and all over the pall of war fatigue. “The problem of food was the im- mediate problem. If they could be carried into the new harvest this would afford time in part for their governments to become stabilized, their communications to be restored, their railroads re-ogganized, their supplies and fuel established. This would give six months for the study of their problems of currency and for order that interstate commerce might be resumed. “The great defect in central Europe today, indeed, in Europe as a whole, is the failure of production. The causes of the reduced productivity may be summarized as: Scarcity of coal, raw material and food; depre- ciation of currency; disinclination on initiative and enterprise on the part of capital.” Views as to Central Europe. Considering the central European countries individually, Dr. Taylor aid: ‘Poland is in a fairly hopeful situa- tion, despite the great scarcity of work animals. Finland and the east Baltic states are in a condition of chaos. Czechoslovakia is in very good condition, American foodstuffs alone enabling the people to carry on until the present harvest. Rumania has also been carried on by American and tributors, will be asked by Chairman Haugen, to state their views, and of- Gicials of the National Grange and of ther producing and marketing asso- @iations have arranged to, be heard. | $2 FARMERS ARRESTED. 81 Fined at Pittsburgh in Effort to Check Profiteering. PITTSBURGH, Pa, August 9%.— ‘Thirty-two farmers were arrested here today on warrants charging them with misdemeanor by Murray Livingston, city ordnance officer, inan effort to check profiteering among farmers who sell foodstuffs in this ity at abnormal prices, and who do not market their measures properly a@s required by law. Those arrested were arraigned in police court and fined $1 each for | every basket and- container which ‘was not marked properly. One farm- er of the thirty-two arrested was \discharged. British foodstuffs. The kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is har- vesting @ good crop, which will give them an exportable surplus. “Austria is in very bad shape and has one of three prospects. She might become another Switzerland; she may be joined to Germany and share the fortunes or misfortunes of that state, or she will become a charge upon the charity of the world, as year by year her population dwin- dles down to the point where the soil will sustain it. “In Hungary the peasants sent food to Budapest only under compulsion. The city is being fed by the American relief administration, but with the re-establishment of normal conditions, the burden of subsistence of Budapest will fall upon the country districts, whose crop will suffice to carry Buda- pest well into the spring and, pos- sibly, throughout the coming year. “Bulgaria has remained outside of the field of relief, politically, economi- cally and in every other way.” ~ Iss the re-establishment of industry in WASHINGTON, D. ©, Committee Anticipates Enormous Rush for Army Supplies. GROUP ORDERS MAY BE SENT IN NOW Tickets Are Expected to Be Ready Tomorrow—List of Anticipating an enormous rush for) Army surplus food, the local com- mittee on community buying has in- creased its order to the War Depart- _ment from two carloads to four car- loads, valued approximately at $25,000. Chairman E. D, Atkinson made an announcement to this effect last night. Final arrangements will be, made for the increaséd order tomorrow morning and the food is expected to start arriving at the municipal fish market, the central distributing cen- ter, before nightfall. Taking Group Orders. Group orders for the food may bé sent in to the office of Mr. Atkinson, in the Post Office Department build- ing. Community orders will be fille first. Few individual orders for less than a case or similar unit of meas- ure are expected to be handled. The groups will constitute bureaus of departments of the federal and District government, and the units of measure cannot be divided, it was stated, until distribution is made at the originating point. Persons desiring to place orders should esk for their consignments through the nearest community cen- ter, or make‘up an order in their re- spective offices, divisions, bureaus or departments, where they can co; veniently receive and pay for th goods. Only orders from responsible ot ‘buylris mittee of sixteen. ‘The printed tickets of $1, $5 and $10 values are expected to be in the hands of the committee tomorrow. These tickets will be dis- tribute! as receipts. When the order is filled and delivered, the receipt will be collectéd. In case the order is not filled the receipt will automatically become a rebate check, on which the money paid can be obtained from the finance scbcommittee. Places where these tickets may be obtained will be announced tomorrow. Both the prices to be charged by the War Department and the prices charged by the committee ane stated in the list which follows. The com- mittee charges are approximately 5 per cent higher than the War Depart- ment prices. The additional’ charge will cover expenses such ag freight, @rayage, labor, shrinkage and the like. ‘The committee intends to continue its efforts to procure additional as- signments, not only here and in Bal- timore, but elsewhere, as long as ‘the surplus Army supplies are available. "The List of Prices. ‘The list of articles available at this time and prices follow: Com- Q.M.D, mittee. Issue bacon, in crates of 120 Pound ....... 85% be Bye $6.80 sie \ s8e @e —6e ek. $8.50 8 Yellow corn meal, in i66-Ib. - sack. +-$5.79 98.00 Bee sack $6. $4.80 Pine hominy, No. 2 cartons, 24 % in case. Per carton. Macaron!, 24 cartons in case. carton . Per can. in 100-1b, sacks.” Each ES in 96.74 style sausage, 24 cans ch case, Per can . sack Vienna Sane Graham crackers, tons, 48 in package. e as the commercial brands. In 100-Ib. sacks. Each sack. -.$6.00 SWITZERLAND DISCUSSES PLANS TO REDUCE H.C. L. BERN, Switzerland, August 9.— Food Minister Kaepelli, at a confer- ence held at the federal palace today for the purpose of finding means to reduce the cost of living, declared that stocks held for speculation would be seized for the benefit of the popula- tion. The creation of a federal office to fix prices was proposed. Reduction of profits of the middle- men and the necessity of internation- {al negotiations with a view to reduc- ing prices were discussed. —_———— Portugal Attacks H. C. L. LISBON, August *.—The cabinet ministers. met today to discuss eco- nomic means to-lower the cost of liv- ing. he Sunday Star. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1919. * THE: HOPEFUL CUSTOMER. PLEATOMR. WILSON] VISCOUNT GREY REPORTED Urge National Aspirations in Thrace—To Assemble Here at Once. Aroused over what they consider unjust treatment of Grecian claims in the peace conference and the gp- parent leaning of the American dele- gation in Paris taward Bulgarian as- Gtecian delegates ingtoh. The time of the of the appeal hope to present Greec: repre- awe predéntation té President Wilsou de- pends entirely upoh the afrival. of: the far western delégatea. It in their claim * in proper light and clear up inach of the misunderstanding: whicH they feel exists in American éMcial quarters. Say They Desire Justice. sider justice in United States and ‘Greece, said: “The argument is advanced by the in Paris that the economic interests. of the Bulgarians in having an outlet on the Mediterranean should be taken into account, even in the face of the rights of Greece, which are based up- on ethnological grounds according to the principle of self-determination of the interested population. But, then, why did not Poland get Danzig? Al- though the town was the only outlet to the sea for Poland, Danzig was not given on account of the German pop- Americén representatives ulation. “Why is that same principle not good any more when applied to Greece and Bulgaria? And yet .the situation - as. that of Bulgaria -is not the same. of Poland. * Bulgaria Has Ports. “Bulgari: The Greeks of America plan to make their plea on what they con- ttlement to the perplexing issue of:Thrace. Accord- ing to latest information from Paris, the American delegates there have shown a tendency to deprive. Greece of those sections of Thrace which are, it is argued, preponderantly “Grecian from almost every. standpoint. i They believe that in the recogni- tion of Bulgaria’s claims the United States will commit a grievous wrong, not only from the standpoint that Bulgaria was Germany's ally and at no ‘time was a friend of this coun- try, but also the United States will give indorsement tos. principle which is anything but direct pursuance of the policy of self-definition of peo- ples. In @discussing the Grecian. stand- point, Dr. John Constas, ‘1111 Massa- chusetts avenue, a native of Greece, but who as an American citizen al- ways has actively striven to promote better understanding between the Decision Not Reached, Sunday Observer of London Says. Recently Mentioned Un- VENIZELOS’ WAR THREAT]. officially as Possibility for Pest in America. By the Associated Press. LONDON, ‘Sunday, August 10.—The Sunday Observer announces that the post of ambassador to’ the United ‘Lo said that ‘Viscotint Grey had “been mentioned unofficially as a possibility for the post of ambassador to the United States. Afthough Viscount Grey’s eyesight is failing rapidly, ~ the advices (said there was a tendency in American cir- cles in-London to couple the viscount’s name with the statement of Andrew H. C. FRICK PA Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, August 9.—Henry C. Frick, ‘who has been a liberal pur- chager from’ the works of art included in the collection of the late J. Pierpont galleries in his house on Fifth avenue by ‘the addition of the famous Limoges and rare triptychs of great value. As long ago’as-1915 Mr. Frick had bought sore of the rare Morgan porcelain china, amounting in price to more than $1,000,000. Previously he had acquired the famous Fragonard paintings to decorate his Fifth avenue home. ‘The purchase of enamels, which is said to have ‘been completed some iS KILLED, 20 INJURED IN ELEVATOR EXPLOSION PORT COLBORNE, Ontario, August 9.—Eight persons were killed and 2 Beore were injured, seven of them seriously, in an explosion which wrecked the large government grain elevator on the Welland canal here this~ afternoon. Four of the bodies have been- recovered, one has been located in the debris: of the elevator and three others are in the wreck of the barge Quebec, which lies on the beach outside the harbor, where she was towed to prevent’ her sinking. The financial loss is estimated at 4 $1,800,000. Spontaneous combustion is has two beautiful: ports | petteved to have caused the explosion. and harbors in the Black sca—Varna and Bourgas. Rumanie, ‘although |p s. Harvey, was among the injured. larger, bes but one port on that ssme sea. As the ‘straits of the ‘Bosporusitne elevator hands returned ‘to work and the Dardanelles will be tree lronowing their dinner hour. The. con-’ ‘The superintendent of the’ elevator, The explosion occurred shortly after in the future, the’ economic and com- | cussion shook the whole town and_win- sacrificed. “Bulgarians often have declared, and it has been . repeated. after them: before in. Thrace, but’ now there are none.any more and only Bulgarians live there.’ It is trne, unfortunately, that many Greeks have been killed, starved or deported by the Bulgarians since the treaty of Bucharest, and many have been obliged to, seek refuge in Greece. But first it is impossible to admit that the Bulgarians could derive rights’ trom “Thére were Gree! mercial interests of Bulgaria are ‘safe: | dows in nearby buildings were smashed. Besides, both the Dedeagatch and iyiames spread through the wreckage, Porto Lagos could not be made really! but sbecause of fireproof construction available for commerce without very !they soon burned out and an hour after great expense. So that the alleged: ‘a ‘ tact ike economic interests of Bulgaria are {120 explosion rescue parties at not at all of such importance that | the undoubted ethnological ‘interests ; of the Greek population should be} work, ‘The barge Quebec, moored at an ele- ‘yator leg, -was smothered under a pile of wreckage as she heeled over and block of concrete. To prevent her sink- ing she was towed outside the breakwall and beached. ‘The elevator was. built eight years ago at @ cost of. $2,000,000. It had a capacity of more than 2,000,000 bushels and the bins were said to be about one- ‘third filled with grain, mostly wheat. gitebiete std Italian Mission Reaches Irkutak. OMBK, July 27 (Russian Tele- hic Agency).—An Italian military Silaaion bap arrived in Irkutek. PLAN OF U.S, GREEKS BRITISH CHOICE FOR ENVOY Morgan, is said to have enriched the! enamels, some forty in number, bronzes | 2 huge rent was torn in her side by a i { | dent’ Bonar Law, 'the. government's *pokes- man in the house of comrmons,- ifitimat- ing that a.person who. had-been:high in political life would be offered the position. . YS $1,500,000 FOR MORGAN WORKS OF ART months ago, aithough it has just been made, public, is said to involve as much as $1,500,000. Notable among the ‘enamels in the Morgan collection which Mr. Frick has acquired. are portraits by Leonard Limousin and jearlier artists, such as Monvaerni, |Nardon and the Penicauds- By his purchase of the Morgan | Fragonards and other valuable paint- jings and tapestries, as well as the ;costly Chinese porcelains in the col- lection and his valuable acquisitions from other quarters, Mr. Frick seems |to be justifying the prediction that he would take the place of Mr. Morgan jas.the foremost of American col- lectors of art in this country. UCHIDA'S: WORDS FAIL TO SWERVE CHINESE By Cable to The Star and New York ‘World. Copyright 1919. PARIS, August 9—China’s refusal to sign the peace treaty wilt be changed in no wise by the statement made by Viscount Uchida, Japanese foreign minister, which it is’ felt sheds no fresh light on the Shantung situation. That is the impression received to- @ay at the headquarters of the Chi- nese delegatian. The Chinese hold that the allies must seek furthet conces- sions from Japan if China is to ac- gept the terms of peace. President Wilson’s negotiations were designed to obtain from the Japanese. government definite pledges to: Peking about the date of the Japanese evacuation of Shantung, which Viscount Uchida’s utterances fail to provide. The fact that China has to declare the termination of her state of war with Germany makes it more than ever necessary for her to maintain an uncompromising policy, in the view of her delegates here. —s—__—_. HUNS NAME COMMISSION TO DISCUSS REPARATIONS VERSAILLES, August 9 (by the Agsociatéd: Press).—Baron Kurt» van Lerener, head of the German peace delegation,’.today notified the secre- tary of the peace conference that a. commission, headed by Director Berg- man. ‘of the Deutsche Bank, and i4- oluding representatives of several governmental departments, had: been formed to\ negotiate with thp inter allied commission on reparations, *. ‘ef the trognm and better fhnd, Sage ae MR. ROCKEFELLER ADVISES KEYNOTE IS CO-OPERATION NEW YORK, August 9.—John D. Rockefeller, in a brief article written for the August number of the Lam, a magazine printed for employes of the Standard Oil Com- pany, declares that co- operation is the keynote on which the reconstrec- tion of the wartorn world must be based. “The world needs, above all else, co-ofera- tion,” wrote the Stand- ard Oil founder. “A new world is to be founded. The men of this genera- tion are entering into a heritage which makes their fathers’ hives look poverty-stricken by com- parison. You need only to steer the straight course, to apply your- selves assiduously to the task, to use your imagi- nation, your sympathy, your best judgment, and success must be yours.” BETTER ERA SEEN FOR GAPITAL-LABOR Mr. Wheeler Calls President’s Summons to Fair Play Timely.- HEALTHY RIVALRY, IDEAL tuerita,106ks-fatward to an era:of hotter understanding between capital and-labor, and’bélieves that the Pre: summons. to a spirit of fair play is timely. “Ido not agree entirely with the President's evident. belief that the time wil come'when capital and labor will have no differences,” he*said, “but that does not change the fact of the need of an alleviative for the present spirit of antagonism and more com- ‘mon ground between the groups. Healthy Rivalry, Ideal. “Just_as there has always been and always will be a chasin or a de- gree of difference between the buyer and the seller of commoditfes in the market, so there will always be more or less of a distance between capital and labor in matters pertaining to employment. But instead of being based on ill will, as it is in a consider- able measure now, it can and ought to be a healthy rivalry that is stimulat- ing to both capital and labor. “I believe that the better under- standing which the; President is seek- ing can be brought about by the will- ingness to consider each other’s prob- lems ‘without prejudice or suspicion, and by a recognition on the part of the employer that if he is profiting on his operations to a greater extent than the value of his capital, the risk involved and the skill of manage- ment make justifiable, his employes are certain to exact their proportion of the excess which he is endeavoring to fix upon the consumer.” Perkins for Even-Handed Justice. Comment was made by George W. Perkins, president of the Cigar Makers’ International Union of Amer- ica, as follows: “There is much in the President's message that should be fully consid- ered, digested and acted upon by all loyal, fair-minded American citizens. Nothing short of even-handed justice will be helpful in this crisis.” SOILED IN GERMANY DURING FOOD RATS By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 9.—Fifty persons were killed during disturbances yes- terday near Chemnitz, a railroad sta- tion, thirty-eight miles southwest of Dresden. Troops were overpowered gnd dis- armed by a mob. The soldiers’ horses were slaughtered and the flesh distributed to the crowd. Many wounded persons are.in the Chem- nitz hospital, Additional troops are being sent to quiet the disorders. _ The riots are-Chemnitz, due to the shortage of food, did not becgme seri- ous until yesterday, when Spartacan agitators persuaded a mob to storm the railway station. The mob dis- persed the government’ troops sent against it and ‘then stormed the prison and released several. com- munists. Telegrams have been sent to Dres- den, the capital, demanding ‘the litt- ing .of- martial law, the withdrawal RAILWAY SHOPMEN DECLARE REFUSAL TO RESUME WORK Vote Throughout Strike Area : Indicates Determination: Not to Yield. LOCAL UNIONS INCLUDED IN OPPOSITION RANKS : Few Small Places, Notably in’ South, Reported in Favor of Ao- cepting Agreement Tendered. Many of the striking railroad shop- men, including those in Washington, are determined not to return to work, as urged by President Wilson and Di- rector General Hines, pending a set- tlement of their demands on their merits. This was shown by the votes at scores of meetings held throughout the strike-affected area. Some few the smaller places, especially in south, voted to resume work. The 2,000 shopmen in Baltimore of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad last ight voted to return to work tomorrow, pending action by Director E Hines on the question of an increase’ fn wages. , Chicago Men Continue Defiant.” Representatives of the Chicago dig- trict council of the Federated Raj ‘way Shopmen's Union, which called'@ strike August 1 in defiance of the international officers of the shep crafts unions, dominated conferences at. which some of the international officers sought to have the men’ re: turn to work in obedience to the wishes of President Wilson. ': The council sent a telegram to the President stating that until some concessions had been made the atti< tude of the men would be oe and they would remain on strike. John D. Sanders, secretary of council, asserted that, notwithstanding the claims of the international off cers and rail officials that not more than 40,000 men were on strike, met work.at Champaiga, Il, he sald." Firm in Other Sections. At meetings of the executive of all local unions’ of railroad ers “concerned in the strike of the- New York, New Haven and Hartford,’ ‘Boston and Albany and Boston am@~ Maine systems, delegates reported the men virtually unanimous in their @@: termination to remain out until. better proposition was submitted than the order from President Wilson to Director General Hines for the awarding of wage increases on thelr. merits. 9 igh The Boston and Maine railroad de clared an embargo against all freight from connecting points except milk and perishable foodstuffs. z Improved Situation in Southeast. Although union railway shopm: : Atlanta and Birmingham continued to | remain away from their work, 7 promised return tomorrow of 4 striking shopmen at Macon, Ge., Albany, Ala., appreciably improves situation in the southeast. In gome localities the strikes rather than diminished. One hindi and fifty car inspectors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- ‘road, employed in the Harlem rivet | yara, struck, apparently in sym} 1 with the striking shopmen. Company officials declared the men had pfe~ sented no grievances. it Shop employes of the Toledo, BE. Louis and Western railroad went. strike at Frankfort, Ind. following a strike vote. Union officials said 500 men quit work. i Votes For and Against Strike. © Places at which strike meetings were held where the vote was against returning to work included: Atlanta, Ga.; Birmingham, Ata.; Memphis, Tenh.; Sheffield, Ala.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Cins cinnati, Ohio; New York, Washing- ton, D. C. Among the meetings which voted, resume work were: Hermi Kan.; Nashville, Tenn.; Indi Bis: LOCAL SHOPMEN REFUSE = TO ABANDON THE STRIKE i : 3 i Shopmen of the Washington Terml- nal Company formerly employed st the. Union station and freight and at the Potomac yards near andria, Va., which is thé main tributing point for all freight te from the north and, south, are 2 ready to return to work. There are approximately 600 shop- men, machinists, bollermakers, sheet metal: workers and pipe. fitters blacksmiths out at the terminal were formerly connected with Washington Terminal Company. fictals of the American’ Federation Labor say the strike is withont all thority from internattonal and that the strikers refuse to the mandate of the executive f the railroad efnployes’ sone ae of the American Federation of issued Friday morning. At a mags meeting of the held at headquarters in the 3 Masonic Temple, near 12th and # streets northeast, Friday afterna the order of the American a on Seeond