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{ proper. of course, and according to the | in 1868, Rushed” White House Guards to See President TALK OVER CABINET 1SSTILLDOPE! SAY INFORNED LEADERS Senators Believe “Certain Embarrassments” May Pre- | clude Hughes Accepting. ¥ BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Cabinet talk is still being called *‘cab- tnet dope” by informed republican sen- aters, some of whom have conferred with President-elect Harding lately. Exception is not made even in the case {of Charles E. Hughes for Secretary of | State, and it is contended that while the appointment is probably open to him, there are attached to it certain embarrassments which may preclude its acceptance by him. Many senators} conversant with the situation are un- able to perceive how he can take the place without a certain degree of stulti- fication of his known vViews on the league of nations. The facts in the case of Mr. Hughes' position are said to be these: That upon the fifst suggestion of his possible { melection the irreconcilable senators ob- Jected, on the ground that he favored using the existing covenant of the Jeague to build the new association of { nations on. Thereupon they were as- | SENATOR HENRY B. ASHURST Of Arizona. In an eflort to see Pres- ident Wilson concerning the status of the resolution extending the time for improvementx on mining claims ve- uired b.y law, the mena somewhat t ted States the Presi- CITIES BUILT INWAR GHANGED BY PEAGE Residents of Government- Owned Villages Lack Mu- nicipal Control. CRADDOCK, VA., EXAMPLE Predicament There of Citizens Somewhat Analagous to That Found in Washington. One of the interesting aftermaths of the war which has to a large extent es- caped general public notice is the read- Justment to the purposes of peace of the great home-building projects of United States Housing Corporation. Of particular interest are those built outside of the cities and de- veloped into good sized communities under the protecting care of the gov érnment. The land in these projects was bought by the government or condemned under necessity of war, and thus converted into government reservations undeg the sole charge of the federal authorities and without i a eitizen of the|the jurisdiction of the local county and state government: The government, the purpose of preventing speculation in such a commodity as a home, and from the more practical standpoint of finances, is still in possession of the deeds to ‘hite House, and an- - sured that it is not Mr. Harding's in- | genn on Askurst returned 10 e ot tention to avail of the existing co enant, and that if Mr. Hughes should { accept, it would not be indication of a leaning ‘O'Ird_ the league as now con- stituted. Leyal te Avowed Principles. Senators construed that assurance to ‘mean that Mr. Hughes would then be counted upon to abandon his well ‘ grounded convictions in the premises ‘for the honor of the appointment, and #omehow that suggestion “does not ,lmnd like Hughes,” they say. His ‘whole career has borne testimony to te- "‘macious holling to convictions once ‘reached and loyalty to principles “avowed. 3 When they get right down to cases i republicans of prominence who have | talked with President-elect Harding Tecently and exchaned notes agree in ‘the impression that he has not thus { far decided upon any definite solution ‘of the league of nations problem, be- \yond determination not to use the xisting covenant as the framework for an alternative proposition. They fconcur in the belief that he is still groping his way, pulled and hauled { The number ordered during the year was 2,001. The number built in 1919 by this and that factiod, his steps suided by sincere intent to secure |} %162 but the number ordered was harmony in the party. ‘The number of freight cars built in 1920 for domestic service was 58,364, Wiwasie Sl AN as compared with 94,891 In 1919, and Ana here comes Senator Penrose, the number of passenger train cars | unquestionably potential factor in {built o":'lylx"’ e g b B g | Senate leadership, on the first day of [ Siatistics compiled by Dr. Julius H. | resumption of activity in Semate af-|Parmiee, director of the bureau of ! fairs, sounding a warning that the{railway economics, shows that the Senate will not take from any Secre- | frafic handled by the railways in th tary of State, whomsoever he may be, dictation upon this gregt question. first eleven months of 1930 was.as great as the amount previously handled by them in any entire year. It also Which is by way of saying to the |Shows that their total earings, total President-elect, over the head of the | ohern Intser o oy oand, taxes were yét unselected premier, that the Sen- ate will have the last say and exer- { cise “its judgment—quite right and| de the policemen and Tumulty. 1 {RAILS 1920 RECORD GOOD IN SPITE OF HINDRANCES Increase Capacity of. Ph‘y!ienl Properties, According to Age Statistics. CHICAGO, January 1. — Railways made a good start in 1920, in spite of their adverse conditions, to increase the capacity of their physical prop- erties. according to statistics com- piled by the Railway Age. In respect to physical development the record is worse in only one re- spect than in 1919. The total {amount of new mileage constructed was only 313 miles. as compared with 686 miles in 1919. This is the smallest amount of mileage built since records regarding _rallway building_have been kept. Further- more, 713 miles were abandoned, which <is the largést mileage ever abandoned in one year. This is the fifth successive year in which the mileage abandoned has exceeded the { mileage built. The number of locomotives built for use in the United States was 1,859. ! 1 | much larger than in any previous year, while their net operating income was the smallest since the Interstate Com- merce Commission began compiling the revenues and expenses of the railways Constitution, it is admitted. ‘Thereby is brought up the ve The. increase in - the } thing Mr. Harding desires to avold, a | earnings was partly due fo a larger sclash between the executive and the|traffic and partly to the advances in {Senate. He seeks to do it through pre- | F3t8 made in August. Operating ex- The total earnings are estimated ry at $6,230,000,000, or $1,046,000,000 more than in 1919. many of these projects, having at- tempted the sale on partial piyment plan to individual homeseekers. Residents in such communities, therefore, now find themselves in a position anomalous to Indians on reservations—without votes, without political influences, often with a strong bias created in surrounding territory because of the taxable area removed from the county of which it has been a part. Craddock, Va., An Example. Craddock, Va., is perhaps the closest to Washington of these communities, and it is one of the txpical examples of the various projects. The town is about three miles from the city of Portsmouth. Va. Intended originally for employes of the Portsmouth navy yard, the operation was developed by the United States Housing Corporation and was well under way—at the time the armistice was signed. So much money “had been spent upon the project and homes were so badly needed in the tidewater section of Virginia that the town was completed and the houses rented by the housing corporaton as finished. < A survey of the town reveals' that there was involved not the erection of a few homes, but the creation of a city destined to house ‘more than’ 4.000 inhabitants. All old landmarks were wiped out, the association of the project with its own county of Norfolk and state of Virginia was eliminated and the United States gov- ernment assumed sole owhesship and control. The iron hand of military necessity was emphasized at the time by the use of marines for policing the operation. Desecription of the City. A visitor's first conception of the town is gained when the electric car from Portsmouth suddenly emerges from a patch of woods directly into the main square of the town. Cradock may be conveniently divideg into three section: First, the large Wooden apartments at the edge of the town on the old existing Gilmerton electric line, and containing 105 apart- ments; then two bungalow sections, flanking the town to the north and south and containing one-story cot- that is seldom ineffective on its ap- peal to the homeseeker. The town proper is divided into four parts by very wide -parkways, known as Afton and Prospect, and uniting in a central square around which is the business section. Con- the projects | r : .The Senate. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senate marked time during the week just closed, waiting for committees to get aprpopriation bills and other legislation in shape. It met only twice, Monday and Thurs- day. It staged a preliminary row over the Fordney emergency tariff bill designed to did the farmers by raising a protective tariff wall around agricultural products, on the question of reference. to the finance commit- tee. The indicatiops are that the Dill will fail to pass the Senate, not because it could not receive sufficient votes, but because the democrats do Dot inténd to allow it to come to a vote. % Besides this opposition of the dem- ocrats, Senator Penrose of Pennsyl- vania, chairman of the finance gom- mittee, who returned to Washington after .an absence of miore than a vear due o ill health, is undefstood; 10, be opposed to the emergency bill’+ The finance committee will begin consideration of ‘the measure this week. Incidentally it will be inter- esting to see just how .far Senator Penrose is zoing to dominate the re- publican side of the Senate cham- ber, as it been said in some quarters he avould do, ‘ It would be interesting to know, too, just how many of the mem- bers of the Senate concur in the statement made by the Pennsylvania or that “Congress will blaze the v when it comes to framing the foreign policy of the country. Presi dent-elect Harding, when he spoke in the Senate at the opening of the ridiculed the idea that a oligarchy” _existed. But . What Congress Is Doing "The House. - BY “.1LL P. KENNEDY. The House will start off “scrap- py” this week from the fall of the Speaker's gavel, because the ‘first legislative business to come up will be the Tow over the Muscles Shoals nitrate plant appropriation. South- ~ern. members. under the leader- ‘ship of Kepresentative Bryns and Garrett of Tennessee and Almon of Alabama, will fight stubborn- Iy, as they have for two days, that an appropriation of $10,00.000 & nfcd by the appropriations com- mittce shall be included in the “sundry civil bill. . The legislative program of the House as laid out by House Lead- _er Mondell for this week is to pass the sundry civil bill, pass the post office appropriation bill and then take up the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill which will be reported out in a couple of days. The sundry civil bill, which was reported on Wednesday and taken up for debate the same day, indicates the severity with which the ap- propriations dommittee is deter mined to slash estimates. - The bill recommends an_appropriation of $383,611 which is $420,914.1 less than the departmental est mates. It contzins more than two and a quarter million dollars for parkway. bridge, monument and humanitarian institutional work in_the National Capital. i The post office appropriation bil recommends a total of $573,964,721. which is $11,442/181 less than asked by the Post Office Depart- ment, The $240 bonus to employes of the federal and District govern- ments, which has been paid for the last two years in lieu of an increase in salary to offset the increased cost of living, is to be included in the legislative appro- priation bill when it is introduced there are those in Washington who hold that the statement of Senator Penrose does not coincide with the statement of the President-elect. Dealing with District of Colum- bia affairs, the Senate judiciary committee reported favorably the Ball bill designed to aid tenants threatened . with eviction, after drafting a substitute measure. Th substitute bill provides. for five day notices and an opportunity to: be heard in the Municipal Court, with an alternative of paying the rent before a tenant may be ousted. The original bill would have thrown all the cases in which the possession of property was in- volved into the Supreme Court of ‘the District, causing great delay. Considerable progress was made in the consideration: of the Dis- trict appropriation bill. The sub- committee in charge probably will report it to the Senate this wack. At the request of the subcommit- tee, supplemental estimates amounting to more than $5,000,- 000, of which about half was for the public schools, were Submit- ted. This week the Senate’ foreign relations committee will take up the question of asking the Presi- dent to invite the powers to a con- ference on reduction of armaments, and the immigration committee will begin hearings on bills to suspend- or restrict immigration into the United States. The Calder committee investi- gating housing conditions will continue its probe of coal prices, particularly with reference to anthracite” and the charges that government officials profited in big ,coal deals last year. this week. The House paused in its econ- omy drive on_the appropriation measures on Wednesday to pay tribute to “Uncle Joe® Cannon, who broke all records for length of ‘service in Congress. The re ord was previously held by Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont, who had served forty-three years, nine months and twenty-four days. The House pensions committee has been the scene of a lively row over the proposal to cut down the southern representation because ti is claimed the right of suffrage has been denied to colored resi- dents. The Association for Ad- vancement of the Colored People has been heard and southern mem- bers have replied vigorously. Rep- resentative Aswell of Louisiana said no force bill to cut down the representation of the south can be passed. The rean?ortlonment Tow will be continued ‘this_week. - Chairman Steenerson of the post, office committee introduced a bill for further reclassification of postmasters and postal employes. The Smoot-Reavis bill for a joint congressional committee to take charge of reorganization of the government service became a law on Friday, when the ten-day time 1limit given the President to sign or veto it expired. Congress now has before it an- other reclassification drafted by the United States b reau of efficiency, which proposes mineteen wage groups and twenty- three classes of employment. It proposes an averagé increase in pay of about 10 per cent above present base pay and bonus, or about 28 per cent more than the present basic salaries. WAR FINANCE BILL VETO IS EXPECTED i % O, “¢Continued from First Page.) mand for aid which has come from agricyltural interests in all parts of the country. Under the authority given the War Finance Corporation under - previous. act of Congress, it DEFINIIIE DECISIONS FOR CABINET STILL HANG IN BALANCE (Continued from First Page.) Secretary since he entered the Senate. Various others have been mentioned, but all the indications here have ZIHLMAN EXPLAINS Favor of Two Members for Each House, He Says. Representative Frederick N conflicting b There is nothing e provisions of the advocated by the residents of why the of the nnot co: measure and up the al advocates t the sam agitation for the time keep must be recognized that ment in Congress is not trict tw | States e and the House of Represen I those advocating this meth resentation jfavorable action, and with tinuance of the existing fiscal rela tions between the federal meat and the District of Columbia, members of tne tives, jable action in the near future. i Should Have Volce. b share of the cost of District govern ment, their percentage t! 80 per cent, and there why the residents of the Distric should not have a voice in their loca government and _representation ei h; ritories. chinery for registration of all r» which two delegates in the House o Representatives would be chosen, four Commissioners, who, with an officer of the United States Army, would con- stitute the board of Commissioners; a Public Utilities Commission of five persons and a board of education*com-. Posed of ntne members. “This would give the District rep: resentation before the committees of Congress who now handle appropria- tions and pass wpon legislation dealing with' District government and laws, and would- give them direct control over their local affairs. Regarding Criticisms. “There has been some criticism of that section of the bill providing for th2 election of tife members of the but, teen | b the members of their public utilities boards, this cannot be said to be rad- ical departure from the tendency of the times and not to be in #ccord with the sentiment of a great part of the country in dealing with the regula- Public Utilities Commission, when it is realizgd that seven states of the Union now elect tion of public utilities. “It is hoped that after the first of the year an opportunity will be given the different organizasions and indi viduals who are interested in the pas. sage of this legislation to appear be. fore' the District committee and pre- Sent their arguments for the enfran- chisement of the citizens of the Na- tional Capital, which now has a larger political * entity than seven of the states of the Union, and which has at present a larger population than that possessed by every other state in the Union at the time of its adi with the _exception of Oklahoma. tention to “;«ya’ Week.” A letter containing a New Year greeting from Mayor William F. Broening of Baltimore, was delivered by airplane to President Wilson at the White House late yesterday aft- ernoon in connection with the inau- guration of the boys’ week celebration was in ~Baltimore. The message 0, SUFFRAGE L Sentiment in Congress Not in Zinl- introduced | man of Maryland, who | the bill providing local self-govern- | ment for the District of Columb the following statement la in i introduced by me and the constitutional amend- ment which has for many years been | t. and there is no substantial | Tat- pport - this constitu- the in_fa- at this time. of giving the Dis- United ! two members of and 4 of rep- ¢ been unable to get a con- govern- ig doubtful if they can secure favor- “However, people of the District are ng called upon to bear an increased year being no_reason in “ongress, as is now accorded the ter- “The bill drafted by the national press committee for District suffrage and introduced by me sets up the ma- dents of the District and provides for a primary and general election, at GREETINGS FOR WILSON. Mayor of Baltimore Invites His At- His Purpose in Urging New Chairs Pleases the Mothers { | | 1 i : 1 i | | i i { i i | t ! p NAT PHOTU | mEPRESENTATIVE WiNGO 101 Ackansnn, who hns siked maiu proprintion 1o provide new chairs in the Wash- {ington public schools, claiming that this amount ix necessary to protect the mentix of the pants of xmall boys occupying the chairs. HEAD OF N. & W. ROAD HAS OPTIMISTIC VIEWS 1 t 1 Sends Reassuring New Year Mes- . sage to Officers and Em- ployes. ROANOKE, Va., January 1—In a New Year message to officers and em- ployes, President N. D. Maher of the Norfolk and Western railway declared the year 1920 has been one of the most difficult in the history of Ameri- can railroads, but_that, despite this, the Norfolk and Western has been able to handle with “reasonable effi- |ciency” all business offered and enters into the new year “confident that the courage and patience and effort which have overcome the difficulties of the past will solve the problems of the future.” Asserting that curtailment of equip- met and slackening of general rail- road additions were necessitated by the induction of more than 4,000,000 ‘men into the military and naval sery- ice of the country, Mr. M.her pointed out that the last two years saw the railroads with “insufficient facilities with which to handle the enormous ess following the end of hostili- f f s message concluded: face 1921 with ho age and work.” $750 PRIZE FOR TAG.” 3. Herbert Taylor's Suggestion Said to Be Superior. J. Herbert Taylor, chief of the naval [dentification service, has been award- money prize of $750 by the Navy Department for his suggestion of a service' identification tag, which said to be superior to anything of the kind now in use. It consists of a finger-print impression etched on a monel metal tag, with the name of the wearer, the date of his birth, date of enlistment and his service “Let us pe, confidence, cour- NEW PLAN DEVISED FOR RECLASSFYING Federal Club’s Proposal Ex- pected to Meet Approval of All Federal Workers. 'STUDY SUBJECT CLOSELY. :Will Make Report Soon to 90,000 ] Employes of Gov- | ernment. 1 | Important ameng the reports for re- classification of government employes, for the reason that it will be sub- mitted by a committee of government workers who are vitally interested in their own and their fellow employes’ welfare, the suggestions soon to be submitted by a committee of the Federa] Club, a new organization, bids fair to truly reflect the wishes of the great majority of government em- om the Houxe of $45.000 | Dloyes. Members of the committee of the Federal Club who are charged with the duty of investigating the three large reclassification propositions— picking out the best points of each and correlating them into a proposal that will suit the best interests of all —are employed in government depart- ments. and as such, it is claimed, are influenced only by motives that will bring about the best possible results for themselves and others. Th ] men who have been for years in high | executlve and technical positions in the federal service and all have had experience with the various proposals for higher remuneration and changes the classification of employes of United States. Carefully Study Subject. With full knowledge of the respon- sibilities attendant on a_complete and final report, members of the commit- tee have made a very careful study of the reclassification” proposals from an entirely new angle and will sub- mit their report within a few weeks, according to Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of the United Sattes forest service, who is president of the Federal Club, The committee will make no recom- mendations, but will spread its report among the 90,000 government workers in Washington and the approximately 700,000 outside of this city, and will urge them to bring it to the atten- tion of Congress from points outside the District of Columbia. In no sense will a lobbying campaign be carried out, but the report of the reclassifica- tion committee of the Federal Club is expected o serve Congress as a defi- nite indicution of the wishes of the governmont employes and to bring out the salient points of the three larger reclassification proposals in & manner which will leave no doubt as to their thought on the subject. One of Mamy Proposals. The reclassification report, however, is only one of the many proposals in tonded to better the government serv- ice which have been considered within the Federal Club—The consti- tution of the club, adopted recently, provides that the club shall be an or- ganization of government workers, apart from the union movement, which will have for its sole object the im- provement of the public service. That this end may be obtained, officers of |the club Delieve, the first step. for- Iward is to evolve some scheme for reclassification that will bring the whole matter to a head and satisfy i l number. - Monel metal was selected in preference to aluminum or other material because it has been proved to be indestructible under all normal conditions of earth, fire and water. During the late war aluminum tags were found to be valueless in the cases 6f soldiers who had been buried Yany length of time, due to the action i of the acids of the soil and the bodies. iThe monel metal tags have been adopted by the Navy, and similar ac- tion is expected in the Army and Marine Corps, where the aluminum identification tags are in use. jthe majority of those interested in the legislation. Another of the primary objects of the club is to bring together the technical men and the executives in the government service for better co- ordination in attainment of scientific ends, which is expected to result from { such’ co-ordination. Franklin D: Roosevelt, former as sistant secretary of war, and Russell C. Lefiingwell, former assistant secre- tary of the Treasury, were interested in the establishment of the Federak Club and worked with a committee ing drawing up the constitution and b ¥ would' be possible to issue $1,000,000,- 3 000 worth of debentures, establishing a similar amount of credit for foreign buyers’ who offered satisfactory se- clrity. * pointed to Mr. Christian’s retention. The President-elect spent most of New Year day at his desk, but during the afternoon he took a long walk and called on some of his intimate friends. penses are estimated at $5,750,000, liminary conferences to sound out the:or $1,330,000,000 more l:ln in 1'010: sentiment in the Senate and compose | This increase in expenses was partly the issue with differing views enter- { 94U to the larger business handled, . partly to increased maintenance work tained elsewhere than'.in the Semate.l|ana partly to payment of aporow. All the time he is confronted by |imately $400,000,000 more. in. wages. Tought to the White House by Wil ek e g liam Broening, son of the mayor. . who landed in Bolling Field, and mad® the rest of the trip in an automobile, Mayor Broening's message follows: “Please accept my sincere wish for a mew year of healt tributing to the beauty, interest and conveniences of the municipality ‘were the services of engineers, social and domestic scierice workers, land- scape gardeners and well architects. DENIES THAT CHINA HAS BECOME MILITARISTIC known A certain cold facts and the logic of { TaXes are estimated at $251,000,000 the world situation, it is pointed out. The league of nations is an estab- lished fact to those nations con- stituting it. Peesentation to them of another project by the United States carries the suggestion that they aban- don theirs and adopt the new onme in lieu. It may be like summoning spirits from the vasty deep. Will they come? senators query. However, that is held to be a sec- ondary congideration for the moment, the first being to decide upon a propo- sition which the Senate will accept. And the President-elect is admitted | ! 1o have his hands full in handling that phase at the present. Alternate Plan Proposed. In view of \the difficulties over- / burdening the case, the proposal is to be made in the Senate of an alter- | native plan, or rather a sort of dou- * ble-header suggestion, to declare peace with Germany, coupled with assertion of the willingness\of the United States, i in event of a crisis in the future such as - that of 1914, to join with other nations to suppress the disturber and maintain the peace of the word, and offer of an ‘ agreement for disarmament by the great powers. Senator Knox has drawn up the form of this offer, contained in these words: “It is the declared policy of the United States, in order to meet fully and fairly our obligations to our- selves and to the world, that the freedom and peace of Europe being again threatened by any .power or combination of powers, the United States will regard such a situation with grave coneern as a menace to its own peace and freedom, will con- sult with other powers affected with 2 view to devising means for the re- moval of such menace, and will, the necessity arising in the future, co- operate with the friends of civiliza- Glon for its defense.” Ald Witheut Entaglement. It is argued in behalf of this pro- posed combination of peace with Germany and declaration of willing- ness to again go to war to achieve the object of the league of nations— protection against aggression—that it leaves the nations now in the league of nations to keep that organization for their own satisfaction, yet assur- ing them of this country’s sympathy and aid, without the United States being entangled in the league. If such a program should be car- ried out, many senators think it ‘would constitute solution of the prob- lera of the league of nations confront ing the United States for the present and they would expect to see gradual diminution and final cessation of agitation for 3 broader scheme. At any rate, it will be tried out when the new Senate meets. Should the pending efforts in behalf of the dis- armament plan come to naught, the Knox proviso will still be offered as an amendment to the resolution de- claring peace with Germany, to serve until some great and comprehensive association of nations idea is worked bl | as compared with $235,000,000 in, 1919, Net operating income is estimated at $150,000,000, practically all of which has been earned gince the advance in rates. The net operating income i 1919 was $451,000,000, > PICK WARRANT OFFICERS. Thirteen Enlisted Men Named Un- , der Reorganization Act. Thirteen enlisted men of the Army, stationed’in this city or nearby, have been appointed warrant officers in the Army under the terms of the Army reorganization act. The ap- pointment of 939 such officers has Jjust been announced by the War De- partment. The local appointees are First Sergts. EdwaYd York and'W. R. Sand- ers. Howard University; Sergt. Cus- ter Fribley and Private C. E. Dan- ner. Quartermaster Corps; Sergt. . Bockhaus., Coast Artillery Corps Maj. Otto Engelman, Motor Tran port Corps: Sergt. W. H. Lahr, depot quartermaster's office; Sergt. Claes Hallencreuts, 3d Cavalry, Fort Myer; Sergts. Jesse W. Anderson, Wilbur R. Morgan and Thomas J. Barney, depot quartermaster's office; Civillan Wil- liam Gephart, Fort Washington, rgt. Walter E. Perkins, s depot. CLEVELAND BANK DEAL. Merger Largest Betwéen New York and Chicago, It Is Said. CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 1. Merger of the Citizens’ Savings and Trust Company, First National Bank, Union Commerce National Bank and First Trust and Savings Company into the Unfon Trust Company, said to be the largest banking unit between New York and Chicago, was launched here today. Two other banks will be for- mally taken in this month. According to figures submitted by George Coulton, president’ of the Cleveland Clearing House Association, the six banks handled 66 per cent of the $14,845,000,000 of tots! bank-irans- actions of the city in 1919 and 70 pe cent of the $18,225.000,0€0 total trans. actions estimated for 1920. When the two other banks officially become members of the institution the Union Trust Company will have $33.000,000 capital and surplus, $310,- 000,000 resources, 225,000 depositors, 100 officials and 1,300 employes. READING CO. NOT READY. Asks for More Time to Submit Dis- 3 solution Plan., PHILADELPHIA, January 1.—The circuit court of appeals will hear Jan- uary 8.a request by the Reading com- pany for an extension of time to sub- mit a plan for the dissolution of its interests in coal companies and other Md., an Signal Corp: jrailroads as ordered by the United States Supreme Court. The time for the flling of the di: solution plan would have expired Jan- uary 5, but counsel for the Reading companies informed Judge Woolley that the plan could not be completed within the time limit and that an ex- tension was desired. Judge Woolley fixed January 8 for a hearing on the petition of the rail- road for additional time to file the plan. 3 tages, and,.finally, the town proper, containing about 500 two-story, colo- nial style homes of various types, and lending a quaint, other-century aspect Houses Complete in Detail. A visit to one of the homes, whether of four, five, six or eight rooms, dis- closes every household convenience. The character of the land precludes cellars, e yet most of the houses have ot-water heating systems. All have electric lights, = hardwood double fioors, stationary washtubs, complete plumbing systems with modern porcelain bath fixtures; wide closets in every room, screens and shades at every window and all situated in their individual plots of ground. ‘Taking into comparison the aver- age town of 4,000 inhabitants the task performed at Cradock stands out as an_engineering feat. At the north end of Prospect parkway and cover- ing a city square is a low brick building, the Cradock public school. Costing a quarter of a million dollars, the structure contains eighteen class- rooms, including those for high school classes, replete with every modern equipment for safety and hygiene, and pwith an auditorium seating 500 Ppersons. Modern Fire Department. At the juncture of the two park- ways, in the center of the citv is the fire headquarters, its engine house ¢ontaining two modern motorized en- gines, manned by experienced paid men. A complete electric alarm sys- tem covers the town, with an emer- gency extension to Portsmouth. A high-pressure water system entirely distinct from the water supply cir- cuit, is provided throughout the town. There are two separate sewage dis posal systems, one for storm waters and another for the sanitary sewage system. Garbage and trash collection is tri-weekly. ‘There are no wooden or dirt sid walks or streets, the main thoroug fares being of cement and the re- mainder of macadam construction. At present there are five churches in the community, about twelve stores for varied necessities, a motion picture theater and a public library housed in the school building. Renidents Unable to Incorporate. The property of the town, was thrown upon the market in March, 1920, to individual homeseekers. Five per cent down and 1 per cent a month of the purchase price were the selling terms. Interest was fixed at 6 per cent. The home buyers. were re- quired in addition to pay for the pub- lic utilities, and this has been the subject of considerable discussion by the citizens, it is understood. Tne residents are sald to be without the power to incorporate, and are, there- fore, without capital and without precedent to control their actions. In conference with the government au- thorities the residents, as an in- formal group, have contended that in view of the fact that the govern- ment owns about 95 per cent of the property in the Yown, they should not be compelled to pay for the entire up- keep of the public utilities, The Dis- trict of Columbia has been cited as a criterion for readjusting the burden of expenses. Seaboard Florida Limited: 12.25 A.w, ily (sleepers open 10:00 p.m.). Din. ing cars famous for southern cooking: e chicken, Virginia ham, Ticket Office, ‘714 I4th st. phone Main dnm—.\dverutme’n PLAN CO-OPERATIVE SALES. ANNISTON, Ala., January 1.—A fund of $150,000 has been appropriated by Anniston manufacturing concerns for the establishment of a series of commissaries for the sale of supplies to the laboring men of the city on a co-operative basis. Y t. DEFINES ELIGIBLE LISTS. Department Statement Relative to Brigadier General Appointments. According to a statement issued by-the War Department, the general staft eligible list “has nothing to do under the law or under policy with the appointment of brigadier gen- erals of the line.” An impression to the contrary arose from a recent pub- lication in a service paper to the ef- fect that no general officers of the line can be appointed from colonels of the.line uniess such colonels are on the initial general staff list re- cently announced. . It };s explained that the eligible list from which the President must select brigadier generals of the line is not the initial eligible list of gen- eral staff officers prepared by a spe- cial board of which Gen. Pershing was president, but a list “of officers of the grade of golonel of the line prepared annually by a board of not less than five officers of the line not below the grade of major general that is, in accordance With a pro- vision in section 4 of the national defense act. —_— MONDELL BACK IN D.C. Has No Statement to Make in Re- gard to Marion Conference. se Leader Frank W. Dondell refixor‘:led to Washington yesterday from a visit to Marion for conference with President-elect Harding at the Jatter’'s request. Mr. Mondell said last night that he had no statement to make-as a result of the conference further than the statement he issued regarding the economy-efficiency pro- gram for the House annoumced be- fore he left for Marion. Mr. Mondell was tired by the trip, especially as his broken leg has not entirely mended, and the journey was, on that account, extremely trying. SEIZED SHIRS FOR SALE. | Former German Vessels Offered to Buyers at Maniia. MANILA, P. L, January 1.—Two for- mer ()?{nan ships seized during the | war are offered for sale here by.the { United States Shipping Board. The | steamer Quinnebaug, which was char- tered to the Philippine government for some time, was turned hack to {the Shipping Board and is now at Hongkong, where a British firm con- tracted to purchase her for $120,000. After inspection, however, in dry- dock at Hongkong, the firm decided extensive repairs would be required to make the vessel serviceable and refused to accept the ship. J. F. Marias, Shipping Board repre- sentative in Manila,. inspected _the Quinnebaug at Hongkong and esti mated that repairs and cost of main tenance for the three. months .| would amount to $20,000. The Quinne- baug has now been offered for sale at $149.000, by the Shipping Board. The Midget, another former German ship which was chartered to the Phil- ippine government, is offered for sale at $100,000 and it is understood the local government has an option on the vessel at the figure. —_— 1 oceasioner Tormal or informal, occasions—! % lGOI:d:. 1214 F.—Advertisement. tion-Wide Extermination Campaign Alex P. Moore of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Moore, who formerly was Lillian Russell, were guests at noonday din- ner at the Harding home, and in the evening Mr. Harding went to another New Year feast at the home of George B. Christian. KILL RATS, IS PLEA. ~ Public Health Service Urges Na- The United States public health service contends that a nation-wide campaign should be made to determine ad ac- curately as possible the presence or bsence of rodent plague in all ports of entry and principal centers of railway freight transportation in the Unitdd States, and that the present situation in southern ports should be the occasion of inaugurating a nation- wide campaign against rodents on economic as well as public health grounds. In this connection the public health service has published full instruc- tions concerning rat surveys and rat proofing and has drawn up a model building ordinance with the view of eliminating rats. It is not generally known that, apart from their well known powers of “Spreading disease, rats impose a very serious economic burden upon any community. It is estimated that in this coun- try their depredations amount to $167,000,000 a year. The rats in the United States are conservatively esti- mated to.be equal to the population, and similar figures have been pub- lished for Great Britain, Denmark, France and Germany. The annual up- keep per rat is said to be estimated at $1.80 in Great Britain, $1.20 in Denmark, $1_in France. . ORDERS MORE WATCHES. Begum Bhopal Wants All Her Subjects to Be Punctual. GENEVA, January 1.—The begum (princess) of Bhopal, India, who bought 4,000 silver watches to take back to her people in the central Indian state when she visited Swit- zerland in 1911, has just sent for an- other lot of 2.500 timepieces. She wants her subjects to be punctual and not rely on the sun for the time of day. | r Mohammedan prin- 23 probably is the only female ruler of a state in India and is also called sultan. The throne of ‘The begum, o [ of Bhop: i that festival. lin the Washington h, _happi- ness and prosperity. ° “At 2 o'clock p.m. to day we be- gin a2 week to be devoted to the boyhood of Baltimore. It is to be a period of dedication and conse- cration in boy conservation and de- velopment, 5o essential if we would look forward to a better and nobler manhood in the nation. “The movement not only has my enthusiastic indorsement, but in my humble opinion, posseses such merits as may be of great service to our common country, and impels me thus to bring it to your atten- tion, with the hope that it may bring from you to them a message of encouragement.” —_—— FOUR DOUBLE HOLIDAYS. Day Rest Period. Starting out with a double holiday, Saturday and Sunday, the year 1921 will have four two-day rest periods, according to calendar experts’ who have been busy with the new years program. The next holiday, which is Wash- ington’s birthday, falls on a Thurs- day, but Memorial day, May 30, will be on Monday, and five weeks later, July 4, the nation will celebrate the 145th anmiversary of its independence, The latter two dates in connection double holidays, as will Labor day, which always is on Monday. It is noted that Easter Sunday will be March 27, which is an early date for spring clothes that usually mark Christmas day, 1921, falls on Sun- day. and the holiday may be cele- brated on Monday, although this is tentative. e PRAISE SCHOOL CHILDREN. Junior Red Cross Members Bring Joy to Hospitals. Expressions of gratitude have been pouring in all week on the 48,000 members of the Junior Red Cross schools for their work at Christmas for the patients at Walter Reed. Naval, St. Elizabeth’ Public Health Service, Mount Alto and Childrcn's hospitals. Miss Esther Jenkins, Cross secretary, reporte yesterday that ten school divisions ‘and one high school, enrolled in the organiza- tion, had provided delicacies for the soldiers, sailors and marines. B LEAD OUTPUT REVIVING. Record for 1920 Is Higher \Than unior Red Bhopal has descended in a female line for more than seventy-five years and many of the begums have dis- played modern tendencies in looking after the welfare of their subjects, who number 665,000. The Sultan ahan Begum succeeded to the throne in 1901. Bhopal is the principal prov- ince of central India, and its capital, the city of Bhopal, has about 75,000 population. U. S. HOME FOR. LEPERS. NEW ORLEANS, January 1.—Control of the Leper Home of Louisiana w: transferred today by the state to the United States government and in future will be operated as a national home for unfortunate victims of leprosy from this and other states. * ~ : 3 That of Preceding Ygpar. Output of lead and zinc at the mines and the refinery output of lead in the United States increased greatly in 1920, the geological survey announced last night. The output of soft lead was 511,000 short tons, an increase of 68,000 over 1919, when there was a decrease Jn output of 138500 tons from the preceding year. ‘The recoverable zinc content of ore mined in 1920 was about 587,000 tons, as compared with 557,000 in 1919 and 632,243 in 1918, Production of primary metallic zino from domestic and foreigh ores in 1920, however, was only 463,000 tons as compared with 465,743 in 1919. The refinery production of lead from do- mestic ores in 1920 was 474,000 tons as compared with 424,433 tons in 1919. i New Year Starts Out With Two- Councilor of Foreign Office Says Country is Suffering From Overbalance. PEKING, January 1.—Charges which have been circulated in some foreign countries that China has e a mili- “taristic nation are denied by Dr. Philip Tysau. councilor of the foreign office, in a statement he has just issued. “What China today is suffering from is not militarism properly so-called, but an overweight of provincial military or- ganization in relation to the general ad- ministration,” said the councilor. \ “China, according to independent investigation made by several depart- ments during the last few months, has almost precifely the same population as Europe—440,000,000—at least seven times the population of Germany. If to the field force permitted Germany by the Versailles treaty are added the men in the safety police and civic guard, and that total is multiplied by seven, it will be found that the ratio in China is inferior to the ratio in an admittedly disarmed Germany. In field troops and provincial patrois China has 1,500,000. | “That their present anganization and their dependence on military gov- ernors must be changed is granted. But until a_decision can be properly registered regarding the separation of civil and military power and un- til the degree of provincial autonomy compatible with the sovereign of the ! iwith the preceding Sundays will be |republic has been settled by parlia- | ment and the government be invi; change.” it would ing disturbances to attempt | { The American mistletoes differ from | the English mistletoe in the inde-| pendence of the sexes. In the Euro- pean the male ahd female flowers grow upon the same plant, hence ber- ries may be found on every plant.: In America each sex labors for itself, | and grows on separate plants; hencc | there are many plants wholly barren so far as berries are concerned. | Dishgs were not covered at first for the purpose of keeping the food ‘warm. 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