Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1921, Page 17

; TfiE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1921. OFFICIALS AND MERCHANTS SEE. [} FTEERf MANY FICK FEDERAL EMPLOYES _(RGESTERGHEP] |Inspect Transportation Facilities to Wash- DENIEI] AI HEAR'NG Little Likelihood, However, of New Cab-; BY$] ’m’m HRES ington and Baltimore Markets—Gov. | | Ritchie Hailed in Many Townships. |City Spotted With Confiagra- tions—Boston Asked to With a view to extending trans- portation throughout the state in Send Aid. order to open the markets of Wash- | ifgton and Baltimore to the produc- ers of southern Maryland, a Joint pilgrimage of business men of the two cities, headed by Gov. Albert E. Ritchle of Maryland and members of his official family, toured lower counties of Maryland yesterday. LOCKED IN VAULT, § MUFMH |MAN IS SAVED BY TELEGRAPH CODE PHILADELPHIA, January 19. — Locked for nearly ®ix hours in an hermetically sealed concrete and steel vault in the city treas- urer’s office. a knowledge of the Morse telegraph code probably saved the life of Arthur Brenmer, assistant city treasurer. A mouse, locked in at the same time failed to survive, and when Brenner was rescued its body was found. Brenner entered the vault five minutes before closing time yes- terday hunting for a warrant. While he was there the big steel doors swung shut. He shouted for help without attracting notice. The lights went out automati- cally. Brenner pulled open every drawer and piled the books on the ficor to get the maximum amount of air pgssible and then slept for a while.“When he awoke his hand (=] = = = Association’s Vice President| inet Members Accepting Offers to Quit. Assails Methods of Calder Is Merely Time-Honored Custom. * Committee. e | Several score of important govern- | practically every case the officer resign- ment officials—chief clerks of depart- | INg i8 returned to his old job. ! | If the new Secretary wishes to demote ments, assistants to the secretaries and | ap official and appoint another man in chiefs of bureaus—will tender their his place he must allow the man to be resignations shortly after March 4, when | demoted a certain- period of h"m* in Ay inst | the new cabinet members assume office. | pras iyt Prepare his case and then must gument for Coal Men Against| 2 give him a hearing. For many vears no The resignations will be almost uni- | e resignationsiis bureau chief or other civil service official | ulation Mai | versal and will involve nearly 100 men | has had his technical resignation ac- Federal Regulation Made to | 7503 400 WL IOWR "Sany fora "o Senate Committee. Maw's in Arms, Unable =X Longer to Bear = Burden. TNSIST ON RETRENCHMENT Yabor: Blamed for Some of the Ex- 1 : peaditures—Resentment Ex- = pressed by Voters. * dence of Robert Crane, where lunch- eon was served. Returning to Waldorf, the trip con- tinued to Leonardtown, via Bryan- town, Hughesville and Charlotte Hall where the cadets of the military academy were lined up at attention to receive Gov. Ritchie. At Leonardtown the delegation was received in the courthouse by Gen L. A. Wilmer. chairman of a commit- tee representing St. Mary's county. PAPERS .TAKEN, HE SAYS ORIGIN IS UNDETERMINED Hotel Guests Prepare to Follow Tenement Dwellers Into Streets in Zero Weather. a v cepted by the incoming Secretary. and it | sponsible positions in the government |is not considered likely that the new | { service for many years. officers in Mr. Harding's cabinet will | i3 came in contact with a wooden 2 | " BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. slat, and, remembering that | 'g‘:le t;.relnmvzmng;nit; ‘D::ll&'d :3;{'9 = C}f"é;] b'}'{::c;‘;ivodfl‘;e“ :_7: fz};q*;g'r“"" Opposition of organized coal opera- | But the big point is—they won't mean | change in any degree the present admin- | By the Associated Press. B Ouble to The Star and Chicago Daily News, | Charles Hockwald a night wateh. |y ‘system which. now conducts land the party returned to Washing- {(Or% 10 the Calder bill proposing fed- |1y ol oiag 1oy, | Iirative heads of the government de-| WORCESTER. Mass., January 19— , 1821, , . he 4 . g ral regulation of the coal indust e re 3 g is o gl 3 5 pounded out in Morse: “I am lock- |DuS routes between Southern Mary-|ton. was voiced befora the Seaate mane | Harding’s new cabinet members =oor | The practice does not extend, of | This city was spotted by fires carly s :LONDON, January 19.—Wasters of | ed in.” [dandiand washingor: enders of the Party. facturers’ committee today by J. D, after March 4 will be the continuance | course, to the assistant secretaries and | today. with a loss that ran upward All along the route citizens crowd- ed the schoolhouses and post offices to greet the first officer of Maryland, the solicitors for the various depart- ments, as they are political appointments and are not subject to civil service reg- | of an old custom prevailing among gov- | ernment_employes for many years—tnat | of permitting the new Secretary to ex- of £1,000,000. Two business buildings on Main ‘W. C. Hathaway, president, and Har-} \. Morrow ry Allen, general manager of the Tide-| ionz1 Coal water Lines, Inc.. were In charge ot | Ile vice president of the. N Association prefaced his argument “Will get help,” came the answer from Hockwald, who instantly telephoned for a man who knew @ublic money are undergoing the heaviest fire they have ever experi- on the eced in Great Britain. The newspa-| the combination of the vault, and |2nd at nearly all stops Gov. Ritchie | ", by ™ “Maj. “Harry Gessford, su-{uill with the statement that mine | Press his own wishes in the matter of | ulations, | street, heavily silcked with mer- Pera, the weekly publications, maga-| released Brenner. D evingdihe company’s Washington | Perintendent of police: Inspector Clif-|operators generally had not taken ex- | the executive heads of his department. But there is one thing sure. The|chandise, were bur: oht. & tew tines and pulpit and platform orators ter‘mina]l‘m 9:30 . m., the party, |ford Grant, chief of the detective bu- ss profits during the coal shortage For many years past on the occasion | resignation list, due shortly after March | y100ps south of city hall; a score 4. will be the Jargest ever recorded, fo: there are several new bureaus and ap- pointive positions which have been cre- ated since 1916. of a change of administration it has been the custom in the government de- partments for the administrative officials | to submit their resignations. But in reau, and Ross P. Andrews headed the Washington delegation. “The trip of the business men Washington as the guests of the Tide- last year. - have collected statistics upon 100,000,000 tons of production made prior to October 1.” he szid. “which !which included, besides Gov. Rit- chie and his aides, representatives from the Baltimore Board of Trade, the Advertising Club of Baltimore, | of tenement structures were overrun sparks that caused roof bluzes, and guests at the Pancroft and New are pressing the fight throughout the epuntry. Taxpayers are up in arms. HISTORICAL SOCIETY Association many times has said. Past becoming_one of the most important centers of production,” said Charles J. Columbus, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, in a statement today, issued following yes- of the streets. While this epidemic of flames en- gaged all the cily's apparatus. an- other flery spot developed several blocks northeast of cit# hall. at North Foster and Union streets, where the nt pofit, because the over pletion charges and taxe bme out of it The witness told the the figures would have been more omplete “except for the action of meet. Many of them have given up their homes and have gone to live in rooms. Luxuries of every kind have to-be foregone by the vast proportion GF the population. At the Surrattsville schoolhouse, a few hundred yards further. Gov. Ritchie was received by Eugene Bur- rows, county superintendent of Prince Georges county schools, and They have borne the burden of waste | water Motor Lines demonstrated anew | show the : re selli I | o e 0 AT er 2 Lines = d show the average selling price at the - Park hotels, situated between the until they can bear it no longer.| T oL Sr ainetia: aiop. |0 Washingtonians that southern Mary- | mine {o have been $5.47a ton an | 1 business and _the: tenement. district, Thousands of middle class families ped ‘first at Clinton. Md. where a |land is growing apace. and that it is |the cost of producing Tha | ™Y 14 Vil prepared to follow the temement are bitterly put to it to make ends| Perge crowd weleomed ihe tourists. (a8 the Merchants and Manufacturers |left a marzin of 71 cents. which does r { Iwellers: into the zero temperature Allen C. Clark, president. and the Committecsthal other officers of the Columbia His- member of the ~Britons mean to solve their prob- I*ms and pay their debts, but they Kmow this can be done only by stem- ming the tide of public expenditure. torical Society will direct the affairs of the society for another year. They were elected unanimously to succeed |state legislature. i Joseph H. Blandon, e “Geographically the city ington is most fortunate'y with respect to southern Maryland. It of Wash- The party proceeded to T. B., where . Wvaens the school children from Brandywine ‘he Calder committee in sending its agents to take papers out of our offi with attendant publicity. causing our BILLFORD. C.VOTE MAY START HERC wood-working plant of the M. K Smith Corporation was burned, with a loss of $100,000. members to cease reporting.” He| Indorsement of the Burroughs-| Representatives of shipbuilding The origin of the principal fires themselves at a meeting last night | Visitors by singin in the Cosmos Club. In_ addition to’;"):"?y';':: e but the is the direct and shortest route to market. The furtherance of good roads in that territory is the logical means to the furthering of a bigger development and we feel sure that Gov. Ritchie and his staff, who participated in yes. terday’'s trip into southern Maryland realize the advantage and necessity of While the attention of the people has ®oen concentrated upon the appalling | outlays, governmental and municipal waste has reached staggering figures. Every person required to pay an in- me tax of say £80 (normally about 0), finds himself up against the added that the Department of Justice | Chamberlain resolution, which would hod also objected to the collection of { give the District of Columbia repre- -ost statist regarding it as a|sensation in Congress, marked the method of price fixing." meeting of the Petworth Cltizens' As- “Yet a system of collecting and|sociation, held last night in the city | publishing coal cost statistics is ex-|post office. The action was taken actly the thing which this bill aims| without discussion after Horace J. to bring about id Senator Reed,| Phelps, acting chairman of the com- lemocrat. Missour| mittee on law and legislation, had Cnlder Bill Indorsed. submitted a report approving the Indorsement of the Calder bill for |resolution and askirg that more time |ican Federation, will preside. About federal regulation of the coal indus-|be given the committee to considerihim will be grouped representatives try in certain particulars was given | the Zihiman bill, which would grant|of blacksmiths, boilermakers. sheet Lefore the Senate committee on manu- | the District of Columbia another form | metal workers, machinists, plumbers factures yesterday by Edgar E. Clark, {of suffrage. {and other similar organizations. The chairman of the Interstate Commerce{ Further inquiry by the Senate into | feature of discussion, it is predicted, Commission, and Dr. George Otis|the price of bread in Washington was | Will be the Cramp company _state- Smith, director of the geological sur- | forecast in a letter from Senator Cap- | Ment in Philadelphia last vey. both of which agencies together | per of Kansas, received by Graham |declaring that concern tp be “indif- with the Federal Trade Commission, | tril °chairman of the committee on |ferent /as to whether our employes would be called upon to enforce the | ype coot of livin are members of labor organizations or regulatory provisions. They told the & not.” Senate manufactures committee that Calls Price Too High. The next important item, it was said the bill as drafted would be workable.] “It will be a great help if the Pet-|today, will be the contemplated re- g worth assoclation will take an in- |adjustment-m the shipbuilding indus- unions | Was not definitely determined. the police said they had only faintest suspicion of incendiarism. The fire area vas too great to be adequately covered by the city's fire- ) fighting forces, and Foston. Cligm. Millbridge and Westboro were carled on to send additional anparatus The flames skirted the building of the Worcester Evening Post, but were kept away by a curtain of water. ‘The consequent cellar flood put the Paper’s pressroom out of commission and spoiled a large quantity of news print. i The first fire started in the Knowles building, at Main and Chatham streets, two blocks south of city hall. A high northwest wind picted up the embers and scattered them over the cehter of the city COLD WAVE NEAR END. metal trades international throughout the country will gather about the council table of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to discuss action on what is believed by labor leaders to be the first major stroke in the | national “open shop” campaign. John O'Connell, president of the metal trades department of the Amer- Brat e prestaent: Willings B Hvean, | PIata the same scenes were enacted. S >\ Gov. Ritchie was introduced to Judge Sovondl vice president: Cuno H. Re- | Leigh H. Southerland, the oldest resi- dolph, treasurer; Miss Maud Burr Morris, recording secretary; William |dent of the county. and the first man to enlist in the Confederate army in F. Roberts, corresponding secreta e collector for another £50 (nor-|James Franklin' Hood, curator, and1861. g 3 "‘;y ,,%,.,m $250). Rates are still| Frederik L. Fishback, chronicler.| From La Plata the visitors were |such development for the benefit of the rising and many people do not know ; Villiam Vah Zandt Cox and Francis Where they will find the money to|Regis Noel were re-elected managers. et o e e < iis Sicharzen Last night's meeting of the society o e e fore the e rates tn | MUER Reve been, mixtuken or "4 sesc CUT |N WOMAN'S WAGE fhls country realized about £82,000.000 | 50\ WOER, he ASsocinion of Oldest i BRINGS STRONG PROTEST (ormally about $410,000.000). This year |, oo niza¢ti0n were present to listen to the reading of a paper by John Clagett Proctor on the Lancasterian ;ystem»or schools and icellaneous . v the | happenings connected with the de- e e e e T 55 Yoiun. | velopment of the District's school tary. The boroughs controlled by la- | S¥stem. Mr. Proctor is poet laureate bor are motoriously wasteful. = The | ©f the Oldest Inhabitants’ Association apathy toward municipal elections is| President Clark. who presided, reac | aisappearing, owing to the alarm of the | an original poem by Mr, Proctor sup. lariven to Mount Victoria, the resi- |state of Maryland in general.” TUBERCULOSIS WARNING SENT TO DAIRY OWNERS it is estimated they will realize about £200,000,000 ($1.000,000,000). and the spenders are clamoring for more. Some of the local expenditures have Department of Agriculture vises Uniform Herd Plan Be Adopted. The extent to which tuberculosis of Ad- Trade Union League to Fight Leg- islation as Discriminating | Against Sex. Action of the House in restricting “taypavers. In the boroush by-elections |plicating Congress to enfranchise | galaries in the woman’s bureau of the | cattle is transmittable to human beings terest in this subject” wrote the|try of the United States. The read-| The cold wave here will be broken R e e ocn o Comber: | Wit ingtonians, which was recelved | bonrtment of Labor s regarded as a |18 emphasized In a recent communica- ARMY FINANCE SCHOOL. [scnator relative to bread prices. |justment will not embrace wage re-|tonicht. zecordinz tn officiale at the > mp 2 blow to the wage-earning women of the | tion sent to owners of herds of cattle “There is no doubt in my mind that|duction considerations, but measures | weather bureau. and by tomorrow well. for example, the municipal reform candidate has just beaten.the labor can- didate by 802 to 320 votes. In the pre- The paper presented by Mr. Proctor will be printed by the society and made a part of its historial records. of keying up efficiency and produc- tion in shipbuilding lines to the stage where the present wage rates may night the District mav expec: rain. “Cloudy and warmer” tonight was the official pred’c’ion for the National the price of bread in Washington is too high. -In view of the great re- duction in the cost of flour, there in a statement ‘“.l‘.‘r’;‘d;"df;{“gf;faccredued as having passed one free tuberculin test from J. R. Mohler, chief country the National Women's Enlisted Men Being Trained in In- stitution on Potomac. Sus el-ction the municipal reform can- League. 2 3 Rdate had a majority of only nine votes. | 1y, (raced the lifework of Joseph! “ifno’ tradition of the government |of the bureau. of animal industry, De- ; should be a greater reduction in the | Sontinue to be paid for an increased | Capital. This is in line with the On top of the high rates of taxation | LA0C3ster. who was born in London | gervice that a woman because she is a | partment of Agriculture. /| The latest development in the Army | price of bread, I wish you and the]‘"k{":.,','“em Mr. O'Connell said, 3.000 | Marked rige in_temperature takiog v - . - said, 3. After cailing attention to the ad- vantages of the uniform accredited herd plan, the economic benefit due to the rapid fncrease in such herds and the necessity for the final eradication of . and who was'the propagator of the educational system which is coupled with his name and that of Dr. Andrew Bell. The first Lancasterian school in woman should not be paid more than educational and vocational system is|members of your association would the establishment of a school at Fort|go into this thoroughl. Washington on the Potomac just below this city, for the training of young men as bookkeepers, stenographers, place over the Mi plains states and tain region. Eleven degrees above zero, the low- issippi vollev. the 1e come higher railway fares, higher bus 5 and higher tram fares, and increases in the cost of all licenses.” There is no sign of relief in any direction. Hence the great anti-waste campaign againet the 3 boilermakers and shipbuilding iron- g give me all| workers of the seven or elth thou- ithe facts, and I will be pleased to sand employes of Cramps Shipbuild- press the matter before the Senate.” |ing Corporation are on -strike. The $1,200, or at most $1,800, seems to be still dominating the House,” says the statement of the National Women's Trade Union League. Rocky moun- government. the London county council and all other money-spending bodies. : DOES NOT NEED LOAN. ‘Washington was established in 1812 on the south side of E street, between 7th and 8th streets northwest, Mr. Proctor stated.- It was probable, he continued. the Lancasterian system was taught in the District until 1844. he highly trained woman specialists who have directed and made the investi- gations for the woman's bureau have been paid $2.000, $2,240, $2,500 and one of them $3.000 a year, which the House seems 1o have regarded as extravagant. tuberculosis in both swine and cattle, the letter declares that the bureau has received Teports from many states of tuberculosis among children on farms ‘where the cattle were found to be af- fected by the same disease, the infec- Yet the congressional joint committee on | tion being carried in the milk. At the file specialists, office managers, countants, auditors and in other occu- pations necessary to the disbursem of funds for the maintenance of Army. ‘To attend that chool it is necessary .08 motton of Mr! Phelps the asso- ciation agreed to send a letter to|that in future the com: v Senator Harrison of Mississippi, in- |deal through the metal tragos ot dorsing the -effort he is making to|partment of the Federation of Labor put through a comprehensive building | 00 s¥age contract.questions, is held program 1or the District &chools. partially responsible for the strike. The question of indorsing the Tem- ac: ent the dictum issued on January 1. declaring j St point reached t! corded on official thermometers early i today. This was 3 degrees lower than had been expected. i winter, was re _—————— Attacks Dry Taw R ine. M edish Government Denfes It Con- | " <" 1€ 1aw of December 23 of that | ot 108 o Ree on e At e T | o e i e e to enlist for the finance department of | | The auestion = L 2 BRIl e e Sw : m-|year put o new system into gitect |eriaa for these cettions . 'ss1ary | aaig about the Sfebt-oF live stock subers | (e Army. In which there are at pres. | Ble Pill, which would restrict Sun. 1 * [United States district court here to- templates Negotiations Here. hools. M, es on local{change of $2,400 to $5,040. culosis on public health, emphasis being | aniistment th. ranges from $30 in | Columbia, was brought up but was. 'TRO, Calif.—The first rain in { day attacking ti» rezulai on of Pr. schools. Mr. Proctor stated, the first - laid rather on the economic aspects of | SIS e pay Bes trom D aatov: ntil the Febr ithe Imperial valley in 113 days is| hibition Commissioner Kramer, issu-« STOCKHOLM, January 18.—The {Public school houses. ecastern and , the peobler the grade of private to $88.80 for a|laid over u ¢ rebruary meetingifayling. Five-hundredths of inch | October 28 last. forbidding brewers Swedish government authorizes a de- | Western, cost, respectively. $1,133 16 |Makes Women Eligible for All Ofees | the PIODOM. oo o lquartermaster sergeant, senior grade.!to permit further discussion. {fell here yesterday and at Brawley | to use synonyms for beer. ale oF Dor. Bial of the report that Sweden con- |and $1.021.72. “These school houses.” | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla—Women |quite susceptivle | to * taberoulosts ~of | LNAt amount is increased when the| The meeting last night was held inijcli (OrC Sesporday and at Brawley | (9 usq WRAnIOE o8 (HEr AR OF B2 templates negotiating a loan in the |he said “might have been modeled |would be made eligible for all state |Tur® origin. Therefore the progrum for | S0ldler attains the rating of specialist | tlie post office at the invitation of = o D {erage Company of Iouisville, whial Chited States or eisewhere. Empha- after Noah's ark, for we are told they | offioes, includipg governor, by a joint | the extermination of the discase among | %, ALY Particular line of finance work. | Postmaster Chance, who took the —_— | e the suit, reqvested an 6rder fc crameht €ocs ot revaive o lom | prie (Ul of Wood, one-tory high, resolution introduced in' the lower | live stock must take Into considaration | Wasnimgion Schools the-stadence. ors | the Dot ofice ond mocey tniirough | Canada has the largest forest in the' restrain United States District At'or ty feet long, twenty feet wide.” - house of the Oklahoma legislature.,, |its effect on the public health. trained in the basic duties of soldiers. | the eity’s mail is handled. " | Ta te roughly 1000 by 1700 wihen . ocers from eaforciiy. the ruling. Dllea:; ' l i . C . : Rolfe E. Bolling R. Golden Donaldson James A. Cahill B President. Chalrman of the Board. Vice President. | want to Know ; James 1. Baden : Cashier. ! : i / ' i With whom they are dealing. - : 4 ? 5 *7~Own Your Own Home \ ‘ & | e helte e oL oqe —to secure the greatest sat- | : The personnel, reliabili : T e : ! e ) pe ty and responsibility of the isfaction in your home lifs.” gk ! manufacturer of the motor truck they are intend- z ing to purchase. Sy ) ; % - The satisfaction o owning your own home can That they will receive courteous, helpful and truthful be yours if you will save part of your earnings and c k 5 E 5 advice from the local sales and service organiza- MAKE deposit them regularly and systematically in our . ’ . tion of the manufacturer. a Savings Department. : : e B J BUDGET - Some fine day you will have a chance to buy just the The economy- of space required by the truck in con- . < odied . T S kind of home you have dreamed of and planned. Then the 8 garage. amount in your Savings Account will be a nest-egg for the ik 5 first payment, and we will be glad to advise you how to Value for the money invested. \ ; arrange to pay the balance. 3 Don't forget that in our Savings Department we pay in- & ; terest at the rate of 3 per cent per annum on every dollar every day it is left on deposit with-us. The Autocar Company, Ardmore, Pa. Established 1897 it Autocar Wherever there’s a The Commercial National Bank 14th and G Streets Member American Bankers Assooiation