Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1921, Page 2

FOUR LANDLORDS DENIED POSSESSION IN DECISIONS EVEN HAVE A BAND Simplest of Inaugurations Calls Merely for Oath and Speech. The inaugural ceremonies for Presi- dent-elect Harding at the Capitol wil consist merely of the administering of the oath of office and delivery of the | new President’s inaugural addigss on | - ; x the.east portico of the Capitol build- j northwest; rent reduced fr'nm_!.ajh ing. it was officially determined by {to a month. George W. Linkins, the joint congressional commitlce iijdefendant. = Dt pratfo ith a roof to| Samuel all platform, w o i 3 10 I m:k:"i‘( 'xgmm.- to use voice ampl ".‘7""“,‘, ibm“c; 13“\ ate sel;:ll‘;:: fiers so vhat the President's addr Cissel, SRAlBOCLES mpa: “ HoarEhyt al¥ be con. | rated adjudged insufficient. s T G Michael M. O’Connor. the Winona, on this platform nor elsewhere for th inaugural R, The platform ignated a stan floor will consist mostly the step’s landing. There will room only for the President, the Chicly Justice of the Supreme Court, who Will administer the oath es- | ry officials and the members of the joint committee There will be the steps for memb: nd all § f th I | District Rent Commission’s Action in Numerous Tenant Cases, Announced. Four landlords were denied POS- session of thelr property in determina- tions handed down today by the Dis- trict rent commission. Several rents also were reduced by the commission. The list of decisions follows: Hlizabetk M. Kane, 11 FE street Southwest; rent reduced from $15.50 to $12.50 a month. Stone & Fairfax, Incorporated, defendant. Martha Young. 43 Defrees street Applebee, 1004 K street | Snow, defendant, denied possession. Mrs. Louise Lervis, apartment east, the Cadiz, 115 I _street south- be jeast: rent reduced from $35 to $28.50 month. H. L. Swain, apartment 2, E rent reduced from month. Boss & “1924 L street rent reduced from $35 to s roped off on jnorthwest; A. S. Caywood, defend- f the Senate |$20 a month. ns entitled to fan the dij abers of the £, 1125 Fairmont notice to vacate | Jeffrey adjudged in-| plo Su- {served by Har | sutficient. | M the Panan | notice to . Flovd. apartment 3, 913 M street northwest; acate served by Edward P.| chwartz, Inc., adjudged insufficient. | cllund & Mackall, owners of > street southwest. granted in- i ent from $1 10 $15.50 a A. Carroll. tenant. apartment 4, 1 | E southwest; rent Te- iduced from $18.50 to $16.50 a month Thomas P. Brown. defendant. | Rents in the Schaeffer building, 509 street nmorthwest, owned by the music at the inaugur committee as provision been made escort for President liam Gaffney, 1t is estimated the entire additional polic the safety of that assembie. Supt. Elliott Woods of the Capitol building and grounds has been in- trusted_with warking out all the de- :$ tails of the simple ceremonies. { apartment | apartment & ARGICULTURE BILL e e s TOTALS $33,517,459 NC-6 IS ON NICARAGUA e | BEACH; ITS HULL PIERCED of the stand will be provided to Some | P erowds | Prisoners’ Relief Society. were held to | - us now in effeci. The rates | were approved as follow: Apartment 3, Brosseau, partment 4, C. C. Cave ilie ' Dewdney, i i (Continued from First I’ | propriation for_ egadi cylpsis and an increase of $100.000 for control and er: ation of hog cholera. { List of Oficers Favored. i The incr in the com Seaplane NC-5 Found by Tender, Which Rescues Crew and P 3 § Then Sinks Plane. es in salary us provided | rt are divided | SAN JUAN, Del Sur. Nicaragus s us follows: | yar 19 3 Vav % : s follows: |uary 19.—The United States Navy sea- | which is $66.470 le an the es- C-6.1s\lying on the beach st timate: weather bureau. increase of Gigante, a few miles from this port $2.130. which is $53.710 iess than the estimate, and bureau 1 in- istes e Tuciionor ,,',’,',;f,_'"""' in- 1 ull. but her engines are undamnged - In the bureau of plant industry a:2nd the machine can be repaired | reduction of $18.800; in the forest | 48ilY service a reduction of $3.360; in the ; TD€ burean ‘of chemistry « reduction [ | i i 1 | ane 3 I tug Gannet has arrived from | o7 | Nicova, having searched all the bays | 5500 5 < 2O iand inlets. This tur brought word. o is i ot eau of seils. salary [that the seaplane NC-5 had been found | ¥ear ljast Sunday by the tender Munford, | which i $5.100 less than- the esti- mates. ‘Tn'the burcan of entomoloy | WhiCR Texeued the crew and then | & reduction of $8.520; in the buresu i { 5 po, i command -of - the | ;';“%lfl flelh e increase of|NC.g, and Machinist Hickithier had a | 620, 8 $13.760 less than the ;tnrilling experience after leaving the | imate. . In the-division of accounts | NC-¢ Saturday, when they went in and _disbursements an increase of |gearch of the NC.5. and aiso for ane $2.400, which is $3,800 less than the 'gigtance for their. own p They i estimate. In the division of publica- | were lost for a considerable time in a ; tion an increase of $10.160, which i itropical forest. and were threaténed e. In the by armed natives. - - pea estimates a decreale of AND IN GERMANY FOR ANTI-TRUST LAW Wipes out the™ eatire . the library a decrease of es reclamation serv- $38,560; in the bu- madof $127,950, than the esti- ment of the e Pl sBticide act ari increase of $1,169, ‘whichilg a decrease of $2,260 from'the éstf For the horticul- tural board erease: $12.300, whick oo estimate. d Attempts of Stinnes ‘to Get Con- trol of Industry Cause Protest to Berlin. By Cable to The Star and Chicage Dally News, Copyrigut. 1821, BERLIN, Janpary 19.—There is a loud demand in this country for a German anti-trust law like the Sheér- man law in the United States, - This results from Hugo Stinnes’ attempt to &et control not only of the coal mines and the steel and iron industry. but also of other industries. The employes lof the Siemens-Schuckert concern at a protest meeting adopted resolutions condemning the recent sale of thée plant to Stinnes. . ° g 2 Herr Stinnes scems to be inareasing in power daily. The newspapers are constantly ' publishing items telling about new purchases of newspapel and industries by the ‘“big - Stinnes.” ~ What his ujtimate aim is it 1 d:moz:‘li o guess.-because he re- uses to to newspaper men, . ;iit is impossible to find -nytbln‘g":: {the newspapers controlled by him that would throw light on this subjeat. The . government "is” being accused of not only being afraid - to - act in 10,640 less than the MANY, moppm [ Ten MM« Show Decrease in hflwé—apme Increase. Ten mapufacturing industries sh. ed a dectease in the number of 2!‘3\- ployes in ember, 1920, as compared Wwith' ths same month of 1919, accord- w!g:: announced yesterday B B, ol ey i x&. w1 e of .4 per cent. derwear, 51 per cent: men's cf am” 38 per cent: bools and shoes, §I:Zx::r. © l;l ;:o‘l,lon finishing, 26.1 per cent 8 3 .3 per cent and a B nd automobile ree manufacturing inds showing an Increase in the Mumher of employes, car building and repuir- | HARDING PREPARES TOLEAVEMAR With Calendar Blank, He Turns Attention to Per- sonal Affairs. By the Associated Press. MARION, ‘Ohio, January 19.—For the first time in weeks President-elect Harding’s engagement calendar was blank today, and he turned his at- tention entirely to' personal uftairs in preparation for his'departur¢ tomor- row night for a six weeks' stay In Florida. X It will really be a Jeave-taking for a perlod of at least four years, for if he returns to Marion at all before inauguration it will be for only a day or so. His residence here has been rented and it will be vacated at the end of the week, when Mrs. Harding goes east to shop and attend to personal business in Washington and New York. She will join her hus- band later at St. Augustine, which will be his headquarters during February. Oune question in regard fto Mr. Harding’s personal plans. which re- mains unanswered js whether he will continue to be the proprietor of his newspaper, the Marion Star, during his occupancy of the White House. 1t is known that the subject has been one of serious consideration with him, and that although he expects to have | no opportunity to partictpate in the paper's management during the next four years, he is reluctant to sever connections with an_institution which he has given the gr of his life. Home Here to Be S U.S. GETS INJUNCTION TO HALT CABLE LANDING Temporary Order Also Restrains TUse of Three Lines for Messages Between U. S. and Brazil. NEW YORK, January 19.—Federal Judge Augustus N. Hand today i sued a temporary injunction. return- able next Friday, restraining the Western Union Telegraph Company from landing the British Brazil-Bar- bados cable at Miami, Fla. The injunction also restrains the company from using the three cables between Key West and Havana in conneetion with messages between the United States and Brazil and from splicing the line from the HBarbwdos to Cuba. Counsel for the Westorn Union con- tended th States had no ng of the H fighting the procure a stay every turn gations Unlon's franchise At no other co; submarine cuh o points in Brazil touched by it. _—_——————— SOUTHERN CUTS TRAINS. Numbers 23 and 24 to Memphis Are Discontinued. ROANOKE, Va., January 19. —Bffec- ve Saturday, J ana 24, run- hington and Mem- ted over the tracks of n between tol, Va., will n| to an- - general of- Western this trains were put on v traflic during the the Norfolk Lynchburg. V, be disontinu niMr, Au- after Mr. Harding will Jeave for gustine late tomorrow mnight, t. attending a celebration here of the | Elks' fraternity. of ‘which he. is a member. He probably will travel to “olufmbus on & special train, but dur- ing’ the remainder of the trip south his private car will be attached to regular trains. With their departure they will give up posession . of . their house in Marion. which made history as the second ‘of the frént porch campaigns. it has been lemsed to a Marion citi zen, and the house in Washington is to be sold. Tt is not denied that it will go to Vice Pregident Coolidge. as has been forecasted in published re: war ken off, it is said fon {ona SLAY MEXICAN COWBOYS. Yaqui Indians Kill Three and Loot Ranch. NOGAI Ariz, January 19.—A |the warpath and yesterday killed three Mexican cowboys and looted a tranch at Cruz Piedras, eight mile: <outh of Gua, 5 ording o official ad ching the border. Iband of Yagui Indians has resumed ! i D! i will be.maintained at Hard The seaplane has two holes in her | orts. ¢ the Presi dent him eloot’ Hardin ural addtess’during’ his according to Fredericks tiona} pepublican treasurer, rived: 4o help- #shoo, awa; crowds, as he expresssd it Mr. Harding 1s ex- pected, o nekt week, coming” from w“on'flm e e R Chattanoo will . and to_this en “th, bis ‘caBfét men from the southern stites whit}i, ‘in' the last election, broke:away from’ (hé solid south of the demdcratic party.” "' he ————— JOHNSON AND BORAH ARE LEFT OUT OF PRLEY Reports of a Yaqul outbreak in the o Oh st | vicinity of Bacum, Esperanza and -elect’s secretar. Cajeme, in the of the Yaqui to Florida. but an office were vers government ine . mining and doer to the Harding \terests in that locality. e hover watil Jate. In Fob s regarding the looting of ary, then the headquarters and T.adura by small bands will b ved- to Washington. of Indians and the terrorizing of the Indications are accumulating that | population. M. Harding svili-decide inally ‘on | nearly all of “his ‘cabinel selections T Elorida. Those olose to him be-| BOSTON RECTOR HERE. ievé that of the ten cabinet positiona fiffed the only one on Whic there has Deen amyihing approaching [Dean of Boston Cathedral to Con- ite Qecicion is that of Secre- | g fl“"e"‘o';'s‘“':_‘ “Thic place, it general. | duct Services February 4. conceded here will go to Charles| preparatory to Ash Wednesday and ans Hughes af New York. s |ypeng Rev. E. S Rousmaniere. dean of : St. Paul’ thedral, Boston, Mass, ‘WILL WORK ON ADDRESS. !\l conduct “A Quiet Day for Wom- S e ek ¢n under the auspices of St John's 2 : P Episcopal Church. February 4, at the Harding Plan to Write tnaugural 7 00 v P70 i T Boardman, 1801 P street. Talk in Florida. The sessions will be from 10 o'clock Jangary 19.—President- | natil noon, ‘wnd from 2 o'clock to 4 _{o'clock p.m., with an intermission o ans to write his inang- | §7 % 0, 1Mt enable all who attend o €0 out for luncheon and return. Cards of invitation and acceptance will be used. The services are being organized by Canon George Wilkiam Douglas of the Cathedral of St. John i the Divine, in New York, who is now in Washington as the acting rector of “.4St. John's. Dr. Douglas was rector of 1St John's about twenty-seven years less | agQ. R S — Civilian Message, Coast to Coast, and Reply in 6 1-2 Minutes. HARTFORD, Conn., January 19.—A new civilian wireless record was es- tablished when Hiram Percy Maxim sent a message from his station here to Los Angeles, Calif., and received a reply 6% minutes later. The mes- sages were relayed by stations at Chicago and Roswell, N. M. Tests under the auspices of the American Radio Relay League, of which Mr. Maxim is president, have (Continued from First Page.) republican President takes oath of office they ~place party ‘regularity above tempermental irfeconcilability. Senators Johnsen end .- on the other haad, are likely to be irrecon- oflable on most any old subject most any old time. E ‘Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, an- other member of the irreconcilable group, has been to Marion and has talked somewhat plainly to the Presi- ent-elect. He let Mr. Harding know that his friends in the Senate were taking it for granted he would * the Versailles league of nations in its entirety. Mr. Harding did not attempt to alter this view of the situation, Reed Falls to Change. been made for four nights. It was announced the preceding day that a message had been sent to Los Angeles from this city end a reply received in 1 hour end 8 minutes, a mew clvil- tan mark for cross-continent wireless relay. The former record was sald to have been 1 hour and 20 minutes, estadblished four years ago by the Maxim station. Amateur radio operators in all parts of the country sent messages of con- gratulations to Maxim when they Jearned through their wireless sets of the new record. Yap and “Drury’s Lane.” T8 the Bditor of The Sta; ing led with 13.8 per cent, the f showed, while the steel Alu‘l\llll’;“::5 ported an increase of 3.4 Per cent and the paper industry nine-tenths of 1 per cent. MRS. ROSA LEAVELL DIES; Long-Time Resident of Washington Succumbs at Age of Fifty-Five, Mrs. Rosa Mills Leavell, wife T. Leavell of 3926 11ih strect nac west, died yesterday afternoon after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Leavell was fifty-five vears of age and had long resided in Washington. The fun- eral services will be held Thursday aft- eroon in Richmond, Va. rs. Leavell is survived by - band and one son, 3. Barwell Taarcs; and W. N. Mills of Newport News, Va.. and three sisters, Mrs. Ida Hall, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Mary M. Stratton, and Mrs. J. Morris Carter of Richmond. ———— WURZBACH NOT FIRST. T. H. McKee Says Texas Elected Two Other G. 0. P. Congressmen. According to Thomas H. M. formerly journal clerk of the fifu'.fé of Representatives, a statement re. cently published that H. M. Wurzbach is the first republican ever elected to the House from Texas, was incorrec George A. C. Noonan of San Antonic was elected in 1594 to the Fifty-fourth Congress as a_republican, and R. B Hawley of Galveston was elected in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth, and also in 1898 to Fifty-sixth Congress, Mr. McKee explains. ¢ —_— WILL DISCUSS CREDITS. Lloyd George and Briand to Take Up Economic Crisis. PARIS, January 19.—Premier Lloyd George intends to discuss with Pre mier Briand at their meeting, begi ning January 25, the question of in- ternational credits, suys the Jcho do Paris. He has reached this decision, the newspaper declares, with the idea of remedying any economic crisis which may exist. - Call It “District of Columbia.” T o Bititor of The Star: How about “cutting out” the word ‘Washington from this “burg” of dis- franchisement and taxation? Just call it the District of Columbla in mailing. To the best of my judgment every state has a hog path or railroad crossing named Washington. This District of Columbia is the only one on earth. At least, let us hope so. A few years ago my entire ship- ment of holiday merchandise went to Washington, N.C. B. 1. OSBOR%. against him. but also of being sub- iservient to him. 1 —————— {TWO_PERISH IN BLAZE AT FILM MANUFACTORY ‘One Woman Leaps From Fire Ee- cape With Clothes in Flames. Man’s Body Charred. | pBAYONNE, X. I, January 19.—Two erse , one a youn 'oman, IXilled and ten Injured fn a fire hore leuch swept a building housing several film maunfacturing concerns jyesterday. The dead are Miss Ethel iSuckow, twenty-four, and & man be- {lieved by the police to be Arthur Post, twenty-one. A check .of other 1 | employes showed all bad been ac- countd for. Miss Suckow perished apparently by jumping from a fire escape at the second floor after she had been car- jried through flames by a watchman who returned to rescue other girl employes, Miss Suckow, enveloped by flames, leaped to the street. T charred body of a man believed to be that of Post was found on the second floor. cxploding films hurled burning de- bris two hundred feet, setting fire to several dwellings and threatening to communicate with a 1,000-gallon nk of gasoline in a welding shop nearby, —_— NEGRO PLEADS GUILTY. Slayer of Woman Admits Man- slaughter Charge. Henry Jackson, colored, indicted for murder in the first degree in connec- tion with the death of Nellle Haw- kins in the rear of ¢34 K street south- west, July 9 last, today pleaded guilty to manslaughter before Justice Gould in Criminal Division 1. government accepted the plea, and Jackson was remanded for sentence. Jackson was engaged in a quarrel with another man, who had attacked him with a brick, it was stated, and in firing at the man struck and killed the woman. DECLINES TO COMPLY. Postmaster M. O. Chance today notified the Kalorama Citizens’ Asso- ciation that he could not accede to its request to keep the Columbia road postal station open until 8 o'clock each night. < ‘The postmaster, in a letter to the secretary of the organization, out that the postal business ‘workers » Senator Willlams said in the Senate Monday that he was rather proud of the fact he had not encumbered his intellect with any knowledge con- corning the Island of Yap. He said a Derson should conserve his intellect, and one of the best things to do is to disregard Yap and all other non-es- sentials at the bexinning. By thus conserving his intellect the senator was able to tell us about the battle of “Drurys Lane,” one of the two miltary victories to the credit of the American forces in the war of 1812, e said. ? None of the histories which T have read mention Such a battle, and the statement coming from any other than Senator Williams would influ- ence the belief- that another Lane was meant, which was also a victory over the men who had -behind them the spirit of “Richard of the Lion Heart, of King (?) Hal” etc. ' But the senutor 18 too intolerant with those who disagree with him to ever state a_wrong conclusion. The gen- ator can ‘contribute much to Ameri- can knowledge -if. when he retires from the Senate, he will take up the writing _of history and, under the title of “Hidden ‘Phases of American History,” deal with matters of great- er interest and superfor importance than the location of the Tsland of Yap, JOHN A. COTTER. Senators Reed of Missouri and Shields of Tennessee, the democratic irreconcilables, also have taken their places in history among the best minds summoned to Marion. They were most polite in expressing their views. Senator Reed spent the night at the Harding home, but he left it Just as trreconcilable’ as ever. Having had five of the irreconcilable group in conference, it mi be that Senator Harding bas thought the ir- reconcilable view has been adequately n ;i . Do President-elect goes south on Thursday night, and his friends and neighbors have been giving him a geries of real, old-fashioned “going- away” parties. The senator has-been rather dependent on real companion- £hip, and a_feeling -which ‘might be called the “White House blues” comes over him when he coptemplates the thought that the carefully arranged life of a chief executive may make it impomsible for him always to meet the old friends on the old plane. "Although he has not lived much in Marion during the past six years, Sen- ator Harding has a real affection for the old place. This is reflected in his determination to come all the way back here from Florida so0 he can pro- ceed direct from his home town to Washington to take the oath of the nigh office to which a Marionite has been elected. He will reach Washing- tton the afternoon of March 3 and go into n«:l’union until noon of the fol- a lowing 927 opprignt, 1921.) Over a thousand camels are used in Queensland @s-a-means of -transport across the arid distriots, and the num-. dper is rapidly increasing. LIMIT ON NATIONALITIES IN IMMIGRATION URGED Former. Chief of Contract Labor Bureau Alsa Suggests Putting Aliens on Lands. ‘W. W. Husband, former chief of the contragt labor bureau, Department of { Labor, concluded his testimony before the Senate immigration committee t0- day by submitting two chief proposals which, he sid, would largely correet the immigration question. | The first récommendation calfed for |permanent legislation reasonably lim- jiting the volume of immigration to be admitted in any one year from each country. It would also provide an |open way for the admission of emer- gency labor where the need for such | was proved. Secondly. he asked for the crem- | tion of machinery to place immi- | Eranta on the land, increasing the | number of farms and developing L] waste areas, preference being ®iven at all times to quickly assimilated. committee adjourned today until next Tuesday. when it will hear Caminetti, oner general of immigration ill be asked | to_detail his views of European con- ditions relating to immigration and irecommend steps to be taken by | (ongress in legislating on the immi- gration question. Senator Harrison, democrat, Misis- 8ipph, member of the committee, con- ferred with republican members of ithe committee tdoay in an effort to obtain their views on the Johnson bill restrioting immigration for a year. WOMEN TO USE AIRPLANE | BEARING NEBRASKA VOTE the classes most Elector and Alternate Leave Omaha Tomorrow and Will Stop at Marion En Route. OMAHA, Neb., Januar; {H. Wheller of Lincoln?' l:r ¢lector, and Mrs. Draper Smith, al- 'ahrn.up. ©0f Omaha, who plan to carry 1 e state’s electoral vote to Wash- r&ton by airplane, expect to leave h{ebrflnk. on their flight tomorrow, Weather permitting. Mrs. Smith, whe is SIXty-8ix years old, made a trial 1m.:hv; :ar:;l Jesterday. Yomen plan on stopping off at Marion. Ohio, ~President-clect: iard- ing’s home. “GEN.” COXEY IN CITY. Mr. Harding “Thirteen Points” in Recent Interview. Jacob S. Coxey, leader of t us _“Coxey's army” which : Washington a number of | Years ago in the interest of the unm- cmployed. made a less-heralded visit to the National Capital today, bring- Mrs. H. sidential | Gave i ing news of an interview he had re-|gs cently with President-elect at Marion. Ohio. e “Gen.” Coxey said he premented Mr. Hardinog with a copy of his “thirteen points,” covering soldiers’ welfare, { the Volstead act, resumption of trade with Russia and othe g‘hmflm er of his pet CLAXTON ISSUES CALL. Asks New England Folk-to Edu- cation Conference. A formal invitation to the citisens of New England to attend th:‘ na- |1Iclm| regional conference on educa- tion in Boston Friday and Saturday {was issued today by P. P. Claxton iUnited States commissioner of edu- cation. The gathering will _be ad- | dressed by Gov. Cox of Massachusetts, fessional edueau::";: e NEWSPAPER CASE ARGUED U. S. Supreme Court Gets Appeal From Post Office Ruling: Appeal of the Milwaul Lea |rrom -decision of hvurke.:llm ‘r:-' fusing to order Postmaster General | Burleson to restore the mail priv- {1leges of that paper. was argued to- Jd..y before the Supreme Court, with the publishers of the New York Cal appearing as “a friend of the court” to assist the plaintiff. Counsel for the Call was given permission by the court to file briefs, but were refused time for vocal argument. The use of the mails is a “vaiuable property right,” r Stedman, representing the Leader, said, and the action of the Postmast which did not rest in that official. The refusal of the court below to review the appeal, he asserted, in effect destroyed the purpose of the Constitutien. first amndment to the POLES ON WAY TO U. S. 20,000 Refugees Concentrate at Danzig, Others Arrive Dafly. American Red Cross advices today said 20,000 Polish refagees en route ito the United States were concentrat- ed in the free city of Danzig, 10,000 of the number being housed in a camp on the outskirts of the city. Additional the statement said, but great numbers were turned back for lack of pass- port vise by American consuls at ‘Warsaw or other Polish cities. . - UTILIZE OLD STONE WALLS [Ancient Fortifications at Paris { Become Building Material. Both the devastated areas of France' And -the youngsters of Paris will benefit from the recent disman- tling of the 6id inmer fortifications of the city, according. to advices from the French capital to national head- quarters of the Red Cross here. . Over twenty miles of perfectly good building stone that once rose fifty feet from the moat that sar- rounded sncient Paris are now be- ing incorporated into houses, schools and industrial plants in the devas- tated regions. The leveling of these.old ramparts has given Paris it first model play- ground, and on the filled in section of the walls in the Bagnolet quar- ter the Junior Red Cross has laid out a special playground modeled on American lines. i EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY-.19, 1921. SIB00DLE UL, SHIP BOAR ¥ Col. Abadie Says Lack of| Documents Makes Collec- tion Difficult. By the Asssciated Press. NEW YORK, January 19.—Account- ing methods for the fund of more than §$3,000,000,000 handled by the 8hipping Board were described here today by Col. E. H. Abadie, former general controller of the board, im testimony before the Walsh comm tee investigating Shipping Board af- ] 1 airs. The witness said $215,796,000 was due the board on November 1, 1919, in uncollected accounts, and of this sum j more than $2,000,000 was due from { foreign governments. Difficulties in i collection, he said, were enhanced by | failure to have proper SuppOrting | documents to substantiate claime. The first balance sheet of the board, Col. Abadie declured, was made early in December, 1919. Certified public accountants, he said, in reports to the chairman of the board, disclosed. with other _itema that the New York office has charged on its books “materials and supplies” valued at $497.000, and no inventory to reconcile the charges, or to show what the property comprised. Early in May, he sald, Chairman Hurley directed that a fixed charge of 10 per cent per annum depreciation be made against steel ships, on a val- uation of $125 a ton, and a fixed charge of 12} per cent on wooden ships with a valuation of $125 a ton, in order to reflect results from ope: ations. Traveling Expenses High. KING LEADS FIGHT IN SENATE TO CUT DISTRICT BUDGET (Continued from First Page.) tis accepted the amendment with the understanding that it would be con- sidered further in conference. Other amendments offered by Sena- tor Harrison increased the salaries of seventy-one Jjanitors of schools from $720 to $780. and of nine janitors from 3600 to $660, which were accepted also by Senator .Curtt School He: Senator Walsh of Massachusetts asked Senator Curtis whether the committee had considered the ques- tion of giving the superintendent of public schools an increase of salary. Senator Walsh said that he under- atood the present superintendent had come here with the understanding that he would be given an increase, and he suggested the District might lose the superintendent if no increase was forthcoming. Senator Curtis replied that the com- mittee had adopted a policy of not proposing any increase of salary where the salary was in excess of $2,000. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, then offered his amendments provid- the construction of new ildings—he offered them on He m buil Saturday, odified these amend- { ments, however, 5o as to provide that the limit of coSts of the prop buildings should be 32 cents per cabic foot. “This change,” said Senator Har- rison, “should do away with all ob: jections that have been raised to ap- propriating for new schools now. The school buildings in Denver, Col., to which the committee has referred, in opposing _appropriations for new school buildings here, on the ground that the estimates were entirely too high, cost 33% cents per cubic foot. Every one agrees that mew school buildings are needed here, and the only objection to making the neces- sary appropriation has been that they cost too much. Under the amendments dne of the early abuses corrected|offered by me that objection would by the controller was lack of control | ot lie of traveling expenses of empioyes of May Use a Filibuster. the board. He maid as high as $30 a| Democratic opposition to the day was paid for traveling expenses|ney emergency tariff bill caused de- of nine executive employes. lay in consideration of the District High fees paid “experts” and their)appropriation measure in the Senate amsistants also were criticised by the|yesterday afternoon. Senator Pat ‘witness. Harrison of Mississippi and other sen- Losses running into millions of dol- |ators on the democratic side of the 1ars weuld be shown by the Shipping | chamber let it be known that they in- Board in the operation of its vessels|tended to sorutinize and discuss thor- if fixed charges were taken into ao- |oughly all measures which may come count, Col. Abadie told the committee. | before the Senate at the present ses- The witness took with him to the |Sion. This is a method of preventing committes room a trunk full of ex.)action on ocontroverted legislation hibita, From these exhibits and a|Which has been used frequently in prepared statement he read his testi- mony. A ‘which he identified as showing the voyage accounts of Shipping Board vessels, substantiated, he maid, his statement. Shows Big Leosses. “In the North Atlantic trade” he testified, “there were 272 voyages sub- sequent to March 1, 1920, which showed & total revenue of $26,017,- 193.75, with a voyage expense of $16,- 5,372.13, resulting in a profit, before deduoti fixed charges, of 3!?:1.- $21.62. iast these voyages how- ever, there had accrued fixed 'ges of a total of $12,645,497.11. It is ob- vious there was a loss su: on _these 272 voyages of $3,173,675.48." | © Delays in securing voyage accounts —at times from sixty to ninety days Dehind the time they were contracted delays in auditin, Board acoounts, he said. He also as- serted America must “get away from the shipping customs aln” or, in his n, “the United States never would have a merchant marine, no matter at what prioces the ships were sold.” The witness testified as to the ef- forts of the controller’s department to pick up and bring to a general ac- couating the affairs of the board. de- layed during the war for the reason that it was “ship fon and not that the people de- NEW COMPANY OPENED. Will Handle Bxpress for Southern i Railroads. business over the lines of thé Southern rallway and the Mobile | himself opposed to paying salaries out | and Ohjo raiiread will be handled aft-;of the public treasury to those who are ; or March 1 by the Southeastern Bx- press Company, & Dew company or- ghnised under laws of Alabama, the Southern announced last night. The new express co: ny bas a mpa capital of $1,000,000 and is owned by | southern business men, the announce- ment said Headquarters will be in ot Great Brit- |V the Senate—a kind of secondary fili- buster. . When the bill was taken up in the Senate yesterday an item providing $25,000 to be used for civic centers and public forums in the public school buildings was pending. Senator King of Utah strongly opposed this pro- vision, and succeeded ‘in having the Senate adopt a substitute providing $15,000, making the work entirely educational in character, with the board of education supervising it, and limiting the pay of teachers and em- ployes to half the appropriation. Sen- ator King said that many people think these community centers are more or less socialistic in their tenden- ies. “In my judgment,” he said, “the work proposed to be performed by this organi- zation should Dbe performed by the He said that in the present was divided as to the advisability of continuing the functions of such centers at public expense. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, on the other hand, took the stand that the work of the community forums and civic cen- ters should be supported generously. On the whole, he asserted, they had been instrumental in accomplishing much that was commendable. He said that there had been & total attendance of 500,000 persons age weekly attendance had been 11,000, and that more than 270 other civic or- ganisations had held weekly meetings in these community centers He added that the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts organi- zations had been taken care of, and he pointed out that over fifty cities in the United States had been developing sim- ilar work. Senator Myers of Montana declared employed in the management of com- munity centers. Senator Harrison, who is a member. of the Senate committee which inves- tigated the public schools during the last session, took up the cudgels for the community centers, as did Senator Hale of Maine. Senator Harrison said that he. aimself was prejudiced at e " fionn B, Hockailay 45 |first against the community centers, ly vice president and gemerai mana- | Put that he had learned they had af- ger of the old Southern Express Com-{forded social intercourse with the pany, He succeeds Capt. Charlos A.|YOUng people under the watchfulness o Lyerly of Chattancoga, Tenn. ¢ their parents, and that the public forums were places of educational im- ADVERTISING QUESTIONED. B. H. Stinsmetz and D. V. Lynch Named in Charges. Prosecution under false advertising law bas been instituted against B. H. Stinemets, president of the firm of B. H. Stinemetz & Son, 1201 F street, and Dan V. Lynch, trading as the Lynch portance. On motion of Senator Warren, the Senate adopted an amendment which would authorize members of the Na- tional Rifles Association to obtain per- mits to carry arms for the purposes of the association for periods of six mon! BRIAND IS FELICITATED. PARIS, January 19.—Premier Briand CVICCENTERSHIT BY CONGRESS CUT Community ~ Schoolhouses Will Be Opened Fewer Nights Each Week. All socal work will be ellminated from the activities of the twenty community centers W the Distriet public schoola, and the centsrs will Oopen fewer nights cach week as & result of the action of the Semate in reduciog the appropriation for their operation and maintenance from $25,000 to $15.000, it was stated today by Miss Cecil Norton, gemeral com- munity secretary. It is probadble that several of the centers may be forced to close en- tirely, but Miss Norton hopes to avoid this by shortening the schedules of the work now undertaken. As stipulated by the amendment to the District appropriation bill, as adopted by the Senate yesterday, the activities of the community centers must purely eds in character, and dancing and other so- cial activities will be abandoned. May Put End to Dancing. Before arranging a definite sched- ule of the fature activities of the centers, Miss Norton will await a correct interpretation of educational work within the scope of the com- munity center department. Miss Nor- ton personally considers dancing as 2 type of “higher education,” and feels that all social work in the cen- ters is > Dancing, however, is one of the activities criti- cised by opponents of the community center appropriation. Therefore, Miss Norton is of the opinion that the oen- ters will have to be closed to such amusement. In order to keep within the $15,000 appropriation allotted the commmnity center department, Miss Norton pro- Doses to only open the centers a few nights each week Four cen- ters now open every night except Sun- day, she said, probably will only be in operation three or four nights. Other centers now open three, four and five nights would have their nights of operation reduced in peo- portion. Comment of Supt. Ballow. Commenting on the reduced appro- priation for the community centers.. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, stated that there was moth- ing left to do but close some of the centers. The superintendant said he is convinced that members of Con- gress do not fully realize the benefit of the community centers to the resi- dents of Washington. SEES COUNTRY MOVING TOWARD PROSPERITY H H Merrick Tells Mississippi Valley Association Period of Business Depression Is Ended. The country has emerged from its Pperiod of business depression follow- ing the war and is now slowly but surely moving toward prosperity. President H. H. Merrick of Chicago declared in opening a two-day con- ference at the New Willard Hotel thix morning of the Mississippi Valley As- sociation. More than 100 delegates, represent- ing the business and agricultural is- terests of the twenty-seven states of the Mississippi valley, are here for the conference, which was called to consider questions. affecting the fu- ture of the American merchant ma- rine and collateral matters, such as new foreign trade routes and export freight rates. Meetings also will be held here to- day by the South Atlantic States As- sociation and the Midwest-Gulf-South Atlantic Foreign Trade and Trans- portation Committee to consider joint action by the three organizations on problems affecting the development of the merchant marine. FOR OLD-TIME RELIGION. Rev. S. S. Palmer Regards Past Doctrines Good for Present. Old-fashioned doctrines in religion ! were advocated for present-day | churchmen by Rev. Samuel S. Palmer, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in an ad- | aress to members of the Presbyterian | Alliance of Washington last night in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. Dr. Palmer declared that the need of the present was to get back to the old doctrines, which made the church the ho")ll. and the state the is of citizenship. P ev. Wallace Hadclifte delivered the invocation and the benediction trainioads arrived daily, { Gous Bales Company. F. X. Wholley, secretary of the Ad- wvertising Club of Washington and di rector of the better business bureau of on the two men yesterday afternoon, with the notification to appear in Police irt this morning. They were repre- sented in court today by James B. Archer, and bond was fixed at $50 each. Mr. Archer and United States Attorney Given will agree on a date for the trial. CAR LOADING RECORD. Railroads of the country establish- ed & new record during November in the average carried by each loaded freight car, according to com. pilations made by the bureau of rai way economics. The average for the month was thirty and one-half tons, which was two-fifths of a ton greater than the previous record and one. Gailf ton higher than during the pre- ceding month. Smoking in Pablic Offices. T the Biitor of The Star: In the Btar of January 17, under the head, “Smoot Smoking Bill is Faulty,” there appears a’statement which, to any one who is at all ac- qusinted with actual conditions in our government offices, is altogether untrue, and quite amusing. It is as follow! “The fact is that very few government _employes smoke during ‘working hours, and the proposed law would not hit hard the great mass of ;?c:w this statement might seem plausible if we include women in this eneral summing up of government mployes, for women, in general, do not yet smoke in public to any great extent, and I do not think that they bave been known to do so in our of But even leaving the women, of whom theh are a large Txmber mployed in the goverament at pres- % out of the count, the assertion that “very few government employes smoke during working hours” " is iglaringly false. I have been in |government service nearly five years, d have been employed in a number :? different offices and buildings, and in my actual experience I have found hat ugh estimate. ope might &y enty-five per cent of the office induige assumption of privilege. In the War Department, especially, this habit is so general among the men that conditions there, under which - nds of women have to work g- 3 woud from ‘with- are not at all realized, or they rouse indignation and protest " ik par to be be. has received a number of telegrams from leading statesmen since being named head of the new French cabi- et Among them were messages|short 2 Premiers Lloyd George of Eng- i allk . fond. Giotitel of Tialy ana Wiart of| A e e e o men by Belgium, all of whom expressed their | tendered Dr. BaUUCE o0, SFEC, 5%, ¢ warm sympathy and the hope- that|buffet supper, i as hostesses, and there was the bonds uniting the allies might be) SIS o ertainment program, dur- ing which Charles Trowbridge Titt- —_— t man rendered several solos, accom- ACCUSED PROVES ALIBI. panied by Miss Mabel Linton. Henry Winter, former policeman, . Tittma program __included “PPM; Peccatis, Sullivan’s “Lost who was held in connection with the robbery of Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Chord” Gounod’s “Ring Out, Wild Mervis early Sunday mormning at 16th «The Lass with the Delicate {Dr. Ame), Purcell's “Passing iqhe Fairy Pipers” (Brewer) and T streets, proved an alibi upon|and his appearance before Judge Hardison in the Police Court this afternoon, and Banjo_Song” (Dichmond). of the committee on arrangement was acquited of the robbery charge against him. Which included Rev. Alfred E. Bar- 'Winter showed by many witnesses ernard Braskamp, Rev. e, Clark and Rev. J. Harvey that he was in a lunchroom during the time of the alleged robbery. Dunham. Named by President PALMER URGES PROBE. For Tennessee Judgeship Wants Congress to Look Inmto ; Handling of Radicals. Attorney General Palmer, appearing today before & Senate committee, de- clared he not only welcomed & search- ing investigation of the department in rounding up radicals, but he be- that “in justice to the publi })‘::agho\lld be made immediately. “The time has come when we need something more than blind allega- tions, hearsay evidence and lot:lc charges,” .Mr.” Palmer asserted. It agents of my department have ar- rested men without justification. beaten them up, and brutally treated them, I want to know the facts. All I have to w are unsubstan- f deportees and re- De] ent of Justice 't Jibe.” ey don't 3 i eneral repl ohieh. he said, had been e ey brondcast” by the National Popular Government League. RAILROAD LOAN APPROVED Chilean Council of State Supports Act of Congress. TAGO, Chile, January 18—A bill authorizing the negotiation of a' loan of approximately $25,000,000 on behalf of the state railways, which was recently passed by the Chilean con- gress, was approved by the . council of state today. In a statement relative to the loan, the minister of finance said he was corresponding with New York and European bankers regarding th détails of the undertaking. He said the loan would bear not more than 8 per: cent interest and wou! repaid with d by the setting aside. v ounced by Rev. Robert At- Rinton“Irwin B. Linton delivercd a hort talk on the work of the local