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3 WEATHER. Rain tonight; tomorrow fair and colder. Temperature for twenty-four hours Highest, dtd at 2 p.m. today: 2 pom. today; lowest, 38, toanv. Full report on page 4, part 2. 5, at at 7:30 a.m. Closing New York Stocks No. 28,041 Page § Part 2 Che pening Staf. — WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Member of the Associ The Associated Fress is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches | credited to 1t or not otherwise credited Ia this || paper and als | | | Yesterday’s the local news published Letein. | All rights of publication of special | dispatches herein are also reserved. Net Circulation, 94,572 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. (., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1921 —TWENTY PAGES * TWOQ CENTS. WASHINGTON, UNITED ATR FORCE 1S URCED BY HEAD OF ARMY AVIATION Progress of Planes I-[as Made Capital Navy Vessels Use- less, Mitchell Says. COULD SINK ANY SHIPS ATTACKING OUR COASTS General Wants Army, Navy and Commercial Aerial Activities Brought Into One Control. Army advocates of a united air serv- ice carried their fight today into the camp of the encmy. Appearing before the House naval committee, with a number of aids, "Brig. Gen. Mitchell, chief of operations "Of the Army Air Service, urge«l_lm~ mediate unification of all Army, Navy and commercial aerial activities and reiterated his belief that the airship had made capital vessels useless. Members of the Navy general board, who have consistently combated the idea of a united air service, listened to Gen. Mitchell's arguments With ob- vious impatience, awaiting their oppor- tunity to present their arguments in favor of the capital ship as against the airplane. # 5y Gen. Mitchell urged the substitution of enormous air and seaplane carriers : to accompany the light vessels of the fleet in place of battleships and ba tle cruisers. Could Defend Coast. “I think that with our present avia- tion facilities properly developed, he asserted, “that we can sink any enemy vessel, armored or unarmored, that comes within 200 miles of our coast. With airplane carriers housing at least thirty planes we could ex- end this area far out to 3 Chairman_Butler interrupted to re- mark that he didn’t think the people jcould be interested in large expendi- tures for air forces until they knew what had become of the money appro- priated for aviation during the war. “The people are determined to know, and they will know what be- came of the $1,100,000,000 appropriated for aviation for war purposes,” de- clared the chairman. Gen. Mitchell replied that he was not familiar with the financial end of aviation development during the war. England Stops Information. American flying officers have little knowledge of airplane tarriers, Gen. Mitchell said, because “England has ,absolutely stopped up on _informa- {tion.” He thought Great Britain had isix such carriers and was building more. The witness said he asked the gen- eral board in 1919 for ships to use in maneuvers .to demonstrate the ef- fectiveness of air forces against naval vessels. The idea met with favorable comment, but no action, he said, and WAR PAJAMAS | SOLD TO FRANCE “HAWKED” HERE Pajamas. forty thousand suits of them, made by American women for the boys in France, but sold to the French government after the armistice, are being sold in this country through French and Amer- ican speculators at §245 a suit, L. E. Bicknell, tant director of the Red Cross. A. E. F. de- clared today before a House war investigating committee. They were given to the Army by the Red Cross and sold by the liquida- tion commission, he said, French speculators getting them from the French government later and sell- ing them to Americans, who strip- ped them of the Red Cross in- signia and marketed them here. CHNESE BATTLE GUARDS ABOUTSHP One Killed, Another Missing, Two Detectives Hurt at Philadelphi%flock. i By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., —One Chinese was shot to death, another is believed to have been drowned and two private detectives were beaten in a battle on the deck Of a Japanese steamer here early today, as thirty-three Chinese sailors attempted to flee ashore. One sailor managed to get away, but he was captured after a lons cha The injured detectives are Charles C. Howe, i and Joseph Dunphy, ‘Camden, . Howe was knocked unconscious by a blow from a bamboo rod, while Dunphy nar- rowly missed death from a hatchet blow. Attack Before Daybreak. The fight occurred on the steam- er Chifuku Maru, which docked yes- terday with a cargo of sugar from Java. As soon as the steamer berth- ed, the usual cordon of guards was thrown about the vessel because of her Chinese crew. Signs that the Chinese intended to make a dash for frecdom were evident yesterday, but the attack did not come until just before daybreak, when the crew made a massed attack on guards patroling the deck. The detectives drew their pistols which had no effect on some of the February 5. sued. Reinforcements from reached the deck and many shots were fired, mostly in the air. Supposed Leader Shot Through Head. One Chinese, who appeared to be a leader, was shot through the head, and one dived overboard in the dark- ness and was not again seen. The | Chinese who reached shore escaped by means of a hawser, going down hand over hand. ‘Wwith knives and daggers, but the pis- tols of the detectives kept most of them from advancing. One Chinese another request for two torpedo boats. one battleship and two supply vessels 1o be attacked from the air and ac- tually bombed for experimental pur- poses had been put through this week. Chairman Butler indicated that the committee would urge the.Navy De- partment to arrange for tests. Sims Voices Opposition. “Nobody is going to take his hand off his gun™ until conditions in Europe are settled, Admiral Sims told the commit- tee yesterday in voicing decided opposi- .tion"to discontinuance of the great 1918 naval building program. The superiority of the battleship over the alrplane or the submarine was de- fended by Admiral Charles J. Badger, {head of the general board and former {commander of the Atlantic fleet. He _said that battleships and battle cruisers ‘would remain the backbone of the flect for years to come. He did not believe, he said, that anything very definite would come out of the proposed dis- |armament conference, but said it was {a worthwhile effort. Still another view was presented by Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, re- tired, former member of the general board and fnventor of the torpedoplane, who told the committee that aerial dread- /naughts would be the capital ships of {the future. Gen. Mitchell, called to the stand, told the committee that it was a simple mat- ter for air forces to hit and destroy a ba't- tleship, and repeated his testimony of swung a hatchet at Dumphy, but, in- stead of the sharp edge striking him, the blunt end came down on his thigh, putting him out of the fight. With the help of a force of police from a nearby station and a police boat, the Chinese were finally driven to their quarters. —_—— JAPANESE EXPECT DELAY IN SETTLING ISSUE HERE | Gentleman’s Agreement Said to Be More Stringent in Return for Oriental Rights. By the Aswociated Press, TOKIO, February 4.—Negotiations relative to the California question be- tween the United States and Japan may encounter difficulties which will deiay final settlement, according to newspapers here, but their comments are vague and are based on conjec- tures, as the text of the preliminary accord between the two countries has not been made public. Both the Hochi Shimbun and the Kokumin Shimbun lay emphasis upon the apparent fact that the “gentle- man’s agreement” between the United States and Japan has been made more stringent, as a return for the ac- last week before the appropriations com- mittee to the effect that aerial develop- ments had made surface navies obso- lete. Gen. Mitchell cleared up one point that had been causing the committee some wondegment all day when he de- clared that data, supposed by Navy offi- ‘cials to be secret, but disclosed by him before a Senate committee, had been secured by Army officers who attended the bombing of the old battleship In- diana, at the invitation of Secretary Daniels. - ROUND UP REDS IN FRANCE Police Spread Out Net in Paris, Havre and Nancy. PARIS February 5. — Six alleged Russian communists were arrested here last night, and it is expected that others will be taken into cus- tody today, twenty-one warrants having been sworn out late yester- day. Police officials are continuing thelr investigation of communists' activities and have reported success- ful operations at Havre and Nancy. The authorities at Frankfort have arrested fourteen persons, among whom are several communists and leaders of armed organizations, say a Mayence dispatch to the Matin. Newspapers. here declare that it ha been found that communists in France are obtaining Amerlcan money from some source in Eerlin. {QUAKE ARDUSES VOLCANO. Popocatepetl Active as Result of Destructive Mexican Tremors. MEXICO CITY, February 5— Mount Popocatepet] seemed y:sterday to have been roused into more vigor- ous volcanio activity by the earth-! quake which on Thursday night shook the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, destroy- ing much property and probably caus- ing the death of many persons Indians living at the foot of the mountain were much disturbed by the appearance of smoke wreaths around the summit, fearing a disastrous tremor. Thursday night's earthquaks was felt distinctly in the oty of Puebla and was noticeable here. —_— TAMPA, February 5.—Jose Murez, secretary of the jomt aavisory board Tepresenting union cigarmakers here Tambering. 13,000, stated today thap the strike of workers had been ended by a referendum vote begun yester- day. The strike has been in progress &QC almost ten montha. cording of great rights to Japanese in_America. These newspapers seem to think the new agreement will function even if the nations fail to negotiate a treaty. The Chu-O Shimbun, the gov- ernment organ, says, however, it is authorized to announce that this im- pression is without foundation, and that the revised agreement would be valid only in case a treaty should be ratified. Mexiean Deal Denfed. TOKIO, February 3.—Denial is made by the foreign office of reports that the Japanese and Mexican govern- ments have reached an agreement under Wwhich Japanese desiring to purchase land in Mexico would be given every facility by Mexico, 1.No Buch agrcement has been con- cluded.” it was said at the foreign office today, * Ay fabrication or an erroneous report.” KNIFE DUEL TO DEATH. Shoemaker Dies From Wounds. Unidentified Slayer Flees, BRIDGEPORT, Conn,, Feb — [ A auel with knives, believed by the por lice to have been carefully planned by the participants, resulted in the death of | Gionani Dirosa, twenty-nine, a show. | maker of this’ city. | slayer escaped. ‘Walking together into the woods, the two men removed their couts, vests ang ! hats, and placed them on the Then each drew a knife from his poc {and faced each other for a few seconds | Each strode backward ten puces. and }then they approached each other with | knives held even with their After a clinch they separated and again backed off ten paces each. They pay iried several thrusts and then Diroeas opponent drove his knife into Dirosars heart. The unidentified man knelt by Dirosa’s body for a moment and then put on hig hat, vest and coat and walked hurriedly | away. | The police claim Dirosa had served a | prison term for manslaughter. ! = STRANGLED TO DEATH. NEWARK, N. J., Febru S Strangled to death, the body of Albert llatin Wallace Morris, * sixty-five, descendant of New Jersey's first gov- ernor, and with distinguished ances- try leading back to the conqueror of Wales in the twelfth century, was I found in his room here last night A leather belt was drawn in a noose Dbout his neck and tied to a bedpost Morris formerly was reputed to have been wealthy. In late years he had deen employed as a night watchman by the Central railroad of New Jer- sey. P Chinese and a hand-to-hand fight en- | shore | Many of the Chinese were-.armed. nd the allegation is a | His unidentifled | ground. | shoulders. | BRITISH PREMIER DEFENDS PLAN OF ?l Al SUPRENE COUG Says Reparation Claim Is Righteous One and Must Be Paid if Possible. BASED ON PROBABILITY Cannot Place Burden of War's Ravages on French Workers, Lloyd George Declares. BY the Associnted Press. BIRMINGHAM, England, Fcbruary ~—Premier Lloyd Geor; n a specoh here today dealing with the recent meeting of the ailied supreme coun- cil, said that before the last election he laid it down that Germany was morally bound to pay for the wanton damage she had inflicted, but that one could get from a debtor only what he was capable of paying. He assert- €d, in this connection, that Germany must not be allowed to pay in a way that would injure the country rec ing payment—by cheap goods, for her own frontier h all bill wh of German were mnot k and had prese framed on th If C W prosperity. prosperous she were prosperous must. Dr. Simons, the German foreign minister, was an_honest and Sincere statesman, he had said, and announc- ed that he meant to carry out Ger- many's obligations if le possibly could. Dr. Simons complained that he had not received the bill in full, but he could have it at any time, for it was ready, Mr. Lloyd George declared. Once the German people got their minds off the war and on to peac they would soon become prosperous, the premier declared. France Should Not Pay. Mr. Lloyd George said his advice to Germany would be to accept the bill and not allow herself to be misled by passion and repeat the follies of 1914. Germany, he pointed out, had not vet taxed herself to the level of Britain and France, and he col ered it intolerable that the guilty country, which had escaped -damage during the war, should also bear a lighter burden of taxation than her victims. “The burden imposed upon Germany by the allied council, he said, was not extravagant. For the first few years, the premier declared, it was not equal to the pension bills of England and France. It was not a question of im- posing economic slavery on the Ger- man workers, he insisted. Somebody had to pay for the devastation of France. Should it, he asked, be the workers of France, who had resisted the foe? Dr. Simons had the right to present alternative proposals, Lloyd George conceded, but if these proposals rep- resented a mere attempt to avoid pay- ment the allies would not tolerate them. At Spa, he said, he had had an uneasy feeling that behind Simons were the men of 1914, but the assump- tion of power by the provokers of the war could not” be permitted. The sword must be sheathed for all time, he declared. Nothing would harden the allied peoples against Germany more than the feeling that she was still animated by the idea of handling treaties as she did those of fiv six years ago—as *“scraps of paper. “Our claim is a righteous one and we must enforce it,” Mr. Lloyd George exclaimed. The premier declared that Germany must fulfill her obligations as to dis- armament. Since the armistice she had made great progress in disarm- ing, he conceded, but she still had too much war material and too many men trained in arms banded together in irregular combinations. FEAR FOR ALLIED OFFICERS. Bavaria Requests Them to Discard Uniforms While in Munich. ties of Munich, Bavaria, have asked the allicd officers there not to appear |in uniform in the streets, according to reports reaching the French for- eign office today. The request was made because of continued agitation against the allies, the report said. A Munich dispatch of Friday said that thousands of persons had car- ried out a demonstration at the hotel against the allied reparations award. Previously the crowd had | through the streets of Mu | ing “Deutschland uber alles” and held a meeting at which the Berlin govern- ment was warned that a geperal | strike would be called unless the d mands of the Paris conference were submitted o a referendum. BRIAND DEFENDS PLAN. French Premier Addresses Deputies on Supreme Council Decision. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 4.—The French | chamber of deputies today heard Pre- | mier Briand explain the negotiations lat the recent reparations conference {in Paris, and an assertion by the pre- mier that the decisions reached at the | conference were the best terms ob- ! tainable for ¥rance under present | conditions. | The premier requested the chamber | elther to accept or reject the.decis ias a_whole. It was decided that all { the deputies Who had indicated their | desire to be heard should speak b {fore a vote was taken on the que | tion, and the discussion was post- ! poned until next Tuesday. M. B d | spoke for an hour and forty-five minutes. . “The Versailles treaty is complete,” exclaimed the premier. “There is nothing lacking in it—only ‘it is not live.” : *The Versailles treaty in order to be effective, M. Briand continued, must rely upon the work of the reparations commission. “It is_no secret” the premier as- serted, “that the reparations comm| sion, of which France is only one- fitth, had been unable to agree as to the amount to be fixed as indemnity and the manner in which it should be paid. Therefore the premiers had to take a hand in the matter. Tardieu Plan Attacked. In_a tone in which some of the members of the chamber noted sad- (Continucd on Pase 2, Column 4.) OF GERMAN PROSPERITYL ample. The occasion of the premier's speech was his recciving the freedom of the city. Mr. Lloyd George pointed | out that Germany, being tempa il bankrupt, represented a baffling difli- culty to the experts when it came to the question of her aying ou she could not pay, and if | she could and | or | PARIS, February 5—The authori- | ton caused a fire there, it would en- | danger | i | no records of g | | | L | ernment and {in which the members of the entente | commission were residing as a protest | | received SOKING BN LEFT T0 EPARTHENTS Substitute Amendment Put in Sundry Civil Measure After Senate Debate. Heads of executive departments and independent establishments of the gov- ernment are directed to promulgate and enforce orders against smoking in buildings occupied by the government, in an amendment to the sundry civil bill adopted by the Senate today. The amendment was offered by Sena- tor Wadsworth of New York, as a substitute for the appropriations com- mittee amendment which made smok- ing in the government bufldings a mis- demeanor punishable by a fine. Withdraws Point of Order. The Wadsworth amendment was of- fered after a lengthy debate, in which the anti-smoking amendment was both supported and attacked vigorous- ly. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, at first made a point of order against the committee’s anti-smoking amend- ment, but withdrew it and gave his approval to the Wadsworth substitute, the text of which follows: “The heads of exccutive departments and independent establishments of the sovernment are hereby directed to is- sue and enforce such regulations as will prevent smoking in those portions of buildings owned or leased by the government, and used by any executive department, or indepentlent establish- ment in which such smoking endan- gers government property or constitutes a hindrance to the efficient conduct of government_busine: Senator Robinson, the debate, demanded information as to why the amendment had not been made applicable to the Capitol and Senate office * building, and suggested that it would apply to the White House, and that the President of the United States would not be able to offer cigars to his ts if he should give a dinner. Senator Warren of Wyoming, chair- man of the appropriations commit- tee, said that the amendment had been proposed in the interest of pro- tecting government property. “I do not smoke myself,” said Sen- ator _Robinson. “so the proposal would mnot interfere with me, but it would inconvenience thousands of government employes.” “Should Be Broadened.” Senator Shields of Tennessee sug- gested that if the object of the amend- ment was to protect the government buildings from fire, it should be broad- in the course of | ened and smoking be prohibited in the District of Columbia. “If smoking in the Hotel Washing- the Treasury Department, which is across the street from the hotel” said Senator Shields. Senator Smoot of Utah, who father- ed the amendment and has urged such a proposal upon the Senate floor, said that ils purpose was to protect not only the government buildings, but the government records, of great value. He said that five fires have oc- curred in buildings used by the gov- records of great value have been destroyed. Four of these fires, he said, were traced to smoking, and the cause of the fifth fire probably was smoking. “There are no records kept in the Senate office building,” he said, “and t value in the Capi- tol building. Nor would the amend- ment apply_to the White House.” Senator Robinson pointed out that the records of Congress and most of (he records of the Supreme Court are kept in the Capitol. Time Lost by Smoking. Senator Smoot replied that he had thousands of letters from government employes approving the blan to stop smoking in the govern- ment buildings. He sald that a tremendous amount of time was lost {Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) 1 j said. Jonah Frog Doing Well After Winter Jaunt in Pickerel By the Associated Press. BOSTON, February 5.—A frog which had taken up residence in a pickerel’s stomach was disponsensed by Harry Falr- bankns of this city, who hooked the fish through the fee at Mill Pond, N. H. A few minutes | after eviction the firmisternial tailless amphibian shook off winter torpor and' hopped lan- guidly to new quarters behind | a stove. The frog's “pickerel house- boat” was fifteen inches long. REORGANIZERS GET U.S. CLERKS OFFER Suggestion Made to Change Name of Conference on Reclassification. Full power of the joint conference on reclassification will be thrown behind the congressional committee on re- organization of the government de- partments, even to the extent of amending the name of the former body, if necessary. ‘This was made known today by Jere- miah Connolly, chairman of the joint conference on reclassification, to whom it was suggested that the name | of the organization be changed to “joint conference on reclassification and reorganization.” : Mr. Connolly indicated that the sug- gestion will receive careful considera- | tion and will be brought to the atten- tion of the full conference at its meet- ing next Tuesday. “The conference stands ready to give the congressional committee any and every aid possible,” Chairman Connolly “We are not aslecp to the re- organization proposition. 1 believe that there is no better qualified authority that the congressional committee could consult than the organized federal em- ployes. Chairman Connolly pointed out that his conference is made up of leading government workers, many in high ad- ministrative and technical positions, who helped largely in the work of the re- classification commission. “We hold that our men know as much about reorganization heeds as probabbly any men in the service,” Mr. Connolly said, “and we are anxious to help the members of Congress if they so desire.” KANSAS MINERS STRIKE. 200 Are Called Out by President Howat. PITTSBURG, Kan., February 5.—The first strike of Kansas coal miners, called officially by the district board of the union, since the passage of the industrial court law, is in effect today. Two hundred coal miners were called out by the district board, head- ed by Alexander Howat, president of the Kansas Miners' Union. e e BANS FOREIGN LOANS. Houston Says He Will Not Conduct Negotiations. A letter from Secretary Houston of the Treasury Department, saying he would not during the remainder of his term of office proceed with fur- ther financial negotiations with for- eign governments, was read in the Senate today by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican leader. “Two Members of Congress Tell of Lincoln as They Remember Him” This is only one of the many special Lincoln features in the Magazine Section of Tomorrow’s Star Ben Ames Williams, one of the leading short story writers of the day, contributes “Mine Enemy’s Dog” A bit of fiction which can truly claim to be unusual. Also there are a “Wang Foo” story, Ring W. Lardner’s weekly letter, the Rambler, “Clarified Classics” and many other delightful stories and articles ? In Tomorrow’s Star QWMWWMMMWW CLERKS T0 PROBE TRANSFER ISLSE Injustice to Old U. S. Em- ployes Charged in Switching About During War. Injustice alleged to be done some government employes by reason of | transfer and retransfer methods now In force in some of the older depart- ments is to be the subject of investi-| gation by organized workers. The whole question of such trans- fers from one department to another was today in the hands of the reso- lutions committee of Federal Em- ployes’ Union No. 2, to which com- mittee the subject was referred as a result of the mecting last night of the administrative committee of the union. Representatives of several branch organizations of the union have placed before the administrative com- mittee complaints regarding the al- leged unfair treatment accorded some older workers in the government service. Tangled Skein Revealed. A tangled skein of transfers and re- transters, as they are called, as the system is at present conducted in fed- eral service, is brought to light by the complaints, and the result of the deliberations of the resolutions com- mittee is being awaited with interest. It is complained that in some in- stances employes in the older de- partments secured transfers, at the beginning of the war, to work in the newly created war-time bureaus. These positions paid advanced sal- aries. Then when employes who stuck to the older departments, in some in- stances, thought at the end of the strife that they would be awarded they found that Some of the em- ployes who had obtained transfers during the war to better positions had at the completion of the strife managed to get retransfers back to their old departments. Go Back to Old Positions. The rub came when it was discov- ered that these employes were trans- ferred back to positions paying more than they had been receiving when they left the older department, and thus in some cases managed to “he: off” the employes who had “struck,” and who found themselves not re- celving the promotions which they thought they had earned. The ill feeling resulting, it is claim- ed has militated against the best | work and created what is termed an | ugly situation. HARDING’S BOAT SPEEDS UP ON CRUISE NORTHWARD Delays Cause Cancellation of Most of Stops — President-Elect Wants to Play Golf. PALM BEACH, Fla., February 5.— With the worst stretches of the In- dian river channel behind her, Pr dent-elect Harding’s houschboat V toria swung into her best épeed today | as she pushed northward from Palm | Beach on her cruise up the coast to | St. Augustine. | Delays due to channel obstructions | have forced cancellation of most of | the stops Mr. Harding planned (o make along the way, but he still hoped today that the Victoria might make up enough time to permit one | more game of golf at some point | south of St. Augustine. It is expected | that Daytona or Ormond will be s lected. The Victoria spent last night at an- | chor fifteen miles above Palm Beach and her officers hoped to be in the | ;\elllghborhuod of Fort Pierce by night- all. LULL IN MINE TRIAL. | Willlamson Jurors Hear Order With Delight. Court | v BOY KILLED BY AUTO. » Potter Knocked cle in Front of Home. vin o years that the boy was H 1 at Coron tion, 1S USESHARTAT 20,000,000 Pounds, Once Destined for Sea, Employed Without Accidents. of TNT, million w Twenty which the pound r Department of consigning to the ocean after the | armistice was signed, but which v saved when the bureau of min :d commercial uses for t d successfully building in this country and Alask: without a single accident being ro corded, it was ¢ osed toda This information was revealed at the bureau of mines in connection with the publication of an advertise- ment by the ordnance salvage board of the War Department for the sale of 27,000,000 pounds of smokeless cannon powder. Burcau officials sa the cannon powder cannot be used in road work or for other government purposes without being put through a manufacturing process. and for this reason. it will be necessary to dispose of it on the market. 3 Could Be Used for Varnish. The advertisement of the salvage Dboard states that “quick action as the War Department mus spose of this material at once” Tt suggests a conference among engineers and chemists of ex- e plants may disclose a method whereby this powder will find its way into commercial channels with profit. | Separation of the elements in the powder in order that they may be disposed of in the chemical market s suggested. According to Dr. Charles E. Mun- roe, chief explosive chemist of the bureau of mines and chairman of the | explosive committee of the national research council, the powder is al- | most a pure nitro cellulose mud may be used in the manufacture of cellu- loid articles. He suggested it could be used to advantage as a varnish for leathe! Dr. Munroe said there was little livelihood the government could find a use for the powder in its present form, although it was found prac- tical to empioy TNT and picriceacid in their raw states. The War De. partment has turned over 27,000,000 pounds of TNT to the bureau of min and the bureau of public roads of the Department of Agriculture, and the entire supply has been utilized with the exception of about 7,000,000 pounds. Pieric Acid Also Used. About 12,000,000 pounds of picric acid also has been turned over to the bureaus by the War Department and employed as successfully in road work as TNT. it is stated. In addition, about 800,000 pounds of Trojan gre- nade powder has been used by com- pounding it with TNT. Experiments have been made with | the smoiceless cannon powder, but they have demonstrated only a prac- tical use for the material after it has been re-manufactured, and the government has no manufacturing facilities for this purpose. The sal- vage board’s advertisement says ne- gotiations for the sale of the powder will close March 1. —_— PHILIPPINE GOVERNOR CABLES HIS RESIGNATION MANILA, P. L, February 5.—Francis Burton Harrison, governor general of the Philippines. today cabled his resignation to President Wilson, with a request that it be accepted March 4. HOME CARRIED 100 YARDS. HALEYVILLE, Ala., February 5.— In a tornado which struck this town early today, the dwelling of E. J. Mec- Nabb was lifted and carried 100 yards without injury to any member of the sleeping family. Other buildings were lifted from foundations and a score of small structures demolished. Several blocks in the business district were partial- ly wrecked. No one was seriously in- Jured, according to early reports. COAL RATES T0O HIGH. Rates on soft coal in carload lots| from mines in Pennsylvania to the Consolidated Coal Company, shipped to the yards of the company in Wash- ington, Uniontown, D. C. and andria, Va., were found unre: today by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The commission ordered reparation paid the company by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company through the director general of rail- roads on shipments of 103 carloads of Soa Charges were collected by the rail- road at a combination of commodity rate of 70 cents per net ton Cumberland and $1.80 beyond. The commission ordered reparation in the sum charged over $1.80 for transpor- tation to Washington from Cumber- land. Today’s News in Paragraphs | Chinese sailors battle guards about Japanese ship. Paga 1 Joint reclassification body may change name and aid reorsanizers. ~ Page FORROAD BULDING thought | . listed strength to 1] PRESDENTVETOES MEASURE TO O ARMY REGRUTH Says He Sees No Change to Justify Restriction on 280,000 Minimum. |BELIEVES THIS NUMBER IS NEEDED AS NUCLEUS (Points to Action of Congress in | June, 1920, on Bill to Reorgan- l ize U. S. Armed Forces. | President Wilson today vetoed the House joint resolution directing the | Secrerary of War to c enlisting |mei an Ghe Regular Army until the | force is reduced to 175,000 men. eturning tae m. sure Lo the House, the President said he was “unable to Sce in the condition of the world at s | large or in the necds of the United Stat a 1o any change” that would justify triction upon the mimmum e H ol 230,000 men pro- vided for in the receutly enacted Army reorganization measure. The text of the President’ ol U's message “l return herewith, without my ap- proval, House joint resolution No. 440, directing the Secretary of War to cease enlisting men in the Regular Army of the United Siates, except in the cases of those men who have al- ready served one or more enlistments therein, Purpose to Cut Enlistment. “The text of the joint resolution discloses that its purpose is to cduse 4 discontinuance of enlistments in the Regular Army until the number of enlisicd men shall not exceed 175, combatant corps of the Army, and a | mere discontinuance of enlistment } would, for a long time, preserve the staff corps disproportionately enlisted, #nd the combatant corps insufficiently anned to ntain the instruction and training which ought to be as- [ surcd if wn arniy of 175,000 men is to | be efficient in proportion to its ag- gregate number. “On_the 4th day of June, 1920, 1 | signed a bill passed by the present Congress providing for the reoganiza- | tion of the Army. Becaus: of the pro- foundly disturbed condition of the world, and in order that full benefit might accrue to the people of the { United States from the lessons of tha world war, as to what, under modern conditions, is required to be the nucle- us of an efficient army, the War De. { partment had recommended an Army { of approximately 500,000 men. C tes Action of Congress. “The Congress, after prolonged con- sideration, determined to authorize and did authorize, the reorganization | of the Army on #he basis of an enlist- | ed strength of approximately 280,000 \men, including in the organization new |arms 1like the air service and the | chemical warfare service, the uses of | which were developments of the war and provision for which is a necessary addition to the prewar strength of the Army. “The act authorized for the first { time in our history a practical or- | ganization of the Army, resting upon divisions as tactical units, and re- quired the tralning of a national guard and the organized reserve in | territorial areas of the United States in sasociation with the divisions of the Regular Army. At that time the Congress plainly regarded the provi- |sion then made as the minimum which would provide for the added arms and new duties imposed on the Army, and for that efficiency which the peace-time Army of the United States should have as the nucleus of mobilization in the event of a na- tional emergency. “I regret that I am not able to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restrictions upon that minimum which is proposed by the House joint resolution.” P. 0. OFFICIALS TRAILING ROGUES WHO STOLE MAIL Registered Pouch Containing $100,- 000 Cash and Bonds Disappears at St. Charles, Mo. ST. LOUIS, Mo., February 5.—Postal authorities and police today were continning an_investigation in the mail robbery at St. Charles, twenty miles west of here, last night, when a registered pouch, said to contain ap- proximately $100,000 in cash and lib- erty bonds, was reported stolen from a mail wagon by five armed men who | kidnaped the messenger, Willis H. | Thornhill. Detalils of the robbery were related here by Thornhill, who was waiting at the Missouri, Kansas and Texas jrailroad station in St. Charles to put !the pouch on a train for St Louis ,when the men came up in an automo- ibile. They forced him into the car and took the pouch. releasing him on { the northern outskirts of St. Louis. Police said the money was shipped 4rom five banks in St. Charles to local banking houses. Officers of the banks refused to dis- cuss their probable losses. At one establishment ' was said a shipment of $4.100 in | erty bonds was bn- lieved to have been taken. LIQUOR MEN TAKE ACTION. Appoint Committee to Confer Re- garding New Regulations. Appointment of a committee repre- senting liquor manufacturers and im- | porters to confer with the bureau of | internal revenue on the new regula- | tions necessitated by Attorney Gen- eral Palmer's opinion limiting i ance of permits for wholesale uis- posal of liquor to manufacturers and wholesale druggists. was announced WILLIAMSON, W. Va., February 5.!Senate votes to leave smoking ban to | today by the bureau. —Tired and worn after a week of tedious efforts to obtain a jury for the trials of the Matewan shooting cases, Judge R. D. Bailey announced at the opening of court that adjourn- ment would be taken at 11 o'clock until 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. | Eighteen tentative jurors reccived the statement with “delight, while | counsel for both sides declared they | would leave on the first train out | of Willlamson to spend Sunday at their homes. HURDER_CASE TO GO TO JURY. TUSCUMBIA, Ala., February 5.— The case of Will Holmes, indicted with sixteen others in connection with the slaying of Don Stephenson, a pro- hibition officer, will go to the jury to- day. Three members of the alleged moon- shiners’ ring have been tried at this term of the court and convicted. department heads. e President vetoes measure to stop Army Tecruiting. e Joint_services in Episcopalian chapels of St. Alban’s set for tomorrow, Page 2 ‘Tariff bills temporarily laid aside in Senate. Page 2 | Moscow government takes drastic steps | to crush anti-soviet activities in Rus- sia. Page 2, Part 2 use committee investigating conduct H O e “war has announced 1t will can Gen. Pershing as witness. Page 3—Part 2 Sir Arthur Chamberlain thinks it be- neath dignity for allies to renew re. quest to U. S. for cancellation of debts, following a refusal. age 2 3—Part Bishop Harding to institute Freeman as rector of Church of the Epiphany. Page 8 Rev. Dr.| The liquor representatives _are: | Granville Whittlesey, New Yorl Henry M. Naylon, Rochester, N. Y.; . L. Cummins, Baltimore; Alphons | Wile, New York; John H. Finn, Cin- ! cinnati, and Thomas S. Jones, Louis- | ville, Ky. |FOG BLANKETS NEW YORK. | Darkness Makes Hazardous Street ‘ Traffic and Harbor Activities. NEW YORK, February 5.—New York | and its environs today were darkened | by a dense fog that rendered street | traffic hazardous, brought harbor ac- | tivities to a virtual standstill and | caused scores of ships in the outer harbor to drop anchor and wait for the sun to peep through. No serious ! accidents, however, were reported.. - 000. No provision is made in the . resolution for the preservation of any proportionate strength in the