Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1921, Page 2

‘o 3 NS H4S GO0 CHANCE N SENKTE Fyjends of Firemen and Po- | fice Continue Fight for i $240 Demand. | & Eforts to increase the bonus al- Sowed the police and firemen of the | District to the full $240 granted other | employes of the federal government | and the District will be made both j in the full committee on appropria- | tions and in the Senate itself, it was i said today by members of the com- | mittes, 22 iull committee today began consideration of the legisla- ' tive, executive and judicial appropria- | tion bill as reported by the subcom- * mittee which has had the measure in | charge. The subcommittee reported | the bill with the $240 bonus for the |, government employes and $120 bonus for the police and firemen—the same | amount allowed the police and fire- men under existing law. Considerable progress was made . with the bill by the full committee today, but an adjournment was taken because the Senate had before it the sundry civil appropriation bill. and the members of the committee de- sired to attend the session of the Senate. Many of the senators are impressed | with the justice of granting to the | police and firemen the full bonus al- [ lowed other government employes. . The arduous and dangerous nature of b their services, it was pointed out. warrant such consideration, as well as the high cost of living. That the Senate will adopt the bonus amendment for the government em- loyes is believed certain. When the ill Is sent to conference any mem- ber of the House, under the rules of that body, may make a point of order and demand a separate vote of the . House on any Senate amendment that ‘would have been subject to a point - of order in the House. But the point of order against the Senate amend- ‘ment providing the bonus does not af- fect the amendment unless the House itself by a majority vote expresses its opposition to the amendment. It is impossible, in other words, for one member of the House to kill the bonus amendment if adopted by the Senate. He must_have a majority of the Fouse behind him, and even then there would be a further chance of the amendments being adopted finally . should the Scnate stand firm in favor of the proposal. Among the senators who are pro- ing to aid the police and firemen granting the full bonus are Sen- ators Penrose of Pennsylvania, Ken- * yon of lIowa and Calder of New York. —_— MRS. HARDING RESTS. | Returns Here After Shopping Tour 4 in New York. Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of the President-elect, rested at her Washington home today after her | Strenuous shopping tour in New - York last week. The next first lady of the land, accompanied by Mra. Hasry New, wife of the Indiana sen- &tor, and Mrs. Edward B. McLean, freturned to Washington last night | and went immediately to her home. She will remain here throe or four and Bricks Brings Verdict of $10,750 SUMRALL, Miss., February 7. —A verdict of $10,750 was to- dny awarded to Charles H. Franck, former vice president ©of the Mississippl Federation of Labor, because he was show- ered with rotten exgs and brickbats here last August. The verdict is agalnst fl.n; superintendents of the J. Newman Lumber Company. ividence in the trial showed that Franck was trying to form a Inbor union among ne- &ro mill operatives. It was al- Jeged that mill officinls object- ed and that a mob forced him to lenve town. The shower of eggs and bricks fell on him at the depot as he departed. The jury held that the eom- pany diet Supts. Lott. was blameless, the ver- being amsessed ngainst Thomas, Ballard and Shower of Eggs : I | BAND LEADER BURIED. Services for C. L. Thierbach Held at His Home. CHARLES THIERBACH. Funeral services for Charles L. Thierbach, second leader of the United States Marine Band, who died | Friday night at his home, 1230 Penn- {sylvania avenue southeast, were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon at his late residence. GETS FRANCO-POLE PACT. Declaration of Mutual Interests Handed to U. S. Ambassador. PARIS, February 7.—The Franco- Polish declaration recognizing the | community of interests uniting the | two countries, announced by Premier { Briand to the British, Italian and Japanese ambassadors Saturday last, was today communicated to Hugh C. i Wallace, "the American ambassador. The declaration was handed Ambas- sddor Wallace this afternoon. when he was received by the premier. days before joining Mr. Harding at 8t Augustine, Fla. She will ac- company the President-elect from The Franco-Polish “declaration, as | 8t. Augustine to Marion, Ohio, for a short visit late this month, coming to Washington with him from there before his inauguration. announced Saturday, read: “On the occasion’ of the visit of President Pilsudski, the governments of France and Poland agreed upon the following declaration: ““The governments of France and Poland, equally anxious to safeguard ‘EDUCATORS TO TALK. "m Experts Also to Speak at > School Bill Hearing. The effects of physical education on e school children of the country will . @iscussed before the House com- ttee on education tomorrow night, &t & hearing of the Fess-Capper bill, " prominent educatord and health | experts will speak. Among those who will be’ present speak at the hearing are Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft, director of phy- #ical education, Princeton University: ‘Walter Camp, president New Haven | : Company, and for forty years! mted with the Yale athletics; Col. ‘: E. I;lehrlee,‘ vrnldezxt National Collegiate Athletic Association, New | Secretary Baker agrees wit - York city; Mrs. Robert G. Wilds, {retary Daniels that “the use oht ?lemcl Tepresenting the D. A. R.;|ship would constitute a peculiarly their security and the peace of Europe, have recognized once more the com- munity of interests uniting these two friendly countries.”” PICK SHIP FOR UNKNOWN. Both Baker and Daniels Want to Use Olympia if Bill Is Passed. In case Congress provides for the honorable burial in the Arlington national cemetery of an unknown Soldier as the representative of the heroism of all the members of the American expeditionary force, the body will be brought to the United States on the cruiser Olympia, flag- ship of Admiral Dewey in the battle of Manila bay. ex-Gov. Martin G. Brumbaugh,|fitting tribute to the American pa- former superintendent of schools, | triots who died on the battlefields Philadelphia; Dr. Ennion G. Williams, | of Europe.” WORKERS GET NEW DELAY. January Circulation 91,776 One Edition Daily state health commissioner of *Vir- ginis, Richmond: E. Danna Caulkins, -manager of the national physical edu | service, and Luther Linkins. | ‘ashington City Club. Reply to Railroads’ Request for E E.PLOYERS GET NOT'CE { End of Agreements Postponed. E . ctHICAGo.l February 7.— Another postponement of the reply of em- Told of Journeyman Bakers’ Re- mxel’ revrenrnm’lvo- lxa the rafl- {Toads’ request for immediate abroga- fusal of Wage Reduction. ition ofd thed na(ir:ma.l agreements was igranted today by the United States m‘m‘u’u“"’m?w 9f the |Railroad Labor Board over the pre mhnnamln bakers and request | et Of railway executives. This is for & conference with a committee of|th® second delay granted at the em- during the week was con. | PlOYes’ request. The board set Thurs- tamed in a letter dispatched today to|daY, February 10, to hear labor rep- Albert Schultels. representing em- |feS¢Dtatives in rebuttal. & bakers, by John G. Schmidt, |, When W. W. Atterbury of the 88 representative of the Bakers’ |[American Association of Railway Ex- Tnion, No. 118 ecutives appeared before the board last Mr. Schmidt said that the request! Monday, he declared that unless the ‘was made as a final resort to obtain |board granted relief by abrogation of gettlement of the difficulties growing the national agreements within a few the order of Conciliator Rowland ;days it would be flooded with peti- B Mahany of the Department of |tions for wage reductions. Labor, who authorized a 15 per cent| Intimations that further delay might drop in wages of bakers. be asked brought from Gen. Atter- - bury a protest on Saturday against SUES TO ANNUL MARR further postponement. With the sec- RRIAGE |ona postponement granted today, no f cnmm::t was forthcoming from the railroad committee, which was ex- ‘Helen B. Myers Says Husband Was [ 1% cted to proceed with the oo Not Free at Time of Ceremony. | program of evidence. i _Suit to annul her marriage to ‘William E. Myers, which was cele- brated bere last June, was filed today in the District Supreme Court by Helen R Myers. She charges fraud in that her husband represented to iher, she states, that he was free to jmarry, when his former wife had m given last February a decree in Bellingham, Wash, which forbade M either party to marry within six i /months. She did not learn of this al- ‘leged impediment to a valid marriage, Ishe says, until last week, and she now ! II:I ll:‘"be flr‘ez'd.c ttorney 5. Grossman repres. ! the plaintift. PEene solemnly wwe copies of the paper named sold and distributed during the moath of January, A.D. 1921, was as follows: Days. BRIEF ON WAGE LAW. To-Be Presented Before Court by Prof. Frankfurter. Prof. Felix Frankfurter Is to pre- Jment a brief, prepared with the as- sistance of the National Consumers’ e, at the hearings this week be- iifore the District Court of Appeals on ;the conmstitutionality of the minimum 'g; law in the District. Less adjustment ; e Drincipal ‘effect o minimum xR Wage lexislation, as demonstrated in | Total daily net circula i the Consumern’ League brict, has been | Daily averas net paid civ $to 1Uft the Jow end of the wage scale | lation ...... fup to the minimum cost of living,” | Daily, average ' number {eason Tonn R Snirieay, i, | cobles for Acrulce: ete.. {mecretary of the National Consumers' . League. IIORSIORS ISRt et RE N JORAYSON 0UT AFTER TrINESS |} 2 Tear Admiral Cary Graymon. pri- 89,740 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921, WORK IS STARTED ON INAUGURAL STAND AT THE CAPITOL. SCHOOL SUPPLIE FACING SHORTAGE Delay of Deficiency Appro- priation Hampers D. C. Educational Work. Delay of Congress in passing the urgent deficiency appropriation bill has confronted the elementary public school system with a serious shortage of essential supplies for about 50,000 children, it was said today by school officials. It also has caused teachers in the night schools to be put on a salary of $1 a month. Supplies of writing paper, par- ticularly the ink composition kind, which is used in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades, it was pointed out, have virtually been ex- hausted, despite rigid conservation practiced by teachers and pupils since the opening of the schools last September. Funds Now Exhaustéd. Appropriations for purchasing writ- ing paper and other requisite supplies have been exhausted, and until Con- gress passes the deficiency bill be impossible for school officials to buy the materials which have run short. Neither will it be possibie for them to pay the night school teachers their regular salaries. it will The lack of appropriation for sup- plies for the children, school oflicials said, also has made it impossible for them to buy draw paper, wall maps, globes, for covering book scisso! eboard boxes and clay for modeling work, for chiidren who are now taking the sccond s mester course. In other words, they were forced to confine themsclves to buying only suplies which were ab- solutely neces: ry. F. M. SMITH DIES. Was Chief Clerk and Solicitor in Judge Advocate’s Office. Francis M. Smith, chief clerk and solicitor of the office of judge advo- cate general of the Army at the War Department, died suddenly last night at his residence, 1312 Delafield street northwest, of heart disease, follow- ing an attack of acute indigestion. He was at his office all day Saturday, nd the news of his death came as a | hock to his associates at the War Department. A wife, two sons and two daughters survive him. He was a native of West Virginia and was appointed a messenger in the | judge advocate general's office in July, 1893, He was gradually promoted to | all the higher classificd grades and | became chief clerk about two years ago. Funeral services will be held tomor- | row afternoon at 2 o'clock, at his | late residence. BUTTER TAX POSTPONED. Product Made of Sour Cream and | Milk Affected. Butter manufacturers and creamery operators from all parts of the United States will come here February 25 for a hearing before the commis- isioner of internal revenue regarding {a recent order to levy a tax of 10 {cents a pound on butter made from | isour cream and milk. Commissioner Williams has ruled that such butter is aduiterated and | taxable, but, at the request of the | creamery {nterests, who claim that | {the ruling would injure their busi- | ness, effect of the order has been | i postponed until early in April, to af- {ford time for the hearings. FOUND DYING IN WOODS. Identity of Man Apparently Beaten in Louisiana Is Mystery. MONROE, La., February 7.—Author- ities today continued their efforts to fix the identity of the white man found dying in the woods near here yesterday, believed to have come from Houston, Tex. The man was nude when found. Police expressed the belief that the man had camped in the woods, was set upon by robbers, beaten, and then thrown into the campfire. 'His body bore evidence of his having been beat- en with a club. Kerosene apparently was used to burn him. Initials “W. L." Wwere tattooed on his right arm. LASKER TO BE ADMITTED. Chess Club Pleads Successfully With State Department. NEW YORK, February 7. — Dr. Emanuel lasker of Berlin, world champion chess player, will be per- mitted to visit the United Btates on his way to Havana to meet Jose Capablanca, Cuban champion, in & match next month. The Manhattan Chess Club, which interceded with the State Department, today recelved a message from Sec- retary Colby stating that the case had been reconsidered, and that the Amer- fcan commissioner in Berlin had been instructed to grant Lasker a vise. The department previously had refused to allow him to enter the United States | under the rule prohibiting entrance of German nationals without particu- larly good reasons. . PANAMA CANAL RECORD. Vessels Flying U. S. Flag Lead in 1920 Traffic. PANAMA CITY, February 7.—Ves- sels flying the American flag led all | others in_ setting a new record of canal traffic in 1920. This is shown by figures just given out by the canal authorities. Of the 2,814 commercial ships using the big ditch last year 1,281 were American. Great Britain came next with 867 and Japan third with 122 —_— GREEK LEADER DELEGATE. ——e Premier Kalogeropoulos to Attend Near East Conference, London. By the Awsociated Press. ATHE? February 6.—Delegates sent to the Near East conferenie in London late this month will be head- ed by M. Kalogeropoulos, the new premier, it was'sald here late to- ay. M. Gounaris, minister of war, will not go to London, it has been de- cided, in view of British opposition. Venizellst newspaper of this city severely criticise M. Gounaris for his role in the ministerial crisis. Georges Baltazis, minister of agri- culture, wil lact as premier while the conference in London is going on, —_— SOFT COAL OUTPUT DROPS Survey Reports Decline of 673,000 Tons in Week. Announcing a continued decli; the production of soft coal, mun;efa'f logical survey in its weekly survey of the coal eftuation today declared that the present situation in the bi- tuminous flelds, “marked by indus. 1 3 L to President Wileen, |Less adjustments............ 123 | trial depression and mild weath. ot paystetan res i er, vh' on‘b:"n“:ll at his home with |Total Sunday net circulation. bears a striking resemblance to the m::n i rienen "”f{l -;; the Average net paid Sunday cir- veox'k:d {""‘}W{:{f U;! armistice.” i todsy for the first time since his re. | Average num iev zor SH81[ Output o uminous coal during 3 . Fo 8aid he felt fairly well,| Service etc " bat = - extreme body weakness e 3 soreness in his chest. He saw | {ions . inday net circula- [ Srectiont Wilsn Saturday afternoon for the first time in three weeks and ' Bald that he recognized a continued of Febroary, A-D, 1921 w‘u‘; o his physical condi- “(’l-‘)! I}Imv. YOUNT, Rt el emiee ‘ Netary Pubite, FLEMING NEWROLT Busing % Bubscribed_and wworn to before. me. thle th the week ended January 29, was es- timated by the survey at |8,625.000 tons, a decline of 673,000 tAns from the preceding week. Anthracite production for tije week of January 29 increased sharpfy, how- ever, amounting to 1,998,040 tous, against 1,839,000 tons the week. HOUSE VOTES Bl HOSPITAL PROJECT Bill Authorizes Construction of Five at $12,500,000 for War Veterans. The House today unanimously pass- ed a Dbill authorizing the construc- tion of five hospitals for disabled war {veterans at an estimated cost of $12,- 060,000. An additional $500,000 would be available for conversion into hos- pitals of buildings at Forts Walla Walla, Wash., and McKenzie, Wyo. The bill also authorizes the Secre- tary of the Treasury to lease, subject to appropriation by Congress, the $3,000.000 hospital under construction Ly the state of New York Although the measure was attacked during brief debate as inadequate and sectional legislation, no member voted against it, although a score refrained from voting for it. The vote in favor was 229. The specific locations of the five; hospitals, which would cost $2,500,000 each, have not been determined, al- though the bill provides one is to be constructed in the cent. Atlantic coast states, one in the great lakes region, one in the central southwest, one in the Rocky mountain states and one in southern California. TO STIMULATE SAVINGS. Two Meetings to Be Held at Me- morial Continental Hall. Two large meetings at Memorial Continental Hall and others at 2007 Columbia road have been arranged by the savings division of the Treasury department to promote interest in savings and investments. The first of the larger meetings will be held the evening of February 24, when Senator Carter Glass of Virginia will discuss the federal reserve Bys- tem; Commissioner Boardman will speak on “Economy in Municipal Af- fairs,” and Assistant Supt. of Schools Kramer will talk of “A New Devel- opment in Education.” A part of the Marine Band will give a musical pro- ram. g’K‘he second meeting will be held March 2 and will be of @ similar na- ture. The first of the meetings at the Columbia road address was held last Thursday and the second will be next Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Montgomery B. Angell, as- sistant counsel of the Federal Reserve Board, will be the speaker. Orrin Lester, assistant director of the sav- ings division of the Treasury Depart- ment, and William Mather Lewis, di- rector, will speak there the after- noons’ of February 16 and February 23, respectively. _— BRUCE BATTLE RESUMED. Colored School Official’s Enemi Promise Attack Tonight. The verbal battle between sup- porters and opponents of Roscoe C. Bruce, assistant superintendent in charge of the colored public schools, will be renewed by the Parents’ League at a public meeting in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, 16th and M streets, tonight at 8 o'clock. The present controversy between the two factions had its inception last Monday at_ a meeting of the School Welfare League, a pro-Bruce organization. At this meeting. Mr. Bruce, for the first time during his administration of the colored schools, publicly denounced and answered his critics in the Parents’ League. Leaders in the FParents' League, however, claim that the colored schools official *“has failed to answer his critics,” and declare they will prove this assertion at tonight's meet- ing. Among the speakers are Charles S. Hill, Rev. W. J. Callis, Rev. W. D. Jarvis, Armong Scott and Rev. C. M. Tanner. WILL EXPLAIN LOANS. Secretary Houston to Discuss Al- lies’ Indebtedness to U. S. Secretary Houston of the Treasury Department will appear tomorrow be- fore the Senate foreign relations com- mittee to give some confidential in- formation regarding loans made with allied governments. Mr. Houston wrote Senator Lodge of Massach setts, committee chairman, today re- questing the hearing, and a meeting was called for tomorrow. RESULTS IN MISTRIAL. Jury Out 38 Hours in Case of Ala- bama Guardsman. AMILTON. Ala. February 7.—A miotal was declared at 10 o'clock to- day fin the case of Sergt. Robert J. Lancaster, Alabama national guards< man, indicted In connection With the lynching of William Baird, a miner, near Jasper, on January 13. The jury had been out thirty-eight hours. The foreman reported to the court that further deliberation was useless, Wherjeupan Judge Sowell dis- charged the jury. Me’inber: of the jury said that the final vote stood five for acquittal, five for second-degree murder with life imprisonment, one for a lesser sen- tence and one undecided. No announcement was made as to a date for Lancaster's sccond trial. The trial of Sergt.Glenn L Stephens, indicted with Lanpcaster and seven other guardsmen, has been set for ‘¢bruary 21, ° el -, A BY GEORGE WITTE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 102 BERLIN, February 7.—As a result of | the Paris indemnity demands Germany again assumes the attitude of a nation that has been outraged by its bullying neighbors who won the war which Ger- many herself started. In view of the storm of indignation which has swept over the country in the last ten days the writer thought it would not be out jof the v to ask some of the leading German politicians for their views as to what Germany’s indemnity demands would have been had she won the war. Three replies have been received, two of which are that Germany would never have asked as large an indemnity in pro- portion as that asked by the entente. The views of Count Ernest zu Revent- !low, former managing editor of the pan- | German Tag tung and now a reichstag delegate and a member of the monarchistic conservative party, were set forth by him as follows: | ““In answer to your question I can |say with certainty that Germany would |never have made indemnity demands which would have ruined not only her enemies but also all of Europe and the whole of the civilized world. She would have been reither stupid nor vindictive enough to make slaves of her enemies. Germany got the best of her rivals be- fore on account of her efficiency in the lexport trade, and for that reason she never Would have ruined her enemies, upon whom she depended as buyers of her products. “If Germany had won I think it probable a continental European state {would have come into existence— |‘The United States of Europe’—as a ‘Imlwtrk against the disastrous influ- ence which Great Britain has exer- cised over continental European coun- tries for the last several hundred W. C. HALL, DRY AGENT, AGAIN PUT ON TRIAL Virginia Officer Charged With Mur- der of Alleged Whisky Runner. Eleven Jurors Qualify. MANASSAS, Va., February 7 (Spe- cial).—W. C. Hall, state prohibition officer of Virginia, is about to face for the third time a jury in the Prince | Willian county circuit court, charged an alleged whisky runner, at Fishers Hill, Shenandoah county, March 26, 1919. Accompanied by Harry B. Sweet, J. B. DunLavey and John Sul- livan, also former prohibition officers, | while attempting to arrest Raymond Shackleford and Lawrence Hudson, who were in charge of an automobile containing 249 quarts of whisky, Hall shot and killed both occupants of the car during a gun fight which the de- fendants claim, was precipitated by Shackleford, who fired at him when he stepped on the running board of the whisky car. Hall was first tried in this coun- ty September, 1919, the second trial was the following January. Both trials resulted in hung Jjuries, the first being six for acquittal and six for conviction. The second jury was three for acquittal and nine for con- viction. Hall was defended by the state pro- hibition department in the first two trials, The state prohibition depart- ment declines to expend the money neoessary for Hall's third trial, and Hall is therefore conducting his own trial. At 11:30 o’clock this morning the regular venire of forty-six men had been exhausted and but eleven had qualified. —_— SEE SUPPORT OF LABOR IN PRESIDENT’S ACTION Labor officlals here view the reply of President Wilson in the controversy between rallroad employes and employ- ers regarding the jurisdiction of the rail- way labor board as a support of labor's stand. Wililam H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists, one of the sixteen railroad brotherhoods, in a statement jssued today declared that “President Wilson's veto message sustains the position taken by the rep- resentatives of the railway employes in their telegram to the President under ate of January 31—their position being that Vice President Atterbury of the Pennsylvania rallroad was asking the rallroad labor board to take jurisdiction over matters which should properly be handled by the Interstate Commerce Commission or Congress.” ZEPPELINS SEEK MARKET. Offer German Airship, as Means of Trafic, to Other Countries. LONDON, February 6.—The Zep- pelin Manufacturing Company has decided to offer the German Zeppelin as a means of trafic to other coun- tries, inasmuch as Germany Is for- bidden under the Versailles treaty to develop the' airship, according to an article in the Cologne Gazette written by Alfred Colsmann, general manager of the Zeppelin company and coworker of the late Count Zeppelin, and forwarded to the Lon- don Times by its Berlin correspond- ent. (Negotiations are progressing with a French firm, but thus far with no_tangible results. Herr Colsmann says that only Germany possesses trained Zeppelin ‘workers and the construction secrets. Call Paris Terms More Harsh Than Germany Planned to Ask Berlin Leaders, Questioned as to What a Victorious Kaiser Would Have Demanded, Give Answers. U. S. of Europe One Plan. years. A victorious Germany would have been abje to carry out a politi- cal move of ‘this kind, provided she did not abuse her advantage by de- manding too much. Nobody really hated France while the war lasted. Hatred of France came only after the French aim to destroy Germany entirely became evident and after France had assigned black troops for service in the zone of occupation.” Prof. Walther, Germany's foremost supporter of the league of nations idea, replfed to my questions as fol- ows: “What Germany's peace conditions would have been if she had won the war I cannot say. The late von Beth- mann-Hollweg, the kaiser's chan- cellor at the beginning of the war, held to the view that if Germany had won the social democratic party would have had the most to say in dictating the terms of peace, and for that reason the peace Germany would 81,020 Annual Wage Fails to Attract Library Clerks Dr. corge F. Bowermaun of ‘the Public Library sometimes wonders if people really want 10 work. Something happened today at the library over which he presides — or rather,. some- thing did not happen — which { made him wonder. Before the war there were plenty of applicants to take an eizht-month training course to clerical assistants in the library serv and when they qualified they were paid 84580 a B2 day not a person showed | up to begin a four-week train- | ing course which would entitle them upon successful comple- MURDERED MAN POSSIBLY WAS OTTO H. TOUSSAINT Body Found at Wichita Falls, Tex., May Be That of Former Resi- dent of Washington. WICHITA FALLS, Tex., February 7. —Police last night found the body ofj 0 a well dressed man, about fifty-five years old, lying in & ditch on the out- skirts of the city. He had been shot through the head and chest and haa not been dead long when found. In his pocket was a calling card with CHAMBERLAIN MAY G0 ON SHIP BOARD Democratic Senator Said to Have Been Selected by Harding for Post. Senator George E. Chamberlain, democrat, of Oregon, whose term in ¢ Senate expires March 8, will be ppointed a member of the United tes Shipping Board, according to | tion. to n basis wage of $780, apparently | plus %210 bonus, a total of prarently authentic information ek which has reached his friends at the Capitol. On account of the crisis facing the American merchant marine. it was predicted today, Mr. Harding, after his the presidency, no time in naming a new ping Board. In fact, Senator % of Washington, author of the erchant marine act, will recommend to the President-elect that this course be followed, it is understood. The board consists of seven mem- bers, but none of President Wilson’ ntees have been confirmed. The: dmiral W. S. Benson, chairman. Wwho is rated as an independent dem- F. L Thompson,.democrat; J democrat; J. N. Teal, dem- Go republican: r, republican, and C. H. assumption of would lose Shi Rowell, republican, who has resigned There has been much speculation as to the whether any of the present members would be reappointed. Ru- mor has had it that both. Mr. Thomp- the name, ncis L. Ncubeck,” Mr. Donald would be ret: e K g = 7 A E retained yamsl e s T e tne @8 democratic representatives. The A button on & npression prevails in certain usu- initials 0. H p L informed oircles that an g v new personnel will bo cre- ‘hx'r{r._‘l\mlx'l"‘ox&xk At the Capitol today the im- e i pression was general that Senator was Otto H. Toussaint, a clic left this city about six m to join his son, Henry J. To; Wichita Falls contractor, and to en- amberlain had been definitely de- cided upon by Mr. Harding for a place on the board. PUBLISHERS ASK FREE gage in business with him. Mr. Toussaint was well known in this city for many years, having con- ducted the Summit Hotel at 7th and N streets, and later the Maryland Club on the Marlboro road. He gave up the latter business and leased the property to others who conducted the business until after the Volstead en- forcement law became effective. Mr. Toussaint, a native of Berlin, Germany, came to this city about 1883 and had resided here since that time. His wife died about eight ycars leaving two sons. of Philadelphia. Toussaint usually carr! money on his person. DRY AGENTS ON NEW TRAIL Will War on Patent “Medicines” Designed for Ice Chests. NEW YORK, February 7.—A war on contents of patent medicine, perfume and hair tonic bottles, prepared for the ice chest rather than the medicine cabinet or dressing table, has been started by prohibition enforcement agents here. They are being aided in their investigation by leading drug associations Officials said last night that last year have made would not have been such {nearly 39,000,000 gailons of grain al- as would have reduced her defeated | C0hol were consumed in the manufac- enemies to slavery. But even if the [ture of these articles. or an increase with the murder of Lawrence Hudson,{ right wing parties had dictated the terms of peace, they would have held g0od as they were originally an- nounced.” Maximilian Harden, the famous and fearless German publicist, returned a very characteristic reply. “I am very sorry,” he wrote, “that I cannot answer your questions, be- cause I did not know what was going on in the heart of the government that was in power in those days. But why do you not ask persons like Luden- dorff, Hellferich and others who were in the government at that time? They will certainly tell you that Germany would have been far more moderate than the entente has been. And be- cause I cannot vouch for any of these gentlemen I refrain from saying any- thing at all.” APPEALS COURT GRANTS RETRIAL OF LIQUOR CASE Conviction of Peter Loftus in Po- lice Court, on Charge of Sell- ing Alcohol, Set Aside. ‘The District Court of Appeals in an onpinion by Justice Hitz, who sat in the absence of Justice Robb, today set aside the conviction of Peter Loftus, charged in_the Police Court with selling alco- holic liquor. A new trial was ordered. Loftus was arrested December 19, 1918, and was not tried until June 15, 1920. The evidence to support the charge consisted of a half-pint bottle supposed to contain whisky and which was purchased by a police agent with marked bills. When the bottle was pre- sented in evidence it was found to have ! been opened and recorked. The custody of the bottle during the and trial was not accounted for to the satisfaction of the appellate court, which pointed out that there was no proof to show that either at the time of the alleged purchase or when pro- duced before the jury it contained whisky or other alcoholic drink. The police judge erred in allowing such evidence to go to the jury, Jus- tice Hitz holds. “LET’S GO!” SLOGA AT “AD CLUB” MEETING Leading Experts to Attend Three- Day Session to Be Held in Baltimore. “Let's Go!” will be the slogan of the convention of the third district of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the ‘World, which will be held in Baltimore t the Southern Hotel, February 14 and 15. Leading experts -‘n advertising, merchandising and selling will deliver addresses at the sessions of the con- vention, and they will prove that a little of the “Lst’s Go” spirit is all that is needed during these days of readjustment. From present indications the con- vention will be largely attended by business men and others interested in the “Let's Go” movement from all clties in the third district, which com- prises not only Maryland and the Di trict of Columbia, but North Carolina, South Carolina, Virignia and West Virginia. The local committee is com- pleting the program. The convention will convene on the morning or Monday, February 14, at 'the Southern Hotel. Charles F. Kuhns, president of the Advertising Club of Baltimore, will preside. Mayor Wil- liam F. Broening of Baltii¥ore will deliver an address of welcome. An- other speaker will be Judge Charles J. Orbison, vice president of the A. A. C. of W., who will speak on “Is There e Business Depression?* This will be followed by an open forum discussion and at 1 o'clock luncheon will be served, Harold H. Levi of Washington will preside at the Monday afternoon ses- sion and among the speakers will bel Gordon H. Cilley, advertising mnnngerl for John Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia, and Frank E. Fehlman, vice presi- dent Churchill-Hall, Inc.,'of New York City, who has for several years con- ducted successful schools for retall store salesmen and has discovered facts and principles which have been applied by his students with remark- able results in Increasing individual efficiency. eighteen months between the arrest | of more than 300 per cent over pre- war days. During the last year hun- dreds of new tonics and elixirs have appeared on the market, whose only excuse for manufacture, enforcement agents said, is to repledish diminish- ing private stocks of beverage li- quors. While the dry edict specifies that al- cohol sold for medicinal purposes must be medicated, these manufac- {turers, government ‘agents said, have discovered that medication can be ac- complished and still produce a palata- ble drick. S G ROB PARTY OF 18. Bandits Hold Up Motorists, Shoot One Attempting Escape. NEWARK, N. J, February Club at Springfield, where they had been dinner guests of Thomas De Bevoise, were held up and robbed by three armed bandits, who had blocked the road with logs, tree branches, stones and other obstacles. Robert S. Huse of Elizabeth, a law- ver, who tried to drive off. was shot by ‘one of the robbers. The bullet broke his arm. The occupants of the first automo- ile to reach the barricade were lined up quickly and their money taken from them. The robbers demanded cash only, paying uo latten'.inn to the the fashionably ctics were nts of the jewels worn by gowned women. Si employed with the oc other cars. ‘The highwaymen then ordered James P. Thomas of Eliza- beth, stock broker, to drive them away. Mrs. Thomas was in the car. Two got in with her and the third stood on the running board, shouting a final warning to the other victims to make no attempt to leave until they were out of sight. Thomas increased his speed under threats of the robbers until near | Kenilworth; when he was ordered to stop. The bandits then got out, held a brief whispered consultation and disappeared in the darkness. TEST CASE FOR LEAGUE. ‘Will Sit on Dispute Over Ownership of Aland Islands. NEW YORK, February 7.—Settle- and Sweden over the ownership of the Aland Islands will constitute a test case for the at its meeting in Geneva on Febru- ary 21, the league’s news bureau an- nounced here. This question and the several others which may have an ness program of the next meeting. China will make her first appear- ance as a mon-permanent member of the league at the Geneva meeting. GARDEN DREAM TRUE! FERTILIZER BOOMS GRASS, KILLS WEEDS KINGSTON, R. L, February 7.— Discovery of the long-sought fer- tilizer that will grow grass and kill weeds is announced by the experiment ~ station of Rhode Island State Colleze as the result of twenty years of research. The realization “of the dream of gar- deners the world over—a weed- less lawn—is possible without trouble or expense, according to the official college statement, merely by the use of ammonium sulphate instead of nitrate of soda in the annual application of fertilizer. “Slowly but surely the weeds will disappear and the lawn will become the even velvety green that is the envy of every neighbor. “Gardeners have almost uni- versally advised supplying nitro- gon, the chicf element in the plant food of grass, in the form of nitrate of soda,” savs the state- ment. “This graduaily tends to create an alkaline condition of the soil, which is especially fa- vorable to the Erowth of weeds. Soon the grass is crowded out and the lawn has an uneven appear- ance. “By using ammonium sulphate, which is not more expensive, in the same quantities as the nitrate of soda, the required amount of nitrogen is furnished and the soil On Monday evening there will be & vigilance mass meeting and some in- teresting tales about the enforcement of truth will be told, I t in the acid condition under tletschl?he grass develops best, but the weeds are 50 Weakened that they are crowded out.” S Eighteen men and women, motoring! early today from the Baltusrol Golf'paid, $34,000.000, was not excessive, ment of the dispute between Finland | league of nations | important bearing on the future of | the league are on the official busi- | ENTRY OF NEWSPRINT Depleted Forests of Country Are Cited as Reason Why Industry Needs No Protection. Free entry of newsprint paper from all foreign countries as well as Can- ada was urged today before the House ways and means committee by American newspaper publishers. They replied to the proposal made Saturday by newsprint manufacturers that duly on newsprint be made $15 a ton except on that coming from Canada. which would enter free. 8. E. Thomason of the Chicago Trib- une, speaking for the American Ne paper Publishers’ Association, told the committee that American forests were S0 depleted that ‘no tariff which could be imposed would cause an ex- { pansion in the newsprint industry.” Production in the United States was only 70 per cent of the consumption !of 2,144,000 tons last year, he said. adding that he believed the ratto would be lowered this year. Alarm of the newsprint manufac- turers over the increased output of Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian mills was groundless, Mr. Thomason said. because the product was so inferior that no publisher in the United States would use it even if it could be bought at $15 less a ton than the American product. RESENT GILLEN CHARGES. Norwegian Shipowners Deny Re- ceiving $22,000,000 Excess Pay. Appearing as the representative.of Norwegian shipowners, Charles §. Haight of New York told the Honuse committee investigating _Shipping Board operations today that his |clients deeply resented the charge of Martin J. Gillen that they received $22.000.000 in excessive payments in settlement of claims growing out of the commandeering by the govern- ment of ships puilding for them in this country when the United States jentered the war. Mr. Haight said the total damages and that jf any one had any groum (to be aggrieved it was the shipping [mlm of Norway. SEEK TRUSTEES’ POWERS. Efforts to obtain for the auxillary vestries of St. David's and St. Patrick’s Episcopal chapels the powers of trus- teeship of the church property, with the right to choose their own vicar, will be made, it was predicted toda: in the hope of straightening out the church dissension which yesterday re- sulted in the two congregations hold- ing separate church and Sunday school services outside of their own build- ings, in the neighborhood of Conduit road. The break of the two chapels, which are a part of St. Alban's parish, fol- lowed the resignation of their vicar, Rev. John L. Saunders, due to the op- position of St. Alban’s vestry, PROPOSES MINE INQUIRY. Investization of West Virginia coal mining troubles was proposed today in a resolution offered by Sen- ator Johnson, republican, California, but the advisability of the step was questioned by Chairman Kenyon of the Senate labor committee, which would make the inquiry. Senator Kenyon said he was not opposed to the resolution. but that nothing could be accomplished by the investigation during the present ses- sion of the Senate. Senator Johnson {agreed to change the reference of i the resolution to the audit committee to_consider its cost. Under terms of the proposal, the {Senate would “authorize and direct” {an Investigation into _ conditions | revailing in the Mingo, Logan, Me- i Dowell and other West Virginia fields, to ascertain the necessity of holding federal troops there; whether “armed forces are employed by pri- vate individuals,” and, if so, whether the practice is good public policy: ! whether “citizens are being tried and | convicted contrary to_the Constitu- nd statutes of the United whether “postal facilities been interfered with, and {:'ah‘vepther the difficulties are caused by lawful attempts to organize labor unions.” BANKER DIES IN HIS CHAIR. SHVILLE, Tenn., February 7.— |Se‘:\|1(lA ‘Waddell, banker of Union City {and widely known in Tennessee, died While seated at his chair at his home there yesterday morning. He had been indisposed for several weeks. JOSEPH C. WHITNEY DIES. BALTIMORE February 7.—Joseph C. Whitney, former president of the i Merchants and Miners ‘Transporta- tion Company. died here today of preumonia. He was sixty-four years 161d and was traffic manager of the company for the last five years. ———— TAXICAB CHARGES LOWERED. ‘ CAGO, February 7.—The largest ‘m,Cx}[{.:!.h company in the city has an- nounced a reduction of 25 per_cent In its initial charge for service. Fares Will be 30 cents for the first half ' mile and 20 cents for each additional mile. PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY. Edward D. Means, trading as Ed- ward D. Means C commission merchants, today filed petition in voluntary bankruptcy. He lists his debts at $12,941.28, and estimates his assets at $9,818.54. Attorneys Haw- ken'.& Havell appear.for bank- rup!