Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1921, Page 2

Z gress and Treasury Due to * Foreign Loan Bookkeeping. By DAVID LAWRENCE. e Treasury Depart- rstand { Congress and th {ment have managed to misunde! each other on the question of can;:e:- ng foreign debts and making furs The Treasury never had the remoxr est idea of canceling the present war Jebt, but the necessity of advanci $75.600,000 more is really the puzziing -fac! the situation. e ther Trecsury and Congress mean the same thing and probabiy have the samo idea of what consti- tutes a “comrpitment” to nd\-mf\‘ce money, but the testimony thus far faken Indicates that all is not clear “on the question of making further oans. 4 Jod e tangle can all be set down . as the resuit of bookkeeping and un- adjusted contracts growing out of the war. Many people have the fdea that the Treasury Department . lent money outright to the allies during the vb_fl.'l". Such was not the case. America promised to advance large sums of money, but to pay out cash as it was actually needed. The understanding. Was that the allies would morecover, 5 ¢ purchase most of their goods in the United States. U as he ailies got many millions sof dollars from the Treasury w *h never went to Europe. but w(‘ntlm- rectly to American manufacturers and their workmen. X In transactions with the allies amounting to ten biilions of dollars, something like seventy-five millions. a relatively small sum. hangs over as unpaid by the Treasury. It is not a new indebtedness. Strictly speaking. it the_bookkeepers of the United . States War Department and the book- keepers of European governments ‘could have balanced their books on “the day after the armistice the sev- enty-five millions would then have ibeen paid and America's promise would have been kept. Delayed Negotiations. Delayed negotiations over war con- tracts and a thousand and one other tangles which have arisen since the war about war credits have made it fmpossible to tell just how much money must be paid out. It will not Misunderstanding of Con-l AMERICAN LEGION HONORS DEAD HERO OF MINE ACCIDENT A tribute to a peace-time hero was Paid by the national executive com- mitteo of the American Legion to- day when it ordered National Adju- tant Lemuel Bowles to have a suit- ble headstone erected over the grave of Edward F. Bassett, in Butte, Mont. Bassett was a mine foreman, and as a former service man was commander of the. Silver Bow Post of the legion in Butte. When a steam pipe burst a_short time ago in the mine where he was working, threatening the lives of @ number of | men, Bassett placed his back against the 'vent where the steam was es- caping, shutting it off until his fel- lows escaped. but he was literally cooked aitve, and died before he could be gottén out of the mine. MUST AID WOUNDED | PERSHING ASSERTS |People Prone to Forget War Sacrifices, General Tells i Press Club Veterans. | Officers of the Army, Navy, Marine | Corps and American Legion last night {discussed the aims and needs of for- mer service men and rpoke in behlf of adequate provision for the war's disabled at a meeting at the Natfonal Press Club, held under the ausplces of the American Legion Post formed last year by members of the club. National Commander F. W. Galbraith of the legion, was the principal speak- er, and he was preceded by Secretary { Daniels, Admiral Coontz, Gen. John J. Pershing, and Maj. Gen. John A. Le- jeune, commandant of the Marine Corps. The French ambassador, M. Jusserand, was present and was given an enthusiastie reception, but did not speak. A feature of the program was the singing of the Belgian anthem by Mr. Rene A. M. Crombrugge, chancei- or of the Belgian legation, with Miss {Des Aulniers as accompanist. Other | musical numbers were given by i stra_from the Navy Yard Band. merican Legion is In a posi- tion to enhance the welfare of its mem. { bership and of the country at large, Salle de L’Horloge, Quai d’Orsa; Left to right, seated: French minister of war. LASKEY TO RESIGN ASU.S. ATTORNEY Says New Attorney General Has Right to Fill Office in D. C. With Own Choice. be in excess of seventy-five million % dollars. isaid Gen. Pershing. “People are prone 1f Senator Reed's bill should go {to forget the sacrifices the war de- {manded and the lessons it taught, and {through, and it may pass unless Con- | i@ress and the Treasury get closer to- igether, the American government would be in a position of repudiating Lan obligation, or, as Secretary Hous- ton terms it “a’ commitmen As international finance goes, seven- ty-five million is a small sum, but if America repudiated its obligation the . fear that Europe might accept the ¢ American action as a precedent and - Zconsider that it could repudiate some Zother debts entered into in more or less the same way. Moreover, officials here point out that {America cannot afford to go back on ther promise and that the seventy-five million dollars is part of a commit- fment made during the war. i The outburst in Congress resulted, of course, from the news cabled from ZEngland that Great Eritain had in- Sformally proposed a cancellation of ‘war debts. There is an anti-British Zelement in the American Senate Iwhich never fails to make an attack Zon any policy that appears to have a benefit for Great Britain concealed in Jt. Some of the senators believed the seventy-five millions were still owing o Great Britain, but that is not true. iThe Treasury has not disclosed which igoverment is involved, but it is stated this organization can serve a good pur- i vose in keeping fresh the memory of the men and women who made victory | possible. i Must Relieve Distress. “We must see. also, that legislation {is speedily enacted to relieve the dis- j tress of those who are sick or wound- jed. Responsibility for their welfare | must be fixed so that if they are neg- |lected the trouble can be speedily iremedied. It is to be hoped that di- vided authority and legal technical- ities will no longer prevent proper care for these who have suffered.” Commander Galbraith said when the nation was preparing for the war the one thing overlooked was proper hos- pital room for the human derelicts { who were certain to return from the | 8reat conflict. ~ Referring to the thou- | sands of disabled men who are getting {no medical treatment at all or only in- | adequate care, he said he had no de- jsire to lay the blame on. any of the government rehabilitation officials. Most of those in charge, he said, were doing all that they could for the men, but held that the basic law was wrong. “The Navy Department has opened fts hospitals to us to the fullest ex- tent,” he continued, “but the same JOHN E. LASKEY. The resignation of John E. Laskey cially that o more money has been iPaid or is due Great Britain. { & Loans to Russia. i Another misunderstanding has aris- en, too, over the loans to Russia. Some | ‘mewspaper accounts have given the erroneous impression that since the “fall of the Kerensky government. the .United States paid out $200,000 of her | fown money to one of the representa- ftives of the succeeding Russian re- igime. The fact is that when the {Xerensky government fell the liabili- {ties of Russia were in the neighborhood Jof one hundred millions of dollars, Zwhile her assets were about fifty-six millions. The United States govern- {ment prevailed upon the bank which | iBad the fifty-six millions not to pay| ut_any of that money if the Depari- jPeople, the fathers and mothers, the ment of State or Treasury interjiosed Wives and the sons and daughters. fany objection. It came about that{Let us learn to ‘carry on’ in peace imeveral American contractors werejas we did in war. And may the! fowed money by the Russian govern-|American Legion be the link that 4ment. Had the Treasury Department | binds the people of the country to the {insisted upon preventing any of the|men who are responsible for its pro- {Russian money ffom being paid out, | tection.” several American firms would have' Avery C. Marks, president of the gone into bankruptcy. Instead. the!club, called the meeting to order and {Treasury expressed no objection when : then turned it over to Capt. Willlam “the bank which handled Russian funds | Wolf Smith, commander of the Press paid money to certain American firms | Club Post of the Legion. Commander which had sold their goods to Rus-Galbraith was introduced by Col. isia prior to the fall of the Kerensky |James A. Drain, commander of the jgovernment. It was Russian assets|District of Columbia department of that were paid out and not money out | the legion. iof the American Treasury. | i Protection of U. 8. ¥irme. | ACTION BY KNIGHTS. ;‘Th-re is much that s puzzling about {American indebtedness to Russia, but leareful study of the way the Trexsury | Awaits Special Meeting of Board of handled foreign loans shows that the | @dvancing of credits was largely al jease of protection for American firms | NEW YORK, February 9.—Whatever | {that had shipped their goods to the | action the Knights of Columbus take | European governments. It was natural | in reference to the $5,000,000 offered ‘under the circumstances, however,|to the American Legion for a me- that Congress should be surprised ;| morial building in Washington, and | that American obligations were not!which the legion has said it could | yet paid, as the details of not accept unless the stipulation for | jional fiuance are not s - | joint control was removed, must walt B0 42 1is paipt den on a special meeting of the board of a story last night at National | girectors, which may be called in the ub which illust why Con- | pe ¢ by § Bress bestirred itself over new loans, | ;:,f,‘(ryrmu" e st cannot be said of the Army. There are Army posts where hospital facilities are available, but the public health service has not been able to get them for the use of the war’s disabled. Why is this? I am sure I do not know. Vaneouver Hospital Empty. ‘At Vancouver barracks there is an Army hospital that is closed up, and which we cannot get for sick and wounded veterans, because technicali ties are allowed to stand in the way. Gen. Lejeune expressed the hope that the country would never drop back into the state of mind that | characterized it before the war. “We lived in a rut then,” he con- tinued, “but when the war came we saw straight into the hearts of the Directors. a I presidential as United States attorney for the District of Columbia Wwill be present- ed to the new Attorney General imme- by the Senate. Mr. Laskey made this announcement today, although , his intimate friends have known for some time of his desire to relinquish the. office and resume the practice of the law. His present term does not ex- pire until October 27, 1922. Mr. Laskey was appointd to the of- fict October 22, 1914, and reappointed October 28, 1918, for an additional term of four years. He has repre- sented the government in many im- portant cases and his administration has met the approval of the bench and bar as well as the public gen- erally. Regret was expressed today by ‘many at _his determination not to { remain ‘until the expiration of his term. g Mr. Laskey's ‘Statement. A statement issued by Mr. Laskey reads: “I am a democrat, but not a hungry one. “An article in one of the after- noon papers of yesterday, headed: ‘All Stools at G. O. P. Pie Counter Occupied by Hungry Democra. followed by what is termed a bird eye view of the offices heretofor greedily regarded as spoils for the victor, the bird's-eve view comprising Jist of the District of Columbia appointments. with the names of incumbents, salary received, jdate of expiration of term of office, {and in my se with the parenthetical stimulus to aspirants: ‘Has six as- sistants.’ “So far as the office 1 occupy is concerned, no aspirant should relax his efforts to secure the appointment hecauss of the published fact that my present term does not expire until October 27, 1922, as it is my intention upon the qualification of the new Attorney General to tender him my resignation, to take effect as soon s ho shall have hail the opportunity to n doushboy.” said Gen. | “This announcement was mad an on lea 8 e e b 0 s suerently e s o e | William J. McGinley, supreme secr i dafayette for several minutes. Then | AFY ©0f the Knights of Columbus, | : het). eTed stion of the legion's national ex. ARG Sett. oty We OWe | ceutive committee., o The offer to the leglon was mad after long deliberation by our board he said. “It was made in a way de- signed to fulfill all the terms of the trust held by the Knights of Colum- Lus in their war fund. We shall, of course, be glad to comn: legion's propesition.” I Mr. McGinley explained that the i £500.000 Knixhts of Columbus balane of the united war fund voted to Her- | hert Hoover's European relief coun- | on condition that companion or- | H (Copyright, 1921.) ‘SON IS ADMINISTRATOR OF TOUSSAINT ESTATE Justice Hitz Rules in Case of Wash- ington Man Found Slain in Texas. wanizations take Alr)v:iln; action was | also distinct to the $5,000,000 set | Justice Hitz of the District Supreme ! axide for the proposed memorial | Court has granted tters of udminis- | byilding. to Rudolph T FRTRN s aint of Phila- —_— on the estate of his father, Otto dead i WORLD TRADE Pl"{_OSPECTSl H. Toussaint, whose found in a ditch last S Falls, Tex. Another body oW, g5 reported |7 ik the father. Little the two sons, | tion for adminis father owned premises; Conditions ut t northeast, valued at|shown little improvement since the nd thirty acres in Prince | beginhing of. the yeur, except in Georges county, Md, worth $10,000. Scandinavian countries and in Bel- He held a real estate note for $6,000, | Elum. according to_ reports reaching had cash in bank and household ef-|the Department of Commerce from its Improvement Except in Scandinavia and Belgium. The in world trade have a make his selection of my successor. Mentions G. 0. P. Rights. “ have been district attorney for something over six vears, and deeply appreciate Jhe confidence’ with which the people of the District have favored me, 1 desire to give up the important dutles of the office in advance of the expiration of my term, not because I m weary of endeavoring to serve the but primarily because I believe the right of the republican party sfter its overwhelming victory, to have ihe opportunity of selecting its own presidential appointees as soon as may be. 1t also has been my, desire to re- sume the practice of my profession in association with my former partner and Jith some of those who have aided me In the administration of the district at- torney’s office.”” RESCUED FROM FIRE. C. W. Barnett Saves Wife and Son, Loses His Home. ries W Barnett. well known local business man and former naval officer, aided by Girvin Peters, a neighbor, rescued his wife and seven- year-old won f{rom a fire which dostroyed his residence in Edgemore, Md., about a mile from the District line, early today. The twenty-room house, located on Edgemors road, near the Rockville pike, is @ Wreck. Only the walls are Jeft standing. The floors are caved in and the entire interior of the struc- ture is a mass of debris. The fire broke out shortly before' 1 o'clock, caused, it is believed, by defective Ch fects extimated at $6.000 lagents in Europe, Asia and South Attorney Francis I. Neubeck filed | America. TProspects for the future, the sow’s petition. The body of the however. are brighter. father wax identified by a card of the | The cost of living in Sweden, Nor- attorney found in pocket of his!| way. Denmark and Belgium was de- coat. | seribed as lower by Trade Commis- | sioner Gross at Brussels and Com- mercial Attache Anderson at Cope: MAPLE CAMP T0 MEET | hagen. Improvement in the exchange == , * |situation wag noted. Commery ttache Page described Woodmen to Elect Delegate To- | Great Britain as being on the verge of financial improvement. He id night to Head Camp. | the Tiritiah were decreasing specuta Maple Camp, No. 13, Woodmen of the | tive operations and that banks had World, will meet tonight at Capito] | bolstered the money market by per- Heights to elect a delegate to the | mitting greater freedom in the matter convention of the Heud Camp ag|of loans. Huntinglon, W. Va. Germany is gaining a dominance in Announcement was made today that | the Italian iron and steel markets the present council, under Commander | Commercial Attache McLean told the Thurston G. Brown, will give enter- |department. Bank rates were report- tainments at the last meeting in every | ed lower at Tokio by Commercial At- month, the first entertainment to take | tache Abbott, and money rates were place on February 23. Prizes will be |reported higher in Brasil. Credits in awarded. The committee on enter- | Mexico, Commercial Attache Jackson tainment is composed of Louis F.|reported, were bard to obtain and i Litz and Franklin-S. Smith, oney was tight, clectric wiring. With the aid of Mr. Peters, who ran to the house when he noticed flames, Mr. Barnett car- ried out his wife and son through smoke-filled rooms and corridors. The loss is set at $25,000, covered by insurance. STILL AND MASH SEIZED. Linton Evans, internal revenue agent, accompanied by police of the sixth pre- cinct, yesterday afternoon visited a garage In rear of 58 Massachusetts ave. nue and seized a still and 250 gallons of mash. The raid was made on a gearch warrant Issued by United States{Co missioner Isaac R. Hitt. Occupahts the buflding were not on ‘the prém ‘when the rald was made. . diately after the latter's confirmation! e t t t |30nd control, will suddenly cross the Rhine and settle the German question once for ail. | = | t | r a ;n r s I i is it a 0 da n. t = t a a la It it fa exceeding her pre-war production ic i i !a tons, or 750 tons more than the aver- i a | | showa with Germany refuses to accept the Paris agreement, and particularly if Britain and the United tSates, rangement favorable to Fran. | tinuo | France i quences are likely to be cxceedingly | grav ing also a vote of confidence in the Briand government, will be resumed. The agreement will perhaps be rati- fled and Premier Bri in power, but the fight will be a hard one. sents the extreme limit compromite on the reparations. and $10.000,000,000. It extends the pay- ment over forty-two which France must actually spend on | means that unless all work on recon fof.the year another $1.200.000.000 in | taxes must b ma; realized that France's finances are | i fhardly have been quadrupled are a heavy burden on the country. Nevertheless th France many is ruined; but if Germany do Germany and Fran have to be made by in Britaln and the Unlted States. long as a shadow of hoy Saxon countries on reasonable terms promise. | keep against Germany, will still remain In almost at will. More Being Produced Now Than France Grimly To Force German Payment IConemmem Has Reached Limit of €oncessions—Peo- ple Less Moderate—Failure Now Means : National Ruin. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dafly News. Copyright, 1921. PARIS February 9.—That the French s reached the limit of con- in the question of German rations scems certain. The gov- Proment is already far more moderate han are the people as a whole. 1If ile refusing o enter into a general financial ar- to exert pressure let Germany off, to the conse-| The day may yet come when he French people, exasperated be- This is not valn speculation. It is ober fact. Today the debate in the hamber of deputies on the ratifica-| ion of the Paris agreement, involv- nd_maintained The Paris agrcement probably repre~ of "French 1t} educes the French share of the in-! emnities to between $7.000.000.000 ears. It comes owhere near meeting the money econstruction and and 3l the end | pensions, truction is to cease before voted annually or else he government must try to borrow | ome $2.400.000,000 a year for more han ten years. There has been much talk of Ger- ‘s bankruptey. It is generally less desperate. The taxes ce 1914 and i total tax receipts | re only a littie mere than £4,000,- 00,000. It is true that private in-| ividuals in France are fairly pros- | perous, but so are private individuals ' afterncon and again last night in_Germany. . 4The dilemma which pesents itselt i cimply this: If Germany pays W rance demands, Ge ot pay, or if the allies do not come France’s aid ally, then it France which faces ruin. Between | o the choice will public_opinion i So ! of winnini he good will of the two great Anglo- | emains, France iwill perhaps con- | inue to show a willingness to com- | But once 1t becomes clear that the | ole purpose of thess countries is to ' cutting down France's bill | one grent asset | France's hands. | nd that is the French army. This | rmy is undoubtedly strong enough oday and will be strong enough in he mext few vears fo enter Germany GERMAN DYES INCREASE. Before the War. PARIS, February 9—Germany now f coul tar dyes, according to the dve | xperts attached to the reparations smmission, and by the end of the urrent month will have surpassed 1y previous monthly production of | ne chemicals. Color dyes produced during January re estimated to have totaled 12,000 | ge monthly output before the war. The dye markets in Germany are ELECTORAL VOTES PRE%ENTED TO HOUSE FOR: UN’ {E. A. Weaver, lecturer on vocational [the day before Christmas under cir- | | day THE EVENI_NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 9. ON. Determined obliged to place about one-quarter of thelr product at the disposition of the reparations commission. The remain- der, however, the experts report, is being offered by the dye syndicate in foreizn markets at prices which are understood to be considerably lower than those of the English and Ameri- can competitors of the syndicate. ASSAIL BAVARIAN PREMYER. Opposition to Disarming Civil Guard May Cause Retirement. MUNICH, Bavaria, February 8.— Opposition to the disarming of the tavarian cfvillan guard on the part of Premier Von Kahr may render his retirement inevitable, according to newspapers oppesed to the present Bavarian administration. North Ba- varian sccialists openly threaten to{ if the govern-| break with Munich 1921, First photograph to rench this country, showing the opening mession of the interallied supreme council in Paris. The photograph and xhows the members of the council about the famous round table. Earl Curzon of Great Britaln, Premier David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Premier Briand of France and M. Barthou, E.H. DANIEL BACKS CHARGES BY RITTER Asserts Latter Was Punished for Cutting the Price of Coal. 3 Ernest H. Daniel, president of the ’Carry Ice Cream Company, at a hear- | ing before the Senate manufacturers’ committee today corroborated testi- mony given by John C. L. Ritter yes- jterday that Ritter has been cut off from receiving coal for delivery to the Carry Ice Cream Company by the Standard Coal Company. Mr. Danicl testified concerning a conversation he had had with D. F. | Woodward of the Standard Coal Com {pany, in h Mr. Woodward is {alleged to have said that “he didn't {like Ritter's methods of doing busi ness and that pressure had been brought to bear on him” which com. pelled him to cut off Mr. Ritter and the Carry Ice Cream Company from ment persists in preventing the Ber-!a0¥ furtlier supply of coal. lin cabinet carrying out obligations ! umed at Spa and recently pre- scribed by the supreme allied coun- cil i Paris. BERLIN, February 8—Bavaria's attitude relative to the disarmament of civilian guards is indefensible, in | the opinfon of members of the nvm_hs ag still in_ this city. They believe it will reésult in materially complicating the task of Foreign Minister Slmons during the coming | conference in London. Up until late tonight officials here had received no word from Munich, | but the Berlin cabinet was reported | to be determined to carry out dis- armament proposals without equive- cation In order that it might strength- | en its position in presonting counter Droposals on the reparation issue. LECTURES ON VOCATIONS. Prof. E. A. Weaver Discusses Methods of Guidance. The first of a series of thirty-two lec- tures in the methods of vopationsl #uidance to be given on Tues: lays at the Y. M. C. A.” were held yesterday by Prof. | guidance in the Teachers' College, Co- lumbia University. The afternoon course of lectures, of | which there are sixteen, is for teach. ers and fs held at 4 o'clock. Prof, Weaver yesterday afternoon gave a general statement of the problem of vocational adjustment and readjust-! ment. In the evening course, of which there are sixteen lectures and which are for workers, Prof. Weaver discussed “Choosing a Career. The lectures have been arranged by the Y. M. C. A. school in order that teachers can further their training and that workers may, ollowing the entire course, have formed a definite plan of what line of work they intend to follow. GOES BACK TO PRISON. Colored Man, Who Battered Jail Door, Returned to Virginia. Frank, alins George, Magee, colored, today returned to his old home in King George county, Va., where he received no ovation. He left there cumstances which caused Sheriff T.| €. Payne some concern. He battered | down a jail door and cut a hole through the wall to effect an escape. Detectives ~ Waldorf and Davis learned that Magee was in this cit and last night they arrested him. To. the sheriff returned him to the King George county jail, where he} will be detained to await a he.’u"ln:i on a charge of having entered the home of E. W. Mason. The pressure was brought upon Mr. Woodward, Mr. Daniel said, according to his recollection of the convers: tion by those who dealt with the Standard Coal Company znd those who controlied the company. Forced Out of Business. siderably under the price charged by the other dealers in Washington, {Mr. Daniel was testifying in conner i tion with charges made by Mr. Ritter 1o the.effect that price fi ociation of coal d ington had been carried on, and Mr. Ritter was forced out of because he sold under the tion's price. Mr. Daniel testifled also that he and other consumers, including W. ¢ ter and A A. Chapin. had later or- ganized a _company with Mr. Ritter to scll coal in Washington, and that they had so0ld coal cheaper than other dealers. He said that on several oc- him about the coal business and had told him “that it was not a good thing to do.” “L. P. Steuart told me,” said Mr. Dariel, “that we were making ene- mies in the business who would prob- ably try to get back at us. I under- stand that it was because we were cutting the price. “My company, the Carry Compan:; is a large manufacturer of i Stewart told me that there would be a movement on foot to start a new (eNcomp iy hcrb."l “What did you reply to that? askee Senator La Follette, chairman o ihe Senate committee. I told him that that me and that if they a d not worry n't conduct did_the business Mr. Daniel. said_that several dealers had offered to buy. them eat of the coal business. " These dealers. e said, were members of association. st Mr. Ritter was on_the stand thi morning before Mr. Daniel and was cross-examined mostly by - Senatop Reed of Missouri, in connection with the charges he Nad made of a com ination to force him out : bination of the coal Combination Formally Charged. Specific charges that a combinati exiSts In the coal trade o yomeiion h}l‘g)ll D!r‘;cP: of coal i: shut oft the supply of coal to deal ers who cut rates were put before the gor‘r;muler yr‘su-‘rday afternoon by Mr. Ritter, who said the “combinati iim out of husiness. N *hairman La Follette ruleq th e committee would Ko furthar with he inquiry after Senator Reed. dep Missouri, declared that the V. had “established & prima fac of conspiracy to violate ani-tine laws on the part of a locai nasen tion” and moved that Department of Justice agents be' summoned 1g cy. plain their attitude in the matter Mr. Ritter told the committes that he was selling soft coal at $6.o0 ton, while the price of the [< asso ciation was $5.75. He said he storiod in the coal business in February. 1910 and that he continued in business coal we'd soon own the ice case out” because he couldn't ¢ mor S get any morc Makes Further Disclosures. The witness told of attending r:metmg of the coal, associuiu“n xI'!‘l“’(llk‘ Chamber of Commerce hall, One dealer was selling pea coal at $9 a ton, and the members of the association were greatly arouscd, he said. One of them, he said ,declared he would let his coal “wash away” before he would sell it under the “assoclation price. Others, he said, declared that this was the first opportunity the coal men had had in years to make money and the intended to make the most of it Rllll‘v!' described his difficulties in obtaining coal to sell and insisted there had been a combination to put him out of business because he. w selling under the “association price. He obtained some large client among the consumers, he suid, Iinally. he said, he incorporated his company under the name of the National Conl i e National Coal e e coal men's association had meeting,” Mr. Ritter asserted he had been informed by one of his 1919 cuse Mr. Ritter had been selling coal con- | caslons other dealers had spoken to ! AT, | the ice business any better than they | n this city and to | until April, 1920, when he was “forced | | District S ltion,” and having “a Department of FACE-WASHING AHEAD FOR ANY BIRMINGHAM HECTIC COMPLEXION BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. February 9.— Birmingham girls with hectic com- plexions artificially produced are in for a face-washing whenever they appear on the streets of Birmingham in the future, according to Mrs. Hulda Newsome, policewoman. She declares that whenever she sees a young girl with a “chalky white complexion, checks of brilliant red, vermilion pigment on her lips, and her nos- powaercd to the nth desr I feel like escorting her to the near- est bathroom and administering to her face a liberal dose of soap and water, and 1 am going to do it, toe SHERIFF FORGETS DATE OF HANGING Condemned Man Is Either Legally Dead or Entitled to Pardon. BATON ROUGE, La, February Lonnie Eaton, the man the sherift £ot to hang, may be dead lewally torney General Coco frankly admit today he didn’t know, but reports from | Ouachita parish prison, where Lox has been taking in, legally or illegal for- At- ever since his exccution by Sheriff Grant February 4, do ne indicate that his appetite has suffered because of his possible den heriff Grant wrote the yesterday that in the press of and criminal matters” February 4, | utterly forgot the mandate to hu negro, convicted of the murde white man, to death that da sheriff didn’t know what to do about | it. He had mo warrant to exccute his | prisoner on any other day and asked i for instruction. The governor turned the matter over to Attorney General Coco, who is | raking the law books for preccdents 1t was said the once-in-jcopard principle of law might prevent an executfon. In the meantime the negro is physically alive and the board of pardons.still has before it an applica- tion for clemency in his case. | Attoriey General's Statement. Attorney* General Coco in o state- ment_today regarding the case said the sheriff of Ouachita parish had re- | quested the baoard of pardons to com- mute the seutence, declaring it would be a %ravesty on justice to hang Eaton. a memb. govern or | | of the board of par- General Coco, 'stigated the Eaton at the t of Gov. Parker, and it is m opinion that Eatcw, considering ail he circumstances, | should not be} | hanged. When appMration was made ito Gov. Parker for a m*prieve the gov- | ernor wrote me to the ct that from linformation he had (from reli ! sources from Ouachils. the negro i should not be hanged. It was then {that T began my investigation. | Not Aware Date Wm: Set. | “I did not know that a dite for his ble | 1him in St. Aug REDUCED GAS PRICE NEXT MONTH SEEN Civic Leaders Base Hope on Drop in Cost of 0il. for some Hope reduction in the price of kas next month was scen by when it became tngton ol civic leaders today that the Company known Was is getting month at a lower figure than Vailed for several months. Howard Reeside, president s this pre- Light of the Washington Gas Light Company, con- fe red briefly with Engineer Commis- toner Kz, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, today, and ol lowing the conference he stated 11w company wauld file its application on rates early im March. ‘Tne presidant said he cotld not say at this time what rates would be sought. The present rate of $1.32 per thousand cubic feet for gas sold to private 1 meter readin ies expires with & pariod on March 18, Oil Price Lower. In answer to a question Mr. side said the ofl used in the inunu- | facture of this month's supply of gas will cost less tlmn in the closing nths of 1920, ompany hus been paying per gallon for oil. Tteesido plained that the company this month’s supply of oil from sev- eral sourc 1n the previous months the entire supply came from one com- pany. Sincs the abnormal increase in the price of o1l last year was the prin- cipal factor on which the company obtained higher ment of Mr. Reeside tha o pric is break- ing this month is regarded by rep- resentatives of civic bodies as an encouraging sign on the eve of an- other rate hearing. The present gas rates became ef- fective November 1. Statements flled Up to this inonih the 1% cents ex- with the Public Utilities Commission by tho company show that it had a net corporate income for November a of $43812.14, and for December, net corporale inccme of $26,844. The statement showing the company’s net income for January is expected | by the commission within a few days. Improvement Is Noted. These first two months of the pres- ent rates were a noted improvement over October, when the company re- iported a deficit of $36,124 On the other hand, the statements show that the net corporate income of the company for November and | December of 1920 was less than for months of 1919. vember, 1919, the net income was $51,152.22. In December, 1919, the | et inconie amounted to $56,963.33. the sam. In No- {SOUTH IS PRESSING FOR CABINET PLACE (Continued from First Page.) | stine during his ab- n be cdunted by the thou- nds. jexecution had been set. or I would have called it to the goverlor's at- tention with the request that \ie grant 'a reprieve. I wrote the tria} judge and_ was informed by him tkat he would not oppose commutation & ser ! tence, but would not recommen\d it., 1 communicated the facts to FAeut Gov. Bouanchaud, another member of the board of pardons, who told mes he would let me hear from him laters 1| have not yet heard from Mr. Bouau- chaud. i “My investigation showed that th\ killing of the white man for which ) Eaton was found guilty was done in | a fray. Will Flournoy, another negro, | who was convicted in the same kill- | ing, was sentenced to life imprison- | ment. i HOLDS FOR EQUITY IN PUBLIC SERVICE | | !Grievance Committee of Fed- ! eral Employes’ Union, No. 2, | States Creed. In order to make the principles of action of the grievance committee Of‘ Federal Employes’ Union, No. 2, per-| fectly plain to the public and public employes, Chairman William J. Hen- dricks today made public the follow- ing creed: | “The gricvance committee is dedi- | icated to equity. He who asks equity | must give cquity. i The committee holds that the rights of the rank and file must not be in~ fringed upon by the official, but that the industry and obedience necessary to a successful administration of the people’s business must be observed by those under the administration. “The committee holds that evil must {be ariven from the service and civil Iservice laws obeyed, even though they work hardship upon the individual. and even then until such laws can be amended by proper legislation; that | vigorous prosecution will follow any | infraction of such laws, no matter with whom the fault may lie. “The commiitee believes that more ! ttention should be given the human {cquation and that constructive eriti- m. for the betterment of the serv-| {ice. should be fostered, thereby creat- ing an interest in the work and further- | ing a spirit of contentment on the part | of those performing it.” H | This is the first statement of prin- ciples ever made by the grievance com- mittee, and it was believed that its. is- | uance would serve to allay any fears | i that the committee was constituted to near ouly Ykicks.” | The committee will hold a meeting at § o'clock tomorrow might at 1i23 New. York avenue, i SUES FOR INJURY. ! Herman Hansen today filed suit in Ihel { preme Court to recover $20, nages from Richard C. V. Hart- ley for alleged personal injurics. He declares that his left arm has become | uteless as the result of a fracture sus. tained January 5, 1921, when an auto- | mobile said to belong to the defendant | collided with him at 15th straet and | New York avenue. He is represented | by Attorneys H. E. Moulton and Millan | & Smith. H & Smith . own employ “who reported every day | on all my business to the associa- Justice agent along With me for so many days they thought he was working for me, t0o.” N ution | south | stalwart republisan figures day by the pros where The fight for Butler is predicated |primarily on the umption that Sen- {ator Harding really wants a southern man in his cabinet. The theory that Senator Aibert Fall of New Mexico, | who is to be Secretary of the Interior, |would be the representative of the outh has been discarded. New Mex- ico distinctly is of the west, and Sen- lator Harding appreciates that fact. The republicans feel they have made distinct progress in breaking the { “solid south” and they would like to pitalize that progress by having a distinetly southern man in the cabi- wiet. - Oddiy enough, some of the Atrongest ‘bicking for a cabinet man from what may be termed the old sowth comes from Oklahoma, one of the. new states of the Union. Stand- ing at the borderland betwen the and west. Oklahoma yet feels itselratiiliated with the country south of Magun and Dixon! Is a Practical Farmer. The a\sument is being brought to bear upos Senator Harding that if he to mam\: @ cabinet member from the south §1at member should preside over the Dapartment of Agriculture, for the soul1 is essentially an agri- cultural cou Senator Bu r for more than thirty ars has beer, regarded as one of the in the south; w of the character to g alive. Furiher- he has been a n keep the party rlin wore, Mr. Butler I\1s as a qualification for Secre of Ayriculture—the fact that he is a “dirt Awrmer.” He owns and operates a far\ of some 1200 acres and has been a sfident of agricul- ture nearly all of his life At the time when the fArmers’ alliance flourished in the south in the late eighties. Mr. Butler was head of the organization. When it appeared, how- ever, that the alliance might effectually wipe out the republican ler _announced publican. His argued, would greatly strength publican prospects in the solid the future. Mr. Harding is gi to the argumert. (Copyright, 1921.) BAPTIST LAUDS HARDING. re- outh in ing heed “Will Bring Best Human Wisdom Possible” to Presidency. Special Dispateh to ar. OTTAWA, Ont., February 9.—*“A man like that in the -White House will bring to the domestic and foreign pop- ulation of the United § the best human wisdom possible,” said Rev. S. J. Farner, pastor of McPhall Memorial Baptist Church, who in Baptist democracy,” announced that in the two most important nations in the world, the two men who occupy the two highest political positions are both Baptists—Llovd George und War- ren G. Harding, President-elect of the United States. The Ottawa clergyman referred to Harding's having been a Baptist for twenty-five years. jarding 15 an habitual churchgoer, sald the Ottawa clergyman, “and be. lieves that every man in America should go to church. He is also a great believer in prayer. In the position he about to occupy he calls not only for relief by praver by himself, but from those of supporters throughout America.” ates, discussing {CALLED IN MURDER TRIAL. MANA; Goode W February 9.—J. C. st witness called to- ccution at the third Hall, former state trial of W. C. prohibition inspector, who is charged ith the murder of Raymond Shack- elford and Lawrence Hudson. at Fish- er's Hill, he stoy Va., two years ago, when 4 their automobile to search whiskey. hough he lives but J50 yards from the shooting occurred, Goode L ' s m G. Mack, Senate, vete > President |who would contract to give me my . S e republican, and Addison Gleseking, democrat, e ! ‘who yesterday delivered to the House -{mu"a.v: did have a lot of of the United States for, " tomers, who added: “And the E ey put you right out of business. You aren't a coal man at all any more. Gets Suggestion From Mine Agent. Another man, representing a coal mining company, suggested to him, Ritter continued, to “raise your pric 25 cents a ton each week until you get only 10 or 15 cents below the as- sociation price,” which was a figure during 1919 and 1920, according to the witness, by an association of local coal dealers. He refused, he said, and after April, 1920, he could not get any coal. “There wasn’t a man in the country nad been instituted under ant laws, Mr. Ritter said, but a civil suit | had been brought, although his at- | “this bunch is too strong for ‘us.” Names, dates and jocular remirks were all put in the record, as the witness proceeded. his is a serious thing,” Sentor Reed interjected. “The penitentiary doors are opening for these men if they are guilty of what you say.” “They are guilty.” Mr. Ritter re- torted. “The only reason I am up here is because the poor people have to buy their coal from these people and pay the price. 1 have had my fun next year's supply,” Mr. Ritter - serted, and I had 6 do business with anybody I could ind who would sell me dirt for coal.” He didn’t lose any monéy, but fun, he added in counting. The boyw further detaili; his T 7| zhose ncliaed Naving.a men in- a6 with them. But the first of last April I had to step out: the coal that was coming to me was all dirt, and they could have the laugh on me if any customer had to burn it. All he could do would be to shovel it into a fire and shovel it pight out—90 per cent torney_informed him, he “said, that |l {rust | sald, hat he had heard mo shots at morning time of the tragedy, but the next he saw armed prohidition rs gathered around the “whisky sald he saw them take a bottle the car and drink.from it. Later they called on him and asked where they could find a deputy sheriff. He directed them to Point Brooks, wheré he said they might find Deputy Borden, who testified yesterday. When Hudson was shot he had his left arm raised, according to the tes- timony of H. B. A. Funk, an undei taker, at Winchester, Va, who pre- pared the body for buriai. He said that the position of the two wounds showed that the ball would have passed through Hudson's arm had it not been raised. Interest at the ‘trial today seemed Xeen as during the first hearing and the qurtroom was not He from & 5%