Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorr: change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours t 2 p.m. tod: esterday: lowest, at 4:15 a.m. today Full report on page 6. ow; not much Highest. L 32.4, at 7 | 2 No. 28,047. o omee Entered as second-class Washington, Foening matter ~ DYiC WASHINGTO D. A 1) At Member of . the - Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively eatitied to the use for republication of all Bews ‘Aispatches credited to it or mot otberwise credited In this paper and aiso the local news published hefeis. All rights of publication of special i dispatches herein are also reserved. ‘ Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,506 Y., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1921-TWENTY PAGES. MUST HAVE ACTION ONWATER SUPPLY, ~ PAYNE CONCLUSION Two of Three Members of Power Commission Now Outspoken for Action. FAVORABLE REPORT BELIEVED ASSURED May Be Transmitted Monday and Will Be Followed by Local Pleas for Tyler Plan. of Int ers of the f rior Secretary the three men commission which ' Tyler recommendation calls, tod. r he considered supply the for development reporter is considering told a W situation water rious ton's and that Congress cannot act oo soon to prevent a possible calamity The Secretary’s statement. the informal sanction given several days ) by Secretary of War Baker to the * Board of Trade proposal to seek emer- Evr legislation at this s ion of Con- gress, is regarded uring a favor- “able report by the federal power com- mission on the Tyler pla May Report Monday. The comm on will meet Monday to consider what action it wid Secretary Baker the commission’s report. which is now before Mr. Payne and dith of the Department ¢ - other member of the power board. < a possibility the report may b transmitted to Congress Monday. Just as soon as the report reaches Congress Board of Trade officials will interview members of the S following Sena View of seeking a preliminary appro- priation at this session. with which 1o start work on the Tyler plan for increasing the capital's water supply. believed the power commission will indorse both the water supply and power development proposals contained in the Tyler report. but the Board of Trade will urge emergency legisiation only with respect to the necessity of guarding Washington against the threatened- danger of a scrious water famine. Zineers Register Views. ‘hat immediate augmentation of the zer supply of the capital is of vital importance was the decision reached last night at a meeting of the Wash- ington Chapter of the American As- sociation of Engineers. A resolu- be tion favoring the Tyler, plan was| adopted. The resolution states that only the| wonderful engineering skill of Gen. Meigs, who built the present single! # conduit supplying the city with wate: has prevented a shutting.down of the | “Log cabin night” will be observed - : 5 - ——— R - - o you to stat said| i o e S g . [Beneratly v firectiNgW nemt i echool, gcnnlman Follette as Mr. Griffith | “The ordinary engineer. in handfing | houses tonight under the auspices of s this conduit when it was first con-! structed.” states the resolution. “would | have installed a structure in which the ! obsolescence due to lack of capacity would have wiped out the project long | before depreciation due to uSe and age | could have come into effect. H “It is pertinent to state that any failure of this conduit would cause| toe death of at least 10 per cent of the population of Washington by the use of infected watcr, and it i8 ungues. onable that in a confiagration of any ze without water in the mains the whoie city would probably be de- stroye TROOPS ENTER .S, y ! mal Community Center in a patriotic Consul at Queenstown, How- | munity Association, will preside.| Plans have been c 2 ! ik s 5 3 1 Theve will. e community sinstas. 1ed | o ave been completed for the | CHAMBERLAIN IN SEAT. jany more than there should be ajtion of a man whose wealth is said to s ever, Demes Brltlsh Made by Perev S. Foster; pictures of Lin- | planting of 2,100 new trees on the 2 {member for New KEngland or for the o""e o that of John D. Rocke- Raid to Get Mail {ranged by Mrs. Ida E. Kebler, secre- | Clifford Lanham, superintendent of i OT¢8%% £ S e Sectionalism | in o the | Wealth, nor does it consider Mr. Mel. ald to Get mail. tary of the community center.” | trees and parkings, annhinced today. | tracted Tllness. T }lon’s business commections as a handi- P e Tho S 3 e = : i cap. The bott ie that | LONDON, February 12,—The Even- entative Albert W. Jeffries of | Five hundred of them will be placed | .or George E. Chamberlain of| [t has v:,':;"",“ffi“':m‘:,"&",;";‘},p';,'}::é\v':m stroet and! 3.'."?.3.‘.&‘?:‘;‘?&5’"2.’.‘33' fnz News today printed a dispatch es S wIITE B e uthie s DI DA T O et n St ceanth NSt ee o re who has been away from the:a man to his cabinet from the old|Nity had come to hope that ope of its | . He will be introduced by E. | Heighty, and a large number wi PreEety ifEouth ing, it w s own_group of financi 3 | from Cork which said much excite- chairma: 1 vi : o nber Will be o o ber for weeks on account | south. Mr. Harding, it would seem, of ciers would sit in | . chairman of the advisory | used fo flll vacant spaces in the | SCDAte i | takes the view that this would be « |the Treasury Department under a r & ment had been caused at Queenstown | council. (General Civic Center. Lin- | Northeast and Southeast sections. Lot inn returned to his desk today, S UL T than an oblitera- | Publican administration, or that per- | by the visit of a party of treops to!SPIS Gertyshure address :.;:.'«:elfi:{-"2::."".'.17“,”""{“'" along which new | apparently in much improved condi- | ion of sectionalism. GapEiORe op its ood | friends, 1iké | : 3 AL il | ¢ill be planted follow: Eas ' enator underwe cess- corge M. Reynolds, iz C | the American consulate. The message grew out of the period of the civil|of Georgia .rrm-nu.- b .:ww-.faxle:‘r‘(‘: “r:,"x:"v Tv‘\“: ’:vl"d' s dur nI[; i a5 Based Upon Merit. hank‘;r‘ mighl)hl: o h:v‘n(‘orhelxfi me""; caid the military \Imd‘nxrned off some war will be sung. = cnison of | PESE, At Rock Chureh rout | sence. He w nly congratulated | 1f, in (e lust analysis Mr. Harding ) There scems to be no particular ob- | eat bags to the Rq 1 ish Con- - b O { e we: jeorgia ave: H is colleagues 3 i ccovery. . should put a southern man in his cab- ! jection to Gov. wd, inoi H anaiaryjbaca West View, the | House. will address the East Wash- | Park road. 47 treeu: Longfellow strect | retires from the Senate March 4. His | the ' selection was not based upon | the people on the inside here insist | contents of the bags not being known. | ington C ity Center. Dr. C. - | between 13th stre nd Colorado ave- | pame. has been prominently mentioned | sectionalis but upon the merit orthat within the last five days Gov. Inquiry at Queenstown. however. Emmons. president of the East Wash- | nue, both xides, 23 trees: north side jas a probable appointee of the nextithe man. ‘There is a further possibil- . Lowden’s letter. declining to enter the | evoked a denial that there has been | ington Community Association, will | of Kennedy strect, 13th strect to Colo. | preident, Mr. Harding, on the United ity that Mr. Harding, while omitting i cabinet at all, has reached Mr. Hard- | any invasion of the American gov- preside | Hughes New. | [0 A¥enue 16 ircew; both sides of |Sates Shipping Board: a’man from the south in organizing | ing at St Augustine. i ernmental premises there. A Queens- epre: ative er Hughes New- | 13th street, Longfellow street en- | - his cabinet may appoint a southerner| Much praise of John W. W, = lown message quoted American Con- | ton of Minncapolis will upeak at the | nedy atrect, 30 e Lo filt "a " vacaney before a year is|mer United States senator from Mes: | b ‘hell as stating there was no 3 o . . Mc- | Yuma street between Dass sachusetts. who is slated to be Secre- o 0 e a oW, y cet nd Conned ve- e Ve @ cabi E V: i 2 S | a0, P e Koo, RS S SR s b Vel | GOES TO ROME SOON. 1 e ey o, it SRS ittt tatr Wi B e : st . pres an, i A as s s y v e appointment of association, will preside. { Rhode Island avenue nort litical. There has been a wid 1 Le d W ¢ § | ) p wortheast, political. Ther n er ap- ! Leonard Wood would have be : BARRACKS ATTACK FAILS. AU the Jonn Weley X M. E. Zion | 4ih trect (o viaduet. 15 tr u"Nidnomn | Archbishop Dougherty, Prospective | pal for men gf the character of for- | times more pleasing. Sieenmanyitc - o 1d Corcors v e Routhe ‘om pre 1 Senator ) S | i s o s northw s W e melL wn- | to Stering aireit. o fiiemeiey| Cardinal. Sails Saturday. itoting indoracd by Tasmers gon:| | Hays and Daugherts. | ivilians Beaten at Bantry. der ausp « National Memo- |strect from 2d to 41h streer )4 A . b » erally for Secretary of Agriculture, ays and Harry M. Daugherty. Tial Association, with drens on | Supt. Tanham ix new remobinon | PHILADBLPHIA, - February 12— | SN T G950 get the poat. ST e T One Defender Wounded. incoin, the Emancipator. by Rep- |the Carolina poplar trees oy Snenl | Archbishop Dennix J. Doherty, who| Chairman Hays of the republican |¢Tal and Attorney General, are popu ANTEY. Arelana® Febiamcy 12 ive Yates of Ilinois. und one |herd street from Georgin avenue eoot | is to be €l i to the cardin !party and some of his associates are | !aF in political circles, but it is never- NTRY. - Yy 12— . the Agita- jand will replace them with piy oaks, | lefinitely decided to | Intent upon making the solld south a theless true that leading republic Three hundred armed civilians at- | tor,” by Prof. J. Francis Gregory. Mr. Lanham sald the Carolina poptay | PeXt month. has definitely decidec political . battleground. They were |Uestion the advissbility of putting ¢ racks at midnigne jast nignt The nioTRICT MEN STARTLED. |Fapidiy and spre; o Amsterdam. He will be nccom- | ¢hat a little more proselyling in the | theso New Yorkers do not know is garrison & feree resistance. | * | treet surfac nied by se pricsts from the | southern states would win the mas | Ut a politician with his car to the wnd with b of a relief foree | AR e e et Jority of ‘the ‘peopleyaway_ from 'the | Eround Is sometimes a better judge of Ised the zv(n,(-krmwll' rl‘yf . Slight Drop of Elevator Causes |only point fa shop has received many !democratic party. They base their w: lhubtllc[plnlnehlhal!l‘ a business man| sergeant of the defending {L: am said, s ry telegrams from all fhopes particularly upon businéss men 0se training has been entirely in- forcce wax wounded. The barr: Workers to Jump. \:;f,“{?l‘h_ 1% ey e P ers to take the leadrinitnig gide a single city and in' a single| und nearby houses were ba am- ’ 7 ] usiness. i be 1 loves e Distric | Mr. Lanham s direction. s i aged by the firing. i nployes of the District building | NI - Mr. Harding has promised a i New York has been somewhat of 2 tartled before noon today rations for spr 5 th r. Harding ha « partisan n: i of a meye T-;:“Lml Tt ”mw“l:dd‘;\r H Tni May his men Whi lagne "":‘”Y "‘r- b L) NeWS ministration and a partisan ('nhlnel,lgbfl‘fir !x'.rdm.lm_lth and since the! WILL CONSULT GARY e rar about cight feet The safery tack on the adult beetles fn el treen | 1 OOQ@Y ] Bt e refuses, ax yet. to yield) to sec: .ormm‘;lfl‘}““‘f"l‘,fl-‘f,"":‘fr e . < Pl opped & ca A | types of trees th 1 tionalism. : ore the public in gzl = appliance stoppe 1 the car before it ;’;23"”?‘":", o o tha anE o > In_the meantime, some of the sen-|connection with the European child | Viscount Inouye Will Confer as to 1. Coombs, superintendent of | toward the end of mumn i in F a""flmphs atonk closestiriendsiaraimayeling el | SO SR MERREID SRy S e Heon ] = i o N ict appra e fact that he continues to permit’ von e executive | 2 . who was a passenger in the | The DIstrict approvriation Sl ey b o Dice Lapllity, so- that it is not Manchurian Steel and Coal. atisfied he would not make g | Passed by~ the Ho himself to-be mide the obiect of-a 3 s not: unusual to = e 4 o=, v i% made to extort mone U nf cabinet “drives.” hear one man say to anoth 5068, foritree wor succession of cal 5" They 3 nother, or | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February Btory :‘.m bill appropriat i iia - Stotesbury are \lrt:lng[lnlm‘ to:announce the- fact{ ong woman to ‘mm‘xln.-r,;i = — t T. Inouye a ed e B = > = Ihoped at the District byjig Ancoln i3 eulogized throughout Wash- | that his mind is made up as to vir- vonder why Mr. rding doesn’t N oBauNs A medhhere | e aars e i ha by e RO Page 1| tually all of the cabinet posts, even | Put Hoover in the cabingt i on the steamer Tenvo Maru and to- ° o ! the $60.000, othe Th 4.':'1 Larding cabinet slate falls to arouse | if he does not feel called upon to give ) MOst folks, however, refuse-to be- | B N e oin SAEy dow e 4 bk 41| New York enthustasm Pape®5 | thene selcctions to the public. In-|léve what they see in the newspapers | < is a o ». vision to curtail Its work q y | ¥ I stead, Mr. Harding gives out the im-|about cabinet selections. and are! with Judge it ix announced, e Foaring / of nursing | will not stand for dictation, | nousion that he is ready to receive|Serénely confident that. when the list AL B LR e B f | trees of the Caniih e Nhade wter declaren. Page 1 NGEE MG Ty delegation whieh |18 finally made public it will surely | e T suyorts teaaded s ano That it was the duty of the | £k L Am consulate at|muy desire to advocate the appoint-|contain the names of. Leonard Wood, | e moat Tnfivential business men nation “to care for him who R R. MERGER UP ‘Queenstown entered by troops nmull|.m.nl of nlllyllxu‘il\'l:’lunl to “u ‘.{,.\:1“.,“1 Elihu Root and Herbert Hoover. P Seodptite ! on i age )| Whether this is the result of inde- (opyright. 192 ::-:‘::;:‘:r‘?rifl-r."..,l,“m',"u" whe Pas- shall have borne the battle. B et MONDAY. Hecretary Pavie of power bourd declares | olsion or amiabllity on the part of th = = — 2 ere the i ’ ‘resident-elect Is a matter for specu- | i Marquis Paulucci di Calboli, Italian | . | ommitte i lon/onwiternoed. s Kaea inauguraladavess. o M el mbassador o Japan, and his s, | How grievously has the na. |Semate C 8 o Consider T‘”"’u.mlluu wninfluenced by wectional de- | lution: s e iy LR N e B Who are making the return trip to| tjon failed in that duty toward Local Measure nd i cabinet muking. : 7 what his admin#stration will repr: Rome. | the men who battled in the Z Duwen conferi with Harding and cabi | Mr. Hurding dislikes to hurt the|sent. that he feels the country at large i The Senate DIstrict commiite ' net talk rovives, P'age 1| feelings of uny one, and a person ! shoyld,rast contented, but his friends | o 1 ? s . Vires at he esires 1o {x - H MME. TETRAZZINT NO BETTER | world war? {mecting on Monay willtake un fur' | Hed | of | Wasblukton | trae s | 2008 I Ll 0 ot e | b s B (Rl e, Judsment upan | i % sraised by Portland, Ore., officiul. ! cert | his { BIRMINGHAM, Ala, February 1 The story is one to sti silerstian tnos bille | [ age 2{Mr. Harding has not the heart to say| the judgment upon his administration, | Erliciconition: of Mine | Euls Hatris y stir you |eventual merger of the wi . thix post already had been deoided,!und they are anxious that he should | ¥—The gt Mme EulsiBatas | o di : : companies of the Dixtrict Army planes wearch all Texan for lost 4 y & u ¢ should | gini. opera singer.” who was forced | to indignation. Read it to- |yl for the conuolidation of ! Jowt lind that the quest for any one. else| put his best foot foremost. The ad-| 1o cancel an engagement here last | morrow in st Fowecie Yok the i J would be futile. dress, however, is not likely to be| pight because of sudden iliness. | I ons Ratiyny 8 yw . cornerat of| Some of the closest friends of the| written until the last week in Florida, Bhowed no improvement today. ae- Lk a0 : 2| president-elect, who have been with|The message to the extra session of | ! eording to her physician. She ix suf- | ' o ,';, aeng iuali timatey rail claims | him for the past few days, are des|the Congress will wait until Mr. | foring from a throat affection which e dSunda AR | Lo caminen of the twa compunton, the| kb i tuge 9| yiroun that the cabinet should be put{Harding §8 established in the White et Ao e Capital “Traction wnd the Wanhington | Hrightwood citigens sk more right | eut of the way, and that Mr. Harding | House, - ; aflway and Electric companies, movie consorhip Fage 10 should go into retirement to write his® 4 (Copyright, 1021.) 4 - ‘v Pl " ; H i ( - ; ; 3§ hing- | take in the | has written | ade a n- !eral by President Lincoln, will relate {zens® Association, presiding. The Boy | the exercises. i Towa will be the p |CABINET MEMBERS TO | | PAY $100 FOR CHAIRS | i | PEED UP INQUIRY OF COAL COMBINES ‘ELaskey Will Have the Case in1 ! Ten Days if War- ‘ ranted. USED IN CONFERENCES Secretary of War Baker is not the only member of President Wil- who cherishes fond recollections of tre chairs uscd by them while gathered about the big mahogany council table in the cabinet room of the executive of- .fices of the White House. Not content with the looking little brass plates ing the occupant of the cha 1 his high office and the date of his | son’s cabinet modest- indicat- ir_ and case will b ct Attorney ar- i within ten days or less th | placed in the hands of Dis | John . Laskey, should th ; i 1 entrance into that office. which . Attorneys of the Department of Justice | | have adorned the backs ot «hes: en Fmaking an inv | hairs, Secretary of the Dans |z mses evi | s and Secretary of Agri ulture ,(:)ll( erning coal prices in the District of | | redith have arranged for the |Columbia have been asked to expedite | DPurchase of the c s used by | the matter as ke ssible, and | | them. The matter is now in the i much as possible, i hands of the office of public build- ings and grounds, which acts as the guardian of all White House property, and it is considered like- 1y that other cabinet members will :f‘:l!ll it. | :EL‘W}, suit, despite the fact that | Frank K. Nebeker, assistant to the| | han Sious Wil cost them mOTe | ptorney General, who is directing ull| | The chairs originally t $65, |coal inquiries of the department, said | but the public buildi and | today that he did not expect the local | { grounds office has informed the | gistrict attorney to take up the matter | two cabinet officers that it would | until the department had. reviewe | cost more than $100 to replace | cvidencn at hand which was dpveloped | \em now. oA i | week before the nianufactures { mittee of the Sepate. 1 of local coal deale but said that Sen- ator La Follette was “well within the | facts” when he said yesterday that the uch action. government might tal 1 conditions of | “During the abnorm the war it was nece: 1 | i | ry that cer combinations of bu: formed. such as thos lder the fuel administration “(nfll al, and some of these I nave constituted a technical violation | of the law. But what we are particu- | larly interested in is the situation fol- lowing the armis and demobiliza- | | tion. “Not only in the coal trade but {other lines of b ness there {been instances where men continued | the combinations formed during th THROUGHOUT CITY House Hears Eulogy on Emancipator — Many Or- ganizations Pay Tribute. said the 1 in | h! ends instcad of for the protection nrl Uniting in commemoration of the |W&r. but have used them for self 112th anniversary of the birth of | tne publi it is Sen- The Federal Trade Commission | Abraham Lincoln, the National Capi- eported, has obtained from the | tal today paid tribute to the life and o te committee on manufactures the | deeds of the great civil war Presi- | qence which has been sub a ! dent. regarding alleged combination | Officials, organizations, members of civic bodies and school children- to- | day recaiied the life of Lincoln, told of his spiritual depth and fund of humor, and recounted the events of Pncageos | Vestigates after receiving complaints. | The House of Representatives|It is believed that the commission | stopped its deliberations for forty [may go into the matter relating to| minutes while Representative Yates the coal dealers here of its own in- | of Illinois. whose father was a per- | itiative. i he announcement that the govern-! {among Washington coal dealer: | Under the law creating the Federal | | Trade Commission the commjssion | may institute investigations and ac- tions on its own responsibility. if it deems such a course wise. or it in- might I DAWES IN GABINET GOSSIP ONCE MORE Slaying. 2 | Chicago Banker, on Visit 10 cus) —cier. neing out. + . 3 Party Leaders Regret That Florida Relatives, Has Harding Conference. ] { THEN PRACTICE(] THEM As HE pa S ! GOVERNMENT oF TE FoPE BY THE PEOPLE | | FoR THE PEOPLE | @] | IWILLIAM C. HALL FREED; MURDER CHARGE DROFPED Jury Fails to Agree in Case of Pro- hibition Officer Accused of .Y, FNDS FLAWS INHARDING SLATE o'clock yesterday afternoon, the Jury lin the case of Wiliam . Han, tor-| W00d, Hoover and Root mer prohibition inspector for the | i state, charged with killing Lawrence | Are Not Included. i {sonal friend of President Lincoln.| The . e A D. Hudson, alleged bootlegger, at eulogized the “great emancipator. ment may prosecute coal dealers Off . . \ cinted Pres Fishers Hill, 0, 1919, an- | ¥ DAV VRENCE. e e e T in | Washington bn charges of fixing pricos | P10 dswetmet broxt LSRG B Dloloek this morn- | RRDAvIDILAWRENCE. evidence foday upon public and pri- | Of coal to consumers aad driving out of | ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., February 12\ %" s unable to agree. It was| NEW. YORK, February 12—One ! vate buildings. Talk was revived in business dealers who sold below thes [eacharlea G ala wes, the Chicago the second time a jury had failed to |doesn’t have to investigate sentiment | | the departments and other places as | Prices was made by Senator La Follette, | hanyer, who has been prominently jagree in the case. | very far in this, th - i to the advisability of making Febru- | chairman of the committee, yesterday i i i Judge Samuel C. ed ! (o) i ane nation s metropolisj = ¥ 2 fternoo junder consideration for appointment | =3 hae g X to learn that Presi -el 7 jary 12 a national holiday. 1w Grifity NoeaTeonl: Adatar - headed ;the Jury. following which State At- 20 ident-elect Harding's | Tonight will see Lincoln remem- 'had»laken""h» Pt r:‘?\:‘lat’t(na B lias ecretary of the Treasury. headed oy Lion asked that the charge | 1ist of cabinet secretaries will not evoke | | bered in addresses. song and story at | President-clect Harding’s ppoint- jagainst Hall be nolle prgssed. The outbursts of enthusiasm if it should | varioun satherings. theoughout the ! lestimony previously given before the | { eity. Chief among these will be a special program to corcmemorate Lin- ! coln’s birthday, arranged by the Dis- | committee making charges again {the local coa! dealers’ association. {Senator La Follette made the an- : - | nouncement to protect Mr. Griffith in trict department of the Grand Army |4is rights. Waiving any question of | of the Republic, tonight at the First ;% FIERLE 5 . - unity, Mr. Griffith proceeded with 20"8"’!3"0":1 Ghuet: -}_",‘"‘ Temple | his testimiony, but a little later, at the T e aton and John M. Hob. |Suggestioh of his attorney. he stop- orfal. commission, al ohn M. Rob- i ped short and withdrew from the wit- sion will speak. D ot theCammuiity Conice Geoariment of (20K, {02 dtand, “that 1 have been ad- | e D e e e e pre |of the testimony disclosed before this | shown a various meetings, pic- {oommittee it is now investigating with | turing the early life of Lincoln. his i, yiew to prosecution of,these practices, activities as a member of the Iinois | wnich are held to be in, violation of | legislature and his career as Presi- |jaw” % dent of the United Gllleg. | Mr. Griflith replied that all he de- Representative Isaac Sherwood of igired was to give the committee the Ohio, one of the two men in the ¢rytp House who knew Lincoln personally | and who was mad brigadier ge i personal reminiscences of his associa- | View School. tonight, George H. Rus- | sell president of the Park View Citi- | ! - FORCITY STREETS 12,100 Will Be Planted This| Spring—Carolina Poplar | Being Removed. =~ ° Scout Bugle Corps will participate in | Representative Horace M. Towner of | cipal speaker at the Johnson-Powell Community Cen- ter. Mr. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the association, presiding. The Michigan State Society, which will co-operate with the Wilson Nor- program. The speakers of the even- nz will be Representative Clarence J. | McLeod of Michigan, D. G. Pfeiffer, { president of the Wilson Normal Com- ¢ | ment list for toda i that started a speculation here. Onc ! the Treasury portfoli { cently regarded as a less formidable contender for the place, Mr. Dawes lof his coming at this time was in- terpreted as evidence that he still is being considered for some high gov- ernment position Dawes tives, having come directly from | shington, where he created a sen- Mr. sation demning the methods of the repub- lican majority in Congress in its in- i vestigation war. Regarding his_cours| | Mr. Harding and the ha him would the significance of today's conference beyond ey lelect has @ high regard for his!that there will be no representative of | caller’s Others with whom Mr. Harding had | appointments today Wise ested in avlation projects, ittee of the 1 Commerce, which brought an invitation | o the President-elect to visit that city. | A - with a conference court thereupon dismissfd the de- train of cabinet ' fendant. iprove to be the slate that practically all | | the correspondents, in both Washington | {and St. Augustine, hav —— ! ‘ , have been publishing | { {during the last few weeks. ] l | Of course, New York's point of view | = {may hot be national, but here at any {rate are some influential republican new first call on but more re- conceded to ha leaders and new: a i { has become one of the mystery men = wspapers, and It is sig- | Gf the cabinet problem: It was said | 1;'“?';;‘;&:; jnaxy ptg';t!‘:ln; are finding | at Harding headquarters that his call | Mr. Hapding may have selected what | was not the result of a formal ap-; s d jany Prey € miight regard as a good | pointment made at Mr. Harding’s r ¢ z "}'ogln cabingt, but the trouble is New | quest, but in some quarters the fact o ad. come 10 expect a - super- cabinet, with Gen. Wood, - Herber{ Hoover and Elihu Root in it, and au- thentic dispatches from Harding’s head- ’ quarters have indicated that none of these _three ‘giants of republicanism | would be chosen. | Take the sgcretaryship of state, for instance. Now Charles Evans Hughes is well known in New York, and his lability is fully recognized, but Elihu} ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.. February 12.] 190t wauld have been more enthu ! i siastically approved, because his —President-elect Harding has indi-|training has been in international af- ey maer i B e de.lx?;jsl_:md diplomacy. However, the| _ | objections to ughes are relatively cline to let himself be swayed by sec- | PRIECHgNS Lo Hushes are relatively | tional sentiment in the appointment|murs of dissatisfaction over the omis- | lof a cabinet. This means, probably, |8ion of men like @en. Wood and Her- bert Hoover. Mellon's Holdings. While Gotham admires the genius and ability of Andrew W. Mellon of | Pittsburgh, who is slated for the sec- | Tetaryship of the Treasury, some re- publicans are uneasy over the way the democratic newspapers have insisted sections, but a matter of individuals.iupon cataloguing the large financial { He does not feel that there should be | holdings of Mr. Mellon. They wonder a member of the cabinet for the sguth |if the country will approve the selec- | President-Elect Insists on! x Personal Merit as Test for. i Cabinet Posts. ial Dispateh to The Sta is in Florida to visit last week by publicly con- of the conduct of the: at that time, iTicials close to had nothing to say, nor they make any comment on the assurance that the Presi- i i ability. the “old south” in the cabinet, despite | the clamor now being made for such| an appointment. ) The construction of a cabinet, Mr. | | Harding believes, is not a matter of | included Henry Wood of New York, inter- d'a com- Jacksonville Chamber of _— ! { nomic questions could not be solved “in that way, he added. | “We are prepared to accomplish all Dr. Wirth, “be- | carried out the instructions and hid in | |AUSTRIA DEMANDS FUSION. | tion_have so far proven futile. TWO GCENTS. ALLIES GET NOTICE GERMANY WILL NOT the bill. While the details | are withheld, it is reported i - that the agfeement Minister of Finance Says vides the” appropriation London Conference Must shall be made 60 per cent ConsidEr Teuton Side. out of the revenues of the District and 40 per cent out the federal Treasury, as in the present law. I'he agreement, it is re- ported, leaves the present law unchanged so far as the fiscal relations are con- CONFEREES FIX 60-40 [ BASIS FOR D. C. FUNDS. SURPLUS CAN'T BE USED | The conferees on the Dis— 1 trict appropriation bill this afternoon reached ar pro-. { THINKS AMERICA CAN NOT REMAIN OUTSIDE | i | 1 When Economic Forces of World Sit Around Table, Says U. S. cerned. and the surplus ! B revenues of the District Must Join In. t will not be available under f7she nsteiaied Ereen i A2 ! BERLIN, February 12.—Germa s = not going to the London reparations The conferencé report nference to be dictated to. .Dr. will be made to the House first, probably on Monday | Wirth, the minister of finance, declar- ed in a speech to the Bremen cham- ber of commerce today. Great eco- we can.” continued |cause we feel under a moral obliga- i tion to assist in reconstruction, and | we will make reparation proposals of | our own in London. | _“The newspaper reports on this sub- {ject are incorrect. Our offer will not be a small one. The nation must learn toerealize that what we shall offer cannot be extracted from the E.T. STOTESBURY Trap to Catch Would-Be Ex- torter Spoiled by In- | i Wieunes™in' hese: ircumetinees !all the fruits of. the revolution can be S ! safeguarded. .quisitive Man. [ o il ve 1o e oreanlet R a great scale, and what wi fler must PHILADELPHIA, February 12.—De- } bcxmxde “ood. i tectives ear today inadvertently | Ameriea Cannot Hold Aloof. poiled the capture of a man alleged to| “America cannot hold aloof.” added have attempted to extort money from |the finance minister, “when the eco . = e nomic forces of the entire world E. T. Stotesbury, widely known banker | 1001 SO0, Slauna one table All and member of J. P. Morgan & Co.|plans are mere theorics unless the New York, on a threat of harm to him | Whole economic world is prepared to a ily. co-operate.” and his family. Legislation which would prescribe A letter had been sent to Mr. Stotes- | the manner_in which all givilian bury instructing him to place a sum |guards, in Germany, are to 8- of money in @ biack box at the en. Solved is mow being drafted by the trance of a certain church. Detectives 'Ministry of the interior. After being | submitted to the cabinet, the measure a dark corner. When a man came along | Will be presented to the reichstag for and picked up the box he was covered ;-approval. 3 with pistols by the detectives. Think-| The action of the Bavarian premler ing he was being held up by bandits, ; in_placing responsibility for disarm- the man started to hand over his|ament upon the Berlin government money and watch. He claimed he was | has created a situation,quite embar- on his way to work when he saw the Tassing to the federal ministry. In box, i view of the prolonged denba;.ulm;‘- The police after an investizatis by the Bevarian ministers at Munich, found his story true and released hin. Konstantine Fehrenbach. the chas had looked for a more em- There is no cli v | cellor, S Shore tie i Sl S declaration from Dr. Voh Kahr. etter. | Phatic Detectives said a number of rsons socially prominent have recently re.| SOCLALISTS WANT REPORT. ceived similar letters. Mr. Stotesbury ! is in Florida. MUNICH.” February 1l.—Independ- Wants Plebiscit: _{ent socialists demanded. during ye et ] i terday morning’s session of the Ba- ment for Joining Germany. ! yarian diet that the government make VIENNA, February 10.—FL. = |a report on mnegotiations carried on a law Ty 10—L. zotment of | £ [XROT Se Rerlin_government and ¢ providing for a referendum rela- | ;. "von Kahr, Bavarian premier, and tive to fusion, between the Austrian re- | this provoked a lively debate. A public and Germany was formally de- |Speaker from the government declared manded of the government here today by | that the proceedings at Berlin were the Grosse Deutsche party. The organi. | confidential and that thir nature could taelinnrc{glms that such legislation would | not be divulged except in a plenary in fulfillment of promises m: j session. the recent election ih Austria, and majkes| . Socialist and communist leaders de- its dcmand despite the reported allied | clared the government's reply was wio prohibition_of movements lookins to a | Satisfactory. and the debate continue union between this country and Ger- | until a recess was taken. many. ! It is explained that immediate action | HOPES FOR INVASION. regarding fusion would wnot necessarily follow a plebiscite, but such a vote would be taken out of a desire to show | the real sentiment of Austria to the ' world. Reichstag President Says Seizing of Ruhr Would Teach Lesson. | BRESLAU., Germany, February 11. | —Paul Loebe, president of the reichs- ORDER SHIPS TO BOSTON. |i0; " ana pubiisher of the Brusseis Volkswacht. urges Germany. in an Congestion at Ellis Island Forces | editorial appearing in his paper to- | day. to refuse to comply with the Liners to Seek New Port. iparis reparations demands, thereby 5 5 i permitting occupation of the Ruhr by DOSTAN, Februacy, 13 Pamensers| ir.e etente SUMON. e ays, sl B on the nd-America liner uw.| compelled to attempt. operation of the Amsterdam and the Red Star liner | Mmines. %es % Finland who pass the immigration au.| He declares the miners then would thorities will be landed at this port | refuse to worlk and the coal produc instead of at New York. | tion would fall off to such an extent Orders were received here today, that the entente would abandon its supplementing those of yesterday, demands and submit “more reasonable which diverted the vessels to this port, | conditions. making this the place of debarkation Unemployment would be widespread a5 well as of examination, because of | if the preent plan is agreed fo. Herr congestion at Ellis Island. Those lLoebe believes; tax receipts would de- aboard the two steamers total 2,500 cline and it would not be possible for persons. | the entente to collect its indeminitiee. 'THIEVES GET HEAVY SAFE. iUse Truck and Escape With $11,- 000 Loot From Bank. TOLEDO, Ohio, February 12— Thieves broke into the Bank of Tem- perance, Mich., a few miles north of here, early today. loaded a heavy safe | containing $11L,000 into a waiting truck and made their escape. The ‘loot comprised $2,500 in_ cash and $8,500 in liberty bonds. F. T. Wal- lace, president of the bank, said. | "Mr. Wallace reported the safe was | equipped with'a three-day time lock jand that it could mot be opened through thé combination until Men- —_— GRIGSBY LOSES DECISION. Declared Not Entitled to Seat in House—Wickersham Wins. George B. Grigshy, democratic dele- ate from Alaska, is not entitled to | his seat in the House. the elecTions committee reported today after long investigation. The committee held that James Wickersham, republican, had been duly elected to serve in the present Congress, which expires March 47 —_——— . LIVING, IS CITED AS DEAD. Former Soldier Finds He Is Hailed day morning. - as Battle Hero. ! WALCOTT, N. D. February SIOUX FALLS BISHOP. Relatives of Henry O. Magenton, for- | mer_soldier, now living here, today R o e war b watioed (S Paspaves Xmpers, 5 fout partment ng Magenton for brav- ‘Withholds Appointee’s Name. ery “in giving his life on the battle- fields of France.” i Magenton's efforts to correct a War Department notice to his family in 1918 that he had been killed in ac- ROME, February 12—The Vatican has prepared the papers in the ap- ! pointment of a bishop for Sioux Falls, S. D., which is expected to be made iat the coming secret consistor " As there are some formalities still !to be settied, however, no snnounce- ment of the name .of the appointee has yet been made. ; -8 | 'AGAIN TAKE UP D. C. BILL. i The conferees of ihe Senate and i House ®n‘‘theé District appropriation {bill met at 2 o'clock, this afternoon 'in an effort to coniplete their. work {on that measure. It was with the | understanding that an attempt would be made to Settle theifferences over | the fiscal relations biween the District and the federal government at the meeting -today. The conferees have l Laymen’s Midday i Lenten Services B. F. Keith’s Theater Dai'y, Except Saturdays, 12:30 to 1 O’Clock Opening Service— Monday, February 14th |25t 25 conirovermy. ¥ °"°" % g ——————— sl Sraees RIVER-HARBOR BILL REPORT. ].TH“MPA"ISMI;IENDRICK a'rrrr-;m!:o:-; fivers shd harbors :ILI'. Bord of Commixsioners, D. C. || $15:250,990, o g Tevorasiy