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Fair and colder: tonig! morrow. ended at 2 p.m. today: today. Full report on’page 21 WEATHER. Temperature for twenty-four hours High , a 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 53,at 8 a.m. | « ht and to-} est, t e No. 28,053. Closing New York Stocks, Page 26. Entered as second-class matter popt office Washington, D. C. DEMOCRAT LEADERS DPPOSED TO CHANGE IN CHAIRMANSHIP National Committeemen Here Would First Put All Facts Before Absent Members. DISCUSS WAYS TO WIPE OUT CAMPAIGN DEFICIT i | Bession Behind Closed Doors. White Reads Letter From William J. Bryan. Before the executive committee of the democratic national committee as- sembled at the Shoreham at noon to- day the views expressed by members indicated disposition not to take sum- mary action foreboding a change in the chairmanship in the immediate future. The plan which appeared to attract most favor at the outset was to araw up a statement of conditions in the affairs of the national organization which would be embodied in the re- port of today's meeting and sent to all members of the mational commit- tee. ~Later, if a majority of the com- miftee, it was explained, should, in consideration of the report, be of the mind for a meeting of the full com- mittee, it would be called. Meeting Held Unnecessary. Members of the executive committee were aware of considerable misun- derstanding over the petition orig- inated by Robert W. Woolley and ‘Thomas Love, calling for a meet- ing of the full committee, and were cognizant of the claims made by others that there is no present occa- sion for such an assembly. The members of the executive com- mittee and proxies present were: Members Present and Proxies. Alabama, W. T. Sanders; Colorado, Miles G. Saunders; Connecticut, Homer 8. Cummings; Indlana, Miss Julia E. Landers; Kentucky, Mrs. Campbell Cantrill; Maryland, Mrs. Julia Hamil- ton Briscoe; Michigan, Willlam F. Connelly; Montana, Homer 8. Cum- mings, proxy; North Carloina, Angus ‘W. McLean; New York, Miss Elisabeth Marbury, proxy; Ohio, Mrs. Bernice S. Pyke; Oklahoma, Mrs. B. McDouga] Oregon, Mrs. Rose G. Schiefflin: Penn- sylvania, Joseph F. Guffey; Tennessee. Cordell Hull; Virginia, Carter Glass; Ex-Officio - Chairman George White, Treasurer W. W. Marsh and Secretary . Hoffman. ready to urge their petition for of the full committee. White Reads Letter From Bryas. Chairman White announced receipt| of a letter from R. C. Roper, David City, Neb., politicil manager for W. J. Bryan, which read: “Who has authority 1o say how or voters first speak their wislies through their township, county, state and na- tional conventions or primaries. “Those who would reorganize. the party should go down to the bgttom— the source of authority—and begin there. There are two fundamental democratic advantages to this method | —it recognizes the supreme authority | of the voters, and the educational ad- vantages of popular discussion is es- pecially important. “We need no West Point or Annapo- 1is to train commanders for our party. Let the national committee set in ac- tion the machinery for the organiza- tion of clubs, for the discussion of public questions; public forums, where | voters may get together and consider public questions vital to their every- day lives. The New England town meeting and the western literary so- ciety—those were institutions where fundamental democracy thrived best. By this method the committee will de- velop real isstes—not sham ones—for the next campaign.” At the outset of his letter Mr. Roper, in effect, protested against any faction | of the party attempting to reorganize the national committee. He maintain- ed that the rank and file of the party alone has this right. Campaiga Debt, $1350,000. Treasurer Marsh reported to the| executive committee that the cost of the 1920 campaign was $1.560,000. Col- lections have been $1,400,000 and the | net indebtedness is approximately $150.000. This, it is confidently ex- pected, will be covered by outstand- | ing pledges and solicitation. The ap- | pointment of a budget committee was | proposed to handle the raising of the | funds covering this indebtedness and 10 provide money for the ordinary ex- penses of the committee for the future. Love Pleads for Meeting. Committeeman Love of Texas wa then recognized to present his pet tion for a meeting of the full com- mittee and addressed the assembly, still deliberating in executive ses- sion, briefly in support of i He was supplemented by Samuel B. | Amidon of Kansas and Miss Archer of Pennsylvania. all in favorof calling the meeting of the full committee. There was some sharp cross qu tioning of Mr. Love by other members of the committee, especially when he raised the doubt of the chairman’s au- thority to appoint the executive com- mittee. At this point. and before taking a vote on granting the petition, the committee Look & recess until 2:30 for luncheon. Bryan Ofters 22 Planks in Reorganizing Program for Democratic Party By the Amsocixted I'ress LINCOLN, Neb. February 17.-—Wn- liam Jennings Lryan, through nis brother, Charics Hryur last nignt fssued @ statement vuuining his sug- mestions for a nationzl legislative Progr: fur the roposed reorgun- ed democr; arty. The program, | containing twenty-two plaoks, is in- | tended to by X wbout a world peacy the pronteer. prevent extrava nd waste in the administ < curb kance im FORDNEY 0 SEE Mail Bandits Get $300,000 Cash In Hold-up of Truck at Toledo By the Associated Press the post office in a big post office TOLEDO, Ohio. February 17.—Five | truck in_charge of Joseph Hughes. 2 < = ail | driver: W. H roy. post office clerk. bandits early today held up a mail | SEFers T B oy D iway postal truck at the main post office and es- caped in an automobile with eleven mail sacks unofficially reported to contain between $300,000 and $400,000 in federal reserve bank notes. Pending a check of the stolen mail, postal officials refused to comment on the value or contents of the stolen mail sacks, six of which were reg- istered . Federal, city and county authorities Wwere making a thorough search of the city and surrounging territory today in an effort to apprehend the bandits and recover the loot. At noon no trace had been found of the bandits. An abandoned automobile. believed by the police to have been used in the hold-up., was found. This ma- <hine had been stolen yesterday in a garage hold-up. _The stolen pouches had arrived from | Cleveland, Buffalo and other eastern points, and from Cincinnati, and are #aid to have ocntained large amounts of money consigned to Tolcdo banks. The pouches were being taken to TENOR'S CONDITION HARDING CONFERS REMAINS CRITICAL, - WITH DAUGHERTY Caruso Sees Son and Gets Takeé Up Problems Which Sympathetic Messages Must Be Solved Before transfer clerk. These men reported to the police that they were pulling up to the post office platform on 1ith street when the bandits alighted from an_automobile, covered them with re- volvers and forced them to throw up their hands. Two of the bandits. they said, mounted the truck just after it had been unlocked and threw the sacks into the waiting automobile. | The bandits then sped away. | “Within a few minutes the police had spread a general alarm. Detec- tives were routed out of bed and formed a searching party on all roads | leading out of the ecity. Ten auto-| mobile” loads of police were still searching at noon and Sheriff Taylor | and a posse were searching the di | trict surrounding the city. Post Office Inspector Diskim ar- rived this morning from Cincinnati to | take charge of the investigation. The platform where the robbery took place was brilliantly lighted. being directly. across the street from the! Toledo Club from which members! were leaving at tke time of the rob- bery. 1 From All Parts. Inauguration. By the Associated Press. ! By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 17.—The con- ST. AUGUSTINE. Fia., February dition of Enrico Caruso, world-famous grand opera singer, continues “unsatis- factory and critical,” according to a statement issued by Dr. Francis J. Murray, one of his attending physi-; cians, shortly after 9:30 o'clock. this | morning. | ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.. February 17. “Caruso’s condition is as unsatisfac- [—Problems of various kinds that tory this morning,” he sald, “as it Was must be solved before inauguration yesterday momning. 1 cannot exprosy (d]flylw’;re talked over by President- o O W ral and we can: |¢lect Harding today with Harry M. not get away from that fact. Daugherty of Ohio, who managed his An official bulletin issued shorfly be-icampaign for the nomination last fore noon by his staff of physiclans 8aid: lspring ang who is expected to sit ing his cabinet as Attorney General. / “Mr. Caruso is still severely -ilL| The final make-up of the cabinet iti- There is no material change is condition for better or for worse. self occupied first place In their coy - sultations, Mr. Daugherty laying ord also reached the newspaper men that the singer l)mihl;allied l:om a second relapse early this morning, |fore his chief a budget of in; i was again very weak.. Twelve land advice nlhere‘: durm:"-mnml:-' tanks of oxygen, it Was learned, were jweek trip to New York. Washing.on sent up to the Caruso apartments dur- fand other eastern citie: ‘The ing the night. Iclblnel Posts not yet virtually/ as- Mr. Caruso’'s sixteen-year-old son. signed are the secretarpships of the Enricd, jr., who was called home from : Navy, Commerce and Labor, but, each school 'at” Culver Military Academy,fof them involves considerations/ mak- Indiana, arrived shortly before 10!ing a choice difficult. 74 o’clock, accompanied by Bruno Zirato,| It was understood that Mr. ;In tenor's 1‘;rivale ;ecrenr)a lhEnflctL. erty also outlined to Mr. r. was crying as he passe rough f what he thou “be {he “Crowda 1n the houel lobby. He | o narhe went immediately to his father's sick- ¢ new admin eral principles of the Inaug. room. The boy forced a gmile, however,| Consideral when he entered his/ father's room. |too, Mr. Caruso was visibly pleased at see- | trip. ing his son and grefte m_ with a Push Slem, abine feeble but cheerful/handclasp. The ® Slemp for Gabinet. interyiew was very! brief, because it |- Mr. Daugherty is one of Mr. Hard- Was feared his sonfs prolonged pres- | Ing's oldest politica) fohonds, and dur- bl Ll L) e R ing the campaign wag ih consultation Mossages of sympathy continued to- | With him more often i day to pour into/the Caruso apart-|Ppolitical adviser. ment fram all par¥s of the world. They | the nominee virtuall: came from Londgn, Paris and Rome, |Daign trips and was) one of his cam: from Havana and Buenos Alires, from | Punions on the housdboat orujse domn every country In which the tenors|the Florida coast, very SN Representative /. Bascom Sl There came.- too, a telegram from | Virginia and T. B Husten mog Joseph P. Tumuity, secretary to Presi- | Sanders of T# denfll wu;zlxln. b:t the _— ;ml lhme Paua p:o11 madé public. -Among callers today | cabinet eppoingmeny wss Mayor Hylan, who left his card.| that are coming t: ‘:lh;h;’rp:-‘llé:?. So many admirers have been col- Some “of the requests have lecting about /the Vanderbilt Hotel, ed_the Commerce secretary. where the singer is confined, that a a fitting award for the south special police: guard had to be sta- | because of the present ovemors son | tioned this morning to keep the crowd | expansion of southern industry. i moving. Telephone operators at the| There also has been talk of Charles | hotel have been working overtime, re- | D. Hilles of New York and arerie] plying to ingulries regarding Caruso's | others. All four of those now. s 1L, condition. Many of these calls came | front of consideration for the I.abnc from fellow-countrymen hardly able | secretaryship, are unisn men. Jimon to speak English. J. Davis is a former steelworker and now a banker. James Duncan has been an official of the Granite Cutters Union and of the American Federa- | tion of Labor. T. V. O'Conner is & ltader of the ‘longshoremen’s union, and Representative John I Nolan is an iron molder by trade. i O’Conner Pays Viait, Particular interest in the labor ap- pointment- was aroused by a visit of | Mr. O'Conner to the President-slect and an announcement later that they would hold another would_hold onference here Among a long list of callers Harding yesterday were. T, Golernen du Pont of Delaware: Arthur Wood former police commiasioner of New York: W. C. Teagle of the Standard 17—Former Gov. Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois has definitely declined te be considered for Secretary of the Navy and wi ot be appointed Yo any post in the initial make-up of the next administration. -al ta on thes ects, | Were gathered during Rl sorory i emp of | Newell | nessee are two of nently mentioned for HARDING ON TARIFF Leaves for St. Augustine to Take Up Plan for New Emergenc: il Oil Company, and a delegation of gency Bifl uding Dr R B Mofag Iekroes, in- Chairman Fordney of the House ways| Institute, who came to ask co-opera. and means committee left today for St.| tion in the movement for interracial | Augustine, Fla. to seek the approval | Narmony.- With Riadioton were Dr. of President-elect Harding to a plan to| Alexander and J. J. Eagan beth of 1 put ‘through at the extra session of the. | adianta: 7.7 Woofter of the Phelps new Congress this spring a second epser- %fi};&; Fund, and Warren Logan of gency tariff to provide protection for all roducts of American industry.* £ P"The measure Mr. Fordney has in| COLNS REPUBLICAN CLUS. mind would be designed as a stoppage until a scientific tarift law could be | Mrs. Harding Accepts Honorary | framed in_th€ light of after-the-war con- 54 Membership in New York. NEW YORK, February l7.-—Mrl.| ditions Ja"the various countries. Warren G. Harding has beocme an Before his departure Mr. Fordney discussed the program with several re- honorary member of the newly form- ed women's republican club here. publican members of his committee, and Was said to have obtained their support of the proposed plan. He was quoted as having declared it impossible to write In a telegram announci ceptance of the honor, the wife ag foe President-elect said: “I am proud to | have been invited to honorany oot the permanent tariff and obtain its e in time to check the usual dump- berstip In your organizatie i I am very sure is going to be ,:"5,‘:‘";'! ing of foreign goods in America in anticipation of enactment of a new tariff ful and effective instrument the propagation of the bost jesls op | law. citizenship and service. I cannot help | { I 1 Committee members said reports had reached them that the dumping already ‘was under Wnyi th Supporters o e proposal said the| feeling that the women c! rates would have to be “guesses” but | going to be able to exercir o %, T | would be based on information gathered | gnd useful influence through amise tlon with and continued interest in the Work of establshin, ganizations.” & party or- jn the tariff hearings just concluded. $500,000 FOR MINISTERS. missions tion of governmental affairs and to restore “people’s rule.” in his statement accompanying the platform, the former Secretary of State says: “The party cannot run | ater that had passed over the atch from Am- the Clifftwood is reported Cliffwood i an America: Shipping Board steanjer of 5,595 tons gross, built at Hogllsland in 191 tled January 3 for Rotterdam 1 ould the permanent rates be lower st those in the emergency Dbill, re- bates would be made to importers, but should the emergency rates be higher than the permanent ones adopted later importers would not be asked to pay the difference, it was said. e Distributed Among Poorly Paid U. S. SHIP SINKING. Workers in Southern Parishes, ey NASHVILLE, Tenn., Februy, 7 Clitwood Collides With British | Rev. W. B. Beauchamp, dlrec‘l‘;yr lgen. ? eral of the centenar: Steamer Off Dutch Coast. mmovement of the Methodist Hnissions LONDON. February 17.—The Amer- | Church South, announced today tnat wan freight steamer Cliffwood has :-'““f&m“‘;‘;‘:‘m‘y’f:”“:‘""’ this” week | : or on, 2 1 collision. with the British | paja ministers serving n sonooriy, | Augustine Abbey, at the | rural, mountain and mission fieldy © o tha river Maax ‘off the| In many instances the salaries of ast, causing iee Cliffwood's | underpaid city mission workers wil, foroliold to’ Aill - water, Lioyda|be increased. shipping agency reports. Virginia, having contributed the money, received the largest check fou her underpaid ministers, with Georg la next. Dr. Beauchamp announced {hat notwithstanding a financial depres. sion in some uections of the south, e great number of pl et from New Or- during the centenary deive aers o ing faithfully fulfilled, ishots were fired, occurred near Aiken | Council of defense ceases all activities WASHINGTON, D./C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 hend 'WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively eatitied to the use for republication of all Dews dispatcies eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news publisiesd heren. All rights of publicatien of special dispatchies herein sre also reserved. 1921-THIRTY PAGES. DEFIENGYBL READYFORSENATE $275,918878 Carried in Measure From Committee on Appropriations. ‘The deficiency appropriation bill, carrying $275.918,878.86, was reported ; %0 the Sena.e from the committee on appropriations today by Chairman Warren. g The Senate committee added to the bill $161,903.95 for the District of Co- lumbla. The total increase in the bill by the Senate committee was $73,383,- 202.14. The increases allowed for the Dis- trict of Columbia follow : Employes’, compensation”funt, 32,000, coroner’s office, §1,700; advertising otices 3 & . £l mping al to pringipals of. school 2, ; matatenance of motor vehicles of rllce department, $1,900; repairs to fire boat, $700; enfércement of laws congerning ‘sale of milk, $400; treat- ment of persons suffering with tuber- culosis, $500; Juvenile Court, $150; th Home for the Aged and Infirm, $5.600. board of children’s guardians, §1.000; | maintenance of feeble-minded chil- dren, $2.500; care of rhildren com- | mitted _to board of children's guard-{ ians, $15,000; hospital for the insane, $100.000; deportation. of non-resident insane, $16,000; judgments, $5,373.95, and drainage of lots, $500. The largest increase allowed by the Senate committee was $65,575,000 for the payment of obligations of the Post Office Department to the United States Railroad Administration for transportation of mails. v The Senate committee decreased the House appropriation by $9,025.000, of Which $8,000,000 was for the naval es- | tablishment. c —_— 50 SHOTS EXCHANGED. DANVILLE, Va., February 17.—A | pitched battle, in which fully fifty ' ~and pu 1 nce: to a2 | | | ! [ Summit, Henry county, Va., yester- ! day, United States Revenue Agents H. B. Crenshaw and J. W. Pugh, on the one side, and one white man and two negroes, caught in the operation of an illicit distillery, were the com- batants. No one was killed, and, sp far as known, none of them seriously injured. The revenue officers found the still in operation, and the moonshiners opened fire, the officers returning th fire vigorously. After a lively ex. change of shots the distillers flea to the woods and effected their escape, Today’s News in Paragraphs Democratic committeemen 13 session here opposed to any change now in national chairmanship. =~ Page 1 The conference report on the District appropriation bill was adopted by the Senate today and the bill goes now to the President. Page 1 Caruso's condition still &ritical and un- satisfactory. Page 1 today. Page 1 reasury ready to laynch hospital ex- pansion for veterans. Page 1 Harding and Daugherty take up . pre- “ jnauguration problems. Paj Two young woman teachers found beaten to death inj road. Page 1 Sleeping sickness cases offer no cause ! for alarm says official. Page 1] Rall workers ask postponement_before | labor board. p Page 2 Senate passes tarift bill; conferees to Tush action on; amendments. Page 2 tion of mandates interwoven with QY eeie over dimposition of cables, Page '3 ith elghteen passengers fells tree Cgh:n track ‘is jumped at F and Sth streets. Page 4 Southwest cjtizens take up meat in- spection. | Page 5 Masked banflits slay two at card: table in hotel parlor. Page § Federal unibns take up plan to establish sublocalsj Page 7 orge S. Viereck takes plea for Ger- Gty 16 Harding. o 7 4 plot; against Britain bared; other Reomd hews by cable. Page 5 missioner Williams warned four OO eRien Seized for violating the law they must “clean house” if they ex- pectdd to resume business. Page 10 Federil clerks send suggestions on re- classification. Page 12 Germany asked for counter proposals ‘on eparations. Page 17 Board of education approves thirty-three new text books Page 17 Chevy Chase citizens approve drastic law on sale of firearms. Page 17 Woman witness at Matewan trial clarges threats. Page 17 Mrs Marie Moore Forrest appointed di- rector of community service, Page 30 BULGARIAN PREMIER LEADS FIGHT ON REDS IN SMALL COUNTRIES By Cable to Thie Star and Chicago Daily News. Copsright, SOFIA, Bulgarla, Februapy 17.— Premier Stambouliski a few days 4go ordered ralds against the communist clubs and lecture rooms, which are now in the hands of the police. When the premier returned from his trip to France and Kngland he said in a public speech that if the com- munists continued to look ~to Lenin for their instructions he would apply Lenin’s principles and send thenr to fight his battles for bolshevist world reform. The communists were informed by the authorities that, according to communiat principles, all property should be shared in common and that therefore the government would appropriate their meeting rooms for the benefit of the pub- lic. It is belleved that the Polish, Rumanian and Bulgarian nreml'u;: t e ‘né&efigfi{l = mania and Czechoslovakia. Rumania several bolsheviki were killed in an encounter with the police. TEACHERS BEATEN T0 DEATH IN ROAD Bodies of Two Women Found Lying on Highway by School Children. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 17.— Miss, Louise Wolf and Miss Mabel Foote, two school teachers at the. Parma High School, were beaten te death in a road in Parma Heights, viear here, early today. They were last seen leaving the school building late yesterday after- noon. A bloody stick of timber was found near the bodies. Children on their way to school this | two mu!llflledi morning found the ‘bodies lying in the roadway. Part of the women’s clothing had been torn from their bodies and there were signs of a desperate struggle in the snow. Police believe the teachers were on their way to board a trolley car for home when killed. No Cries for Heélp Heard. There are no houses in the imme- diate vicinity of the spot where the bodies were found and no one in the neighborhood heard cries for help. Autharities mnotified Sheriff Stanv nard and a squad of deputies hurried to the scene, but were unable to find any clue to the identity of the mur- derer or murderers. Miss Wolf, who was thirty-seven years old, was the principal of the high school, teaching there the past three years. Nliss Foote was the only other teacher In the high school. She was twenty-four years old. An hour after the bodies were found a poste of farmers was searching the neighborhood in the vicinity for two roughly dressed men seen hurrying along a road shortly before cark last evening. Tracks leading toward a dense wood were being followed at noon, The women's rings were not taken, although a suit case they carried was torn open. REPUBLICANS TO CAUCUS. lAll .of Some Eighty New House Members Expected Here Feb. 28. Decision to call a caucus of the re- publican membership of the next House for February 28 was reached at a conference last night of repub- lican representatives. All of the ap- proximately eighty republicans who will take their seats at the coming special session will be expected to come to Washington for the caucus, at which a Speaker and a floor leader will be selected. The prediction was Eeneral tonight that Speaker Gillett and Representative Mondell, the re- Dpublican leader, would be renamed. The legislative program for the re- mainder of the present session was not discussed at tonight's conference. L HARTMAN QUITS FORD CO. DETROIT, Mich., February 17.—Hu- bert E. Hartman, assistant seeretary and general attorney for the Ford Motor Company, today announced his resignation, effective March 15. He gave as his reason, a desire to enter business for himself, adding that he expected to continue to handle some of the company’'s affairs. Mr. Hart- man has been with the Ford company seven years ; % -{ activity the DEFENSE COUNCIL' CAREER IS ENDED |War Advisory Body Fails to Get Appropriation From Congress. The Council of National Defense, the jPrimary advisory body of the nation i during the war, will go out of existence ;at the end of the current fiscal year. it was announced today. | Immediate abandonment of research { Werk was announeed, on account of fail- {ure of Congress to appropriaté for its | support during the next fiscal year. Thig { has’ been viztually the primary work of' ; the, body. since shortly ufter the armi- remaining between the bpd ‘o’ te fiscal will be taken up in ¢losing the affairs of the council. ¥ 4 At one time during the height of war rolls of the council con- tained the names of more than 1,500 { employes. That , number dwindled to i forty-three aftey the armistice. The | death of the research division marks the semi-final cut. On account of lack of appropria- tions, a_ statement issued by Acting Director Emmons K. Ellsworth said, “it is considered that the interest of the government will be best served {by discontinuing at once the research work of the council.” The daily in- formation digest, distributed as a part of the research work, ended with to- day’'s issue. The council was the bureau to which the leading “dollar-a-year men” of the country were drafted. The advisory council acted upon znd vi tually instituted several of the grea est war moves during the world co: flict. For more than a year, how- ever, research work along lines of reconstruction from war to peace time has formed the principal function of the bureau. GIRL SHOT IN DOG CASE. Miss Frances Holland Killed at Norfolk by Thomas Toyon. NORFOLK, Va., February 17.—Miss Frances Holland, a well known young woman, was shof and fatally wounded as she emerged from police court to- day. She died half an hour later. Thomas Toyon, a local merchant, who shot her, turned the gun on him- self, inflicting wounds that may cause | his'death. He is in a precarious con- dition. A police court trial over a dog is believed to have been -the cause of the shooting. The shooting took place immediately outside the courtroom. Many persons on the ;t!"ee! at the time witnessed the af- air. Miss Frances Holland was arrested on a charge preferred by Toyon of stealing a bulldog from him. She was given a hearing, where she was ,dismissed. As she left the courtroom Toyon awaited her on the sidewalk 3,000 IN Murderer Taken From Jail and Killed Near Scene of Crime. ATHENS. Ga., February 17.—John Lee Eberhardt, a young negro ar- rested today as the murderer of Mrs. Walter E. Lee, wife of an Oconee county farmer, was taken from jals here last night by a mob estimated at 3,000 persons and burned to death near | the scene of the crime. Sees Russia a Monarchy And Later There is hope in the near future, of a constitutional monarchy and later a democracy in Russia, John Hays Ham- mond declared today before the House foreign affairs committee. Mr. Hammond, who several times was called to Russia by the old government to investigate natural resources, said with “the Prussian pressure” ®n Russia removed “the pyramid” built up by the bolsheviki would fall and then the “sane people” would be able to organize a better government. - “[ don’t think Russia will go back to ! czar rule, and 1 hope not.” said he. The situation with respect to de- |\'elopmenl of trade with Russia in the very near future was described by Mr. Hammond as hopeless. “I see nothing that would justify this it counting on any considerable g?l‘:rngs." he asserted. “Russia has nothing to sell, Russian industry is paralyzed.” Mr. Hammond told the committee that the bolsheviki had spent so much —.__'gold for propaganda in other coun- and opened fire as he came up to her. | MOB BURN NEGRO | le { with Japan's. ambitions in the far TWO CENTS. GREATERHOSPITAL PROGRAM FOR WAR HEROES PREPARED 1 PROTECTION OF LAWS OF DISTRICT BRINGING FLOCKS OF DUCKS HERE The appearance over the eity of large flocks of ducks in the past week is due more to the enforce- ment of the new bird law of the District than to what is considered by many as a harbinger of early spring. according to Dr. William Palmer, ornithologist of the Smith- sonian Institution. i Dr. Palmer id that since the i mer gaid nat, smce e | Treasury Ready to Launch was prohibited by law. the birds return early to the river to feed, and that the longer protection is assured them the greater will be the number to return each year. “In the old days, when the ducks ere not shot, thousands and thou- sands of them could be scen feed- ing on the river around George- town, but when hunters began to o after them they gradually stop ped congregating in this localit said Dr. Palmer. “The freezing of the river usually drives them south, but as that did not occur this year it is nothing $18,000,000 Project When Funds Are Provided. {COMPLETED WORK WILL | GIVE 30,000 TREATMENT iExpamion of Existing Public | Health Service Hospitals and Army Forts in Use Included. Preparations by the Treasury are under way, Assistant Secretary La | Porte said today, to launch the pro- Posed eighteen-million-dollar hospital- | ization-expansion program for the jbenefit of disabled war veterans im« mediately the funds are made avails able by Congress. Proceeding on the plan now before the Senate for adoption. Mr. La Porte explained, the Treasury is making ready for the expansion of fifteen ex- isting hospitals and the erection of five new plants, in order that the work |may start on short motice. Comple~ { tion of the program, he said. would provide accommodation for treatment | of about 30,000 patients, which is the | average daily number expected during | the coming year. At present, Mr. La Porte said, the government has about 10,000 beds of |its own for the treatment of service men, 12,000 more are cared for in pri- vate hospitals and an addition of 8,000 beds to the existing federal facilities | is planned. Selection of Sites. The five new hospitals, Mr. La Porte explained, will cost about $2.500.000 each and three of -them will con 1,000 beds each, if the present plan I carried out. Consideration now - is being given to the choice of sites for these institutions, he said, wi | means a careful study of the facilities in various localities and their loca- [tiom™as to centers of population for { disabled veterans. ¥ Expansion of existing public health service hospitals and Army forts n used for that purpose and increases | medica) personnel, Mr. La Porte said, would absorb the rest of the funds now contemplated. These hospitals, he said, are located at Boston, New York, Perryville, Md.; Norfolk, Whip- {ple acks, Ariz.; Chi lcn more than natural that the birds procure their fee 1f the Potomac 2 uld not leave to y, 1 rts will be made, Mr. La Porte o - St tated. the return early he continued. not freeze th this locality TS e 2 i Adopts Conference Report on Measure, Which Now Goes to President. The finishing touches were given the District appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1922 by Congress today, : when the Senate, after a brief dis- | cussion adopted the conference re- iport on the measure. i The bill will now go to the Presi- ’delll for his approval. H Needed School Buildings. | senator curtis of Kansas, who has | had charge of the District bill in the [ Senate. announced that it was his ! purpose to obtain from the school | authorities a report as to the cosl jof school buildings erected in other cities, and with those facts in hand and with estimates from the District | Commissioners, at the extra session of Congress soon ta be called, he would seek to have legislation enact- led appropriating . for new _school ; buildings 80 much needxd in the Dis- ; trict. i The Kansas senator made this state- | | ment in reply to questions by Senator | Harrison of Mississippl, who directed attention to the fact that the provisions !inserted by the Senate for the pur- chase of sites for new. school build- ings had been stricken out in confer- ence. Senator - Harrison, who. has -argud vigerously for adequate school facilities in the District, said that he : hoped provision would 'be made for them in the éxtra session of the new i Congress. "He expressed regret that e Senate amendment ing for a h & busineds manager of the public |, Although new hospitals {schools had been lost, as well as in- | 0¥ the public health service fo . i creases allowed some of the janitors. | Carf, Of Patients now in com Community Centers. | entirely _suitable _for h The only other provision of the con- | puses, Surgeon General ings i ference report that provoked discus- | 8aid today that ex-service men en- | sion today was that relating to the |titled to treatment had never been~ {community forums in the public | turned away by the government, and schools. The House amended the Sen- | that those in need of immediate at- ate amendment so as to appropriate | tention were always placed under $35,000 to be paid wholly out of the |the care of a physician while the rovenues of the District instead of on | question of their eligibility for treat- the 60-40 plan followed for other items | Ment was being investigated. . of the bill. The Senate amendment 7The departmental regulations de- confined the use of the money appro- | fine the term “patients of the bureau priated to educational purposes. The |Of War risk insurance” as any sick Dances Will Be Eliminated. | and they remain in the public health Senator Curtis said, however, he| service care until claims have been i had been assured by those who have|disallowed or until they are dis- charge of the community forum und|charged as cured. civic center work' that the moncy! Starting with approximately 100 would be used only for educational| physicians and less than a dozen purposes and athletics. He said he|nurses on March 3, 1919, the date on had been assured the dances and other| which the act was approved giving it features to which objection had been | charge of the war risk bureau pa- raised would not be continued in these| tients, the public health service has clvie centers conducted in the puotic| expanded until it now has 2.733 phy school buildings. ving all or part of their Senator King of Utah said he ro-| o, §iu Work, of which more than gretted that the Senate conferees had|; 400 are commissioned officers of the Jielded on this amendment, but with|goryice, while an additional mumber the assurance given by Senator Curiis %500 physicians is reglstersd. % that there would be no continuation of [ f 2500 phy: examiners on a fee basis and the force the dances, etc. he would not uppose the adoption of the conference repor:. :lo nurses and dietitians is well over [COUNTY’S OLDEST WOMAN. Mrs. Jane Hobbs Dies at Age of 82 in Culpeper. 1 Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va. February 13. Mrs. Jane Hobbs. who was shown by the recent census to be the oldest woman in Culpeper county, died at her home here, in_ her ninety-third i vear. Funeral services were at Ebe- | { nezer Methodist Chapel. and inter- {ment in the Kilby family burying ground. on the Madison road. She is survived by her husband, James D. Hobbs; one daughter, Mrs. John White; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was Miss Jane Green of Sussex county. 'We are now treating between 2! 000 and 26,000 patients.” said one of ice today. work we have had a total of more {than 150,000 hospital cases, and of | that number less than 1 per cent have | had cause to complain of their treal- ment. But every complaint that has | been made has been investigated, and {'of the total number thus taken up, about 5 per cent have been found to be justified.” Contract Honpital Casen. Forty per cent of the patients are now in contract hospitals, which are | institutions having no direct rela tion to the federal government, but: where war risk patients are treated’ {and for whom the law authorizes the | payment of $3 a day each. Officials | said today that about three-fourths of COAL INDUSTRY CONTROL. |the compiaints of poor trestmen trom the men come from such hospitals. although the most of them were well Senator Gay Opposes Drastic Fed- eral Regulation. conducted. | “““Among the contract hospitals Sweeping and drastic federal regu- lation of the coal industry at thi where we have patients are the Penn- ‘lvania Hospital in Philadelphia. the Providence and Garfleld hospitals in time is unjustified, Senator Gay. dem. | Washington and the big new hospital ocrat, Louisiana, said in a minority Teport filed today, and based on the Calder committee's investigation of in Cincinnati said Dr. Cumming. that industry. The majority members “There is no question but that our pa- - Itients in any of those places receive of the committee brought forward the pending coal regulation measure. the t of care. But where it is nec- essary for us to put men in small hos- pitals in some parts of Texas. or in the northwest. or other sparsely set- tled districts they are not always so ate. h,‘r‘tl‘l’ll“nm:h places we make every ef- fort to get the best possible treat- ment for our patients, and the num- ber in unsatisfactory institutions forms a very small per cent ol i wr"‘%‘lee. are now adding from 1,000 to 11,200 beds a month to our own hos-. {pital facilities, which means that we are equipping What amounts to a 250- - bed hospital every week, and provid-- ing the full complement of physicians, { nurses, dieticians and other personnel. {MUn these places we give the men every possible attention, and the food is better than that of the average civilian hospital, for we operate on 3 larger scale and have a definite stand- ard to reach.” % Effect of Criticiums. Criticisms which hawe been direct~ od against the treatnfent of former service men have had a very serious effect on those for whom the govern- ment is trying to do its utmost, said« - Dr. Cumming. Of the hundreds who . - are applying every month for tremt-. ment, many have neglected tielr dition until they are now. Asked why they a Democracy tries that he did not believe it now had as much for trade purposes as was. generally believed. Discussing the possibilities of ex- pansion of Japanese activities in Si. beria, Mr. Hammond said Japan should have an outlet for its population and trade. He advocated sale by Russia to Japan of a tract in Siberia about the size of California. This territory iis rich in iron and coal. badly needed by Japan, he added. and is climatically titted for colonization. Money Russia would receive for this tract, the committee was told, could | be used to construct a railroad from : Lake Baikal to some seaport in the ! vicinity of Peking. Such a road, he added, would aid materially in the A | ” the witness continued, “but she probably has overplayed her hand a bit in an effort to get a grip on main- land markets. Japan, however, never will dare to use military force to keep other nations out of that territory.” ply_to the government, Continu