Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1921, Page 1

- WEATHER. Rain this aftérnoon, followed by fair and colder tonight and tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 49, at 2 p.m. today; Jowest, 31, at 1 a.m. today. Full report-on page 2. * Closing New York Stocks, Page 22. The Fnening Member of the Associated Press The Asoclated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwis credited in this paper and also the local news published herela, All rights of publication of special faf. @ispatches Derein are alse reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 76,664 No. 28,059. HARDING DEVOTIN TIME T0 ADDRESS AND APPOINTMENTS Only Few Formalities Remain to Close Up Cabinet Selection. AWAITING ACCEPTANCE FROM THREE CHOSEN Hoover Expected to Accept, But Still Declines to Make Known - His Attitude. By the Associated Press. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., February 23. ~—With only a few formalities remain- ing to finally close up the selection of his cabinet, President-elect Harding gave his attention today to other im- amediate appointments and to the prep- @&ration of his inaugural address. The chance that changes will be snade now in. the cabinet personnel is ronsidered remote, although Mr. Hard- 4ng realiges that contingencies re- quiring last-minute shifts are easily within the range of possibility. Formal invitations and acceptances have not yet been exchanged in regard %o three of the ten places, but the at- titude of all the men selected has been Zelt out indirectly. Three Still te Reply. The three from whom formal accept- mnces are still to come are Edwin Den- &y of Michigan, Herbert Hoover of -California and J. J. Davis of Penn- sylvania, slated, respectively, for the los of Navy, Commerce and La- There have been published reports that Mr. Hoover might decline, but they manifestly are not credited by Mr. Harding and his advisers. Another selection understood to have ‘been loenl;d oal:ount of ng'u?' Christian, jr.. gsecretary e President. Mr. Christian has been Mr. Harding’s private secretary since he entered the Senate six years ago, and although there has been no formal an- nouncement every indication has point- ed to his retention. | Neighbors for Years. Mr. Christian is forty-seven years old, and has been a neighbor of the Hardings’ in Marion for years. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Military College, with the degree of civil en- gineer, and before he became secretary to Mr. Harding was general manager of a Marion lime and stone company. He has a wide official acquaintance gained during his six years in the Na- tional Capital and in the course of his confidential relations with Mr. Harding during the 1920 campaign. . Mokt Probably Will Make No NEW YORK, February 23.—Herbert B attitode toward. the Insitation by s att in n President-elect Harding to b:::me the next Secretary of Commerce, tendered to him last night by telephone from St. Augustine. It was indicated at his office that he would have no state- :ent to make for at least twenty-Your urs. G;il; to St. Augustine to Confer With Harding. | DETROIT, February 23. — win Denby. President-elect Harding’s se: lection for Secretary of the Navy, left here early today for St. Augustine, Fia.. to confer with Mr. Harding. Mr. | Denby was in telephone communica. tion with Mr. Harding last night, ‘when the conference was agreed upon. Asked if he planned to accept the sec- retaryship, should it be formally ten- dered him, he indicated that he would. CITIZENS WANT REDUCED 'i D. C. STREET CAR FARES ‘Will Petition for Five Cents Straight, Capital Traction; Four Tokens for Quarter, W. B. & E. A S-cent fare for the Capital Traction Company and a reduced rate of four tokens for 25 cents for the Washington Raflway and Eleetric Company after April 1, will be the petition of the citi- v b i zens' associations, William McK. Clay- | ton, in charge of utility questions for the Federation of Citizens' Associations, predicted today. Mr. Clayton sald that as soon as the street car companies file their petitions with the Public Utilities Comm on h will call a conference of the utility com- mittees of all the associations to decide (GOMPERS QUTLINES Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. G | PRESIDENT NOT TO RIDE TO CAPITOL WITH HARDING President-Elect Will Arrive About 24 Hours Before Inauguration and Is Expected to Call at the White House March 3. Special Dispateh to The Star. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., February 23. —While the cabinet awaits final de- cision President-elect Harding has de- termined upon the details of the inauguaration at Washington on March 4. The customary ride of the President and President-elect will be dispensed with. Mr. Harding will go to the Capitol just in time to be sworn in at noon. President Wilson will have gone there some time earlier in the day to sign the bills of the dying Congress and thus to make them into law. It would seem from present indica- tions that the outgoing President of the United States will cut less of a figure in the inauguration of his suc- cessor than ever before in the history of the United States. .This is not due to any design on the part of Senator Harding, but inasmuch as virtually all of the inaugural customs are to g0 by the boards this year it would seem that President Wilson after he signs bills in the marble room of the Senate, will fade completely out of the picture. 5 Likes Simplieity in Ceremony. Mr. Harding declares that the more he contemplates the simple in- augural ceremony which is in store for him the more he likes the idea. At first it was designed that the in- auguration of March 4 should be the most memorable in the history of the present generation, but Mr. Hard- ing put an end to this idea when he declared he did not think it becoring a time when 80 many people were out of employment that there should be a lavish show in Washington. With the cancellation of the regular inaugural program there is every indication that the ceremony of next Friday week will want nothing in Jeffer- sonian_simplicity. Mr. Hardigg will arrive in Wash. ington the forenoon of March 3, just about twenty-four hours before he is to be sworn in as chief magistrate of the nation. He will make his head- quarters at the New Willard Hotel, and it will be from that hosteiry, jus’ before. noon, March 4, he will make his_way to the Capitol to take the oath of office. Expected to Call at White House. While no arrangements have been made.to that end, ft is the general supposition that Mr. Harding, on the afternoon of the 3d of March, will call at the White House and pay his respects to President Wilson. He may spend some little time in consulta- VITAL UNION ISSUES ; ‘200 Delegates at! Opening of Labor Confer- , ence Here. * Issues of the “most’.serious charac- ter affecting our people and our repub- lic” are faced by organifed labor, Sam- uel Gompers, president of the American Federation of’ Labor. declared here to- day. in a statement at the opening of the extraordinary conference of repre- sentatives of national and international unions, deal with these issues,” he said, “but it is certain that the thought standards and freedom of our people.” The issues “in the main are known to all, though not understood by said Mr. Gompers, adding that guarding of our free things may be attacked, wheth tacks are made by plutocra! or by the insidious propaganda of Euro- pean insanity. Issues Are Outlined. % In opening the conference Mr. Gom- pers n’:llllned the issues before it an submitted the recommendations o the executive council, which, it was stated, will not be made public until they have been acted 4 upon. FAttending the conference were morc than 200 representatives of organized {1abor from over the country. {71t is expected that the executive council will lay before the assembled {nternational union representativcs a pian for an_educational drive alons “union shop” lines, to offset “open- | shop™ publicity. The funds needed for uch a campaign will be necessary only to cover the expenses of com- ducting a central office for dissemina- ion of literature and possibly for di- rection of a corps of speakers. definitely what the citizens will contend for at the hearing. e FRENCH WARSHIPS FIRE ON REDS IN BLACK SEA Bolsheviki Said to Have Suffered Heavily From Bombardment by Destroyers. By the Assoriated Press CONSTANTINOPLE, February 22 French destroyers cruising along the Western coast of the black sea have been engaged with soviet force at Gagry. a' town fifteen miles north- west of Sukhun-kale. ports her. state that the b heviki suffered heavily from the fire of the French warship: Tiflis appears to be still in the hands of the Georgians, who have, however, suffered quite heavy losses. Dispatches received in this city state that the advance of the eleventh so- viet army against Tiflis has been dis avowed by the bolsheviki government | in Mosco STORM WARNINGS ISSUED. NEW YORK, February 23.—Warning of more storms along the Atlantic coast issued today by the weather bureau. A northwest disturbance from ew York to Norfolk, Va., was pre- dicted, and a southwest storm from Bridgeport, Conn.. to Eastport, Me. The warnings, given out at 9:30 a.m., ‘said the storm centered over Lake Huron “will move rapidly eastwa#rd, attended by southwest shifting to west and northwest gales today and to- night.” EX-SPEAKER CLARK ILL. Representative Champ Clark, demo- cratic leader of the House, is ill with @ cold at his home here, but it was said today his condition was not serious. It was intimated that the expendi- ture for such would not reazn a very | nigh figure. 3 | Objects of Gathering Stated. The purpose of calling the execu- tive heads and representatives of.the affiliated internationals to this city, it Was explained, was to present to them the program outlined by the executive council and to obtain their approval for the campaign. "This act alone, it is claimed, demon- importance and signifi- | cance attached to the campaign. Al- though the executive council has | power to map out industrial battles | for labor and to put them into exe- cution, provided that the expense in- | curred can be extracted from funds | & hand, it is outside the council’ ! jurisdiction to raise funds for a big | campaign without the approval of the | annual convention. Therefore any “anti-open shop™ fund would not be provided by the American Yederation of Labor. as such, it was | stated, but by the big international | unions who will reap the greatest | benefit from a successful campaign of such a type. ! Informal Conferences He | Corridors and anterooms at the | Feaeration building today were filled | with informal conferences taken part in by nationally recognized heads in | various lines of organized labor's | torces. Survey | { i | strates the of industrial conditions | throughout the country was being taken by labor lcaders. “Productioi is less than 60 per cent normal raid John L. Lewlis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. “The coal mining industry has been especially hard hit. We have 100,000 men who have not done any work since the first of the year. The min- ers that are working are only get- | ting two to three days a week" Michael Tighe, president of the Amalgamated _Association of Ironm, Steel and Tin Workers, and the lead er of 'the committee for the reor- ganization campaign amonk ateel workers, said he had never sean con- ditions ‘so bad, but added that he belleved the worst will :;1“ be over, as some of the mills starting. R 1 “It is not possible to forecast the! | manner in which the conference will will be for the benefit of our cduntry | nd for the advancement of the interests, ; i | White Houge. 1 {HENDRICK’S PAY OMITTED expressed | H1Ombill have submitted a report to their IL” | by the conferees on the part of the ‘our | House, ai concern is for the democratic institu- | thorizing the accounting officers of the tions of our country and for the safe-|District to pay to Commissioner Hen- dom wherever those drick his salary as Commissioner from hether the at- | his entry into office up to and including c reaction | March 4 was stricken out. d 13150 for the Juvenile Court and $15,000 | details of | mitted to i loner's office, $18,000 for the sewage | i WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. tion with the outgoing chief execu- | tive, just as President Wilson spent an hour or two with President Taft on the eve of March 4, 1913. | President-elect Harding is desirous | of doing the seemly thing in connec tion with the inauguration. It is per- fectly true that he and President Wil- son, ‘perhaps are not on as friendly | terms as were Mr. Taft and Mr. Wi son, but Mr. Harding is not a man to harbor resentments or prejudices and it will be his inclination, if not his ac: complishment, to call upon Mr. Wil- | son and to discuss matters freely with ! him. A great deal of this part of the program will depend upon Mr. Wilson | himself. Mr. Harding feels it will be too much of a show for him'to go to the White House merely for the pur- pose of riding down Pennsylvania | avenue to the Capitol to the plaudits of the multitude which may be gather- ed along that historic thoroughfare. He prefers the unostentatious role of | getting in a hired automobile and driving directly to the Capitol and, after completing his brief inaugural address, to drive directly back to thel Staset Car Idea Impossible. Mr. Harding said a long time ago that if he could have Fis way about| it he would appear suddenly at the Capitol, take the oath of office and ride bacik to the White House in a street car. The street car part of the program is impossible. One or two of the White House automobiles un- doubtedly will be placed at his dis- posal the moment he appears in Washington, and it may be he will make use of trese vehicles. Mr. Harding is a very plain citizen, and he likes plain affairs. He would rather have a few of his intimate friends about him on inauguration | day than a host of strange admirers and truculent well wishers. Accord- | ing to present plans, a large number of Marion home folks will be in Washington March 4, and if there are any ceremonies at the White House | that day at all they will include the ! Marion folk. President-elect Harding has done his utmost to discourage the | attendance at the inauguration of any | marchjng clubs or . organizations of i any kind. He says he will positively refuse to review a parade, no matter how impromptu it may appea The luncheon which he has asked shall be prepared for him at the White House will be confined entirely to his own family. Taken altogether, the inaugu- ration of 1921 promises to set an en- tirely new record in quietness and simplicity (Copyright, 1921.) D. C. BILL CARRYING $19,200,000 SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT President Wilson today signed the District appropriation bill providing 419,200,000 for salariés and current expenses and for street and other re- pair work In the Nationdl Capita} for the next fiscal year. Officials of the District, when they learned the bill had been signed, said that it was the earliest. date om record for the final passage and signing of a Dis- trict. appropriation bill. FROM DEFICIENCY BILL Conferees Report Partial Agru«] ment on the Measure Contain- h:g Many D. C. Items. The conferees of the Senate and House on the first deficiency appropria- respective houses showing a partial | agreement upon the bill. Most of the Senate amendments for | the District of Columbia were agreed to | although the amendment { 1 More than a score of Senate amend- ments were still in dispute, according to the conferees, including three for the District of Columbia—$2,200 for | dvertising notice of taxes in arrears, | for board and care of children com- the guardianship of the board of children’s guardians. The conferees agreed to the follow- | ing Senate amendments for the Dis. trict: $2,000 for the District employes’ compensation fund, $1,700 for the cor- pumping station, $2,980 for allowance to principals of public schools, $1,900 for the police department, $700 for the fire- department, $500 for the health department, $400 for enforcement of act regulating sale of milk and $500 for maintenance of dispensaries for tubercular patients. —_— MADE KING’S COUNSEL. Robert N. Crane Is First American to Hold Position. LONDON, February — Robert ewton Crane, an international law- yer of long residence in Londo; a member of the English barnsli':.“: 1894, is the first American to become a king’'s counsel. 29 Mr. Crane was born in New Jersey in 1848. He was educated at Wes. leyan University, Middletown, Conn. ' Trying to Pull By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Febru- ary 23.—Junior Lieut. E. B. Kern of Washington, D. C. In company with Ensign D. R. Curry of Providence, R I, both belonging to the American destroyer Barker, came near being killed on the evening of February 5 as the result of an attempt to pull down the red flag from the bolshevist consulate in Tiflis. They were rescued and placed in jail by the Georgian police until released two days later through the efforts of the American consul, Charles K. Moser. When Lieut. Kern made the attempt he was stopped by the bolshe- vist guards with cocked revolvers, and they would probably have shot him had not Ensign Curry persuaded them to desist until the arrival of the Georglan police. The Georgian foreign office is much worried over this attack on extra- territorial diplomatic property under its protection, but after Consul Moser's efforts declared the incident closed. The naval officers were turned over ¥ S ] occur in the single comduit which i this {ARMY BILL AS AMENDED READY FOR THE SENATE |: 1 $3,800,000° for the air service and $1,- D. C. Naval Officer Near Death | PLEA FOR $200,00 IN ARMY BILL FOR NEW CONDUIT FALS Military Committee Rules D. C. Water Supply Amend- ment Has No Place in Act. | WOULD BACK PROPOSAL IN ANOTHER MEASURE | Point of Order and Not Lack of Merit Blocks Action—Plan to Be Pushed Further. An effort to have an amendment in- serted in the Army appropriation bill providing $200,000 to start work on a new conduit to increase the water supply of the District of Columbia proved unavailing today. Senator Sutherland of West Virginia took the matter up with the commit- tee, speaking in favor of the proposal. Other members of the committee, how- ever, were of the opinion that the proposed appropriation properly should be handled by the Senate appropria- ons committee and that it had no place in the Army bill. Admit Merit in Scheme. The senators who opposed the in- clusion of this item in the Army bill did not oppose the item on its merits. In fact, it is understood that they will support the proposal if presented in_another measure. The Senate committee reported the Army bill to the Senate today. While an amendment providing the money for a new condwit might be oitercd on tte floor of the Senate when the Army bill is taken up, it would be subject to a point of order, it was said, and also might lead to a con- test which the committee is anxious to avoid. Urge New Conduit Claims. Representative Iman of Mary- land and Francis R. Weller, chairman of the water supply committee of the Board of Trade, yesterday inter- viewed members of the Senate mili- tary affairs committee and urged in- clusion in the Army bill of an item for starting work immediately on a new conduit for increasing the Dis- trict’s water supply. In addition to Mr. Zihlman, Repre- sentative R. Walton Moore of Virginia has been active in bringing to the at- tention of members of Congress the seriousness of the water situation. Coming from states that border the Distriet, Representatives Zihlman and Moore have made independent and ex- hustive inveetigations of the actual conditions underlying the supplying of water to the National Capital, and are . convinced that should a break brings the water from Great Falls, Washington would face a real ca- 1gmity._ Will Keep Un Congress Plea. If action is fiot -had at this session of Congress on Secretary of War| Baker's recommendation for an initial appropriation of $200.000 with which to commence work on a new conduit, Mr. Zihlman and Mr. Moore will re. vive the proposal at the extra session of Congress in April and endeavor to ®et through an appropriation in time to permit the beginning of work in the summer. Tomorrow night, at a meeting to. by held in the New Willard Hotel, the Board of Trade will make probably its final plea to Congress for action at session on the water supply project. Congressman Moore will be one of the speakers. The water supply committee of the board will_make a report through Chairman Weller. The committee, it is understood, will terminate its re- port with the ‘statement that “there is no matter now before the citizens of Washington that is so vital to the health and prosperity of our citizens as this water project.” Committee Approves Measure! Which Carries a Total Appro- priation of $362,214,800. The Army appropriation bill. as amended by a Senate military sub- committee to provide for an average regular Army of 175,000 men next year, was approved today by the full| committee and ordered reported to the Senate. The measure carries a total of $362,- 214,800, an increase of more than $31,000,000 over the House total. Increases in appropriations includ- ed $4,765,000 for the National Guard, 500,000 for vocational training. The only considerable decrease in any House item was $1,250,000 for the ordnance bureau. WHISKY STAMPS SEIZED. Officers Raid Electrically Equipped Counterfeitering Plant. NEW YORK, February 23.—Sev- enty-seven thousand strip stamps, for use on whisky bottles, besides thou- sands of case stamps, were seized yesterday by secret service operatives in a raid on an electrically equipped counterfeiting plant on Oliver street. Three perSons were arrested and an- other detained as a witness. i i Down Red Flag to the commander of the Barker at | Batum, and it is expected that they will | have to stand trial by court-martial. Kern Here Eight Months Ago. Evérett B. Kern, lieutenant junior grade, U. S. N. son of Charle Kern, an attorney, 1328 Harvard n'refé northwest, has been in the Navy since his graduation from Annapolis in June 1915. He was born in Washington and attended Central High School. re- ceiving an appointment to the Naval Academy from North Dakota in June, During the war he served on de- stroyers off the French coast, and following the armistice he was sta- tioned in Paris for several months, He was in Washington about eight months ago, and left here for Con- stantinople, where he has been on duty, since, aboard the U. 8. 8. Scor- vion, a gunhoat. The Navy Department has received no word of the incident mentioned in the Constantinople dispatch. Charles E. [ern, Lieut. Kern's father, was foi employed on The fifteen yea Evening Star BAN ONGUNTOTING 1S WIDELY UPHELD Practice Called Indictment of Civilization by Member of D. C. Committee. Great stimulus was gjven today to the campaign of local civic bodies, supported by The Star, for a stringent law against firearm toting in the trict of Columbia. Chairman Mapes pf the House Dis- trict committee said “there ought to be @ strict law covering the sale and carrying of dangerous weapons.” Representative Walters of Penn- sylvania, & majority member of the Housé District - committee, said: "L favor a mpst Grastic law’ to ‘punish those who carry guns, and with the strictest sort of limitation on per- mits. Gun toting is the most vicious and ridiculous tustom 1 know. Called Vielous Custom. Hepresentative .Frank Murphy of Ohlo, republican member of the House District. committee, said: “I am de- cldedly against gun toting. All citi- zens who believe in observing txe law, all ‘men of standing and intelli- genoe, have no need to-carry deadly weapons. Washington of all places ought to do away with such a victous custom. The use of guns by private eitizens in the National Capital is an indictment against our civjlization.” Commissioner J./Thilman Hendrick, chairman of the board of Commission- ers, came out in'favor of a more stringent law to govern the sale and possession of firearms in Washing- ton. The Commissioner said he is heartily in sympathy with the move- ment of trade bodies and other or- ganizations to put a check on the in- discriminate sale of pistols. Mr.” Hendrick has not had an op- portunity during the few months he has been in office to give much study to this question, but he said today he feels there should be some method devised to enable the police depart- ment to keep a check on weapons. The Commissioner said he has given some thought to the feasibility of re- { quiring a!l persons who possess pis- tols and guns to register the weapons| with the police department. Proposed Regulations Approved. Provisions of the proposed law re- stricting the sale of deadly weapons and the prosecution of “gun toters,” as suggested in The Star's campaign against the Indiscriminate sale and oatrying of weapons, are being widely bent on murder, to enter a ey arehase ari instrument of death S Othout being questioned and go forth Yo commit @ crime which may mean the forfeiture of his life.” said an in- tne sted individual to & Star reporter, S here.is something wrong with the 18 nactment of a law to remedy such conditions is an easy matter,” he add- C3P%and why Congress does not re- spond to the numerous humane ap- Deals that have been mafg seems a e Hiarry L. Gessford, superintend- ent ot police. today told a Star re- Pofter that aimost any new law that PO een suggested would be a de- D improvement on the one now on te books. g e aurely should be some re- strictions placed upon prospective pur- S hasers of pistols,” Maj. Gessford said. Today’s News in Paragraphs! Western plane passes Chicago on coast- to-coast filght. Page , 2 W. F. Ham, president W. R. and E., says atreet car merger is unlawful. Page 2 2 commissioners rule that -full Lo:l‘&'i‘l‘h of lots may now be used b apartment house bullders. Page 2 Citizens’ Association protests Hi“(’;‘l"“t Maryland children attending nst crow ded Washington schools. Page 3 ements made for President-elect A ming at his Inauguration to kiss the Bible used for same purpose by President Washington. Page 3 GirlT 15, Slays Father to Save Life of Mother PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Febru- ary 23.—Elizabeth Mabel Lance, fitteen years old, stnbbed her father to death early today, while defending her mother, po- lice say, during m quarrel be- tween her parents. The father, Edgar M. Lance, thirty-xe died almost instantly. charge of murder lodged against the girl and the mother ix hel to the poliee, choking her mother. She plead- ed with him to xtop, but he told her to “go away.” “Mother wax screaming and I wax frightened. I ran down- stairs, got a knmife and came back to the room,” the girl said, ccording o the police. “I threatened father with the knife to xave mot Then he let her o and I held the knaife up and i TURK RVALS AGREE ONNATION' NEEDS { i i i jNationalist and Government Delegates Sit as Separate | Entities, However.' LONDON, February -23.—While the] nationalist and Constantinople dele- gations from Turkey presented them- iselves as two separate and distinct entities, today's session of the near eastern confergnce here brought out the fact that the rival contingents | were practically agreed on what Tur- ikey wants. Attempts on the part of the allied jTepresentatives to bring the two | Turkish delegations into the confer- ence room as one delegation failed. however, and Bekir Samy Bey con- | tinued o insist that he alone had authority to speak for the Turkish people. The nationalists’ spokesman, who is more of a soldier than a diplo- mat, was the outstanding figure on the Turkish side of the table. He not only terrupted -Premier Lloyd George when the latter was speaking, but when the Turks were pressed for details of their demands he under- took to give them, Tewfik Pathetic Figure. Tewfik Pasha, on the other hand, is-a typical diplomat of the old Turk- ish regime, and he presented a rather pathetic figure as he sat at the table, iwrapped in rugs, speaking only once |ana then in reply to the British pre- ! mier's expression of gratification at i Tewfik's improved heaith. What lit- | tle talking was done on the Turkish i government's side was offered by Rechad Pasha and Osman Nizami Pasha. The two delegations agreed on the broad principles: of their claims. These looked toward maintaining the integrity of the Ottoman empire, but with recognition of the fact that the allies would maintain mandates over certain parts of former Turkish prov- inces.. They insisted on the rights of | minorities under these mandates, and | demanded also the return of Thrace and Smyrna. to Turkey. The liberty | of the straits and military and finan- | cial control in, Constantinople were | | insisted upon. Want 'Demands Written. | Mr. Lloyd George mald it would be | necessary to go beyond mere state- ! ments of general principles, and that the allies Tequired specific details of | the proposals for examination. } When - the British - prime- minister : made this request Bekir Samy Bey interposed, making a Jonger, more de- still was not satisfied and asked that the proposals be put in writing. The nationalist delegate agreed to this, but | before the . conference adjourned he | again insisted that his delegation| alone was -authorized to represent Turkey. Mr. Lloyd George replied jthat it was not the business of the conferefce ‘to decide between the two { Churchill, Protest on-Mandates Formal- ly Presented to Council for Consideration. FIRST SUBJECT DISCUSSED !Some Statesmen See Possible Re- | entry of America in Unex- pected Move. By fl-e Associated Press. PARIS, F‘ebrgary 23.—America’s note of protest on' the mandate question, which was reerived by Hugh C. Wal- lace, American ambassador to France, and announced to the council of the league of nations yesterday, was laid before the council when it assembled this morning. It was the first sub- ject under discussion by the members of the council. The United States’ assertion of its i right to participate in tke disposition of mandates arising under the cov- enant of the league created a pro- found interest in the meeting, waich had been absent. Some newspapers today speculated on what inferences , might be drawn from the fact that the note had been dispatched to Eu- rope. ‘Some statesmen,” said the Petit Parisien, “see in the note the possible | re-entry of the United States into the league. i mark that President Wilson will quit Others, more prudent, re- office on March 4, and the republican iparty has spoken too badly of the league to be able to speak well of it between today and the time when Mr. Harding becomes President. Time must be allowed to do its work, and we think, with others, that the gar- dens of Luxemburg Palace will un- doubtedly see more than one spring before reconciliation blossoms | forth.” | Four Powers Are Nam i The American note was presented | to the council in English, and in view of its length, was translated into| French. It was understood the note | Probably would not be given out until late today. The council's reply to "Ambassador Wallace was signed by Dr. da Cun president of the council, and said that, in deference to his request, the ! council will postpone all final de- cisions relative to the form of man- dates now under discussion until re- | ceipt of the communication. The council decided that the man- date commission shall be composed: of the four mandatory powers—Great Britain, France, Belgium and Japan— with the other members chosen from | among representatives of Italy, Por- tugal. Holland, Sweden, and perhaps the United Stites. The question of an American representative is still under discussion, there being differ- ences of opinion as to the propriety of selecting an American under the present circumstances. Ordinarily, is declared, there would have been no objection. Some Mandates Postpomed. Independent of the American action, consideration of the mandates gov- | erning Mesopotamia. Palestine ana vria, it was stated this afternoon, has been postponed at the request of | the British representatives until the April meeting of the council. This, it | was explained. was to give Winston | recently appointed secre-{ tary for the colonies an opportunity | to_study the guestions involved. Pending action hy the commission, TWO CENTS. STERLING TOFORCE FORRECLASSIFVING Smoot Blocks Move to Send Jones Bill to Civil Service Committee. BONUS ONLY EMERGENCY MEASURE FOR WORKERS South Dakota Senator Says Equit- able Adjustment of Salaries Imperative. Notice was given today by Senator Sterling of South Dakota, chairman of the civil service committee of the Sen- ate. that he intends to bring about legislation for the reclassification of the government’s employes at the earliest possible date. nator Sterling asked unanimous nt that the Senate appropriations committee be discharged from further consideration of the Jones bill for the reclassification of the government em- ployes and also the report of the joint commission on reclassification, “and that the bill and report be referred to_the civil service committee. To_ this Senator Smoot of Utah, a member of the appropriations com- mittee, objected, demanding the “reg- ular order.” - Tells of Great Need. Senator Sterling then announced that at the earliest opportunity he would move to discharge the appro- priations committee from further con- sideration of the reclassification bill and to have the measure referred to his_committee, “There is the greatest need of fram- ing and enacting reclassification legis- lation without further delay,” said Senator Sterling, later discussing the matter. “The proper committee teo handle this legislation is the civil service committee of the Semate. It is a legislative matter entirely and should not have been referred to the appropriations committee. “The bill and report have been be- fore the appropriations committee for more than a year, and that committee has done nothing with them. It has been occupied with pritters relating strictly to appropriations. Must End Bomws Giving. ““One reason why the reclassification legislation should be drafted and en- acted is to do away in the future with bonus legislation, which is bad in prin- ciple. I have supported the bonus for the government employes in the past as an emergency proposition. But the em- ployes should be properly classified and paid a fair salary for the work they do. Then there would be no need for bonuses.’ Senator Sterling said he would seek to have the reclassification bill referred to his committes present session of Congress, 80 jeve would be an opportunity for and er members of the ivil se ttee to study the whole subject aid iake ready a for submission to_ Senate when new Congress meéts in' the: spring. TWOFLYERSKILED NEAR ALSTI TEL Plane From Kelley Field Crashes When Men Take Off for San Antonio Flight. AUSTIN, Tex.. February 23.—Cadet Lee Allen and Virgil W. Beach, both of Kelley Field, No. 2, San Antonio, were instantly killed this morning when their plane crashed on Penn Field, one mile south of Austin, as they were taking off in it for s:n‘Am.onlo. FIRE DESTROYS PLANES. bilt the iArmy Investigation Sought as to Damage by Grass Blaze. _ FORT MYERS, Fla., February 23— Two Army airplanes from Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Fla, were destroyed at the ianding field near here yester- day when fire started in the grass swept over them. The machines, one a new De Hav- land, were flown here by two lieus tenants and it was said here an in- vestigation 2s to why the machines were not removed from the path of the flames wilt be asked. THREE IRISH GUARDS SHOT | citizens Kill Two and Injure One ‘Beside Dublin Castle. DUBLIN, February 23.—Three mem- bers of the royal Irish constabulary, employed in Dublin Castle, were shot today, two of them being killed and the ~other seriously wounded, by ivilians, almost at the castle gate { at midda: ALLEGES U. S. ULTIMATUM the council will ask the various gov- ! ernments for all information as to their present powers in blockades, so that the commission may proceed | rapidly to formulate its conclusions. | An international conference on the | called by ' the council to meet at' Geneva _during the last week of June. The countries which signed | the women and children’s agreements | reached by the league's labor con- ference in Washington are asked to send delegates. The council decided on the appoint- ment of a commission of three, com. Rome Paper Heralds Controversy. Over China’s Wireless Contract. ROME, February 22.—The Giornale d'Italia today publishes with large head- lines news of an note to tailed statement, but Mr. Lloyd George | welfare of women and children was |China concerning the wireless station which the American Federal Wireless Company contracted to erect for Ching and against which the British and Japa- nese have lodged protests. “The American ultimatum to China’ complicates the situation in the far east,” the newspaper says, “being a threat to break diplomatic relations with Peking.” ¥ v ny Islands cannot be lo- R ea by Carnegie Institution scien tists. Page 3 President of G. W. U. pays tribute to ‘Senator Moses, recipient of honorary degree. Page- 4 Appeal for endowment made for Gebrge Washington University. _Page 4 ization of former Navy men holds its third muster. Page 12 Wilson asks Congress to let Belgians pay debts in German bonds. Page 13 eaten Japan by massing troops R:‘? ::'srlem border. Page ?3 V. S. urged to buy Washington estate at Mount Vernon. Page 13 . 8. government acts against sixty-one Uwsmt‘:;lne timber firms; effort to boost price alleged. Page 15 Selden M. Ely is elected president of Sons of American Revolution in Dis- trict. Page 16 Bingen Shoku, leader in Korea, assas- {ut‘d at Tokio, Page 17 delegations and' that it would have to hear _them beth. 2 The conference adjourned with the understanding that the Turks would submit their proposals at 11:15 o'clock tomorrow tmorning. Immediate settlement of questions arising out of the Sevres treaty between the allies and Turkey, involving delicate problems in ,southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, "were in doubt when the conference opened. REGULATE COAL BY RAIL. HAMBURG, February 23—Trans- portation of American coal arriving at this port is permitted to be made by railways only if its destination does not exceed 100 kilometers (ap- proximately 60 miles), under a de- cision of the imperial coal commis- sione: 'oal consigned to cities which may befreached by waterways ‘will be exq ed from shipment by rall, > prising Mme. Gaulis of \France and American and British members, to investigate the deportation of women and children in Turkey to adjoining countries, as contemplated by the league's assembly. ~ Another step taken by the council was to draft a reply to the German objections to the | plebiscite in the Eupen and Malmedy | districts. In this reply Germany was reminded that _the council aiready had definitely recognized the Belgian title to the districts. $600,000 IS CLAIMED. NEW YORK, February 23.—An in- voluntary™ bankruptey petition was filed here today in federal court against the Leslic-Judge Company, 5th avenue publishing corporation, on be- half of three creditors with claims to- taling more than $600,000. & | —————— WAGE BOARD ENJOINED. Lowering Minimum Wage. Justice Hitz of the District Supreme Court today granted an injunction against the minimum wage board to prevent any prosecution of the Na= . tional Laundry Company for violating an order of the board to pay laund workers & minimum of $15 per from December 1. The board claimed any intention of bri: proceedings against the plaintift, counsel for the company insist its right to have an injunct the court consented. Former Gov. Folk and At B. Ellis appeared for the le Corporation Cou presented the board, Lx,“mdry Prevents Prosecution !g["‘