Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight; tomorrow probably enow or rain; not much change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today—Highest, 49 at 3 p.m yesterday; lowest, 30, at 8 am. today. Full report on page 11. Closing New York Stocks, Page 23. { No. 28,060. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C he #n WASHINGTO eni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C., THURSDAY, 24, 1921—-THIRTY PAGES. HARDING DEVISING SCHEME PRESIDENT 10 60 OF DEPARTMENT REFORM; HOOVER READY TO ACCEPT Wants President- | Elect to Make . Decision. LOATH TO GIVE UP EUROPEAN RELIEF Proposes Department -Be Extended and Scope Enlarged. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 24.—Herbert Hoover declared in a statement today ¢ that he had left it to President-elect Harding to decide whether he could be of more service as Secretary of Com-! imerce or as director of European relief. a. statement dictated to the Asso- iciated Press Mr. Hooven said: “I left it to Mr. Harding to determine whether he considered 1 can be of more [Bervice to the public as Secretary of Commerce or carrying out the public trust already intrusted to me as 2 |private citizen.” Wants Scope Enlarged. Mr. Hoover's statement was dictated | after he had announced that upon m-| vitation to become a member of the next cabinet he had put up to Mr. Harding a proposal for general reconstru he “Department of Commerce. The | statement was issued after Mr. Hoover had been asked by newspaper men if his | announcement meant that he would en- ter the cabinet if his views were met. Other considerations entering into _fthe matter, Mr. Hoover continued, con- cerned, the Furopean relief adminis- |tration. He declared he had under- {taken the responsibility of directing (the expenditure of thirty or forty mil ‘lion dollars in Europe—money con- Harding Farewell At Marion to Be On “Front Porch” MARION, February 24.—Elab- orate preparations are being made by homefolks here to wive old-fashioned farewell reception to President-elect Harding on March 2, two days before he is to be inaugurated at Washington. Practically every man, wom- an and child, in the President- elect’s home town is planning to take part in the farewell celebration, which will be held at the famous front porch from which Mr. Harding made moxt of hix campaizn speeche: Announcement wasx made to day that Mr. Harding and his party will arrive in Marion at noon on March 1 from St. Au- gustine. The farewell recep- tion will be held at 11 a.m. the following day, Mr. and Mrs. leaving for Washing- A meolid silver placque, bear- ing a testimonial of love from his fellow townsmen, will be presented to the President-elect T. antor of which the Hardings are mem- bers. POSTMASTERST0 Special Dispatch to-The Star. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, February 24. —One. of Warren G. Harding’s first acts as President of the United States will be to rescind the order of Presi- dent Wilson placing all postmasters under the protection of the civil serv- ice. Mr. Harding will insist that tributed by people of America—and he must continue to have general direc- tion over that expenditure. “As the Department of Commerce stands “today,” Mr. Hoover said, “it consists largely of a group of scien- tific bureaus which have only a re- mote connection with commerce it- self.” Sees Way to Make He added that if he should accept | the position he saw a way to make changes which would make of it a “real department of commerce.” The foreign commerce of the United merit should control in the appoint- ment of postmasters, but he does not believe the democrats who have been placed in the postmasterships during the last eight years should be perpet- uated in office. Mr, Harding contends that only one class of postmasters are classified by law under civil service. These are of the fourth class and are of minor im- portance. President Wilson came to the conclusion after several years in office that in the interest of efficient service all postmasters should be made States, he said, particularly in the next |[permanent gowernment officials, sub- four or five years, is closely bound up {ject to dismigsal only for cause, and ith the prosperity and development of [entitled te service until they saw fit wi this country. to resign. He thereupon issued an ex- LOSE CIVIL SERVICE : Drastic Changes in Bureaus De- . cided On. |CHAIRMAN TO BE | ABLE ORGANIZER \President - Elect Re- gards Place on Par | With Cabinet Post. By the Associated Press. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., February 24. —As President-elect Harding com- giving increasing attention to the first big administrative task he will un- dertake as President—the reorganiza- tion of the executive machipery of the government. Delayed plans have not yet taken form, but it is known that Mr. Hard- ing has in mind sweeping changes in many of the government's de- partments and bureaus, and that he expects to enlist in the work of reor- anization some of the ablest adminis- trators he can find. He is understood to have told some of his advisers that ihe regards the chairmanship of the re- organization commission as a post vir- tually on a par with a cabinet port- folio. Plan to Cut Pay Roll. Congress already has created a com- {mittee to work out a plan for sim- plification of the executive branch with a view to preventing duplication of work and cutting down the govern- ment pay roll. It is expected that this committee will work in close co-oper- ation with the reorganization agency to ‘be appointed by Mr. Harding, though the latter body will be able to give its undivided attention to the task and to make a more exhaust- ive study of conditions than would be Some mention of the reorganization project is expected in Mr. Harding's inaugural address and it is possible that some enabling legislation may be requested of the special session of Congress that is to meet in April. The first six months of the new adminis- tration probably will see the pre- liminary study well under _way, though it may be much longer ‘be- fore definite recommendations can be formulated. ‘Will Transfer Buresus. pletes formation of his cabinet he is | undertaken by members of Congress. | He sald he believed many important Jecutive order to that effect, but e€X-| One of the biggest innovations:to would be made without addi-|ecutive orders are subject to repeal at | ba proposed will be the esta ent. jany moment, and President Harding|of a separate ae»srung public { ¢ expected, {has indicated to a number of senators | welfare, for which Mr. Harding out- ! gL e a general re- {and representatives that he will de-|lined his plans in a general way dur- crganization of the government with [clare the Wilsun order null and void!ing the campalgn. He contemplates the advent of the Harding administra- |and will open the principal postmas- | the transfer to this department of sev- ton.* terships of the country once more to|eral of the bureaus now working un- Mr. Hoover said he had not omly |political patronage. _ der other departments, and in addi- taken the responsibility of expending : Included Chofee Plums. tion there are to be a number of ¢ millions _in European relief “upon| . wiison's order was so sweeping | €ntirely new bureaus to deal with va- which 3,500,000 children are depend-|;, il )Uals such cholce postmaster: | Fious welfare problems, ing.” but also held the regency of eight | g0 Diume as those at New York. Chi-| A division of industrial research is or ten public institutions—"posts which | cago, Philadelphia, Detroit and simi- |0 be built up, possibly taking over 1 could not readily relinquish.’ lar cities. included in the first-class|S0mé of the present functions of the <l tional legislation, of bureaus. He addl in fact, “there =+ 2 designation. Under this order no ;“:rec:“ tof lor‘:irn and dom:‘utlc .inrg- postmaster could be displaced for po- . to make a comparative study EHardlng wl“ -summon litica] reasons and in -l':\e event o(hl &flwliflf:l ll'l;.d lnd\;strl;{ ‘cogdll‘!lons i resignation the job was open to the ughou e world. 8 believed Congressmnal Leaders e v:ho could ;}min the lhlgl;en :t wg‘l;lh:p".imf’ on the ?ther hand, H mar] n a competitive examination, | to al sh entirely some of the exist- Soon After Inauguration whether democrat, republican, social” | ing subdivisions of the executive de- e st or bull mooser. A number of im-|partments, or, at least, to combine canpns of President-elect Harding 0| portant offices have been filled In|them with other agencics mow dupil. | 3oon after his imaugaration to formus | thi8 manner, and a number of repub- | cating a large part of their work. late future policies, particularly leg- | 208 have won postmasterships un- Broad Questions Involved. Salative ones. were disolosed here t5. ) der the democratic administration. - ! day by Harry M. Daugherty, who has |, A 10t of influential republicans are |; Involved in the task will be many beon selected as Attorney General in{inclined to agree to the Wilson idea |Proad questions of permanent policy, the new cabinet. ~Mr. Daugherty de- | Of Protecting the postmasters from a |BACH 2% the proposal to abolish the 3 political scramble ever: our AT ifferen’ clared policies would be given nreee-[bm they say this protective ides|Hort of executive body In its piace | dence over patronage. should not take effect until most of |One suggestion that has been made ‘The Attorney General designate con- to the Presid - offices are resident-elect is that the [forred with Several (onsressional|nCmbers of the G. O. P, They say|Yarlous government agencies now husetts, Penrose and Knox of Pennsylvania, Fall of New Mexico and Willis of Ohio. He sald April 4 is the “probable” date for the extra ses- sion of Congress, but a definite de- cision has not been made. The extra session of the Senate, he added, might continue with recesses until the new session of the Congress, Mr. Daugh- erty said, adding_that it had been suggested that, besides confirming appointments, the Senate could kept at work with preliminary mat- ters. such as the Colombian treaty. Mr. Daugherty said he did not know how soon the Harding peace program would be presented to Congress; that, “sooner or later,” a measure similar ! to the Knox resolution. to end the state of war with Germany and Aus- tria, would be passed. Revision of the tariff and tax laws, Mr. Daugherty continued, will he subjects the new President will dis- cuse with congressional leaders after March 4. Mr. HaMing will arrive here March 3, after spending the preceding day at his home at Marion, Ohio. Mr. Daugherty said he was not ready to announce selection of any of his assistants, except his private sec- retary, Frank Gibbs of this city. HARDING WILL LET ACTS ANSWER CABINET CRITICS ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., February 24. +—~Again taking notice of published eriticisms of his cabinet selections,| President-elect Harding sald today that he intended to make no reply except through the acts of the com- administration. ur only response,” he said, “will ®e action and service. Should we fafl in that, then we would deserve to_be criticised.” The President-elect ‘was made smilingly in peated questioning about newspaper a tacks on several of the men he has choeen to place in his official family. e would not comment specifically on the criticisms made against any partic- vlar cabinet selection. RITES FOR W. F. =cCOMBS. NEW YORK. February 24—Funeral services were held here today for Wil- liam F. McCombs, former chalrman of the democratic national committee mod President Wilson' campalgn man- ager in 1912, who died at Greenwich, Conn., Tuesday. ‘The body, accompanied by saveral relatives, then was put on a truin for Little Rock, Ark. where the burial will take place. Less than 100 persons attended the funeral services, held without ostenta- tion in the chapel of the Fifth Avenue declaration that if Mr, Wilson had been in ear- nest about ‘bettering the postal serv- ice through civil service protection, he should have issued the order when he first came into the office instead of waiting until deserving democrats had pre-empted all of the desirable places. They declare that a vast number of post office appointments made by Mr. ealing with shipping and railway problems be brought together in a new executive department of trans- portation. Selecting his cabfnet members, Mr. arding has kept the reorganization plans constantly in mind and from the outset of his administration he will insist that every Secretary give fullest co-operation in securing an Taft during the last four months of|¢ficient redistribution of executive his term as President were held up by | functions. the democrats in the Senate and all the places thus offered were filled by democrats, 2,200 Held Up by Semate. This has accounted for the fact that some 2,200 post office appointments|tige of made recently by Mr. Wilson have been held up by the republican Sen- ate, despite the fact that these ap- pointments have been made only after civil service examinations. Aftes I Harding S will be thoroughly examined. Where republicans have been named and can show* their loyalty to the party and their acceptability to the representa- tive of their district and the senators of their state, they may be renamed. Already Mr. Harding has had called to his attention the cases of a good many republicans who have postmasterships under the Wilson are afraid now that thrown down and out under a re- publican administration. From present indications all dem- ocrats whose names have been sent Dpostmasterships of the so-called pres- idential classes, will be excluded from the date of their appointment. Rush of Applicants Expected. Mr. Harding's statement considers only one class of postmas- ters protected by the civil eomes into office these sev-|which lef! eral thousand post office appointments in herenyt won civil service arrangement and who they will be to the Senate, after examination for from further consideration and their places will be taken by workers in that he service He is understood to feel that jealousies among department heads have prevented some needed re- forms in the past and to be anxious that the members of his official family work rather for the good of the whole government thap for the pres- any one branch of it. —_— BLIZZARDS HALT SEAPLANE. FERNANDINA, Fla., February 24.— The. big ~seaplane Tonco e Loon New York February 19, put llhree passengers had thrilling experiences wit: and storms along the At and left at 9 o'clock this Key West, Fla. Today’s News in P: In Paragraphs Jndpun helpless in U. 8., foreign minister Gene:nl :fllce t th T 'S of e Shi, will be moved to the nele{;‘lr:r‘y E\?l‘l("i‘3 ing some time before April 1. Page 1 Congress conferees agree spent in District. = '“"‘ifaé‘é h; Hoover puts acceptance of cabi encountered h blizzards lantic coast, morning for the political ranks. The terms of | wup to Hardin ot post all the incumbent ‘postmasters will | prarding devising sch LaseiRL be considered at an end four years . Sepaetome Of reform for government departments. Page 1 U. 8. asserts right to a voice § - tion of German colonies by 12‘32‘32"?,: nations mandate council. ' Page 5 Dry agents predict arrests in raids on esterday after her crew and |~ .°C. hotels will reach fifty. Page 1 and the forecast of his early chanm: ot lcmneue ball will be in true oriental ing of the Wilson executive order protecting all classes “will ho the | styie. Page 2 signal for a great rush of applicants r conferen for office. A8 a matter of fact. the %a TRl paywmentys demounces pro- Page Senator Sterling moved to tra Jones reclassification bill -’-‘1’:‘”&2‘& commission report to the civil servico committee. ) Page Turks agree to accept decision in settlement of near east proglrel.-fl!” Page ,2 Coast-to-coast mall flight made in thin ty-three hours twenty minutes, Labo entatives dy e r repres ves deman i laws and reforms. ke Civil service employes want retirement rush already has begun. Senators and representatives are telling then| President-elect they are being be- sieged from all quarters and that there are nine or ten strenuous ap- plicants for every postmastership in the country which can be filled by presidential appointment. The Post Office Department offers the greatest opportunity for the re- ward of the politically faithful. It is the great avenue of party pa- tronage, and In the coming admin- istration it is to be presided over by the directing genius of the repub- lican political organization, Mr. Will | privileges. Page b H. Hays. While postmasterships gen- | Senator Smoot charges girls make trous. erally are conceded to the repre-| sgeaus in federal offices. Page 11 sentatives and senators, Mr. Hays will virtually have the last say as|Soviet balts U. 8. trade with Russia. Presbyterian Church. None of the democratic leaders who worked with Mr. McCombs to put their party into power ecight years ago was noted $mong the mourness. to all who are recommended. = Mr. age 17 Harding will make the formal ap- |North Capitol and Eckington citizens in- pointments, but Mr. Hays will give| dorse pistol-toting ban. Page 17 the O. K. Federal emplo{u plan sale of bank stock 2o raise clubhouse fund, Page 17 {Oopyright, 1920 o e * 10 GAPITOL WITH - HARDING MARCH 4 |Will Follow Qut Long Custom and Accompany His Successor. {EXPECTS TO RETURN TO HIS S STREET HOME | Four Troops of Cavalry Will Es- cort Party to Site of Inauguration. President Wilsod will follow the stablished custom of riding to the Capitol with the incoming Presi- dent on March 4 under plans of the congressional inaugural committee, approved by the President, it was an- nounced today at the White House. Whether Mr. Wilson will attend the inaugural ceremonies has not yet been made known. Should he do so he probably will ride with Mr. Harding to the White House, but if he does | not attend he will go direct from the Capitol to his new home on S street, Four troops of cavalry, numbering 350 officers and men, will escort the Prestdent and the President-elect to the Capitol and_then will escort Mr. Harding to the White House. Visit at Hotel. The plans of the congressional com- mittee as they became known today provide for the opening of the day's program with a visit of the committee to the President-elect and Vice Presi. dent-elect Coolidge at the New Wil- lard Hotel. After this visit the entire party will enter automobiles and, ac- companied by the cavalry, drive to the White House, where it will be joined by the President and Mrs. Wilson. From the White House the proce: sion will move over Pennsylvania avs nue to the Capitol. There the Presi- dent and probably Mr. Harding will enter the President’s room, where Mr. ‘Wilson will sign the bills passed in the closing hours of Congress. Marines to Be on Duty. After the new Vice President has taken the oath-of office in the Senate chamber and has delivered his inaugu- | ral address, the guests will proceed to the steps at the east front of the Capitol, where Mr. Harding will be | swofnkin. As eoon as he finishes his inaugarai address the President will depart for the White House. Five hundred marfnes, in full-dress uniform, will be on duty at the Capi- tol, augmenting the regular Capitol police, and they will form & e through which the guests will pass in ascending the Capitol steps. Mr. Harding will take the oath in a stand thirty feet g been erected od:(l accommo elect, Chief Justi bers of the and. will stand during the ceremonies. Besides the marines and cavalry, 500 regulars from Camp Meade, Md., will be brought to Weashington on the morning of March 4 for guard duty along Pennsylvania avenue. .Their chief task will be to keep back the crowds. Will Usé Hotel Suite. The_presidential suite at the Wil- lard Hotel, which is to be used by President-elect and Mrs. Harding and members of their family and his offi- cial party for the day .and night pre- ceding March 4, is in readiness for the distinguished guests. The suite is the handsomest in the hotel, and is located on the first floor, which is one flight above the ground floor, and, as at present arranged, includes seven rooms, forming a right angle, half facing Pennsylvania avenue, and the other half facing 14th street. The arrangement of the rooms and entries is looked upon as ideal for the purpose. There is a long, wide reception hall, as well as a large, handsomely furnished parlor and a still larger room to be used as a meeting and workroom. The latter was at one time used as a hearing room by the Interstate Commerce Commission. There are four bed- rooms, which at present have been as- signed to President and Mrs. Hard- ing, Dr. Harding, the President-elect's father; Dr. Sawyer of Marion, the family physician, and an extra bed- room which will be used by some relative. SHIPPING BOARD TOLEAVEF STREET General Offices to Be Moved to New Navy Building Before April 1. General offices of the United States Shipping Board, now located at 1317- 1319 F street, will be moved to the new Navy building at 17th and B streets betore April 1, it was learned today. At the same time it was rumored that division offices of the board at New York and Philadelphia will be moved to Washington, leaving only enough employes in these offices to maintain liaison between the central { oftices here and®the administrative of- | fices in New York and Philadelphia. | This report could not be verified. The controller's office and various miscellancous divisions of the board ly-the President. the mem- with the rest of the board to the new Navy building, so that the entire of- fices-of the Shipping Board will be housed in the structure built during the war for the Navy ‘Department’s expanding needs. The two bulldings now housing the Shipping Board on F strect were formerly used by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which, five years ago, obtained the lease of the new building at 17th street and Pennsylvania avenue. Moving of the entire Shipping Boara organization from its present quarters to the Navy building will probably take two months, it was said today. The board occupies ten floors each in the two buildings on F street and will EASY FOR LUNATICS uare; .which has h.'gmn “Phis stand | past. | past now located in the old Aircraft build-| ing at 6th and B streets. will be moved | g~ THOSE Bors LT, e ON CAPITOL HiLL n <X/23 MUST HAVE 7 S THAT ; g i\ \ZE\WHILL THE 2 ’ UMPIRE™ Bt SPIR(T Member of the Associsted Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news @i<patches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published berels. n Star. FEBRUARY I Al rights of publication of special dispatches berein are also reserved. Yesterday's STILL HOPE FOR BONUS. Night Sessions Increase Chances of Its Passage. ‘With only six legislative days remain- ing, the decision of the House to hold night sessions, starting tonight, has in- creased the chances for getting the $240 bonus legislation in the legislative, ex- ecutive and judicial appropriation bill passed this week. ‘The last six days of the session any conference réport does not have to be printed, but may be up fmme- diately upon presentation. The House is now considering the conference TOOBTAINPISTOLS Mentally Deranged. Persons Need Only the Price—Sev- eral Citizens Slain by Them. - on the post office bill. The conference James Albert Wood, former PHOLOE- . eport on the diplomatic and sundry civil rapher.in the Signal Corps, entered a|appropriation bills probably will come CONFEREES AGREE ON FUNDS FORD. C. Parks, Bridges and Buildings Included in Sundry Civil Measure Reported. Several District items relative to parks and parkways, bridges and Net Circulation, 95,314 TWO CENTS. U. . ASSERTS RIGHT OF VOICE INALLIES MANDATE COUNGILS {Note Claims Equal Interest in - Allocating of German For- eign Possessions. PROTESTS GIVING TOKIO MANDATORY OVER YAP Island Is Important Link in Cables Across Pacific—Asks Re- consideration. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 24.—The United States government, in its note to the council of the league of nations on the question of mandates, claims an equal concern and interest with the other prieipal allied and associated powers in the overseas possessions of Germany and in their disposition. This was shown today when the note sent by the American State Department, which was lald before the council of the league yesterday, was made public. The council again took up the mote this morning, considering it with par- ticular reference to this claim advanced by the United States. Some of the other members held that America had forfeited such rights by withdruwing, as an associated power, from the su- preme council. In the summary of the note, which was made public Wednesday, it was revealed that the United States de-’ clared it had never given its consent that the Island of Yap, an important link in the chain of cable communica- tions in the Pacific, be included in the serrltorlea subjected to the mandate of apan. Position Is Made Clear. The principal feature of the note, in addition to the points contained in the summary, was the American contention of equal right and interest in dispos- 'S Overseas possessions. On this the note said: “As one of the principal allied and 16cal business house two weeks before | up next for consideration in the House, | buildings under government control | 2ssociated powers, the United States In all probability the conference report on the Jegialative bill then will follow. —— DRY RAID ARRESTS - MAY TOTAL FIFTY ;fl_‘;‘%"% Bitgest Haul Yet Made in deait irtormation wmich wowa-mave | D, C. Under Volstead Act. Hotels Combed. Christmas and purchased a revolver. There was no legal bar to a quick pur- chase, and the customer had the price— all that is required when a pistol is ‘wanted in this city. The customer had been an inmate of 8t th's Hospital, the federal in- stitution for the care of insane persons. But he had been given a trial by jury, declared sane and discharged. The dealer knew nothing of the customer's making provision for a police investiga- tion of the wg:lunt and the making of a report within fifteen days. ‘There was no such law on the statute books, however, and Wood came near taking the life of Emmett, Lanier, a friend, for an i him to regain a government position. Lanier hovered between life and death for a number of days, and it was only ton. was visited by agents of the en- bureau last night and between thirty and forty persons were arrested. It ‘widowhood and his children from being | ber of arrests by the close of today orphaned. - Wood was adjudged insane, would total fifty. according to the police, and returned to the holgl‘m.\, and Lanier may suffer from It was the biggest haul made by the the wound the remainder of his life. All!revenue men in the National Capital Degause o e Lack or & 1aW 10 Properly o, charges of violation of the Volstead mn Caso o Wik Boatiuns act. For two weeks Thomas E. St{n‘e, = supervising federal revenue agent, in 1f the people of the District had had | charge of the Ohlo and Maryland de- a law such as the superintendent of po- | partment, in which Washington is lo- lice and others have suggested, David|cated, has had eight or ten agents Bacalman, 707 4% street southwest, | from other cities securing evidence would not have been left a widower and | here. his children without the cage of their mother : Lela Boynton Wilson, colored, wash- erwoman for the Bacalman family, Wrought up over conditions resulting from the war, imagined certain things about her employer and decided she Would end her existence. How she would do it was a problem easily solved, Put down the price of a gun, the kind that would snuff out a life in an in- stant, pay for a round of ammunition and go forth on her deadly mission. The fact that Mrs. Bacalman, the one who had been her best friend, was asieep in her bedroom with her child did not affect the negress. She had spent near- * her last cent for the easily purchased pistol, and the taking of Mrs. Bacal- D ans lifo was as easily accomplished, ‘William Joseph Tilton Carroll, forty- four years old, is in jail under an in- otment for alleged first degree mur- Ger in connection with the killing of his e, Mrs, Katherine Carroll, at their Tome, 1315 K_ street southeast, two Wosks before Christmas, Probably no erson in this city realizes better than persor 'the suffering that would have been prevented had the law relating to e rohase of weapons required an in- e hation _ before delivery of the ‘weapon. Joseph May Pay in Full Carroll, his wife and children lived happily In the K street house until 2pPllY me before the husband is al- Some to have shot his wife to death, Lo h meant his incarceration on a o Thich_may result in his own harge T4 the motherless children death |3t to the care of relatives. Smarting under family disagréement, oheroll is said to have sought a pistol, and under the provisions of the 1aw 'peen ‘made in other cities on printing in force, the police suggested, seeking | o5tablishments where it was found invariably is followed by finding. If}thousands of counterfeit revenue the seeker has the price. Carroll had| giamps and large quantities of fake the price of the weapon, and soon he japels of popular brands of whisky, is to be put on trial for his alleged | yers being turned out. He sald there crime. a is very little pure whisky in Washing- Police are able to recall the numer-| (on a¢ tnis time and that the “stuff’ ous other shootings in this city the| o pootieggers are selling Is a, concoc- few years probably would have | ion which will cause serious injury Tevonted had there been the | tiom which witL caus guarding law agalnst the| myo"ggents who made the arrests and “totin’”’ of pistols. They |} o o were congratulated by Mr. Stone ! d an instance in which a parol-| 40, "upon their work. He said he in-| recalled A% from St. Elizabeth's Hos. | t0day upon thelr work. Mo sald ho tn bootlegging in the National Capital, as well as the other places in his division. Because the revenue men who have been operating here for ‘some time be- came known to the bootleggers, Mr. Stone decided to bring in new ones from other cities. He intends to make changes at various times, and hopes to round up all of the bootleggers. Find Still in Operation. Those arrested last night were locked up at police stations and were taken to Police Court today to give bond - for their appearance at trial alcohol. of various grades, some of which was poisonous, was being sold in many of the hotels of the city. He said the principal sales were made by employes of hotels, but that in one small hotel it was found the manager and his wife were violating the law. Agents Pay $25 a Quért. The agents worked quietly for the past two weeks, making purchases at various places, Mr. Stone said. ‘explained that in some cases where the agent attempted to make a pur- chase he found that the employe of the hotel was “all out” In such a case the agent was given a note to an employe of some other hotel, and the sale was made there. High prices were obtained for the liquor, Mr. Stone ‘declared, some of it selling for /$15 and $25 per quart. ! parson not famillar with the popular brands of whisky. the sale of the quart bottle was easy, Mr, Stone said. Hoe called attention to a i number of bottles on his desk. which {had been purc by his men. They bore fake revenue stamps and fake lables. An analysis of some of the so-called whisky, Mr. Stone said, showed that each quart contained about 95 per cent alcohol, which had been colored. He said also that there was wood alcohol in some of the bottles and other ingredients, which are injuri- ous to health. Mr. Stone said at the present time a man who made a pur- chase of the alleged whisky is in a hospital suffering from its effects, “Whisky” Very Dangerous. ‘Mr. Stone said that recent raids have i several visits to a store wherepw‘gspons Were sold, examined the weapons and finally made a selec- tion. ade the selection, they ex- pinving e Was necessary to con: Pimmate the deal was the handing over of the cash. He was able to com- Bly with such requirement Qf the Senler and was given the weapon. The pext thing heard from the alleged in- Sane man was that he had attempted the life of another man, probably,be- cause of some imaginary wrong, and ft was no fault of his that he did not succeed. The bullet simply failed to pital ke up a ocorresponding amount of koo In the Navy building. By moving the Shipping Board offices to the Navy building a large sum annually paid for rent to the owners of the building now used by the board will be saved to the gov. ernment. The Navy building is gov- @t 1317-19 F street is leased by the board. Nearly 2,000 persons are emploved in the various offices of the Shipping Board which are to be moved to the Navy ernment property, while the property |i later. Mr. Stone called attention to five arrests made by his men last Saturday in which he said a physi- cian stopping at a local hotel was aj osted after he had sold an agent of the department what was supposed to be whisky. In the arrests last night also was oy 03 that of a man and woman who are president . the Federation of Citl alleged to have been operating a still zens' Associations. at a house on 4th street northwest. ‘While most of the citizens’ associa- | Mr, Stone said the couple had a quan. tions have repeatedly gone on record | tity of mash in a still and were using on_this question in previous years,|the liquid thus obtained to mix with iued on some low-grade strike a vital spot in the victim. Appeal to Citizens’ Association. An appeal to all the citizens’ asso- ciations to unite in the campaign to obtain from Congress a more rigid law to govern the gale and posses- rms_in the District was William B. Westlake, maginary failure to assist | forcement divieion of the prohibition | tio; in the, District are included in the items agreed to in conference between the Senate and House on the sundry civil appropriation bill, which was reported today. Some other District items, added as amendments to the bill in the Sen- ate, are brought back to the House for a separate vote. Most of the District items as agreed to provide for the payment of 60 per cent from the revenues of the Dis- trict Ml:’:.r oent from the federal | were under m! Treasury such activities as Co- decision of. 7, 1919, nevertheless mehmmg in u.:- :nfi:"lbvu mentioned the lumbia Hospital and the appropriation for Potomac kway has equal concern and inseparable in- terest with the other principal allied and associated powers in the overseas possessions of Germany, and conse- quently an equal voice in their dis- position, whi it is respectfully sub- mitted, cannot be undertaken or ef- fected without its consent.” Referring to the attribution of the Island of Yap to Japan, the note reads: “While this government never as- sented to the on of the Island of Yap in the flopmul Japan, it may pointed out even if one or more of the other. that prin- - allied and prehension s te the island in the inclusion of the the | United States government makes clear n._of uzl.a for the Na- |its position. Park, instead Y :},?"::‘ as proposed hytt.lu Senate, Practically every hotel in Washing- appropriation of $2,600 ring additional land; the adai who are entitled Miscellancous Items. Other District items agreed to conference are: in and around Wash propriation of $18,550, as pro; P by the Senate, priation of $35,000, es proj the House, instead of D000 by mac Park; the Senate, the appropriation on ac- count of the memorial fountain in Dupont Circle; provides 60 per cent of certain appropriations shall be paid out of the revenues of the District and 40 per cent out of the federal Treas- ury; appropriates $250,000, as pro- posed by the Senate, for continuing the construction of a reflecting pool in west Potomac Park, to be immediate- ly available, and extends until July 1, 1922, the appropriation for expenses of dedicating the Lincoln Memorial, Relating to public buildings under the Department of the Interior—The conferees have agreed upon @n ap- propriation of $65.000 on account of the Capitol building. authorize the use of $7,000 by the Federal Board of Vocational Education for repairs to the Malty building, and privide that 40 per cent of the eppropriation for repairs and improvements to the Dis. trict of Columbia courthouse shall be paid out of the United States Treas. ury an per cent out of th nyes of the ”"";‘:.%m TN ncrease from ), to $95,0¢ the appropriation for the s’l;-poorg oF the Columbia Institution for the Dear. Increase from $1,500 to $2,200 as pro- posed by the Senate in the amount to be fxtended on the appropriation for maintenance of Howard Unive; normal instructions. e ie? Printing and Bindisg. Relating to public printing and bind- ing, appropriates $2,290,000 as pro- posed by the House, instead of $2,000, 000 as proposed by the Senate, for printing and binding by Congress; ap- propriates $750,000 for printing and binding for the Treasury Department $450,000 for the War Departmen: $250,000 for the Navy Department; re duces from $285,000 to $265,000 the ap- propriation for printing and binding for the Interior Department; reduces to $140,000 the appropriation for the geological survey; increases to $75,000 the appropriation for the Civil Service Commissio: makes immediately available as proposed by the Senate $20,000 for printing and binding the annual reports of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and $40,000 for the Department of Justice. District items Back fn House. Among the District items brought back in the House for a separate vote because they constitute new legisia- tion, put on the bill by the Senate, are the following: Authorizing a buflding. Direc departments sue ect Relr control. Appropriating $363,000 for addition- al work in connection with the Lin- coin Memorial and increasi th Timit of cost from $2,594,000 to 32, 957,000. acq appro Hional comsetory e - rlington Ne. indigent die in the Districr of golmbfi ana to ried therein, and the appropratio surgical skill that saved his wife from | Was expected, it was stated, the num- | bridge. DR, Relating to buildings and grounds ington—An ap- the House, instead of $17,000, as pro- osed for constructio; of post and chain fences; an app: $30,000 by the Senate, for improvement, mlnte:lneo Mr. Stone said today that it was|and care of reservations; $45,000 for found that large quantities of colored | °aré and improvement of East Poto- strikes out, as proposed by of Ne Agreement Reached. (Presumably the notes referred to 10r | comprised that sent by the United " | States to Great Britain on November 20 last, with the copies, submitted to the ch and Italian governments. The notes set forth the American po- sition on the responsibilities of man- datory powers. The. Japanese man- date was approved by the council of the league December 17 in Geneva.) “At the time when these notes were addressed to the respective govern- ments above mentioned. an agreement had not been reached on the terms of the allocation of the mandates cover- ing the former German islands in the Pacific. Therefore. the position taken by the President on behaif of this gov- ernmert, clearly set forth, necessarily had the result of effectively with- drawing any suggestion or implication of assent. mistakenly imputed to this government. long before December 17, 1920, the date of the council’s meeting in Geneva.” by The American note occupied the council throughout yesterday. ‘The note was discussed in the strictest privacy. May Require Conferemce. Members of the council consider it necessary to confer with their govern- ments regarding the American note, and, with this in view, they forwarded the text yesterday. It is, therefore, considered unlikely that any decision 'olll ‘e reached at this session. It was suggested that the whole matter might be referred to the supreme council, as it is declared that it was in reality that body which attributed Yap, along with other northern Pacific islands, to Japan, and this was the principal point raised in Secretary Coll note. Further than this, it is expected that the council will merely acknowledge receipt of the note and give assurance that it will be dealt with through the proper channels. Sir Eric Drummond, general secre- tary of the league of nations, was the only person present not a member of the council when the subject was under discussion. The summary fol- low: “The government of the United States declares it seizes the ooccasion to send the council of the league a copy of a note addressed to Barl Curzon (British foreign minister) on November 20, setting forth in detail the views of the United States on the responsibilities of mandatory powers. “A copy of that note has been sent to the French and Italian govern- ments. The United States go draws the attention of the council to the request made in that note the projects of mandate intended for the Bociety of nations, before they were submitted to the council, be communi- cated to the United States govern- ment, agd that it have precise indica- tions of the principles on which the United States conditioned its appro- bation. s Has Received Mandate Text. “The United States government has recelveed the text of the mandate at- tributed to the Emperor of Japan te for an archives building and appropriating $10,000 for preparing working drawings for that ng the heads of executive in independent estab. lishments of the government to is. nd enforce regulations with re- to smoking in buildings under 11 former German islands sit- Ial::.:dlln the Pacific ocean north of the equator, which text was approved by the, council of the league Decem- ber 17 in Geneva. The United States government _deciares it has never given its consent that the Island ef Sap be included in territories sub= | jected to the mandate of J: Tecalls that It = ts :'&-v: ‘med the governments o }i"rriuln. France, Italy and Japan, in- forming them at the same time its reservation upon the ion that Yap esters necessaril any project or system of pi commaunication by cable in the Pa- gific and that no power can Hmit of Control its use. e moved to “Consequently, government_is spectfully e Appropriating $3,000 for removing | self as bo and reconstructing a part of the fence around the Botanical Garden. Appropriating $116,000 tions to the at_Howard University. Appropriating $225000 for employ- (Continued on Fage 2, Column 2.) for addi- home economics building | council of - December andate particul te be taken of its protest 'i:‘a'm:to the _decision of the I upo! Question. “At_the same time it maks the (Continued on Page 2, Column 19 ractiont