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{ s tom oy and row cloudy cloudy. # WEATHER. colder | today; [ Tumperature for twenty-four hours, | ended at 10 pm 8§ lowest, oW lust nighj: ;l Full report on pa 33—No. 28077. FRANGE WANTS U.S. -INTRIPLE ALLIANCE T0 INSURE PEACE Without American Backing‘ She Sees Use of Force to Make Germany Pay. [ UNITY WOULD STRIKE | AT ENGLISH INFLUENCE Ready to Modify League to Insure Guarantee Full Independence of Action for This Country. BY SCOTT MOWER. By Cable to The Star and Ch News. Copyright, 1921. PARIS, March 12.—Although the high- Iy important mission on which Rene Viviani will sail to the United States on March 19 is of a delicate nature, its @im'is double—on the one hand senti- mental and on the other political. In the first place the French government is highly desirous of maintaining the kindly relations which grew up between the French and American people in course of the war, and also of paying homage to the new President French statesmen are convinced that sentimental elements are destined to play an ever increasing role in the pol- | itics of the great democracies, and wish to neglect no possible means of keeping up a sort of sentimental communion with the American people. It is per- haps chiefly for this reason that M. ni, who is a great orator, who knows how to speak the language of the heart and who has already been upon one friendly mission to the United States, was again chosen for this one. Important Politieal Role. Even more important, however, is the political role which the former premier will be expected to fill. In the first place, he will seek to inform himself. It is an indubitable fact that up to the | present the intentions /of the Hnrdlnl‘ cabinet are completely unknown to the French government. Nobody here. for | example, knows whether the new Pres- ident is favorable or unfavorable to maintaining American troops on the Rhuine. The most contradictory reports have accordingly been circulating in Paris on this subject. There is similar ignorance as to the President's attitude regarding the league of nations. Does he want to destroy it or amend it7%, French leaders consider it entirely possible, moreover, that President Harding has not yet determined his political program, and that the vague ideas of Paris are a mere reflection of the vague ideas of Washington. Surrounded by his cabinet, the Presi- dent doubtiess even now is engaged PAUL g0 Daily \REDS internal revenue bureau has been proceeding, it was disclosed last night by go nouncement the ruling will Solicitor General Frierson said there have been a number of -protesie against it. consideration Entered as second-class matter post_office Washington, D. C. SHOOT 2,500 REBELS; HOT PETROGRAD BATTLES Bolshevik Successes and Losses Reporied in Former Russian Capilal—Fearing Pogroms, Jews Flee. in the other parts of the WASHI By tiie Associated Pross PARIS, patches from the Finnish the bolsheviki, aided ments, have almost completely suc- their ground ) lcity. March 12 (Havas). Jews Take to Flight. WARSAW, March 12.—Polish news- publish dispatches from the scribing the flight of Jews borde by reinforce- papers frontier d ceeded in putting down the insurrec- | from Russia “in enormous numbers.” ticn in Petrograd. Battles fought be- ' convinced that bolshevism Is near- tween Krasnaya Gorka and Petro- ing an cnd the newspapers say the grad. the dispatches state, enabled the Jews began crossing the frontier at bolsheviki to reestablisi their posi- ol i e e e tion on the coast of the Gulf of Fin- h Ve to be in imminent lands r of pogroms should the bolshe- m,—,\;'cnrumg VIU the lIzve x:'f«, ]L 0 de- Gikiibaotlees tam ) Power serters, mos embers of th : NEW YORK. March - maga- | Desert to Revolters. zine Soviet Russia.today made pub REVAL, March B Sun e bTa o e tolicaing BICADISEmessdns numbers of bolshevik soldiers ure re- | Which it said had been sent from ported to have joined the revolution- | Moscow today by the Russian tele- aries as the result of the capture by | 8T4Ph agency £ the latter of Krasnaya Gorka, Peter-| “Street fights continue in Kron- stadt between the mutineers and hof and Sergieovka, in the vicinity of Petrograd. | According to the latest advices re- | ceived here the revolutionaries oper- | ating against Petrograd have cap- tured Galerny Quay, the admiralty, | the Baltic and Warsaw stations. the customs house and the gas works The bolsheviki are said to be holding DRY ENFORCENENT PACKERS ANDLABOR THEORIES AL UPSET | those loyal to the soviet government. ome of the strongholds of the mu- tineers have surrendered. Word has been received from Trotsky, who is in command of the soviet forces operating against the Krondstadt mutineers, that the complete tion of the adventure mminent extine- is l BY PALMER RULING OFFER BY MR. DAVIS Favoring Unlimited | Reservations Made by Em- l ployers—Suggested Parley Start Here Friday. Former Attorney General Palmer's|B¥ the Assocluted Press. ruling permitting practically unlim-{ CHICAGO. March 12.—after an all- fted manufacture of beer. wines and|4¥ discussion by heads of the pack whisky for medicinal purposes hae|M INQUSITY. a telegram was sent e A i e e e, w‘vsmef J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, at itlin Salr i et dn which the | WasBiIgton accepting his mnggestion that ther send two representatives to confer with him and two representa- tives of the employes regarding the present eituation in the industry. The telegram, which was signed by Armour & Co.. said: “Your message received. Will 8lad to follow your suggestion.” A statement given out at the same time that the telegram was made pub- lic said: “We assume Decision Making of “Wet, Goods” for Medicine to Stand. ment officials. Wit disclosure came the an- stand. be but unless the Treasury Department should ask for its re- it will continue in ef- fect. Such a request is not under con- that the justice and in formulating a definite program, _'l_"’"‘“‘"“ Ciwad pacid atertat e | oo cnstizyotiwase cuts i wiitnot balai and it will be M. Vivianl's duty toTreasury. issue. Nor can there justly be an ascertain what this program is- New Revenue Rules Needed. | issue_on the matter of hours Freach Want Facts. The results are awaited here with impatience, for French public opinion and the French government are equally eager to establish the great- est possible intimacy with the United States. Moral reasons, such as the natural fraternity of two great re- publics, are supplemented by politi- cal reasons. France is convinced that the only lasting peace is a peace guaranteed | by the United States. and if that country will join with France and Britain order can be insured through- | out the world. Without American co- | operation France is convinced that sooner or later she will be obliged to | use force to make Germany carry out | the treaty of Versailles. France con- sifers, moreover, that the extension | of the Franco-British entente to the | United States would give the French government greater freedom of move- | ment than is possible so long as it is| obliged to seek support in London alone. Many French leaders are so| filled with these ideas that in their| eyes France's whole policy is dom- inated by the question of Franco- American relations. Co-Operation Easy. H Co-operation between the two coun- | tries seems relatively ecasy, because there is no possible reason for rivairy | between them. France has no political | Interests in Latin America, and the end of the Russian alliance, as well as | the present financial difficulties, in- | cline the French government to prac- tice in China moderate policy. | which. it is »aid, will not interfere in| the siightest degree with the Ameri- | can plans for China’s commercial de- velopment. There ought to be no mo- tive for a conflict in Europe cither,! especially as France is 100 poor finan- | cially to dream dreams of grandeur. The only difficulty which the Freneh | foresee concerns the league of natigns France, which places the execution of the treaty above everything else, con- sfders that this execution is impossible | without a league. Who but the league would administer the Saar basin and | Danzig. supervise German, Austrian' and Hungarian disarmament and keep watch over the thousand claus ning international communic rail and water? President Wilson eded in connecting the league! everything and it cannot be without remaking the con- ations by with climinated treaty entirely y to Modify ¢ Fowever, disposed covenant in such a way independence will be Indeed, it migit France favors the Rea France modify that fully is to the American guarante be said that at least, to a mere mechan- the of the treaty France 1s really no less jealous of its nd independence than is' and will approve sufes directed ay execution avereignty United nd ail m he es outinued ou Fage 3, Column 5.) |s00n as they can be prepared, probi- of reducing the league for the | | So vital was the blow struck by the ruling at the enforcement theory set up in the regulations of the in- Labor Accepts Mediation. Secretary Davis' offer of personal me- diation in un effort to avert a threatened | ternal revenue bureau that whule-lglrlkl in the industry also was ac- wale revisions of the regulations will S he Sini 5 2 - o cepted by the union leaders, Dennis be necessary, it was state: Lane of the Amalgamated Meat Cut- The prohibition unit of the bureau.! ers ana Bute officials explained, has worked on the | yre 5oy onain e theory that it possessed regulatory {gi.m 1o (he head powers under the act which permits it to limit the use and distribution of intoxicants excepted by Congress from the general law. It is contend- od that this view is completely over- thrown by the ruling of the former Attorney General. the following of the fede tele- al Labor Department : “It has been and is the policy of our {organization 1o co-operate governmental ager your tender of service solution of the present situation » which ha be o v . Drafting of new regulations whi *EQLIS8 Sacn broughtiabout by dne had been tentatively agreed upon be-19¢1berate and arbitrary violution and | repudiation by the five Lig packers of with all We accept to work out a fore the opinion was received, and which would have further restricted | (' #Breement now in existence be-| the distribution of intoxicants, has( WP Y department, our and been halted, pending determination of { ©'¢T labor organizations and the whether they coincide with the Jus- | Packers. tice Department’s view of the law. “We note that vou specify no date It was not indicated Jast night when | f0F conference and we have informa- the work of amending existing regu- | 1100 that the packers contemplat lations which are in conflict with the | t4King advantage of that fact. This opinion will be started e parties the agreement between Regulations to provide for the use|YOUF department and the packers will of beer medicinally will be issued as | ATTENEE 10 sclect representatives to |attend a conference when you set date. We respectfully suggest that I such conference be held in Washing- bition officials declared. Preparation of the regulations was delayed on the possibility of the opinion being re-|!on next Friday, March 18, as w considered. have a conference arranged here for Under Mr. Palmer's interpretation | the 16th stant of all trades involved.” of the prohibition Jaw, officials declar- ed it ‘would appear that a patient for whom beer was prescribed would be able to obiain it by the case. as itltime arbitration agreement which w probably would be ordered s a tonic, | canceled by them on and it would appear unreasonable 10 4nq rding the recentl restrict a person 1o obtaining only | nounced reduction of wages am one or two bottles at a time Jjustment of working that Concerning the protests of indi-| vexcept throuzh such measures an viduals agamnst the ruling, Solicitor. have adopted, the possibility of neral Frierson said opinions are is : 3 sued by the Department of Justice 4ge 10Column 2 only to the President and members of the cabinet and are not matters in which private individuals may par- ticipate. A review would only be made, he added, on motion of the de- partment originally making the quest and a change made where an crror of law was found. DEATH FOR ROBBERY. | Statement by Packers. The statement issued by ers makes mention of no February 26, an- and re- says reg hours we I (Continued on to Frederick, Special Dispatel to The Star, FREDERICK, Md), March 12, Biackhand letters sent to Joseph D. re- L Baker, president of the Citizens' BIRMINGHAM. Ala., March National Bank of Frederick: to hi Emory Smith was found guilty of} gon, Holmes D. Buker, one of the robbery and sentenced to death by a jury here today after being out only cight minutes. Smith had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment on a similar charge. vice presidents of the bank, and 1o Sheriff Wertenbaker, have started a search all through Frederick county for the person guilty of making the - | wreats. —_— The first letter was mailed to NEW SPANISH CABINET. Sheriff Wertenbaker. He was told MADRID, March 12 Corise Pre in the letter that if he carried out the order to hang Charles Robinson. 4 negro convicted of assaulting and killing a white woman, the sender of the letter would blow up the Jail. mier Manuel Allende Salazar today su ceeded in forming a new cabinet to re- place that of the late Premier Dato, The Marquis de Lema, Who was min-| The negro was hanged two weeks ister of foreign affairs in the Dato cab- | 4go. inet, will hold the same portfolio in the| Holmes D. Baker received a let- 1 de Ciervay Pena- | new ministry. J 3 will take flel, former minister of wa the ministry of public works. A\ ter telling him that uniess he placed $5.000 at the foot of a trec in a se- cluderd spot near the Baltimore and NG ACCEPT MEDHATION her Workmen of North | Blackhander Threatens Death TON, GERMAN REICHSTAG FPROVES SHONS INDEINTY STAND Declares Berlin Should Not Follow Allies in Scrapping Treaty of Versailles. D. « ! I i \ FRENCH DISBAND POLICE WHO REFUSE TO S_ALUTH | 11,300 Members of Security Force | Ordered to Disarm and Leave ! City by Gen. Degoutte. | By the Associated Pross BERLIN, March the 12.—Approval of German government's attitude | toward the allied reparation demands was voted by the reichstag today. | after Foreign Minister Simons made a lengthy explanation of his work at the London conference. There was a partisan debate over {the resolution of approval. which was {moved by the coalition parties, but it was finally adopted by a vote of 268 to 49. The nationalists and majority {socialists voted with the government bloc. i A communist resolution demanding {the immediate establisament of diplo- matic relations with soviet Russia ! was decisively defeated | | “The, rman counter proposals were made for political reasons, aft- er we had carefully consulted cap-| able experts,” Dr. Simons id. “The: iwere not approved by the govern- | ment merely because the experts dorsed them. but the government | squarely assumed responsibility them after 1 took the proposals out lof the hands of the experts, carried them into the final sessions of the cabinet and there championed them ! in- for | personall | | “The suggestion of a period of pro- | {visional payments was officially in- | | dorsed by Engiand. and it Mr. Lloyd Gieorge mow takes the opposite atti-| tude this is in contradiction to his | rmer position.” ter asserted the for ign minis- Brands Invasion Attack. The present invasion of the unoc- | cd areas of Germany he brand- | “the worst sort of an attack ! possibly can be made on any | | Dr. the breaking off of relations not yield Germany as the sentiment tlarge toward her wa favorable. He also disagreed with those who churged that the entente, through its present procedure, hed nullified the | treaty. and that it was no longer in| | torce for Germany. 1 Discussing the prospects of further | negotiations, the foreign <ai that would | advantage world at yet too un- any of the | | minister | i Does the present situation permit | jus to carry on further negotiations? {1 for my part. b not barricaded the path nor pledged Germany to a| definite course. In the opinion of the | government it now devolves on us to| exhaust every possibility to seek ! | means of effecting counter proposals | on some other b; But the sanc-| tions (penaliies) which now are ny»v erative have created a different jatmosphere for negotiations, both | | psychologically and in fact. i “I consider the allied ‘présent pro- | cedure the gravest fatal blow that eould administered to! the world’s cconomic gituition at this time. In view of these serious conse- | {auences we are unable to repeat the | {offer made in London, hut must seék | new proposis.” } ve and most be | | Treaty Not All \Void. 1 After repeating the arguments em- | | ployed before the London conference, | because the allies had torn up the treaty, it was therefore void for Ger- | many, was all wrong and that “w. | should not, repay vrong with wrong.’ This wag greeted with laughter and discord, but Dr. Simons con- tinued: “For Germany there still re- mains fulfiliment of the treaty ®o| far as that is possible, but no far- ther.” He then procecded to advocate the | seeking of a middle path to, the ter proposals on a different basis. “But,” he added, “at the moment | we are given such a slap in the fac { we cannot offer our hand and say: {‘We will be {riends. That is im- possible. 1f we renew negotiations we must point out that the basis is altered both psychologically and. ac: tually by the imposition of penalties. wi Md., Bankers | ©Ohio railroad, on South Carroli | strect, the following night, the sender of the letter would blow up | his home. The money was placed at | the tree and Sheriff Wertenbaker and | Deputy Sheriff Kiipp stationed the: 5 selves nearby to await the coming | of the blackhand writer. No one appeared that night. 2 Subsequently Holmes D. Baker re- | ceived another letter, saying that the money must be placed at another spot, near the first one named, on the following night. That letter said un- less the money was placed there the writer intepded to kill Mr. Baker's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Baker. Last Wednesday Joseph D. Baker received a’ letter advising him to place money under the tree, and he was told, that he would be killed un- less he complied with the terms of the letter, SUNDAY | stated he | eral MORNING, HAMON INFORMED PASTOR SHOOTING WAS “FRAME-UP" Clergyman Quotes Dying Man as Saying Clara Was Sorry. By the Associuted Pre ARDMORE. Okla., March 12. — Addi- tional testimony t Jake L. Hamon, OKlahoma republican national commit- that he had been shot by Clara Smith Hamon as he lay on the bed in his hotel room. was introduced at the woman's trial here today. W. B. Nichols, a orated testimony of vesterday as to the shooting. and the Rev. T. I. Irwin, who conducted Hamon's quoted Hamon as saving that Clara Hamon had told him the affair was “frame-up by others” and that she was rry for what she had done. funeral services, started two days ago. politics, which gained Hamon national renown., was touched on when one of the witnesses had been told by Hamon to ake direct to Warren Harding” the matter of appointment to office of sev- of Hzmon's friends, which Hamon still expressed deep interest even while dying Clergyman Takes Stand. She told me this was a frame-up by others, and that she was sorry,” the Rev. T. E. Irwin, pastor of the Presb; terian Church'at Lawion, who delivered Mr. Hamon's funeral oration, testified the dying man told him. *“Three times I had paid her off, but this is the time. The matter of the alleged “frame-up™ was nol touched on further by either state or defense counsel, and Dr. Irwin did not get to complete the statement he had started because of an interrup- tion by defense counsel. The clergyman did not have direct in- formation from Hamon that the young woman, former wife of a nephewy, had shot him, he sai® Not so, however, with W. B. N ols, former chief of police of Okla- and the other organizations who are | T- Simons declared that the idea that, | homa City. Okla., and businebs and political associate of Mr. Hamon. Mr. Nichols was the second man | through "whom the state had sought to introduce an alleged dying”state- ment from Mr. Hamon, and his testi- mony, like that of Kelly M. Roach, an Oklahoma City insurance man. ves- terday., was to the effect that he had been tolg by Hamon he knew he was dyving. and that Clara Smith Hamon shot him. “Bill, She Got Me.” “Bill, she got me.” Hamon as having said, and continued that the wounded man hud asserted he was lying down for a rest on the bed of his own room, which ad- joined that of the defendant. when Clara Hamon came to him, placed her left hand on his head and fired a bullet into his body. He told how Hamon had said he thirew up his left arm to knock aside the firearm, but too late, then leaped to his feet, knocked the tiny auto- matic pistol from the woman's hand, on his knees searched for it in the | BY the Associated Press. darkness on the floor, recovered it, placed it in his pocket and then walked (o the sanatorium, where” he died five days later. The former police chief testified he was in Mr. Hamon's office the fol- lowing morning when Clara Hamon entered and agreed, upon demand of Frank Ketch, business manager for Mr. Hamon then and now admin- istrator of his estate, that she leave Ardmore quickly. Jara, 1 have never butted into your affairs before, but I am now. No more disgrace for the Hamon family, Nicho!s quoted Ketch as having said: “Why, vou talk as if I did it,” he said Clara replied. “He did it himself and will tell you so.” Denies Clara’s Face Braised. On cross-cxamination Mr. Nichols de- nied he had seen bruises and marks on | Clara Hamon's face and hands at that {Continued on Page 7, Column 4.) For the first time in the trial, which | last | Nichols quoted | MARCH 13, | | H i { i | i i 1 i {teeraan, had_declared cn his deathbed | | | i Simons said he believed | business associate of Humon's, corrob- 1 | | | | i i | | | Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied te the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Paper and also the local mews publishet herein, All rights dispatches of publication of special berein are also reserved. 1923, Bk NEW AMFRICAN ADMINISTRATION CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT AT WASHINGTON EFFECTED RK T AS Y SMOOTHLY HERE ! | | | | Buried Alive, Indian Smallpox Patient Kicks Coffin in Vain ! REDDING, Calif,, March Charges that William Taylor, an Indian afflicted ith smallpox, was buried alive on Hat creek (wo weekn ago were presented today to the district attorney for Investizati The allegation wasx made by Chief Samxon Grant of the Hat Creek Indianx, who stated that he had received hix information PROMOTION OF 2,000 0 ARMY CAPTAINS BLOCKED BY REED Senator Declares Iniustice; About to Be Done to from his daughter, Mrs. Leln | Ruodes. 5 : | Mrs. Rhodex, who in vouched Hundreds in Service. 1 agent, Declaring that a grave injustice was | about to he done to hundreds of cap- | tains in the Army appointed from the buried Taylor after Before they took the cofn to the grave, the letter xald, they heard Taylor kicking, but were afraid to open the box, fearing the wrath of the health ofliver. in the world war, Missouri vesterday prevented action in the Senate on the nominations of ;@ couple of thousand lieutenants to |be captains. The Missouri senator list of officers in the emergency forces | Senator Reed of | FIVE CENTS. NOMINEES FOR D. C. HEADS WIN IF FOES LACK STRONG CASE Prompt Confirmation by Senate Will Follow Com- mittee Approval. NORRIS DEMANDS FULL HEARING FOR OPPONENTS Move of Opposition Said to Be Based on Question of Atti- tude Toward Utilities, Opponents Cuno H Oyster of the confirmation of udolph and Capt. James V. 4s District Commissioners must produce convincing evidence at the hearing on the nominations, sched- uled for tomorrow morning before the Senate District committee, or the nominations are likely to be confirmed without further delay, according to ' | members of the committee The committeemen do not plan any long-drawn-out hearings, and the session tomorrow will be the only one. unless evidence is produced which in the opinion of the committee’y warrants further sation invest ~ ator Norris® St On the other hand. Senator Norris of Nebraska. at whose instance the nominations were referred yesterday to the District committee and plans made for the hearing. said last night that he intended to see that the op- ponenis of the proposed Commission- ers should be given a full hearing. He said that he did not see how the hear- ings could be conciuded in a single meeting between 10 o'clock in the morning antd noon, the hour the Sen- ate meets, “My mind is open with regard to the nominees.” said Senator Norris. “I do not know what the evidence will be in regard to them. But the people of the | District. who have no vote, at least should be given ampie hearing in re- gard to the Commissioners appointed to govern them.” The opposition to the nominees is based. it is said. on the ground that they will be inclined (o represent the | interests of certain public utilities {in the District, rather than the in- | terests of the people. !forced the Senate to postpone con-! {sideration of these nominations until | temorrow. or perhaps later i Under the Army reorganization act {as construed by the War Department, imen .appointed from the emergency i forces as hodgepodge manner, it | contended. when it comes to promo- Gunmen Rounded Up in Kan- {5, ciher words, if a tieutenant | sas City Were to Be 13 o i o o o e Paid $15,000. | gether 4n }from the emergency foree, is promoted | to be a captain—as some two thou- {sand have been promoted—he is put By the Associated Press. {on the permanent list ahead of the KANSAS CITY. Mo. March 12— |man who had been previously selected Three hundred men were arrested.ias captain. thousands of dollars’ worth of liquor Nullifies Army Boards. and drugs seized and hundreds of | zuns, knives and sacks of ammuni-| All of these commissioned officers tion brought in by the authorities to-| Who entered the Regular Army since in raids on that part of Kansas|the War fiom the emergency forces City known as “Little Italy." |were passed upon by Army boards— The raids. which police department {the so-called Pershing boards—and heads characterized the most ex-i&iven their rank accordingly. But the tensive In the city’s history, were|®ction of these boards is now made continued tonight. with more than|of no avail. it is charged. sixty detectives participating. { In the last s on of Congress They followed reports reaching the |these same nominations were sent to | |the Senate by former President Wil- son. but were not acted upon. To fili | kil here police that and federal a plot to officials high police and create by the unlawful element. When the lieutenants promoted to fill | The larger quantity of weapons|these grades become captains a large seized ranged from small-caliber pis- [percentage of them—over 1,600, in | tols to sawed-off shotguns. Two- |fact—take precedence for promotion | edged knives, many of foreign manu- facture, were greatly in evidence. At numerous places, the raiding officers said generous stores of ammunition were found hidden in sacks ordinarily used by banks in keeping money. AGENTS RECOVER ALCOHOL. NEW ORLEANS, March 12.—Fed- | eral prohibiticn enforcement agents | late today recovered sixty-four of the the former emergency officers who | sixty-five drums of alcohol stolen re- were made captains by the examining cently. from the Kentucky Distillery |boards is corrected by legislation. it | Company at Westwego. near here. | ha | New Poison, Rained From Aero, Could Cut Swaths in Armies to the gmde of major over mnearly | 11,200 ofticers who obtained rank of | captain through the selection of the | examining boards. This |M'l‘(‘ml--nxe| | for promotion not the result of | vears of longer service, because the! only service counted is service subse- | quent to the declaration of war. Creates Jealousies. Unless the discrimination against | | of this liquid which could be made | NEW, YORK, March 12.—The is the amount of available electri- chemical warfare service has dis- 1 power, as mearly every nation covered a liquid poison so strong has practically an unlimited supply that three drops will kill one whose of the necessary raw materials. skin it touches, it became known 1t would be entirely here today. | this country to manufactyre seve- Falling like rain from nozzles at- | ral thousand tons per day, if the | c possible for | tached * to. airplanes the liquid | pecessary plants had been built. would kill everything in the air- craft's path, according to a high Could Wipe Out Army. official of the service. “During the Argonne offense the Gives Description. entire first American army of A description of what the new 1.250,000 men occupied an area of | war weapon would do, in the approximately forty kilometers | opinion of this official, follows: long by twenty kilometers wide. If Germany had had 4,000 tons of this material and 400 planes “One plane carrying two tons of the liquid over an area of 100 feet wide by seven miles long in one | equipped for its distribution the trip could deposit cmough ma- | entire first army would have been- | terial to kill every man in that | annihilated in twelve hours, | area, and if those on the ground “The chemical warfare service is developing protective clothing to entirely cover the wearer and make him impervious to the deadly liquid.” were not protected by gas masks, the area of fatality would be many times greater. “The- only - limit to-the-quantity o ot s : and second licutenants are thrown to- | | | ing made ! the !be highly gratified at the selection by, Senator Ball te Preside; Although Senator Dillingham eof Vermont the ranking member of the Senate District committee, he has turned over (o Senator Ball of Deia« ware the duty of calling and pre- | siding over the hearing on the nomi- nations for Commissioner. It is ex- pected that Senater Ball will be the chairman of the District committee when new standing committee ate is made up Unless there be serious objections, the members of the Senate District committee plan to report the nomina- tions of Mr. Rudolph and Capt. Oyster the to the Senate tomorrow afternoom and ask for their confirmation. #f it is impossible to obtain such quick action, the Senate may be held in ses. sion a day longer to dispose of the nominations, proved by Organizations. The leading members of the Board of Trade. Chamber of Commerce and Merhants and Manufacturers’ Assp- ciation werc unanimous last might in approving the s on of Messrs. Rudolph and Oyster The board merchants’ President of governors of the, association instructed Philip King to send a del- 4 reign of terror had been formulated |the vaecancies in the grade of captain | egation before the Senmate committee in the district |Secretary Weeks has recommended | tomorrow morning and express the: Gunmen. according to the reports,|the same promotions and President | association’s approval of the nomis wese imported from other cities to|Harding has sent them to the Senate. | nations. carry out the killings 2nd they were| There ire now about 2.000 vacancies| Albert Schulteis, president of the to receive their pay from a fund of [in the grade of captain to be filled { Chamber of Commerce, said he talked 1$15.000 or more raised for the purpose | by promotion from licutenant grades. | with a number of the directors ofs the chamber about the nominations, and they were united in their satis- faction over the selections. Among ihe leaders in the chamber who told Mr. Schulteis they were pleased with the appointments were Isaac ns. William F. Gude, Dr. Lewis J. Battle, Arthur E. Seymour, M. A. Lecse, Harry King, Leon &, Ulman, 1van (. Weld and Adolph E. Gude. Mr. Schulteis added his personal indorsement to the list and said he expected to attend the hearing to- morrow and let the committee know (he sentiments of the directors of the chamber whom he will be able to reach before that time. Board of Trade Statement. Thomas Bradley, president of the Board of Trade, said that all of the members of the organization with whom he was able to confer yester- day were agreed that President Hard- excellent selections for Mr. Bradley issued Commissioners. | the following statement: “The Washington Board of Trade has evidenced its opinion of the character and ability of Capt. Oyster and Mr. Rudolph by honoring each of them with the office of president of that organization. oth these gentlemen have been active in civic affairs and stand high !in the estimation of their business associates. They have at all times shown u willingness to sacrifice their personal interests to answer a call to public duty. “Persopally. 1 regard the nomina- tions as excellent ones and feel that citizens of Washington should President Harding of these well known residents of the District of Columbia A. J. Driscoll, president he id- City Citizens' Association, said Wash- ington should be glad that President Harding selected such representative’ _’m