Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1921, Page 1

. Col. Junkersfeld figured the average | warmer. Temperature for twent ended at 2 p.m. tod F p.m. today; lowest, 4 today. Full report on page WEATHER. Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; much v-four hours, ghest, 60, at at 6 am. | | L Closing New York Stocks Page 6 Part 2 No. 28,083. post office Was Enteredl_as second-class matter shington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, TAB ON COMPANIES LIKELY TO AFFECT UTILITY DECISIONS New Commissioners Expect to Check Up on Manage- ment of Corporations. EXPERT OUTLINES PLAN FOR POTOMAC*POWER CO. Declares $6,000,000 Must Be Spent in Next Ten Years to Keep Pace With City Growth. Utility rate decisions to be rendered hereafter by the Public Utilities Com- mission may be affected to a large extent by a close watch which the commission expects to keep on the ‘management of the several public mervice corporations operating in the Distriot. If the new members of the com- mission, Commissioners Rudolph and Oyster, have entered office with one oclearly established policy as to util- ities it is that the business manage- ment of the companies has a vital relation to the question of rates. and it is a factor which should not be ignored by the commission in con- sidering appeals for relief. ‘Want to Reveal Facts. They believe the public should not ‘be made to pay for bad management and that if the corporations get into difficulties through lack of efficient operating methods the fact should be established and the utilities rather than the public made to stand the consequences. In other words, they would place upon the owners of public utilities the responsibility of selecting officials who can operate the companies eco- nomically. They would not require; the public to bolster up dividends where the returns would have been Misses That $12,000, Daniels Tells Denby As Correspondent Joxephux Daniels was back at the Navy Department today. but to ask, not to answer questions. Joining the group of Waxhing- ton correspondents at the regu- | | 1ar press conference with Secre- tary Denby. Mr. Daniels fired a few questions at hix successor, hopiniz for a “story” for his pa. per, the Raleizh (N. C.) News and Ob: They produced no results, xo the former Secretary dexcribed feelingly ¢ Denby the natural advantages of Raleizh for a fleet base or naval air station or almoxt any- thinz like that. “After an eight-year vacation in Washington as Secretary of | the Navy,” Mr. Daniels said to | Mr. Denby, “I am a plain coun- try mewspaper editor scratch- ing gravel to get an honest I ing. 1 think I am going to miss that $12,000 a year.” After two weeks on your old job I have a very well defined Mr. Daniels will spend xeveral | days here getting up material | for articlex on naval subjects he | plans to write. | UOARE“LAIDOFF” AT D. . TERMINAL Big Reduction in Force Since the First of March. - Four hundred of the 2,500 employes of the Washington Terminal Com- pany have been “laid off” since the 1st of March, effecting a saving of between §85000 and $95,000 per month, it was learned today. More than 150 of this number were drop- ped during the past two days. Officials ascribe the cut in forces principally to the necessary read- justment warranted by the sluggish condition of railroad transportation and partially to the ordinary sea- sonal changes between winter and summer. normal and reasonable had efficient operating methods been in vogue. Suggestion May Be Made. It has not been disclosed how the commission will proceed to check up on the efficiency of the operating per- sonnels of the public utilities. It is likely suggestions will be given the companies from time to time regarding possible economies in management. These may be made in- formally in hearings or otherwise, but they will be made with the desire by the commission that the companies Shops Hardest Hit. The forces hardest hit in the lay- off are those employed in the shops, where approximately 200 were drop- ped from the pay roll. The savings effected by the decrease in personneb| cannot be accurately judged, accord- ing to offcials, large number of unskilled laborers included in the “daily turnover” classification. Estimates show, ho ever, that the monthly savings will be found between the figures quoted, with the leaning toward the higher shall show a spirit of co-operation in endeavoring to get their operating and financing methods established upon the best basis possible. Testifies Before Rate Hearing for Potomad Electric Campany. The Potomac Electric’' Power Com- pany will have to spend $6.000,000 in the next ten years in adding to its plant, in order to keep pace with the growth of the city, according to testi- mony presented at the opening of the hearing today on the petition of the! company for continuation of the ex- isting rates for current. The present rate for lighting cur- rent to households is 83 cents per kilowatt hour, and will go back to 8 cents on April 1, unless the commis- eion_acts in the meantime. There ‘would be reductions in the schedules for wholesale users on April 1 if a new order is not issued. Col. Peter Junkersfeld, consulting engineer of Stone & Webster, Incor- porated, who recently made a survey of the compan¥'s plant, told the com- mission that the above figures will| have to be spent between now and 1930 to permit the company to meet! the demand for service. Point te Show Need. The point of the testimony was to show that the company will have to be allowed a higher rate of return on the value of its property in order to! attract the necessary capital to carry | out the extension program. | The witness said he found it would | be better for the company to extend the Benning power station than to build a new station elsewhere. He characterized it as one of the most efficient plants for its size and age in_the country. In estimating the amount the com- pany must spend in the next ten years | increase in the company’s outbut of | current at 4,000 kilowatts a year. A new generator will be necded at the Benning plant in 1923, the wit- ness said, and another in 1928. Al new switch gear that would cost | $500.000 also is needed, he said. | Outlines Extensive rPogram. The extension program for ten years, as outlined by the witness, fol- fows: In 1921, expend $576,000: 1922, $587 000; 1923, $1,151.000; 1921, $3%0.00 $965,000; 1926, $394.000; 192 $511,000; 1928, $1,256.000; 1929, $211 000, "and 1930, 000. This gives a total of $6.328,000, and represents only the actual cost of construction work at present prices, with no allowance for the general corporate expenses incident to the development. The witness estimated the output of the power company at 230,000,000 kilowat! hours a year. i estimate. The cut at the terminal, it was said by officials, is the first definite flare- back felt in Washington from the stagnation of national transporta- tion. The reflection has wime-in-vire+ -The Thalrmanship of -the committee | necessity for retrenchment and from the more infrequent use of equip- ment. % Equipment in Fair Shape “Qur_equipment is in fair shape one official stated. “The shops are hit the hardest because of the fuct that our equipment has been kept in good condition. The maintenance of way men and the general transporta- tion forces also were included in the general lay-off. “When the railroad commerce picks present forces. As it is we are clear- sential and absolutely necessary to the efficient conduct of our business.” It is expected that additional de- creases in the personnel will nounced within the next few weeks, As it is. the Washington Terminal has cut its forces approximately 16 per cent. IMPORT EMBARGO MAY AID GROWERS President and Cabinet Talk of Use of War Powers. =Farm Financing. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding and his cabinet have determined, after a long discus- sion of the agricultural situation throughout the country, to study spe- cifically these methods of relief: First: The use of war powers of the executive to embargo importations of wool, meats, cotton and other prod- ucts which are coming into the United | States in such quantities, at present, las to keep prices from rising to the | pre-war normals, below which they have gone in recent months, econd: The most extensive use of | the War Finance Corporation to finunce farming industri Conter- | ences are planned between Secre- | taries Hoover and Wallace of the | Commerce and Agricultural depart- ments and Eugene Meyer of the War In answer to questions from Attor- ney S. R. Bowen, for the company, the engineer stated that it is more eco- nomical to have one power plant to develop current for *the Warhington Railway and Electric and the Poto- muc Eleetric Power companies than if each company had a separate plant, Chairman Kutz of the commission questioned the witness as to whether the rail company is getting all the advantages of the joint plant The chairman asked the witness if he did not feel that in such a joint use the companies should share equally in the advantages of a single plant. Suggests Benefit for Public. The witness replied it might not al- ways be true t each company would share equally Attorney Yellott, for the company, suggested that since probab cent of the users of current are riders on street cars, whatever bencfits re sult from joint operation go o the public in any event. “hairman Kutz, who believes street car riders should pay the cost of run- ning the cars and electric light users the cost of that service, c: Yellott's attention to tL: case of a large concern that has an electric Dbill of thousands of dollars, but does not have occasion to use the street cars in its business. Col. Junkersfeld then presented con- siderable testimony as to the rates at which securities are selling in various parts of the country to show that a substantial rate of return on lied Mr. | inance Corporation, at which a pol- {icy of finance will be formulated and laid before P'resident Harding for ap- | | prov. [ tarir | embargoes, because the President is Ireluctant to use war powers any |longer than necessary and a tariff wall is considcred much more scien- tific than an _embargo in controlling the influx of foreign <ommodities. The enactment of emergency Intended as Stop-Gap. ym_present indications the em-| LOMOITOW. Sereary barso whl be used as a Stop-gap un- | Russia signs treaty to pay bejand {1 the tax bill has been considercd by 30,000,000 gold rubles. Page 2 Cor and that body is ready to| g o tac riff legislation. ¥ 10| Municipal examining board for naming “onvincing arguments have been to Mr. Harding which for the moment make it look as if he would favor the emactment of the Fordney mergency tariff law in exactly the me form it as passed by Con- s last session, only to receive a Wilson veto. Those who favor such a course say that a general tariff bill must be indefinitely postponed until after tax reform laws are made and further data are available as to the cost of production around the world, It is recognized that this is a period of resdjustment, ‘and that & tarift aw passed now may have to be re- vised within a year, owing to eco- nomic factors over which this coun- try has no control. The significant thing that stands {out in the events of the last two | days is that agriculture has forced its IR to the front, and that the Hard- iden of what kind of a vaeation 1 . - See | the Semate for its approval when Joughads Secretary Denby re- | | Congress reassembles next month. In Phie addition to Senator Ball, the repub- on account of the | up again we expect to augment our| ing the decks of everything not es-| be an-| egiglation later to replace the | BALL WILL HEAD COMMITTEE OND.C. Three Republicans Are New to Assignment Likely to Be flade. Senator L. Heisler Ball of Delaware will head the-Senate committee on the District of Columbia, according to the action of the republican commit- tee on committees, it was learned to- day. Official announcement of the assign- ments of republicans will not be made | until after the lists have been sub- mitted to the republican caucus of lican members of the District com- mittee, it is learned, will be Senators Dillingham of Vermont, Jones of Washingt “apper of Kansas, El- kins of West Virginia, Gooding of idaho. Cameron of Arizona and Wel- ler of Maryland. Three of these senators are new to the committec and two of them. Senators Cameron and Weller, have just come to the Senate. The other hew member, Senator Gooding, came into the Senate at the last session to take the place of Senator Nugent, who resigned. Ball Distriet's Friend. Senator Ball, the new chairman of the committee, has taken a_keen in- terest in District affairs. Eis name is associated with the act creating the District rent commission. He was chairman of the subcommittee which investigated the high cost of living in_the District. The Delaware senator is keenly in- ested iu the development of the ational Capital, and in obtaining a quare deal for all of its citizens. | One of the matters which he hasj | close “at heart is a solution of the street railway problem. He is a strong believer in a merger of the street car lines. Senator Weller of Maryland is an- other friend of the District. He lived here for a number of years while in the government service, and is familiar with the problems of the capit: Senator Gooding and Senator Cameron are both men of affairs, and, it is believed, will be of assistance in |dealing with District matters, Plan to Increase. In order to take care of all the in- coming republican senators as well as the old members, the committee will propose to the republican caucus that ten of the major committees be in- creased in membership to sixteen. { The limit now placed on the size of cemmittees is fifteen. There was a considerable contest | { over vacancizs’on the Senate foreign relations committee. All the 0ld mem- bers of that committee are retained ! and Senator Kellogg of Minnesota is given the one vacancy which existed with the committee reduced to fifteen. If the proposed change in the rules | increasing the committee to sixteen is adopted, Senator McCormick of Iili- rois will get the place. on agriculture goes to Senator Norris of Nebraska, the ranking member. There was some effort to have Senator Page of Vermont, now chairman of the naval affairs committee, transferred to the chairmanship of the agricultural committee, so that Senator Poindexter of Washington might become chairman of the naval affairs committee, but this was abandoned. B ——— OCCUPATION OF STATIONS i IS STEP IN REPARATIONS New Mulheim and Speldorf Posts Command Approaches to Rhine and Are Held Necessary. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 19—The occupation of the Mulheim and Speldorf railway stations in the Ruhr district of Ger- many by French troops was simply a | further step in the plan adopted by the London reparations conference, it was explained in official circles here today. The stations command the ap- proaches to the Rhine and their pos- session was necessary to make the allicd occupation effective, it was added. . DU. ELDORF, March 18.—The oc- cupation area has been extended from Duisburg to stations all along the railroad running from Duisberg to Essen to within two and a half miles lof Essen. The central freight yard (at Wedau. the largest in the Ruhr district, and Mulheim station are guarded by French troops. Duessel- | dorf is quiet. NEW COMET DISCOVERED. Stranger of Ninth Magnituge in Capricornus Constellation. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 19.—Dis- covery of a comet of the ninth magni- tude was announced in a cablegram to the Harvard college observatory today. | It came from the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Brussels, and said that at Cape Town on Marc] 14 the astronomer Reid had sighted the stranger of the skies in the contellation of Capricornus, Today’s News | in Paragraphs | Reclassification sure to come up In next | session. Page 1 Uchida declares Japan will insist on Yap mandatory rights. Page 1 Bible inspires confession—You; | “blames devil for murder. "‘P‘gfigke; President invited to church anniversary | teachers of schools is suggested. Page 2 Battle develops from great ambush in County Cork. Page 2 Auto show closes tonight; attendance is record. Page 3 Estate tax exempt from income return Court of Claims rules, Page | Scottish playlet at the Willard draws enthusiastic crowd. Page 4 Detroit Federation of Labor criticises Samuel Gompers for imputations res garding suggested recognition of Rus- sia. Page 4 Revision of treaty of Sevres success for French diplomacy. Page 4 North Idaho to launch campaj create new state called Lincoly” ' Fo th, a e o ‘ourteen ousand protest “*hoj Rhine’ meeting in New York. ‘lf;:;a 5% WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, PAGES. AY CLEARED FOR RECLASSIFICATION Appropriations Committee Already Outlining Bill to Be . Presented Next Session. Legislation reclassifying the em- ployes of the government and making a fairer distribution of work and pay is to be put through at the coming session of the new Congress, accord- ing to Senator Curtis of Kansas, re- publican whip of the Senate and a member of the appropriations com- mittee now charged with the work of drafting the reclassification bill. The Kansas senator pointed out to- day that the appropriations commit- tee has cleared the decks, so far as the spécial session is eoncerned: “Adl- of the big supply measures for the government for the coming fiscal year. which are handied by that com- mittee. were disposed of before the close of the last session of Congress. The way is cleared for reclassification of government employes. A considerable amount of work on reclassification has already been ac- complished in preparation for the committee's draft of the bill. Also the committee has possession of the report of the joint congressional commission on reclassification and the extensive hearings, which were taken by that commission in 1919 and 1920. Committee’s Firat Chance. In the regular sessions of Congress the appropriations committee in the last two or th-ee years has been greatly occupied with the regular supply bills for the government. During the war it was kept con stantly at_work on special supply measures for the prosecution of the Now it has the opportunity for war. t | constructive work along the line of reclassification. In the opinion of some of the mem- bers of the appropriations committee it will not be necessary to hold futher hearings, or, if hearings are held, they will be brief and will deal with special matters upon which th. committee finds it requires further information. The report of the joint commission on reclassification and the bill which it drafted has been criticiSed by some of the legislators on the ground that it makes far too many classi- fications, and that it prevents various classes of employes from doing work of which they are perfectly capable and which is closely allied to the work of their classification. The contention is that with so many classifications far more employes will be required. and in many in- stances there will be employes who Fave scarcely an hour or two of work fo do daily, with the rest of the time waiting around for something to do. Simplify Classifications. 1t is expected, therefore, that the appropriations committee will simpli- fy the matter of classifications and eliminate many that have been pro- posed by the reclassification commis- ion. !The senators are determined that the present system of granting hori- zontal bonuses to the emploves shall cease, and that a scientific rearrange- ment of work and salaries shall take its place. The bonus sSystem was adopted merely as an expedient to tide the government workers over the period of war emergency, when prices were soaring and the Congress too Pusy with war legislation to give at- tention to reclassification. MERCURY 85 IN OMAHA. OMAHA, Neb, March 18—All weather records for March 18. in Omaha were broken today, when at 5 o'clock, the mercury ascended to 85 degrees. 1 EXPLOSION KILLS WOMAN. CHICAGO, March 19.—A bandit was shot to death by a watchman, a house was bombed and a woman was killed in a mysterious explosion within an hour early today. Two bandits attempted to break into the Adler Packing Company of- fices and one was shot to death by Carey Mason, negro watchman. Within a few minutes a terrific ex- plosion set fire to a house in gnother part of the city and when firemen entered they found the body of Mrs. Fran Schirmer, sixty-five years old, stretched across a trunk. In the negro district a bomb in- jured two persons, shattered windows jand otherwise damaged half a dozen residences. PRESIDENT INVITED 0 ANNUAL SERVIGE First. Baptist Church Sets Aside Special Pew for Executive’s Use. i President and Mrs. Harding were| invited today to attend the morning services at the First Baptist Churech, 16th and O streets, tomorrow, on the occasion of the 119th anniversary of the church. A special pew for the President and Mrs. Harding will be set aside for their use at any time in the future. Rev. Henry Allen Tupper, pastor of the church, who called at the execu- tive offices to extend the invitation and to notify the President of the set- ting aside of the pew, said afterward that the President's program for to- morrow has not been arranged, but that he would be notified in time to make the necessary arrangements in the event the President should find it possible to attend. W. Doak of Roanoke, president of the National Brotherhood of Rail- road Trainmen, who ran for Congress last November against Representative James P, Woods, conferred with the President at noon today regarding the general labor situation as it af- fects the railroad men. When Mr. Doak called on Mr. Harding at Marion last summer he was invited to come to the White House soon after his inauguration the railroad situation, especially the legislative phase. Mr. Doak has been for several years the legislative rep- resentative of the rallroad brother- hoods at the Capitol. The President was urged today by a delegation of Ohioans to appoint W. M. Burgess of Trenton, N. J., to mem- bership on the Uniteq States tariff commission. In the delegation were J. B. MacDonald, W. H. Smith, jr., and T. A. McNichol, all members of the United States Potters' Associu- tion, of which Mr. Burgess is a mem- ber. They were introduced to tne President by Louis Brush, a publisher of East Liverpool, Ohio. Mr. Burgess also has been recommended by Sena- tors Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Penrose of Pennsylvania. COMMISSIONER REAPPOINTED. Ethelbert Stewart, United States commissioner of labor statistics since the resignation of Dr. Royal Meeker last summer, has been reappointed as commissioner by President Harding, it was announced at the White House today. Mr. Stewart served as com- missioner of labor statistics under a recess appointment of former Presi- dent Wilson. His appointment was not acted on by the Senate, and his term lapsed March 4. Mr. Stewart was sworn into office yesterday afternoon by Samuel J. Gompers. chief clerk of the Depart- ment of Labor, and immediately took up his duties as commissioner. “A Day With President Harding” . to go over more tully! INSPREDBY BBLE ADMITSHE SLEW Young Decker, 18, Says Devil Prompted Killing ot Leroy Lovett. By the Associated Press. ‘WARSAW, Ind., March 19,—Memories of his early religion revived by a let- ter urging him to confess his sins and seek forgiveness, combined with the softening influence of motherly advice given by Mrs. C. B. Moon, wife of the sheriff of Kosciusko county, have resulted in a confession from Virgil Decker, eighteen years old, in which he declares that he alone was responsible for the death of Leroy Lovett, a nineteen-year-old youth of bening Star. N Member of th The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to || the use for republication of all news dispatehes ! nis wdited in publishad n of special nlso rescrved. credited to it or ut « paper and also the local n ANl rights of publicat dispatehes herein ar [ j ! Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 97,174 TWO CENTS. SENATE MUST FACE REOPENING DEBATE Ex-Kaiser’s Meddling ! in International Affairs Stirs Dutch | By Cable” to The Star and_Chicago | | Daily News. Copyright, 1% { DAM, Holland, March RewspApers express that the ex-Germnan emperor ix per- | mitted to abuse the rizht of | nsylum by meddiing with inter- mnatlo policies. Het Volk points out that the former | kllllllr in engaged in something —_— e paper Party Pledges and Foreign who charged Pressure Will Force De- cision on Versailles Pact. fidantes in G clex himaelf rounded by hi busy with pro old monarchical id 3 nddn that the ex-kainer in still a meroux pernon, and declares that hix presence within Hol- land conatitutes n menace to Duteh political relations with | the allien, particularly in view the growth of the mon: hi- cal movement in Germany in the lat few monthx. ‘}LEAGUE OF NATIONS ISSUE | SURE TO GET TO THE FORE Covenant So Bound With Treaty It Could Not Be Avoided in End- ing State of War. | BY N. 0. MESSENG | Whi a faction of senators bitter- i |1y deprecate reopening the subject | of the league of nations, they are L 4:1“‘.’!!'1' that the administration is con- i!l‘onh‘d by a condition and rnot a theory regarding the Versailles L "y | treaty. and the declaration of a state Neither Will French ENVOY (ot peace with Germany which in- | volves collateral league. Here are some of the hard, cold facts which the administration will ‘ace when the international situation ciscussion of the Talk Politics Unless U. S. Brings Up Subject. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. is brought up on the arrival of M. Dy Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | Viviani: 2 it, 1921, iy ‘opyTigh That the party In power o8 PARIS, March 19.—The report that Rene Viviani, who sails for New York vledged to an carly peace with Ger- many and yet the administration is toda v cw ad- | TN 3 v, will take up with the new ad-| 3qyiged that to declare a separate ministration the question of France's | peace now would be regarded as debt to the United States is vigor- | Weakening the position of the allies 2 lin their efforts to exact reparation ously denied by the ministry of for-| g 3 P | from Germany iim eign affairs. The truth is exactly | ) T e terms of the treaty by Germany. as was cabled to The Star last week. | 0 'rnu; insistent pressure will be STy A | brought to bear to have the treaty M. Viviani's mission is first one of | PECUELL fo bear to have the treaty courtesy and second one of informa- | tion. He is charged with presenting the French goverament's congratule- | Il.ior:s to President Harding and with " ascertaining, as far as possible, Hard- ing’s foreign policy. 1If, in addition, with a view to its ratification with the league of nations covenant omit- ted or modified by the Senate. That France will argua with greater edrnestness the necessity. from her viewpoint, of the United States lend- ing its mora] sirength to the press- ure being exerted 3, | he engages in any political conversa- Dol e by Y tion the initiative must come from er modified, a_ party to the United States. | el tesced T That this is indeed the real char- | 3 acter of M. Viviani's mis is at- Lengue to the Front. tested by the fact that he will be 1In consideration of any or all of entirely unaccompanied by techni- these propositions, it is regarded as cians, who, under different circum- | highly probable that the icague of stances, would he necessary. The |nations will be brought to the fore. idea that the French would eveneven though lugged into the discus- welcome a discussion of the French 'sion by the ears. The irreconcilable | foreign debt at this time is contrary senators are fighting againsi this | to the fact. | prospect and decrying its possibilities, It is true that for the present but the other faction cannot ses how France is unable to pay this debt; it it is to be avoided, and, of course, |is ‘equally true, however, that Te-|they do mot want it avoided. ceipts from the German indemnities! No one has yet pointed out how the as provided by the treaty of Ver-!league of nations can be dissected Elkhart, Ind, with whom he had!sailies would “doubtless make pay|from the Versailics treaty and leave ment ssible. rance, erefore, is hat instrument a document which chummed. Decker signed the con-|Well BOCOL (1" assumption, frst,| the Scnate could treal ~eparately fession early today in the presence of Mrs. Moon. her husband, three de- tectives and two Warsaw citizens. Since his arrest Tuesday at Marion, Ind. on the charge 6f murdering Lovett, the Decker boy has insisted that he had no part in the Lovett lad's death. Almost constant ques- tioning by officers failed to bring any March 11 and 12, with Lovett. Yester- he received in a letter from Mrs. George Walker of Nappanee, 2 woman wholly unknown to him, a deeply re- ligious appeal that he “confess every- thing to the man you have harmed, and imploring him to “lean on Jesus.” Finds Comfort in Bible. During his incarceration Mrs. Moon also has talked with him. Late yes- terday Decker requested a Bible. Later Mrs. Moon heard him talking as he waiked his cell. She listened | and heard him quoting the Scriptures. | “Did you find something to comfort | you?" she asked. 5 | The boy said he had found some- | thing very comforting. “Are you familiar with the Bible?" asked Mrs. Moon. [ Decker replied he could recite many passages of Scripture, and he told her of earlier days when he attended church regularly. “My favorite verse is John, chap- ter 3, verse 16, said he, and quoted, 1 ““For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who=oever believeth in Him should not_perish, but have everlasting life “Isn’t that good?” he shputed. makes me feel better already.” “But, Virgil, if you keep on telling lies, don’'t you know that you will only make your case worse?’ sug- gested Mrs. Moon. “Yes, 1 know it, but 1 have made my peace with God and I'm ready to tell all” declared the boy. | He then gave a complete account of his trip from Elkhart, Ind.. with Leroy Lovett, which started Friday | night, March 11, and which, accord- It morning in 4 summer cottage on the Tippecanoe river with an attack on the Lovett boy. The story was later | repeated in the presence of Sherift | Moon and others and incorporated in the signed confession. No motive for the attack was giv- en, except the brief statement that sthe devil told me to do it and I just aid it Story of Attack. The attack, with a heavy iron bar, was made. according to the confes- sion given out by the officers, shortly before noon Saturday and was not fatal, but, fearing the consequences admissions from him except he had| spent some time Friday and Saturday, | that Germany will pay France and, from the league issue. Perhaps the second that France will duly pay | “Philadelphia lawyer” who ceuld per- Britain and the United States. form this feat is hovering in the It for any reason the German in- offing, but thus far he is topsails demnities should not be forthcoming, | Gown below the horizon, it is said. {then the material situation as regards | It is said that a certain distinguish- | France's debt to the United States|ed convalescent out in the northwest {would also naturally be changed. section of the capizl is rexarding with | Meanwhile it is taken for granted | some satisfaction the irritation pre- I here that the Untied States, having : vailing in sematorial circles over the a strong if indirect interest in doing |imminency of reopening of the league 80, will naturally incline more and |of nations issue. Ever since the treaty more to support the allied claims|was sent back to the White House by against Germany, even apart from the | the Senate. this personage has held high moral issue which the French|that in the end the Senate would have consider to be no less compelling now | to agaln take cognizance of the Ver- than during the war. !sailles treaty, and would again be con= _—— {fronted with the 1ssue of the league of ing to the confession, ended Saturday | HOLOING YAP RIGHTS Domestic Questions Firstf The present determination of the administration is to urge upon Con- Uchida Says Interests Will Be Insisted On—Raps J. F. Stevens and U. S. Agitation. attention to domestic questions By the Associated Press. But M. Viviani is on the, high “TOKIO, March 18. { Japan will stand {firmly on her mandate over the 1s {land of Yap, in the south Pacific, count Uchida, the foreign minister. declared at a meeting of the budget | committee of the diet today in reply |to a question by Representative Etsu- jiro Uehara. The latter asked wheth- {the council of the league of nations nd that of the United States regard- {ing Yap did not affect Japan's inter- | ests, and also whether Japan intended ! mandate. Representative Uehara id that | | i anti-Japanese agitation in the United States was epreading (o other states | besides California, which, he de clared, was _probably due to the fact! that the California agitators were | communicating with persons similarly | disposed in other states, thus fanni anti-Japanese feeling. Raps Jokn F. Stevens. i He also charged John F. Stevens of | Chicago, head of the American rail- | {way mission in Siberia, with carrying | er the attitude of Great Britain and | i to insist on her rights under the Yap | that’ might result from this assault,)cn an anti-Japanese movement as a Virgil, " the confession reveaied, |result of the clashing of his views| changed some of Lovett's clothes for ' with those of the Japanese army in his own, obtained a horse and buggy | Siberia. and drove with the injured lad to a| Viscount -Uchida replied that he| vailroad crossing. |knew nothing of the allegations There he released the horse, leaving 'against Mr. Stevens, but said the gov- the buggy with Lovett seated in it ernment was adopting every possible; unconscious, expecting that a train |means to prevent the passage of laws would come along, demolish the buggy | similar to those adopted in California. | and Jeave a body so badly mangled | The foreign minister asserted that that identification would be Impossible | the trade agreement between Great| except by bits of clothing. These bits | Britain and soviet Russia was only a would be those of the Decker boy’s | temporary measure. The interests of clothing, and he planned to disappear, | Great Britain, France, Italy and Ja- leaving the impression that he had [pan in Russia, he declared, all were met his death in the accident. different and the negotiations of | seas and when he reaches Washing- {ton it is held that w Congress is attending to its domestic knitting’ ithe wdministration will have to give no- tice to questions which the French state | for presentation ing's notice. man is bringing over to President Hard- snator Harry S. New of Indiana, affiliated with the irreconcilables, | still contends that it will.be practi- | cable to declare a separate peace with Germany, and “take the curse” off = | such action by adding the declaration | which was contained in the original { Knox resolution, of the willingness Jand inte: on of this country again to | take part, by force of arms, in a con- dition created by Germany similar to | the crisis of 181 | {JAPAN READY TO FOLLOW U. S. DISARMAMENT LEAD | Minister Says Agreement Would Be Welcomed, But Proposals Must Start Here. VICTORIA. B. ., March 19.—Jupan would be willing to consider any pro- posals 1 mizht be submitted to her leading to a reduction in armi- ments, and is prepared to participate in an international conference to that end. according to Count K. Hirosawa, { newly appointed Japanese minister to | Spain and Portugal, who has arrived { here on the liner Suwa Maru ‘It is generally recognized that the United States must take the initiative world disarmament announced by Lord Lee, and the decision of the British govern- ment_to build four capital ships of the Hood class. He said that Japan already had determined her naval policy, but would welcome an agree- ment among world powers to bring about a reduction in naval expendi- tures. : Count Hirosawa is accompanied by H. Hatey professor of law at Tokio University, Japanese member of the commission on amendments to the covenant of the league of nations, who is on his way to Geneva. a property is nceded now in order|ing administration, which pled Nearly 6,000 anti-red refugees cross 1..lbo:r;7|;"m:;nm.e e e itself to help the farmer, i.q"fr‘v'ffig Finnish frontier. B Page 7 n te! s for develop- | to make good that pledg < Final appeals made f ini the power plant here. he said the| Henry €. Wallace, ryofAgeicl (nMatwan mine S i'v':‘(:l‘«; pian_has been so worked ont that | cuiture : editor of | Society of N: - » FRn Ve dome in steps and <an hl in wericultural fournal of wide ...»1“"’;5.‘;&‘.,?{ “Wis “Good at Trlharand (Continued on Page 2, Column 32 Mtreets, , . Page 12 L — ACopUniied on Fage & Colwnn 3.) [ 5 Read this interesting article of how the new Presi- dent spends his time from break of day to late at night. in the Magazine Section of Tomorrow’s Star And watch for these big fiction features: “Own Your Own Home,” a full-length story by Ring ‘W. Lardner. “That Tracey Giles Party,” by Sewell Ford. Another gripping “Wang Foo” story by Sydney C. Partridge. “Home Grown,” one of Fannie Hurst’s famous yarns. In Tomorrow’s Star The buggy was hit by a slow freight train, however, and the bedy tossed aside and not mutilated. claimed by both Samuel Lovett of Elk- hart, father of Leroy Lovett, and mem- bers of the Decker family. With the confession given by Virgil Decker, declaring that he was the only one implicated in the mystery of the Lovett lad's death, authorities are now endeavoring to_ establish a more definite motive than that ascribed by the boy —*“that the devil told me to do jt.” According to Mrs. Moon, the boy in his talk with her denied that there was an insurance plot to obtain pay- ments of policies aggregating $24,000 in event of his/accidental death. EXPERTS AWAIT U. S. ORDERS Roland W. Bowden and his staft of experts, comprising the unof- ficisl American delegation to the reparations commission at Paris, have been ordered to remain there and awalt instructions. Mr. Boyden will keep in teuch informally with the work of rcparations. Later it was | | France and Italy did not seem to pro- | | gress as well as those of Great Brit-| { TWO HELD IN MURDERS. M. Uchida said, Japan had | tFarmer Called to Door and Shot. Taxi Driver Killed in Auto. NASHVILLE, March 19.—Two ne- | groes were arrested here in connec- tion - with _the Killing of Thomas Mitchell, a farmer, and Frank Wilkes, |faxi driver, both of whom were shot j{to death at Cottontown, Sumner | county, early vesterday. Mitchell, acording to police reports, was called {)odh“‘{{r“("?]‘k dnor| :lld ecla: killed. The body o es, with a {Motions Declartag' Want of Con- |KINEd | K05 1O, Read: was tound i {the road near Mitchell's home. The | hegrocs arrested here gave the names fidence Defeated. HONOLULU, T. H., March 18.—The }nl Grover Dunn and Milton Hays. The two men, together with Dan Can- Japanese house of representatives de- | feated overwhelmingly today a mo- non, another negro, who confessed tion declaring a want of confidence | that he drove the car to Gallatin to in the Hara ministry, based on six |purchase a quantity of whisky, were charges connected with the alleged | charged as being violaters of the south Manchuria railway scandals, a {hone dry law and being fugitive from Tokio cable to Nippu Jiji. Japanére | justice and had been returned to Gal- language newspaper here, says. latirf by Sumaer county officers. ain. | Hitherto, c y Kept in touch with the soviets, but it might be necessary to map out a pol- icy conforming to that of other coun- | tries. He believed the Moscow and | { Chita soviet governments should be | dealt with separately. Ten members of the house of repre- sentatives will visit America this i summer, it was announced. HARA MINISTRY UPHELD. Cri 2 aita i e