Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1921, Page 2

o ASH COLLECTION SCHEDULE CHANGES Summer Service in District Starts March 28, It Is Announced. The summer schedule of ash collec: tions will become effective Monday, March 28, Morris Hac superin- tendent of city refuse, announced to- da Mr. Hacker said the fine weather of the last few weeks has gre duced the volume of ashes col and will make it feasible to change the schedule the last week of the month unless an unusual flare-back of cold weather <hould occur. The summer scheduie follows Summer Schedule. All of Georgetown: all of southwest: Anacosiia; the territory between 3d and 6th streets north west, Missouri to Florida enues; between 2d street and Georgia ave- nue, Florida avenue to W street. and between 2d and 6th streets, W to Fairmont street Tuesday — The territory between 16th street and Rock creek. Park road to Florida avenue, between 6th and 1lth streets. B street to Florida avenue, and the territory south of B street eoutheast. ‘Wednesday—The territory between 11th and 16th streets, Florida to Park road; between 11th and 15th, B to Rhode Island; 11th and 14th. Rhode Island to T: between 11th and 15th, T to Florida. and between B south- east_and D northeast, Nerth Capitol 10 19th street east. Thursday—All of Cleveland Park, Woodley Park. Massachusetts Ave- nue Heights, Chevy Chase, Trinidad, Monday Rosedale; between 11th and 16th, Park to Spring road: between 16th and Adams Mill road, Irving to Spring road; between 14th and 15th, Rhode Island avenue to T: between 15th and 1Sth, B to Florida; between D street northeast and Florida, 1st The territory east of Rock creek and north of Spring and Rock Creek Church roads, including all of Petworth, Saul's Addition, Bright- wood and Takoma Park; east of North Capitol and north of Rhode Is- land avenue northeast, including Brookland. Langdon and Woodridge: between North Capitol and B. & O. railroad. Florida to Rhode Island ave nue northeast: between North Capi- tol and 1st northeast, D to Florida; between North Capitol and 1st north- west. M to Michigan avenue and be- tween 18th and 21st, B to Florida northwest. Saturday—Between North Capitol and 1st northwest, B to 1st and 3d, Pemnsylvan ning; between Georgia avenue and 11th, Florida to Fairmont: between 6th and Georgia avenue, W to Fair- mont; between Park place and 1ith, Fairmont to Spring road. and be- iween 21st and Rock creek, Lower ‘Water to Florida. HOT BATTLE GROWS FRON BIE AMBUSH Six Crown Soldiers Killed and - Five Wounded During * County Cork Clash. By the Asmociated Press. ! Scores of “Ex-Tanks” to Pay Homage to “Drunkard’s Friend” NEW YORK, March 19.—The body of John H. Wyburn, “the drunkard's friend,” was ex- Pected to be brought back to- day from Clifton Springw to lie in state In famoux old Jerry presided for fifteen years. Wyburn died Thursday, on his sixty-second bir Hundreds of “ex-tanks,” whom Mr. Wyburn belped back to mo- | briety, many of them mow pros- | peroun business men, are expect- | «d to vistt ¢ | wion in Wnter expressed it, Mr. achieved marked sucees in hin work at the mission, where he earlier had been “plucked like a | brand from the burning” by | | another reformed drunkard, the | Iate S. H. Hadley. |GARBAGE OUTPUT HERE INCREASES 20 PER CENT Drop in Price of Grease Will Pre- vent City From Making a Good Showing at Disposal Plant. The output of garbage from the households has increased 20 per cent during the past eight months, as com- pared with the same period of the last | fiscal year, according to Morris Hack- | er, superintendent of city refuse. | This is not entirely due to a sharp- lening in the appetites of the people. | The superintendent believes it is due more to a falling off in the private collection of garbage by farmers who raise hogs. While garbage has increased in volume, the. price of the grease, to which it is reduced at Cherry Hill, Va., has declined from § cents a pound last March to 3 cents a pound today. This drop in price will prevent the city from making as good a showing in the operation of the garbage plant this fiscal year as it has in the past. Mr. Hacker pointed out. however, that the collection and disposal should not be looked upon as a commercial en- | terprise, but as a necessary municipal function. For the eight months from July 1 to March 1 this year the city has col- lected 43.991 tons of garbage, as com- pared with 36,404 tons for the same period last year. FOUR RENTALS LOWERED BY RENT COMMISSION Two Landlords Denied Possession of Their Properties in Today’s Decisions. Four rentals were lowered in de- terminations handed down today by the District Ren Commission. Two landlords were denied possession of their properties. The list of decis- ions follows: P. E. Taylor, 1311 C street north- ‘west; rent reduced from $20 to $12.50 2 month. Warren Hanna, defendant William H. Harley, 14th and Quaci enbush streets, Brightwood: present rental of $12.50 a month approved. Joseph White, defendant. George F. Plerce, 2705 11th street northwest; rent reduced from $42.50 to $35.50 a month. Notice to vacate served by Stone & Fairfax, Inc, ad- Judged insufficient. Morris Shiffman. 1232 T7th street northwest; rent reduced from $100 to $75 & month. Samuel Shapiro, de- fendant. tment 4. 1014 10th F. C. Bache, a street northwest; rent reduced from ‘Theodore $52.50 to $50 = month. Block. defendant. Joe D. Melvin and Leonard Nelson, 502 E street northeast: notice to va- cate served by Glenn O. Young and | _ BELFAST., March 19.—A great am-| Thora K. Young adjudged insufficient. bush by Irish republican forces near ASK NEW SYSTEM = NAMING TEACHERS |Barry Farms Citizens Sug- gest Municipal Examining Board. A resolution asking that the pres- ent system of filling positions in the public schools of the District be |changed was adopted at a meeting of the Barry Fapms Citizens' Asso- iciation last night at the Methodist | Church. President Hoffman of the assocla- tion outlined a recommendation, which will be submitted to the board of education. for the establishment of a municipal board of examiners to consist of five or seven members {who shall not be connected in any | official capacity with the schools. {The examining board. Mr. lloftman said, should be requested to hold {examinations at stated periods for the establishment of a roll of eligi- bles for filling all vacancies that may exist. Copies of the resolution and recommendations were ordered sent to the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce for investigation. Congratulate Oficialx. Resolutions of congratulation of appointment of Cuno H. Rudolph and iJames F. Oyster as District Commis- {sioners were passed. The association ‘also expressed its pleasure at con | tinuance in office of Col. Charles W. Axel F. Wi on the S. S. Olymple. |Kutz in a resolution which was adopted. Five additional incandescent lamps for various roads in the association were Commissioners, and mes the jassociation urged that a weekly ash and trash collection for residents on Howard road be established. orne Arms Sale Fight. The association, after favorable dis- cussion, adopted a resolution indors- ing a stringent law for the sale of firearms in the District of Columbia. A letter from George P. Barse, as- sistant corporation counsel for the District, which was read, informed the association of the continuance of the court proceedings in reference to the Barry Farms condemnation hear- ing, which will be resumed April 2 in Judge Stafford’'s court. Copyright, 1921. Three candidates, Phillip Diggs,| LONDON, England, March 19.— Hugh Williams and Willlam Martin, i mhree outstanding facts marked the Tere admitted to e b corr” an: | debate on the naval estimates in the dressed the association. house of commons. The first was the friendliness of all the members TAB ON COMPANIES |i2. %, vmict S, e v e LIKELY TO AFFECT UTILITY DECISIONS power standard for Britain in the fu- (Continued from First Page.) the territory of of * the BY HOWARD PRICE BELL. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. ture, and the third was the policy of the admiralty to make up, so far as possible, in quality for what it may lack hereafter in quantity as re- gards naval power. Many of the members, including ex- Premier Asquith. adhered without re- serve to the idea that whatever the United States might do in the way of naval expansion. it would never be led into attacking the British empire. All Europe is watching the prog- Seen Hope in First Merger. ress of the discussion of sea power Col. Kutz asked Mr. Ham what|and other crucial questions between trading advantage the Washington |Britain and the United States. Pos- Railway and Electric Company would | sibly certain powers watch in the have in merging with the Capital [hope that the empire and the repub- Traction Company if it was permitted { lic may get into serious trouble, but to combine with the Potomac Electric | the majority, big and little, view the Power Company first, instead of tak- | possibility of an Anglo-American war ing in the power company after |With unspeakable dread. the two street rallway companies France Watches Pacific. were merged. 5 In_reply, Hr.{Hhun fit'.';ed l:a‘:m:‘ll‘e P-l;al:l Scott Mowrer telegraphs from L e e 8| “Though the question of the extreme of the Washington Railway and Elec-|orient is overshadowed in France by tric Company is now far bolow 42| ihe question of the continental equi- valuation placed on the property of ijjprium and even by the mear eastern the company. and that the Washington | . 0. O SYE0 0, 0 DERE FOent Rallway and Electric Company will not | f0,"% 0T peing indifferent to political be attractive to the Capital Traction { gevelopments in the Pacific. \ Company until after the former has | wipanch Indo-China Is a great and consolidated with the electric light |rich colony. The Fremch navy being stopped at any time that a more eco- nomical means of developing cur- rent is adopted. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921_PART 1. SWEDISH MINISTER AND WIFE ARRIVE nberg, newly appointed Swedish minister to the United States, with Mrs, Wallenberg, photographed on their arrival in New York IMOST OF EUROPE HOLDS HOPE OF ANGLO-AMERICAN GOOD WILL Naval Debate in House of Commons Is Marked by Friendliness Toward U. S. and Definite Sea Policy. posed for the present to anything re- sembling a further dismemberment of the former empire. May Back U. §. in China. “In French diplomatic circles it is known that some kind of negotiations are now in progress between China and the United States, on the one hand, {and Britain and Japan, on the other, looking toward at least a temporary settlement of the far castern question by a joint agreement. It is felt that these ~ negotiations may crystallize into something very important at al- | most any moment. B “France i8 not only willing, but de- sirous of participating in such an agreement. The probabllities are that France's tendency will be to adopt the American point of view in the |far east. particularly if the United States should now bezin to show greater sympathy with France in the matter of German reparations.” View fn Sex ta. “Regarding the trend of Scandina- vian diplomacy,” wires Hal O'Fla- herty. “I can assure vou that from the kings of the three countries down to the last man and woman in the last street, all are for a closer and better alliance between the United States and Britain. I outlined the case of diplomacy regarding the far east to Johan Castberg, the great Norweglan parliamentary leader. He said: *‘We here in Norway never think of anything but better relations between the great western powers. Disturb- ances between the United States and England. no matter how slight, fill us with positive dread. Our whole aim and our daily effort is to strengthen in every way good relations and friendly feeling among all nationx company. Kutz asked the witness if it at present inferior to the fleets of T have never heard the possibil- Kinsale, County Cork, this morning, in ‘which six crown soldiers were killed and five wounded, is reported. The attackers suffered heavy cas- ualties and the battle still is In Pprogress. Cardinal Arouses Pretest. LONDON, March 19.—Irish Catholics adopted resolutions at a mass meeting here last evening protesting against the pastoral letter issued in February by Cardinal Bourne, in which the cardinal denounced disorders in Ire- land. The resolutions warned Cardi- nal Bourne that “while dutiful Catho- lics will obey the Church in matters relative to faith and morals, no ec- clesiastical dictation or interference in political matters will be tolerated.” Parliament Members Accused. . DUBLIN, March 18.—An official statement issued from Dublin Castle this afternoon charges Cashel Bur- gess, Richard Mulcahy and Michael Collins with responsibility for the or- ganization and control of attacks on forces of the crown in Dublin. The three are Sinn Feiners, members of the British parliament, and thus far have succeeded in evading arrest. LONDON, March 15.—An imposing meeting in protest against the govern- ment’s policy in Ireland was held by women in Westminster this evening. It was attended by Lady Bryce, Lady Achason, Mrs. Asquith, Lady Sykes and | Postal Information, others. Lady Sykes, who recently visited Ire- land, de T ‘ull,l‘) of l:lurnlng Cork went about with cork in their caps “as a boas their deeds.” A% Limerick Spurns Sympathy. LIMERICK, March 15.—The corpora- tion of Limerick, in response to letters of sympathy from the commander of military headquarters and the divisional commissioner of the royal Irish con- stabulary of Limerick, has sent letters zigned by every member of the corpora- tion, declining to accept the extended sympathy and directly charging the Kkilling of the mayor and the former mayor to crown forces. The letters also accuse the police and military of negli- gence, saying they could have traced the perpetrators of the crime. WM. B. WILSON RESIGNS FROM JOINT COMMISSION President Harding Likely to Re- appoint Gardner, Who Was Re- moved for Tumulty. red that the platocon which | b CONTEST TO DETERMINE POSTAL WELFARE WORK Postmaster Chance to Have Plans for Improvement of Conditions Here Submitted to Him. Postmaster Chance today announced a contest to be held, beginning Mon- day, for the submiseion of the best plan to be adopted for the improve- ment of working conditions in the ‘Washington city post office. The contest is in line with the hu- manitarian policy adopted by Post- master General Hays. The contest is open to employes of the city post of- fice, and only one suggestion is to be submitted by each contestant. Belection will be made of the best three suggestions, it is announced. based on feasibility, scope of use- fulness and resultant benefit to the employes if adopted. “The plan receiving the highest number of votes from the employes will be placed before the Postmaster General, along with the name of the originator,” Postmaster Chance states. Suggestions will be received up to March 28. The method of voting for the best suggestion will be explained to employes in the April 2 issue of the bulletin of the city post office. Welfare work at the city post office ere is believed to be farther ad- vanced than at any other city post office in the country, but the officials are not satisfied that the ultimate has been reached. {COL. R. C. WILLIAMS DEAD. Son of Former Adjutant Geneéral of Army Buried in Arlington. Col. Robert Cutts Williams died | March 15 at Houston, Tex., following an_illness of but five days. The fu- neral took place at 2 o'clock this aft- lernoon at Arlington national cemetery. Col. Williams, who was born in this city about fifty-five years ago, was a son of Gen. Robert Williams, for- merly adjutant general of the Army, and Mrs. Adele Williams. His widow will reside with her father at High- land Park, 1l. A son, Robert Wii- liams, is @ student at’ Amherst Col- 1 and a daughter, Mary Williams, is attending school at Madison, Wis. He is survived also by his brother, Capt. Philip Williams of the bureau of navigation, and by the following sisters: Mrs. Patton, wife of Com- Col. Britain, the United States and Japan, would not be just as well to seck aljt s clearly to France's interest to merger of the rallway companies and {gcek such powerful agreements as give the combined railway company |will serve to protect its distant pos- the right to take in the electric light | sessions. Moreover, the fate of Siberia company later. cannot be dissociated from the Rus- Says Money In Needed. isian question, which interests France (Continued from First Page.) is Mr. Ham said that he felt the proper | Immensely, and <vance stands op- way to proceed is to let the W. k. & E. ! Company and the electric light com- BIEPTt drs,Fusne "5 [400TH ANNIVERSARY DAY subject o e rate of return to be allowed the power company, Mr. Ham 7aid: “We have Fot fo get money to OBSERVED IN MANILA Commissioner Oyster asked Mr. Ham | Discovery of Philippines by Ferdi- what savings would result from a merger of-both street car companies| nand Magellan, Portuguese Sail- and the power company. Mr. Ham said that while it would or, Being Celebrated. wdy system and also in making it o casier to finance extension than with |€¢llan. the Portuguese sailor. It was three separate companies. about the beginning of the sixteenth century when, discoveries and con- IMPORT EMBARGO quest were made by Spanish and Por- taguese saflors, who at the same time MAY AID GROWERS | " inspired by the discoveries and ideals of Columbus, the discoverer of His achievements and laurels, how- fucnce) wmong: the farmers, 1n | €er. did not belong to his own coun- | favor of an emergency tarifr law |LFY, but to the crown ot Spain. He | such as was proposed at the last ses. | Airst tried to persuade his gov | sion of Congress, and is behind a |to help him in his contemplated voy- | Breat many other things of vital need |2ges, but this was in vain. He then to the farmer. He was an influential | sought the help of Spain and his ar- |hand in the Harding agricultural |sels under his command left S8an Lucar {moticr. de Barrameda on his way to Canary Freight Rate Quention. Islands. s the sail- ‘Wrapped up in the whole situati Difterences arose among t o embarga on forcutn goodn mrd LUt | tion, settied all controversiea. On N Pacific_ocean, till they reached La- T e o™ a Thor Points to the | drone Islands on March 16, 1621 Aft- freight rates i almost prohibitive. | €F 8 short stay in these islands the While the products themselves have | VeSSels went on westward until thoy come back to levels below the 1914 | C!!n¢ to an inlet situated bel‘e;n the freight rates remain the|Samar and Dinagat isiands of the The state of Towa, for ex Y'hilippine archipelago, probably EetatiL iver, where they rates today are concerned. anchor off Butuan river, ‘To lower the freight rates, the rail | Were welcomed and supplied with roads nay they must bring about wage | 1€COSSATy provisions by the naies that about now. ‘ 5 ; ice of Christianity was held in The Harding administration will | *TVi05 00,10 yra zelian, the discov- develop this plant or service is going eliminate unnecessary duplication in|400th anniversarv of the discovery the new world. adviser in the last campaign, and it |guments convinced King Charles of pect that alone to relieve the farmer, | Vember, 1520, the Portugucse and his ple, might as well be three three days later. Then, coasting along resort to emergency measures like | ‘4 FRIIPPIOIE (OREO M o Tsands in ity of a war between England an the United States dhcuned‘uerlnuslg either in public or in private in Nor- way. If any one should think it pos- sible it would be some welfish, irre- sponsible person, who would be howl- ed down if he gave his thoughts pub- lic utterance.’” A. T. HERT NOT IN RACE FOR PRESIDENT’S CHOICE Declines to Accept Ambassado- rial or Reorganization Com- mission Job. A. T. Hert, republican national com- mitteéman for Kentucky, has declined {to consider appointment by President Harding either as an ambassador to | Bome foreign country or as the Presi- dent's representative on the govern- ment reorganization commission. In a letter made public today at the White House the President as- sured Mr. Hert that he would have had a “very attractive post” in the diplomatic service had he permitted his name to be included in the list of those under consideration for am- bassadors. The President also de- clared that since acceptance of the ambassadorial appointment was im- possible he was exceedingly anxious to have Mr. Hert represent him per- sonally in the reorganization of the executive departments. In his declination the republican national committeeman gave no spe- cific reason for withdrawing his name from the list of possibilities. During the last campaign Mr. Hert was a member of the republican ex- ecutive committee of five. Prior to the convention he was a supporter of Gov. Lowden for the presidential nomination, and at Chicago was one of the Lowden floor leaders. After elec- tion many of his friends urged Mr. Harding to put him in the cabinet. THILD’S NECK BROKEN. Motor Cycle Palls Over on Edward J. Sullivan, Jr., Aged Three. Edward J. Sullivan, jr., three years 014, whose parents reside at 1721 1st strent, was crushed to death by the overturning of a motor cycle at the home of relatives, 19 Seaton place, shortly before 11 o'clock this morn- William B. Wilson, former Secre- tary of Labor. who was appointed to the joint international commission, which is intrusted with the settle- ment of disputes between this coun- try and Canada, has tendered his resignation, according to information from a high source. Mr. Wilson was in conference with President Hard- ing at the White House Thursday ternoon, and it is believed that dur- the discussion of other matters in the former Labor Secretary reosived the intimation that would be acceptable. Mr. Wilson was appointed to this cormission a few days before the ex- piration of the last administration, #fter Obediah Gardner's resignation had been forced to make room on the <ommission for Joseph P. Tumulty, President Wilson's secretary. The jatter declined the offer and It was immediately tendered to Secretary Wilson. who promptly accepted and «qualified. The position is one that does not require senatorial confirma- tion, and the service on it is entirely at the will of the Pres dent. Mr. Gardner's removal called for considerable protest, particularly from the sections of the great lakes, it be- ing claimed that Mr. Gardner's pres- on the commission was most essury at this time, because of the nding disputes before the commis on. of which Mr. Gardner is partic- ularly familiar with the facts. It is considered likely President Haurdiug will reappolant Mr. Gardner, L—_ a his resignation mander John B. Patton of this eity: Mrs. Benjumin Hedges of Plainfield, N. J, and Mrs. Walter Farwell of Syosset, Long Island. SUES TO ANNUL MARRIAGE. Edward E. Walton Says Wife Was Not Free to Wed. Edward E, Walton today filed suit in {the District Supreme Court for the |unnulment of his marriage to Alice {B. Smith, which was celebrated at Norfolk, Va.. March 20, 1920. The de- fendant is now residing at Messina, N. Y. Walton tells the court that he lived with the defendant only four days when she left him. He has since learned that she had been married to Lieut. William A. Smith of the United States Army and had lived with the officer at Coblenz, where he is a mem- ber of the army of occupation. Lieut. Smith divorce at Fredericksburg, Va., on the ground of the second marriage to him, the plaintiff says. Attorneys D. Ed- ward Clarke and C&mpbell Howard appear for the plaintiff. LEAVE BOLLING FIELD. First Lieut. James E. Adam service, and First Lieut. James M. Odell, Medical Corps, hava been re- lleved from duty at Bolling Field, Anacostia, D. C., the former going to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the latter to Honolulu, Hawail, has also sued for a the embargo or temporary tariff bills, but the drive against high freight rates is coming. too. The purchasing power of the farm- er has diminished. The eastern'manu- facturers fear retaliations if Amer- ica begins the embargo process and interferes with the only opportunity foreign peopies have of marketing their goods. The certainty of a great struggle between the interests of the west and south, as opposed to the east, is no longer denied in official quarters. For the moment, the farm- er has the upper hand, and measures for his relief are in the making. (Copyright, 1921.) PATENT ATTORNEY DIES. Francis Mohun Phelps, member of the firm of Brown & Phelps, patent of this city, died Thursday partment at the Mendota. Death was due to heart disease, from which he had suffered for several months. Mr. Phelps was born in Paris forty- seven years ago of an old Connecticut family. He had lived most of his life in Washington. For several years before he entered the practice of pa ent law he was employed in the pat- ent office as an examiner. He was married in 1904 to Miss Daisy Squier, who died in 1919. He is survived by two sons, George H. Phelps and Francis M. Phelps, jr., and b{ two sisters, Mrs. Howard C. Smith of New York city and Miss Mary Phelps of this city. Funeral services and Int ent were to break down.” future development of the street rail- {of the Philippines by Ferdinand Ma- Magellan was & native of Portugah looks as if he will be the guiding |Spain, and in August, 1519, five ves- for markets abroad must be founq. |Men found themselves 'in the vast miles farther west, so far the north of Mindanao, they dropped the name of King Philip 11 of Spain. j yng. { Later on he had an encounter with !{‘h‘e natives and was killed on April 5, 1521. 15, ast from this event, another “dis- covery” was made twenty-three years ao. by the late Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila_ bay, who brought with him the Stars and Stripes to the Philippine shores May 1, 1898, in the name of great America. CABINET MEN ON TRIP. Three to Be Guests of Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. PITTSBURGH, Pa. March 19— hree members of President Hard- ;l;-z‘n cabinet—A. W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of War John W. Weeks and James J. Davis, Labor Secretary— are in Pittsburgh today. They and Representative J. W. Fordney of Michigan, chairman of the House ways and means committee, will be guests of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce at a dinner here tonight. Mr. Weeks and Mr., Fordney will deliver speeches. ——— ‘WILL EXAMINE TEACHERS. Examinations for teachers seeking positions in the high schools will be held at the Franklin School Thurs- day, it was announced today by school officials. Teachers are wanted for both day and night high schools. They ‘will be examined in academic and e ! Mrs. Sullivan, the child’s mother, had an engagement with a speciallst this morning, and the child was left at the home of relatives to be cared for until her return. It was while playing about the motor cycle that the vehicle was overturned, falling on him and break- ing his neck. A physician was hast- ily summoned, but the injured boy died before his arrival. —_— TURK TREATY CHANGES. ‘The State Department made public today a copy of the proposed modi- fleations by the supreme council in the Turkish peace treaty by which a number of concessions would be made to Turkey in the event of the acceptance of its terms by the Turk- ish nationalists. ‘The copy does not differ materially from abstracts previously given in press dispatches from Europe. JOINS INTELLIGENCE MEN. Lieut. Commander Garnet Hulings, attached to the U. 8. S, Bridgeport, has been ordered to this city for duty in_ the office of naval intelli- gence, Navy Department. —_— SENT TO U. §. 8. SHAWMUT. Ligut. Commander John H. Gun- Dell, stationed in the office of naval operations, avy partment has been’ detafled to duty as supply of- of the U B k pply of- RUSSIASGNS PACT OPAY POLES GOLD I Treaty for 30,000,000 Rubles in Twelve Months to Be Ratified at Minsk. By e Asaociated Press. LONDON, March 18--The Russo- Polish treaty was signed at 0 o'clock tonight, says a dispatch to the London Times from Riga. The dis- patch adds that the treaty is to be ratified at Minsk within thirty days. Under the treaty 30,000,000 gold ru bles are to be paid to Poland within twelve months. The terms of the treaty are virtually the same as those of the preliminary treaty, except as concerns the amount to be paid by Russia. Altogether the treaty contains twenty-six clauses. After the signing of the treaty, M. Dombski, the chief Polish representative, delivered a speech, in which he dealt at length with servitude and repression in Po- land. He said that at last, after in- tolerable hardships, Poland had gain- ed her independence and hoped to live on friendly terms with Ruesia, which would give freedom to all nationali- ties in Poland. He declarcd that Po- land always would remember the good feeling under which the negotiations were carried out. M. Dombski also thanked the Letvian government for its hospitality to the peace delegates. The final meeting wag held in the Schwarzhaupter, formerly the Black Head Club, an organization of big merchants. In the richly decorated ballroom life-sized portraits of former Russian emperors hung on the walls. POLICEWOMAN DENIES THREATENING WITH GUN Alice Smith Writes Supt. Gessford She Was Investigating Kid- naping Case. Charges made against Alice Smith, colored member of the woman's bu- reau of the police department. before i Justice Gould in Criminal Division 1, vesterday, were emphatically denied by her today in a communication to Supt. of Police Gessford. She had been accused of threatening to arrest Emily Griffin, a maid in the home of Mrs. Robert N. Harper, 1515 16th street, where she went to investigate an alleged kidnaping case, at the point of a gun. The woman policeman stated that she had a revolver in her pocket and that she saw the maid looking at it “I did not threaten Emily Grifin with anything except arrest,” the police- woman declared In her letter, “and made it clear to both her and Mrs. Harper that I had come to find the i baby without arrest if possible.” In denying the charges Policewoman Smith stated that she did not invade the home of Mrs. Harper; that she did not tell either Mrs. Harper or the maid that she had come to arrest the latter; that she did not ask the maid to go with her to the sixth precinct station, and that no precinct station ignored her call for a wagon or re- fused ald, because she néither called a wagon nor asked for aid. ¥ A copy of the policewoman's state- ment has been sent to Justice Gould. — VICTORY NOTES RETIRED, FISCAL YEAR, $97,000,000 Treasury Reports That February Purchases of These Securities Aggregated $53,000,000. Concentration on the victory notes of Treasury purchases of wartime securities has begun to show .sub- stantially. Figures made public at the Treasury today disclose that in the eight months of the current fis- cal year approximately $97.000,000 in victory notes were retired. The Feb- ruary purchases aggregated $53,000,- 000. Since the sinking fund provided for by the liberty loan began to operate last July 1 the Treasury pol- icy has been to reduce the outstand- ing victory notes as rapidly as pos sible in consequence of their ma- turity within the next thirty montks, It has been the plan to have the issue, aggregating around $4,500,000,000, re- duced to the point when ft matures that those bonds remaining unpaid may be converted into what is de- scribed as the floating debt and grad- ually paid in full. Along with the figures on bond pur- chases by the Treasury there is shown also a substantial reduction in the amount of war savings certificates which the Treasury has been called upon to redeem. During the eight months ended March 1 war savings certificates ag- gregating $111,600,000 were presented for redemption, against $132.750,000 for the corresponding period a year ago. Officials said thig reduction indi- cated a_permanent absorption of this class of securities by investors, who probably will offer fewer and fewer of them for redemption until they mature. —_— WILL GET DOUBLE STARS. Two Letter Carriers Have Served For Forty Years. Two letter carriers of the Washing- ton city post office staff are to be presented with double gold star cuff buttons tonight by the National As- sociation of Letter Carriers, for hav- ing completed forty years' service each. They are W. H. Morris, letter car- rier in the northeast section of the city since 1879, and George Perrott, carrier in the southeast section since 1881. The presentation of the gold cuff buttons will be made at a meet- ing of Branch No. 142, National As- sociation of Letter Carriers. ach gold star will represent twen- ty years' service. — WILD GEESE FLY OVER. Heralds of Spring Pass North Over Soldiers’ Home Grounds. Wild geese, unmistakable heralds of spring, flew north of the Soldiers’ Home grounds at 6 a.m. today, ac- cording to the observation of E. B. Meyers of 624 Keefer place morthwest. “Honk! Honk!" went the leader, as the geese, In a perfect V, flew low over the home grounds. Migrating of wild geese is generally held as a sign of spring. CAMPAIGN STARTS APRIL 6 New Woman’s Party to Appeal to President for Bupport. The new woman's national party will inaugurate its “feminist cam- paign” on April 8, was announced to- day, by personally appealing to Pres- ident Harding to give the support of his administration to a blanket bill removing “all sex discrimination in law that Congress has the power to deal with.” He also will be asked to indorse a movement to have state laws modified where they exist to the discrimination of women. The bill proposed for passage by Congress would make citisenship for women independent of the nationality of their husband, and remove discrim- inations against women in the civil service laws and those of the District of Columbia. It will be a model for bills to be introduced in the various Citizens of Rheims | Object to Germans | Aiding in Rebuilding | PAN s March 19.—~The for- | { | | mer bitants of Rhetma, 70~ | | 008 of whom have retwrned to | | ! laborers rebulld the town | have anneunced that they want | t0 do the work themselves. M. Loucheur, minixter of dev- who recently f wan told by the were dentroyed. Work of re- comatruction will also have to | taclude sewage, gas, water and | electric lighting systems. | AIRPLANE VICTIM LEAVES WIFE LIVING IN DISTRICT! Mrs. Alfred Raymond McNeil Gets Word From Bureau—Took Pictures Here. Aviator Photographer Alfred Ray-| mond McNeil. who was killed by an| airplane propeller at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Thursday, resided in this! city, at 13 C street northeast. His wife, Mrs. Helen G. McNeil, received official notice from the bureau of nav- igation, Navy Department, last night| of the death of her husband. It was stated the body has not been recov- ered. Mr. i McNell was born in Hartford. Conn. He had been in the naval air service for nine years, and during the war did considerable photographic work in Europe. He studied at the photographic school, Bolling Field, and while there flew over Washing- ton, taking pictures. He had been with the United States fleet at Guantanamo bay since last December taking pictures while in airplanes. Besides his widow he is survived by his mother, father, three brothers and two sisters, all of whom | reside in Hartford, Conn. PLAYGROUND FILM MADE. “Young America First,” to Be Shown Here Tomorrow. Need of more playgrounds for the children of Washington will be em- phasized in a fllm entitled “Young America First,” to be shown as a supplementary feature to the regular program at Loew's Columbia Theater during the week beginning tomor- row. All_of the scenes have been taken in Washington, many of them depicting the activities of children at the municipal playgrounds. Crawford & Carter of the National Picture News, Inc., of this city have produced the picture at the request of ten local business men. It has been approved by Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, supervisor of the playground department. —_— ACTION FOR RECEIVER. Caldwell-Marshall Co. Called on in Injunction Suit. Justice Stafford of the District Su- preme Court has issued a rule on George W. Caldwell and the Caldwell- Marshall Company to show cause. March 24. why a receiver should not be appointed to collect a fund of $30,000 about to be paid to the com- pany or Caldwell by the government for the construction of four concrete hllrle! for the railroad administra- tion. ‘The order is based on a suit for in. junction filled by the Concrete Steel: ROADS WOULIXEND UNIONS, IS CHARGE Frank Walsh, Attorney, De- clares Paid Press Notices Are Circulated. By the Amocinted Press CHICAGO, I, March 19 —Charges that the railroads, knowing the Rai! road Labor Board had no power to en- force its decrees, were trying to dis- rupt labor unions through public opinion and were attempting to in fluence the public through false pa publicity were made before the board today by Frank Walsh, attorney for the unions, when he began his second day of cross-questioning officers. Mr. Walsh renewed his investiga- tion of railroad publicity, despite ob- jections from Judge R. M. Barton chairman of the board, that the mat- ter was irrelevant. The labor attor ney called T. Dewitt Cuy of ‘the Association of Railroad Bx tives, to the stand and resumed ques- tioning on subjects which vesterday brought statements from Mr. Cuyler that publicity articles supposedly written by Mr. Cuyler really were prepared by Ivy Lee, a press agent. “Wasn't Mr. “Lee appointed press agent of the Association of Railroad Executives because he is an expert alkhrelkmg down unions?" Mr. Walsh asl 0" replied Mr. Cuyler. Adjournment at St. Louls. ST. LOUIS, March 19—Officials of the Missouri Pacific railroad and rep- resentatives of the system’s unskilled labor conferred here on a proposed wage adjustment, but adjourned without any action. Representatives of approximately 14,000 employes con- cerned attended. J. F. Murphy, gen- eral manager, said the agreement was mutual to defer action until both sides had an opportunity to gather data for a basis of discussion. Pere Marquette Men's Action. DETROIT, Mich., March 19.—Repre- sentatives of four organized crafts of Pere Marquetté railroad workers have notified company officials here that proposals for wage reductions had been rejected, and requested the company to lay the matter before the Railroad Labor Board. The crafts are the clerks, maintenance of way work- ers, shopmen and carmen. The road had ennounced reductions to the scale in effect prior to the award of July 1920, the wage cut to become effective April 1. D, L. & W. Submits Cut. NEW YORK, March 19.—Manage- ments of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and Lehigh Valley rail- road board formally submitted to rep- resentatives of their marine workers a schedule of wage reductions of 14 to 20 per cent, effective April 20. The employes took the matter under con- sideration and will report back at another conference next week. A conference between workers' repre- sentatives and the management of the Central railroad of New Jersey, scheduled for yesterday, was post- poned until next Monday, when the New York Central railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad also will hold conferences. The Philadelphia and Reading Rail- way Company, it was announced by the General Managers’ Association here, is preparing a notice advising of a general adjustment for all classes. except unskilled labor, which was covered in a previous notice, to take effect April 26. Eleven mootlng: will be held between April 6 and 25 to discuss the readjustment with em- Company. which claims that the sum.|ployes. of $15.616.90 is due to it for steel fur- nished In connection with the barges. Attorneys M. W. Hendry and George C. Shinn appear for the plaintiff. WAITERS ACCEPT TERMS. Hotel Force Agrees to Present Wage Scale for Another Year. Agreements between the waiters' union and hotel managements were signed yesterday continuing for an- other year the scale of prevalent for the past season. for waiters aided by bus boys. Intervention by the bureau of con- ciliation of the Department of Labor was necessary to adjust the agree-| ments. The manegement had con- tended that contracts were not neces- sary during the ensuing vear, and a deadlock on both this question and the rate of wages resulted in the as- signment of Conciliator F. G. Davis. PEN WOMEN IN CHARGE. The League of American Pen Women will have charge of an enter- tainment at the National Press Club tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. Direction of the affair will be under Mrs. William Atherton Du Puy, who was requested to take charge by Avery C. Marks, jr., pres dent, and Frederic J. Haskin, chal man of the entertainment committee of the press club. The program includes a reading by Mrs. Grace Duffie Boylan Geldert, an address on “The Relation of News- paper Writing to Magazine Writing.” by Mrs. Henry W. Keyes, and a mu- sical program by the Washington Opera Company., which will be in charge of Mrs. Edouard Albion. e S COMING T0 MEDICAL SCHOOL. Capt. Alan C. Sutton, Medical Corps, stationed at Baltimore. Md., has been ordered to this city for duty at the Army Medical choor wages | governmen The rate of wages agreed upon is|ings until the cl 60 per month for waiters and $40 | ges The New Star Building URGES FREQUENT MAILING Postmaster Chance Wants to Pre- vent Congestion. Merchants of Washington are urged by Postmaster Chance to mail their letters and other matter at fre.q:ell: tervals during the day, instead o g until the close of the busi- ness day. He says that because there is & general practice throughout the t departments and by the to withhold their mail- ose of the day con- i sults at the city post office o o per cent of the mail {rom Waghington is handled between 4 p.m :30 p.m. A Chance also asks {he businces vide receptacles in wi b e O O ah be deposited By the lers who leave the clty post t7 o'clock in the morning on O hmst delivery, causing them to Teach many business places before the doors are opened. HOLDS TEMPORARY POST. John Cook Secretary of New Par- ent-Teacher Federation. John Cook has been appointed tem: v secretary of the newly organ- Pred “Federation of Parent-Teacher Aesociations of the colored schools, it Wwas announced today by Roscoe ( Bruce, assistant superintendent in charge of colored schools. He also announced that the next meeting of the federation would be held Wed- nesday, March 30, at 8 p.m., in Dun- High School. P rafting of A standard form which the organization will use in present. ing to school authorities the needs of the colored schools was completed by a committee instructed to do this Work, at a meeting yesterday after- noon in the Franklin School. This committes is composed of H. D. Wood- son, chairman; J. R. Queenan, John A. Davis, Charles H. Marshall and Capt. Queenan. business men letter carr! Space Available October 1, 1921 Over 7,500 square feet of office space or rooms on each of the second, third, fourth and fifth floors of The Star’s new building will be available on or before October 1. Organizations or associations may acquir most desirable quarters at reasonable rates. i Immediate arrangements and rqservations should be made to meet special requirements. The Star’s new building will be one of the largest and finest office buildings in Wash- ington. Apply to the Business Manager, The Evening Star, 11th street and Pennsylvania avenue.