Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1921, Page 1

this afternoon; fair and tohight and tomorrow. Hi 65, ended at 2 p.m. today: 2 p.m. today: lawest, today. WEATHER. Theatening with probably showers Temperature for twenty-four hours, Full report on page 8. much cooler ighest, 85, at ., at 7 am. Closing New York Stocks, Page 21. - @he bening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all mews dispatehes credited to it or ot «ther credited in this paper and also the local news publish>d hereis. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Saturday’s Net Circulation, 94,263 Sunday’s Net Circulation, 96,146 No. 28,085. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1921 —_TWENTY-SIX PAGES. TWO CENTS.' LOWER GAS RATES " T0 GOVERNMENTS UPHELD BY COURT Supreme Tribunal Affirms Decision of D. C. Appel- late Court. PRIVATE CONSUMERS HAD DEMANDED EQUAL PRICES Not Obligated to Use Gas, Says RBuling Delivered by Jus- tize Hormes. Thbe United States Supreme Court to @ay affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in the gas rate case brought by William_Hollis and Sam- uel Goodman against ties Commission. decision is to confirm the right of the gas companies to furnish gas at a lower rate to the government than to" private consumers. Mr. Justice Holmes. in delivering the opinion of the court, said, in part: “The notion that the government cannot make it a condition of al fowing the establishments of g: works that its needs and -the needs o€ its instrument, the District. shail be satisfied at any price it may fix, strikes us as needing no answer. The plaintiffs are under no legal obliga- tion to take gas, mor is the govern- ment bound to allow it to be fur- nished. f they choose to take it the plaintiffs must submit to such en- hancement of price, if any, as is as- signable to the government demands. We do not consider whether the com- mission has power to raise the price to the excepted class, because, even if it has, the plaintiffs have no right to require- equality with the govern- ment, and they have no other ground u which to found their supposed ht.” Commission Repudinted. The décision of the court repudiates. the position taken by the Public Utilities Commi: lénging the right of a private citizen who has not been a party to a pro- ‘ceeding before the commission te question in a court action the legalits of a rate promulgated by the com mission. : ! In its opinion the court says that it perceives no advantage in requir- ing a party to file a complaint asking the commission to review a decision just reached by it after a public hear- ing, nor does it see any requirement that the plaintiffs in equity ‘shogld have appeared im the original hearing uUpon the rate: - - - 7 -, The position Is taken by the that the plaintiffs are pasties to the order equally, whether they saw fit to argue the case before the commis- sion or nct. ¢ Through All Courts. The action brought by Holiis and Goodman was instituted first in the District*Supreme Court. Former Cor- poration Counsel Conrad H. Syme and the present_corporation counsel, Fran- cis 1. Stephens, represented the com- mission in the successful opposition it made to the suit in the District Supreme Court, District Court of Ap- peals and, of the United States. The court’s ruling that a private citizen does not have to appear in a proceeding before the commission in order to a party to a rate order handed down by the commission di posed of an issue which was of more interest to the utilities commission than any of the collateral questions involved in the case. D. C. MOST DENSEL POPULATED“STATE" 7,292.9 Persons Per Square Mile Here—Maryland Rates High, Too. Density of population in the Dis- trict of Columbia in 1920 ranked first in the states in the United States, it is shown in figures made public today by the census bureau. There were 7.292.9 persons per square mile in the District of Columbia in 1920, the bu- reau announced. Due to the limited area comprised within the District of Columbia, how- ever, it was pointed out today that comparisons as to density of popula- tion with that of states are not cqui- table. The average density of population throughout the United States, exclu- sive of outlying possessions. was 35.5 persons per s vare mile of land area. as againt 20.9 in 1910, the bureau an- nounced. Density in the individual states ranged from seven-tenths of 1 per square mile in Nevada to 566.4 in Rhode lsland. the bureau an- the District | Commissioners and the Public Utili-| The . effect of the | .| tend a b First “Dry” Year Was Banner Year For Wine Imports | During the first year of ma- tional prohibition in this coun- try Malaga, Spain, shipped to the United States five times the total amount of wine ¥ent here in the ten preceding years, American 1 Smith aays. in a report received today by the ment of Commerce. The total of wine exports from that place to America in 1920 ex- ceeded 475,000 gallons, the con- | \ sul says, and was shipped un- | der permits for -beverage | purposes. | \ | | | NEWHEADS OF D.C. /GALL ON PRESIDENT Cuno H. Rudolph and Capt. Oyster Go to White House With Col. Kutz. President Harding today formally received Cuno H. Rudolphi, Capt. James F. Oyster and Col. “Kutz, comprising the board of Commissioners of the Dis- trict. sion to extend their congratulations and good wishes, and in return Presi- dent Harding said that he had an un- usual interest in Washington, and it was his ambition to see this city placed on the highest possible plane. He assured his ¢allers that they could always count upon his support and co- | operation, and upon parting he remind- ed them that the “White House latch string” would always be but. Commissioners Rudolph and Oyster took this_opportunity to_ personally thank the President for their appoint- ment to the board and to assure him that they would-do ‘everything in their power to give good government to’ the District of Columbia. Invited to Bamgquet. : Samuel .J. Presvoty; vice ‘chairman of the: republican state committee of | the District, called upon Secretary | Chriatian to’ extenid ‘an invitation to Mr. CHristian and the President to at- Tlllfluet to be given in-Wash- i Ington. the date of ‘which will be an- nounced later. The object of this’ban- quet _is to_afford. an’ opportunity to | the new _executive .and his assistant to persofally meet [ | i number of the | ten -prominent in local affairs. ‘The Commissioners took ocea- | GARDINER IN FAVOR | OF OVSTER'S PLANS 0 HASTEN MERGER Thinks Traction Companies Should Reach Compromise on Valuations Disputed. | i | | STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION, | SAYS EX-COMMISSIONER | Banking and Financial Circles Also Behind Program—See Possible Basis for Agreements. BY JOHN L. MARTIN. Former Commissioner W. Gwynn Gardiner, who gave dissenting opin- ions in the street railway valuation cases, is going to re-enter the arena of public utility discussions by ac- tively supporting Commissioner Oy ter's suggestion for a compromise on the valuations which would hasten a merger of the local traction systems. He announced today his intention 1of addressing a communication to the Public Utilities Commission urging it | to make a preliminary inquiry to de- termine the possibility of adjusting differences between the commission and the railway companies. Court decisions rendered since the | vaiuations were annmounced by the; utilities board will be quoted by Mr. Gardiner in support of tne position he took in his dissenting opinioms. He considers these to have a considera- ble bearing on the situation at pres- ent. ‘“Commissioner Oyster's _proposal that an effort be made to bring the commission and the traction com- panies together on the valuations' with the view of establishing a basis for @ merger and ending what prom- lises to be a long-drawn-out court fight, s most opportune,” said Mr. Gardiner. “It is a step in the righ direction and one that might lead to | results of- great t to the people | of Washington. The suggestion is worth_trying, and I trust that Com | missioner Oyster's colleagues on th i I MINGODEFENDANTS FOUND NOT GUILTY Sixteen Freed of Slaying Felts, Detective Chief. Face Other Charges. By the Associnted Press. WILLIAMSON, W. Va, March 21.— board will see the matter in the same | mhe gixteen defendants tried in con- finally, the Supreme Court | Robert. I. Miller, 16cal attorney, and aspirant for appointment for District attorney, and Winfleld Jones, who are identified with republican organi- zations- operating independently in | Washington,' were regeived by the i President. The visit was a personal one, they said,.on leaving. .. Oklakomans Make Visit. A delegation of Okkxhomans saw the Presidént ‘today in- the. interest.of . George Wright. whomy they are urg- ing_for appointment as commissioner affaira. -In the delegation e Lorton; .publisher of the ‘World; Republican . N: i 1 man and John Appleby, 7to the republican n%.‘ mittee of Oklahoma. ~They pointed out to the/President that Mr. ‘Wright, who is mow superintendent of the Osage Indian nation. has been in the Indian service for thirty-eight years and asked for his appointment on these grounds. - President . Harding .today' was in- vited by a_dele; tion of the Inde- pendént Order of Odd Fellows, head ed by Senators Fletcher of Florida ang Sterling of S8outh Dakota, to at- tend the exercises to be held here April 26 to observe the 102d anni- versary of the order Others in the delegation, all from Washington, were Willlam .T. Galliher, president of the American National Bank; E. W. Bradford, past grand master, 1. O. O. F., the Sovereign ‘Grand Lodge: Bert V. Wolfe. grand master, I O. O. F., and i Rev. Hugh T. 'Stevenson, grand chap- i lain, 1. O. Q. F. . . | ‘The celebration in question will be held i High School and an elaborate pro- pram is being arranged. One of the {features will be the. presence of Joseph Oliver of Toronto, Canada, !grand sire 1. 0. 0. F.. which is the { highest office in the gift of the order. ‘Will Receive Justices. President Harding will some time with the next few days-formally-re- ceive the chief justice and his asso- ciates on the bench of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbla, and the justices of the Court of. Ap- peals of the District. ‘This formality is customary during every new admi ation. Splain, United States marshal of the District, conferred with ‘Secretary Christian at the executive.offices to- day to_make. arrangements for the visit. The date will be made known tomorrow or next day. Harry M, Xan Tine, a news service photograpFdr.“ngs received by Presi dent Harding today for the purpose of presenting to the President the first autographed- picture of Mr. Hard- ing and cabinet made during the first session of the cabinet.. The photo- graph, framed, was four feet in | length. INEW GREEK OFFENSIVE | IN TURKEY IMPENDING i l ic.lling of Three Classes to Colors | Portends Drive Against Nationalists. LONDON, March 21.—The calling by and grand representafive. of | ‘the auditorium of the Central : Maurice ; nounced. 1t excecdod 300 per square : King Constantine of Greece of three mile in five states—Rhode Island with | classes to the national colors, an- 566.4, Massachusetts with 479.2, N Jersey, 420; Connecticut, =864, o | nounced at Athens Sunday, in all probability portends ‘a Greek of- New York, 217.9. Density figures for other states|ensive against the Turkish nation- alists, in the opinion of Demetri ‘were: Allb'umt. 458, Arizona, 2.9 Arkansas. 35.4: Califgrnia. 22; ‘Colo- | Gounaris, the Greek minister of war, rado, 9.1; Delaware, “113. an int rn Gegrm:, m“' Taanel 5 3:;" sed in an crv?ew here to- linois, 115.7; Indiana. $1.3; lowa. 43.2;. M Gounaris came to London earl Kaosas, 21.6: Kentucky, 60.1; his month to attend sessions of the ara. 39.6; Maine, 25.7; Marylan supreme council. Michigan. 63.8; Minnesota. 29.5 | “This decree,” sald M. Gounaris, “is sissippi, 38.6; Missouri, 49.5. Montana, ' a natural consequence of the attitude 39; Nebraska, 16.9: New Hampshire, |of Turkey, who has again declared 49.1; New Mexico, 2.9; North Carolina. 525 North Dakota, Ohio, 141.4: Oklahoma, 29.2; Oregon. §.2; Pennsyl- | vamia, 194.5: South Carolina, 55.2; South Dakota, §.3; Tennessce, 561 Texas, 17.; Utah, 5.5, Vermont, 35.6 Washington, = 203 ; Wisconsin, 47.6 ‘Wyeming, 2.0. LT. COL. SHERRILL MADE AID TO THE PRESIDENT Peegldent Harding today appointed Ldewt. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, Corps | of Bngineers, now on duty in the of- fios of the chief of engineers, War Department. as superintendent of the mfinnmnn and grounds in the of Columbia and also to act a8 bis perronal mll.il‘l‘ri aid. succeed Maj. Clarenee S. )ua'g, who has been assigned to duty in 1 _of the Line at Fort mhfl 3 she will not accept the proposals of the London conference, and is de- manding the return of Thrace and Smyrna, obtained by Greece as the result of the war. “It is also being openly declared that the Turkish forces in Cilicia are being withdrawn for use against the Greeks, and we have news of a Kema- list concentration against our army. Therefore, the latter has been rein- forced and three classes of reserves, numbering 46,000 men, have beer called out as the Tesult of an urgent decision by the council, after con- sultation with the premier and my- self. “Such precautions must be taken and the ‘tommander-in-chief hag taken all the military measures rop the safety of the army. I cannot say oxactly what this portends, but in aif probability it portends'a Greek offen- sive, as obviously. we cannot await the completion of the Turkish con- centration. I am quite confident, however. and have no doubt that our army will more than suffjiee to dea! with the Kemalist forces, | Baskers Favor Plan.. Banking and financial circles, it de- veloped today, look ‘with much favor upon the plan. They appreciate the obstacles in ‘the way of ironing out the difference of several million dol- lars which exists between the values found by the commission and the rat- Ings claimed by the companies. Ho: ever, they believe that, with the pre ‘et demand for a merger, all interests involved might be willing to make concessions which would hasten the DFINgIng together of the traction lines in the interest of better service and doubtless cheaper fares. Robert N. Harper, president of the District. National Bank, -said he be- lleved the holders of the traction se- curities generally would indorse the | suggestion of Commissioner Oyster. He would not predict that a com- promise could be reached, but con- siders there are possibilities in the situation which should be investi- gated. Commissioner Oyster has not pre- sented his plan to the other mem- bers of the commission, Col. Kutz and Commissioner Rudolph, but expects to take it up with them at the board meeting this week. : He is ifvestigating the question of ! whether 'the commission, having | found a valuation as required by law, has authority to change it. There ap pears to be some divergence of opin- jon_on this point. Former Commissioner Gardiner takes the position that the commis- | sion has full authority to reconsider {its ratings, ané in his communica- fom 1o the commission 1t is his in- { tention to quote court decisions in support of this view. The Prineipal Differences. It is believed generally that were both the commission and the com- panies disposed to make .concessions on’ the property ratings a basis of agreement could be arrived at with- out extensive hearings or détailed re- views of the cases being necessary. Tt is pointed out that the principal differences relate to intangible values, and that questions of law pather than of fact are involved mainly in the | determination of these values. A case in point is the refusal of the commis- | sion to allow the -Capital Traction Company $5,150,0000 which was paid. with the approvai of Congress, for | organization, £ood will and franchise | at the time ‘the Rock Creek Railway Company- (now the Capital Traction! Compgny) purchased the Washington and Georgetown Railway Company. The total price paid in that transac- tion was $10,750.000, but the commis. sion allowed only what was shown t have been paid for physical property. Commissioner Gardiner, in bis dissent. ing opinion, took the positfon that the full amount should have been allowed, sineo it was actually invested. Had the commission and the Capita | Traction Company during the valua- tion hearings been able to adjust the Rock Creek Company claim, it is be- !lieved that other differences between | them ‘could have been settled at that | ime. 3 1 ATiother big gap between both the ! traction companies and the commission | results from their divergent views as | %o the proper method of bringing the | \aluations up to date. The valuations ted as of July 1, 1914, and the | { commission holds that to make them effective as of today it is necessary only to add capital expenditures which have been incurred since 1914. At Odds Ove. Normal Base. The companies, on the bther hand, insist that values of 1914 do not con- stitute a normal base upon which to rest the valuations. They maintain | } 'of Felts. ercentage of increase based on an as of today for rate-making purposes. This view also was sustained in the | dissenting opinions given by former dicated he would give the commis- sion new light on this point in the communication he shortly will ad- dress to’it. Mr. Gardiner and other attorneys who have looked into the question re inclined to the belief that the get- ting together of the commission and the companies on questions relating to physical rather than intangible values may be accomplished without great difficulty. 1t is their opinion the physical ele- ments should be taken up first, and, it satisfactory progress is mage in ad- justing them, effort should®be made to solve the problem of intangib) values. ‘There was every indication today that Commissioner Oyster's proposal had struck a responsive chord with the public, and there was cxpected to follow as a result a genuine revival of agitation for a merger which might be effected before the next Con- @ ess adjourns. that prices will never return to the 1914 lcvel and that the commission | | should incorporate in its ratings a | 1 P { approximation of normal prices, o | as to make a proper and fair value | Commissioner Gardiner, who today in- | ! county of Logan. Hene i nection with the death of Albert C. | Felts, who was killed during the { Matewan gun fight last May 19 were | today found not guilty by a jury in | the Mingo county circuit court. | The defendants were formally dis- { charged by Judge [R. L.-Bailey. pre- siding, but were remanded to jail pending bond arrangements on six other indictments charging-the men with having been implicated in the death 0f six other private detectives kille® with Felts. The trial consumed forty-six days. News of the acquittal was shouted to a' large; group of miners standing at & window outside the courtroom, and the announcement was reecived with enthus . Wives and relatives of the Mate- wanians stood on the porch of the county jall and received their kin with open arms. Williamson _res| dents recelved the verdict guietly, and there were no demonstrations { aside from an outburst of cheers from | the miners, who had stood vigil since early morning. Had Evicted Famites. | A coal miners’ strike has been in progress in Mingo county coal flelds since July, 1919. Organizers of the United Mine Workers' Union sought to unionize the districts, both iff Sin- %o county and in Pike county, on the Kentucky side of the border. Nearly a year later the Stone Mountain Coal Corporation engaged_ the Baldwin- Felts detective agency to evict strik- ing miners’ familiés from the company houses in_which they were living. On May 1971920, a party of private de- tectivés headed by Albert C. Felts carried out the evictions. After a day fraught with argument between the operatives and city officials, the party finished its work and prepared to depart from Matewan on an early | evening train. The leader and Mayor C. C. Tester- man engaged in a conversation and while they stood close to each other talking a shot was fired. In an ip- stant rifles and pistols barked from all directions, and before the shoot- ing ended Felts. Testerman, _six other members of the Baldwin-Felts party and two other residents fell mortally wounded in the main street of the village. Twenty-three of. men Matewan | were indicted by a grand jury at Wil- liamson in connection with the death At the outset of the trial, egan on January 26, the :lnlnicshn:afiml several of the defend- ants were dismissed, and as the tak- ‘ing of testimony progressed others were discharged on motion of the prosecution. When the jury took the case the fate of but sixfeen of the original defendants remained to be determined. One of those to await a verdict was Sid Hatfield, Matewan's chief of police, and around whom a major portion of the testimony was entwined. During the closing argu- ments of counsel reference was made to Hatfleld’s marriage to the widow of Testerman two weeks after the latter was killed. Mrs. Hatfleld has been in constant attendance at court since the trial began Anse Hatfleld Sial Several months after the street fight Anse Hatfleld, proprietor of the hotel that housed the private detectives during their stay in Matewan, was shot and killed while sitting on the porch of his hostelry. Sid Hatfleld, Hallie Chambers, Ed. Chambers and Tair Chambers have been indicted in connection with his death. Anse Hat- field had been looked upon as an im- portant state’s witness in the trial just concluded. The trial ended today has been the longest and conceded to bave been the most sensational in the history of West Virginia. It was held in the county courthouse at Williamson, but {a few miles from where the Hatfleld- McCoy feud was hatched. A few weeks before Judge R. D. Bailey, pre- siding at the present term of circuit court, called the case, “Devil Anse” Hatfield, noted leader of the Hatfield clan during many troubled years, died and was buried in the adjoining STOLEN LOOT RETURNED. Police Get Mysterious Telephone Call and Swag Turns Up. FORT WORTH, Tex., March 21— Two anonymous telephone messages to police headquarters giving assur- agce that $15,000 of liberty bonds, cash and jewelry, stolen last night from @ Main street jewelry store, would be returned, was followed early today by finding of the loot in the store from which it had been stolen. All efforts toutrace the telephone ecalls thus far h¥ve failed. | i CAPT. WOOD IN CHARGE OF ARCHITECT’S OFFICE Capt. J. E. Wood, assistant engineer commissioner, today was placed in charge of the municipal architect's office as a result of the announce- ment that Snowden Ashford expects to resign as head of that branch of the city government. Col. Charles W. Kutz, Engineer Commissioner, in making known this | action, said there is so much im- { portant work pending in the archi- tect's office that he felt ‘some one | should be made familiar with the duties of the department before the vacaney occurs. Although the fact was published several days ago that Mr. Ashford ad concluded to resign soon, formal resignation has not yet beén sent to the Commissioners. Capt. Wood, who a few days ago was promoted from lieutenant, has been at the District building several months, during which time he has had charge of the water and elec- trical departments. The ‘- Engineer . Commissioner . se- lected him to go In and take charge of the architect's office because be- fore entering the Army Capt. Wood was employed in that profession. Capt. Wood has been relieved. of his other duties so as to devote ail his time to the architect's office. _* The District appropriation law ear- ries a salary of $3,600 a year for a municipal architect, and the Commis- sioners probably will take gteps to fill the office after Mr. Askiford has left the service. In the meantime arge of that W, GARDNER PIAED departmen: FORPENSIN OFFE Obadiah Gardner Will Return | to International Joint Commission. Col. Washington Gardner of Albion, Mich., former representative in Con- gress from that state, has been se- lected by President Harding for ap pointment as commissior>r of pen- sions, according to information re- ceived from a high official source to- day. . Formal announcement of this appointment h‘! expected tomorrow or next day. Col. Gardner fs especially well known in the District of Columbia, where he lived for ten years during his service in the House, the greater part of which time he was chairman {-of the subcommittee on District ap- propriations of the House appropria- tions committee. In that capacity it fell to the lot of Col. Gardner to pass directly on all appropriations being urged for the support and improve- ment of the National Capital. Fol- lowing his retiynent from Congress ten years ago Col. Gardner has lived in Michigan. He is well known to the President and is an intimate friend of Dr. Harding, father of the President, they having been comrades during the civil war. Col. Gardner was born in Morrow county, Ohio, February 16, 1845. He his | BIRL, 6, SLAN; BOY AGED 18 HELD Youth Says He Placed Body ! Half Reclining After_ She Shot Self. - Special Dispatch to The Star. ~ i HARPERS FERRY. W. Va. March| 21L.—A coroner’s jury today held James | | Stevens, aged etghteen, of Halitown, W. {Va.. in connection with the death of Katherine Littleton, aged sixteen, whose body, half recliniig, was found on a sofa in her homte this morning, a bullet ) through her face. Mrs. Grasce Ramsdell, the girl's | breakfast, found the body. nrOYfE Stevens was arrested after e verdict. He admitted the revolver With which ‘the girl was killed be- Stevens at.a preliminary hearing said the revolver was heavy in his pocket and that he took -it out and laid it on an organ in the parior of the house. He said the girl told him ithat two of her girl friends had for- saken her and that she had nothing to live for. “She picked up the pistol,” Stevens |said. “I ‘warned her that it was loaded, but it went off before I could take it from her.” “Her head fell over on her lap. continued Stevens, “the lamp wen out. T was afraid if,her parents came down stairs they would kill me, 8o 1 placed her back in a half-reclining position, picked up the pistol, let my- self out quietly and went home.” SOUNDING ON TARIFF Suggests Fordney Find Out Views on Emergency Legislation to Aid Farmers. President Harding suggested today |to Chairman Fordney that the House the Senate republicans as to the feas- ibility of early passage of an emer- gency tariff that wegld take care of farmers. The proposal was discussed at length, but it was said the committee had reached no definite conclusion. It was the idea of the President, mem- bers said, to avoid an embargo and to limit the bill to 2 very few items, in- cluding wheat and wool. z The ~President’s suggestion made over the telephone to Chairman Ford- ney met with opposition by western members, who insisted it would take as much time to pass an emergency {as a permament tariff bill. When the meeting ended members said the com- mittee as a body had not turned back on its stand of a week ago, when it voted unanimously against an emer- gency’ tariff and then voted 13 to 2 way. 5 It was the President's idea, mem- jbers explained, that principal agri- cultural products now on the free suggested. !since he sits at the cabinet table and | cast {listens to the discussions by President Country districts the SWEEPING VIGTORY WON FOR GERMANY IN SILESIA VOTING Returns Show Poles Fail to Carry Single District in Plebiscite Area. in Anthracite Coal; Increases Later WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 20.—Prices of nthracite coal in domestic wizes will he re- duced 50 cents a ton to the Te- tailer. effectice April 1. by three of the largest conl pro- | ducers in the Pennsylvania re- glon. with headquarters in Wilkesbarre and Scrantom, it was announced todny. The re- duction will he based on the usual summer schedule, which provide for subsequent | ercases of 10 centx a tom eac) month, beginning May 1. until the winter price in restored. It had been announced previ- ouxly that thix reduction would not he made thix year, but. be- causxc of the slump coal market, it was'gald, the usual procedu will b followed. | | | |VAST MAJORITY PILED UP e e FOR TEUTONS IN BALLOTS CODLIDGE MESSAGE "5 = cision of Election. an overwhelming victory in the plebi- |Entente Forces Ready to Suppress é‘ny Effort by Poland to Over- scite held in Upper Silesia yesterday . to determine the future national Statement Accepted as Ad- |®tatus of that region, according to official returns received here. Two ministration View on districts were still missing at 9 ioclock this morning. but the count {Showed that §76.000 votes had been | fast for Germany and 389,000 for Po- | piapPorts from Breslau state that the 1 e was generally w s toward incidents. > nout e Foreign Affairs. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. If Calvin Coolidge were just an or- 'OTrd incid dinary Vice President, his message to | n.wgpapfl:’:‘ herr:‘:i:::' that in Oppeln the Boston Chamber of Commerce would | Germany received 20,000 votes to 11,- have been accepted here as the personal | 000 for Poland. In Tarnowitz the cxpression of an individual opinion. But | jaguan? EE e S et e o 78 per cent. In the Beuthen vote, as pub- published in | Harding and Secretary of State Hughes | Juu . Germany. 59.222; Po- on matters of foreign policy, the opinions | 2 of a Vice President become s Im-| Returns remsierd e «d up to 10:30 am. T S member of | showed the following’ results: Mr. Coolidge attracted attention with | Eosenbers. urban and rurat. . 2300 11409 his message to the Boston Chamber of | Lapiiger® = """ o e Commerce because he is the first mem- ; Tarnowitz 27.000 ber -of the Harding administration to | Guer Gieers '™ ] say publicly that the future of Ameri- | Kozel 11700 {can business is interwoven with 32,000 |tlement of international questions = Members of the cabinet have said more | Kattowits. urt ® 000 than that privately, but Mr. Coolidge | Beathen -3 |says publicly: “With the settlement Hindenbarg 3000 of international relations and the de- | OPpeln. urban 31,000 26,000 fining of the German indemnity, we ought to reach a stabilized condition ' nvelved. Palm Sunday, the day of the voting mother, goming downstairs to prepare | roner's jury had rendered a| longed to him, and says that he fled | of | 0 _t&rror when the girl shot herself. which should result in a large busi- ;. .. . e fexpavizion’ | in Upper Silesia, seems likely to go Many Still Want League. {down in history as one of the most The foregoing sentiment is hardly Momentous days in the adjustment of European boundaries in line with the viewpoint expreued},ec,m war.The Gy, o] by “irreconcilables” in Congress who forward to with intense interest by all | have jnsisted that America could get | Gérmany and Poland as well, while evi- | along’ without Europe, and that the:dences of world-wide attention upon the United States had no relationship to |balloting were not lacking in advices the indemnity question. Indeed, a COMINg from abroad. | canvass of the cabinet members of | The area involved, ing some the Harding administration discloses | 5:000 square miles, was the largest sec- the fact that more of them lean to- 'O of territory to have jts fate sub- { ward the idea of reaching a prompt | Mitted to a plebiscite under the peace agreement with Europe with the | theaty, but even more important than pregent league of nations and treaty | {he size of the district was the ma- P anrs bes thaard the “ncre -|lerial wealth contained in its varied ping” of the whole league and treaty. | T A€M, tesources, mainly coal, but i~ During the campaign Mr. Coolidge | !5 Including iron, zinc and lead. | was careful not to say anything that ! Materinis Are Vital icould be construed as an_absolute| Germany has shown o nations, though, like the others, he | considered these materials to her { had much to say against foreign and ' ability to reconstitute herself eco- | unnecessary obligations. Generally { nomically and meet reparations de- | speaking, he is regarded as one of the i mands, while the need of the re- | friends of the treaty and league more | sources of Upper Silesia for the eco- ASKED BY PRESIDENT | ways and means committee sound out | to give a permanent tariff right of! list should be included in the bill he | enlisted as a private in the 65th Ohio| | Volunteer Infantry and served from Today,s News on several occasions and being se- verely wounded in the last year of the fighting. He migrated to Mich- igan and in 1899 was elected to Con- gress. He served as commander of the Michigan department of the Grand Army of the Republic and was elected commander-in-chief of _the Grand Army of the Republic in 1913-14. Obadiah Gardner Gets Former Place. Obadiah Gardner ‘of Maine, who re- signed from the international joint commission at the request of former President Wilson before the appoint- ment of former Secretary Wilson of the Labor Department to that body, will be reappointed, it was said today at_the White House. Formal announcement was made that Mr. Wilson had tendered his resignation to President Harding and that it had been accepted. It was stated that Mr. Wilson's resignation was not asked by the President, ~ although it had been 1861 to 1865, distinguishing himself! in Paragraphs Germans victorious in Sil i- erma lesian plebi. Coolidge expression regard Rope for teagae. | oroc 0o It_is stated authoritatively t) { ‘Washington Gardner of h{lch}?atn ?1:‘;1 commissioner of pensions. Dage o President _attends church a Walter Reed. "dp,‘;‘:"‘: Cardinal Dougherty takes titul ardinal D lar church French see Viviani mission 5 ner 1o U. S. Joining league. Bren"s Packers’ controversy opens before Sec- retary Davis. Page 2 Four-thousand mark neared i 2 Tor 10,000 donors to Associated. Chanrc ties. Page 3 Maj. Gen. Hunter Liggett goes on re- | tired list. Page 4 | favoruble to the Elihu Root wing of | the republican party than the Borah. | Johnson faction. There are those ! Who say that when the treaty was before the Senate. Mr. Coolidge fa- vored its adoption with the Lodge reservations. e Co-Operation Declared Need. ? but there are others. It is mot ex- pected that members of the cabinet will express opinions publicly on mat- | ters outside of their departments, but | Secretary Denby of the Navy Depart- | ment. went 80 far recently as to de- clare _that American co-operation | with Europe was necessary even to| the cancellation of war indebtedness. | Talks which the writer has had | with several members of the cabinet | lead to the conclusion that the senti ment for a definite settlement of the | exact amount which America will | oblige the allies to pay to her is loom- ing up as of much importance almost as the question of what Germany should pay the allies. Some cabinet ! members say frankly, though, of | course, they cannot be quoted pub-! licly, that as a “cold-blooded business | { proposition” it would be better for| America to forgive the entire debt.| | while others insist that the United | States must_inevitably consent to a| refunding of the debt in some way that will enable the allied countries to | get credit abroad and thus stabilize {international exchange. { Burdens May Stop Buying. ! Some cabinet members declare that it America does not settle the debt |-question. the financial burdens will | continue to weigh 50 heavily upon the { European peoples as to diminish their purchasing power. Even western | senators are beginning to realize that jafter all is said and done and the { emergency tariff laws have been en- acted to prevent the importation of European products that compete with American goods it will become neces- sary to do something to get foreign markets for the American producer and that this can come only through the equalization of international ex- change. All sides seem to agree that public opinion in America is not ready for a cancellation of the allied debt {and that it will be very difficult to get_action in Congress on any pro- posal to discount the debt. The latest proposal, however, that the United States cancel the debts of every allied i i i i | owed to her by the allied countries, is being given consideration informaily. By that scheme. England would cancel about nine billions of dollars which is owed her. while the United ! nomical well being of Poland has been hardly less strenuously insisted upon by the Polish people. A notable feature of the plebiscite was the influx of both Germans and | Poles, former residents of the district who were entitled to cast their b; lots. It is not known here how I Stevens was taken to the jail rge Charles Town W. Ve for tra1 * ! 1| The other friends of the treaty and|a number of Poles were thus enabled 2 ileague in the cabinet include. of! !0 vote at yesterday's electi but course, Messrs. Hughes and Hoover, |it i8 estimated that not less than 140.000 Germans entered Upper Si- lesia -for the casting of their ballots, special trains for them being pro- vided by the German government. Allied troops sent to the district were distributed throughout the at suitable points to insure order and the proper comduct of the balloting. ALLIES READY TO ACT. By the Amociated Press. OPPELN, March 21.—Entente forces in Upper Silesia will promptly sup- press any effort on the part of the Polish army to override the decision in yesterday's plebiscite, or to an- ticipate the action of the council of ambassadors in’ Paris, Gen. Lerond, head of the interallied plebiscite commission, told the Associated Press today. He 8aid rumors that the Poles had been concentrating an army on the Silesian frontier were “wholly without foundation.” “Should they cross the border.” continued Gen. Lerond. “they wouid be met by machine guns and rifles. America and the rest of the world may depend upon me to maintain the entente’s will here. The Poles un- derstand that they cannot overrun allied authority. and I am confident they do not intend to attempt it. “The view expressed here was that a few people might cross the border from Poland, but it was not feared that the situation would get out of control.” Voting Is Orderly. Gen. Lerond remained up all night to receive the returns from the vot- ing. He dld not attempt to conceal his pleasure that the plebiscite had been carried out with scarcely a rip- ple of excitement and no disorder. The Germans here were massed in front of the Oppein administration build- ing to awalt the result of the baliot- iing and when the first returns from ‘Ihe city showed a vote in favor of | Germany in the proportion of 20 to i1 the crowd sang “Deutschland uber ! country except England, while Great | ajjen - - Page 1. Britain cancels the debts which are | A ieench trooes el mnciire™, French troops with machine guns and rifles stood within arm's reach of the front rank of the crowd, but there was no occasion even to reprimand the throng. About midnight, when the returns s been selected to be | States would cancel about five billions | {of dollars owed by France, Belgium, | ITtaly and other countries. England | Mans as having cast an overwhelming alone would pay her debt of about!vote. the crowd cheered and _then five billions ‘to the United States. jquietly dispersed. The Leobschuets Such suggestions, however, cannot |district was to have gone to Czecho- ibe said to have reached the point,slovakia in the event Poland won the | where the government's policy can be | plebiscite. By 2 o'clock the streets of |stated. The important fact is that Oppeln were deserted. | wherever the members of the Hard-| The majority of the precincts which jing administration tucn in their daily | reported early polled from 95 to 100 from Leobschuetz showed the Ger- pointed out to him that Mr. Gardner | Security owners propose national rail- work and effort to bring back nor- mal conditions in American industry | and agriculture. the league of nations | or the German indemnity or other Eu- | ropean questions stare them in the | per cent of the registered vote. 30,000 Poles Reported on March. Reports that 30,000 Polish troops were marching toward the border have been current here. A motor trip. was familiar with the work of the commission, which deals with ques- tions between the United States and Canada, and that the 1085 of his serv- ices would seriously handicap its work. Governors Indorse Gen. Martin. way service. Page 5 H. 8. Black, New York millionaire, in Florida liquor case. Page 17 Auto bandits routed by shots housetops and windows. °° Page s Reduced prison population believed due | in part to prohibition. Page 13 Appointment of C. I Martin, ad-|vyjce President pleads for square deal jutant-general of Kansas, as chief of the War Department militia bureay, | N was recommended to President Hard- ipg toduy by Senator Capper, repub- lican, of Kansas, who said Gen. Mar- tin had been indorsed for the place | Heart again by thirty-five state govefnors.. .. s for American labor. Page 13 ew oil town in South Wales grows as it by magic. Page 13 Rotarians start survey of care of dis- abled veterans. Page 13 stijl for fourteen, hours beats d man lives. Page 15 ! Vice President Coolidge's speech is significant of what is going on at the along the Polish frontier showed the presence of the usual Polish sen- | tries, but there were no entente | troops on the Silesian side of the bor- | der. It might be possible that a num- i ber of troops, or civillans, could sud- face as inescapable and unl\'oidlhle.‘ Harding cabinet table. (Copyright, 1921.) CLEMENCEAU BACK HOME. TOULON, France, March 21.—Georges | Clemenceau, former premier -of France, | arrived here today from India, where he | has been engaged in hunting tigers and in visiting the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains. He reported upon landing from the steamer Ormonde that he was in perfect health. denly cross without meeting with serious interference. The balloting yesterday was vir- tually over by mid-afternoon. There was no_disorder of a serious nature reported. During his trip through the zone a number of Germans at- tempted to confiscate the Associated Press correspondent’s automobile at Eichenau to-take voters to the polls, but the attémpt was wasuccessful. .