Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1921, Page 1

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Closing New York Stocks, Page 23. he Zb No. 28,086. office post Entered as second-class matter shinzton, DiC WASHINGTON, MANY OLD POLICIES OF WILSON REGIME STILL UNDISTURBED Wo Radical Shifts Made on Foreign and Domestic Questions. { PEACE TREATY REMAINS Forward By the Associated Pross, BERLI rch 21.—Germany's re- the bilii before March 23 of one rks, gold, to apply on repara- tions, will be in the nega- it was unofficially stated toda; Ply to the demand of the entente for | GERMANY WILL REFUSE BILLION MARKS TO ALLIES | Demand for Settlement Before March 23, | | Flouted—Official Reply Will Go at Once. wenty billion marks, gold, by May 1 Germany was miven until April 1 to submit a proposal to pay the balance of the twenty billion marks otherwise than in cash, having the privilege to bring forward a plan for a foreign loan, the proceeds of which should be payable to the commission. It was an- D. C, TUESDAY, BUSINESS MEN SEE - FORDNEY BILL RIFT { |Decision of G. 0. P. Leaders to Pass It Fraught With Coming Contention. - - BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | The decision of the republican lead- lers in Congress in agreement with President Harding to pass the Ford-| ney emergency tariff bill in the same form as it was vetoed by Woodrow | nounced by the commission, however, The an government's an r | that Germany had virtually refused to to tie 2 now being drafted, will| pay the balance, asserting that the ENIGMA OF REPUBLICANS be vresentea’ within forty-eight hours, | twenty billion marks has alrcady the time limit set expires Wednes- | been paid in full. The allied represen- tatives stated that the greatest sum | e ) they couid compute as having I\(‘er:. . The allied reparations commission, { paid by Germany against this accoun All Departments Seem Disposed to |, 'y, st d, revarations commission, | paid hardiy reach eieht billion maris fulfillment by Germany of article 235 | by May 1. It is, therefore, the initia Complete Work Started by of the peace notified the Ger- | payment of 1,000,000,000 marks and a man ernment that it must pay one | balance of at leasi 11.000,000.000 marks Predecessors. . wold, before March 23, and that | that the allies are demanding of the . complete the payment of German government. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Politicians are noting that the new @dministration has not thus far shown any signs of rymning amuck With some of the leading politicies of the last administration, but -is carrying on with them. To democrats this is naturally gratifying. Repub- licans say that it is without particu- lar significance, but merely in the day’s work; that it would be futile to reverse a policy inherently good merely because its inception was un- | der democratic auspices. One important policy of the Wilson regime may vet be modificd—app! cation of civil service rules to appli- MARKET DELAYS CANAL OPENING C. & 0. Suspends Plans to Operate Until Coal Situa- { tion Is Settled. eants for presidential postmaster- | . :::'Dl"“;n!l'?s\'t‘:;r 80 _i]' is believed 1:;.3 Unsettled conditions in the coal Satisfied, and that only the political | Market today caused the Chesapeake sting will be removed from the regu- lations.” Tf’ this isyot done there is likely. it is said, to be' wide dissatis- llcl!on among republicans. Treaty Solution Hangw Fire. The average democratic politician 15 not expected to protest seriously; he is amenable to the voice of rea- son and would not blame the opposi- tion party for taking advantage of | |and Ohio Canal Towage Company to suspend indefinitely pJans for opening the canal for the 1921 season. First coal boats of the year bound for Washington were to have been cleared from Cumberland, Md.,, Mon- day. Local orders for deliveries did MAY END PACKERS WAGE DISCUSSION Cabinet Members Consider- ing Dispute With Workers Predict Agreement. As the cabinet assembled today to con- | sider the controversy between the meat { packers and their employes there were i Teports that a tentative agreement was being approached. One plan being con- sidered was that the wage reductions which went into effet yesterday should stand; that the packers agree to extend | the Alschuler agreement providing for not develop to the extent expected. | settlement of differences by a perma- The company met yesterday afternoon | nent arbitrator and that the eight-hour and decided it would be better to de- the spoils in a reasonable way. This would leave only the extreme parti- #ans of civil service to complain. Waiving for the occasion the broad {lay the inauguration of traffic over { the canal than to bring cargoes to ashington on an uncertain market. Manager G. L. Nicholson of the Question of how the new admin-|towage company kept the wires to istration will finally handle the Ver- | Cumberland busy today with -orders sallles treaty and the league of na- | canceling arrangements for opening lions. for that question lies in the | the canal. Farmers with mule teams lap of fate, it is possible to call | were headed from many directions attention to a number of the policies | for the Maryland terminus of the of the former administration which | waterway, where Monday they would bid fair to be continued. | have become full-fledged boat cap- The conservative course of the fed- | tains. Runners were sent out this! eral reserve system will be continued, the new Secretary of the Treasury will continue considering _funding the war loans by foreign government | and the department will adhere to the plan of raising money by the sale of short-term notes. The threats made in Congress to abolish the of- fice of controller of the currency will | not be cafried out and he will con- tinue to function. Prokibition Ruling Stands. The Department of Justice will continue the policy of not harassing big business and will not overturn the ruling of Attorney General Pal- | mer on_the prohibition act. The Navy Department will adhere | to the building program of the Tast ! administration, which has the ap- | proval of republican as well as dem- ocratic congressmen. Secretary Den- by has approved Secretary Daniels' morning to turn them back, with in- structions to wait for further orders. Company officials would make no predictions as to when traffic would start, saying the situation would be governed entigely by bisiness devel- opments. The largest buyers of coal, in gommon with coal buyers generally, are said to be delayin placing of contracts for annual deliv: eries because slackened business has reduced their fuel needs, and present spot market prices are more attrac- tive than contract prices. Coal Could Be Sold. 2 While much coal that might be | transported over the canal now un- doubtedly could be readily disposed of, the company, it was stated, felt it would work a hardship upon the boatmen and their crews to subject them to the possibility of losing time order abolishing the wine mess on Navy vessels. The new Secretary will, as did his predecessor. make frequent trips on battleships and cruisers with a view to keeping in touch Wwith the personnel of the Navy. No changes have been made in poli- cies in the Interior or Agricultural departments, and none is threatened. ‘The Department of Commerce prom- ises to show expansion, but there are | on the trips. A boatman's pay is at { the rate of 70 cénts a ton, and, when | center | day be agreed upon subject to peculiar | i conditions obtaining in the packing in- | ustry. |, Parties to the conferences which have been conducted with Secretaries Davis, Hoover and Wallace refused to dia- {cuss the reports and cabinet officials maintained their silence. It was said, i however, that a prospect of a tentative agreement had resulted from private conferences held by the cabinet officers last night with the packers' representa- i tives and by Secretary Davis this morn- ing with the spokesmen for the workers. ciliators Called Upon. Representatives of the packers’ em- ployes were in private conference to- day with Secretary Davis before the cabinet meeting. The conference this morning fol- lowed one last night at which Secre- jtaries Davis, Hoover and Wallace jheard further argument by the {spokesmen for the packers. Later con- ciliators of the Department of Labor were called in by the ‘cabinet officers, but only Secretary Davis met today with the union officials. The utmost secrecy has surrounded the meetings thus far. None of the cabinet officers will say what progress has been made and the representa- | tives of the workers and packers re- main silent under Secretary Davis' injunction not to discuss what has transpired. Where Comtreversy Cenmters. ‘The controversy is understood to largely around the war-time n agreement as to wages and working |1 pommbi Gorays are experienced, It | Conditions, whioh the employes claim | than an average of two round trips | month. a | the packers now seek to break by proposing a reduction in wages of It is the intention, when the canal|from 12% to per cent. The em- finally opens, to place il operation|Ploves say the agreement was to be only ‘a sufficient number of boats to meet tonnages actually contracted for, 80 that crews may get the advantage no_indications of violent scrapping of its most outstanding policies. The action of the canal towage com- Troops Remain in Germany. {pany brought to light today elements. Nelling In wrosnectitor ine neas an‘xihl.—gg(-ner;l coal situation which are &iving much concern to the govern- ture, at least, threatens the with- 'y % 000 SAnd business mon gen- drawal of American troops from the |erally. Rhine or the making of a separate | Apparently no one has his hand on peace with Germany. It falls out that | the situation sufficiently to forecast actual conditions ‘arising since the|with any degree of certainty what present administration came into|the next few weeks or months may power precludes hasty reversal of bring forth in the coal market. A the policy of the last admpmistration |round-up of the opiniun of govern- in this regard. | ment officials, and dealers indicates the The administration has not departed | following as being the outstanding from the democratic policy toward |facts in the situaticn. Mexico, Japan, Haiti, Santo Domingo Facts in Situation. Latin American relati Nego- b ety o codons. Ne€0-| irst—The normal consumption of tiations with Japan over the alien land question will continue and the]coal has fallen from 10,000,000 to | 7,000,000 tons a week. Tnited States stands pat on its de- e ocmanstration of g00d| “g,cungGeneral business depression is responsible for this reduction. faith from Mexico. If democrats are disappointed in not Third—Buyers are holding off on | placing contracts because they look getting a whack at the patronage in for further price reductions. return for the votes they gave the republican party in November, politi- cians say they can at least derive sat- | Fourth—Smail operators are doing isfaction from the fact that the new | the princpial business, which is a spat administration is not laving violent | business. hands upon those safe and sane poli-| The government is handicapped at cies which were inherited from the | present, it was pointed out, in ascer- outgoing democrats. {taining what it costs to load coal on | the cars at the mines. Several months ago the of full-time operation. Federal “EVEN COLDER WEATHER | trade Comminsion sint ‘out a aums. TOMORROW IS FORECAST Temperature Drops 46 Degrees Be- tween Yesterday and This Morning. “Bpring, spring. go away, come again some other day,” old Jack Frost is expected to sing tonight, as he covers the District with his mantle. Following the 46-degree drop in temperature from 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when an official mark of 39 degrees was reached, to 43 degrees 4t 7 o'clock this morning, cold tonight and tomorrow was forecast Ly the weather bureau. ' A temperature of 36 degrecs tome: ToW morning, with frost. is forecast ton. During 1918 the average price, for the District. but officials do not according 10 government compila- expect Jack to do any real nipping of was a short.ton. _ The buds, but to be beneficent, if any- - price now is thought to be thing. Yesterday's high mark set a racord for a March 21. but not for March, 1he highest ever recorded heré in the month being 93 degrees, 1907. Street temperatu before the wind broke i degrees. The temperature at 11 o'clock this morning was 47 degrees. a marked contrast with yesterday's $3 degrees at 11 am. The District had the distinction yes- terday of being the hottest city in the cast. ———— HERO MAYOR COMING. Max of Brussels to Bring Congrat- ulations to President. tionnaire 1o operators seeking infor- mation on this point. Some mines responded, but others challenged the commission’s right to require such | information, and from the District | Supreme Court ‘obtained a temporary | restraining order, which puw an end {to the inquiry. This case has not | been finally disposed of by the court. | Fair Prices Only Guesswork. | Inasmuch as the bureau.of mines ‘and the geologica] survey collect and | disseminate information applying only { to the production and transporting of coal, the question of costs is now practically neglected. For this rea- son government officials are able to make only guesses to whether prices now charged represent a fair or unreasonable profit on the actual cost of mining coal. ore the war the av ined for bituminous mines was said to be $1. age price al at the 5 per sho hing the local coal trade is to the ef that production in the Logan field in West Virginia_i® now but 20 per cent of normal and that a Eroup of mines on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, capable of producing | two and one-half million tons annu- smber 15. The railroads of the country, on account of reduced ship- ments of general commodities, are aid to be burning only about 60 per | cent of the coal they reqquire in nor- mal business times. | URGES AID TO ANTI-SOVIETS. By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 21.—Ap- peals are being made to many nations by Gen. Wrangel, head of the south | BRUSSELS. March 21.—The council | Russian government, who was driven of ministe: dccided ‘o send | from Crimea by the bolsheviki late last Burgomas of Brussels to | year, to come to the aid of the anti- United States to tender the congratu- | holshevik fore He still belleves Jations of the Belgian government to | there is a chance to defeat the soviet President Harding on his clevation to | zovernment, and drive Lenin mnd 4 the presidency of the United States, Trotsky from power in MOSCOW. | have not operated at all sincel effective for one year after the war ended, while the contention of the packers is reported to be that the war actually has ended and the agree- ment, therefore, is no longer in ef- feot. Mr. Davis took much data regarding the controversy to the cabinet meet- ing. On leaving for the White House he said that he hoped to have some “good news" within a short time, but refused to add to that statement. The packers’ representatives, Carl Meyer and James L. Condon, were un- derstood to have finished stating their case at 4 o'clock yesterday, having been interrupted by few questions from the employes. Whether the greater part of the remaining hour and a ihalf was consumed by the employes tin presenting their side was not in- dicated. None of the conferees would indicate whether there was cause for hope that the question at issue might be adjusted and a strike -averted, Employes Heard Privately. Secretary Davis heard the employes’ Iside of the controversy at 11 o'clock, after both sides had assembled and the meeting had been adjourned until 2 o'clock. The Labor.Secretary, in granting a private hearing to Dennis Lane, Secretary of the union, and Redmond S. Brennan, their attorney, gave them the same privilege he had previously given Messrs. Condon and Meyer. The full conferenc. 2 o'clock, with the three cabinet members, the two representatives of cach side and the three mem- {bers of the Labor Department conciliation board present. Two, offi- cial reporters wgrked in shifts tak- ing the testimony. SEES “VICIOUS AGITATION.” e then began at Head of Morris Company Scores Packers’ Critics. Future of -the packing industry in the United States depends entirely on whether the “vicious propaganda and agitation is to be ocontinued against this vital industry, or whether the people are going to take a hand in the matter and handle it along |safe and sane lines,” says Eaward Morris, president of Morris & Co., in a statement today. The packers’ solution of the mat- ter is appointment of a capable, dis- interested and non-political commit- tee to study the whole subject from the calf on the farm to the steak on the table, including the producer. the packer and the retailer, and 1a¢ this commitice bring forth a. report on which something conat lasting can be basea, " ctive and “I do not make this suggestion,” says Mr. Morris, “in order tebneseioms. tion or in the interest of time. b cause this industry is being serioualy injured every day this needless ang harmful agitation is prolonged. “his talk abou: the packers being stronger than the government and threatening to monopolize the Amers can table is merely Dropaganda . te create a Dbitter prefudice against the rt | TEN DIE IN BURNING TRAIN. NIIGATA, Japan, March 2].—Ten persons were killed and fifty injured when a train which became derailed i a tunnel here today caught fires Wilson at the last session of Con- hould be taken with a grain | gress sl | of salt. ; An emergency tariff bill will be pissed. that much is certain, but many | things point to the probability of a ITevision of the Kordney measure be-i fore it can pass. vbody kno ; that the Fordney bill, ‘s it passed I both houses during the last session. | would never have had a ghost of a show of passage if there had been the slightest chance of approval by 99 MARCH ening Star. SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Member of the Assoclated Press The Associated Press is esclusively entitled to the use for repablication all news dispatehes rediled to it or tuere condited in paper and also the local news pubiish =1 Al rights of publication ef special dispatches berein are also reserved. 1921-THIRTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. r. Wilson. Accordingly many things \’n"«re i‘n:erled in !hfigbfll. partly out of a desire to satisfy certain con- stituencies and partly out of an ef’ fort to make sure that the bill wou be sufficiently obnoxious to the dem. ocratic executive as to bring abou its veto. Republicans Condemn. vately Leading republicans have privatels condemnéd the Fordney bill as un- scientific. The plan to revive the measure and put it through both hnust; in the same form as it was passed will not succeed because many Amer ican business houses affected by the measure will demand hearings, an subsequent changes in the bill. en | once the Fordncy bill is opened up other changes wiil be insisted upon. President Harding himself has al- ready made one change—a request that the measure apply for six months instead of ten. This will affect cer- tain schedules because already cer- tain changes in economic conditions have occurred which render neces- a readjustment. % L e res has indicated that he means to go along with the plan | to pass the Fordney measure which I he originally wanted killed. There's |a story that Mr. Penrose turned the | management of the bill in the Senate over to Semator McCumber of North | Dakota in the belief that the latter by a combination with the democrats Would surely bury the Fordney meas- ure. But Mr. McCumber turned out to be an ardent champion of the bill. Confronted With Problem. e astute leaders of the republi- ‘c:r:h Congress are confronted with a | perplexing problem. They know that {to revise the tariff in the -present | state of world instability,” with costs | of production changing constantly and price levels uncertain. ls to at tempt a dangerous job which may re- act politically. But on the other hand there are men like Representative Fordney of Michigan, with whom the iff is a fetich. 5 fhe real trouble, it is recognized, will come §f the Fordney bill sends up the. cost of\living. Senator McCum- ber admitted during the recent debate that the cost ef sugar might rise and possibly other articles of food, But that it would help the farmer and other interests and ’t‘:err!‘!.f;“)re was a Bood thing in the lo . B%fe Boliticians are not so sure that a rise in the cost of living rizht now Would be received with enthusiasm by the great body of man and woman Voters who elect a new Congress a year from next autumn. Eastern re- Dublicans are for the most part coun- Seling caution and are reminding the Westerners of the fact that the repub- lican party lost control of the House in 1910 on precisely the same issue— the alleged rise in the cost of living ! Bullet Coughed Up FOREIGN RELATIONS After 58 Years by REVISIONOF RULES OF COMMUNITY USE - OF SCHOOLSLIKELY Board of Education Expected | to Take Action at Meet- ing Tomorrow. " |[EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR i MAY BE PUT IN CHARGE Officials Say Action Had Been Con- templated, Deny It Is Sequel | to Federation Resolution. | Initial steps designed to vevise the rules and regulations governing use | of the District public schools by com- | munity centers probably will be taken {by the board of education at a spe- jcial conference in the Franklin |School tomorrow afternoon at 3 ;n('lnck, called today by Dr. Abram | Siton, president of the school govern- | ing body, for the announced purpose. of comsidering many improvements which school officials believe are nec- e 1y to place the school system on an eflicient foundation. If the board takes up the question BEFORE CABINET President and Secretary Dis- cuss Questions for Over Two Hours. For more than two hours today President Harding and his cabinet discussed the foreign relations of the United States following presentation ifor the first time by Secretary of State~ Hughes of a survey of the for- eign situation. It was made known following the meeting that during this discussion the most important features brought up were those relating to restored relationship, trade and the Hevelop- ment of ghe newer mations. It is understood that the European situation was touched on only as a part of the general picture, and that no specific questions involving the league of nations or other European connections were, discussed. Mail Question Up. Another matter brought before the cabinet which was considered im- portant was the appeal made by Post- master General Hays to the President, the Vice President and the other members of the cabinet to set -bou¥ the correction in their departments o the present system of the sending out of government_ mail. after the Aldrich-Payne tariff law was passed. Tarift Bill's Yield. e tarift were to yield an im- the mass of folks of the high income taxes the leaders would go ahead with firm step and jam it through, but the tariff, it is admitted, will not yield more than three or four hundred mil- lion dollars in a program of revenue raising that requires at least four bil- n_dollars a year. °-rne situation may be summed up R eordney has had his way; there will be a tariff bill bearing his name, but it will not be the same measure that was passed at the last session, and it will not go through so quickly, as may be surmised from reading the announcement by the republican ways and means committee. Indeed, the Yast number of interests who let the Fordney bill go through by default, S0 to speak, last time because of the certainty of a Wilson veto will have a great deal more to say this time and may 8o prolong the debate as to Take acute the demand, after all, for fax legislation before there is tinker- ing with the tariff laws. (Copyright, 1921.) —_— EXPLOSION IN UNIVERSITY. Professor and Six or More Students at Emory Hurt. ATLANTA, March 22.—Dr. A. R. Bliss, member of the faculty of Emory University, and six or more students were injured in an explosion in the pharmacology laboratory of the uni- versity here today. Authorities of the university be- lieve the explosion resulted from gas ignition. The laboratory was badly damaged and several windows were blown out. Approximately thirty stu- dents were in the room at the time. "According to Prof. J. G. Stipe, reg- isirar_of the university. seven or eight students, in addition to Dr. Bliss, were badly shocked and receiv- ed injuries, the extent of which had not been determined. First aid was administered at the university and the injured were rushed to the Grady D xplosion occurred just before the opening of the winter term con- Vocation exercises in the university chapel and as students and friends Were gathering on the campus for the graduation march of the students who Were to receive degrees. ————— "SECRETARY DENBY GETS HIS FIRST NAVY SALUTE AND LEAVES FOR CUBA KEY WEST, Fla, March 22— Secretary Denby sailed from here today aboard the destroyer Crown- inshield for Guantanamo, Cuba, to inspect the naval base at that place. Later he will go to Haiti and the Dominican republic to in- spect detachments of the Marine Corps. on the arrival of Mr. Denby here late yesterday he received his first official salute as Secretary of the Navy, it having been his first of- ficial visit to any yard or ship since his appointment to the cabi- net. During his stay here Mr. Denby was tendered a reception at the quarters of the commandant of the naval station, received a visit from a committee of the chamber of commerce and inspected the naval station and the new submarine base. \ | packers and as a smole screen to hide | the real object of the parties back of | the agitation—that of price fixing.” & P 3 84 % Postmaster Genersi Hays presented figures showing that in Washington the city post office receives daily 700,000 letters and postcards and 9,000 sacks of mall, the most amazing part of it being, he said, that only 100,000 of the letters and postcards are mailed be- tween 8 am. and 4 p.m., the remaining 600,000 being mailed between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., the greater part of it being be- tween 4 and 7 p.m. This practice of dumping -the mail upon the local post office between the hours specified is considered by Post- master General Hays as a natural detriment to the service, and inas- much as 76 per cent of the mail comes from the various governthent depart- ments, he told his chief and his asso- clates that no time should be lost in bringing about a reform. Prestdent Responds. President Harding- was the first to respond to the Postmaster General's appeal by saying that the executive force would be directed accordingly, and the Vice Presidemt and the other cabinet officers each in turn said they ‘would give their support. Other matters discussed by the cab- inet were the legislative program, the proposed creation of a war liquida- tion commission to distribute and dis- pose of the accumulation of property as a result of the war, the packers' situation and the increased shipments to this country of hides, beef, wood and grain. President Harding announced after the cabinet meeting that he would see the newspaper men every Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock and Friday aft- ernoons at 4 o'clock, these days being cabinet days. Today’s News in Paragraphs George B. Christian to be guest at din- ner-of District republicans. grage 1 League of nations issues text of several important mandates. Page 1 President Harding made honorary mem- ber Almas Temple, Mystic Shrine. Page 2 Mr. Hays to take up bandling of growing parcel post. 3 Page 2 Batum, tmportant Black sea port. occu- pied by_bolsheviki. Page 2 Oscar Nauck has been arrested charged with the theft of thousands of dollars’ worth of platinum from the bureau of standards. Page 2 The body of Sir Moses Ezekiel, noted sculptor, recently. brought from Italy, is to be buried in Arlington March 30, 5 ~ Page 2 D. C. druggists and doctors await new beer regulations before handling pre- scriptions. Page 3 $15,000,000 alloted for rivers and harbors work. Page 3 Big galn in food exports; slump in cot- ton, Department of Commerce re- ports. - Page 3 Associated Charitles receives $10,000 in gifts and needs $10,000 more. Page 3 Guerrilla warfare' in Ireland increasing at amazing rate. . Page 5 College Art Association * announces tenth annual program. Page 9 New York officers plan war on huge drug ring. Page 11 Germans tiy Americans who attempted to kidnap draft evader.Bergdoll. Page 15 War Department welfare service does not like its name. Page 16 East Washington citizens discuss light- ing and suggest land purchase for parks. Page 17 Emergency tariff bill will be passed first at € sessipn. Page 1» Georgetown citizens put faith in Public Utilitles Commission. Page 17 President Harding to attend K. of P. selebration here April 1% .- -Page 17 Veteran cf Civil War LANETT, Ala., March 22.—W. v Mendows, seventy-eight years of age, of thix place. veteran of the civil war. and shot in the eye at the battle of Vieksburg. July 1863, today coughed up the bullet a in In his usual good health, despite the fact that he has carried this tullet, weighing ap- proximately one cunce, in his head for fifty-eight years. Mr. Meadows was n member of Company G, 37th Alabama | | Infantry, commanded by Col. Dowdell. | i EARUE OF NATON Samoa, Nauru and German Southwest Africa Included Under New Terms. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March nations today issued the text of the mandates for the administration of Samoa by New Zealand; of Nauru, or Pleasant Island, in the Pacific a short distance south of the equator, by Great Britain; of German Southwest Africa by the Union of South Africa, and of the former German possessions in the Pacific south of the equator, other than Samoa and Nauru, by Aus- tralia, in accordance with the laws Jf these mandatories. The terms provide for promotion of the material and moral well being of ithe inhabitants of the territories, | prohibition of ‘slave trading and pro- { hibition of forced labor except for cs- ! sential public works, for which ade- quate remuneration is to be paid. Put Under Rigid Control. Traffic in arms and ammunition i j toxicating spirits and beverages to inatives is prohibited. Military train- ing of natives is prohibited except for police and local defense. No military or naval bases shall be established or fortifications erected. Free exercise of all forms of wor- ship shall be allowed, and missionaries and nationals of states members of the league of nations shall be per- mitted to travel and reside in the territories and follqw their callings. The mandatories are required to re- port to the league of nations annual- ly on the territory under mandate and the measures taken to carry out the above obligations. Rules for Settling Dispute. The consent of the council of the league is required to any medifica- tion of the terms of the mandate. 1t any dispute shall rise between a man- datory and another member of the league regarding the mandate it shall not be capable of settlement by nego- tiation, but instead the dispute must be submitted to the permanent court of international justice of the league. The present declaration has been de- posited in the archives of the leag! of nations and coples forwarded to all the powers signatory to the treaty of peace with Germany. —_— PRESIDENT ISSUES CALL TO CONGRESS TO MEET ON APRIL 11 A proclamation convening Con- gress in special session at noon April 11 “to receive such communi- cation as may be made by the executive” was issued today by President Harding. Tariff and tax revisfon will be the principal subjects before the new ‘ongress, but many other im- portant _subjects, including = the transportation problem, regulation of the packing and coal industries and immigration restriction, are ex- pected to be taken up. None of the subjecfs to be con- sidered was mentjoned in the call for the session, the text of which follows: - “Whereas public interests require that the Congress of- the United States should be convened in extra session at 12 o'clock noon on the 11th day of April, 1921, to receive such communication as may be made by the executive: Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States of America, do hereby pro- Claim and declare that an ex.- traordinary occasion requires the Congress of the United States to convene in extra session at the Capitol in the city of Washington on the 1lth'day of April, 1921, at 12 o'clock noon, of which all per- sons who shall at that time be en- titled to act as members thereof are hereby pequired to take no- tice.” ~ {of amending the community center — jrules. 1L is reported that an effort " would be made to correlate the com- munity centers with the special schools, thereby placing them under the jurisdiction of Walter B. Paiter- son,” director of special schools. ¢ this action is taken, it is said. Miss Cecil B. Norton, general community | secretary. would be retained in her | present “position. but Mr. Patterson HONORED BY G.0.P. President’s Secretary Wil!. would have ultimaie direction over the centers. ignorant of Change. School oticials, however, indicated today that they were ignorant of such a movement. The proposed pians for revising the ISSUES MANDATES —The league o:l Be' Guest of District Republicans. community center rules. it was point- ed out, are not a sequel to the action taken by the Federation of Citizens' Associations Saturday night, when it 4 ! adopted recommendati - ; 5 S ad mendations of its com n honor of George B. Christian, jr. ;7" T education to request the the President's secretary. a dinner is school board to amend the communite to be given under the auspices of the center rules-and regulations so that | finance committee and the republican g‘g‘l"ns associations and other repu- |state committees for the District of (opS ) OrEanizations may use the t r the Dist schools Without unnecessary restric- olumbia at the University Club to- | tions. Several school officials stated I morrow night. Besides members of {these two commitiees and a number {of prominent local party leaders and a few personal friends of Mr. Christian to a decision. there will be a representative gather- The improvements which school au- ing of possibly a hundred or more thorities feel should be made in the men prominent in the various busi- school system include a proposal for ness and civic activities of the city the enlargement of the boards of Aside from affording an opportunity examiners, establishment of a regular, to meet the new presidential secre- paid corps of substitute teachers and lary this occasion is intended to serve {he appointment of a businexs man- as & means of bringing about a thor- ager. It also is likely that plans for ough and clear understanding between ' Mmaking an appeal o the extra session the new administration and those en- ' of Congress to carry out the $5,000.000 gaged in the advancement of the Dis- school building program will be dis trict of Columbi: cussed. £ Speeches During Dinmer. Building Program Parameust. W. T. Galliher, chairman of the re-{ The building program which schoo publican state committee and also the | 0Miclals ~civic organizations. ~trad. finance committee, will preside, and | pe pave o ubs made u futile effor to have atcording 1o Bresent arrangements | Lobre (OnETcss ipprove a the lu: there will not be more thad foyr or i amen ] five set speeches during the dinnet. T. | soa g, the subjects to be discussed that such action h plated by been contem- the board for some time. They admitted, however, that the fed- eration’s action hastened the board j Lincoln Townsend. who se: as | It is underst, E i 00d that the president of the Harding and ‘oolidg« | submit the same building p'r':.mdm':l.: Club during the past campaign “ongress at the extra session that i who is a member of the finance co mittee, is chairman of the committee | arranging for the affair. Edward F. Colladay. republican na- | tiona] committeeman, who has been | out of the city for more than a week. | 41d during the last seasion.. This calls or an appropriation sufficient to con- struct 153 additional classrooms, Enlargement of the boards of ex- aminers. school officials state, is new. to he controlled. ‘The supplying of in- e~ | céive a special mission from Venezuela | essary Immediately to relie . will return in time to be present. - A ve the | With his return tomorrow the locai| work\ Supt * maria Crce oy, their j republican leaders will set about com- | nointed out that the prs ;e-d\ h: pleting the list of names to problems con- pre- | sented to President Harding, with the | (TontIng these boards i republican state committees indorse- ment, for consideration in connection with appointments to the more impor- tant local federal positions, such as postmaster, United States marsha I | Tecorder of deeds, register of wiils| - an nited States strict atl orn'-m-\cosTA RICA ls PLEASED mittee’s announcement that it would | BY MR. HUGHES’ NOTE - Following the republican state coi follow the custom of years during re- | Say Secretary’s Message publican administrations and recommend | to Panama Indicates Spirit are ma |in 1906. He believes that the mem bership on the board should not only be enlarged, but they should be con. stituted on a larger basi en's National Republican League. It | is thought, however, that Dr. J. Al-| 'gg:;her of callers at the executive of-| . " popo o Gmadlstely oorasds LS the provisions of the arbitral award in the appointment of a colored recorder of deeds for the District, a number of | names of colored aspirants have been |Officials received at the White House. The latest | one to be presenfed is that Mrs. Nonen L. Gray, president of the Negro Wom- | of Justice. phonzo Harris, a druggist, at 1903°2d| SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, March 21.— street, will receive the indorsement of | 4 - the local state committee. ;‘:‘: f’?cm:r! of foreign relations read { _This being cabinet day, the Presi- lay to the congress the note sent by | dent made few appointments, and there {iSecretary of State Hughes to Panama was a noticeable lopping off in the ' on March 15, in which it was insisted At 4:15 this afternoon the President will formally receive the Chief Justice | settling the boundary dispute with Costa 1ana Associate Justices of the Supreme | Rica. Court of the District of Columbia and | The reading of the note was received the judges of the Court of Appeals of | with enthusiasm, and it was favorably the “District. They will be accom- | commented upon in official circles as in- panied by Marshal Splain, and the oc- ! dicating a high spirit of justice on the casion will serve simply as a means of | part of the American government. The shaking hands with the new executive | communication was characteriged in 21.—The Polish | government has accepted the plan of | the_council of the league of nations | for mediation of the dispute with { Lithuania _arising from the occupa- { tion of Vilna by the forces of Gen. MARIE DENI and extending their good wishes. | these quarters as an admirable juridical i | < ill, 4 0 s . | emplary act of equity. S e T e e R T L T which will extend to him an invitation | Senor Quiros, in presenting the note re- the Gen. Bolivar memorial in New Fendered by the United States to Costa York city next month. This mission | Rica on several occasions—services, he includes Senor Don Santos A. Dominic, | 52id. which compelled the grateful ac- Senor Dr. Don Francisco Yanes. ; t —_— On behalf of the Howard University = administration, Dr. Emmett J. scott.| ACCEPTS LEAGUE PLAN. White House today and left with Sec- retary Christian an invitation to Pres. | Foland Ready to Settle Dispute ident and Mrs. Harding to attend the | with Charles S. Gilpin. famous negro | py the Associated Press. actor, in the leading role, at the Be- | wapeiw aaren lasco: Theater the morning of March = . the Howard University Players, President C. D. B. King of Liberia and the members of the Liberian Washington at the time, have accept- | Zellgouski. The mediation plan was ed invitations to be present. | proposed by Paul Hymens, president neral labor matters and labor of the Geneva meeting of the assem- brief conference at the White House | sicd) 'OF £h = today between President Harding and| e i‘:‘,‘;fiy - :"_A E. H..Dunnigan of this city. Mr. Dun-{ representatives to Brussels.to begin electrotypers’ union of the District of | ;. Columbia, and is a delegate from that | - Union. He also is chairman of thexquEEN committee on laws of that local body. He hai known Mr. Harding for a | 'ATHENS. March 22—Reports that active in hie behalf during the last|gueen Marie of Rumania was working cam| gn. e devotes is attention i to Jabor Gircles in New York state_" |for the deihronement of King Constan- conference, Mr. Dunnigan advocated | rown Prince George and his wife. stringent legisiation to combat radi- | formerly Princess Elizabeth of Ri calism in this country and legislation | mania, are without foundation, the nection he told the President that local labor men generally favor the passage of the Kenyon bill in prefer- ing that because of its provision for a smaller appropriation its chances of passage this session are better than Venezuelan Mission to Call. | document and as constituting an ex- to attend the unveillng ceremonies of | Called important international services Senor Dr. Don Segunde Sanchez and | knowledgment of the Costa Rican nation. secretary-treasurer, called at the presentatio®of “The Emperor Jones. | With Lithuania Over Vilna. 28, Mr. Gilpin will be supported by plenary commission, who will be in legislation were discussed during a| bly of the league, nigan is a former president of the | negotiations. organization to tHe Central Labor ES PLOT | By the Associated Press. : number of years, and was especially Among other things during today's | Line of Greece and the ascendency of to promote Americanism. In this con- | ence to the Smith-Towner bill, believ- the” Jatter bill. 4 queen_declared here upon her return to Athens from a tour in northern Greece. She asked the Associated Press to refute these stories. During the conversation Queen Marie said she believed that the abdication of King Constantine at this time would cause discontent among the people, and possible disturbances. X