Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1921, Page 1

[ WEATHER. Rain this afternoon and tonight; Member of Associated Prenj The Associated Press is exciusively entitied to much colder tonight; tomorrow part- Iy _cloudy and colder: cold wave. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 86, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 65, at 6 a.m. N today. Full report on page | | 1 Closing New York Stocks, Page 19. tered as sec No. ‘28,092, It office Washington, ond-class matter D, C CAR ANDELECTRI RATE ORDERKEEPS PRESENT CHARGES Existing Figures Continued for Coming Five Months by Utilities Board. MERGER AND LITIGATION BELIEVED TO BE FACTORS No Reasons for Decision Are Given When Decree Is Verbally Announced Today. The Public Utilities Comkmission to- | day continued the existing street car fare and the present schedule of elec- tric rates for five months. Tkis means the street car fare will continue at «8 cents cash, or four tokens for 30 cents, on both the Wash- ington Railway and Electric and the Capital Traction companies until August 31, The rate fo- electric current to pri vate homes is 812 cents per kilowatt hour. Because of litigation in the Court_of Appeals between the Poto- mac Eiectric Power Company and the commission, consumers will continue to pay 10 cents per kilowatt hour. 1%z cents being laid aside for refund in the event the commission wins the litigation. i The commission had no written order prepared explaining the con- clusions ‘which led to the continu-! ation. Announced Verbally. Col. Charles W. Kutz. chairman, verbally announced the decision fol- lowing a brief session of the commis- sion shortly after noon. 1f the commission had not acted be- fore April 1 the rate of car fare wouid have reverted automatically to 5 cents cash with a 2-cent charge for transfers. Rates of the Potomac Electric Power Company would have reverted automatically to those in effect last fall. Under the former schedule of electric rate private homes paid 8 cents per kilowat hour, % cent less than now. Although Chairman Kutz was not prepared to discuss the findings, it is probable that the commission de- . cided to continue the existing rates for a short period in the hope of ob- taining legislation from the next ses- sion of Congress making possible a merger of the big three—the Wash- ington Railway and Electric and the Capital Traction street railway com- panies and the Potomac Electric Power Company, Another thing which may have played a part in the decision is the fact that the contest between the commission and the power company over the value of the company's property. on which the rates are based, will come up for hegring in the Court of Appeals on lll? 2, with the possibility of the case being set- tled shortly after that date. ° Capital Traction Position. The Capital Traction Company did not ask for continuation of the pres- ent rate of car fare, but did ask the commission not to let the rate revert to 5 cents. While the testimony show- ed the Capital Traction system could earn a fair return on_ its valuatio with four tokens for cents or 7 cents cash, the commission apparently decided it would be unwise to reduce | the rate on one system and leave it up_on the other. ‘Willlam McK. Clayton, representing the Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions, interposed no objection to con. tinuation of the electric rates, bu urged the commission to reduce the rate of car fare. It is probable the commission will jssue a written order on the rate de- cisions later in the day. DRY BRITAIN {MPOSSIBLE, SAYS LORD CHANCELLOR Tells Brewers He Would Profound- ly Regret the Adoption of National Prohibitions LONDON, March 28.—Alarm over the prospect of Great Britain going “dry" was deprecated by Baron Birkenhead, lord chancellor, while speaking at the annual banquet of the Allied Brew ery Traders' Association. He declared that members of the association did not in his belief have any cause for anxiety. “As to the aprehension or chance of a general move such as has taken place in America,” he said. “I am one of those who do not believe that it is| even conceivable a similar change can take place in Great Britain. “I should most profoundly regret it §¢ any such change did take place, because 1 am individualistic enough | in my outlook, both upon private and | public affairs, to resent profoundly attacks against which is based the right of one indi- vidual to regulate his own private Iife.” COLDER WEATHER AHEAD. Forecaster Predicts Freezing Tem- perature and Rain in D. C.’ Freezing temperature by tomorrow night was predicted by the weather bureau today for the District, pre- oeded by rain this afternoon and to- night. Tt will be much colder tomorrow, abeording to the experts. the dis- turbances to be the District's share of the generally unsettled conditions | now prevailing throughout the coun- try. Evidently the weather is having a hard time to decide whether- to let spring or winter prevail, or maybe it wants to stage that old play of | March “going out like a lion.” The weather bureau doesn’t know. but is determined there shall be rain oither this afternoon or night, follow- ed by much colder weather. —_—— CUBAN ELECTION QUIET. ‘Only Meager Returns on Partial Presidential Vote. HAVANA, Cuba, March 28 —Returns from the partial presidential elec- tions held on Saturday in Oriente province are meager and the central electoral board deems them insum- clent to warrant the publication of y figures. Advices indicite that complete or- asr prevailed during the day through- out the province. the principals upon | he Fhenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. (€, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1921—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. paper and also Al right the use for republication of ail news dispatches credited to it or Qispatches berein are also reserved. ot uthorwise credited in this the local news publish:d herein. 's of publication of special Sunday’s Saturday’s Net Circulation, 93,134 Net Circulation, 95571 TWO CENTS. IN CANAL Two Marine Corps De Haviland air- planes will “take off” at Bolling Field across from \Uashington. tomorrow for a 5.500-mile flight to Charlotte Amalis, Virgin Islands. Ostensibly tneir purpose is to es- tablish an aerial route to the Virgin Islands. Their real mission, it is understood, will be tc demonstrate how the Pan- ama canal may be defended by an air force having a base in Porto Rico. About eleven days will be required for the trip down. The longest stretch of water over which the planes will iy will be about 100 miles. { Should a forced landing become nec- eseary the 'ships, although without pontoons. probably would float sev- eral hours, or until a rescue could be effected. it is stated. The trip is expected to show the ease with which a large fleet of land planes could be rushed to Porto Rico in case of war. Alrmen Making Flight. Maj. Thomas C. Turner, chief of Ma- rine Corps aviation, and First Lieut. Bradley, chief test pilot for the y and Marine Corps. will occupy one of the machines and alternate in piloting it. The other machine will be piloted by Second Lieut. Lawson | H. Sanders, who will have as his as- | sistant Gunnery Sergt. Charles W. I Rucker. These men are among the most skillful flyers in the corps. Lieut. Bradley pérticipated in_the Pulitzer trophy race in New York i last Thanksgiving. | Leaving Bolling Field, the machines will proceed by way of Rijchmond. Va.: Fayetteville. N. C.; Paris Island, S. C.: Jacksonville, Fla.: Daytona, Fla.: Miami, Fla. ey West, Fla. Havana, Cuba; Santa Clara. Cuba: Camaguey. Cul Guantanamo. Cuba; Port Au Prince, Haiti: Santo Domin- &0, Dominican Republic; San Juan, PLANS 10 COMBIE BUREL RS Administration Seized - Earnest With Passion to Unite Activities. - BY DAVID LAWRENCE. in to have seized the Harding adminis- tration 'in earmest. Scarcely a cab- inet meeting is held but that some plan different branches of the government servicé .and consoiidating bureaus. When Congress gets back here in a fortnight the executive will begin conferences with legislative leaders, 80 that laws may be framed permit ting flexibility. Thus far discussion has centered on three important phases of gov- ernment service. wherein effort is said to be too widely distributed. i first, the handling of communica- ! tions, including wireless, cables, tel- | egraphs; second, the absence of any | Eeneral ' manager for the different !investigating bureaus and detective agencies of the government whereby i fraud and otheér violations of the { many laws of the United States are investigated, and, third, the -lack of 1a general supervisory bureau or de-! | partment caring for the different fleets of the government -outside the | Navy, such as the revenue cutters, the | lighthouse and. steamboat inspection ervice, the life-saving service, the coast and geodetic service and Kin- | dred activities. Al ‘use ships. but | equip them separately. and are more lor less in competition with each | other both in scales of pay and the | purchases of supplies. Cable Organization Needed. | The need for some definite organi- | zation which shall take charge of he communications of the United | States has been emphasized. as a con- | sequence of the several controversies |in which the government is engaged. {There is.”.for example, the contest with Japan over possession of a cable ibase in the lsland of Yap. Then here is the naval radio situation, | volving certain equities for the pub- lic as between the use of the naval | Zacilities to supplement private oper- | ations, and the encouragement, on the | other hand, of private companies of ! purely American ownership. | "'The legal fght between the West. ern Union Telegraph Company and | the government over the landing of a { cable in Miami, Fla., and the entire cable situation as it affects South America has opened up such intricate Questions of vital importance to the future trade of the United States that no branch of the government is authorized to handle the entire sub- ject of communications under present | statutes. 1" Cabinet officers recognize that the cable and wireless interests of the American people and their gove ment require more protection nowa- days than ever before, in view -of the | tendency of governments to regulate | by the issuance of cable permits con- taining provisions that are absolute. | The international conference on com- | munications which has been held here 1 | oficials to the many abuses to which the American merchant may be sub. | ject unless free communication is as- | sured. Speeinlists Are Required. The department of state has been handling the international phases of the controversy, but it requires, in addition, specialists in communica- tion, and the moment the wireless is | introduced into the discussion, as | inevitably must be. the Navy Depart- | ment has jurisdiction, or else the De- | partment of Commerce, if domestic commercial ~stations are involved. | There is no agency which can sur- vey the whole matter of communica- | tions—cables, wireless, telegraph and | telephones—and protect - the public from exorbitant rates. At present, the consumer must appeal to an al- ready overburdened Interstate Com- | merce Compission to gat justice on the matter of communication rates. Perhaps the most serious situation which the Harding administration is anxious te cure involves the secret service, the bureau of investigation of the Department of Justice, the In- spection service of the Post Office De- partment. the naval and military in- ! telligence bureaus ‘and other investi- gating machinery. At Dresent prac- tically every department has its own system of detecting fraud or violation of law. This means an unhomogen- eous_group of government investi (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) 4 The passion for co-ordination seems | is discussed for reorganizing | in- | incoming and outgoing cable business | has opened the eyes of government | FLIGHT TO BEGIN HERE GUARD TEST | Trip Starting Tomorrow to Virgin Islands by | Marine Corps Eiperts Will Demon- strate War Defense. Porto Rico, and thence to Charlotte Amalis. about 325 miles a day, but will rest one day in every five i It is understood one of their duties upon arriving in Porto Rico will be to prepare plans for the sudden with- drawal of American forces should this step ever be contemplated. | This will be the first time land planes have attempted to fly across southern waters, it is stated. Army planes | without pontoons have negotiated longer distances over water than will trip. The Army be attempted on thi r flight to Alaska passedsover wider stretches in the great lakes region. True Defense of Canal. Army officials have long maintaincd that *he true defense of Panama from the east is by an air forde with a base in Porto Rico. The air service of the Army has contemplated making such }a trip as is_to be undertaken tomor- row by the Marine Corps In testimony given before the House ! military affairs committee recently | Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of the air service. stated: “With an air force base on Porto Rico we can defend the Panama canal from navies by watching the sea interval of sixty miles. between Cuba and Haiti, of 100 miles or so between that island_and Porto Rico and of 360 miles between Porto Rico and South America. That is the true defense of Panama from the east.” | The flights will be the longest ever attempted by the Marine Corps. In his_instructions to the flyers, issued Saturday. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune commanding the corps. directs that i weather or other conditions make it impossible to follow the route pre- scribed, they may change it in their discretion. Maj. Turner. who will be in command, resides in minster apartments in Washington. Lieut. Bradley lives in the Bachelor !apartments. Lieut. Sanderson is sta- I 'tioned at Quantico. AS ULZLING ISIE Irreconcilables Fear Coming of Viviani Makes Action of Some Kind Certain. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. M. Vivianl's' statement on the league of nations published in yes- terday's Star attracted wide atten- tion in official ai was accepted as incontrovertible. evi- dence that his mission to-this coun- try is to.enlist the United State: 2 league of nations, and it was taken for granted that his visit is agree- able to one element in official life. . | 1 ! their viewpoint. They are girding themselves for ‘a formidable attack upon their position by the support- ers of the broad idea of an interna- tional agreement along the lines of the league of natio: What Irreconeiiables Fear. They realtze the fact that in the cabinet of President Harding among iseyeral of its members there exists the belfef that “something must be }done” to put an end to the present anomalous attitude of the United States as to peace with Germany and toward the agreement of Euro- pean nations signatory to the Ver- sailles treaty. Business interests of the country are dingdonging the same _ suggestion the President and members of his cabinet who are not so sym, for the league. Tmhee Secretary Hughes and Secretary Hoover are the two members of the i cabinet whom the friends of the idea ©of an association of nations to pre- vent war feel are their most earnes supporters in the President’s council. The irreconcilable ' senators claim that they are certain that President Harding will not send the treaty of Versailles back to the Senate, and they argue that as long as he holds to this policy all the Vivianis and all the propaganda and aid from what- ever source will not endanger their { ends and aims. Weak Point in Argument. i | ment is pointed out to be this: Tha the President may be Induced o change his mind about not sending in the treaty with amendments and reservations suggested, and once the treaty is before the Senate again, | they appreciate fully that they will have a harder fight to defeat it than before. With President Harding and Secre- tary Hughes back of a new proposi- tion looking to the participation of the United States in the settlement of disturbed European affairs and em- bodying some kind of an international agreement to modify the chances of war. the irreconcilables would find themselves sadly on the defansivo. The general belief in official circles, which is largely shared by senators. is that Secretary Hughes has in mind I making his record in office on affirm. tative action by the Uniteq States in | bringing order out of chaos in Eu. | Tope, and that the subject e is very near to his heart. Of course, it be action to be classed as dom‘:'::rl:: Americanism.” else it could not re- The flyers will attempt to average the West- | LEAGUE AGAIN SEEN Some of the irreconcilable op- | ponents of the league are framkly disturbed over the outlook from into the ears of ! But the weak point in their argu- | CONGRESS T0 ACT ASHAYS DIRECTORS UNDER NEW PLANS {Senate and House Commit- tees Will Act With Joint Commission on Service. {NAMES ADVISORY COUNCIL | OF SEVEN BUSINESS MEN | Three Organizations Will Work ! | Hand-in-Hand With Officials of | | Post Office Department. | | Postmaster General Hays today an- ' | nounced plans to constitute the Sen- ate and Housc committees on post of- | | fices and post roads as the “board of | | directors” of the postal service, with | | the joint commission on postal serv-| | ice occupying a position analagous to the executive committee of the board. | Mr. Hays also announced the ap-| pointment of seven business men of | the nation as members of the ad- visory council provided for in the act | which created the joint commission | on posta) affairs. WIill'Serve Without Pay. | { The advisory council. which is to! iserve withcut pay, was announced| i by the Postmaster General as follows i John Gribbel, chairman, Philadelphia | Charles C. Bancroft, B | ton; Union N. | i Bethell, New York city; Prof. M. E jCooley. Ann Arbor. Mich; T. W. | Dwight, Sioux Falls, S. D; Albert | Holmboe, Crookston, Minn., and Col. | | L C. Wade, Cornelia, Ga.. Mr. Hays stated that {tees on post oflices and post roads, {together with the joint commissio on’ postal service and the new a visory council, will work hand the commit- | |hand with the officials of the Post Office Department. The oard of directors” and the! “executive committee.” Postmaster {General Hays intimated, will be in| constant touch with him in all the | plans to be devised for bettering the i mail service of the country and the | working conditions of the 300,000 ent- | {ployes of the postal service. S Koons 1o Be Retained. John C. Koons, who has been first assistant postmaster general, will be continued at the department as a postal expert, in such capacity func-/ tioning as a member of the joint com- | mission on postal service, or “execu- | |tive committee.” Col. Hubert Work of Colorado is| | to be appointed first assistant post- master general. Discussing the new policy, Post- | master General Hays said: | “The purpose is to develop a_closer | and a very intimate relation with the Senate and House committees on po offices and post roads; to endeavor to have these commiitees jointly occupy osition as rly as n|ble' lg« ” & of dic 85; to have | i as to the! Imefhods of improvement and opera- | and 1o take an active, continuing{ interest in the mervice. 1 Equal to BoArd of Directors. “In addition, it is proposed to make | | the Joint commission an postal service | occupy a position analogous t the! executive committee of any board of | yd.rectors in any large business, giving | st{ll more attention t8 the business of the department and very definitely | | participating in the largest way in| the effort to improve and maintain | the service.” i | The joint commission on postal serv- | {ice was created last year by act of ! {'Congress, and consists of a chairman | and five members of the Senate and | | five members of the House committecs | | on post offices and post roads, and a | | postal expert® appointed by the Post- ster General, together with an ad- | visory council provided for in the act, to serve without pay. consisting of seven persons experienced in business | |and commercial transactions to aid | | in_its work. | This commission now consists of the | foliowing: Charles E. Townsend. sen- ator from Michigan, chalrman; E. H. McDermott, secretary; Thomas Ste: {ling, senator from South Dakota: George H. Moses. senator from New | Hampshire; David I. Walsh, senator | {from Massachusetts; one vacanc | Halvar Steenerson, representative | from Minnesota: Calvin D. Paige, rep- resentative from Massachusetts; W. W. Griest, representative from Penn- | sylvania; Thomas M. Bell, representa. tive from Georgia: one vacancy, and { postal expert, John C. Koons. | It was the plan originally that the {commission finish its work by March | 1. 1921. but it has been continued until {June 30, 1922, and will be most active |in the departmental work. | : VIVIANI REACHES U. S. NEW YORK, March 28.—Rene Vivi- | !ani, former premier of France, ar-| {rived here today on the steamship La Lorraine on “a mission of courtesy | | to President Harding.” 3 A specia! customs cutter, carrying | | Ambassador Jusserand, Dr. Marcol | | Knecht, general seceretary to the| | tormer ' premier, and representatives of the State Department met the La | Lorraine at quarantine. i ' Today’s News 5 in Paragraphs | Irreconcilables fear revival of league of nations issue on arrival of Viviani. 1 Page 1 Congress to act on Hays' board of di- | { " rectors under new plan. Page 1| {Store of Arms, Bombs and I material for the purpose, because, ac- {on the coast of Kerry ear |in a shack not far from the prison. | Mention of the names of former Presi- | dent Wilson and former Secretary | | - Colby was hissed at meeting in New | ceive the sanction of this all-Amer- ican official, nor be acceptable to the President for, the same reason. Getting Ready to Act. York. Page 3| There Is no denying the fact that U€OTSI to probe death of eleven negroes the impression has been growing in | O 18TM- Page 3| official and senatorial quart, past few weeks that l‘;m ....".5,',..‘.';.‘,23‘, { tion is getting ready to take up K. ropean affairs and league suggestions for serious consideration. The significant feature of prospect is that the proposition ! President to order inquiry into treat- | ‘ment of veterans. Page 31 Cardinal Gibbons' body borne to cathe- | dral. Page 3 ! Charles P. Taft has one of finest art! this | ~collections in world. Page 4 H CAPITOL ILL. SINN FEIN COUP TODAY FRUSTRATED. Armed with baskets of gayly col- ored eggs, the children of Washing- ton descended upon the White House today, carrying all before them in {the resumption of the Easter ege- rolling festivities on the lawns to the south of the executive mansion. When the gates were opened at 9:30 o'clock this morning the chiidren flowed in. making straight for the {four knolls, which they seized and held all comers, especially Explosives Discovered by Crown Forces. | iated Press. . March 28—It wan re- ported here today on excellent au- thority that the Prince of W would open the new Ulster parlin- | ment to be set up under the home While there were many men and women in the great crowd, they were ladmitted only swhen they accom- rule act passed at the lant weasion |panied the children. For this was 5 RS ithe children's great day in the Na- o |tional Capital, ‘made all the greater The prince. it wax sald, would 220 | };o"yoar hecause it was the first time visit other dixtricts in Irela BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN. Br Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. DUBLIN, Ireland, March 28.—Easter Monday was fixed by the Sinn_Fein for a grand coup.- The Plan was to bomb the guards, storm Mountjoy jail and release the Sinn Fein pris- oners. They had provided plenty of |since 1915 that the Whiie House egg- rolling has been permitted. President Kisnes Pretty Maid. The weather turned out to be “just !right” for the event. By 0:30 o'clock the crowds in the grounds had become very large and an hour later the four pretty knolls and all the spaces be- tween were _literally packed with |children in thelr gay. xpd somewhat fimsy sbring dresses. I Tresident Harding was a witness of | the happy childhood panorama before PresidentKissesLittle Maid askEggs | Are Rolled on White House Lawns 2oing to have. and then patted her on, the head as he went on to his office. Happlest Child in City. He left the happiest little girl Washington standing there. If the thousands of other children who were in the grounds today did not get such pers the President they hal satisfaction of knowing were there as his guests. The dresses of the small girls made the grounds soon look like a gigantic Easter egg. so colorful and gay they were, flashing against the beautiful natural background of green grass, budding trees and bright flowers which nature had provided for the day. About noon the grass began to take on a somewhat slippery ‘feel, as the shells and whites of hundreds of eggs bhestrewed the ground. There were many “false alarms” during the morning that President in the that great children would begin to flock from dent was not mixing in the fun yet, after all. Egg Given to President. Paul Mann, ten vears old, however, to managed personally present the President with an egg decorated with cording to authoritative information. a store of arms, bombs and explosives had been specially consigned for that object. The consignment was landed st week camouflaged as frsh. It was sent to Dublin carefully addressed to a good unionist Dublin firm. Before it could reach this destina- tion it was diverted by the Sinn Fein- ers und reached Dublin under their control Wednesday. They stored it him and he took part in, a pretty in- ]cideu shortly before the gates were {opened to the children. Little Winifred Hiser, six vears old, in a brand-new spring dress, and j bearing on her arm a basket of eggs. waited in the walk leading from the White House to the executive offices. She is the daughter of John Hiser. an employe of the boiler rooms. As she stood there the President swung down the path to his office, in- jtent on starting his daily work. | Perhaps -she ~epitomized for the President the great crowd of children {which shortly were to saout and run jand laugh throughout ine grounds, for, at any rate, President Harding bent !down and kissed the little maid twic | asked her about the fine time she was NEW SCHOOL DRIVE ON NEXT CONGRESS iMass of Data Showing De- plorable Conditions Will Be Carried. i Uphappily for their plan, the crown forces discovered it there Thursday night. They then believed it to be a permanent arsenal. oniy later dis- covering that it was intended espe- cially for Easter Monday. The authorities are delighted with their success, but they'seem equall pleased at having on Saturday night discovered the headquarters of the Sinn’ Fein propaganda. They issued an official statement dwelling on the triumph, saying that they had cap- tured several tons of literature and printing material, and that they had detected the Sinn Fein propaganda in- tended for foreign countries, particu- larly Italy, France and Spain. The Sinn Fein, however, will make great propaganda materiai out of this S-izure. jThey declare that British sol- diers will not prevent them from stat- ing Ireland’s case to the world. They will, it is likely, start another secret office to replace the one raided, and thcugh Desmond Fitzgerald, the prin- cipal propagandist, has been jailed.| “A seat in a suitable schoolhouse there are a dozen ofhers able and will- | for every pupil in the District public g Lo carry on work. e "The government's decision.*just an- nounced, that the two Irish parlia- ments will be started simultaneously, and that the efection will be held in May. shows confidence that the coun- try 'will not reject the self-govern- ment_offered, but will abandon the With ‘this slogan members of the board of education and school au- thorities, supported undoubtedly by ball civic organizations, trade bodies and clubs in Washington, are plan- the shield of the United States. Boy AScout emblems and other insignia. Paul climbed the low fence between the lawns and the executive and_presented himself at the window as President Harding looked out to see the sport. The President raised the window and received the cgg The United States Marine Band was scheduled to give. a wmeert at 3 o'clock this noor. Out at the National Zoologival Park there was another great crowd of children, this being a sort of unoffi- cial Easter egg-roiling place. The Boy cout Band of Washington. led by Jam:s L. Kidwell, nlayed between 10 and 1 o'clock. VICTORIES FORU.S. ININCOME RULINGS Court Completely Upholds Government’s Position, Solicitor General Says. The government won a string of victories today in income tax de- cisions handed down by the Supreme Court. Solicitor Genaral Frierson declared upheld completely. The effect of the rulings, he added, was that any gain Sinn Fein at the polls. I can find no ground for sharing in this belief, and Beod judges on all sides say that the Situation will actually be made worse Dy the attempt to establish home rule. | BRIDGE FOUND MINED. ’ Discovery Made Just in Time ‘to | Avert Disaster to Cadets. ning to go before Congress soon after an effort to make it a reality. will carry with them a mass of data indicating precisely the deplorable conditions existing In the school sys- tem, due to overcrowding, and the sub- sequent nceds which must be met to insure,an adequate education for the yov”school children. i { Plans for the drive on Congress DUBLIN. March 27 — A well laid i were disqussed between school offi- mine contalning several hundred | cials and. the Commissioners at a two- 1 5 ! hour conference today. Commissioner pounds of explosives and fuses was; Lot I CT A nT0F the board. an- discovered by auxiliaries in County|pounced after the conclave that he and Kilkenny recently, according to in- formation trom official quarters today. mine. which was laid unfler a e e bridge in the neighborhood of the headouarters of the auxiliaric Was found just in time to avert a disaster to several lorry loads of adets. e authorities declare that great assistance to the crown forces is being Pendered by the inhabitants of various consider thé facts brought out today and decice on the general policy to be pursueu. Financing Methods Discussed. It is understood that the principal questions talked over today were: !Whelher to 1~y the five-million-dollar i school bullding program.before Con- | gress again at the session which be- derived from corporate bond or cap: the inception of the extra session in |ital asset investments was taxable as:that it had the situa They | income, the amount of-income subject | to such taxation still to be estimated from March 1, 1913. Ruling on Profits., Profits realized from the sale of a: sets of a trust fund are taxable under income and excess profits law, the Supreme Court held. g The decision of the court directly iaffects several cases not in litigation | and indirectly affects thousands of trust funds. Tt was given in the ap- neal brought by the Merchant’s Loan i his colleagues will meet tomorrow to|and Tfust Company as trustees of the | events in Hamburg, Berlin and the ce nal greetings from | they | Harding and his dog Laddie Bo: were mingling with the crowds Whenever this rumor started the| all parts of the grounds, only to scat- | ter soon when it developed the Presi- | offices | the government’s position had been | AS UPRISING STIRS RHINE AREA RIOTS Military Police Brought Into i Action When Communists Menace Montabaur. 'BITTERFELD NOW CENTER FOR GERMAN STRUGGLE Extremists Disarm Local Police in I Seizing Buildings—Halle Has Artillery Fight. Iy the Assoe COBLEN 28 —A commu- nistic uprising occurred this morning in the American bridgehead ar t Montabaur, six northeast of | Ehrenbreitstein. A riot call was an- swered by the provost marshal, and American military police were dis- | Patched to Montabaur to restore order. Concentrate on Bitterfe! BERLIN, March The rioting ac- | tivities in’ the communist uprising in central miles Germany are concentrating | now on Bitterfeld, where the extrem. s have ceded in disarming the a1 police and occupying the public ngs, according to an official com- munique issued shortly before noon today. During Sunday. says the state- ment. bandits looted the bank and the post 2t Sangerhausen and put the local telegraph office out of com- mission Through trains which normally traverse the | sect rerouted owi trackage and muni who are continuing spread terror as they proceed wei ward and northward from Halle, with the security police at their heels Big hell Reds. 5 G . March 28.—Fed- eral artillery was taking a prominent part today in dealing With the in- surgent communists in this disturbed HALI scction of Prussian Saxony. The artillery shelled the com- | munists, who were grouped on the hills to the west of Eisleben, d4s- persing them. . | " After a brief engagement the town |of Sangerhausen. soathwest of Kisle- ben. was occupied by federal forces, which now control that place. Count_Poninski. colonel of police the “Mansfeld district. has taken of the operations around lin | charge | Eisleben. | USHERS “RED EASTER. { Blast Shakes Berlin in Early Morn- | ing and Terrifies People. BY GEORGE WITTE. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. i oprright, 1921. BERLIN, Germany, March 28.—Early Sunday morning ail of Berlin was |aroused by a mighty explosion that | shook the earth, rattled the windows |and sent ominous echoes through the streets of the sleeping capital. Everywhere acantily dressed, pale- faced people hurried to the windows, and gazing out into the darkness | tremblingly awaited a second explo- | sion, but none came. | Such was the breaking of Berlin's “red Easter.” The explosion was the result of an attempt on the part of communists to dynamite the import- ant railroad bridge in the suburb of Charlottenburg, which is used by all south and westbound trains, The at- | tempt to wreck the bridge failed. but | the switch house on one side of the ridge where the bomb was placed was blown up the walls of nearby apartment nouses were shattered. rehgoers Nervous. As a resal plot the Berlin Police were put on ihe alert more than {ever and the patrels were reinforced. when a few hours later the vells Legan to ring and thou- urchgoers in every part of ¥ left their howes. still nervous fearing that the communists {would start a reign of terror, they ound the streets quict and normal xcept for the presence of the hesviiy jarmed green police. ot | ™ Reports late today indicate that |!ho polic ve the situation well in ‘hand. The theory is now heing ad- anced that ihe communists in Ber- lin are waiting until Tucsday before itaking any further action. as all {large industrial plants remain closed until iomorrow in observance cf | Easter. Outside of Berlin the situation ilooks more threatening. ~Last migat { comi ists blew up iwo bridges inear Bitterfeld, a large city in the central German industrial region. and linterrupted communication between [Berlin on the one side and Leipzig. | Halle and Frankfort or tie Main on the other. This sudden new develop- ment has startied sovernment. which yesterday was qu Larse numbers of including a regiment engineers, several ficld balleries and squadrons lof cavalry are being rushed to the aid of thia police, who, although suc- cessful thus far in the campaign against the red army. are in danger |of being overcome, according to the {latest development | Fear New Outbreaks. Officials here place the blame for yes- plots in Berlin as well as in ndustrial region on individual an- it seems clear that the | terda | the archists, but estate of Arthur Ryerson, a citizen of | tral industrial region are parts of one Illinois. I plan. 1t is feared that the next few The opinion of the court was de-|days may bring even more sericus de- livered by Associate Justice Clark. | velopments and new outbreaks :1 places in Germany which so far have been On Increase in — quiet. On the other hand, it is claimed Increase in the value of corporate |that the communists, though much bonds originally acquired and held | stronger than they were a year ago, are for investment ‘is taxable under the |still too disorganized to be able to han- revemue act of 1916, the court also |die the majority of German working- ruled. n. Thousands of cases of income as-| & Another factor against the success of which would reach the Senate, ment of the President and the “ad. ministration.” and the position of op- | ponents would be made very difficuit. —_— BEARS PRESIDENT POSY. Chicago Man Asks Him to Wear Carnation Daily. g A white carnation was placed in President Harding's coat lapel today by Ferdinand W. Peck, of Chicago, who asked the President to wear such a flower every day during his stay in the White House. Mr. Peck, who was commissioner general of the United States to the Paris exposition in 1900, said he had suggested to President McKinley that he wear a red carnation and as a result he did so. = 2 Easter mass meeting calls for disarma- ment conference. Page 4 Seventh-day Adventists to hold spring council at Takoma Park. Page 7 Japan :preparing reply to Lansing book. Page 12 Vocational training allowances to dis- abled veterans of world war subject of inquiry. : embrerd nate reconstruction committee sepoleu ten bills fo relieve nmg:.?; Dbousing shortage. imations Five thousand cities and towns plan for national “‘prosperity week.” Page 13 caster anniversary, mostly undes l““-k‘fu celebrated throughout U.rsc_’"’ Page 13 Former Russian leaders, now refugees, live in poverty. ST Sailor observes curious customs in Tur- kish capital. Ttus London and Paris papers favorably com- ment oo Secréiacy; HughestiFajection of trade overtures made by Russian S Page. 15 | localities who have begun to come! forward in large numbers to denounce attempts by Sinn Feiners in heighborhood to commit outrages. Several ambushes have already been frustrated in this way, it Is stated. Buried as Martyrs. CORK, March 27.—Six more burials were made today in the “republican ertyrs’ plot” in Saint Fin Barrs emetery just outside Cork. where Terence MacSwiney was buried a few honths ago. The burials followed Separate funerals this afternoon for the six republican volunteers shot by the constabulary at Clogheen Wednes- day) ' Taken From Bed and Shot. BELFAST, March 27.—Henry Kerr, sixty-five years old. & farmer of the Batiybay district of Monaghan, was taken from his bed by masked armed men early this morning and shot out- side the local church. A placard Dlaced on his breast sald: “Shot by The I R A. Spies beware.” Kerr is in a hospital suffering from six bullet wounds. It-is believed he will die. the | gins next month, and on what basis 1o usk fo. the appropriations. At the last :ession of Congress the former board of Commissioners and the school authorities considered a bond issue ‘and also the use of sur- plus revenues of the District which have accumulated in the Treasury. The school delegation included Dr. Abram Simon, president of the board {of education; Superintendent of { Schools ¥Frank W. Ballou and Assist- ! ant Superintendent of Schools Stephen Kramér.- Maj. Carey H. Brown, as- istant ' engineer commissioner in . charge of school construction work, also was present. Last Campaisn Fallure. The conference had before it a special _report prepared recently b iSupt. Ballou showing exactly how many more classrooms are needed and in what sections of the city they should be erected in order to insure comfortable accommodation for all of the children who are now attending the public schools, and to take care of the anticipated enroliment of the - near future: ¢ b3 ] sessments.come within this decision jof the court, upon which depended the necessity of the government re- funding millions of dollars in taxes. The Supreme Court, in still another case, ruled that the increase of value of a capital investment is taxable as income. under the revenue act of 1916. Decision on Goodrich Appeal. This decision was given in the ap- peal of David M. Goodrich-from a rul. ing of the internal revenue bureau assessing - him upon the increased value of stocks purchased prior to 1913. Action of the revenue officials was affirmed by the Supreme Court in_the transaction showing a gain. The court ruled’ that the transac- tion showing an actual loss could not be taxed since there was no “gain” derived. DIES AT AGE OF 103. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 28.. Mrs. Jane Williams, a native of Wales, 103 years old, died at her home, im East Chattanooga, this morning.. . | the communistic plots is that a large ipart of the Ruhr coal district, which |is a hotbed of the radical elements, is {in the hands of the allies as the result of the recent penalties. The radicals there are afraid to attempt an armed up~ ! rising in the face of the allied soldiers. MAY START TOMORROW, [] New Attempt at Uprising Feared as Government Prepares. By the Associated Press. HALLE, March 27.—Battalions of “green police” today were in control in a majority of the troubled Saxon cities, from which a large percentage of the male population had flew, sither in fear of arrest or in an effort to join their fugitive comrades to reorganize for another attack, whick in some quarters is considered probable on Tuesday after the Easter holidavs. ‘The police authorities. huwsver, bes lieve thut the movement Sas hesm G