Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1921, Page 2

2 L THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1921 HUBERT WORK 108 ASSISTANT T0 HAY Head of American Medical Association Given Re- cess Appointment. HUBERT WORK. First assistant postmaster general. Hubert Work, president of the American Medical Association and republican national committeeman f rointment sm Colorado, was given a recess ap- by President Harding to- sistant postmaster gen- s president of ological Colorad h and of med was republican lormdo. During on in the and rose John C. Koons, who will continue postaf expert of the department nd work with the Joint congressional commission on pos- tal service. ‘The name of Alexander McCabe of San Francisco is understood to be un- der consideration for appointment to one of the two assistant postmaster zeneralships yet to be filled by Presi- dent Harding. U. S. FORCES ON WAY AS UPRISING STIRS RHINE AREA RIOTS (Continued from First Page.) . checked and that it will fail of suc- cess, although sporadic communmist uprisings continue to occur here and in Eisleben, Mansfeld, Hettstedt and other important mining and manufac- turing centers. Count Poninski, colonel of police in the Mansfeld district, said 2 “The situation is in hand; the up- rising has virtually been suppressed and no further serious outbreaks are expected.” Orders were posted in Mansfeld, Hettstedt and Kioster eldy toda that any citizens appearing in the streets after 6 o'clock would be shot without challenge, and citizens must not be seen at the windows. It is specifically set forth that no excep- tion will be made regardless of emer- gencies. Although isloated outbursts are re- ported from Eisleben and Hettstedt and a few grenades were thrown here, some of the communists’ chief activi- ties were shifted to Bitterfeld, where workmen mounted machine guns on the station platform and searched all passengers on their arrival this after- roon. Twenty armed communists boarded one train and asked if any soldiers were there. They searched for arms, and after a long delay per- mitted the train to proceed. The_only other town of importance held by the communists is Leuna, where there are no police, and many radicals are employed by the Baden aniline and soda factory, which utilizes the services of 20,000 men. s Condemns Fanatics. Workmen were arrested at Halle to- day with a quantity of dynamite in their possession, with which they were attempting to blow up the police presidium: grenades were hurled into the printing press turning out a pan- German organ, but the newspaper is- sued a later edition appealing to the workmen to “renounce the leadership of this small band of political nonenti- ties and conscienceless demagogues, who are seeking to drive you to fanati- cism.” It is declared in communist circl that the Halle outbreak was not ac- cording to schedule, but that the incl- dent might result in orders for a rising Green police are standing guard at every street corner and motor pa- trols with rifles disperse the crowds @s they gather on the sidewalks. PLOT TRACED TO MOSCOW. Prussian Minister of Interior Says It Has Lapsed to Outlawry. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 27 —The Commu- nist outbreak in industrial areas of centrai Germany and the concerted attempt by the German bolshevists 10 provoke a geperal strike through- out the country are viewed by the Eovernmentas an un takable sympe 1om of a determined and systematie plot. the inspiration of which is di- rectly traceable to Moscow, and 3 purpose s the estab- lishment of & German soviet repub- lic. 2 government spokesman declared regard to ment could convic n min the evidence the adduce to support ns. Herr Sever- ter of the interior, tantial evidence in our and also point to the pub- rances of .ccredited com- aders here and elsewhere, designate the present pe- « sorely tried out of the west and th Upper Silesiz ation, as the most a revolt. 3 nist party takes ite orders from Moscow and one need who openl riod, when only follow tt festos daily ap- pearing in its al organs to locate the foun d of this iniquity.” The rioting in the Saxon province, the miriste added, was also pro- ductive of tangible evidence of tie complicity of soviet agents in the in- stigation of the present disturbances. He said he strongly suspected, how- for the present in- wsurrection miscarried, and that the #ignal found the extremists, elsewhere than in Prussian Saxony, unprepared for the crisis, disinc or timid impending collapse present coup and the fact that it is now lapsing into plain_outlawry continued Herr Severing. “must prove inopportunely embarrassing to the Moscow government. which s seek- ing the re-establishment of diplo- matic_and trade relations with the United States, England and other countries at the very moment that accredited emmismaries of sovietism are attemnting to establish bolshe- wism in Gerni Jage, dynamite a of the with the ald of pil= nd-anon. = POLICE WILL REOPEN SCHOOL FOR ‘ROOKIES’ Lieut. William S. Shelby, Assistant Head of Trafic Bureau, in Charge. Police Lieut. William 8. Sheiby, assistant head of the traffic bureau, will leave that branch of the service some time in April to reopen the school for “rookie” policemen, it be- came known today. Lieut. Shelby formerly was in charge of the school. but during the post- war period. when many vacancies ex- isted on the force, it was thought unwise to take men off duty even for a few days at a time to put them in_the police school. Now the gap in the ranks is rapidly being filled and the task of training the newer members of the force will be resumed. There are only about thirty vacancies on the force today, which is considerably less than the department hah had for the past year. Some of these vacancies probably will be filled before the school gets under way When the school was in operation before the men were detailed there in small groups for periods of twenty- four days. during which time they were given instructions in all of the practical problems that come up in the dajly life of a policeman. INVITATIONS POUR IN ON PRESIDENT Variety in Callers Is Retresh- ing, But Many Must Be Disappointed. This was invitation day for Presi- dent Harding. Nearly every other caller brought an invitation to the President to attend some form of celebration or banquet. Although somewhat refreshing from the cus- tomary daily stream of patronage {Seekers it is considered doubtful if he will be able to accept any of the invitations. Several of them were from local or- ganizations. Miss Leonore Marie 1,<--| igrange and Miss Cecil Norton invited the President and Mrs. Harding attend the District of Columbia nlxhti at the Central High School Audi- { torium tomorrow night. ! Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, as president jof the Indiana Society of the District of Columbia. invited the President to attend the annual banquet of that organization, to be held at the Ebbitt Hotel April 30. Invited by Publishers. An invitation to attend the annual banquet of the American Publishers’ Association, to be held in New York April 28, was extended to the Pres dent today by Herbert L. Bridgeman, president of the assoclation. President Harding was urged to- day by a committee representing eleven of the independent organizations of railroad employes and subordinate officials to appoint a man represent- ing their organizations to the United State Ire Labor Board. Those in the committee were: Earl H. Nor- ton, Order of Railroad Station Agents, Chicdgo, Ill.: John L. Cone, grand president, Raiiroad Yardmasters of America, Chicago, Ill.; T. J. Coyle, grand president, Brotherhood of Rail- road Employes, Boston. Mass. and . F. Richardson, president, Ameri- can Federation of ilroad Workers. Mrs. Longstreet Calls. Mra Helen Dortch Longstreet, widow of the famous Confod::te eneral, was received by President Harding today. Mrs. Longstreet served for a number of yiars as postmistress at Galnesville, "Ga.. until she was re- moved by President Wilson. During the last campaign she was active in the .interest of the repubdlican party and made numersus speeches In the southern and border states. It is con- sidered likely that Presideént Harding il reappoint Mra. Longstreet to her pos Reappointment to the Shi, Board of Frederick I. 'l'homp.on.vnl‘(,:zE ile, Ala., as the guif coast member was urged today by Senator Hefin, democrat, Alabama, during a confer- ence with President Harding. The senator said later that the President told him he was seriously consider- ibx:,‘mnulmn‘ Mr. Thompson on the ard. PLANS TO COMBINE BUREAUS PROGRESS (Continued from First Page.) tors, operating Indiscriminately with- out general supervision by any one. Rivalry Bar te Union. It is a faet that the rivalry between the bureaus has heretofore prevented consolidation, and in the past the Sec- retary of the Treasury, who has had Jjurisdiction over the secret service, refused just as emphatically to merge with the Department of Justice bu- reaus as did the Attorney General. It Mes been true of both republican and democratic administrations. Mr. Hard- ing’s opportunity lies in the fact that his cabinet secretaries are in a re- ceptive state of mind now because they have not become enmeshed as yet in government red tape or inter- nal jealousies. It is a favorable mo- ment for consolidation. The trouble. of course, that no bureau thinks the other sufficiently competent to be made the parent bureau. Somebody will have to de- cide that cuestion and either put in charge of the government's vari- ous bureaus the best detective or investizator and organizer in the government service, or select the most efficlent bureau and put under its wing ail the other investigators. Difficult to Make Deetsion. The passion for co-ordination can, jof course, be carried too far, and the opponents of some of these plans in- sist that just because newspapers and magazines both use ite paper and the printing press no reason why they ought all be grouped under the same management and that the various bureaus in the government have made for efficiency in the long run because of the specialists they develop. Secret service operatives |say they know counterfeiting better | than others. Department of Justico investigators insist they know how to handle intricate cases involving { the whole discussion proceeds. Some- times the arguments pro and con are made by the friends of the job | seeker, and it then becomes doubly | dificult for the chief executive and his cabinet to make a decision. Just now Mr. Harding and his cabinet are being beset by exactly this problem {and the capital is watching intently {for the outcome of the campaign for consolidation. (Copyright, 1921.) | —_——————— |POPE GREETS DOUGHERTY Cardinal Expects to Reach New York April 12. ROME, March 28.—Preceding his departure from Rome tomorrow, bound homeward, Cardinal Dougherty |today was received by Pope Benedict. i The cardinal’s reception by the pontiff |was most gracious, and the private !audience lasted more than a half hour, |" “Afterwards his holiness received the Very Rev. Joseph A. Whitaker of Philadeiphis, who had accompanied the cardinal to the Vatican. Before leaving the Vatican, Cardinal Dougherty visited Cardinal Gasparri, the papal secretary of state, with whom he & most cordial conver- sation. Cardinal Dougherty party plan to travel to Paris and to sail from Cherbourg April 6 on the steam- Otympic, due to arrive in New York to] WHITE HOUSE GROUNDS AGAIN PRESENT ANIMATED SCENE AS CHILDREN ROLL|CHINESE ARE PLEDGED “:. EGGS AND FROLIC TO THEIR HEARTS' CONTENT. ALL AGES AND SIZ GROU WORKERS ABROAD HAVEEYES ON U 3. Conditions in France and England Prevent Emigration, R. B. Mahany Reports. Large numbers of the laboring classes of both France and England wwant to emigrate to the United States, but are finding it impossible to do so through inabllity to save enough money, and also because of the ad- verse monetary exchange. This con- dition was reported to Secretary of Labdr James J. Davis today by Row- land B. Mahany, who was sent to Eu- rope by the Wilson administration to attend the sessions of the International Commission on Immigration and Emi- gration. s resigoation was accepted last week by President Harding. Secretary Dl;'l‘:‘ k! o ul:%dorADc:- licitor Collins of - S 1 n the legal- r. Mahany tion com- thé United States fofmer Secretary DS, THE FIR! ‘esént! and on the right of fof ‘Wilson to fix his salary. An opinion has been given by for- mer _Solicitor _Abererombie . on__both questions, which upheld. the right of the President to appofut a delegate and the right of th¢ Secretary of Labor to fix salary. Ancidentally it was learned today thst Mr. Mahany paid his expenses for. e European trip out of his salary of $60 per day. Tells of Low Rate of Wages. The report of the immigration dele- gate says that low wages are pre- venting many Englishmen from ocom- ing to this country, while in France the present rate of exchange on the franc is an almost insurmountable barrier to immigration. In defense of “attacks’ that have ‘been made on him, Mr. Mahany points out in his report to Secretary Davis that it was planned on the part of* the former Secretary of Labor to set aside a sum of $25,000 to defray the ex. penses of the immigration commi sioner and his aids. “This extremely moderate provision for so important a conference,” the report sald, “affecting, as it wiil, the emigration and immigration regula- tions of the world, is emphasized by comparison with the fact that at the first international labor conference held at Washington, in 1919, a meeting whose discussions were necessarily more or less academic, the empire of Japan sent twenty-three experts with apparently unlimited means.” Army of Unemployed in Paris. In Paris, the report said, there was a great army of unemployed. The in- terior country of France, however, it said, was thrifty and to a measurable degree prosperous. “My general impressions pf both France and England,” Mr. Mahany said, “is that while industries are not at a standstill, the wheels of enter- prise have slowed down to such a d. gree as to keep work and wage-con- ditions for a long time at their pres- ent status.” DECREASE IN MALADIES. With Spring Weather Fewer Con- tagious Cases Are Reported. ‘With the advent of spring weather contagious diseases age beginning to decline, Health Ofiicér William C. Fowler reported today. z Such maladies as diphtherfa, scarlet tever, chickenpox and measles, which are prevalent among children during our bellef on unimpeach- | violations of the trust laws, and so|the cold months, decreased in number last week. Yesterday, according to Assistant Health orris, only two new cases of diphtheria and one of scarlet fever were reported. During the week ended March 19, there were forty-one cases of scarlet fever reported. but last week brought only twenty-five new patients to the attention of the department. Only one new case of smallpox was reported last week, as compared with four in the preceding seven days, ‘Whooping cough declined from thirty-four to twenty-four cases last week. Typhoid fever increased slight- ly. but this is only temporary, the health department belfeves. OPPOSES LIBEL RULING. Solicitor General Asks Mandamus in U. 8. Court Cases. Solicitor General Frierson asked the Supreme Court today to issue writs of mandamus against several district judges who have ruled that libel suits could be filed against Shipping Board vessels which met with accidents while under government control. The vessels named included the Western Maid, Liberty and Carolin- fan. [ —— the coldest mixtures known One i thr fiunu of m:‘rh!a of llvmob JOY THE HOSPITALITY OF THE WHITE HOUSE ST TIME SINCE 1916. [MOTHER TAKING CHILDREN TO Z0O INJURED BY AUTO Knocked Down When Driver of Car Backed Machine in Obedience to Policeman’s Signal. Mrs. Susie Miller, 1444 E street southeast, on her way to the Zoo this morning with her three chil- dren, who had supplies of Baster eggs, was knocked down by an aato- mobile at Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street and severely hurt. One of the children, Mildred, six years old, either fell or was knocked down, but was not hurt. Dorothy, seven, and Frank, eight years old, were not knocked down. Mother and children were taken to Emergency Hospi It was found that Mrs. Miller had received fractures of two ribs, her hip was hurt’and her face slightly lacerated. Physiclans did not _ re- gard her condition as being dan- gerous. Ralyea McAllister, Mrs. Clutha driver of the automobtle, is the wife of Rev. Charles E. McAllister, pastor of the Episcopal Church at Hyatts- ville. She was taken to the first pre- cinct police station and held on the technical charge of failing to have an operator’s permit. Accompanied by Mrs. Elizabeth Hendricks, a friend, Mrs. McAllister was motoring west on Pennsylvania avenue, and at 7th street, it is stated, she failed to stop her machine back of the bullding line of 7th street un- til she would get a signal from Cross- ing Policeman Curtis. The signal she received was one to move back of the line, and it was while her car was backing that Mrs. Miller, on her way to board a car bound toward the zoo, was struck and knocked down. Policeman P. J. Lynch of the sixth precinct appeared about the time the accident happened and had a motorist take the three mem- bers of the Miller family to the hos- pital. SENATOR CAMERON CALLS $100,000 SUIT BLACKMAIL: Declares Papers in Alienation Ac- tion Were Filed in 1916 and THIS LITTLE MISS HAD JUST DROPPED HER PRIZE EASTER EG! DRAFTSFIVE RULES T0 OVERN MIVES Attorney for D. C. Suggests No Effort Made to Serve. In a formal statement today Sen- ator Ralph H. Cameron of Arizona characterized as ‘“sheer unadulter- ated. plain blackmall” a sult filed against him by Edward T. McFarlin of New York asking $100,000 dam ages for alienation of Mrs. McFarlin affections. Papers in the case, Senator Cam- eron’s statement said, were first filed in 1916, and, he said, no effort at serv- ice on him was made until last week. “Now that I have become a United States senator,” said Mr. Cameron in his statement, “those behind this ridic- ulous suit have evidently decided to attack me in the hope of injuring me by giving widespread publicity to the absurd charges made by them. [ am prepared to fight this suit with both fists, fearlessly and in the open.” ‘The statement sald Senator Cameron had met Mrs. McFarlin once in the ob- servation car of a train between Chi- cago and San Francisco in 1912, before her marriage, had met her twice since and met her husband once. NEW YORK, March 28.—The formal complaint against Senator Cameron, filed in the supreme court here by Edward T. McFarlin, contains only a brief outline of the suit. It merely alleges that the senator exerted “un- due influence” over Mrs. Margaret McFarlin in 1916 and that he “har- bored and detained her.” Little is known here of the Mc- Farlins. According to the complaint they were married in 1913 and lived in Stoneham, Mass., until 1316, KEPT IN ARMY POSTS. President Appoints Officers When Nominations Fail. President Harding made recess ap- pointments today in the cases of all the Army officers whose nominations to bureau positions failed at the re- cent session of Congress. The Jist includes the appointment of Maj. Gen. John L. Chamberlain to be inspector general, Maj. Gen. Georse O. Squier, to ba chief signal oficer; Brig. Gen. Amos A. Fries, to be chief of the chemical warfare section; Brig. Gen. Herbert F. Lord, to be chief of the finance division. The officers recently nominated as chisfs of cavairy, infan- try and fleld artillery also were given recess appointments. All of the onl|- n cers appointed today have been charge of their respective office: the fallure of their nominations, but in reduced rank and mess pay. ‘WAGE DISPUTE TIES UP TUGS. NORFOLK, Va., March 38—Ocean- going tugs are still tied up in No: folk harbor. More than thirty barges are at anchor, causing congestion to result from the order to marine en- gineers and officers of ocean tugs to tio up and stay in poet wmtil the ‘wage scale isagresmen ween men and towhoat owners is . sTation, New Regulation for Closer Film Censorship. An amendment to the police regula- tions placing five general restrictions on motion pictures in the District, has been drafted by Corporation Counsel Francis H. Stephens and submitted to the Commissioners for “consideration. After specifying that the existing regulation against improper exhibi- tions of any kind shall apply as far as possible to motion pictures, the proposed new regulation states that “in addition thereto moving pictures Jare hereby forbidden: Five New Restrictions. In which immoral sex relations are shown or unduly suggested. Or which are based upon “white slavery” or procurement of women. Which depict nude persons, except children, or persons 8o nearly so as to shock ordinary sensibilities. Which show undue demonstrations of passionate love or scenes of vice or_violence. ‘Which use titles and subtitles con- taining salacious suggestions or in connection therewith advertising matter, photographs or lithographs ot this character. Draft Only Tentative. 1t was made clear at the District building today that this draft of the Pproposed amendment is only tentative and has not been passed upon by the Commissioners. Copies of .it have been sent to the ropresentatives of the local exhibitors and also to the committee represent- ing the advocates of more regulation of the movies. Both groups have been invited to make suggestions or comment. ‘The corporation counsel indicated today that he also would welcome suggestions from any other citizens who are interested. Mr. Stephens drafted the amend- ment, following a conference between the Commissioners and committees representing the moving picture ex- hibitors, the Washington Federation of Churches and the National Catho- lic Welfare Council. QUAKERS TRY NEW PLAN. Men and Women Sit Together at Business Meeting. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 28.— Men and women sat together in joint conference at the opening session to- day of the yearly meeting of Friends (Orthodox). It was an innovation so far as 1ocal Quaker meetings are con- cerned. Heretofore men and women met separately and sent communications to each other by messenger, but it wag decided to hold one joint session for business requiring joint consid- f. LADDIE BOY WANTED AT MANY BENCH SHOWS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY The White House is being flooded with invitations from the manage- ments of dog show associations throughout the country for Laddie Boy to participate. They are com- ing so thick and fast, and from such far distant points that Wil- son Jackson, master of hounds at the White House, said Laddie Boy would be a little stranger in these parts if all the invitations were accepted. Thus far none of these requests to show the President'’s dog has been accepted, and it is consid- ered doubtful if any of them will be. It is considered likely, how- ever, that Laddie Boy may make his first and only appearance at a bench show when the annual af- fair of the local dog fanciers is held in the District. —_— BERLIN ASKS ARRITRATION Denies Treaty ¥rohibits Making of Aeronautical Material. By the Associated Press, BERLIN, March 28.—The German government, replying today to an in- quiry of the interallied aeronautical control commission as to whether manufacturers of aeronautical mate- rial still were supported in their con- tinued violation of the entente's de- cisions regarding the construction of such material, proposed that the mat- ter be referred to arbitration. In its communication, the German government states that it still ad- heres to its standpoint that the Ver- sailles treaty did not give the allies the right to prolong the embargo on the manufacture and importation of n;:gnautlclll material beyond July 10, 1920. —_— FOUR CRIPPLES ARRESTED Peddlers Taken in Raid and Charged With Vagrancy. Headquarters detectives last night raided the home of Thomas Boyd, 469 Missour! avenue northwest, and ar- rested four cripples, alleged to have been playing poker with money which they are said to have solicited on the n'fieu. e men gave their names as Thom- as P. Martin, Edward Conklin, Geur:o L. Hassian and Maurice Kline. Boyd was charged with permitting gam- bling on his premises and the rest with vagrancy. — MAY PENALIZE BACHELOR. Turkish Nationalists Consider Bill to Compel Marriage. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 28.— Alarmed at the growing depopulation of Turkey, the Turkish nationalist parliament at Angora is considering & bill to compel all men aged twen- ty-five or more to marry unless pre- vented by health reasons. Bachelors over that age will be very heavily taxed, while married men will enjoy privileges in taxation jpnd military service. . .| east, charged with the violation of the TO LASTING GRATITUDE Head of Oriental Republic Cables Thanks for Relief of Famine- Stricken People. President Harding today recelved a cablegram from Hsu Shh Chang, president of the Chinese republic, ex- pressing the heartfeit thanks of the Chinese people and of himself for the generous contributions made by the American people to relieve the { famine-stricken people of China. The message in full follows: “Our minister at Washington has reported that you, Mr. President, have {ssued further appeals to your people for funds in aid of famine re- lief in my country, and that more- over, acting upon the suggestion of {Mrs.” Harding. the members of the | Famine Relief Society in America have been curtailing theif daily ex: venses for meals for the sake of my unfortunate compatriots. “Spch marks of generosity and mag- i nanimity fill me and the Chinese peo- ple with unfeigned admiration and gratitude. They constitute a further evidence of the fact that we, in our distress. have not looked in vain to your esteemed country for counsel and aid. On bebalf of the Chinese people, therefore, allow me to tender to you, Mr. President, and the Amer ican people our most heartfelt thanks for their generous contributions and good will, and let me also declare that never shall we forget what you have done for us at a time when there has been an unexampled multi- tude of calls from all over the world for American help” PICK MRS HODGKINS FOR SCHOOL BOARD Appointed Member-by Court Justices to Succeed Mrs. Gerry. Mrs. Marie W. Hodgkins of 1830 T street, and wife of Dean Howard L. Fodgkins of George Washington Uni- versity, was appointed a member of the board of education this afternoon by the justices of the Supreme Court of the District of‘Columbia. Mrs. Hodgkins was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Mrs. Margarit Spaulding Gerry, whose term.expires June 30, 1922, and who recently re- signed. Leader in Welfare Work. For several years Mrs. Hodgkins has been one of the leaders in_wom- en's welfare and civic work in Wash- ington. She is president of the District Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, to which office she was elected two years ago. She also served as secretary of the P. E. O. sorority, from which organi- zation she was sent as delegate to the federation. During the war Mrs. Hodgkins was in charge of relief work for French ‘war orphans, supervising this special- ized department of the Daughters of the American Revolution. In the lat- ter organization she has been prom- inent for a number of years, serving terms as state regent and recording secretary general. Her husband, Prof. Howard L. Hodgkins, is well known #s an edu- cator, at present being the dean of the engineering school of the department of arts and sciences at George Wash- ington University. Mrs. Hodgkins sucoeeds Mrs. Mar- garita Spaulding Gerry, who resigned last month. VICTIM OF TRUANT LAW. Porry Carman of 8 N street north- I compulsory education law. was found guilty today by Judge Hardison in the Police Court and fined $20. The defendant stated he had no money to pay for his fine, and was placed in a cell. He was told by the court that any further violation would cause the same fine to be imposed again. Selden M. Ely, supervising principal of the fifth division, appeared as one of the complaining witnesses and stated that Francis Carman, the nine-year-old son of the defendant, had been out of school since Febru: ary 15, and that the truant officer re ported an interview with the boy's mother to have been of no avail. 1 GREETS TEACHERS. A delegation of 350 visiting school | teachers from Buffalo, N. Y., was wel- | comed today to the Department nf. Commerce by Secretary Hoover. The| Secretary told the teachers that Washington is a place of work, but nowhere aro the workers underpaid as in the nation’s capital. He said he hoped the visitors would take away with them a realization of the service performed by government employes. LAUDS LATE CARDINAL. Rev. 5. Geriah Lamkins, pastor of | the McKinley Memorial Baptist Church, 4th and L streets northwest. last night characterized the late Cardinal Gibbons as a “true friend to the colored people and a keen ob- server in everything pertaining to | l their welfare.” ' ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE. | i { Avsolute divorce is asked in a pe-| tition flled today in the District Su- preme Court by George N. Metrakos,' against Helen Metrakos. They wers married at Rockville, Md., August 22 1918, and the husband says his wi. deserted him in the following Decem ber. A oo ent is named. At- husband. Iz October ington. avenue. l }m, 1 The New Star Building Space Available Over 7, uare feet of office space or msv;n eajg?os{qthe second, third, fourth and fifth floors of The Star’s new building will be available on or before October 1. Organizations or associations may acquire most desirable quarters at reasonable rates. Immediate arrangements and reservations should be made to meet special requirements. ‘The Star’s new building will be one of the largest and finest office buildings in Wash- Apply to the Business Manager, The Eveni‘l’lgySur. 11th street and Pennsylvania RAIL BOARD DROPS HIGHER PAY PLEAS Dismisses Appeals of Unions on Sixty-Seven Short Lines Filed Last Fall. By the Associated Presn CHICAGO, March 28—The United States Raliroad Labor Board today dis- missed appeals for increased wages filed with it last fall by fifteen rail- way labor unions against sixty-seven “short lines” througkout the country Short lines which accepted for their men the terms of the $600,000,000 wage award of last July will not be privileged to go back to the old scale under today's action, however, :ha announcement of the board say- ng: “This decision shall not be consid ered as affecting any wage Increas now in effect nor any agreement re- garding wages between any of the carriers and their employes.” Four Thousand Affected. The board decision affects approx- imately 4,000 employes. The railroads involved are in general remote from large cities and provide service for small communities located in nearly every state. Because of the varying kinds of work performed by the em- ploves the board declared it found it “impracticable to decide on the evi- dence submitted what are reasonabie wages for the varying work under infinitely varying conditions” by the employes. A general rules and working hear- Ing affecting the trunk lines of the country s before the board. No set of rules, however, has ever been ap- plied uniformly to the short lines. The boafd declared it was “imprac- ticable to determine what reasonable rules shall be in effect on the short lines until the question of reasonabie rulés and working conditions on the standard rail has been dis- posed of.” Representatives of the carriers and the employes are still given the right to confer as to wages and working conditions under the board's decision. Representatives of fifteen employes’ organizations are among the 4.000 men affected by the decision. few cases employes belonging to a fifteen unions are involved on the same road, but on the larger part of the roads only a few classes of employes come under the decision, for the reason that the board's decision affects only those in whose behalf a dispute was brought to the board. Original Certification. Disputes were originally certified to the board on the part of employes belonging to one or more of the fif- teen unions on 103 railroada. Ten of these roads, however, were electric lines and the board ruled these lines out Twenty-six other lines adopted the wage edules paid by the trunk lines, laid down in what is known as decision No. 2, the wage award by the labor board handed down July 20, 1920. The trunk lines in the wage de- cision were those represented by the on of Rallway Executives. Following the application of de- cision No. 2, employes on roads not affected began to file disputes with the board, and the whole matter was taken up in a hearing known as the short line hearing, on October 18, 1920. The hearing consumed fourteen days, over a period of more than & month. The short lines are not par- ties to the present rules and working oonditions hearings, and in event they do not acoept the board's decision on rules a separate hearing on rules for short lines also will be necessary. Various soales of wages have been in offect on the sixty-seven roads. e mu-' the Ul tates - road i Othars paidu ON TRIAL ' FOR MURDER. Negro, Twenty, Charged With Kill- ing Sweetheart, Seventeen. Jobn Raymond Allen, colored. twen- ty years old and a eripple, was placea on trial today before Justice Gould in Criminal Division 1, to answer an indictment for murder in the first degree. It is charged that he stabbed to death his sweetheart, Halley Goeg? when the cripple climbed the .hlr{ way, bleeding from injuries. When Lhe:- uplecplefl -oum to aid him he sen: em ~downstairs, saying, “She is worse off than I am ™ Assistant United States Attorney O'Leary for the prosecution will claim that the girl sought to break off an engagement with the boy and that he stabbed her and then attempted to end his own life. Attorney James A O'Shea reserved a statement as to the probable defense. LAWYERS IN CONFERENCE. A special meeting of the Bar As ciation of the District of Columbia. is in progress this afternoon to consider the advisability of uniting on a can- didate for the position of judge of the Municipal Court to ll] the vacancy due to the resignation of Michael M. Doyle, Opposition is expected to develop to the proposal to name & woman to this position. Several members expressed the view that with Miss Katherine Sellers on the beach of the Juvenile Court the woman lawyers have their full quota of local judicial places. Until the number of qualified female lawyers increases. they say. 80 that they bear a greater proportion to the number of qualified male lawyers they should not be given other judicial appointments. Other lawyers expressed unqualified torney E. B. Frey appears for the opposition to the suggestion to ap- point & woman to the Municipal Court. 1, 1921