Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow, unsettled and warmer, probably fol- lowed by showers tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. tod: 2 p.m. today; today-. Fuil report on page 16. Highest, 52, at Closing New York Stocks, Page 23. - No. 28,094 ‘The WITH SUNDAY IMORNING EDITION Foening Star. TFntered as second-class matter post_office_Washington, D. C. B0 DIE IN FIGHTING AS GERMAN REDS RENEW UPRISINGS Largest Number of Casual- ties in Westphalia, Where Police Retake Town. REDS WITH MACHINE GUNS REPULSE POLICE ATTACK Serions Riots in Dresden Put Down—Mines in Rhine Region Reported Seized. Br the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 30.—The commun- ist uprising. which had appeared to be at the point of collapse, has flick- ered up again in various sections of Germany, and reports today indicate that more than sixty persons have been killed in the renewed fighting. The district between Leipzig n.nfl Halle now appears to be the chief zone of the communist operations, and Train service between these two cities has been suspended. The communists who were defeated recently in the Mansfield district have regrouped their forces near Grobers (Grobzig?), where they are aai_d» to be in possession of a strong position. They are well equipped. especially with machine guns. and in an effort to dislodge them the security police Jost twelve Kkilled. The largest number of casualties reported was from Gevelsberg, West- phalia. messages stating that fl{l..y persons were killed in yesterday's Clashes, when the police recaptured the town from the communists, who had been in possession for several hours. DRESDEN RIOT PUT DOWN. FPourteen Women Among Ninety- Two Communists Under Arrest. LONDON, March 30.—A serious com- munist riot in Dresden has been put down by the authorities of that city, it is anmounced in a Berlin message received by the Exchange Telegraph Company today. Ninety-two com- munists were arrested, fourteen wom- en being among their number. Reports from Duesseldorf through the same channels declare the com- fnunist activity in the Rhine region is increasing. and it is asserted that some mines in the district have peen Beized by workers. The trouble a, the glass mahu- facturing center, has been attended by some success on the part of the com- munists in their efforts to start a gen- eral strike. Messages report that they have occupied the Carl Zeiss optical works, a plant of world-wide celebrity. Yave stopped street railway trafic and fcrced the electric workers to down their tools. POLICE FIRE ON RIOBERS. Authorities Recapture Gevelsberg From Communists. LONDON. Marech 30.—Fifty persons were killed in yesterday's fighting at Gevelsberg. in Westphalia, while the police were dealing with the com- munist rising there, according to Ber- lin messages todidy to the Exchange Telegraph Company. The town, which had been taken possession of by the communists, was recaptyred from them by the authorities. During disorders at Mannheim the police were attacked and returned the fire, killing three persons and wound- ing five others. OBREGON DEFENDS HIS GOVERNMENT POLICIES Mexican President Says Country Offers Best Opportunities for American Investors. MEXICO CITY. March 30.—Govern- mental policies followed by the pres- ent Mexican administration were de- fended by President Obregon in an address before New Orleans business men. who were réceived at the na- tional palace yesterday. He declared that Mexico “offers the best opportunities and advantages to North American business men who are investing capital, nd that the Rovernment would “strive to extend Fuarantees to all fair and honest men reekinz legitimate profits on their money. “Althodgh it is true that we have not been recognized in Washington,” the president continued, it is true that the friendly ions between the Mexican a rican people have been growing every day. “As the head of the government re- sulting from the last revolution, I must speak the truth with the ut- most sincer: Time will convince those living near us of the falsehood of slanderous charges made by our enemies. Once we are well known, you will sec many reasons for appre- ciating us.” OPEN WATERWAY HEARING Final Session of St. Lawrence Project Begins. DETROIT. Mich, March 30.—The final hearing of the international joint commission on the St Waterway project o red here foday. BUT HUNGAR BUDAPEST, March 30.—Former Em- peror Charles of Austria-Hungary made his visit to Budapest Monday with the idea of taking possession of the Hungarian throne, but was unable to induce the Hungarian government to fall in with his plan, it has been learned from unofficial but excellent sources here. Official confirmation of the fact of the ex-ruler's visit was supplied to- day, and numerous details have de- ‘veioped from various quarters. The | former ruler, it appears, came to | Budapest accompanied by two friends. | s in the afternoon and invited Admiral Horthy, the regent. to turn over the reins of government to him. The re- gent. however, after setting forth constitutional and _political _objec- | tions, refused the plea and induced the | ex-monarch to promise to return (o Switzerland. | Halts at Steinamanger. Charles is reported now to be at Steinamanger, in west Hungary, near the Austrian frontier, at which place he stopped on his way from Switzer- land before coming to Budapest. He was accompanied on his return jour- ney from Budapest by Premier Tel- {eky. and he halted at Stelnamanger on the pretext of indisposifion, spend- leave Tuesday morning. He believed, it was said, that he might yet win over the troops there to his side. When Charles halted at_Steina- manger on his journey into Hungary he made an effort to align the mili- tary authorities there with him, pleading with Gen. Lehar, in com- mand_at Steinamanger, for support. Gen. Lehar, however, refused the re- quest, calling attention to his oath of loyalty to the Horthy government. Horthy Sees Danger. Admiral Horthy is said to be con- vinced that the restoration of Charles would be a source of danger to Hungary. A large part of the Budapest | garrison, as well as Gen. Lehars | troops, are declared to be opposed to | the return of Charles to the throne. The French, British and Italian high commissioners here held a conference after the ex-ruler's visit, and the British commissioner, who is dean of the corps, went to thq regent and re- minded him of the opposition of the allies to the return of the Hapsburgs to power. Austria Opposes Entry. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, March 30. ‘The Austri: He arrived at the palace at 1 o'clock | ing the night there and refusing toj WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, N IARCH 30, 1921 -TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied t» the use for republication of ail mews dispatches credited to It or ot «therwise credited fn this Al rights of publication of special paper and also the local pews publish»d hereln, I Bispatches herein are aleo reserved. ' Yesterday’s Net Circalation, 95,867 TWO CENTS. CHARLES ASKS THRONLE, Y SPURNS HIM Fails to Get Military Support—Austria Posts Armed Guards to Prevent Re-entry—*"Little * Entente” Warns Against Restoration. | Bovernment is taking every possible | precaution to prevent former Emperor Charles from re-entering the country from Steinamanger. West Hungary. | where he is reported to have taken | refuge. 1t is rumored, however. that semli- official statements that Charles is in Steinamanger are intended as a cloak to cover the fact that he already is en route to Switzerland. Armed guards from various organi- zations have been stationed along the frontier to intercept the former em- peror should’ he attempt to recross into Austria. The armories of the iation of former officers are un- v guard to prevent the jmoval of arms, and the homes of generals in the old imperial army | under police surveillance. Tt is report- ed a large number of officers of the old army are hurrying in Eroups to towns adjacent to Steinamanager. The refusal of the party ¢omposed of small farmers to indorse and support i Charles, it is understood, was larsely responsible for the request of Hun- hat he depart from the countiy. “Little Entente” Warns. Meanwhile, the “little entente,” com- prising Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania, has served notice on the Austrian government that troops will be marched into Austria at the slightest indication that former Em- peror Charles is to be permitted to remain_in_the country. Dispatches from both Belgrade and Prague, state that the Jugoslav and Czechoslovakian governments will not tolerate his presence. i Uneasiness and neryousness prevail among zll classes in Vienna, where it is generally recognized the situation possibilities of danger to the Tepublic in an hour already grave from inter- nal causes. ““Entry to Be Probed. The government announced today it woula order an investigation into the manner in which Charles crossed Aus- tria into Hungary. There appears to have been some confusion in the first dispatches as to the time of the ex- { ruler’s arrival in Austria and his sub- sequent movements. It now appears he crossed Austria Friday night and entered Hungary on Saturday. West Hungary is cut off from communication with Vienna, and dispatches from Budapest give the only news of what is transpiring in Steinamanger. These state that Gen. Lehar, commanding in Steinamanger, and Baron Pronay, commander of a battalion of “white terrorists” are les, together with other SUGGEST IMPROVED ered Today Will Be Placed / Before Mr. Hays. Proposals to better the Washington city post office were under considera- tion today by the jury of award sit- ting on suggestions turned in by em- ployes of the office at the invitation of Postmaster Chance. The best suggestions will be placed before Postmaster General Hays as the first concrete steps of any eity post_office in the country to follow { out his plan of “humanizing” the pos- tal service. Twelve Suggestions. Here are twelve of the suggestions which were leading today in the con- sideration of the judges: i 1. Eight straight hours of duty, in- stead of eight and one-half hours, as at present. 2.. Saturday half holiday for em- ployes of the city post office. 3. Stools for men at the cases. “Give us stools or give us death,” wrote one employe. 4. More liberal construction by the Post Office Department on all legisla- | tion enacted by Congress for the benefit of postal workers. 5. Betger ventilation in parts of the | building, | 6. Colection and delivery of all d | partmental mail by city post off | employes. | 7. “Get-together” meetings of offi- | ciais and_employes. 8. Establishment of a dispensary at | the ecity post office. More careful handling of parcels | 10 Abolition of the demerit system | 11. Certain changes in carrier sched ules. Instaligtion of mail-bag clean- {ing plant al all first-class post of- | fices, to save the lungs of workers | from inhaling dust. Seventy-Five Responses. More than seventy-five responses | were received in the contest, - but | probably more than half of the sug- gestions were that the straight eight- hour tour of duty be rec-established at .he city post office. ! At present employes are required to | work eight and one-half hours, the | half hour being for lunch period. Under the desired system the half | hour would come out of the govern- | ment's time. the employes actually| | working seven and one-half Fours. | Officials are of the opinion that this would not result in any loss whatever ito the government. but would result | in morégatisticd employes. Liberal Policy Al Lawrence : with men prominent in public and| Suggestion No. 4 above i filled with commercial affairs in a dozen states | great meaning to those familiar with invited to present their views. At|postal conditions. It is declared that 1he end of the hearing the commis- | laws passed by Congress in the inter- %ion is to frame its recommendations est of postal workers already contain 10 the Canadian and United States|many provisions which would help governments on the proposal. In |materially to wake the service wha. previous hearinzs opposition has!the new Postmaster General wants come chiefly from the eastern sea- | it to be if only the various provisions Board - | were liberally interpreted. Witnesses included traffic experts! sSuggestion No. 6, that collection and of some of the largest industries of | delivery of all departmental mail be middla west und representatives of | made by city post office employes, is il bodies of all the great another Ipteresting suggestion. At interests from direct waterway fa- es. who told of the advan- xpected to be derived by thelr present edch department has its own ! mail wagons and details employes, who go to the city post office each day cilities to foreign murkets and tolto gather mail. Former Gov. W. L. Hardin, of Iowa. Senator Pete” Norbeck of| SYNDICALISTS IN CLASH. d B hio we BARCELO: ain, March 30— odore Burton of Ohio were among | gpa eyndicalist was killed and two ihe supporters of the project. FRIENDS FEED 736,000. PHILADELPHIA, dren to the nu +ily i 1,00, by the nimittee vork y phia Orthodox " cting of nds. the P'hiladel { others were wounded in a clash be- | tween members of opposing groups | of these workers near here today. {Tn reprisal for a previous attack, the Mataro group of syndicalists in Jiadalora, a suburb, fired sixty re- Volver shots at a group of free syn- dicalists, who were leaving their club in the Rue Drim. The man killed in this firing was Salvador Asuilar. a member of free dicalist group. The attacking party, the mem- bers of which were masked, made its escape. SECRETARY HUGHES ‘CITY POST OFFICE, RECEIVES VIVIANI Employes’ Proposals Consid- |French Statesman Also Sees. President Harding This Afternoon. Rene Viviani, former French pre- mier, who arrived in Washington last night as envoy extraordinary from the French republic, paying a visit of courtesy to President Hard/ ing, was received by Secretary Hughes at the State Department at 12:30 o'clock today. President Harding has arranged to accord him a formal reception at 4:30 o'clock, when the President will for- | mally invite him to dine at the White House on April 5. Secretary Hughes plans to escort M. Viviani to the White House. M. Viviani was accompanied to the State Department by Ambassador Jusserand. They immediately went into an executive conferemce with Secretary Hughes and Undersecre- tary Fletcher. The former premier refused today to make any statement or answer any questions regarding his mission, his secretary replying for him, reiterat- ing that his visit is one of courtesy, 1S one of the utmost gravity, full of | EFFORT TO FINANCE CHINAIS APPROVED BY ADMINISTRATION New Regime Decides to Fol- low Course Adopted by President Wilson. RECORD OF NEGOTIATIONS SHOWS REVERSED STAND Japanese, Last to Give Consent to Consortium, Influenced in Yield- ing by Great Britain. 1 BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Another policy of the Wilson ad- | ministration has been swallowed in entirety by the Harding administra- tion, namely, support of the banking groups of France, Great Britain, the United States and Japan in their ef- forty to finance China. Secretary Charles Evans Hughes has given to the public for the first time the complete record of the negotia- tions between the four powers, It shows with other things that the Wilson administration reversed itself in its last two years almost com- pletely from the attitude assumed in the days when William Jennings Bryan was™ Secretary of State and when most everything connected with American banking interests was re- garded as suspiciots. 1t will be recalled that the original arrangement between the bankers of Great ~ Britain, Germany, the United Statcs, Russia and Japan fell throlligh largely because the Washington gov- ernment withdrew the support that had been cxtended American bankers during the Taft-Knox administration, the argument being that the financial plans interfered seriously with the “political and administrative inde- pendence of China.” Change Brought About by War. The war, however, changed things completely. Gefmany was no longer a partner. Japan had obtained, through her twenty-onel demands upon China, certain options requir- ing China to consult her before mak- ing any loans, and, furthermore, the United States became the only power able to extend financlal aid any- where. The record of the negotia- tions is a large volume of notes. memoranda and diplomatic papers ican diplomacy which probably will have a far-reaching effect on our policy in the far east and will have China itself. Although the agreement Scrupu- [ lously avoids political entanglements, it is a fact that most of the political friction in the far east in the past has arisen out of the competitive in- terests of the big powers in financial matters. The #o-called consortium agreement, whereby the four powers have agreed to pool their interests, eliminates the opportunity for special | privileges and options and makes possible the development of Chi along lines that do not menace her territorial integrity or Independence. Eventually Russia’ will be taken into the partnership, and the application of Belgium for entry into the group has been approved. i Credit Goes to Lamont. It fs a fascinating story—this-ac- complishment of an agreement among of China. And to Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co. goes the credit for the achievement. His finesse and diplomacy in handling the question for the American bank- ing group with the Department of State, and his tact and skill at Tokio in convincing the Japanese of the vital necessity of their joining in the | scheme, are admitted on all sides to have been largely instrumental in the successful olitcome of what prom- ised to be the usual diplomatic wran- gle and futile negotiation. Of course Mr. Lamont would have been unable to get very far without the active support of the United States government. Mr. Lamont won the confidence of President Wilson at | Paris, and thereafter Secretary Lans- ing and Undersecretaries Polk and Davis gave Mr. Lamont the support in critical moments that he needed that he will make no overtures to this+in handling the questions at issue government regarding the league of nations or peace treaty provisions, but will maintain a receptive attitude if the President, Secretary of State ®br other authorized person should make the first overtures on this subjeer: Lodge in Conferencq Senator Lodge, the republican leader of the Senate and chairman of the foreign relations committee, conterred | with President Harding for some time {today, and it was generally thought that he was advising with the Presi- {dent regarding the attitude of administration toward the Ireseh | cnvoy. 1 His sccretaries announce tha [ distinguished envoy's program s tent ative. He expects to attend the funeral of Cardinal Gibbons in Ealtimore to- morrow. There is to be a dinner in his honor at the French embassy tomorrow might, given by M. Jules {Jusserand. the French ambassador that dinner M. Viviani fs to meet | Vice President” Coolidge and other iSenate leaders, including Senators |lodge of Massachusetts, Moges of ew Hampshire, Pomerene of Ohio ng'(‘nppl'r of Kansas. i envoy has taken up quart for several weeks in’ the Shorenam Hotel, in the same suite he occupied when he came here early in the war to discuss the problems that Ameriea would have to help solve. He will divide his time between Washington of it. his secretary says, to I relations between France a‘::fln“! United States, which need adjustment. To Meet Irrecomcilables. It has McCormick at a dinner to be attend- ¢d by ail of the league of “irreconci~ Marcel Knecht, who is secretary t. !;‘a&pev‘vm"!. in d!rlklng with nrvywac-. T men regarding the i of ;‘('o\l‘rlel). . uala:‘ PRt visl “M. Viviani comes to the Ui IStates as an envoy extraordiners o the French government. He repro- sents in no way the league of nations, and speaks for no one save the French government.” Greeted on his arrival her, night only by members of the l:rell:l-"; embassy, M. Viviani' reception was @ contrast in simplicity to that ac- | corded him on his arrival here in 1917, accompanied by Marshal Joffre, when the two eminent Frenchmen were met by Secretary of State Lan- sing and eacorted with much by a squadron of cavairy to’the home seiected for him as a guest of {the United States. Last night he | passed almost unnoticed through the | tadion, thence to the Shoreham Hotel, to take up his several wecks' resi- | dence. There were no State Department of- 4icials to extend him a welcome at v and New York, and will devote much | the | been announced that next Monday he will be guest of Senator | with the Japanese government. Davis Handled Final Stages. ! Norman H. Davis, who, as, under- | secretary, handled the final stages of State, wrote most of the communi- cations from our government to the other powers, and while this is the first time they fave been made pub- {lic. it was known right along that the American government's policy in the days when President Wilson was | i1l and Secretary Colby was engrossed in_other matters. The Japanese were the last to give their consent. They wanted at first to exclude eastern Mongolia and Man- churia on the ground of “special in- terest,” and they insisted for a time upon reservations which would give the Japanese freedom of action in cer- tain parts of China, but the American government, through its ambassador, Mr. Morris, and Mr. Lamont at Tokio, succeeded in convincing the Japanese that to make exceptions and give op- tions was contrary to the whole idea of the consortium and the Japanese finally assented. British Support No Small Ald. The cordial support given the United States government by the British for- eign office in the entire negotiation wps no small factor in the achieve- ent of complete agreement. | " Great Britain, through her alliance with Japan, was able to use her good {offices to excellent advantage, and the banking group, through e relations with the-Brit- | ish developed in the two years before the United States entered the war, were able to develop a harmonious course of action as between the French, British and American govern- | ments, which made it apparent to the Japanese that it was a better course 1 American | their inti attempt to play a lone hand. The significance of the documents just made public by the Department of State simultaneously with the forelgn offices of Japan, Great Britain and France, will not become apparent at once, but it is not mere surmise to stato that the negotiations will have 2 stabilizing effect on far eastern pol- ftics and perhaps remove one of the sources of friction on! which the jin- goes have built their theories of “the next war in the Pacific.” (Copyright, 1921.) — the station, and the only recognition of his presence was by news photog- | raphers, who halted him for an in- | stant Lo a8k that he pose for a flash- light. Pausing to inquire of his Frinch companions the meaning of the ques- tions phrased in English, M. Viviani, when _an_explanation was given him, brushed the interceding photograph- ers aside and resumed is way. which constitute a chapter in Amer- ! an importart bearing on the future of | all the great powers for the financing | the negotiations at the Department of | the firm hand of Mr. Davis was bebind | 1o join with the other powers than to | ALBUQITERQUE, N. M., March 20.—Two men were crucified at the Penitente village of Abiquiu, in north- ern New Mexico, on Good Friday, in observance of holy week, in rites performed by members of the Her- manos de Luz, “‘Brothers of Light,” a religious order, according to B. J. ordfeldt and Gustave Baumann, artists of Santa Fe, N. M., who have arrived here. Nordfeldt and Baumann say they were members of a party of two dozen tourists who witnessed the } crucifixion and the flagellation cere- | monies connected with it. For more than a nali hour, the artists say, the two human sacrifices ‘were tied to huge wooden crosses, at the end of which time they were taken down, bleeding and exhausted. The condition of the men is said to | be serious and their recovery in | doubt. The Penitentes, as the Hermanos de Luz are more commonly known, are Indians with a Mexican admix | ture. The order has many followers. ON WAY TO FACE TRIAL. Federal Agents Spirit Army Ser- geant Away From Providence. TACOMA, Wash, March 30.—Ro- land Pothier, former Army sergeant ‘X)or, who disappeared Sunday after léaving Providence, R. 1., i York city, is on his way to Tacoma |to stand trial in connection With the death of Maj. Alexander Cronk- hite in 1918 Pothier is accompanied by federal guards, who sirited him away in or- der to get him here for trial. James W. Selden, prosecu g at- torney, is preparing to press the case in the state courts against { Pothier and Robert Rosenbluth, charged with having caused Maj. Cronkhite to be killed. The state charges have not been ! filed, but Distri Attorney Robert | C. Saunders of <eattle has recom- { mended to Attorney General Daugh- erty that the men cannot be tried on a federal charge because title to that part of Camp lewis where Maj. ! Cronkhite was killed had not been passed to the federal government from Pierce county at the time of the death. NON-MAGNETIC SHIP SAILS Repairs on West Coast. | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 29. —The non-magnetic ship Carnegie, which records compass variations for | the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, is on her way to Samoa after a stay | of more than a month here for re- | pairs. She is completing a survey of virtually the whole sopth Pacific and from Samoa will go #$hrough the canal to Washington for submission 1of her data to the institution. FOUR SHIPS QUIT TRADE. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 30.— Four of the largest freighters oper- ated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in_their round-the-world service. are to be withdrawn, it is announced. They are §800-ton Ship- ping Board vessels. lack of suffi- | cient freight offerings in the twenty- five ports of call is the reason given | by the company. BANK THIEVES KILL GUARD. DES MOINES, Towa, March 30.—J. K. Myers, night watchman at the Pank, at Stuart, near here, was shot | and killed by five bandits who robbed the bank last night. The bandits, who were reported to have obtained only $10. escaped in an automobile to Des Moines, where théy abandoned their machine. ~ ANARCHY IN IRELAND Second of Two Articles by Sir Philip Gibbs Next Sunday in the Edstorial Section of The Sunday Star | Carnegie on Way to Samoa After | Rites | it is understood. in remote villages | of this state. Although supposed to | be dying out, the order still attracts i wide attention because of its myste- rious ceremonies, which Ame: seldom are able to witness. The principles and practices of the | order are said to have come from ! Ttaly, through Spain and Mexico. Last Friday was one of the rare ! occasions, according to the two artists, on which Amerrcans were permitted to witness tne most sol- emn ceremonies performed by the Penitentes. ““The Penitentes formed in a long procession,”” said Mr. Nordfeldt, “and, marching to slow, weird music, beat themselves with thorn whips soaked in brine water to wound themselves and make their wounds smart. One man carried a large wooden cross. under the waight of which he fell exhausted frequently. The proces- sion ended with the erection of two crosses with members of the order tied to them." 1t_is considered an honor among the Penitentes to be selected for cru- cifixion. PINS HOPE ON FARMERS. Representative Young Says Good Times Depend on Purchasing Power LANSING, Mich, March 30.—Good times will not return wuntil the pur- chasing powep of the farmer has been ns for Newsrestored, Representative George M. | Young of North Dakota, named by the House ways and means commit- tee to introduce the emergency tar- |iff bill at the extra session of Con- sFess, declared in an address before {the Esch Chandler Republican Club ime “We must not overlook the fact that one-third of our population are farm- ers” Mr. Young said. “They are nor- | mally big consumers. The purchasing power of farmers will not be restored until three million men now out of and until we prevent the dumping of farm products from every pars-of the globe.” | CALLED BY PRESIDENT. |Railroad Labor Board Head to Attend Conference. | CHICAGO, March 30.—Judge R. M. | Barton, chairman of the United States | Railroad Labor Board, departed to- | day for Washington in response to a {summons irom President Harding. { Judge Barton will confer tomorrow with the President-and E. E. Clark, chair- man of the Interstate Commerce Commission, on the geaeral railroad situation. The President's telegram did not explain what subjects would be taken up, Judge Barton said. _— IPRICE OF COAL TO BE CUT. Anthracite to Be Reduced 50 Cents a Ton April 1. Reduction in the price of anthracite coal to ‘dealers and consumers will come after April 1, when a cut in price of an average of 50 cents a ton will be made. Coal dealers in Washington said today there would be a reduction in price after April 1, but most of them did not know just how much it would {be. The L. E. White Coal Company i announced a flat 50-cent cut. After May 1 prices will be raised about 10 cents a ton, it was said. CITY AIR FIELD PLANNED. Chicago Considering Site to Be Ready July 31. CHILAGO, March 30.—Members of the city council aviation committee today announced plans for preparing a municipal landing field for air- planes along the lake front near the municipal pier and within a short distance of the downtown business quarter. The proposed field, 1,000 feet long and 500 feet wide, is the property of the city. It is hoped to bave the field ready by July 31. INHERITS BULK OF $7,000,000. CHICAGO, March 30.—The bulk of the $7,000,000 estate of Robert Prin- gle, who died a bachelor in February, 1919, went to his only brother, James, of Milwaukee, it became known when | Mexican “Penitentes” Crucify 'SILDIER HOSPITAL ' Two Men in Holy Week | NEED HERE UPHELD Argumenss to Public Health Service by Merchants to i Include St. Elizabeth’s. Advantages of increasing govern- ment hospital facilities here to care for disabled soldiers will be presented tomorrow by a committee of the the committee of consultant physi- cians of the public health service. The latter committee has charge of the disposition of the funds provided by the last Congress for the erection | hospitals throughout the country for the rehabilitation of ex-service men. The chamber committee, headed by George H. Lamar, has been collecting data on the several hospitals of the city, and will have a good supply of facts to be presented to the commit- tee on consultants. Dr. White to Assist. Dr. William A. White, superintend- ent of St FElizabeth’s Hospital at Congress Heights, was expected to confer with Chairman Lamar and other members of the committee to- day. amd furnish additional informa- tion which will be valuable to the committee in convincing the govern- ment physicians tomorrow of the ex- treme value of using some of the present funds for the extension of local hospitals. There is a large tract of ground to the east of the present buildings bf St. Elizabeth’s Hospital which, it was pointed out. could be used for the jerection of buildings for the rehabili- tation work. This tract contains ap- Iproximately 174 acres, and is located to fegregate the soldiers from the present immates. Other places for extension whicl the committee has under considera tion are the Soldiers' Home and the Walter Reed Hospital. Both of these, it was pointed out, would be ideal spots for sites for additional build- jIngs for taking care of the world war i soldiers in their effort to *“come back i Supports General Project. The Chamber of Commerce com- mittee will not favor any particular ’projt‘cl. but will point out the ad | vantages of all of them. But the members will seek to convince the consultants that the Capital city is the place to which every service man. looks as a place to come. It is the seat of government, a matter which is constantly brought te his attention while he is in the service, and all of them have that desire to come here { somo day. Many of the soldiers who will be treated in the proposed new Spi- tals will be men who are able to perform light work during their re- cuperative period. Such work can be provided in the Capital city., and at the same time the men can be learn- ing about the government while here. Mr. Lamar's a: ciates on the com- mittee are W. C. Balderson, Joseph 1. Weller, Dr. Lewis J. Battle and Charles W. Darr. Today’s News in Paragraphs Merchants ask hospital expansion here for soldiers. Page 1 Sixty die in fighting as uprising is re- newed in Germany. Page 1 Bankers' effort to finance China given approval by new administration. Page 1 Secretary Hughes receives Viviani, ex- premier of France. Page 1 New District Commissioners urge use of idle funds far school buildings. Page 1 Former emperor asks_return to Hun- garian throne but is’spurned. Page 1 D. C. police skilled in use of revolvers. Page 2 Columbia in tableaux gives vote to Dis- trict. Page 3 City and state to pay honor to dead cardinal. Page 4 Recall of governor of North Dakota considered by Non-partisan League opponents. Page 9 Snowden Ashford resignation as city architect accepted. Page 7 Ending of inhuman practices in war to be considered at world Red Gross con- ference. Page 7 Playground needs told to citizens’ as- sociation. Page 12 final accounting was made in probate court yesterday. Pringle, one of the leading grain dealers on the Chicago Board of Trade, is said to have made his first million dollars on the board at the age of twenty-four. and lost it before he was thirty. He soon re- ined the fortune and increased it, f:ler founding the brokerage firm which was.dissolved-at his death. Litvinoff fears note of U. S. will be re- sented by masses of Russians. Page 13 Berlin protests selling of coal delivered on account to allies. Page 13 Washington Chamber of Commerce to | of new and the extension of present | 0., HEADS WOULD USE DLEFUNDS ON SCADDL BULDIGS New Commissioners Declare Over $4,000,000 Should Be Made Available. OPPOSED TO BOND ISSUE _ WITH MONEY IN TREASURY Commissioner Kutz Now Revising | School Estimates for Submis- | sion to Congress. Commissioners Rudolph and Oyster today indorsed the plan of using the | surplus revenues of the District lying idle in the Treasury to meet the ur- sent need of more school buildings in the District of Columbia. | Both of the new city fathers say they regard this as the most feasible method of obtaininz from Congress the large sum of money that is neces- |sary to ch up with the growth of | the city in the matter of school facili- | ties. | Opposed to Bond Issue. reaching this conclusion they cel that the floating of a bond is- . 48 was suggested in the report of the former board of Commissioners |to Congress last December. is im- practicable and unnecessary as long as unexpended District money re- maius in the Treasury | ¢pithe surplus revenurs of the Dis- | now amor = | Enict o unt to more than $4, The former Commissioners sub- mitted a plan to Congre: in Decem- ber 10 mect the school building pro- gram and a number of other urgent District needs by using a part of the | surplus fufd. together with an ap- | propriation from the federal govern- {ment. but in the rush of putting | through the regular District appro- | priation bill these supplemental esti- mates were knocked out. ! Engineer Commissioner Kutz is now revising the former school building | estimates, but stated today that no | decision has been reached as to the amount of money that will be asked | for the schools ‘at the forthcoming session. He indicated that the budget can be made smaller now, without cutting out any of the former items, as & re- sult of a steady decline in the cost of erecting school buildings since the original estimates were prepared. - | If the new school building budget is to approximate the former esti- { mates*it will call for several millions | of dollars. both fgr buildings and ad- | ditional sites on hich to erect them. {OLD SCHOOLHOUSES NEEDED. Portable Buildings Must Be Used } For Years. The seventy-nine flimsy portable schoolhouses which have been em- {ployed for several years to relieve {overcrowded conditions in the publis | schools are destined for further use. | Crowded classes are not to be reduced {in size for several years. | It developed today that the school building program to be submitted to Congress soon after the convening of the extra session will carry no pro- | visions for additional classrooms in jorder that the portables can be | abandoned, and that mo request will {be made for more classrooms to re- {duce the oversize classes, of which {there are seventy-four in the school |system. The program will call for the {minimum of extra rooms necessary to |eliminate the part-time classes and {to provide for the increase in enroll- employment are profitably employed,|9n Hamilton road. By the erection of iment expected in the near future. g builgings there, it would be possible | The portables and the oversized | classes already have been branded by ! Supt. Ballou as “undesirable.” How- | ever, it is said, that school officials { feel ‘that Congress will not grant an appropriation large enoughto remedy them, and will ask only for funds for the most urgent needs. i The proposed school-building pro- i gram, it s said today, is more or less uncertain. School officials have not definitely decided on any specific 1 project and are awaiting a decision by { the Commissioners as to the best plan | for financing any program. It is con- sidered likely that no definite steps to |draft_a tentative building program { will be taken before next week. as | Supt. Ballou_and AsstSupt. Kramer {are spendinghe week end at a Dela- ware resort. Meantime, Engineer Commissioner Kutz stated that he would examine the three building pro- j grams drafted by school officials last | year, with a view to determining i{which one would stand the best | chance of being acted on by Congress. CHAMBER TO AID SCHOOLS. Commerce Committee Wants Every Child in Modern Building. Sufficient equipment to give every jchild now attending schools a s |factory seat in a modern building ‘and instruction on full time will be | concentrated on by the subcommittee {of the committee on schools of the | Washington Chamber of Commerce. | The committee, headed by H. H. Glassie, yesterday held an exccutive conference with Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, during which Dr. Ballou acquainted the com- mittee with the prime needs to put the local system on an efficient basis. The subcommittee will hold another meeting Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the office of Mr. Glassie, in {the Department of Justice building. jat whicn the information given by Supt, Ballou will be discussed and a | report prepared for submission to { the full committee. The report, according to Mr. Glassie, will be brief. and is not expected to include any specific recommendations for any particular building or tion of the city. It is probable that it will point out tkat the prime neces- sity is to provide proper school space for the children now going te school, leaving the expansions to be taken care of in the future. —_— NINE BALLOONISTS HURT. Enlisted Men Burned When Bag Explodes Upon Landing. LOS ANGELES, March 30.—Second Lieut. K. I. Sullivan and eight enlist- ed men of the United States Army Balloon School at Axcadia were seri- ously burned vesterday when a bal- loon exploded after coming to earth here. Senator Capper believes drastic D. C. gun law will be reported to Congress soon. Page 13 New D. C. traffic regulations go into effect April 2. - Page 13 All will probaply recover, it was stated at the baj n =chool hospital. where they weré faken. Lieut. Sulli- van.said he believes static electricity 'was responsible. -