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SPERSHING AT HEAD GERMANY SENDING ALLIES'SECRET PACT aDetails of the plan are difficult to ar-| WEATHER. lat tonight and much change in tomor- tempera- i = row: n ture. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 75 at 2 pm. today: lowes at 5 a.m. to- ‘ L 1’ Showers | i ¥ Enteged as second-c post No. 28,116. * matter WASHINGTOX z Ll D. C., THURSDAY, ¢ ny Sfaf, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The Associnted paper and also Ail right dispatche Yesterday's | Member of the Associated Press '| the use for republicat credited 1o it or not otherwise v Press is exclusive all news Hdisp 12 e Dublisk2 merein. || lication of sigelal n are also res@ved the local news s of pn s N 72138 Net Circnh!iol\ a 2 APRIL 1, 1921—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. OF NEWLY CREATED WARSTAFEFORU.S. Will Have Charge of Field Operations of American Forces in Conflict. - PRESIDENT APPEAL By the Associated Press BERLIN, April 21.—The German government has fer- mally asked the President of the United States to mediate in the reparaticnss question. The note embodying the re- quest was forwarded Wednes- cay by Loring Dresel, the American cc.nmissioner in Berlin, tc the State Depart- ment in Washington. The note was signed by Chancellor Fehrenbach and Dr. Walter Simcens, the for- eign minister. PARIS, April 21.—The Ger- man gcvernment has refused to transfer the gold reserves iNSTANT PRERARATION IS PURPOSE OF MOVE Organization Will Be Entirely Separate From Office of . Chief of Staff. i Organization of a war staff headed | By Gen. Pershing to take charge of ficld operations of the armies of the United States in time of war was an- nounced today by Secretary Weeks “Instant preparation in time of peace for active military operations.” was given by the Secretary as th reason for the new organization. man imperial bank, to the of the bank, as demanded by PT": ; "g‘";‘“:"" h:;:df)fl :e)m‘r::; the reparations commission, ershing will be entirely s - from the ofice of the chief of| it was announced here today. The appeal pledges Ger- many to acgept the mediation withcut reservations and to fulfill absolutely any award President Harding may make staff, Mr. Weeks said, which will con- | tinue te direct the adminjstration of | the military establiship & in time of | Pershing will have a skeleton- | which will correspond to | 21 Chaumont during the world | Er ex1 n war und which will concern itself on- | gation into the subject. tircly with problems of strategy, tac- | 1. and war organization. Pershing to Announce Details. We are going to have a skeleton- ized general headquarters established in the War Departmen said Secre- tary Week: “Its purpose will be to kcep us instantly prepared for active military operations. The details will be given out later, but Gen. Pershing will be at the head of the activity. on. Secretary Hughes conferred briefly with President Harding at the White House this after- noon, but would not reveal the purpose of his visit nor confirm or deny that a communication has been received from the Ger- man government regarding rep- arations. range. owing to the wording of the| laws. but the chief of staff will con- | tinue to direct the administration of , the Army in time of peace.” Before the world war, Secretary Weeks explained, Marshal Joffre had been selected to command the armiu! ©f France, if war came. and had or-! ganized a skeleton staff which was instantly available. Sflent on Harbord Rumors. Secretary Weeks would not confirm or deny rumors that Maj. Gen. James | G. Harbord, who was for a time Gen. | Pershing’s ‘chief of staff in France | and later head of the service of sup- ply. had beem selected to relieve Maj. Gen. Peyton C. March as chief of staff of the Army. It was thought prob- Senator Harrison, democrat, Miss Sippi, charged today in the Senate that the appointment of George Har- | Gon. Jiar—+3¥ by President Harding as ambas- | abl o 2o 2 fE Sord iEnt bevo eh. Pershing's Sador to Great Britain was a “reward ; for his efforts” to discredit the Wil- chief aid-6a the wat stafl. - son administration. The Mississippi senator said C 1| Harvey's “pursuit of Wilson tarough | his journals and otherwise are oniy | comparable to Miiton's ‘hell hounds’ that were stationed at the gates of the infernal regions.” He added that| the ambassador had “no equul as a . creator of prejudice and a stirrer of | | strife” and that he was “a vindictive, | | self-anointed, intolerant political ac. | cident.” Senator Harrison said he feared Col. + | Harvey's arrival in London would cause Great Britain and other nations Patients in Critical-Condition 1 iy oo el useiwhatevas) 3 = wer of his position in atte Turned Down Twice Tor | 4 gue ne TS 0} - Want of Facilities. destroy the league of nation: Washington is badly in need of ad- | _Declaring that a long and distin- guished list of men had filled the po- ditional hospital facilities for the bandling of emergency cases, es- EMERGENCY FINDS HOSPITALS LACKIN sition of American representative at | the court of St. James, Mr. Harrison | said that educational qualifications | and strong intellectual attainments are attributed that might qualify one for service in one field of labor, but| recially in the eastern section of the | when these qualitics are influenced city. by other attributes. they may destroy | This was demonstrated last night | 'h'® effectiveness in other fields. when Robert W. Fox and his wife, | , . cnius for Violent Expression.” ¥ . ©. “Few men in the history of jour Agnie O. Fox. the former suffering | nalism,” he continued, have “pos from a gunshot wound in the mouth !sessed to a more remarkable degree and his wie with a similar wound in|Qualities of genius for violent expres- the side of her head. could not be Sion. caustic criticism and the power ' operated upon at Casualty Hospital | througk fair or foul means to employ because there were no beds in which | €OEent phrases intended to appeal to | to put the patients, following such a Prejudice and t& urouse hatred and serious operation. resentment. He is a remarkable man | Fox, who is charged by the police in that his whole life has_been one with having shot his wife and then |Of inconsistency and vacill®ion. He furned the revolver upon himself. was | Rever remained true o any purpose, | taken to the -hospital in an ambu- | loyal to any fricnd or steadfast to Jance. while the wife was removed any conviction. He is wedded to no there in an automobile. s principle and bound by no conscience. They were given first-aid treat- He is a wriler of the most cunning ment at Casualty Hospital and then and dangerous species and a past taken to Washington Asylum Hospi- | master in fomenitng trouble and ag- tal. Upon reaching that place it Bravating delicate situations” was found an operation could not im- | Referring to Mr. Harvey's attacks mediately be performed on the couple | 9% Mr. Wilson, Senator Harrison said as it takes four hours to prepare the “NOt satisfied with becoming expres- operating room for an operation | $ion and judicious_arguments to op- They were then taken to Emergency POS€ the Views of this man and his Hospital. where the operations were DONCICS ax President of the United erformed and the couple put to bed. §ALS he went farther than the un- L Lt L fairest partisan would go and placed All Beds Being Used. Miss Lillian L. Rinker. superinten- dent of Casualty Hospital, today said his fight almost on personal grounds. Not content in heaping personal abuse upon the President when in health, he pursued him £ C! i s at- operated upo at that institution was represented his alln"n-n(. trying to of the lack of beds. ereate in the public mind the impres- “Wten the :Aflul’)li‘ were brought gjon that the President had lost his lart night.” she said. “they were mind. given immediate attention. An ef- | fort was made to find room for them, KVen Attacked Mrx. Wilson. but as tnere were no beds It was de-| “But he was not satisfled with this cided to sen. them 1o Washington UBfair means. this disreputable con- Asylum Hespital duct that no reputable journalist “This condition last night would have employed—he did that that mizes the need of a new hospital op NC individual can condone and for Jarge addition to our present imsti. Which only his friends can apologize. tution.” said Miss Rinker. -The hes. He¢ tried to draw the fire of indign pital has but sixty beds. and all of 100 and condemnation upon the wife empha- them were taken vesterdav. A phy. ©f the sick President. Through the sician tried to get four private pa. @PPlication of Lis pen he entered the tients into the hospital| vesterday, Sacred precincts of home to_migrepre- but we had to refuse them because S¢B! the wife of the PresideM. I care there were no beds. Another phy. DOt how low a journalist may stoop sician also triel to get a priv or how debased he may become, h patient, and this one also was re- Wil never reach that point of in- fused is due one who. in ord “We have never refused to take any his personal hatred, emergency e at the hospital for UACks constantly the minist treatment.” she added. “The situa- | @ devoted wife tion yesterday could not be prevent- us. asd we would have been slad 2 "0 e | RETURN OF M. VIVIANI or treatment. | TO FRANCE IS AWAITED FOR POLITICAL OPINION By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 21-—The return to Paris of former Premier Viviani, who has just completed a mission Evan hoard of managers of Casualty Ho: of the | pital, also declared the situation wh necessitated the removal of the tients from the institution last, night emphasized the need of a new build- ing | We have been ch trying for some| in wa ot St = e (Sh b ettt te n Washington for the French gov ommodate the patients. he saig.| ernment, is awaited with great in- ongress should provide funds for| terest in official, political and the maintenance of this institution,| league of nations circles, because it is w pubdlic necessity.” L E 3 Dr James A. Gannon, the "chier! Dispatches from the United States sergeon of Washington Asylum Hos.| have dealt with what were con- pital. where the patients were r sidered the general results of his mission, but M. Viviani's amplified report is looked forward to as like- sed admittance bec these facilities, sai use of the lac We are not equipped for_ emer-| 1¥ 10 give a clearer idea of the zency operations. When the patients, Shape Franco-American relations were brought here last night and it Will probably take. was found it would take about four It is probable M. Viviani will, as he did on his return from a former missiog give a public account of what ®he”accomplished from the speaker's stand in the| chamber of deputies. % heurs o prepare the operating room it was decided, in view of their seri- ous condition, 1o send them to Emer- wency Hospital, where an operation could be performed immediately. cf the Reichsbank, the Ger- ! Ccblenz and Cologne branches | after examination and investi- | government will in the eventual peace | | Settlement treat in ' the same Spiri L | Britain's claims (o German isiands | | danelles, which have already occurred | ITHUPANTOAD * LAMS REVEALED Text of Negotiations Shows Britain, France and Rus- sia Made Pledge. INATIONS BOUND TO BACK TOKIO IN PACIFIC ISLANDS | Parleys Show Difficulty for Sup-i port of United States in Con- | troversy Over Yap. { PALL BY SCOTT MOWRER. April 21.—The ! is able to reveal herewith for the first time the secret texts of the negotiations in which, at Japan's re- juuest, Britain, France and Ru ound themselves to support the Jap anese claims to Shantung and the Pa- | cific ocean islands north of the equa- | | tor at the peace conference and which | {make it exceedingly difficult for | France and Britain to comply loyally | | with the request of the United States | {for theid support in the Yap Island | controversy. | | “*The Arst text, dated at Tokio, Japan, | | February 16, 1917, is from the British | {ambassador ‘to Viscount Motono, the | |Japanese foreign minister, and it is as tollow “With reference to the subject of jour conversation of the 27th uldmo. | when your excellency informed me of ! the desire of the imperial government |to receive ance, N ssurance that_on the o casion of the peace conference his Britannic majesty's government will support the claims of Japan in regard | to the disposal of Germany's rights in | | Shantung and possessions in isiands ' north of the equator. I have the honor, under instructions received from his | Britannic majesty’s principal secre- | jlary of state for foreign affairs, to | communicate to your excellency the | tollowing message from his Britannic | majesty’s government: * “His majesty’s government accedes with pleasure to the request of the for - ) I Japanese government ssuranc. 1mu they will support Japan's claims !in regard to the disposal of Germany's . rights in Shantung and possessions in {islands north of the | occasion of the being understood equator on peace conference, that the it the Japanese south of the equato Viscount Moton Viscount Motono's reply. ruary 21, 1917, after malities, proceeds: 1 “The Japanese government are deep- | Iy appreciative of the friendly spirit in which your government has given assurance and are happy tp note it as fresh proof of the close ties which unite the two allied powers. 1 take Reply. ated Feb- the usual for- { pleasure in stating that the Japanese government on their part are fully | prepared to support in the same spirit | claims which may be put forward at | the peace conference by his Britannic majesty’s government with regard to! German possessions in the island south of the equator.” On February 19 Viscount Motono | wrote to the Russian and French ambassadors in Tokio as follows: “The imperial government has not yet formally begun pourparlers with the entente powers regarding the peace conditions they propose to pre- sent to Germany, thinking that such questions should’ be decided in con- cert between Japan and the aforesaid powers at the moment of the peace negotiations. Nevertheless, in view of the recent development of the gen- | era) situation and the particular ar- | rangements concerning the peace ne-| | gotiations. such as the arrangement | regarding the disposition of the Bos- | porus. Constantinople and the Dar- | between the interested powers, the | imperial government considers that | the moment has come for it to ex- press its desiderata regarding certain peace conditions essential to Japan in order to submit them to the considera. tion of your government. “Your government is perfectly in- formed of all the efforts which the imperial government has made in 1 | general way to fufill its task in the ! present war, particularly with a view to guaranteeing for the future the peace of eastern Asia and the secur. ity of the empire. for both of which it is absolutely necessary to deprive Ger- many of its bases of political, mili- tary and economic activity in the far east. In these conditions the imperial | government intends to demand from the German government in the peace | negotiations the cessation of terri. torial rights and special interests which Germany held hefore the war in Shantung and the islands belong- ing to it situated north of the equator in the Pacific ocean.” Japan furthermore ce and Russia will their support and It gocs without s “hopes™ that Japan 1g that the rep- aration for the damages caused the ' lives and property of the Japanese peo- e by the unjustiRable attacks of the cnemy as well as other peace condi- tions” which might have a character common to all the entente powers are totally excluded from the consideration of the present question M.B then premicr of Fran replied on March 1, promising France's support and asking in return active help in obtaining a runture of the diplo- matic relations between ( China for the a d governments were pre-occupied at this time with Russia’s | collapse and desired to reinforce thr-| astern front against Germany. Vis- count Motono acknowledged M. Bri- and’s note o 1 thanked | France for the f support. | promising aid in the Chinese question Russtan promise of suppo@ was also given and Japan, uiider date of March 8, expressed “profound gratitude for the sentiment which inspired the Russian | government in giving its assent to the deside of the Japanese government.” Finally, on March 23, the Jupanese ambassador in Rome handed to the Italian government a note which, after stating Japan's intentions re- | garding Shantung and the Pacific is- liands, continued “Given the present phase of events, the imperial government considered ! it to be its duty to insure at once the | full support of the British, French | nd Russian governments in case the foregoing demands should be present- ed to Germany in the peace negotia- | | tions. In bringing to the knowledge | | of the royal Italian government and | the British, French and Russian gov- | {ernments the Very confidential in- | formation that arrangements have !lat been concluded between the imperial government and the British and French governments regarding the foregoing, the imperial govern- | ment has the firmest conviction that the royal Italian government, in- | ispired by the sentiments of friend- | ship which animate both countries, and in view of the necessity of mu. tual aid for the triumph of the com- mon cause in tho present war, will welcome with satisfaction the con- clusion of the nloremen?ontd ar- & rangements.” | sylvania. | his selection. PICKS THREE MEN FORBIGU. . POSTS President Selects David H.‘ Blair as Head of In- i " ternal Revenue. ! 1 Three nominations to fill govern- ment offices here determined | upon by the President today. i David H. Blair of Winston-Salem. | N. C.. was nominated to be commis sioner of internal revenue. Claudius H. Huston of Chattanooga, Tenn.. was sclected to be assistan secretary of the Department of Com merce. : Charles F. Marvin was renominated | to be chief of the weather bureau. i For the post of commissioner of in- | ternal revenue thiers has been keen | rivalry, and it is considered by Se -! 1 were retary Mellon to be one of the most | important in the government, han- dling. as it doex, the collechon of the | internal revenues of the country and the enforcement of the prohibition | act. Blair @rominent Lawyer. Mr. Blair i¥ prominent in his home state, both a5 a lawyer and a busi- ness man. He is fifty-two vears old and a Quaker. his parents having mi- grated to North Carolira from Penn He was educated in the | public_schools in Winston-Salem, at ' Haverford Academy, Pa.. and at the University of North Carolina. He studied law at the latter institution. Mr. Blair, although a lifelong re- | publican and always interested and | active in the past, has never held ! office prior to this time. He ran for Congress several years ago and was defeated. He was a delegate to the Chicago convention and voted for Mr. Harding throughout the session: He served as a member of the cre- | dentials committee of the convention and it was in that capacity that he attracted the attention of the higher! party leaders. i Many Indorsers. indorsed for the post by Na- | tional Committeeman Morehead of | North Carolina and the republican' state committee of that state as well as a number of prominent republicans from other states. His appointment was made upon the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Mr. Blair was in Washington yester- day at the suggestion of Secretary fellon, with whom he canferred for more than an hour. He was presented to the President for the first time late in the afternoon, and it was then that he was given assurance of He returned to’ Win- ston-Salem last night. Mr. Huston has been prominent for a number of vears in Tennessee poli- tics and took an active part in the last campaizn. He was put forward | for Secretary of Commerce by many | southern republicans. Who urged the President to name him as a southern representative in the cabinet. He wa YOUTHS STEAL $25,000. Auto Bandits Hold Up Real Estate Man on Way to Bank. CHICAGO. April 21.—Five youthful bandits in an automobile held up John Amberg, vice president of a real es- tate firm. and escapéd with $25,000 he was taking to a downtown bank. Do You Like a Good Story If You Do, THE PROTECTION |DATES FOR GRADUATIONS. High Balldu School Exercises. Supt. Announces Dates of high school graduation ex- | by ercises were announced today Frank W. Ballou. They are ntral, June 22: Tech, June ern, June 22; Eastern, June Business' (two-year course), June Business (four- ar course), June W Normal School, June 23; Dunbar Higl lune 21, and ‘Armstrong High. Western's ceremonies will be he at 4 pm. and the giers at § p.m. Supt. Baliou avif®preside at the e: es at Central, Western and Bus er ne the and e Mi Kramer, Learned, vi board, at Business Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, rd_of education, at at Tech; Dr. dward: Armstrong. member of the board, RESTRICTS PARKING OF HACKERS' AUTOS Capt. Oyster Begins Clean-Up on Avenue Between 14th and 15th Streets. Pennsylvania avenue between 14th h streets, Wwhich has caused no end of trouble because of traflic congestion and other disor- This edict and the police ders, is to be cleaned up. on Normal School, June 23; Mirter | June | Jastern | er Normal: Asst. Supt. Stephen | Henry B.i president of the school four-year course. member of !the board, at Dunbar, and Daniel A. at PIPER. AGE LIIT BANNED FOR POSTAL CLERKS h. | Merit—Many Reinstate- ments Expected. Revocation of former administra- in regard to the retire- ment and reinstatement of postal em- ployes was announced today by Post- master General Hays at the confer- | ence called with heads of employe or- {-sanizations to consider the establish- {ment of a welfare department in the ! postal service. | _ Abrogation of the ruling of former | Postmaster General Burleson arbi- | irarily decreeing enforced retirement {for postal employes when they reach ithe ages of sixty-two and sixty-five years, has been decided upon by the department, Postmaster General Hays ! stated. ¢ In its stead the department will allow those emploves who desire to remain in the service to fill out a questionnaire and secure certain af- { fidavits. and each case will be passed | upon by the Postmaster General. Return a Grade Lower, At offices where there are vacancies and there is need for an experienced |employe a former employe may be {reinstated zs clerk or carrier at one srade below that he held when he left the service, according to the | policy announced today. All reinstatement cas past year are to be reviewed. cases " dealing with postal workers who were Mischarged by the form=r {administration will be settled upon their own merits. ‘The Postmaster neral intimated that the case of the a, = -Dr. Abram Simon, president of{tion policies s during the came from Commissioner Oyster to-|Chicago postal clerks discharged last day. Long the rendezvous of hacker. |year and the case of Steward E. Blassingham, law clerk in the depart- S.|ment here, who was discharged fol- his block, within a stone’s throw of {lowing testimony before the reclassi- police headquarters, has produced nu- recent in- fraction of the prohibition law. Street merous complaints within months growing out of alleged fights late at night and disorders i business houses located in the bloc: have resulted in several riot calls be- ing turned in. The Commissioners have been They have been investigating charges for weeks. The first move in the clean-up pro- y, when the Commis- the parking privilege ; car be permitted to park south of the tracks, provided gram came tod; sioners withdre: on the north side of the street tracks. Hackers will tohl ! that night life in Washington in this | block has reached a disgraceful state. those fication those merit. commi: to be on. will be decided solel, among upon Justice to Young Men. In abrogating the hard-and-fast blanket rule of the former postal ad- { ministration that when = postal work- er reached retirement age he must be iretired. Postmaster General Hays made plain that the service must be }protem»d. in justice to the younger imen, from superannuates, and that { this will be achieved by requiring the applicant for retention to sign a ques tionnaire, get a medical certificate, se- | cure the certification of three patrons and get the O. K. of the postmaster. Postal employes who resigned from ithe service more than once shall be reinstated, under the conditions out- {lined above, at two grades below their former salary, and if they re- n k they show a disposition to comply| gigned three times shall be reinstated vith the traffic regulations. Other- |8igned; 4 - s W e e leke will e |at three grades below. Those who withdrawn entirely, it is stated. ““These men have been given every chance,” said Commissioner Oyste: For the most part they have show; very little respect for the regulations. Th take this step. PIGEONS CARRY ORDERS. to Three Bring Trade Letters Clarksville Grocery Concern. NASHVILLE, April Transmission by orders taken by was successfully Tenn.. traveling salesme: inaugurated at Clarkeville, Tenn., when eigh orders taken at Ashland City, thirt miles away, were promptly delivere by three young birds. Dow't Miss “The Gold Brick Twins” BY IRVIN S. COBB In the Iinlaréed M agazine Section of Next Sunday’s St\a'r : This story. of fiction, might be termed by one of America’s foremost writers a newspaper “beat” in the fiction line. It is the sort of story you have been waiting and longing for, so don’t miss it! 3 IN NEXT SUNDAY’S STAR traffic | They have forced us to! rrier pigeon of this week by a wholesale grocery house had the minimium salary are to be reinstated as substitutes, and those who resigned as substitutes are to {be reinstated at the foot of the sub- stitute roll. Those who resigned on account of {illness are to be reinstated at the ame salary they drew at the time lo! resignation. . In no instance are additional places to be created, it was announced. Transfers from {other departments are to be made at jone grade les Col. Hubert Work, first jpostmaster general. who the reinstatement order. which is in effect immediately, made plain that the order is not retroactive, but does allow review of cases for the past year. . assistant explained n t y d {Today’s News in Paragraphs Four Youths arrested for alleged con- nection with murder of Frederick Schnurr. Page 2| Interior furnishing for new Raquet Club home planned. 2 ] { Daniels shows W naval strategist. ge ns complain of eon dition of Connecticut avenue. Page South Washington Citizens' Association objects to locating of refuse plant in | that section. Page 4| Arnstein jury to be locked up during trial of conspiracy case. Page 4 { American and wife beaten by German mob. Page Railroad Board says A., B. & A. acted illegally in reducing pay of employes. Page 10 spread tarvia on streets. Page 13 Ratification of Colombian treaty de- | | "Clared victory for President Harding. Page 13 Postmaster Chance shows great benefit to mailers of mailing early. Page 13 Husband shoots wife and self, following argument over attending ~Anacostia carnival. Page 13 School board adopts rules for closer co- ordination of community center work., Page 13 l“‘uhlnglon headquarters building at Cumberland dedicated. Page 14 e commissioners urge removal ‘Wmu Garden to Mount Ham- and | and | of “war millionaires,” who, he claim- ge 3 District engineers to spend $20,000 to‘ TWO CENTS. BILL HAYWOOD HAS FLED COUNTRY, REPORT SAYS I W. W. Secretary Said to Have | Gone to Moscow or Riga to ! Escape Prison Term. | CHICAGO, April 21.—Federal offi- cials today received confidential infor- j mation that William D. Haywood, sec- retary of the 1. W. W, and scheduled | to begin a sentence at the Leavenworth, Kan, penitentiary. had fled from the | United Stats, and now is in either Mos- {cow or Riga. |, Charles F. Clyne, United States dis trict attorney, announced that a search had been started for Haywood I “He is not at Leavenworgh, Chicago |nor New York., and we have been privately informed that he has landed ‘ellhcr at Moscow or Riga.” said Mr Clyne. “That is all we know about it, but we expect to have definite informa- | tion_very quickly.” i FARMERS SEEK END OF ECONOMIC EVILS {President Harding Asked to i Call Conference to Unite Many Influences. President Harding today was re- quested by the National Farmers Union to bring together tre “un- I scramblea fragments” of America's industrial life. now “threatening ruin 10 the whole economic fabric, * by call- | inE a conference of representativcs of | the steel, oil, finance, coal, labor, lumi- I ber and other basic industries to meet witl representatives of the Zarmers of { {the nation and of the railroads to {“correct the industrial 1s from | ich the whole country is suilcring. | Tnc Yequest was embodied in a me- {mc=2l persona'ly presen: to tin {executive officas of the Wi House by dclegates to the farmers uuion conterence here. i The memorial contained requests in clean-cut style. It sait: | it right, agriculture needs the co-op- | eration of all basic industry. In the war America was a great brotherhood: why in peace, should this brotherhood { be unscramblied into fragments, each jand threatening | economic fabric? “We want you to lead all. “We ask you, Mr. President. to bring these fragments together. Call a con- ference of the heads of finance, the ruin to the whole dustry, the railway industry and the heads of labor, especially the railway labor boards. Let these gentiemen, in harmony with agriculture and under your leadership, work out a splution to this problem. Bring the poles of human thought together and focus the teyes of all upon the one great goal of enlightened reconstruction.” Freight Rates Blamied Most. | { Reduced railroad rates were espe- | cially urged by the delegation. The | memorial declared that it was im- possible for the farmers to market | their products without incurring a {ioss with “frozen credits, with al- } most prohibitive freight rates and | with costs of distribution so enor- mous.” It was added that “the con- sequence is that while millions of tons of food rot in the field or are held in the barns or other places of storage, scores of thousands of our children in the cities are unable to obtain food sufficient to nourisa their little bodies.” 5 The farmers said they were the nnocent victims of an economic situation system manipulated. we fear. by shortsighted and celfish in- | terests. importance of transportation as sec- agencies under the leadership of the President in solving the problem be- {fore the nation. H *Seven Billion Dollars Lost. ! The farmer has sustained a total { loss of seven billion dollars due to un- | necessary profitecring of middlemen, jarbitrary restriction of credit by fed- {eral reserve banks, and “unreason- |able rise in railroad rates. | which “have been created b !cratic economic power exercised un- {der unjust laws.”" declared S, W. { Brookhart of lown, secretary of the committee on the losses sustained by farmers, in presenting the report of the committee. Although the report was not adopt- ed immediately, President Charles S. Barrett declared after its presentation jthat it was “one of the most able documents ever presefited before the body.” He said that he knew that the body was in favor of the “‘overwhelm- ing majority” of recommendations bmitted in the report. and that he | would ask for action and disposal of it as soon as it had been mimeo. { graphed and read by the individual members. Among the statements in the report were: Out of a dollar which labor pays for farm products, the farmer gets 38 cents. Out of the dollar which the farmer pays for labor products, |1aboring man gets 35 cents. A gaj | between reciprocal producer and con sumer of 60 cents out of cach is caused by distribution costs. dollar hie conclusions of these facts are {inevitable. The producers and con- | production and distribution must join in i such complete economic and political co-operation as to take over the di | tribution of the product from pro- {ducer to consumer.” This calls for a co-operative code, tional” The rise in freight rates was term- | ed_“extortion.” i Suggestion is made for the taxation ed, had pasxed on taxation to the peo- ple and paid nothing directly | After summing up the causes for| arm losses, he said relative to the railroad situation: “A unified government regulation under the management of honest and | competent men would reduce costs of { transportation in vast amounts.” | PEGGY MARSH’S SON CUT FROM FIELD MILLIONS Supreme Court Rules Against Illegitimate Child Sharing in Estate. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, 1L, April 21.—Henry Anthony Marsh, son of Henry Field of Chicago and Peggy Marsh, is not en- titled to inheritance of the Marshall Field millions, the supreme court de- cided today in ruling that the shall Field will specifically e P from inheritance any illegi off - ‘0 settle this problem and to settle | contending with the other for mastery | heads of the coal industry, the oil in- Declaring that farmers realized the | ond only to production, and ap- proached the problem in a spi friendliness to the railroads. the memorial said they were ready to |take their places by the side of steel, joil. finance. coal, lumber, labor, the! railway executives and other great sumers composed of farmers and all nec- | essary labor of hand or brain in both | both state and na- | SAVYER SUBMITS PUBLIC WELFARE PUNTO SEMATE |Advocates New Department With a Cabinet Officer at Its Head. ISAYS PRESIDENT WANTS | EARLY ACTION ON SCHEME - Proposal Provides Putting All Existing Department Agencies in New Branch. A detailed plan for the creation of & new executive department of the gov- {ernment, the Department of Public Welfare, with a cabinet officer at its head, was laid before the Senate com- ;mittee on education and labor today | by Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, the President’s personal physician. ! Particular stress was laid upon the desirability of the enactment of |speedy legislation creating the De- partment of Public Welfare. * “In_conversation with the President | this morning.” said Gen. Sawyer, “it was developed that the President’s prin- cipal eoncern is for the early creation of the proposed department. If you be- lieve in it, dent would like to have legislation making it effective. He | desires action and is not inclined to be | Bappy in getting just resolutions.” | | Drawn Up After Studs. Sawyer told the commilice that ), drawn up after much study of situation, provided for an executive | department ‘with four main_divisions { covering education, public health, social {service and veteran's service adminis- | tration. His plan contemplates placing iall the existing agenci in the govern- { ment dealing with these matters in the public welfare department Gen. Saw-. yer said that he believed this would result in a vastly ‘more efficient service, |in the elimination of the duplication of | work and in a considerable saving of money. “Our object is the best American citizen we can produce, both mentally {and physically.” said Gen. Sawyer... | Taking up first the division dealing | with education. Gen. Sawyer said that |an assistant secretary would be placed |in charge. In this subdivision of the department would be grouped those agencies dealing with vocational edu- {cation except that given the soldiers, the educational co-operation with the states, education relating to physical development, education of the teach- ers, education in the public schools, | the rural schools, etc. It would mean |2 transfer, for instance, of the present i bureau of education from the Depart- iment of Interior and of part of the | vocational education board to the new | department. | Co-Ordinates Research Work. 1 in reply to a question by Senator | Jones of New Mexico, Gen. Sawyer said that he believed that matters per- |taining to the education of soldiers | serving in the Army would also fall under this division. * Under the public health division, { whiclr also would be in charge of an jassistant secretary, it is proposed to co-ordinate research work, quarantine and sanitation and hospitalization. Gen. Sawyer said that there ix no reason why the United States should not have the strongest public health service in the world, since it has the greatest surgeons, investigators and laboratories to make it possible. He pointed out that there was no reason for having the existing public health !service under the Treasury Depart- { ment. The social service di which also would be in charge of an assi ant secretary, would take in all ! manizing agencies of the iment, and would seek to aid in friendly and directing way the many various uplift activities in the coun- try. hu- govern- 151 Org: iows Here. “When 1 first came to Washimgton to undertake this work” said Gen Sawyer. “a woman came into my of- fice saying that she would iike to do something to help. 1 asked her to any organiza- tions there are in Washinzton en- gaged in uplift work for the people. Twenty-four hours later she came back with a list of 151. This means a lot of work going on_and lot of | money being expended. We contem of assistan, -tion without There are 154 doing this up- a general plan ich would give diry destroying initiative. national organizations 1ift work in the country. Among the government agencies that would be transferred to this division are the women's bureau. the | children's bureau, the agencies relat- | ing to housing and those dealing with industrial accidents. Would Take Care of Service M, The veterans' service admin tion, under the head of an assistan | secretary. would take in all activities lof the government relating to former service men, including the war risk burcau. the pension office and the | vocational training of disabled sol-. diers. Gen. Sawyer said that he be- lieved this co-ordination of soldier aid would mean much to the former soldiers and also to the people in the aving of money. As an instance of | the enormous amount of money being | expended now he pointed out that j the government is paying an average ! of $170 per month per man for 63,000 | former service men receiving voca- [tional training. This means an an- nual expenditure of more than $125.- 000.000. ien. Sawyer said that the | applications for this training are in- | creasing by leaps and bounde. The committee had before it today a bill introduced by Senator Kenyon |to establish a department of social welfare. Gen. Sawyer left with the | committee his suggestions for the amendment of this bill so as to fit in with the plan outlined by him. HEALTH WORK MERGED. | Centralization of Offices and Per- sonnel, With Exceptions, Ordered. Centralization of ail work, offices and personnel of the public health service connected with the medical Ilrenlment of disabled war veterans, with the exception of hgspitals end dispensaries, under the bureau of war risk insurance, was ordered today by Secretary Mellon of the Treasury. The order, it was said tzday, affects only one hospital in tbe District of Columbia, this being Providence Hos- pital, where a number of disabled soldiers are undergoing treatment on a contract with the bureau of war Fisk insurance. All other hospitals in the District of Columbia, including the Walter Reed General Hospital, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, the Mount Alto Hospital and other institutions Qealing_directly through either the public ‘service or the bureau . of war risk insui , will be oper~ ated as at present. @peration of all - hospitals and dispen: ies throug] put the country will pntinue to be - o