Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1921, Page 1

Al WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; some- Member of the Associated Press -‘ The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to tic use for republication of ali pews Jdispatehes what cooler tonight. Temperature for twent endedi at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 3 pm. yesterday: lowest, today. Full report on page 7. 58, at Closing New York Stocks Page 5 Part 2 Che Zy _— No. 28,118, J5¢oines Wa: Entered as second-class matter shington, D. C. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Staf, | Credited to it or not o'herwise eredited In shis | | S padplaninpusginsa e | | i | At rights of publi of special Qispatches herein are also reserved ‘ | Yesterday's Net Circulation, 9;,543 WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921—_TWENTY-TWO PAGES. D. C. WATER SUPPLY PROVISION DROPPED, -~ BY SUBCOMMITTEE Jtem of $200,000 Omitted From Urgent Needs in War Secretary’s List. REDRAFTED ARMY BILL { READY FOR COMMITTEE Although He Failed to Emphasize Water Emergeney, Mr. Weeks Did Not Oppose Action. The item of $200,000 for preliminary work for development of the water supply of the District, which was car- ried in the Army appropriation bill that failed.last session, has been omit- ted from the redrafted bill which it is expeeted will be reported to the House on Monday. The subcommitice on Army priations of the House appropriatioas committee, of which subcommittee Representative Daniel R. Anthony of Kansas is chairman, has redrufted the bill for submission to the full appro- priations committee on Monday. Representative Anthony said today that the District item of $200,000, as a preliminary step to development of an adequate water supply. was not in- cluded in this bill because the project was not urgently recommended by the Secretary of War. Secretary Weeks in. his recommen- dation did not in any way oppose the two-hundred-thousand-dollar item for the District water supply, but in sub- mitting suggestions to the commit- tee regarding items that might be omitted if the commitice was deter- mined to reduce the total amount car- ried in the Army budget, the District item was among those which the Sec- retary failed to urgently recommend as of immediate necessity. ‘WATER SITUATION A MENACE appro- Gen. Taylor Joins Other Engineers in Calling Problem Serious. Gen. Taylor. acting jhief of engin- eers of the United Stites Army, de- clared today Washington's water sup- ply problem carries & menace to the city which may develop at any time in a complete breakdown of the serv- ice. His statement gave emphasis to a situation already stressed by Army engineers as serious. It was made be- fore he was apprised of the decision o report the Army bill to the House without a provision authorizing con- - | Defending Attorney ! | Hurt as Home Brew Explodes in Court VENWORTH. Kans. 22 —While defending Ri Coppersmith in court on a charze of manufacturing home brew, B. F. Enders picked up a | bottle ax he questioned a wit- | | mews. “Would you call thise———" be- &an the attorney. He was interrupted by a loud report, Fiying xiass from the bot ut an artery n his wrist and broke a lensx of his Elasses. The defense had entered the | trial with the contention that the bevernge did not contain enough “kick™ te come within the state bone dry law. T i 500 WOULD REPEAL VACCINATION LAW !Health Officer Incensed at | Petition—Would Increase [ Hygiene in Schools. { A petition sighed by approximately !."B residents and taxpayers has been laid before the District Comm: lers urging repeal of the law requir- jing the vaccination and medical ex- | amination of public school children. | Health Officer Fowler, it became | known today, has submitted to Com- | missioner Oyster a statement strenu- ously opposing any let-up in the health inspection of public school children. The health officer goes further and urges upon the Commissioners the de- i sirability of extending this work by |increasing the force of school in- | spectors and nurses. The petition, which has many pages {of names attathed to it, reads in part as follows: “The undersigned parents. residents and taxpayers of the District of Co- lumbia respectfully protest against compulsory vaccination _of school children and the physical education of children in the schools. Contrary to Constitution. “We also ask that the board of education work for the repeal of the on- | | present vaccination law in the Dis- trict of Coiumbia, as this law is clearly an infringement of our con- | stitutional rights as American citi® zens. “The existing practice of medical | examination in the schools, dictetic | clinics and the proposed legislation to compel health education in the schools smacks of paternalism and autocracy.” When referred to Dr. Fowler for a report, the health officer replied as | follows: “It would be. in my judgment, noth- ing short of a calamity if the present law relating to vaccination of school children should be repealed. “A high standard of health cannot 'be obtained unless the children are iprotected in every way possible |against disease. The child who is physically weuk suff-rs a severe han- struction of a new conduit.from Great [dicap and can hardly be expected to Falls. “The water situatios-is-serious, and those of us who-kpow the facts will feel relieved when Congress has acted to put the capital beyond danger of a complete interruption of its water service,” saild Gen. Taylor. “Author- ity for construction of a new conduit should be given in the Army bill or; the first measure that can be got through Congress. be a minute's delay serious as this." It was learned today that Gen. Beach, chief of engineers of the Army, explained the water supply situation to Secretary of War Weeks Thursday. Gen. Beach has urged repeatedly in the last few weeks that Congress lose no .time in authorizing construction ; ©of a new conduit. He has pointed out that a break the existing obsolete and overtaxed conduit may occur at any time. Stress Dasger to Distriet. Army engineers have been a unit in stressing the danger to Washingto- nians of delaying action to provide | a new conduit. In view of their re- Deated warnings, more than - likely Secretary Wegks would recommend that an appropria- tion be autherized in the Army bill and that it would be reported to the House as an item of urgent necessity. Realizing the danger confronting the city and desiring to impress the seriousness of the sityation upon Congress, the District &ommission- ers. in their deficiency estimates, sub- mitted a few days ago an item for a new conduit. They employed the same language that was used in the item carried as a rider to the Army bill passed at the last session but killed through the President’s “pocket veto. Congress has been supplied with conclusive data showing _the need of a new conduit. Maj. Tyler, Dis- trict engineer, in his water supply re- port, said any delay in starting the project would involve a risk to the lives of Washingtonians and their property which should be recognized. Power Commission Pushed Relief. The Federal Power Commission, con- sisting of the Secretaries of War, Agriculture and Interior, sent Maj. Tyler's report to Congress with a strong recommendation that Congress act at the last session to relieve the | water situation. In addition to this, the Army board of engineers for rivers and harbors made a report con- curring in the conclusions of Maj Tyler. Former Secretary of W Baker sent urgent communications to the Senate and House stating that delay in authorizing a new conduit might be followed by serious con- sequences. These urgent representa- tions impressed Congress. and the situation was met by a rider to the Army bill, which overcame all par- liamentary objections and was passed by substantial votes in both branches of Congress during the last hours of the last session. Tt had been feit that the strong case made at that time practic ally assured the reporting out of the part of the new Army bill. Will Try to Insert Item. Friends of the proposed legisiation | in the Senate and House unquestion- | ably will make an effort to get the intem inserted at some polnt bill's progress through Congress, was said today Senate. In the meantime There should not ! in a matter as! it was considered | item as a in the it This effort may not come until the measure reaches the | ana for wiree| SIGN POLE-GERMAN PACT. idevelop into a strong and useful man or woman." . Defects Sh Be Know: The health officer points out that proper mental instruction cannot be mparted with maximum efficiency to a child who is suffering from defects of vision or hearing. These as well !as other defects are brought to the jattention of the parents through the {medical examination, Dr. Fowler points out. Continuing, he stated: “In my opinion the Systematic ex- amination of school children should Ibe carried on even more vigorously { than at present by securing increased {number of medical inspectors and school nurses rather than to abandon or curtail this service.” i Dr. Fowler tells the Commisioners | that personal hygiene instruction has |come to be recognized as an essen- tial part of public school education. REBELLION IN UKRAINE AGAINST SOVIET GROWING | Peasants Take Many Towns and i | Tear Up Railroad Between Mos- cow and Crimea. | | i STOCKHOLM, April 23 —Organized rebellion against the Russian soviet government is growing with renewed force in Ukraine, it is declared in telegrams received here from Petro- grad. Peasants engaged in the revolt have taken many towns between the Dnieper and Driester rivers, where the movement is most pronounced, and they are reported to be engaged |in operations intended to force the | boisheviki eastward to the left bank {of the Dnieper. Ukrainian peasants commanded by Gen. Mackno, operating in the Lozovo district south of Karkhov, have torn up the railway line running between Moscow and the Crimea. The bolshe- viki has oncentrated troops in the district of Gomel and Rechitsa, north of Kiev, where they have driven back the rebel. and in the neighborhood of Smolensk, northwest of Moscow, have begun a campaign of terrorism. {1t is reported they have executed 2,000 persons within the past few da The rebellion is said to be spreading in the regions of Karkhov and Polesia. { BAHAI CONGRESS OPENS. | | Five-Day Conference to Promote | Building of Temple. CHICAGO, April 23.—A five-day Bahai congress opened here today with the promotion of the first Bahai temple of the western world, to be constructed at Wilmette, a north shore suburb, as its object. A basic idea of the Mashreq 'Ul- Azkar (the dawning point of praise). the | as congress is termed. is uni- versal religion and brotherhood, and ! the new temple will be open to all | sects and religions. Among the speakers who will ad- dress the congre: are Montfort Mills, N York: Jenabe Fazel Ma- zandarani, Persia: Dr. Pauline Bar- ton-Pecke, Cleveland; Mrs. Louis Bo. Washington. and Mrs. May Maxwell of Montreal. vears, at least, Washingtonians must | a Army say. water shortage. sty and, in use of keeping' it fovorable under the most three years, it is stated. The existing conduit is about sixty It is carrying several mil- years old nnot be made, because of the neces- constantly, cir- cumstances, a Dew water line cannot be built and placed in operation under | Separatin trust to Providence to suve them from | Delegates Agree on Crossing of engineers | Repairs to_the present conduit | Polish Territory by Germans. 0 DANZIG, April 21.—An agreement to settle the conditions of transit across the strip of Polish territory East Prussia from the re- mainder of Germany. given Poland by the peace treaty, was signed by repre- sentatives of ‘Germany and Poland Jion gallons of water a day more than | here today. . it was designed to carry when it was | 1 new. Army engineers are surprised that it has not broken down under ti $350,000 GIFT TO ART. pressure before this. What will h CLE LAND. Ohio, Aprit — A n if a complete break occurs they gift of §. 000 to the endowment have not dared predict, realizing there | fund of the 5 nd Museum of Art are po alities in such a contingency | from J de ix announced. This thal might jeopardize tic health of | is of its kind from VX iR 01 We Caitids ¥ alr, Wade in a 1 URGES AN EMBARGO ON GERMAN DYES {D. A. R. Unanimously Adopts Resolution Opposing Im- portation of Product. Importation of German dyes into the | United States was formally opposed to- day AR, ssion at the Continental Me- morial Hall here. The resolution acted upon by the con- gress formally indorsed the “movement for an embargo against the importation | of these Germin products. Renewed importation of German dyes, in s the resolution read, will not only im- pede the recently discovered American | industry, but “will greatly interfere with | domestic chemical research under the United States Chemical Warfare Serv- ic The resolution was introduced this favorably reported by the resolutions committce and adopted without a dis senting vote. Advocacy of Yorktown BI The proposed bill for making York- town, Va. a national military park will be introduced in the Hou Representati by Newton of Minnesota. tion was gi the congre: Afr: Morris, a vic sked that ever: ual member of the D. A. R. get touch personally with her congres man and push the bill to final pa sage. Reports of State Regents. Reports of state regents of Florida, Arizona, Vermont, New Mex outh Carolina, Kentucky and Maine were presented at the morning session. Another resolution offered by Miss Richards urged the establishment in every school of a junior republic, the plans for which call for allotting of a certain time eacn day to teacning the children their duties as citizens, including the nomination and election of officers from their number. It was sent to the resolutions committee. Acceptance of an invitation extend- ed to the congress to attend a pa- triotic celebration at Fredericksburg. Va, on May 21 next was moved by Dr. Kate Waller Barrett of Alex- andria, state regent for Virginia. It went to the resolutions committee. Mrs. Francis A. St. Clair, state re- gent for the District of Columbia, re- viewed the work of the D. A. R. of this city during the past year, detail- ing all patriotic celebrations in which they took part. Renolutions Adopted. Resolutions reported by the resolu tions committee and adopted were: Vote of thanks to Mrs. Theer of Wis consin, a real daughter, for her words of encouragement for the D. A. R.; the Smith-Towner bill for encouraging more intelligent and patriotic eiti- zenship; favoring the movement for better movie films and their regu- lation; indorsing forest protection week, May 22-28; indorsing_ihe. plan for raising funds by volufitary sub- scriptions for a_memorial to Caroline Scott Harrison, first president general of the D. A. R., at Oxford, Ohio, Col- lege; indorsing the resolution of Con- gress to build a road from Washing- ton’s birthplace to connect with the state road at Fredericksburg, and ex- tending thanks to President and Mrs. Harding, national officers, Director Rowe of Pan-American Union, and all who participated in the proceedings. Mrs. Minor, president general. thanked the resolutions committee for its work. Several contributions of $100 each for the Caroline Scott Harrison me- fnorial were made from the floor. They came from chapters in almost every part of the country. Washington Women Elected. Two Washington women, Miss Emma L. Strider and Mrs. Howard L. Hodg- kins, were elected to national offices of the D. A. R. vesterday. Miss Stri- der was elected registrar general, to fill_the vacancy caused by the death of Mrs. James S. Phillips. Mrs. Hodg- kins was clected a vice president gen- eral to fill a three-year term. Others elected vice presidents genmeral we: Mrs. John Trigg Moss, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Charlotte, NAC; Lyman Holden, Brat- tleboro, ; Mrs. C. D. Chenault, Lexington, ~ Ky.: Miss Catherine Campbell, Kansas: Mrs. Albert Cal- der, 2d, Providence, R. and Miss Alethea Serpell, Norfolk, Va. The evening session of the congress was given over almost entirely to the presentation of a Series of historical tableaux Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, honorary president general and chair- man of the office building committee, told the congress that she held the hope that the first floor of the pro- posed $200,000 structure, which is to adjoin Continental Hail, would be completed by April of next year. Many of the states, she reported, have pledged themselves to provide funds for the building and equipment of certain rooms. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, president of the George Washington Memorial As- sociation, told the ongress of the plans for the memorial and asked the support of the D. A. R. Miss Janet Richards offercd a reso- lution, which was adopted, indorsing the projected erection at Oxford Women's College, Ohio, of a Caroline | Scott Harrison memorial dormitory. Mrs. Jame€s Robert McKee of New York thanked the congress for this honor to her mother, Mrs. Harrison, who_was first president general of the D. A. R. EXERCISES AT MT. VERNON. i Annual Pilgrimage to ‘Washington Tomb Takes Place. Patriotic exercises were held at | Mount Vernon today by the delegates | to the congress of the National So- jciety of the Children of the American {Revolution. It was their annual pi grimage to the tomb. They plac | wreaths on the tombs of both ( {and Martha Washington. —_— (BLAMED IN AUTO DEATHS. |Maryland Commissioner Says In- quest Jurors Fail to Act. Special Dispatch 1o The Star. BALTIMORE, April i from automobiles on of Maryland are reachi 23.—Deaths thoroughfares ng proportions |to cause alarm to the authorities, | Last month twenty-one occurred throughout the state. the largest number of deaths attributed to aete. mobiles since records of fatalitics were first compiled in 1917, Much blame for deaths from auto- mobiles is laid by Automobile Come missioner Baughman at the door of jurymen. They are the ones who time after time, sit on jurles of in< quest and in the fuce of evidence of gravest negligence that has resulted 2 fit to exoncra drivers om all b . people police and ile wuthorit better assis- | tance suid Col. Baughman, *“the would be little or no chance of increase In the death rate in this stat at the thirticth congress of the D.| morning by Miss Janet Richards. was | TH DEMOCRATS FIGHT EDWARDS' BOOST Feeling, But Ask Further Investigation. The nomination of Brig. Gen. Clar- ence R. Edwards, first commander overseas of the 26th Division, the New England National Guard, to be major general was considered at a meeting of the Senate military affairs commit- tee this afternoon. Opposition on the part of democratic senators developed at a meeting of the committee yester- day. A demand for records in the War Department relating to Gen. Ed- wards was made by the democrats, and the information desired was promised. i sition to_the promotion of Gen. Edwards is reported to have been based upon his military record and reasons on file in the War Department for Gen. Edwards being recalled from command of the 26th Division. Seeretary Denies. Secretary Weeks of the War Depart- ment, who appeared before the com- mittee yesterday, said that the War Department files contained no un- favorable records in connection with his_release from command of the division. But democratic members of the com- mittee, recalling that the last ad- ministration had refused to recom- mend Gen. Edwards’ promotion and that former Secretary Baker had said that the reasons were on file in the War Department, insisted upon a more complete investigation of the records. Democratic members of the commit- tee said today that they had no per- | sonal feeling against Gen. Edwards, but that they felt the matter should be_further investigated. The suggestion was made at the meeting yesterday that to go further into this matter would merely stir up jealousies and antagonism that have existed among various groups in the Army, and that no real good would be accomplished. Oppones Bundy's Nnme. The name of Omar Bundy, com- mander of the 2d Division, A. E. F., although carried in the list of major generals appointed by Mr. Wilson at the last session of Congress, was not included in the Harding list. The failure of the War Department to name him at_this time was criticised by Senator New, republican, of Indi- ana. Secretary Weeks told the commit- tee that he did not plan to name a chief of staff or recommend other pro- motions to the rank of brigadier gen- eral until the Senate acts on the list of twelve major generals and four- teen brigadier generals now pending. About a dozen more promotions to the rank of brigadier general will be available when the yending list of major generals nominations have been disposed of. - SELLS ROPE TO TIE SELF. Pittsburgh Grocer Bound and Robbed by “Customers.” PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 23.—Tied up with a clothesline he had just sold and then robbed by the *customers’” was the experience of William Camp- bell, a grocer, of Homestead. Campbell reported to the police last night that a negro and a white man entered his store late yesterday and purchased a clothes- line. When the line was handed over one of the men knocked him down. The two men then tied him up with the clothes- line, took $78 from a safe and walked out of the store, Campbell told the po- lice. - «THE GOLD BRICK TWINS,” dington Kelland. | weekly letter. ox Senators Have No Personal; *“Lenin’s Dream of a Great Russian Empire, a Vision of Desolation” Read this remarkable article of the Russian situation by E. A. McMillan, once a prisoner of the bolsheviks, in THE SUNDAY STAR. The very best of newspaper fiction: “GRANDMA CUTCHEON—DETECTIVE,” by, Clarence A TORCHY STORY, by Sewell Ford, and Ring W. IN THE SUNDAY STAR. 1INSIST UPON PRESSING E OFFICE SEEKS THE M “HELLO, COP, I’'M LOST,” 4-YEAR-OLD BOY’S CALL TO D. C. POLICEMAN “Hello, cop, I'm lost,” was the sal- utation to Policeman Cheney at 17th street and Pennsylvania avenue yes- terday afternoon by Chester Me- | Pherson, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald McPherson. 606 st street. The boy 'told the policeman his name, but did not remember his home address. He was sent to the house of det aching there about 3:30 Numerous inquiries were made of the police and hospitals by the father. About midnight the police notified him the child was being cared for at the house of de- tention. Chester left home and had gone to a nearby playground with other chil- dren. He had gone there many tim before and returned, but yesterday he took a different course when he left the grounds and went in search of his baby sister instead of going home. RULING REEULATES BEERPRESERPTION Arbitrary Limit of 4 7-8 Gal- lons Set—Three Gallons Wine Allowed. An arbitrary limit of 4% gallons of beer and three gallons of wine as the maximum a physician may pre- scribe at any one time has been set ir new prohibition regulations whica await the approval of David H. Blair, the new commissioner of internal revenue. In making this announcement to- day, Prohibition Commissioner Kra- mer said that while under Attorney General Palmer's recent opinion the amount of beer or wine prescribed by a physician over a given period could not be limited, it was believed that the amount of individual prescriptions could be limited to a reasonable max- imum. It_would not be practical, he said, o require a patient for whom two or three bottles of beer a day might be prescribed, to obtain a prescrip- tion for ecach day. Issuance of beer and wine regula- tions, Mr. Kramer emphasized, will depend entirely upon the decision of the new internal revenue commis- sioner. Regulations as prepared for his approval, he said, were merely tentative. CHARLES S. HAWES DIES. Was Engaged in Important War Trade Work Here. Charles S. Hawes, head of the bu- reau of research statistics, war trade board section of the State De- partment, died suddenly yesterday in Chicago. He was engaged in impor- tant investigation work there for the war trade board. Death is believed to have been caused by heart disease. Mr. Hawes was born in Chelsea, Mass., fifty-one yvears ago. He was a graduate of Harvard College and Medical School. He later came to this city and studied medicine at George Washington University Medi- cal School. He resided here with his wife at 2023 Q street. He entered the service of the war trade board in 1918 as officc manager of the bureau of research statistics. He was also occupied in compiling dye tariffs for the board. His wife, upon learning of her hus- band's death, left immediately for Chicago. and will probably return with the body Monday. | | 7 Pud- Lardner’s by Irvin S. Cobb. [} k9 TWO CENTS. DELEGATION APg‘frcnrrs A AN. DR. BELL INCENSED OVER DETENTION Complains to State Depart- { ment Over Treatment by Immigration Inspector. Incensed over his treatment by a {United States ' immigraton officer | himself spending Tuesday night in | the | in Vanceboro, Me., Dr. Alexander Gra- ham Bell, inventor of the telephone, is in Washington today to make a com- { plaint to the State Department. State Hughes this morning. He said he had decided to take the matter up cause he felt international unfriendli- ness was being developed by the methods of the immigration official with whom he had had the encounter. It is likely he will make a complaint to the Department of Labor also. Secretary a Canadiam. Dr. Bell's secretary is a Canadian. The detention order was issued against her only, and, according to the scientist, was animated by spite on the part of the immigration agent. When protests were unavailing Dr. and Mrs. Bell voluntarily left the train and spent the night with Miss Mackenzie in the Vanceboro detention house. Next morning they returhed to St. John. Washington authorities had been appealed to and the diffi- culty was quickly adjusted. The party then resumed its journey, arriving in Washington yesterday. Dr? Bell said he had been told by many Canadians that the actions of the American inspector were helping to create an unfriendly feeling on the border and that he thought the State i Department should know thi Miss Mackenzie's difficulty, he said, jout of an encounter with the inspector last September, when he threatened to “get her” if she came back. On that occasion, it was explained. Miss Mackenzie and her mother were on their way to Boston, where the former expected to take a steamer for Europe. The inspector demanded a head tax from each of them, as “alien immigrants.” Mrs. Mackenzie pro- tested the classification, explaining she was coming to the United States to visit friends for a few months and in no sense was entering the country as a wage earner. The officer, it is charged, became impertinent and threatened to put her off the train. She then paid the tax. Inspector Makes Threat. Dr. and Mrs. Bell were members of the party on that occasion and when the officer attempted to collect a head tax from Miss Mackenzie she appeal- ed to Dr. Bell. On Dr. Bell's protest the officer finally waived the tax on the ground that Miss Mackenzie was passing through the states en route to England. But, as the inspector | left the car, he is alleged to have remarked: “We'll get her when she comes back The sequel to last September's oc- curence came Tuesday night. when Dr. and Mrs. Bell, accompanied by Miss Mackenzie, were traveling from their home in Nova Scotia to Wash- ington. An immigration agent board- ed the train and asked for their cre- dentials. Apparently, he was satis- fied with them. Subsequently, according to informa- tion Dr. Bell has, this agent reported to his chief that he had just passed Dr. Bell's party in the drawing room. | The “chief” was the same official they had encountered on the Septem- ber trip. He asked if Dr. Bell's secre- tary was along. The subordinate did not know, so the “chief” went in per- son to find out. “Ah, ha!" he is said to have cried gleefully, as he saw Miss Mackenzie in the drawing room. “We've caught you at last. I've been waiting a long time to collect that head tax of yours.” | The officer then asked for Miss Mackenzie's passport. He is alleged to have returned it, with the remark: | “Strictly speaking. this should -be | viged, but, under the circumstances, as we know who you are and you (Dr. Bell) vouch for her, we will let it go. Head Tax Demanded. Dr. Bell protested the payment of a head tax and the officer left, saying he would see them again. Later, it is stated, the subordinate, accompanied by the C. P. R. trainman, who is required to give the “alien” a re- ceipt showing payment of the head tax, came in and announced he was authorized to collect $9.20 in Cana- dian currency as head tax from Miss Mackenzie. The tax was then paid under protest. But the troubles of the travelers did not end here. The subordinate is said to have returned later and announced that he was authorized to refund the tax just collected. Whereupon, Dr. Bell declined to accept a refund and served notice that he was going to | l have the matter sifted to the bottom when he reached Washington. The_suybordinate. acgording to (Continued on Page 2,-Column 7., § the which resulted in his wife, his secre- | tary, Miss Catheripe Mackenzie and| immigration detention building | He expected to see Secretary of | {fifst with the State Department be- | grew | Germans Criticise Appeal of Berlin to U. S. as Blunder IORGE WITTE. ar and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921 LIN, Germany, April 23, reply of the United Statex iermany's appeal to ac intermedinry cnused great here, not toward President Harding. but toward the German govern- ment. Thix feeling was not due to the character of the note | self, but 1o the fact that it was sent at this Iate hour. Critics brand thix ax a diplo- matic blunder quite ax fatal as thoxe committed by the kaiser's cabinet before and at the time of the war. The rnti-zovernment papers, which refrained f but the briefest commen the German note was pu in Bertin, have ndopted | told you wo™ at an rexentment and hostility news- -1 tude and bernte the cabinet for permitting Ger- | many (o be put into the hum fating position of being rebufi- ed by President Harding, par- ticularly “after what happened | in October, 1918, when on | knees we begged Prexident Wi I %on to act ax a mediator and | LAY ADVOCATED State Department Does Not Want Action Until After May 1. Tt is understood at the Capitol to | be the desire of the Department of | State that final passage of the reso. lution declaring peace with Germany shall not be effected until after May 1, when Germany's next proposal for meeting the reparations demands of the allies shall have been offered and its terms and the possibility of their fulfillment studied. | | [ and consideration, however, of the resolution. The Senate will proceed to deliberate over the Knox resolu- tion during next week, and in the same periéd the House committee on foreign relations may also take up a resolution of its own preparation. Avoid Solace to Germany. The object of the administration is | to avoid placing this goverament in an attitude which might give Ger- many the slightest ground for hoping that the United States is weakening jon its stand with the allies. Only the most far-fetched optimism on the part of Germany can afford the con- templation of any such hope. The President and Hughes have made it clear on re- need not count on disaffection of the United States to the cause of the allies in their efforts to effect a set- tlement. M. Viviani started back to i France thoroughly convinced by the | assurances he had received that the | United States would stand pat, and that the only thought given by this government to the reparations sub- ject is to the question whether the terms to be later proposed by the Germans can be carried out, and as to Germany’'s attitude to the possible counter proposal of the allies. Debate May Serve Purpose. Pending the final submission, it is | considered that debate in Congress lover the peace resolutions might |serve a good purpose in making it | still more clear to Germany the at- titude of the United States and con- vincing Germany that she need not | 100k to this quarter for sympathy in | possible further-efforts to evade pay- {ing to her physical limit. It is taken for granted that the Germans will get full reports of the debates in Congress, which will dis- sipate some of the illusions which her latest appeal for mediation by the nited States seems to have demon- strated to exist. The debates in Congress are ex- pected to show that the United States and the allies are determined to in- sist upon adequate reparations, with- in the limit of Germany to pay, and { that further evasion will not be tol- erated. EXPECT MORE ARRESTS Police Confident Ligi Will Disclose Radicals Responsible for Blast Outrage. SCRANTON, Pa. i April 23.—Police appeared confident today that fur- ther examination of Tito Ligi, im- prisoned here under federal guard, would lead to additional arrests plosion in September. to question the prisoder further to- day in an effort to learn whether he knows the radicals whom they be- lieve to be responsible for the blast. Ligi was held in $10,000 bail at & hearing yesterday before a federal commissioner on charges of evading the draft. His trial was set for May 2 in federal court at Harrisburg. Today’s News in Paragraphs Dr. Alexander Graham Bell complains toState Department over detention by immigration inspector. Page 1 President expected to fill vacancy in rent commission early next week. Page 1 State Department wants action on reso- lution delayed until May 1. Page 1 here age 1 Democratic senators fight promotion for Gen. Edwards. Page 1 Germany's reply to President Harding's rebuff on way here. Page 1 French and British praise President Harding’s speedy reply to Germany. Page Immigration restriction bill, passed by House, goes to Senate. Page 3 Daniels tells of big part wireless played in the war. Board of Trade committee announces progress on plans for shadbake May 21. 2 Page 4 Merchants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion proposes legislation to curb bad- check passing. Page 5 Nicaragua resigns from league of na- tion: Page 5 U. S. Chamber of Commerce takes ref- erendum on reclassification at request of local organization. Page President to fill 1. C. C., Shipping Board and two ambassadorships Monday Paze FOR PEACE PLANS. This will not preclude discussion | IN WALL STREET BOMBING | in | | connection with the Wall street ex- They planned | Page 3| l REPLY OF CERMANY TOHARDING REBUFF DSPATCHEDTOU . .Terms Not Divulged, But Leaders Are Stirred Over Sending of First Plea. {HOLD CABINET MEMBERS ! DID NOT CONSULT THEM Crisis in Berlin Government Ap- pears Imminent as Result of Reichstag Discontent. April ~Germany has to Washington a reply to the American note rejecting the role of |arbitrator of the reparations question Ihvtwl'ml « and the allies, sayvs Central ) h from Berlin The terms sent to Presi- |dent Harding were not divulged to |party leaders up to the time it was dispatched at noon today, and its con- tents wili not be made known until later in the day. Leading politicians are declared to {have been angry because members of the cabinet did not consult them be- fore the original communication was sent to the American capit Proposed Last Night. PARIS, April 23 —Consideration of the German government's note to the l'nx(fd States was completed at a meeting of the German cabinet last night, says a message received here from Berlin. Party leaders later met with Konstantine Fehrenbach, the chancellor, to hear a report from Dr. Walter Simons, foreign minister, and to express their opinion on the pro- posals sent to President Harding. The meeting was secret. i BERLIN, April 23.—A cabinet crisis ppears imminent here as a result of he discontent aroused by the govern- ment’s failure to consult the reichstag before asking President Harding of the United States to mediate between Germany and the allies rclative to reparations. The position of Dr. Walter Simons. foreign minister, is | particularly imperiled. « ENVOYS TOLD OF NOTE. | i ' { | {European Ambassadors | ' Believed Called to Discussion. | Approval of the course of the Amer- {ican government with respect to the | reparations controversy is believed {10 have been indicated by the allied | diplomats here before the dispatch of Secretary | Secretary Hughes' reply to the Berlin | appeal that President Harding act as peated occasions that the Germans| mediator and fix the sum Germany must pay. |71t became known today that the { German request and the American re- ply were discussed informally by the Secretary of State and the European ambassadors, and it i« understood that | the foreign envoys were apprised of | the character of the American reply in the_interim between the receipt of the German memorandum and the sending of the response. State Department officials were waiting today the answer from Ber- lin, which press dispatches from that city indicated was about to be made, after being placed before the reichs- tag. Until its receipt officials are withholding comment on the whole subjest. It is expected, however, that whatever proposal is made will be submitted first to the diplomatic rep- resentatives here. LYMPNE PARLEYS TODAY. Lloyd George and Briand to Open Conference. By the Associated Press LYMPNE, England, April 23.—Ex- changes which have been going on for some wecks between the British and French foreign offices relative to what can and ought to be done to collect reparations from Germany will be continued here late today by Prime Minister Lloyd George and Premier Priand. The two statesmen will meet at the villa of Sir Philip Sassoon. where they have held conferences in the past. | The French plan is, broadly, a proj- ect for administration and taxing for | the benefit of the allies and Ruhr coal {basin and some parts of the West- phalian industrial district of Ger- many. Mr. Lloyd George arrived at Sir Ph ’'s villa, Belcaire, last night, and jadvices from Paris today stated that | M. Briand, accompanied by Philippe |3 L. Berthelot, general secretary of the French foreign office, had left at 0 oclock this morning for Eng- {land. In Agreement on Plan. The two premiers were understood today to be in agreement as to the general plan to be followed, but it was said they wished to have a com- | plete mutual understanding of what was to be done early in May, if in the interval the German government does not submit acceptable proposals. { A fresh German proposal is expected to be submitted to the allies immedi- ately, but even its serious discussion would seem to be conditioned upon satisfactory guarantees of execution. Guarantees of a material sort would not have been expected at the time of the London conference. early in March, but the situation is regarded Y the French government as having been greatly changed in Germany. Military Not to Take Part. Field Marshal Wilson and Marshal Foch, heads. respectively, of the British and French armies, will not take part in the conversations be- tween the two premiers. This is be- cause the military measures decided {upon may be solved easier than any | other questions involved. The French military position is clearly defined, but that government earnestly de- sires the nominal participation of Great Britain and Belgium. It was a stormy day that broke |over Lympne this morning and was inot exactly the kind the people of | the village of Lympne would have wel- | comed upon which to greet their distinguished goests. The weathsr | was most unspringlike, with a high wind and a heavy sea, which threat- ened to make M. Briand’s voyage across the channel quite unpleasant. GERMAN POLICY AWAITED. i Berlin Declares Willingness to Re- build Devastated Regions. LONDON, April 23.—British gov- ernmental authorities waited with keen interest today the announce- ment at Berlin of Germany's policy relative to reparations. Dr. Walter Simons, German foreign minister, was expected to voice the “iast word" of his government on this subject, which is considered as the most vital question before entente at the present moment, an@ighere was evi- tCawtinued on Page n2) f v R