Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1921, Page 1

Member of the Associated Press The Assoctated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ali mews dispatches WEATHER. Fair today. Tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer. Temperature for twent ending 10 p.m. §9: lowest, 6. Full report on page 5. last night: y-two hours Highest, No. 839—No. BRITAIN SUPPORTS 28,119. FRENCH PROPOSAL| 10 0GCOPY RUMR Premier Agrees on More Pressure If Germany Fails to Meet Obligations. 'BRIAND OUTLINES PLAN T0 SET UP NEW REGIME Explains Personally Details of Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, The Sunday Stae. = credited to it or nt Paper and also A rights of publication of special spatches herein are miso reserved. Ahecwise orolited n this the local news pubished nerein. | | | D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, -APRIL 25 1920, FIVE CENTS. \JAPANESE FEEL PRESSURL OF ALLIES ON YAP ISSUE Press Sees Hope of Settlement in Powers’ Advice to Negotiate With United States on Yap. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, April 23.—The leading morning newspapers, following the official deliberations of Friday on the question of mandates, say they believe there is renewed hope of settlement of the problem through direct negotintions between Japan and the United States. American attitude as aggressive. In this connection especial promi- nence is given by the press to a statement by Baron Sakatani, for- mer finance minister, in which he says it would be the height of folly to attach undue importance to the Yap problem and to suppose that war alone would settle it. Scheme for Economic Admin- istration of Territory. By the Associated Press. LYMPNE, England, April 23.—It is| Great Britain's intention to abide by | the provisions of the agreement ar-| rived at in Paris last January wi!h‘ regard to what steps should be taken | o coerce Germany into meeting her - reparations debt; she agrees that failure by Germany to meet her ob- ligations in this respect should be met with further pressure. This became known in the course of today’'s meeting between Premier Driand and Premier Lloyd George, who came here to confer on the situ- ation arising from Germany's standy on the reparations question, and what is to be done if she continues her re- calcitrant attitude. M. Briand. at his own request, ex- ‘Plained to the British prime minister at a conference which occupied the best part of this afternoon and even- ing the French proposals for setting up an economic administration in part of Westphalia. including the Ruhr | coal basin, should the Germans fail to | pay the reparations due May 1. The! proceeds of this administration, such | s taxation on coal exports and excess profits duties levied on German in- dustrial establishments, would, un- der the French plan, be placed in a pool out of which the reparations would be paid the allies. Although Mr. Lloyd George doubt- less was aware of the general char- acter of the French plans from the communications exchanged between | the British and French foreign offices, M. Briand expressed the wish to ex- plain personally some of the impor- tant features affecting the general policy of the allies, in order to at- tain complete unity of purpose. Interrogated by Lioyd George. Today's conversatiens, thexefor gan with a rather extended exposition of the French scheme by M. Briand and Phili Barthelot of the French foreign office, with Mr. Lioyd George | ‘,lnterrosnnns them. | | { According to the Jiji Shimpo, The best minds in Japan and Great Britain, France and Italy America, Baron Sakatani declares, have advised Japan to resume are averse to the idea that the pourparlers with the United States. pezce of the world should again be The newspapers express the opin- | broken over the comparatively in- ion that Japan will adhere to her significant question df possession stand regarding rights acquired by mandate. but will endeavor to come to an amicable settlement by com- promising on the question of com- munications. A number of gensational articles have been printed attacking the BERLIN REPLYING T0 WAR AGAINST L.S. ALLIESINU. 5. NOTE. HELD UNTHINKABLE Reparations Proposal on Way Here in Hope It Will Be Transmitted. of a small island in the South seas. ,“There is no doubt,” the state- ment concludes, “that if the mat- ter {s dealt with honestly and can- didly the way will be found to a solution which will not compro- mise either p: 'Premier Hughes Says World Hope Lies in Empire’s Unity With America. L 1 Declares in Reichstag He Turned w.{ America After Failing to Get Other Nations to Act. SIMONS TELLS OF APPEAL |CITES JAPANESE TREATY Britain, Leading to Conflict, Un- less It Is Ratified, He Says. BY ARNO DOSCH FLEUROT. By Cable to The Star and New York World. By the Associated Press. MELBOURNE, April 23.—For Au Copyright, 1921, !tralia ever to take part in a strug BERLIN, April 23.—The German gov-|gle with the United States was some- ernment has asked the American com-|thing unthinkable and outside she mission to be ready to transmit the new ;bounds of possibility, declared William reparations proposals to Washington to-| H. Hughes, premier of the common- night. Chancellor Fehrenbach also told wealth, in concluding the debate in the reichstag that there Would be Mo |the house of representatives today on discussion of the terms in that body be-|the coming imperial conference at fore they were sent to America, although | which Premier Hughes is to represent a strong protest against this secrecy | Australia. The subject of the Anglo- | was made by the independent socialists|Japanese treaty was grominent in the nd communists. So little has been|discussion, and in alloding ta it the ivulged as to the nature of the propo-|{prime minister said: sition to. be made that even the members| “1 have said repeatediy that the of the reichstag foreign relations com-|chief problem befcre Great Britain is mittee are in the dark concerning it. [to draw up a treaty which will not The government is in a serious|involve us or Britain in a struggle with the people of the United States. THe conversations were held in the | dilemma, as if it offers anything better black and gold room of the residence | than the terms put forward at the Lon- of Sir Philip Sassoon. There was no |don conference the industrial magnates table in front of the conferees, who |and reactionaries will not support them lounged in armchairs. Those pres- and if the offer amounts to much less ent, in addition to the principals, were | than the Paris demands it is feared the M. Kammerer, the officlal repository | American government will not transmit of many French state secrets, and |it to the allies. Sir Maurice Hankey, secretary to the Secreey Alienates Relchstag. committee on imperial defense: Sir; gy tpe complete secrecy of the en- Philip Kerr, Robert G. Vansittart and | ;o proceedings, the reichstag has M. Sylvester, the latter four assist-|, ' " \oo1o ajienated, although the 1ag M Rioxd Geargc | factions behind the government are! After tea the premiers walked onig, ma)ly maintaining their support the terrace, the foliage of Which Was | ,¢ ¢no cabinet. 1f the government can dripping from the day's rain. They| ) a glittering success out of its . then tackled their task again in the! ocret methods. it can live: otherwise Black snd €910 soom- it is doubtgul that the reichstag will Fresh Proposals Discussed. | support it ‘even until May 1. The uring the afternoon word reached ; §overnment’s only hope. thercfore, s Lympne from Berlin that the German | that America will be willing to trans- cabinet was discussing fresh pro- mit the proposition Germany is mak- posals, which, it was reported, might ' ing tonight to the allies. R, reach here before the conference The Americans who feel the United breaks up Monday. and M. Briand re- | States could be just toward Germany turns to Paris. M. Jasper, the Bel-|would be shocked to know how gian foreign minister, will visit Lon- | biliously the German reactionarics don Tuesday to discuss the repara.|Fesard the United States. It being tions matter with Mr. Lioyd George. impossible to vent their bile on the Speaking jocularly this evening of United States, it is falling on Chancel- Germany's request to the United lor Fehrenbach and Foreign Minister States government that it be inter- Simons for trusting America. The re- mediary between the Germans and actionariés feel that they barely allies, Premier Briand said: scaped handing themselves to Amer- “To hear this gives me pleasure, be- | iva to be imprisoned for life. cause if the Washington government' The plan on which the government forwarded Germany's ~proposais ' it bases its hope has been worked out would doubtless make itsclf responsible | by the ministry of labor and pro- for their execution | vides that German contractors re- e build northern France under French GOLD STILL POURING [N, |mererai contractors. The Germans | | have the chimerical idea that this! pian is going to satisfy the French Shipments From Various Countries ' yourgcoisie and help them to make $12,000.000 in One Day. money at the expense of their own government. W YORK. April 23 —The flood of gold that recently has been pouring into this country was augmented to- day by the arrival of several ship- ments of the metal, valued at nearly Plan Before Conference. . This plan is going to be before th conference at Hythe, between Pre- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) $12,000,000, from Colombia, Indi —_— Sweden and other points. | Sweden, brought the largest ship- ment, consisting of bullion valued at : $7.400.000. The steamship Nicuw Am- | sterdam, which sailed from Holland and stopped at British ports, brought | in Another bulk valued at $1.000.000, and $300,000 worth of gold bars ar-| rived from Calcutta on the Trafford. gmaller amounts came steamers | from Colombian ports, All theggold was consigned to New York banks. + ROME. April 23.—Several fascisti GIOLITTI LIKELY TO QUIT. Gty PR were killed and a number wounded Italian Premier Favors Salandra when they were ambushed by com- as Successor, Says Report. munists today near Piacenza. Dag- By Ceble 1o The Star and Chicago Dai Copyright. 1921 MILAN, Ttaly. April 23— Secolo ims to have been informed on ex ellent authority that Premier Gio. BRINGS DEATH T0 MANY ’ Several Fascisti and One Red Slain in Ambush Fighting in Italy. on By the Asociated Press. ¥ News. | hand fighting which occurred at one stage of the attack. One communist was killed and others were stabbed. Sporadic fighting is still in progress. Jitti has decided to resign soon after | Fascisti from Piacenza organized a the clections and has recommended as punitive expedition which burned hi's successor Antonio Salandra, who communist headquarters was premier in 1914 A communist was killed in a re- Evidently Premier Giolitti expects volver duel near Modena ut the new chamber will be reac-| Socialist headquarters at Bari were tionary, contrary to his belief when burned today, following a c! h with he dissolved parliament. fascisti, ’ N | gers were employed in the hand-to-| The hope of the world depends upon some sort of an understanding be- jtween America and the empire, and it 1is to find a way of realizsing that hope that the minds of those at- tendihg the conference should be directed. War with L. S. Unthinkable, | “It is unthinkable and not within {the bounds of ‘possibilitys that we should ever take part in a struggle against America. We cannot be bound by any treaty which we do not ouf- 1selves ratify, although the praefical lconsequences of war between Sritain and America, whether Japan was or was not her ally, would,” of course, Ihave to be faced by us.” But even if this treaty be renewed it will not bind Australia to-go to war with any country in the world. “The last thing that any British government would think of would be war with the only nation which, with ourselves, could hope to maintain the Ipeace of the world. An understanding with America is essential, and we can not afford to quarrel with Japan. Aus- ltralia, however, must stand by her own ideals.” Dincusses Anglo-Japanese Treaty. The military importance of the Anglo-Japanese treaty was discussed by Premier Hughes in a recent speech to his constituents at Bendigo, Vic- toria. “But for the Japanese,” said the 'prem.er, “how long would it have |been before our great cities would have been reduced to ruins ip the early stages of the war? » e e will not agree to an alliance with any nation that will bring us fnto war with America, for the only hope of world peace is in alliance between {the two great branches of the Anglo- Saxons. Disgrace to Civilization. “A world war arising out of.the Yap Island dispute would be a disgrace to civilization; this matter must be set- tled peaceably. An Anglo-Japanese alliance acceptable to America would mean the saving of millions of pounds.” The prime minister's statement was ibrought out by expressions offfippre- hension on the part of somefof the labor members in connection with the treaty renewal discussion, that Aus- tralia might be drawn with the United States. COIN PRIED FROM THROAT. Quarter Embedded Two Years in Girl's Esophagus Removed. SCRANTON. Pa., April 23.—From Ithe esophagus of a thirteen-year-old | girl. local surgeons today removed a silver quarter that had been em- bedded there for more than two years. The operation was performed with- into a war maki was forced down the girl's throat The light revealed the blackened coin. l SUSPECT IN BOMB Cannot Be Bound by Pact with| 110 Ligi Recognized Near i 'SEEN BY BUSINESS MAN | CASE IDENTIFIED | i Death Wagon Before Wall Street Explosion. Picked From Line of Six Prisoners | as Man He Had Come Across Before. | - i By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, April 23.—Two shaép developments marked today . the scarch _for. the. perpetrators of the Wall street bomb explosion last Sep- tember. In Scranton, Pa., Tito Ligi was posi- tively identified as a man seen talk- ing to the driver of the death-wagon, shortly before the tragedy,by Thomas | J. Smith of Brookiyp, employed in| the legal department/of an inxursmel i { i company in Manhattan. The other incident that caused po- lice activity was the suicide of | Adolph La Bar. fifty-two years old, | in his fupaished room in Brooklyn. In an jACoherent diary mentioning half y/dozen names of men in New Yoriand Chicago was written: “They ished the wagon load of T. N. T. with which I blew up Wall Street.’ Close cxamination of the effects and inquiry into his while in the Brooklyn house con- vinced the police tonight that the suicide was mentally deranged and nome of the evidence associated him with the crime. man’'s habits | i 1 Identification Declared Positive. SCRANTON., Pa., Aprit 23.—Tito Ligi, arrested here last Tuesday on suspi- cion of complicity in the Wall street explosion, was positively identified to- day by a New York business man. The driver of the death wagon w conversing with Ligi when ween hy|They arrived in November. 1920, and the business man, Department of Jus- | Mmetiatoly wege assigned Squaster tice officials said he told them. Ligi|i" the Ruyts hodschold. “Wife No. > was plcked front a line of six prisoners| APPCATS 1o be “boss,” according to in-| as the man he had seen. Two other| VeStiEators, and has the choice of men, brought from New York in an|QUAarters. Both “wives” detectives said, are effort to identify Ligi, said he was not the man they had seen driving the wagon filled with exrlosives. One of these was Raymond Clark, foreman of an excavating crew which was work- ing on a building near the scene of the explosion when it occurred. The other is a clerk in a Wall street office, but his name was not made public here. Justice Agents Satinfied. i Department of Justice agents to- i night expressed satisfaction with the | day's developments. They said other | persons would be brought from New ! York Monday in an effort to con- firm Ligi's supposed connection with the disaster. Charles J. Scully, head of New York headquarters of the De. partment of Justice, accompanied by P. J. Ahern, a department agent, left here for New York tonight. Mr. Scully has been here since Ligi's ar- rest, investigating conditions in the coal mining district, where the sus- pect was formerly employed. — e INVITED FOR TEN DAYS. Virginia Commission to Be Guests " of British Government. RICHMOND, Va., April 23.—Gov. Davis today reotived a letter from Secretary of State Charles 1. Hughes informing him of a communication from the American embassy in Lon- don, in which an invitation is ex- tended from the British government to have the members of the Virginia commission which ' will present to out the use of a knife, the surgeons| England a bronze copy of Houdon's 7 use of a rubber tube with an! statue of -Washington, electrfc light at its lower end. This|guests of the British government for to be the a period of ten days. The commission will sail June 11, The surgeons then introduced forceps{en.the steamship Lapland, for Eng- and extracted ‘the ‘quarter, - 1and, 3 4 President Defies Showers and Mud 'to Get Golf Rest Showers and dark clouds and n mogxy field did not prevent | President Harding from indulg- | ing in a gume of golf yesterday afternoon on the municipal i links in Potomaec Park. 1 Immediately after returning | from attendance at the Nptional | Baptist Memorinl exerelves at 16th and Columbia read he re- | placed hin wilk hat with the regulation olf pdp and walked from the WhiHe Housxe to the ] | | | | links to find rext and recreation after a week of hard work. S | ONE AN 2 WIVES: ONEHOME: NOROWS Neither Woman Speaks Other’s Tongué, Both Work, Ail Is Peaceful. By the dssociated Press, NEW YORK. April 22 story of the Jersey Ci was alleged to have “wives” under one today in Brookl. Complaints by detectives that An- toine Ruyts, a Beigian, was living in a Brooklyn apartment with two wives —The recent broker who housed two | —one Flemish and the other French— led to arrost on a charge of biga- my. He was held in $1,000 bail for a hearing Monday. married Iuyts is alleged to have Mme. Marie Pierre Labar, a Parisian ow, in New York in January, 1920, while his other wife and her two daughters were living in Antwerp. Detectives learned. they said, that after Ruyts had installed the French- woman in his Brooklyn apartment he sent for his Belgian wife and family. employed in a theatrical costume es- tablishment and 5o to and from work together cach day. Since one speaks only French and the other Flemish they communicate by code, rapping on wood. Ruyts i forty-five and an iron worker. He told authorities he met the “second Mrs. Ruyts” after he had fled ! native city, when German troops attempted to force him to work. IMMIGRANTS ARE FREED AT MR DAV, ORDES NEW YORK, April cretary of Labor James J. Davis today visit- ed ¥ Island as the first point in his survey of the country's immigra- lis [ tion service. He explained that he had no cut and dricd policy worked out, but said the attitude to be followed in handling the immigratian ques- tion would be simply to put heart in the service. After talking with a number of im migrants held on the island, Mr. Davis gave personal orders releasing sev- eral persons whose cases justified their entry into_the country. “Regarding Ellis Island.” he said. “there is much more to praise than to blame here. Much has been done toward making this one of the best immigration stations in the world and Commissioner Wallis and his staff are handling the local situation in a very commendable manner.” Bible Moses Means Nothing to School, But Senator Does ew Hampshire has received a letter from n Sunday achool teacher in hin atate which would indicate that there In xomething in a name after all. She wrote recentiy sahe was giving her class a lesson on Moses of bib. Tical times. “Can any eone tell me who Monen wast” the teacher ashed. For a minute or two. there w nilence. Then =a flaxen Baired xirl of seven held up her hand. “Well, who wa peated the teach: “He's the man our folks voted for,” replicd the child without henitation. COMMITTEE VOTE * FAVORS EDWARDS i P Mone: re- ‘Qg\A Twelve-to-Three Victory in Decision to Report His | Name to Senate. | ] | | 'WILL BE MAIOR GENERAL {Democrats Are Divided in Action on Promotion for Former New England Leader. PLNHARD FIGHT FORWATER BIL | { | By a ¥ote of twelve to three the Sen- ate military affairs committee ye terday ordered a faverable report i | Edwards, the first commander of the Board of Trade Members SEEK VIEWS OF EXPERTS| ported favorably to the Senate. along with the nominations of other gen- cral officers submitted by the Presi- dent. all of whom were acted upon favorably yesterday. While some of the democratic senators may voice their protests against the confirma- tion of Gen. Edwards on the floor of the Senate, it is understood that there The water supply committee of the|yill be no attempt to filibuster or to Board of Trade will be convened in! gelay a vote on the nomination, which ia special meeting early this week 10! will be confirmed. { consider the water cflmmlmn!ingl e e e e the District through the failure of! the House committee to include in *Inconceivable City Will Be Left to Face Water Famine,” Says Chairman Weller. Secretary Weeks of the War De- conduit. | mittee again yesterday. and reported This announcement was made last|that he had searched the files of the !'night by Chairman Weller of the com- | 4epartment and had found nothing on upen the nomination of Clarence R.| in i 26th (New England) Division i = | France, to be major general. Nine | Still Hope to Get Conduit }renubLmns and three democrats vot- ed for the nomination and three Item Before CONgress. | jemoerats oted amainat, it s re- | ported. The nomination will now be re the Army bill duthorigation for a new | partment was before the Senate com- | roof was rivaled | {mittce. He said the committee would jmake every effort to get a conduit iuom in the bill and, in view of the {fact Congress had authorized the im-| Iprovement at the last session, he felt! hopeful it would repeat its action. Will Asxk Views of Experts. Mr. Weller said the committee prob- | ably would invite Maj. Tyler, jof the Great Falls water supply plan, | and other Army engineers to address | Jit I “In view of the warnings of Army ‘on;:'m!m's that the present conduit may go out of commission at any tim aid Mr. Weller, “it is incon- | ceivable that Congress will delay ac- I tion to safeguard the capital against| such a contingency. especially in view of the fact that probably all of three vears will be required, after authori- zation is given, to build a new con- {dult from Great | “There is no doubt that Washing- ton is confronted by a®krave situa- tion with respect to its water supply. The seriousness of the situation prob- ably is not fully recognized by the i public. Disaster might come at any moment through the breaking down | of the singie water line now supply- ing the city. This conduit was built of brick sixty years ago, is under a terrific strain and has not been in- spected for a long time. What its condition is can only be conjectured.” Hopex for Favorable Aection. Mr. Weller bases his hope for fa- vorable action by Congress on the rec- erd of what was accomplished at the last ion. When the Secretary of War and the Federal Power Commis- sion, at the last session. rccommended immediate action to give Washington | 4 saie water supply, the Army bill] had passed the House and was be-| fore the Senate military affairs com- mittee. An amendment was offered to meet the water crisis, and, as had been ex- pected, a point -of order was raised on the ground that it involved new legislation. But the maker of the point withdrew it when the serious- ness of the water situation was ex- Dlained by the author of the amend- ment, and the conduit “rider” to the bill passed by a comfortable margin. The item subsequently received the approval of the Senate and House con- ferees on the Army bill. se: Exact Move Undeeided. It was not indicated by advocates of the legislation last night whether they would make their initial effort in the House to get the item through as a part of the Army bill or wait until the bill is before the Senate committee to present their arguments for immediate action. BERLIN AWAITS EVIDENCE. BERLIN,. April 23.—The German gov- ernment has addressed a note to the conference of ambassadors ~explaining that several technical reasons, sych as { Gen. file giving the reasons for the recall of Gen. Edwards from command of the 26th Division, October 1918, when the division was about to go into action. Democratic senators opposing the appointment had insisted they had| been informed that something was on file in the department relating to the author | incident, giving the reasons for the | recall of Gen. Edwards, and were entitled to the information. ‘While the proceedings of the com mittee were behind closed doors, it is reported that the recall of Gen. E wards had been at the suggestion of Gen. Pershing, commander of the American armies in Franc It is reported also that Secretary Weeks informed the committee he had talked with Gen. Pershing regarding the appointment of Gen. Edwards as major general within the last twent four hours, and that Gen. Pershing had said he had not recommended Edwards for promotion during the last administration, and would not recommend him now, if he had it to do over again, but he made no protest against the appointment. It is understood by members of the Senate committee that Gen. Edwards is (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) MR CODDGES L0ST COAT S UNDER BOD Pittsburgh Judge Who Took It by they Mistake Insures It Against Theft. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, April 23.—An indem- nity bond for $57.57 on Vice Pres dent Calvin Coolidge’s overcoat was issued here today to Federal Judge Joseph Buffington. The judge attend- ed the inaugural ceremonies at Wash- ington March 4, and during the ex- citement he walked away with the Vice *President’s overcoat, mistaking it for his own. The bond is designed to protect the coat while the Vice President attends the Founder's day exercises at Carnegie Institute here Thursday. z The bond, duly signed and sealed, insures the overcoat in the sum of $57.57 against loss by theft or sundry other causes while ‘the Vice President is in Pittsburgh. While the coat is insured, the con- tents are not, and under the bond the owner of the coat must wear it from 7 am. until midnight Thursday. An- other clause provides that Mr. Coolidge must notify Mayor E. V. Babcock as soon as he arrives here, in order that the city's chief executive may detail necessary police protection to guard the coat. The bond was issued after Vice The Secretary will continue his in-]the non-arrival of evidence froni Italy | President Coolidge, replying to Judge vestigation of Ellis Island next week,|and other countries, have been ' the | Buffington’s invitation to attend the|of ing then to visit other stations' cause of delay in the trial of those ac- | Founder's day celebration, said he le on’the Atlantic coast. cused of war guilty A Zeared for the safety-of his overgoat. = L) CLASH N CONGRESS OVERMR. HARDING'S POSITION FORECAST “Less Government in Busi- | ness” Pronouncement Ex- pected to Meet Opposition. PROPOSED LEGISLATION ADVERSE TO HIS IDEA | | Presidential Wishes Face Early Test Led by Progressive Republican Element. “nt Harding's that there {government in business may {10 the test at an early date | While the more con |licans in Congress are recent shall pro- Fnouncement be “less P i be put rvative repub- anxious to bring about less Rovernment in business.” the more progressive element does not 100k wWith favor upon any steps that would apprar (o license big business in its dealings with the public. This Progressive £roup, it is said, may yet upset the plans for a return to former methods. ' ulation among Tacre some spe | members of the nd House as what will be the attitude of the i President if any of th proposed measures extending government con- trol of business zre sent to him for his approval Notwithstan ding the President’s avowed intention te divorce the gov- ernment and business as far as pos- i.\.ll]"- the nate committee on agri- | culture is proposing 1o resubmit a bill for federal regulation of the meut packers. The same committee will take up | during the coming week the Capper- | Tincher anti-grain gambling bill, un- der which the government would regulate a4 considerable extent | transactions on the grain exchanges. to In the House, it ur@erstood, these measures will be given their day also. The “packer bill” which was passed by the Senate at the last scssion of Congress, was sidetracked in the House. But the House com- mittee on agriculture now plans-to 80 ahead with the packer bill and re- {port it either favorably or adversely At any rate, it will be placed upon | the House calendar. The progpnents of the bill insist that the asure has considerably more sirength in the new House than it had in the old. Another measure that may be pressed for action is the so-called Calder bill for the government super- vision of the coal industry. which was introduced by Senator Calder of New York at the last session of Congress. The bill was referred to the Senate committee on manufuctures and after extensive hearings was favorably re- ported with amendments. In view of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the constitutionality of the District of Columbia rent act, it is likely that Congress will attempt legislation extending the life of this act for two vears from next October, { when the Ball rent act expires, What is more, it is generally recognized | that legislation of a similar character {may be undertaken in « number of | the states. | With this list of legislation in mind, | it would appear that a very consider- able number of the members of Con- gress are bent upon having the gov- ernment play its part in the regula- tion of certain forms of business. BALTIMORE TO HAVE LAW | TO CHECK RENT GOUGERS | Upholding Ball Act Inspires Mayor to Plan Ordinance to Curb Profiteering. Special Dispatch to The Star. Y BALTIMORE. Md. April 23.—Fol- lowing the decision of the Supreme Court upholding the Ball act of the District of Columbia, Mayor Broen- ing has instructed the city solicitor to draw up an ordinance along the same lines to curb rent profiteering lin Baltimore. He wus inspired by | the statement that the decision also laffects the New York rent act and | similar laws passcd in other ecities and states. The mayor understands the decision | to mean that states and municipalities have the right to enact such legis- lation. He said he was determined that, Baltimore shpuld have a law that “will be absolutely effective in stopping rent profiteering,” as re- ports had been received at the city hall that rents are to be advanced on certain classes of apartment and dwelling houses. —_— FLOWERS ON U. S. DEAD. | NAMUR, Belgium, April 23.—Several | boats carrying the bolies of 960 Amey- ican soldiers who fell 4t St. Mihiel pass- ed Namur today. They were covered with flowers thrown by people living along the Meuse. The bodies will be taken to Antwerp, where they will be placed on a steamer and taken to New York. i RUMANIA BANS MAY DAY. VIENNA, April 23.—Bucharest dis- . patches report that the government has forbidden all May day demon- strations. X —— COMMANDER ASSIGNED. ander James A. Saunders Lieut.