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0 r . ] WEATHER. Partly cloudy and continued cool weather tonight and tomorrow. | Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. tod Highest, 60 at 2 p.m. today. lLowest, 44, at 5 am. today. | Full report on page 12. Closing New York Stecks, Page 28. e Fnenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Iintered as second-class matter 28,127, [0 Momée Washington, D. C. No. WASHINGTO) D. C., MONDAY, Not Considering U. S Diplomat to Vatican. 1 President Declares Appointment of an American diplomatic representative to the Vatican in not under contempln- snid a statement issucd e White House in re- nn wuch an NEWBERRY VERDICI' ORDERED SET ASIDE BY SUPREME COURT the possibility o | appointment being made. “Many inquiries have come 1o the President relative to a con- templated nomination of n dip- lomatic representative to the Vaticnn,” said the statement. “and the President has thouht Michigan Senator Wins His it best to answer all of them il e S ! by the public statement that on Election Charges. no considerntion hnw been xiven " | to much n step, and there will be no occanion’ to consider it unless Congress by the ennct- ment of Inw provides for wue representatior President does mot understand that any such proposal has been mnade to Congress.’ IESTATE OF OYSTER LESS THAN $3000 Executor Estimates Value in Petition—$17,634 Owed in Income Tax. CONGRESS HAS NO POWER TO REGULATE PRIMARIES Conviction of Michigan Man and 16 Others Reversed—Dissenting Views as to Principle. onviction of United States Senator Truman H. Newberry in federal courts in Michigan of conspiracy to violate the federal corrupt practices act was set aside today by the Supreme Court. The conviction of sixteen other de- fenda aizo W set aside. The esmrt il that Congress was without pewer 14 regulate primaries. tice McReynolds read the opin-, fon. 1o which Justice McKenna with | held his opinion, to, as to the power T et b Congress, but agreed as to the decision % e of George 3 3 S hstice White also dissented | the dairyman who died at Atlantic | City, N. J., April 21, ix valued at less [ than $90,000, according to the esti- | mate placed on the net value of his from the decision that Congress did not have power to control all elec- tions. but agreed that the statute had been “grozalv misconstrued.” Lower Court's Error. state by Edwin . Brandenburg, l"lfl“g( McReynolds said that the|Tamed as executor under his will. Mr. Jowar court erred in dismissing the Brandenburg. through Attorneys To- I briner and Graham, today filed a pe-| | tition for the probate of the will and { two codicils, the second of which was | | exceuted on his death bed. and pro-| i vided a bequest to his wodow. Cecile demurrer of the defendarts. “Obviously the corrupt practices act covers also the primaries and othe; preliminary acts preceding an election, the court said. “The one question here | pres EATENSION OF BALL RENT AT TAKEN P BY D.C. COMMITTEE Delaware Senator Proposes to Make It Effective | Two Years Longer. | | {WOULD AVOID CONGRESS i JAM BY EARLY EFFORTS | Housing Situation Here Considered | Unrelieved—Apartment Sales RS Receive Attention. | The proposed extension of the Ball| rent act. which cxpires October 22| of the Senate District committee today, and| was discussed at 2 meeting with | sible.| it was determined to go ahead this legislation as rapidly as p. Senator Ball plans to draft the reso- lution extending the life of the rent act another two years. It was pointed out at the meeting today that oppo-| sition to the enactment of legislation extending the rent act may be expect- | ed. and that in order to avoid any un-| due delay and to prevent the meas ure’s being lost in a legislative j..mi later on in the present session of Con-| Zress the matter should be taken up as soon as possible. Expect Little Improvement. Senator Ball. chairman of the com- mittee; Senator Pomerene of Ohio and ! other members of the committee ox-: sed the opinion that the housing | situation in Washington next October would have improved so little that it would be necessary to continue the | is whether Congress may limit expen- ditures of a candidate. The source of such power is in section 4. url_lcle 1. of the Constitution. ‘This gives Congress the power of regulating the ‘manner of holding elections’ and not of ‘elections. Chief Justice White's View. Chief Justice White, in his, dissent- ing opinion, traced in detail the growth of the election system to show Tthat Congress was given the power under the Constitution to regulate senatorial elections. “It is essentially a federal matter, mot existing before the Conmstitution. Ready Oyster, twenty-six years old, | of $25,000 in lieu of all claims against [ the estate. | The household effects—paintings. ! silver and linen—of the testator are | valued by the executor at $20,000. In! | addition to this Mr. Oyster owned 55 | per cent of the partnership assets of | the Chestnut Farm Dairy. the other | 45 per cent being owned by Henry N. | Brawner, jr, according to a partner- | ship agreement referred to in peti- | | tion of the executor. Mr. Branden- burg places a mnet valuation on this : interest of $125.600. over and above | the debts of the partnership. To off- | i r s thes court that Mr. | Prediets New Legisiation. {Oyster left personal debts. including | Chief Justice Wh te predicted that the expenses of his last iliness and legislation would come which would | funcral. totaling $43,629.39. He also set aside today's dccision as to the lowed the United States, it is stated, power of Congress ovor primaries. for | $17,634.37 for the balance of income otherwise “government cannot live." |tax for 1920 and additional assess- | He called attention to thosc states |ments on the three preceding years. in which the primary had been made|This makes a total indebtedness of the controlling feature of the elec-|$61.263.76. tion. In such cases. he said, “election | { according to the petition, | ®hich deducted from the valuation of $148,000 leaves a balance of $86,336.24. The direct election amendment to| Valuation Up to Court. i the Constitution has not changed the i The valuation placed by the ex- provisions of section 4, article I of: ecutor on the interest of Mr. Oyster | turt document. the court held. }in the partnership is dependent, he | Associate Justice Pitney also read|lells the court, on whether the court | an opinion dissenting in part from |Will hold that the buildings on Con- the court's decision, and announced | Necticut avenue occupied by the firm | that Associate Justices Brandeis and|and erected on ground leased for a | 1 is stillborn and the vote without “ power or weight.” | Clarke had concurred in the opinion | t€rm of years, which expires in 1924, | he filed. \ ‘c::lful;":h‘n I?K&t of the estate. The ol ese improvements is car- Would Have New T/ial. iricd on the books at $65.587.11. wrd Chief Justice YThite said he' con-| iz placed at that figure in the com- | curred in the reversal of the convic- putation by which Mr, Brandenburg | tion. but thought that-a mew trial | reaches the net value of the partner should be held. ship interest. Also included in this News of the Newberry decision | valuation is the farm and rcached the Senate chamber in the . estate used in the busimess. which b midst of a heated argument between!carried on the books at # value o Senator Underwood. democrat, Ala-|$125.859.82, on which are ineam. hama. and Senator Penrose of Penn- brances amounting to $26,400. sylvania. and other republican sen-| Besides the widow. Mr. Oyster Is ators over reference of a bill to com- survived by two brothers nnd. twa mittee. | sister<. James F. and D. William Immediately senators gathered in| Oyster. Mrs. Anna 1. Schulteis s 2Toups in the rear of the chamber. Mrs. Marian U. Ltutherford. Tl ess manifesting undisguised interest in'are named in the exceutors petition the ruling of the court as the only heirs and next of kin of Upon learning of the court decision. ' the deceused. Chairman Dillingham of the Senate elections committee, which has charge | 1% Mo to Renounce Bequest. of ‘the Ford-Newberry contest seiq| Should the widow be gnwilling to that the committee would meei in a 3°C€Pt the bequest of $25,000 provid- | few dayw to consider the effect of the | €d for her in the codicil made four court's. decision on future Senate 94YS before the death of Mr. Oyster. aetlon, Mr. Brandenburg stated that she ma Senator Dillingham said it appeared Within six months renounce the be that with the corrupt practice law GUest and elect to take her legal dow- held void the committee would be €. Which consists of one-half the without further jurisdiction. persomal property and a life interest | in one-third of the income from the | real estate. Should she seck to have | The case of United States Senator'her dower right in the real cstate as. Truman H. Newberry of Michigan Signed and sixteen of his political associates o1qin® reached the Supreme Couft of the “nited States from the federal dis- at a court sale of the pr re A L 14 e opert As trict court at Grand Rapids, Mich. 'the real estate is so inthmatels com where the appellants were found nected with the business of the dairy, guilty March 20. 1920, of criminal it is suggested. some intricate ques- | conspiracy to violate the federal cor-!tions may arise ax 1o the value of the rupt’ practices act. widow's dower in the estate. { The senator 8 sentenced by the DROPS PILGRIM PAGEANT. district judge, Clarence W. Sessions, | Milwaukee July 4 Committee Acts instead of taking monthly rental, the that sie would be ¢ one-sixth of the net price ree her share Wed 10 two years' imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth and fined $10.000. This. | the extreme penaity of the law, also! was placed against two others. the remaining sentences running down 3 to a fine of $1.000. | After Catholic Objection. The casc started with 135 indict-| s pACL. Mi s ments returned at Grand Rapids No.| ST PAUL. Minn, May 2—a state- Tember 2% 1918 1t o collod for | ment that a pageant, “Landing of the | trial January 27 1920, and lasted | Pilgrims” which had been arranged eight weeks. cighty-five of the oriz- | for presentation in Milwaukee by the inal list of defendants being still be- fore the bar when the jury retired. One man was granted a separate tr. exclusively a glorification of (h, because of iliness and one was never Protestant Pilgrim” was made here arrested. having gone to South Amer- by Archbishop Messmer of Milwau- ica before the indictments were re- kee. in explanation of his order for- turned. Twenty-three were dismissed | bidding Catholic school children to on motion of Frank C. Dailey, spe-|take part cial assistant attorney general, at the | The archbishop’s objections, when close of the government testimony on ' ccmmunicated to the Milwaukee com- March 1520, and the next day mittee arranging the Independence Judge Sessions freed fifteen more. | day celebration, caused the Pilgrim Seventeen were found guilty, sixty- | Pageant to be deleted from the pro- eight acquitted and the cascs of ten . Eram Who pleaded nolo contendere were| “The spectacle will in on way make Nismissed after the jury returned its @ recognition of the Catholic faith, Vearaiet and I forbade Catholic children taking i the convicted men have been at|PATt in @ demonstration. partially re liberty on bonds since their indictment. | [&ious in character, which does not L give a fair consideration to their be- Charge Againat Newbherry. lief," the archbishop said e The specific charge against Senator Newberry was that between December GETS $49 5()) SECURITIES. ). 1917, and November 5, 1918, he “un- Masked Bandits Rob Stock Broker lowfully and feloniously did conspire, | combine, confederate and agree with divers persons” to violate the act of in Motor Car Hold-Up. June 5. 1910, by contributing sums A St apgregating $100.000 toward the ex- UNIONTOWN, Pa., May 2-—Two penses of his nomination and election. masked bandits today held up an 't was not necessary, the government | aytomobile in which Robert B, sserted, that Newberry should actual- zive this amount or that he should aham, a others w stock broker, and three riding and robbed Have had personal supervision of its i Npenditure, but it was sufficient if he | Dam of $35.000 in bonds. The bandits. | pid zullty Knowledge that contribu- |2fter picking out 00 worth of oil s 1o an llegal aggrezate were be. | Stocks. returned the remainder to iccepted for the purpose in view, | /raham. No less than 153 alleged errors were | e———————————————— “assigned” by the defendants in their | application for appeal to the hizhest | statute did not cover the alleged overt vou acts of the defendants. Fhe The second attack brief submitted to the Supreme was directed Court by Charles . Martin against Judge Clarence W. Sessions, ! W. Littieton, George ols and|who presided at the trial. Counse | Jumes O Murfin, counsel for Newberry [ for Newberry averred, that through- and the sixteen co-defendants, made'out the trial Judge Sessions acted in | two distinet attacks on the procced- a manner prejudicial to its interest , 10Es &1 Grand Rapids. The convic- “The court 5o construed the statute,” tion should be reversed. iU was con- | the brief said, “as to make it a viola tended. because the statute invoked | tion for Mr. Newberry to become Wax not supperted by any constitu- |candidate if he knew that the tional provision. and because, if it|paign would require more than $: poould Le held constitutional, the!to be expended.” » ! College, ane Fourth of July commission, was rent commission in office. | The practice of “selling” apartment to the various occupants has be called to the attention of the com- | mittee members. Under the Ball rent | act. this can be done if the apartment is 501d 10 a person desiring to occupy it. This means, it is said. that tenants ' may be forced to purchase the apart- ments at high prices or move out. The | resolution extending the Ball rent act | may attempt to cover this matter, it was said Approve Gude Nominatl The committee today unanimously ordered a favorable report upon the nomination of William F. Gude 1o be ! rent commissioner. His nomination ' will be reported to the Senate and | confirmed without delay. it was said. and other members of the committee and other members of the committe and the members of the rent commi sion and Capt. James F. Oyster, new District Commissionér. but formerly member of the rent commission, will be held soon for the purpose of con- sidering the resolution to continue| the rent act in effect and the housing | situation generally The nominations of William T. Gal- liher, Father William J. Kirby and! Mre. Virginia Cross to be members of the Board of Charities were ordered favorably reported by the committee also. 5 A bill authorizing the District Com- missioners to close upper Water| street between 2lst and streets inorthwest, was ordered favorably re- ported. ) Favors Parkway Survey. H Engineer Commissioner Kutz before the committee today and vised the favorable report of the billy to make a survey looking to the con- struction of a parkway connecting the | old civil war forts ig the District. | way Senator Capper of Kansas, chair-! man of the subcommittee on public schools. announced that he would confer with Senator Phipps of Colo- rado. chairman of the appropriations ' ubcommittee in charge of District flairs. prior to determining upon a date for beginning a hearing on schoo! ' needs. The District committee determined meet each week on Wednesday instead of on Monday, as, No further meeting will to hereafter, in the past be heid, however, until a week from the coming Wednesday [ G — {GIRL COLLEGE STUDENT | SUICIDES NEAR CAMPUS Daughter of Shipping Board Offi- cial Found Dangling From a Rope. NORTHAMPTON, Mass. May 2.— The body of Miss Harriet A. De Lancey, whose' home 15 in Waterbury, Conn., and who'was a sophomors at Smith was found suspended with a rope from the hoe shop dam near the college campus today. Death was due to hanging with suicidal intent, in the opinion of the medical exam- iner. Miss De Lancey's sister is a mem- ber of the freshman class. Miss Ada Comstock. dean of the col- lege, said that she knew of no reu- the girl should wish to end She gaid that while Miss De 414 not rank among the hest udents, she was in no danger of be-! {ing dropped because of her standing. | WAT —Miss Lance found nging from a dam at Northampton today. was the daughter of Darr De Lancey of this city, chairman of the bureau of industrial relations of i-the United States Shipping Board. i [ — i 1 HIROHITO AT GIBRALTAR. Crown Prince of Japan Gets En-| | * thusiastic Welcome. GIBRALTAR, May i Hirohito of Japan was given an en- |thusiastic welcome here yesterday | afternoon. The prince, wearing the uniform of an admiral. left the bat- teship Katori with his retinue at 2 o'clock and drove to the government house with a mounted escort and a guard of honor composal of Middle- sex troops. The streets were thronged | with cheering people and were cor- —Crown Prince | I doned with bluejackets and soldiers. “The prince and his party dined at the government house in the evening, i British and American admirals being guests at the brilliant function, Which was given by the governor. During the dinner 10asts to Great Britain and Japan were drunk. A — | { PRESIDENT PLAYS GOLF. President Harding this afternoon | will play the first shot on the new fAfth hole ently finished at the | Columbia Country Club. where the open golf championship of the United States will be held in July. The new hole, which the President will open this afternoon. has been declared by | prominent goifers to be one of the | Dest three-shot holes in the United States The President will play with How- ard F. Whitney. president of the United States Golf Association, an. Wynant D. Vanderpool, secretary of the association. R SCHOOLS PROMISED SUFFICIENT FUNDS Chairman Focht, However, Deplores Apparent Conflict Over Amount Needed. the House District report out legislation which would authorize any appro priation, no matter how large. which may be honestly needed for the schools in the District was made Lo day by Chairman Focht. He deplored, however, the fact, he sees it, that the District authorities are in con- flict over the amount that is needed. He referred to tne fact that the super- intendent of wschoois, Dr. Ballou, is drafting a budget which is expected Promise that committee witi as to call for something like $3,000.000 1o | | care adequately for the school de velopment program. lines up with this a statement attri- buted to Engineer Commissioner Kutz that he is preparing to blue pencil some of Dr. Ballou's recommenda- tions. Chairman Focht believes that the Disgrict authorities interesied in school development should get to- gether on a definite program. “Con- is willing to give any amoum that is needed, no matter how many millions, for_the Disirict schools,” said hairman Focht. “but we cannot teli how much is needed if thére is a dis agreement among the District offi- cials directly in charge of the schoos system. Congress realizes that the future of the nation is dependent upon the schools of the country ana c majority of the members are am- bitious to make the schools of the Na- tional Capital a model for the entire country.” gress able Opinion. that any blue to be done Fay Chairman_ Focht said penciling that may have can be done by the members of the House District committee. He ex-! ! pressed the opinion. however, that while economy is w very irable practice as it relates to government. | he does not believe that the mem- bers of Congress. either in the Dis- triet committee or in the House as a whole, have any desire to econom at the expense of the school syste He said that personally ho is willing to go the limit in the expenditure of the alleged $5.000,000 surplug. if it is found to be available. or with other funds ra it it is found that there is a real need for now school buildings and other developments of an adequate edu- cational system. Individuaily. the members of the! special subcommittee appointed to make a systematic survey of the: school needs, not only now, but for Vears in the future, are’ already | itudying the data that have been brought to their attention. This com- mittce congists of Representatives A. H. Walters of Pennsylvania, Roy O Woodruff of Michigan. Frank C. Mills- paugh of Missouri, C. E. Keiler of Minnesota, James P. Woods of Vir- ginia Thomas L. Blanton of Texas And William . Hammer of North Carolina. IRISH PLEA IN SENATE. Referred to Foreign Relations Committee Without Objection. Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, presented today in the Senate a copy of “an address to the American Con gress by the parliament of Ireland, Without objection, Senator Borah' request that it be referred 1o the for- cign relations committee and printed as a public document was granted. opiex had been sent previously to all newspapers in the United States. Today’s News in Paragraphs Oyster's estate less than $90,000. Page 1 District schools promised sufficient funds by Chairman Focht of House ! District committee. Page 1 House District subcommittee to begin draft of merger bill tomorrow. Page 1lwerfers, mortars, bomb _throwers, ers refused to pay and open shops |leins. Others Secretary Mellon presents to Congress|fame throwers, gas throwers, etc.,|W¢re declared. The employing printers | the larger cause suggestions of amendments to internal | Wi]| be distributed among the states [iNsist on a forty-cight-hour week, revenue tax laws. Page 17*and the District according to the At Other Points. Orderly U May day emphasizes ‘Americanism, Mr. Daugherty declare; Page 17 rules to relieve congestion 4t 14th and Pennsylvania avenue go into effect. Page 17 tional Victors Memorial building for pital given new impetus. Page 17 Henry A. Seymour, well known patent New traffic attorney, clubman and yachtsman, dies at Cosmos Club. Page 17 | Federal Reserve Board reports high prices barrier to complete business re- adjustment. Page 17 Providence Hospital auxiliary to begin May 5 sale of tags for support of free wards in the institution, Page 18 ) Chairman Focht | d by t:xation orotherwise, ' o <y MAY 1921 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ( Star.” | Associated Press titled to Member of the The Associated Press is exclusively | the use for republication of all mews dispatel l eredited to it or not utnerwise credited n this || | paper and also the local news published Lersin. | <‘ All rights of publication of special l\ | dispatches herein are aiso reserved. Net Circulation, 91,726 Sunday’s Net Circulation, 93982 TWO CENTS. —_—s = SN N - —— = S — o oSS ——— IR ————— R /! f / 47, 7 / —— RN PEACE PROGRESS. ION WAY WITH U. S. DEAD.’ {Transport to Bring 3,800 Bodies of SPORADIC PRINTING STRIKES ARE BEGUN {Claim Made by Leaders of Men That 250 Unions Have Won Shorter Week. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. May 2.—Set- {tlement of sporadic strikes in book fand job printing offices throughout BEGIN MERGER BILL s mands for a forty-four-hour week. tmust be effected by negotiations in House Committeemen Will | cach 1ocatity, it was said today at jleadquarters tof the International Report Measure Quickly, {Typosraphicst Cnion. - é 3 Strikes were begun in a number of Chairman Zihiman Says. joffices toduy to emforce the shorter- The first meeting of the special sub-! they had as yet ho definite reports as Soldiers From Europe. CHERBOURG. France, May 2.—The {United States Army transport Whea- ton. “with 2,800 bodies of American soldiers aboard, sailed from this port ifor Antwerp today At Antwerp the transport will re- ceive one thousand more bodies and then =ail for New York. {hour week, but union officiais said |ALLIES GIVE GERMANY - UNTIL MAY 12 TO YIELD; ' BRITISH NAVY MAY ACT i Jusserand Says U. S. Favors Settlement Without Taking Ruhr By the Associated Pres: LONDON, May 2—M. | rand, the French ambas: Washington, has cabled here the outline of a conversation he has had with Secretary of State Hughes. The Ameriean govern- ment. the ambassador reported, enires 1o take mo attitude the reparations ques: that wonld irritate the allied gov- England Ready to Put Fleet in North Sea. i | {ANSWER OF “YES” %OR “NO” REQUIRED ' {Reparations Commis- this series of developments: The allied foreign ministers first met and completed the draft of the ulti- matum, which provided that Germany shou'd be advised of the allied terms | within six d ernments. Seeretary Hughes ! =nid, ndded the am lll do:;- ‘ 5 " L ment nn mo. tariner commant- | gion Will Grant Six i e U AR D f R preference that Germany shoutd | | - ayE FOr a lKesponse. acttle without the occupation of | | ~ 1 D peom ‘ll\ the Aeo iated Press. | | LONDON, May 2—Germany must | omee caneermmtion, dheiamban ggnr‘ by May 12 a categorical answer e v | —ses or no—to the allied reparation ] . lacmands. or sufter the infliction of | !mititary and naval penalties, accord- 1 {ing to the terms of an ultimatum i ldrawn up by the allied foreign min- [isters today and submitted to the | { supreme council for its approval. T | The swift movement of events in the !reparations issue between the allied il |powers and Germany was shown in i | 1 150,000 Troops Expected to < and then would have = isix daye. or until May 12, within Be Called if Germans 'i}ici™ts cive Sn'Anowcr. ves of mo. . without conditions, the negotiations being considered at an end. Do “ot Yield' A British naval demonstration in the North sea was stated to be one of ths i consequences to follow a refusal by the Germans to yield (o the allied de- {mands i iceiving the report of the council of I foreign ministers today. agreed in | principle to the plan of Foreign Min- | ister Jaspar of Belgium providing for jan ultimatum to be presented to Ger- many and for military measures to be {used in case Germany should default. The terms of the ultimatum were | BY the As<ocisted Press, PARIS. May 2—The French zov- ernment is proceeding with the pre- liminaries necessary to the occupa- tion of the Ruhr valiey. should that step be ordered. A brigade of cavalry was entraining today at Meaux to Join a large detachment of infantry already on the way from Lyon. in addition to artillery from Vincennes and other garrisons now on the move. The understanding in official cir- | being discussed this afternoon by al- cles here is that nothing .can now | lied experts. who were to report to .prevent comple of the French|the supreme council at 5 p.m The terms already agreed upom in- clude provision for guarantees and for penalties to be enforced from time to time should Germany fail to meet the conditions Word from plans for mobiliskt sary forces for the that the actual occupation can be prevented only by Germany giving, umple guarantees that she will pay on of the nec occupation, and Paris showed that the accorcing to the decisions of the € reparations commission. French military forces were making 5 preliminary moves looking to the oc- Aeceptance Not Expected. cupation of the Ruhr in anticipation Such acceptance by Germany is en- iy offigal querters there that Ger- tirely unexpeetéd in political and of- ;.an; would WSt give the guarantees { ficial circles here, and an order thg allies wer® expected to demand. mobilizing 150.00¢ men of the class! o’ “ % "o gipation con ntly of 1919 is expected at any moment. |icoiid have te he carried omt. It was Orders for.the mobilization of the | Gicaed the Sobilization of 15 class of 1818, which will take part o "0 pC® gogs of 1919 was iin the possible occupation of the | ine o Ruhr district of committeé of the House District com-| 10 the number of men affected. H . e Badadaae | - [ mittee to draft a bill for a merger of|, All subordinate untons were uuthor- | PeCted o be Isshed Bere lodur | megly Brathout adRsi lens. casi g ized to call atrikes in offices where | NeEToes are not cxpected 9 0| The reparations commision will ad- jthe Capital Traction and Washington|the forty-four-hour week had not |included in the forces sent into the; Germany of the allies’ conditions {Railway and Electric Company hasjbecn made effective May 1, according | WUIr district = 0o 0 0 fwithin six davs after the decision Ibeen called for tomorrow. Represen- |0 Walter W. Barrett, vice president | The mobilization orders WL 5¢}upon them has been reached by the ! tative Fred. N. Zihlman of Marylana,iof the Internaiional’ Typographical ; Stit (& PV IORR s, PO K nd ‘np'supremg council. Germany then will P A yiand. i "nion. The International unmion will | Structed to rep ¥ and to¢|have six days in which to give an {chairman of this subcommittee ter | support all men on strike informul conferences with the other|shorter-hour week. he said. six members of this subcommittee, EmPploving printers here had signed > e | contracts for tne jsaid today that he believed quick |week. At the union headquarte {uction can be had in reporting a bill | was said that similar contracts had { which will give the companies an op-|beeh signed throughout the country | portunity to effect u voluntary merger, | b3, 23 subordinate unions with local for the Cithguipdiatbiseonin Sices. { employers’ associations. and if they fail to do this an alterna- | Nowipaper Btats {tive proposition compelling [WII[ be resorted to. t. a merger| p_ | cial committee of the American News- {Daper Publishers’ Association. said the publishers of the country had been | There must be u merger of some | assured by the union leaders that {Kind of the three companies, the!Dresent controversies would not affect Washington Railway and [lectric, the newspapers uniess efforts wer Company and the Capital Traction ' made to employ non-union printers in iCompany. which will include the|some of the smaller xhops which do Potomac Electric Power Company.”| job printing in addition to newspaper d Representative Zihlman today. | publishing. The House District committee wasi Mr. Kellogg added’that a concession 13 unanimous on this in the|to the demand for the forty-four-hour |last sssion of Congress, and the; week by the employing job printers officiuls of the three corporations are¢! was apparently not as widespread as in_favor of it themselve {the union leaders’ indicated, | Representative Zihlman said that he! The Internat pographical {and the other members of the subcom-|Union has 863 subordinate unions \mittee realize that nothing is to be|throughout the country. he said. while ned by delaying action.” The testi-|the union leaders are cluiming shorter mony already given before the full Dis-| Work-week contracts for only 250 of ftrict. committee in the last sossion of | this number. Congress should be sufficient to estab- Granted In New York. {lish the main features of the legislation | " YORK. May 2.— St I necessary 1o DFing about @ Merger. he i poue weel s boss oo qrLy-four- _ ' i u { ha granted the 1 I believes, Copies of these hearings have ! 000 printer § . ! 1000 printers employed in the book and | been distributed to all the members of | jol, printing plants in New York of the House District committee, and the | he employing printers légons o imembers of the subcommittee on the | gounced today. The shorter ooy b merger have been specially urged o] comes effective (he fent et K Des | give them close stu | anes Mas 1 )l fsca) Other Committee Members. { As Typographical | The other members af the subcom- | (Big Six) has approved the agree- | mittee who today received notices of the | MtDL. Do trouble is expected in the {mceling tomorrow are Represcntatives | PFINUing trades because of the work- {Anderson H. Walters of Irennsylvania, | Weck auestion, officials of the league | Florian A. Lampert of Wisconsin, jsaid. but they pointed out that the i Sproul of lllinois, James P. Woods of j 4Uestion of wage cuts still was pend- Ivi . Hammer of North ling. : anley M. Kant ofThinols The wage arbitration board, which fathered by ILepresentativehas been considering the wage ques. 1as a basis | Lion. is unoflicially reported (o have | agreed upon recommending u 12 pe | cent wage reduction. Leon H. Rouse, president of the “Big Calls Merger Necessity. n. No. 6 1 The | James V" bill Woods will be for discussion at the meeting tomorrow. This bill was drafted to meet the con- clusions reached by a subcommitiee ap-' '«¥ | pointed in the last session of Congress SiX.” has urged every man to “stand after a very careful study of the com-|fa5t to his jub.” asserting: *“We must | plicated situation here. it is the hope | &iVe the employvers no peg on which | of the majority of the new subcommit- | !0 hang charges that we are not 1 | tee that this bill can be reported out|IME UD to our contract. No man c: ! practically as_it now reads and be, Y what will happen in the p | passed by the House without much dif- | Situation in the next tw ks. n nting pamme. s i Strikes in Pennaylvan | | PITTSBURGH. M — Anproxi- mately 1,000 printers in 131 job print- {ing shops struck here today to en. { force their demand for a forty-four. hour week. Bookbinders, | GETS WAR TROPHY BILL. Senate Receives Report on sttri-';_‘l’fléf'l- Were voting on the que]stlo:n; oining the strike. bution to States. LANCASTER, Pa., May 2 —Demands for a forty-four-hour use the Lancaster Typogra, v 3 phical Union by emploving printers here, and as a result 150 journeymen printers re on strike. Job and newspapes plants of the city are affected. The { A bill providing for the equitable distribution of trophies captured in the war with Germany and Austria, among the states and the District of orty-four-hour ! | students, soldiers living in devastat-| Kellogg. chairman of a_spe- | veck were re- | entire clats will not be med ANE S ieh i ired to be z formeriy. This procedure was made, §19RET NI 15 HRAM S 4% ons. possible by the passage of the new | “ny o “proceedings in the council of mobilization act. It is probable that 1 vore gn ministers, which comprised the government's orders will exempt Lord Curzon, Premier Briand (who also is the French foreign minister), Count I Sforza and M. Jaspar, are described as | having proceded smoothly, but the doc- ument they drew up would have to tal its final form in the supreme council, have of those who ed regions and 3 lors outside served under the French territory. Preas Favors Mobilization. Newspapers. as a whole, expressed | it was explained. themselves today as being in favor: The interval of a few days provided {of the mobilization. the only dis-{for in the ultimatum to Germany will cordant note being struck by Hu-|not be for the purpose of negotiation. manite. which in large headlines at-jj: was stated. but to give the German { tacked the order caliing the men to; time to reflect, negotia- | the colors. It also carried on its first | considered at an end. by the com- page an advertisement hunist committee of action. begin- Doubt. ning with the words: “Down With{ The procedure to be followed by the war. down with mobilization {allies in issuing an ultimatum to Ger- The newspapers were so taken uUpimany was the subject of some comment with reports of the meeting of thelpere. 1t was declared it would not be Supreme allied council in Lendon | cent direct to Berlin. Since Germany that they were unable to devote more [ made her latest “peace gesture” than e news space to the passage: through Washington, it was considered of the Knox resolution by the United { paciible the allies would choose the States Senate. The only comment oni{"pited States as their intermediary. | this resolution, which would end the Premier Briand said this morning it "iechnical state of war between the | o1 take twelve days to complete United States and Germany. was a|gule o ‘mititary preparations. ual question as to what would 1f at the end of that time Ger- I B the consequences of its adoption. [ yon il DOE (NG Delded to the allies. ! ihe declared, “the French t il TROOP STATUS IN DOUBT. | ne, oo™ e " French troops wil “1 hope we shall not march alone,” he added. COMMENT HERE WITHHELD. In the absence of official informa- jtion all comment on the decision of the allied supreme council at Lon- deep interest on the possible effect Of Gi% \With reward to (German repapa- the Knox resolution in Congress de-!tions was withleld today at the State claring that a state of war no longer | Department. It was said that so far exists between America and Germany. as the United States was concerned Whether the adoption of that reso-|the situation was just where it was lution would cause the withdrawal of | Saturday night. when it was made the American forces in Germany has|clear that the American government been the main subject of discussion in|would determine its course after the German press of the occupied ter- | jearning officially of the action of the Germans in Coblenz Prefer U. S. Soldiers to French. . COBLENZ. May 2.—The Germans of Coblenz have been speculating with ritories. B 4 council. 3 “The correspondent. after interview-!"fteports in London that the United ing the most representative Germans!states might be requested to com- of all clusses in Coblenz, can say that to the majority of Germans here the withdrawal of the Americans would | cypyorted by any official advices. It be regarded as regrettable. . _lalso was said that there had been no In administrative and political cir-| ommunication between the Amer- cles they have been living in dire fear; e e iwhich would be abandoned by thepourie Americans. “If we must have occupa- | had been sent to Berlin. tion, let it be American” is the con- NAME DRAFT EVADERS. municate the findings of the council to Germany was declared to be un- ! sensus of opinion. | Amonz tradesmen and shopkeepers | the feeling of regret would be unani- ! mous. “The tailor next door has be- |cpi one"a millionaire said the book.|Chicago Receives First List to ¢ | store vroprietor, with mingied feel- Made Public. lings of admiration and envy, to the correspondent. “That bookstore man {is sure reaping a paper mark har- | vest,” was the way the tailor put it. There is only one class of the popu- lation which i0oks upon the presence of American soldiers darkly. They CHICAGO, May 2.—The first official list of draft evaders in the 6th Army Corps area, embracing Illinois, Mich- igan and Wisconsin, has been re- ceived at Fort Sheridan, it was_an- ratio that the number of men in the man Wadsworth. The newspaper emploves changed ' From time to time there are even a | These trophies, including cannon, }:;l!r demand late list week from u few clashes. The doughboy has it {gun carriages. machine guns. minen- y-four-hour week 10 a4 demand for | that the voung German is jealoys of 33 to former’s popularity with the frau- look deeper say that these voung men relatively have not suffered from !the war and théy are looking to the future in a spirit of revenge. more a week This the pub- | the who TOLEDO, Ohio, ;May *.—Failure of | Columbia, was favorably reported to}lhree newspapers. the Examiner-New ,are the young men who did not par- | nounced. The list contained 17,000 the Senate Saturday from the com- |} the Intelligencer and the Ne e e verame doughboy thae | " The names will be printed and sent v i v ai frord vever, are publishi v = them an e avel dou ¥ ere mittee on military affairs by Chair-|Curtailed forces, publishing withs faet 400, Nost and no fraternization. |out lo newspapers. post offices. draft ! boards. county sheriffs and chiefs of police. A reward of $50 will be of- i fered for the capture of each man named on the lists. ———— SWORN AS TREASURER. {Col. Frank White of North Dakota {service from each state and the Dis- triet bears to the total number of men in the rvice. Special mention is made of the Na- employers to institute the forty-four- hour week resulted in cmbloycs walk- K out in twelve printing s E b 1 two bookbinderles here this hr:':)?'n‘ilr?g‘l !tional Museum and Arlington ceme-{liourtcen shops were reported worts: {tery, which will be allotted a portion !ing. having conceded the Shorter weth |of ‘(hese trophies and devices irre-I(o their employes, union offfeinls vaid spective of the allotment (o the states | "\pw HAVEN. Conn. May 2 Sev. land the Diatrict. jeral large printing shops. including that of the Van Dyck Printing Com GEDDES SEES MR. HUGHES. pany. ‘which prints the Tale' Daily News, were affected t a g Sir Auckland Geddes, the British |of e odayityjaatiike ambassador, called on Secretary of union printers demanding a fort four-hour weck and increased pay. Hughcs today at the State Depart-| = ST ment, but It was said that the repa- | BALTIMORE. Md. May 2.—Union rations question was not discussed. (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) . Y N = H Becomes Federal Official. Col. Frank White of Valley City, N. D.. this afternoon was sworn in as treasurer of the United St Secretary Mellon and a number of other ofticials of theldepartment wers present at the ceremony, which took | place in the Secretary's office. Col. White is president of the Midw dle West Trust Company and af. overseas war veteran. He also served in the Philippines during the Span- ish-American war. He is a native of Iliinois, but has lived in- Nerth Dakota for a number of yeara. TWENTY KILLED IN CLASH. Jews and Arabs Battle in Jaffa. 150 Wounded. By the Associated Press. JERUSALEM, May 2.—Twenty per- sons were killed and 150 wounded 1n a clash between Jews and Arabs at Jafta Sunday. Troops succeeded in restoring order without being compelled to_fire on the fighting. crowds. ] | R