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Falr tonight: tomorro’ cloudiness, followed by showers; mil temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: 3 p.m. today; lowest, 52, day. Full report on 9. Closing New York Stocks, Page 25. WEATHER. w increastn High at 4 am. to est, 73, at @he nening Sta WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 28,135. Entered as second-class matter post office Washincton, D. HOUSE IS EXPECTED ~TOADOPT A LIBERAL ~ POLICY ON SCHOOLS Committee Members Confer Wwith Ballou on Actual Needs of D. C. System. FAILURE TO MAKE PLANS COVER MORE CRITICISED | Woodruff Says Program Which | Does Not Entirely Eliminate Portables Is Mistake. A beral policy toward the devel- opment of the District school system will be adopted by the House District committee, if the views of several of its members expressed at an informal conference today with Dr. Frank W. Ballow, superintendent of schools, shape the course to be adopted final- Iy by the committee. The full subcommittee on schools of the District committoe, headed by Iepresentative Walter: chairman, conferred with Dr. Ballou for more than an hour on the actual school needs of Washington. Several mem- bers criticised the failure of the Dis- trict authorities to provide for a Jarger school program, claiming that one appeal should be made to (On: gress which would meet not on present needs, but alse the needs of the future over a period of not less tkan ten years. Favors Further Survey. Representative Keller stated that| would favor an immediate emer-| E:ncy appropriation for additional fa- cilitles provided it was azr—eddxh:z be a survey looking toward the e 't the futare, of which repor should be made to Congress next win- ter. Dr. Ballou agreed with this sug- gestion, but pointed out the difficulty of making a comprehensive survey during the summer months. He said it should be made when school is in ¥ Fhe ‘school superintendent stated that the two-million-dollar program recommended is purely an emergency one and does not take into account the growing needs of the school sys- tpresentative Woodruff inquired if the 32,000,000 program would entirely eliminate portable school buildings. Dr. Ballou said it would not. Making Mistake, Says Woodruff. “You are making a mistake.” Representative Woodruff, “to come to Congress with a piecemeal plan which does not contemplate the abolition of the portable buildings. It will be dif- ficult to get a second appropriation from Congress. The situation shoufd be met fully through a comprehen- gram.’ e eatement WP Répresentative Woodruff led Representative Keller to observe that the subcommitiee was friendly to the lc‘hooll( Tlm'l!lh:: now opportune time fully to present :.-m:eedl of the school system in or- der that Congress may act fully to yellove the conditions complained of apd to prevent their recurrence due % the annually increasing school fon. WASHING TON, D. C, TUESDAY, Member of the Associated Press ' The Associated Press #8 exclusively entitled to the use for republleation of sil news dispatches credited to It ee net stherwise crrdited fa this paper and also e local publisa™l herein. of publication of special herein are also reserved. _TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT GIVES $25 TO FUND TO DECORATE - GRAVES OF SOLDIERS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 10— “For those sons of the republic who gave their lives in the world war” President Harding has contributed $25 to the American Legion's fund for the decoration of American graves in Europe, national head- quarters of the legion announced here today. “It is only a small bit,” the Pres- ident wrote, “but there comes with it my sincere sympathy and my earnest desire for a notable suc- cess of the efforts on the part of the American Legion to make this ceremony a becoming expression of American remembrance. All American activities in France have been consolidated to assist the legion in the decoration of graves on Memorial day, according to a cablegram from Francis E. Drake, commander of the organization's department of France. More than $£20.000 has been contributed by le- ion p osts of America to date, and, according to an announcement from RAILWAY TROUBLE CHARGED 0 COST “Abnormal Amount” for Labor, Kruttschnitt Tells Senate Committee. By the Associated Press. The trouble with the railroads is excessive operating expenses, “an ab- normal amount” of which is the cost | of labor, Julius Kruttschnitt, chair-| man of the board of the Southern Pa- | cific_railroad, declared today before the Senate interstate commerce com- mittee. He was the first witness at the opening of the congressional in- vestigation into the whole transpor- tation situation. Mr. Kruttschnitt suggested five “remedies” which he said were “eas- ily applied and productive of great economies.” They are: “Stop the use for common carrier purposes of highways built with pub- lic moneys without adequate tolls and proper regulations. “Make inland waterways built or improved at public expense carry themselves as to interest on cost and maintenance by regulating the com- mon carrier trafic on them and by imposing adequate tolls. “Keep the United States govern- ment out of the business of operat ing steamships and stop the lavish expenditure of public money to pro: vide coast-to-eoast ocean transporta tion in competition with transconti- nental railroads. “Tolls for use of the Panama canal i THE PRESIDENT AND THE CAPITAL For Us He Is “Three Gentle- men at Once”—President Harding, Gov. Harding, Mayor Harding. THE IDEAL PRESIDENT Editorial Correspondence of The Star. THEODORE W. NOYES. | The successive Presidents of the United States (including the District of Columbia) have been not only to Wash- ingtonians Presidents, but governors of | the District and mayors of the city of the national headquarters, the | ¢ Di % amount will exceed $30,000 by |Washington. And to us of the District May 15. the President is, like Mrs. Malaprop's Cerberus, “three gentlemen at once,” to wit.: President Harding, Gov. Harding and Mayor Harding. How faithfully has each successi President-Governor-Mayor of the Dis- rict performed his diversified func- tions? A study of the Presidents in every ome since Washington, with the exception of President Wilson, has as the minimum of consideration expressed in some message during his administra- tion a sympathetic patriotic interest in the capital and its people. And many of them have urged personally and put in opcration practical measures of mate- rial upbuilding or artistic adornment of the capital. President Wilson, who broke so many precedents, specialized in his messages, dealing only with the most important of national and_international topics, over- looking the District. President Harding has, as senator, lived for years in the nation’s city. He has legisiated for it on municipal and national lines. He has mingled with its people, democratically, interestedly and sympathetically. He has golfed with them, and has spoken helpfully at their meetings, organizing for service to pro- mote the local and national welfare. He qualifies as a good Washingtonian as well as a good American. The capi- tal community is confident of the new President’s sympathetic interest in the welfare of the people of the nation's city, and of practical, effective labors Yy _him to promote its upbuilding and material development. Financial Equity for Washington. The presidential thoughts concern- ing Washington embodied in presi- dential messages not only consti- tute an interesting record of what has been done, but a treasury and arsenal of facts, figures and opinions of value ir reaching a wise conclu- sicn as to what should be done to de- vdop and nromote the welfare of the capital. For instance from the time of Washington, Adams, Jeffer- son and Monroe sidelights are thrown on the circumstances surrounding their relation to the capital shows that | I MAY 10, 1921—-THIRTY PAGES. COME ON, 'FORE HE ( WAKES P! T ASSESSMENTLAW CHANGES PROPOSED Commissioners Send to Con- gress a Bill Relating to Property Taxation. Two important changes in the law relating to the assessment of prop- erty for taxation in the District are provided for in a bill sent to Con- gress by the Commissioners today. The principal amendment provides that whenever a piece of property is sold there must be filled with the deed a sealed paper giving the true con- sideration involved in the sale. The other important change fs in- the creation of the capital by the nation. the responsibility of the na- tion for its city and the financial re- should be sufficient to pay interest on its cost, operating expenses and main- flexibly enforcing & strict short haul clasuse.™ Propaganda Charged. Mr. Kruttschnitt read a statement, which opened with the as- sertion that freight rates were responsible for business depression. “Widespread propaganda is being carried on to arouse public senti- Fecht Probes Situation. an Focht of the ‘Di-trt‘!hct committee was present during the conference and asked a number of ons, indicating his interest in the school situation. One of these was with respect to the effect on the school population by the exodus of war workers. Dr. Ballou said that §f there has been any reduction in ‘Washington's population it not ap- parent in the school enrollment. At- Tendance in the schools, he said, has increased steadily during the past few years, averaging from 3 to 4 per_cent annually. ‘Chairman Focht inquired as to the number of Maryland and Virginia children attending school in the Dis- trict. Dr. Ballou replied that about 2,400 childrers residing outside the District attend school here without paying tuition charges. He called attention to the fact that Congress had made this possible through laws permitting the chil- dren of government employes and parents who earn their livelihood in Washington to attend the District #chools on the same basis as children | District. It was ex- Ballou that if these led substantially the of children residing same number would continue outside the D to attend scho Representative Millspaugh said he wcgld favor repealing the laws and comipelling all children who reside outside of the District but who at tend the local schools to pay tuition. Representative Blanton stated that he had inspected the Johnson and Powell schools and found little or 1o cause for complaint. He said that he favored abolition of portable bulldings eventually, but questioned whether an extensive bullding pro- gram should be entered upon at this fime with the government facing a $3,000,000,000 debt. SCHOOL BETTERMENT URGED. Recommendations by Chairman of Citizens' Federation Committee. Recommendations for bettering tre | public schools of the District of Co. lumbia were made in a letter sent by Jesse C. Suter, chairman of the com- mittes on education of the Federa tion of Citizens' Associations, to “hairman Capper of the Senate com mittee Investigating the schools and made public by Senator Capper today. Referring to the “school betterment program,” adopted a year ago, which included adequate pay for teachers, more teachers, adequats buildings, teachers’ retirement and a_ business manager for the schools, Mr. Sater wrote that only one of these recom- mendations — retirement —had been taken care of fully. The first threc recommendations have been “only scratched.” Mr. Suter sald, the fifth has not been touched at all Specific Recoramendations. Declaiming agalnst “a general or revolutionary reorganization of the schools” Mr. Suter made the follow- ing ific recommendations: “Reduction in the size of classes to permit pupils to get some individual attention from the teachers pervised xtudy at school instead | of home study: all home study should | be abolished helow high school. “Half day sessions in the third and fourth grades snould be abolished, as the law requires. “Closer _supervision teachers In classrooms. “A business manager who shall rank as assistant superintendent. “More coaching teachers to assist slower children and those who have been retardedr because of illness. “A regular salaried corps of substi- tute teachers. “A pew de] under an ot AContinued on Page 2, Column 1.) . of work of ment against existing freight rates,’ sald. “The fact is that even since The witness told the committee that lations of the nation and capital in the National Capital partnership, first in discussion of the wise disposition land endowment; nd ehde ” < b, Ut the. ety to unaidéed tha nation's task of capital development; snd then, under Grant and Hayes, in the wise re- adjustments created by the acts of 1874 and 1878 (see Sonator Southard’ report in Jackson's administ: in connection with Jackson's sympa- thetic reference to the city's financial condition and needs). | the rates have been advanced the cost Concerning Washington as t| of transporting commodities is far {of a national university and | less than the toll taken by the com- |rztional educational center of t! | mission merchant and the retailer.” a he re- in his public, George Washington es, as well as in his letters ani | | ness. messag: the general deflation and fall of |his will, Jefferson a it prices had caused stagnation of busi- | Mesmages, Monros in com- To support his argument that | mending = Columbian _College, _John railroad rates were not responsible, {Quincy Adams, Grant and Hayes he said that notwithstanding the low- [ bave put themselves vigorously on | est_ooean tonnage rates in history |record. millions of tons of shipping here and | A few other recommendations for abroad were rusting in idieness be- |the material welfare of the Diatrict cause there was such a small demand |are distributed as follows among the for_goods. Presidents. Jail—Jefferson, Roosevelf “The percentage of freight charges |Taft Codification of laws—Jackson to the average value of commodities | (1830, etc.), Van Buren (1337), Pierce shipped in the early part of 1931~ B (1353), Cleveland he added, “is only two-tenths of 1 (1 ). [ Botomac beid per cent Ereater than in 1914 Jackson (1832, 1334 and 18: ;B our railroads |supply—Fillmore (1850, 1853, 1853), intensified by the results of | Pierce (1853), Hayes (1380). Insane x months of an experiment | asylum—Tyler (1843), Plerce (1853). in government ownership Police—Tyler (1841). 'Reclamation of tion. The word ‘ownership used [ Potomac flats—Hayes (1877 to 1880). advisedly, as the federal 2d- | Public improvements, streets, public ministration treated the railroads as | grounds, canals, etc..-Monfos. (1824), {if they were absolutely owned by |Fillmore (1852), Grant (1873, etc.). | the government and turned them back | Charitable institutions—Fillmore’ (1853 | to their owners helplessly bound In | Lincoln (1863-4), Hayes (1878). Board of Jlmpmv!de_v;,g agreements in the mak- | charities—Hayes (1377). Rallroads in which their owners had no | Washington—Lincoln (1861), Hayes (1878), Arthur (1881). New District building—Arthur _(1884). Cleveland A quor law: leveland (1885 | (1886). ~ Li laws—Cleveland (18 nd his letter i i | Taking up labor costs, Mr. Krutt- senite said the !Increnx‘e of this cosi | in 1920 over was $873,814,652 and | to 1888), Harriso; 89 { that if the increased scale which be- "s.wen.)e' bt Hl“r'r}!t’:)r; gcame effective retroactively last May | (1889). National Capital centenniai— had been in force during the whole | McKinley (1898, 1899, 1900). Bocial vear of 1920 the wage blll for that|and economic legislation—Roosevelt, year would have been approximately | Taft Park extension—Taft. ,980,¢ ), Or $2,240,517,858 than 1t was in 1917, the last year of |Frosideat and People of Waskington. private operation before the war. The Presidents have not neglected “The government having strangled | to consider the welfare. either of the the raliroads into something like | national city, with its streets, parks, bankruptcy,” he concluded, “at last|buildings and monuments, or of the removed its hands and permitted a | Deople composing city, - the sudden increase in rates that should | National Capital community. And in have been gradual and started at least | thinking wisely and sympathetically twelve years ago. We should bear in | concerning' this community they have | mind and circulate widely the Presi- | planned to meet not only the people’s | dent’s epigram, ‘More business in gov- | moral and Intellectual needs, but to ernment and less government in busi- | satisfy so far as the national inter- ness’* permit their political rights as Adjourns Untfl Tor Ame”?n:tdttr:"“ It is n:ly o‘f h:e years e monstrous doctrine is e o omcluded | propounded that the national interest mittee adjourned until tomorrow. requires that half a million or a mil- In opening . the - session \fman | 1lon of Americans at the seat of gov- ummins read a summary of rajlroad | ernment shall be forever de-Ameri- earnings since 1913, showing larger | canized, remaining perpetual aliens so | revenues each ysar, but operating ex- | far as representation in the legisla- penditures rising at an even swifter | tive and executive branches of gov- rate. The tendency culminated, he!ernment is concerned, and less than {said, when in the year ended March allens (the Supreme Court has said) |1, 1921, the roads received $6,175,962,- [in their relation to the judicial 000 for transportation services and |branch of the national government. spent $5.825,388.510 in operating ex-| copcerning the t of penses. After deducting taxation and [, CPRSMTRINE the Eovernmen rental charges, Senator Cummins = L - people are the references of Mon- said, the carriers had a met return {8 from investment of only $2,000,000, o i) Ik Fittam Heany (1366), “I think it is apparent that revenues | Harrison (1841), Johnson can never be increased from M‘"‘”Gnnt (1871, 1872, 1873, 1874), Hayes j rates,” Senator Cummins said. “If 1 | cannot raise the rallroad revenues, tne | (1877 to 1880, inclusive), Cleveland problem before us is that of ascertain. | (CORCerning police regulations) 1886, ing whether these raifroads’ revenues | ROOSevelt = (transmitting Reynolds’ report), 1308, and Taft (in oppos! tion to local franchise), 1912. In the | same connection are to be considered | the local referendum vote under Bu- chanan (1858), and Johnson's veto | ! The i | portation industry of our country ha: | more prior thereto, sh: become permanently an unprofitable | business.” The chairman sald he presented his | statistics for the year ended March 1, because that was the first year of pri. vate operation after government con- trol. “That's true,” sald Bm.ltu scarcely A Kellogg, republican, Minnesota. “For | been Lheannt six mon;hl of that year rail- road operating expenses were fixed statute. That {50t private '” message (1866), discussing the right | of the people of the capital to cast| a referendum vote which should be respected by Congress. Cordial and Reciprocal Regard. Summarising, the relations between and Washingtonians have and marked by recipro- cal regard. !Tt:: Pro:l.llent‘ though not & part of maunicipal corpora- tion which directly The committee discussed its prlcy | tive toward witnesses, and Senator Town- send, republican, Michigan, demanded that “all witnesses here be sworn; ‘we've heard too many contradictions.” Chairman Cummins remarked that ap- plying the oath to witnesses was not the usual custom, but Mr. Kruttanitt was sworn. Hon snd an fmpor- tant factor v leglala- tive power of Congress in respect 8o Pnd‘h. d nlt m.r:o.rlod o and responaibilities and In et |misstoners t NAMED BY PRESIDENT. Walter F. Brown to Be Represent- ative on Commission. Walter F. Brown of Toledo, Ohio, has been appointed by President Harding as his personal representa- tive on the commission which is re- organizing the executive branch of the government. Mr. Brown, long a personal friend and who acted as MASONS PROPOSE - NEW HOME HERE Convention Considering Na- tional Headquarters to Cost $1,000,000. ing session of the sixteenth annual and New York avenue northwest, day. tended to enable the District to as- sess and tax persons who live here practically throughout the year, but who clalm exemption from local tax- ation on the ground that they main: tain a voting residence in a state. S aw Foquirng (e : ng A WuAt involved. in real éstite mfl Be Stated II;::U deed, but strong such legisiation. t The Commissi minissioners believe their new bill will not be objectionable, since it rovides that the information be given such a way as not to be open to the public. The section of the bill dealing with this change reads as follows: “Section 5. That hereafter no deed, except deeds of release, deeds of trust or other deeds not involving the transfer of title to real estate, shall be recorded among the land records of the District of Columbia unless it is accompanied by a statement, addressed to the assessor of the Diatrict of Columbia, flvl the information hereinafter re- lerred to, and the recorder of deeds of said District is directed to receive such sealed statement and transmit it to the assessor of said District without break- ing the seal. “Said sealed statement shall be made by the grantee and shall be on a form approved by said assessor and shall contain the names of the grantor and grantee, together with their ad- dresses; the full nature of the trans- action, together with the true amount of all moneys paid or received, and any other consideration in addition to said moneys shall be given and certified to by the grantee or an au- thorized agent. To Be Held as Confidential. “The information contained in the sealed statement shall be regarded as confidential by said assessor and shall be used by him, or by the said board of assistant assessors, for the equaliza- tion of asessments of real esiate in the District of Columbia in accordance with the requirements of law. “If any such grantee or his author- ized agent shall fail to make any statement or shall make any false statement of the nature of the trans- action, or as to the amount of money actually involved, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to & fine of not less than $5 and not more than $500 for each of- fense. Such offenses shall be prose- cuted in the Police Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia in the name of said District by the corporation counsel or. any of his assistants.” ‘Text of Tax Clamse. ‘The section of the bill relating to the taxation of persons who live in the District but who have interests elsewhere reads as follows: “For the purposes of this act, any person maintaining a place of abode |in the District of Columbia on July 1 of any year and for six months or 1 be consider- ed resident of the District of Co- lumbia, and shall be taxable on his tangible personal property if located ported that a resolution had el nted to the body providing for r capita tax of $2 to provide a fund | for the erection of a building here to be mn;uon.la headquarters of the! rEan on and to cost in the neigh- i-rwu 80 of $1,000,000. vided for lishm city of the pational head- The quarters. row morning. Mr. Hays Lauded. William J. McMullen of the Postal Square Club, New York city, paid a tribute to Postmaster General Hays, a Mason, as “the most humane man who had ever filled the Postmaster Gen- eral's chair” Speaking of the fact that the Postmaster General had WALTER F. DROWN. his floor manager at the Chicago con- Proposal to add another beautiful! building to Washington's collection of fine structures was made at the open- ' him—he disappeared. but prob; man of the resolutions committee, re- be: ent |ty maintain order against Korfanty Polish insurgents, who are well organ- | ized and equipped, enabling them to hold [¢ion and violence with which Ger- the positions seized by them following airman, in reporting the resolution favorably for the com- mittee, asked that discussion of it go over until the business session tomor- vention last year, probably will be chosen as chairman of the reorgani- zation commission, the other members of which are senators and repre sentatives. A_supporter of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, Mr. Brown has taken an ac- tive part in republican politics in Ohlo. _Last year he was a candidate for the republican nomination for United States senator, and was de- feated by Senator Frank B. Willis. PROBE OF WAR BUYING. President Asks Investigation of Profiteering on Contracts. ney General Daugherty to investigate charges of profiteering in contracts and purchases made by the War De- partment during the war. Evidence developed by the House committee on expenditures in the War Department, to the department for inquiry. An investigation has been in prog- ress for some time, espechlly in con- nection with purchases of harness and leather goods, it was said, but a special inquiry as a result of the President's request probably will be begun sho: Today’s News A in Paragraphs House expected to adopt liberal policy on achools. Page 1 Excessive operating expenses declared trouble of railw: Page 1 New town In Silesia captured by Poles ‘who cross Oder river. Page 1 President attends i{nitiation ceremony of Almas Temple. Page President Harding has asked Attor-| called to Washington heads of organ izations in New York city for the dis cussion of welfare work, he declared there wasn't a member of the fra- ternity on the committee. Mr. McMullen sald that he is going to have a conference with the Post- master General while in Washington and ask him to appoint a Mason from the Postal Square Club. Edward E. Britten, president of the Ashiar Club of this city, pointed to the President and 3 number of cabi- net officers who were Masons, and id that the country now has an ministration which Masons can look upon’ with pride, whether they are re- publicans or southern democrats. The convention was opened by Jo- seph T. Slingsby of Rutherford, N. J., and addresses of welcome, following the | invocation by Rev. James Shera Mont- gomery, were delivered by Judge James W. Witten, chairman of the gen. eral committee; Charles J. O'Neiil, grand master of Masons of the District of Columbia, and J. Thilman He drllck former Commissioner of the Dis- trict President Slingsby reviewed the id today, has bee year's history of the organization oMo o2 ¥, has been referred | glelled at length on its great growth. | He pointed out that there was a fine field ahead, saying that the clubs were valuable assets to the lodges with which they were connected. Edward A. McKinnon, national sec- retary-treasurer, told of the growing esprit de corps of the organization, and presented figures to show that the or- ganization was in an excellent financial state. The meeting was thrown open to the delegates for a discussion of ways, means and methods for increasing the number of clubs, and many dwelt on the need of adopting some ceremonial at meetings to draw out the members and keep up interest. P G. H. Peterson of New York, said that he had found scores of Masons who did not know anything about the Masonic clubs, and pointed to the great need of education to acquaint the Masons throughout the country with the work of the clubs. With a little more activity on the part of members, n the District of Columbia during the | Warning letter brought out in Bergdoll | he said, the league could be made the period of his domicile therein or for any fractional part thereof; said per- son shall also be taxable on his in- tangible personal property wherever located, unless evidence shall be sub- the | suck ther | Gompers issues hordes of ‘That cabinet officers, members of Con and persons im the service em United States government elected for & definite term of office shsll not be considered as residents of the District of Columbia for the purposes of this act. Another section of the bill provides that new buildings and improvements on land shall be assessed every six | months instead of once a year, as at! resent. “This proposed change,” the Com- 1 Congress, “is impor- tant, as large apartments require considerable time for erection and they are built in such a way that the roof is put on after the building has been three-fourths completed. A large apartment house escapes taxa- tion for three-fourths of a year cause it was not completed or the roof placed thereon July 1 of the tax- able year.” “The bill provides for an assessment December 1 ! b i algirvovants a who n_owo;;:; a l::oy; » inquiry. Page 2 Adolphus Gude made grand commander. Page 2 announced for National Capi- Page tal horse show. Convicts expose huge thefts through forging of money orders. warning to “greedy f employers.” Page 12 Jane Addams to preside at in of women to advance world Page 13 peace. Gen. P. C. Harris declares that every- thing possible was done by the War Department to insure the of the lists of draft deserters. Page 14 utilities before Senate committee, urges revision of federal tax laws. Page 6 |urged most gigantic organization in the his- tory of the United States. He asked that the convention take some action toward mapping out plan for spreading before the Masons of the country the value of organizing clubs. James P. Wilson of New Jersey, mixing pleasure with the club work. He sald that the trouble had ‘been that after clubs had started they were attacked with a form of infan- tile paralysis. Boston Wants Convention. Boston's invitation to hold the next convention in that city was offered by W. L. Terhune. He said that if the P. H. Gadsden, representing public|delegates wanted to know how to" build up organizations they should come to Boston and make a study of 1 T ® | nis organization, which in six months he Northeast Washington Citizens'|yaq grown from an organization of Assoclation urges housewlves to bake | 309 members with a debt of $3,000 to their own bread in order to bring|, embership of 1,600 members with down bakers’ prices. Page 17| 35,000 in the treasury and nearly Count Greppi, world's oldest diplomat, | $30,000 worth of bonds disposed of for Qles. Page 17 | putting up a clubhouse to cost a half Representative commits suicide because |a million dollars. ~ Boston, he said, O depression caused by iliness. ©as the largest per capita Masonic » Page 17| membership of any city in the United Postmaster Chance- again urges busl- | "3 % pps was taken during the Tems men €0, migil sacly. Fagull session to permit the dele- gates to Piney Branch citizens back $5,000,000 examine the gavel used by school building program. 17 rge Washington in the laying of th officer urges cleaning up of |the cornerstone of the Capitol. It is homes in addition to swatting fly. the preperty of the Potomac Masonic Page 17| Lodge of Georgetown, is kept in a Dr. Frederick B. Power presented vauit here, and cannot be taken out Medal for distinguished research work ' ¢Xcept by a committee of three Masons $a London. Page 30 (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) . N PRESIDENT HARDING NOT INSISTING UPON HASTY PEACE ACTION H not ask- e adoption resolution, irding i by it high administra- | but because of the | in Europe growing out | rations settiement. he is ing that there should be ¥ haste in putting the measure through NEW TOWN FALLS Insurgents Push on Across Oder to Kosel—Popula- tion Flees in Terror. GERMANS ENCOUNTER FOE Patrols Near Ratibon in Pursuit of Alleged Slayer—Hard Fight at Rail Station. By the Associated Pross. OPPELN, Upper Silesia, May 10— Insurgent Polish forces have crossed Kosel. after hard fighting. ulation is fleeing in panic. The pop- uge in the Kosel barracks the {Poles opened fire on him ther: | cording to interallicd comm ports. Numerous casualties have occurred at the Krandrzin rail- way station when the Poles drove out the Germans after three days’ contin- uous fighting. German Patrols Cross Riye RATIBOR, Upper Silesia, May German patrols crossed the Oder into Upper Silesia just before day i terday morning and captured one of whom spected of killing a number of G The leader of the patrol, a twenty-three years of age. declared the Pole had admitted the killings. When asked what he was going to do about it. the patrol leader a on re- re reported to {two men were detailed to attend be found floating down the Oder. Italian troops here declare th and appear to be great | by their German captors. | selves. Interallted Forces Powerlens. By Cable to The Star and Cliicazo Daily News. Copyright, 1 RATIBOR, Silesia, May 9 (delayed) The resolution | —The interallied forces are powerless the general strike that began on May Kosel and G Kattowitz to Beuthen. |aid of German militia newly formed itrances to the towns. All the village: |are held by the Poles. Hence cities are cut off, making it a que: of only a few s when_th capitulate if Korfanty is able the routes. Thus far the fighting has not been serious, the casualties being few. example, in the region of Ratibor the ion y mus o hoid wounded. posed to have been higher because under the fire of the Germans on the west bank. ¥ The interallied garrisons in the cities are in precarious position. The troops in Rybnik, cut off and out- numbered, cannot hope to resist if at- tacked seriously. The Poles evident- {1y are intrenching against a reaction by the Germans and allies. If they are |1t alone a weck it will require heavy fighting to dislodge them. . Hitherto the losses on both sides ha been unimportant, but uniess diplomatic action brings about the ! Geparture of the Poles there will be real war. | WAR HERO FOUND DEAD. BOSTON, May 10.—Capt. Paton Mec- | Gilvary, hero of several notable bomb- |ing raids as an American fiyer with Italian forces in the world war, was found dead in the rear of a garage in the Back Bay district today. He had been shot over the left eye. An automatic pistol lay nearby. Medical Examiner Leary said the cir- cumstances indicated suicide, but that investigation would be thorough. | Capt. McGilvary, who had been deco- rated with the Italian war cross for bravery, entered the commercial avia- tion field in New England after the war. His venture was said to have re- sulted in financial losses. His health jwas impaired and he went to the | woods for a rest. The body bore only the forehead wound. although at least two shots were fired. This fact, together with the disturbed condition of the ground nearby, led to a more thorough in- vestigation than usual. McGilvary also wore the golden crown and wing, an Italian decora- tion conferred on the members of the first group of American aviators to reach the Italian front. He was born in Berkeley, Calif, thirty-four years ago, and was graduated from University of Wisconsin in 1906. He was & member of a flying circus that gave exhibitions at Cleveland and other cities after the war. | LONDON, May 10.—A1l that glit- ters is not gold, but lack of glitter is not a certain test for worthless- ness, it was found by gold diggers along a river in Papua recently. While engaged in their search for the yellow metal the men en- countered a bluish-gray, flakish substance, which they cast aside as worthless. Two weeks ago two and one-half pounds of this substance was bought in this city by an American firm for approximately $6,000, or eight times the value of the same amount of gold. It was osmiridium, a member of the platinum group of metals, one of the hardest metals known, and used for the tipping of fountain pens and for delicate .bearings of l T N COUP 0F POLES the Oder and captured the town of | The French control officer took ref-| “He was taken ten paces away and to people’s part ly could !last night, debating convention of the National League of 'lost severely in recent nghung‘a)m:‘ian‘.e s Masonic Clubs in the auditorium of ' the Poles, the New Masonic Temple, 13th street ¥ in-| Gustav Stre; censed. They are declared to have shown ' night to have become re | unkindness toward Polish prisoners, who to- | are generally being handed over to themjoin the majority socialists Ammunition Roe Fulkerson of this city, chair- has been received here from Bresiau and |ing u from Oppeln, and German citizens are te being armed’ and told to defend them- and with posts established at the en- | government troops s|w e For Polish troops tried to cross the Oder other citiosiatior, the war (0} )4 wiouotithe Raknivale0 LI B PROSPECTORS IN HUNT FOR GOLD CAST ASIDE METAL 8 TIMES VALUE EX-MINISTER TAKES iUP TASK OF PICKING CABINET IN BERLIN | {Dr. Wirth, Former Head of Finance, Agrees to Try to Cocfiplete Portfolio. ACCEPTANCE OF DEMANDS ANTICIPATED BY FRANCE | i |German Parties Seem Ready fo Yield to Allies—Loss of Silesia and Ruhr Feared. By the ated Press. BERLIN, May 10.—Dr. Wirth, for- merly minister of finance in the cabi- net of Chancellor Fehrenbach, today agreed to attempt to form a new cabinet. Dr. Wirth came into prommence in German national politics early las year when he entered the cabinet of i Chancellor Mueller as minister of the ved in that cap: minister of Chancellor sented in the shrenbach, i i its resignation last Dr. Wirth, a member of the center lor clerical” party, was formerly {minister of finance in the | ernment. He has long | leaders of the center rmany. party May 10.—F ad “indicated th | the majority socialist, | president of the hstag, would be ked to form a mini but appar- the party confere developed e necessity of a mov another di- { rection. | Acceptance of the allied ultimatum relative to reparations was expect- |ed in the reichstag here tod: that body convened | | advi { tha in conferenc to have Isult of their {were believed aligned themselves in favor of yield {ing to the entente demands, while the democratic and s held a long s the matter, it was opposition to the allied apidly dwindling, party, headed mann, was t !felt that The peopl, inevitable, and it was said it would n ; not_de- ring to antagonize the parties mak- the government coalition. Yes- iay's events appeared to show that the situation had resolved itself intg competition be n the various parties for first place in the assent- ing column. Social Pledge port. « The majority socielists adopted a resolution” yesterday, pledging their pport to “every sincere effort to fcarry out the terms pregented at London, in view of the military coer- i i man part is thre yielded to tened. The center arzuments presented Korfanty holds the entire country VY Dr. Wilhelm Mayer, German am- region east of a line following the | bassador to Paris, and ‘would, it was Oder river from Oderberg to Ratibor, < r oss Strehlitz, completely | 0 @ resolution expressing Germany's cutting off the industrial region from |#cceptatice of the entente demands. All the cities! 1 1 are held by interallied troops with the ' Briand of France. in which Germany lieved today, give undivided suppo The note sent to Berlin by Premier informed that the sending of to Upper Silesia ould be considercd by France as a olation of the Versailles treaty, had {an influence i ni about a deci- Lsion on the veral deputies to join the elements ready to accept the allied ultimatum. Bernstorft for Acceptance. The French premier’'s communica- | w i Germans report ten killed and forty; tion was generally viewed here as be- The Polish losses are sup-, traying an overzealous desire to stimu- \late among reichstag parties opposi- tion to signing the entente terms. Leading democratic deputies declared vesterday that acceptance of the ul- timatum would be the most effective way of counteracting French aspira- tions, and contended that a sincere effort on the part of Germany to carry out the conditions of the ultimatum would strengthen her case in the United States and England. Count Pvon Bernstorff, former German am- bassador to the United States, was one of the most prominent demo- cratic deputies to champion accept- ance, a course he has persistently ad- L Vo confercnces and in ! public speech “If the Pole: the French inv: eal Upper Silesia and de the Ruhr distric w ened that she will be un fout the reparation conditions. ared Theodor WOolff, editor of the Tageblatt, yesterday. This statement occurred in the course of an editorial in which Dr. Wolff declared he had come to the conclusion that accept- ance of the allied ultimatum would “be the better part of valor for Ger- many.” “Lincoln’s warning,” he continued, “not to swap horses while crossing a stream, has not been observed in the present situation. The retiring cab- inet gravely complicated the crisis by retreating.” NEWS INDICATES YIELDING. By the Associated Press PARIS, May 10.—News received from Berlin this morning led French official circles to expect that Ger- many would accept al the ultimatum conditions. Germany has two more days in which to give the categorical answer to the allied reparation demands re- quired by the ultimatum, the time ex- piring at midnight May i2. The terms, |in the main, call for payment by Ger- many of approximately $33,750,000,000 and fulfiliment of various other require- ments of the tgeaty of Versailles, in- cluding _the /disarmament ~clauses. Failure to Dt i8 to be followed by allied occupation of the industrial re- gion of the Ruhr valley. fine machinery thut the prospectors cast aside. The men were digging in a river bed at Paqua, British New Guinea. and in their eagerness to discover gold disregarded the osmiridium, which is worth £40 an ounce. % When the prospectors returned to thelr settlement at night they re- marked about the strange sub- stance turned up. A mining en- gineer told them of their error and they hurried back to discover that the arrival of tropical rains had 'r;hbd away most of the precious stuff. By careful work they raked to- gether what was left, had it re- fined and sent to London. The metal was eagerly bought by the American company. ;