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. ‘WEATHER. 0 ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 81, at 2 at 8 am. today. i} Showers tonight and tomorrow; n change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours p.m. yesterday: lowest, 56, Closing New York Stocks, Page 25. No. 28.135. PREMIERS TAKE UP ~ PLANS TO COLLECT R} * . AS GERMANS YIELD Provisions of Ultimatum Re- ferring to Disarmament Discussed by Allies. ACCEPTANCE DELIVERED BY MINISTER AT LONDON Decision to Accept Demands Voted in Reichstag—Dr. Wirth Names New Cabinet. inted Press PARIS, May 11.—Premier Briand, the ministers of war. finance, marine, publie works and liberated regions, Marshal Foch and Gen. Weygand, met{ with President Millerand this morn- ing to discuss measures necessary for .the execution of the demands pre- scribed in the allied ultimatum to Ger- many on May 3. The clauses prescribing the acts to be performed by Germany In case of her acceptance of the ultimatum rela- tive to disarmaments of the military. naval and aerial branches of her gerv- ice were discussed. The application of the financial measures laid down by the allies in their ultimatum was ltkewise examined, but the decisions reached were not announced. Delivered in Lon: LONDON, May 1l.—Germany’s un- conditional acceptance of the entente reparations was delivered to Prime Minister Lloyd George by Dr. Sthamer, ierman minister to Great Britain here today. Mr. Lloyd Georze announced in the house of commons this afternoon Ger- many's complete acceptagce of all the allied demands. His ahnouncement was greeted with prolonged cheering. Dr. Sthamey ‘handed the German re- 1y to the prime minister at 11 o'clock his morning and Mr. Lloyd George immediately telegraphed the news to all the governments congerned. FRENCH VIEW DOUBTFUL. Newspapers Demand Proof of Ger- man Compliance. PARIS, May 11.—Newspapers of this @'ty professed this morning to see in Germany’s acceptance of the allied reparation demands preof that Ger- ny complies only to the argument ¢ force. At the same time they ex- pressed doubts as to her fulfillment of ner underiaking. . “German statesmen.” sald the FI- ro. “made up their minds only. at e last moment, but Snally decided accept in _primelple. As for the xecution of her agreement. we Wwill «ce what time will bring.” “Let the German governmen! pay ind disarm.” declared the Journale. therwise, like all.faithless debtors, ve omly herself to blame w il she finds herpelf sold up.” The Echo de ris remarked: “The mans. in ing to the ultima- am. have the air of complying to what is asked of them, but no onme tenceforth may deny us the right to 0 ahead upon the first backsliding of sur adversary.” FRAMING ACCEPTANCE NOTE. -New German Cabinet Working on Formal Communication. . May 1l.—Germany’'s reply ied uitimatum, accepting the Entered as second-class matter post_office_Washington, D. C. GERMANS BEND TO ALLIES AMID DRAMATIC SCENLS | , Reichstag l)elegatés BY GEORGE WITTE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | Copyright. 1921 | BERLIN, Germany, May 11.—Today | | the German people woke up, each in- | dividual with a burden of 22,000 gold { marks ( 6) in debt placed on his | shoulders in the early hours of this morning by the reichstag. While two blocks away, on Friedrichstrasse, Ber- lin's night life was throbbing to the tune of champagne corks, gay laughter and blaring jazz bands, the German parliament, after a long ssion, | ment to sign the demands contained in the allied ultimatum, which expires tonight. Parliament, with its spontaneous outbursts of pent-up emotions and its hundreds of shifting. overheated, nerv- ous human beings who seemed to be | sitting on fire, made quite a_different picture from that seen on the same day fifty years ago, when in Frankfort Bismarck and a large assemblage of Germans witnessed the signing of the Franco-German peace treaty by the Kumiliated French. Cheers and Shrieka. The actual fighting out of the issues among the parties had been accom- plished during the last few days. Nevertheless the excitement among the crowds in the galleries was no- ticeable. There were evidences of ex- citement also among even the coolest members of the parliament. Dignified | trembling hands and quivering lips | as one by one the 420 delegates were asked to answer ves or no to the | question whether the allies’ ultima- tum should be accepted. The dele- gates in the younger set accompanied their answers with cheers or cat calls, jWhile the women delegates occasion- ally burst into shrieks. Now and thén the president of the reichstag FARRELL T0 HEAD NEW SHIP BOARD Active Head of U. S. Steel Corporation Expected to { Acgept Proffer of Task. James A. Farrell, active head of the | United States Steel Corporation. will { ibein{ reorganized by President Harding. speak authoritatively, further belief that the announcement will be made at the White House within | the next forty-eight hours. i Mr. Farrell was asked by the Presi- { dent several weeks ago to head the new | board, and it is intimated that the White House has reason to belleve it will re- ceive his acceptance some time today. is known to have been in conference with the President’s intimate supporters. It is understood that Mr. Farrell, who ! arrived here yesterday, talked with the | President last night, and that it was then that the question of acceptance, but for the settiement of a few. details, was | | decided upon. @he | Decision Is Put Up to Each One—Night Life Throbbing Two Blocks Away. passed a bill authorizing the govern- white-haired politicians waited with | Lhemmngy WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESPDAY, MAY 11, 1921-THIRTY PAGES. — IPOLISH OFFENSE N SLESIA HALTED * BY LLES THIE |Korfanty Agree.s to Keep In- the | | dustrial Arez, for the Pres- ent an/l End Fight. Falter es Ullimatum sounded a bell for order when noise became too uproarious. For an hour, until after midnight, the roll call continued. The at- mosphere In the poorly ventilated hall | was suffocating. Many eyelids became | red from tje glare of the lights, but | no delegate budged from his seat. | | “Outside in the cool air of the night | |a small crowd waited patiently until | ; : i FRENCH /'ROOPS ENGAGE | then Brone out with eries of ~aown | INSURGENTS IN BATTLE | with the government.” Most of the; members of the crowd were nat al- lists who regathered soon after the j police had dispersed them and march | ed ‘away singing “Deutschland Uber | Alles | Wound.:d Soldiers Brought to Op- peln—500 Poles Reported Kill- ¢d in Another Encounter. Pledged to Fulfill Demas | After apologizing for the decision | to accept the allied terms hich un-| der other circumstances no German | BY Vie Associated Press | would dream of signing.” the coali-| V.ONDON, May 11.—It is reported that negotiations between the inter- a/llied commission in upper ilesia and nouncement was received with jeers [/Adelbert Korfanty, leader of the l;l)' both communists and roac(iol\arie?.lyl’olish insurgents in that area, re- owever, a universal satisfaction i¥!guiteq last evening in the suspension felt over the prospect of seeing tie| carefully prepared French plans 7o |of hostilities, says a dispatch to the pecupy the Ruhr foiled at the Vist [central news from Warsaw today. The new cabinet is composed of vaild | 1t W88 agreed, according to this mannered: men, and Germans gengrally | FEPOTt that the insurgents would oc-| Look If;:f;;v:l-;g”tf- Suleter times "givenicupy a line of demarcation agreed| v to reconstruction as f oon as the Upper Silesian queyion is | UPO" and remain in the stipuldted definitely settled. “Once the supreme |POSitions pending final settlement of council has made its decisi giving the upper Silesian question, which is us the greater part of Uppe'r Silesia, |still pending in allied coundcils, where | which according to the plebiscite be- |it rested following the taking of the longs to Germany. then e WL get recent plebiscite in this area in dis- s tion parties formally pledged them- | Selves to bend every effort toward ful- filling the allies’ demands. This an- rid of the Polish ban quickly : put > ¢ : > e between Poland and Germany. jenough.” is the overwheliming senti- | The industrial territory. which has| jment in the reichstag. Ibeen largely overrun by the Poles. | { An _interesting feature in the final| ¢ ain under Polish solution of the cabingt erisie was‘;tz;:,?.:fi-“""m remain u President Ebert's threaf to resign un- | 8 ¢ less the democrats comsented to take Frenchi Esgage: ol | representation in the ministry. The| OPPELN. Silesia, May 11.—French democrats acceded te, his ultimatum |troops engaged in an artillery duel land are now represgnted in the goy-|With insurgent Poles near Groscho- {ernment witz, about six miles south of this ity, yesterday. The Poles replied to, {the French fire with several smali —_— i ifield pieces. A number of slightly | ! wounded French soldiers have been {brought here, and other wounded | 1] ' | Frenchmen have been brought in by imotor lorries from other towns in ithis disturbed area. It is rumored that a German officer who formerly held a high position in | the army has taken charge of German operations in Silesia, and .interallied officials here fear there will be seri- |ous developments in the next few Radium Discoverer Here: to | inintion i begtn x witharawar. - in Stidy and Receive |CntmIguEaiream of wounded Go i . ONAMERICAN SOIL CLASH AT HEARING ON WELFARE BILL Proponents of Separate Edu- cation Department Take Issue With Sawyer. Advocates of the proposed depart- ment of public welfare, which has been recommended by President Karding and by Brig. Gen. Sawyer.| whom the President brought tol Washington to aid in working out a plan for this department, and ad- vocates of an independent department head the new Shipping Board as it is| radium, This is the positive belief of those in| Port this mornin official circles who are in a position fv) and Cherbourg. and it is their| Mr. Farrell is in Washington today and | rms laid down by dnm llliedfluu-; Reluctanee Is Explained. me council in London. is confined ell” o a repetition of the exact terms of I (5 explained that My F‘rr,e“- £e: the decisions of the allies with regard | luctance to accept thé: position off- hand was due to the necessity for him to guarantees, disarmament, the.trial - d of war criminals and financial condi- | to remain with the Sleel Corporation (,;:- The r—pldy’szl!e‘: that ‘d;z:ermldl\y until at least July 1. It was thought adheres unconditionally to these de- v Cimions, This reply was sent fo the |that. even though the executive great- allied eapitals for iransmission to the!ly desired the steel man's services, he heads of the aliled governments after |could not postpone *organizing the the cabinet headed by Dr. Julius Wirth. the new chancellor, received what amounted to a vote of confidence he reichstag last night. that body pproving of the ministry’'s decision 1o accept the allied ultimatum. The ¥ote stood 221 to 175, giving the Wirth government a margin of 46. The votes cast for acceptance of | the entente terms were from the trist. democratic, independent so- ialist and majority socialist part The nationalists. “German _people's party. communists and the Bavarian people’s party were opposed to the plans of the ministry. as announced by the new chancellor. irese. Dr. Wirth emphasized the tre- ndous burden Germany would as- ne in agreeing fe terms. but insisted the alterna- tite of French occupation of Rubr ~valley would completely crip- ple Germany moralize the country Terms of Demand The allied demand. in payment by June 1 gold marks due on May brief. trial und aerial arms of Germany's sery ice. and ultimate payment of $I3. The repa- on “obligation would be paid. in Snstallments of approximately $485,- 000,000 per year, in addition to 25 per of the value of Germany's ex- belleved here that Dr. Wirth's answer to the supreme allied councj) will_be an unconditional acceptance it has been 000,000 in reparations. of the allied terms, but indicated that representations would be made that compliance with (Continued on Page 2, Column In his ad-! 0 meet the an- the industrial life and de- was | the 1.000.000.000 of German officers and soldiers accused yof crimes during the war: complete disarmament of the military, naval the dissrmament clauses of the council's ultimatum might be attended by dan- zer, especially on the eastern fron- tiers, where the Poles have engaged in_a_serious insurrection with the | Shipping Board until the date men- Iliolled, However, the trend of events within the past two days indicates that | the President will appoint Mr. Farrell jand at the same time announce th i{erwnnel of the other members of he board, but will not call upon Mr. Farrell to qualify until July 1. Will Be Ready to Act. | In the meantime the rest of the {board will have qualified and will be in a position to function, although without a permanent chairman, dur- ing the short period when Mr. Far- irell will be in a position to lay down his private affairs and assume his {new task of putting the Shipping Board on the efficient and successful footing £o earnestly desired by the administration. . Tt the general belief that the President has practically decided upon the remainder of the board. although one and maybe two changes may re- !5ult in the President’s slate when Mr. | ¥arrell accepts. 150 BALES U. S. COTTON FOR CHILDREN’S FUND RECEIVED IN GERMANY By the Associated Press. BREMEN, May 11.—The first 150 bales of American cottons@enated to the German children’s fund by Americans has arrived here from Galveston. The consignment was inspected by members of the Ge: man Red Cross and the Americans who organizea the contributions in the United States. The cotton will be converted into clothes for chil- dren. 1t {s_reported here that more than 2.300 bales of cotton al- ready have been coljected and are ready for shipment to Germany. JAPANESE SEIZE $1,000,000 IN GEMS - FROM CULT URGING WAR WITH U. S. By the Associated Press. KYOTO, Japan, May 11.—Leaders of the radical “Omotok: cult have been placed under arrest, “with many of their principal fol- lowers, following a police raid on the headquarters of the organiza- ton at Ayabe, near here. They are charged with distributing alarmist reports calculated to dis- turb the public Police officials who conducted the _raid broke into a secret temple at Ayabe, and there found z.000.000 ven in specie and ral hundred <words. An investigation is d. clared to have shown that t famed deity of “Omotokyo” en- shrined in the temple consisted merely of pebbles wrapped in paper. - Subterreanean .passages were found leading to the resi- dence of Wanisaburo Deguchi, adopted xon of the woman who was founder of the cult, it is said, and in his home were found chests laden with diamonds and rubies valued at $1.000,000. Firearms were also found stored in the building, the police assert. Deguchi recently Osaka newspapers. them to the teaching of “Omo- tokyo" precepts. The spread of this helief among all classes in the empire has been regarded as a national menace on account of its sensational teachings. These have included the necessity of war with America, and declarations that Japan is destined to attain domi ion over the entire world. T workers sent out by the cult had declared that the failure of the n brought to and devoted tion to adhere to “Omotokyo” as the revealed gligion would mean | the total des ictionJof Japan in half a century. ¢ this city there has been arriving a {man: refugees, and the situation h: $100,000 Gift. | grown more intense. The German civ- NEW. YORK, May 11,—Mme, Curie. |ilian guards have completed their or- { ganization. The officers say they have | Eminent scientist and o-discoverer of Was “a" passenger on the steamship Olympic, which arrived In & from Southampton | Her Brilliant Achlevementa. Mme. Mario Curie. whose discovery of radium in 1598 has been calle the realization of the dream of an- clent alchemists” was born jn War- pen {Pollnd. on November 7, 1867, er father, Prof. Sklod . istry in the University of Warsaw, and for some years before entering upon her professional ca; ’ eer as a :g'eyl-lfllL she worked in his labora- | She married, in | professor of gene i University of Par: | 1 1896, Pierre Curle; ral physics in the iw-‘on and kille i two children—Irene, d. Ml:lm Curie h we! £ old, who, like her mother, nh‘flyl lyl'k-:: up scientific research. and - another daughter of fifteen year: Saved 50,000 Soldiers. The discovery of radium enriched | many persons throughout the world. It has been estimated that its use during the war saved the lives of mot less than 50,000 wounded men, Notwithstanding the fact tha . Curle has devoted { her fifty-three years to th | radioactive substances, she ' paiauvely poor woman. “l gave my secret to th, o she declared. “It wap not g0 eusiin any one. It was for all people.” Many fantastic stories have told about radium and its mysterioys properties. It has.been said that an ounce of this “metallic chemical eje. ment found in pitchblende” is wortn more than $3.000.000, to obtain whien requires the reduction of 5,600 tons of ore by the most painstaking o plicated processes. The modest discoverer of radi Inever, it is said, refuseq lu.rell‘;'-“s:“I: for the use of humanity the world over. as a result of which her smail store has become exhausted. The, great Polish wgman sa s visit to America, primarily for the purpose of investigating pitchblende deposits in Colorado. Utah. Pennsylvania and other states, gave rise to the move- ment on the part of American women to supply Mme. Curle with a gram of radium, worth $100,000, which shall be (81l her own." This will enable her 0 continue her researches along cur. ative lines when she returns to Parig, Discovery Not an Aceident, Dr. Robert Abbe, a New York sur- geon, who worked years ago along- side of Mme, Curie In her Paris lab. oratory, recently declared that no other woman had ever pursued a trail into an unknown jungle and brought to light such an “unsuspected new factor which had had such a revolu- tionary influence in sclence.” He saiq she did ot stum she i ble on radium by The discovery in this wise: Pi man scientist, 4 e study of been of radium came al rof. ‘Roentgen: a Govt announced his discov® ery of the X-ray in 1895. Thes: possessed the Dropert ting radiations of a - special chrmiinE ch. Wwhich were able to penetrate thrsuen matter opaque to ordinar; A year later H. Becquers), \5ne, nch physicist, observed that certain uran. ium preparations emitted rays re. { sembling those discovered by Roent. gen. Becquerel rays became the new wonder and by delicate tests were proved to be electrical. Thus began | the search for the new element and every form of uranium in ereyitonn laboratories i Mme. Curie by long an | process of extracting lf-d, -d v‘:-?lgl':n’ ibismuth and other m, ’ stances from the pile of refuse di solved the moss until the residue was sixty times stronger than Dr. Abbe says of this: BpSlum. “This small remnant glowed in t | aark. “All but two metals had bees eliminated. These were known not to have the slightest radio-activity. Therefore, there could be but one conclusion—Mme. Curie was facing a mysterious new force.” Two years later she was able to announce its discovery and her method of extract- ing it from the ore. is, who had shared | or _of collaboration | t Mme. ' more than half of | and com- | sufficient rifles. and will feel safe if they can secure artillery. _ Allled Oficlals Held Up. Allfed officials arriving here from Kattowitz report the Poles held them up and took them to' British head- quarters. There they were exam ined, their papers were gone over, and eventually the officials were given passes signed by the Polish commis- sar, which permitted them to pass the insurgent lines. 1t is declared thé Poles are well equipped with artillery and small arms, but there is a lack of discipline evident in their ranks. There is some apprehension that the insurgent forces will get out of hand and begin plundering Silesian towns they have taken since the inception of the revolt in this district. Confirmed By Warsaw. WARSAW, May 11.—Premier Witos announced in the diet today that an {agreement which he thought would [facilitate a solution of the Upper Silesia problem had been reached by the inter-allied commission in Silesia and Adelbert Korfanty, leader of the Polish insurgent forces there. The premier said: |7 “Y am able to state that an agree- | ment, giving hope of an arrangement i accelerating a solution of the Upper | Silesian question was reached yester- iday by Koranty and the inter-allied | commission.” { 500 Reported Killed. e to The Star and Chieago Daily N, | By cabl ptar and Chicago Daily News BERLIN, Germany, May 11.—Re- | cruiting offices for soldiers willing to join the Upper Silesian police troops | were opened in Berlin today. Simulta- i is a com- | neously with the publication of an ap-i ¢ the creation of the proposed new | peal for volunteers. Several political | parties are also urging their members to enlist and fight the Polish insur- | gents. | The |latest dispatches | heavy fighting between the Italian ! plebiscite troops and the Poles. Ae- cording to the Berliner Tageblatt, the describe Gen. Haller's former troops. in full | Polish uniforms and equipment, are | mans aiso insist that no effort is being made to halt the transportation of keavy fleld guns on motor trucks across the frontier from Poland or to stop th> numerous trains bringing Poles, who eagerly join the insurgents. Today’s News in Paragraphs Dr. John L. Norris resigns as assistant health officer of the District. Page 1 Dramatic scenes in reichstag as Ger- ‘mans bend to allies. Page 1 Truce halts offensive of Poles in Silesia. Page 1 Clash at hearing on welfare measure. Page 1 Houss D. C. committee orders movie price investigation. . Page 1 Premliers take up plans to collect as Germans vield. Page 1 Keep parks clean, Col. Sherrill urges. | Page 1 Daniels sees romance in *“prosaic” cargo service. Page 3 Japan to form far east policies. Page. 5 Sixteenth Street Heights citizens de- Clares city right to $5,000,000 fund. Page 7 Railroad Labor Board to probe defama- tion charges against Pennsylvania railroad official. " Page 7 Harvey’'s address welcomed in London, Page 16 Reward to faithful G. O. P. states urged, Pagel0 D. A Edwards defends sessions of ‘school board. Page 11 muel S. Yoder, eivil war veter; S representative, dead. Py aad American_Institute of Architects opens convention here. Page 11 Rathmore, County Kerry, Ireland, passes night of terror. Page 11 ernors of seven states to conf. O resident on Colorado. river - wato contral. Page 15 Board_of Tride appeals to Congress for justice {n school appropriation. Page 17 Chamber of Commerce urges rushing ‘water project. Page 17 Park View citisens urge 35,000,000 . Page17 school ptnt;m. Poles lost 500 dead in a fight near | Crerweonka, while the TItalians lost | thirty dead and forty wounded. Re- ports continue that large numbers of | taking part in the uprising. The Ger- | of education, clashed at a joint hear. ing today before the Senate and Fouse committee on education and 1abor. Representative Towner of Tows, co- author of the Sterling-Towner bill for a department of education, with its head a_member of th¢ President's cabinet, objected strenuously to the proposal that education should be made merely one branch of the de- partment of public welfare. He i sisted that education was of suf- ficient importance to the country to have an independent department. Willing te Ge to Country. “We are willing to g0 to the country | and let it decide whether there should {be a department of education as an independent organization.” said Mr. Towner. He is a member of the House committee on education. Gen. Sawyer, who was on the stand at the time, said that if the educators of the country do not care to have the government's activities in con- nection with educational matters be- come a part of the public welfare de- partment, then they could stay out- side. He insisted, however, that the administration was trying to give the educators all the aid it could, and ex- pressed the hope that the difference could be arranged. Chairman - Kenyon of the Senate committee on education and labor, acting chalrman of the joint hearing, Suggested that was a matter which Congress would have to settle in any event. | "Other witnesses at the hearing to- | | day included Herbert J. Brown, head | of the efficiency bureau, who promised { the joint committee he would submit | estimates showing what the expense tment would be. Advocates of D Fepartment insist that. with a ca- ordination of all the government func- jtions relating to education, public ! health, soclal welfare and veterans' | ail. a saving would be possible. 1252 3*V0° Forster of Chicago ap- peared for the chiropractors and Urged that the bill be amended so as | to Prevent any discrimination against | any school of healing. He contended that as now drafted it might result in | serious discrimination ~against the chiropractors. and would result in a government subsidy to the members iof the regular medical profession on | the lives and health of the public. Would Unite Bureaus. 1. W. Wallace, representing (h ted American Engineering So- e eratchrged the advisability of transferring to the Department of In- {erior government bureaus and agen- cles connected with public work and engineering, including river and har- bor work. He pointed out that a number of the bureaus of the Interior Department under the proposed pub- 1he Pwelfare department plans will be transferred to the new department. He said that the Intetlor Department itseit might well be renamed the de- partment of public works. Uen. 'Sawyer discussed the pro- visjons of the Kenyon-Fess bill for Y epartment of public welfare, going me of the ground covered in the | o ?r::rn:urln:ulhetou the Senate com- i ently. mll‘::;:er::;n-t&e Bankhead of Ala-| bama asked Gen. Sawyer it it was proposed to give the school children aminatio... Senator Kenyon jcal out that the pending “bin rovides the machinery for '4“:.'1?1.’.; %ith the public- health. Any Soposals for physical examinations Zf ohildren, etc., would have to be contained in other by ress. SoTE Might Include Towner Bill. s point Representative Fess .J‘.—l‘e‘-‘:‘ed That while there has been Spposition to_the pending bill on the e “of Mr. Towner and other advo- Dites of a department of education, Decause features of the Towner bili heve not been included. the machinery et ap’ under the pending bill could Sery well handle the activity proposed in the Towner bill. _ Senator Sterling of South Dakota suggested on the other hand that if Thet is public sentiment in favor of legisiation such as that provided in e “Towner bill, the pending bill tould well be elaborated to contain it. Senator Kenyon said that this could be done if it was deemed advisable, but that in framing the present bili it was intended merely to provide for the governmental machinery to deal with the subjects covered. Mr. Fess pointed out that it might be inadvisable to put into permanent law such provisions as that for the elimination of aduit illiteracy. Adult lMiteracy was not permanent and would not be eliminated. . 'S hys Dointed out legislation i STILL VICTORIOUS. BILL RESTORING 50-50 PLAN FORD. C. WILL BE TAKEN UP NEXT WEEK The Senate District committee at a meeting today determined to take up for consideration next week the Jones’ bill, dealing with the fiscal relations between the federal gov- ernment and the Disttict of Colum- bia and restoring the half-and-haif plan of appropriating for the Dis- trict, The Jones bill also provides for the use of any surplus of District revenues that may have accrued in the past or that may accrue in the future, and removes the limitation now placed upon the District Com- missioners in making. estimates. that the estimates of appropria- tions shall not exceed twice the amount of the estimated revenues. The committee, it is understood, will go thoroughly into the matter of the fiscal relations of the Dis- - trict and the federal government, with the purpose of drafting legis- lation that shall settle the con- treversy which has existed between the Sepate apd:. House over the method of appropriating for the District in recent years. The -committee today ordered a favorable Tepprt on ihe bill au- thorizing the District Commission- ers to sell a parcel of land at 20th and Jackson streets northeast, bought originally for school pur- poses. DR. NORRIS RESIGNS AS HEALTH OFFICER Leaves Position for Higher Salaried Place in U. S. Pub- lic Health Service. Dr. John L. Norris resigned today as assistant health officer of the Dis- trict to accept a higher-paying posi- tion as surgeon in the United States public health service. As assistant health officer he received $2,500 a year and the $240 bonus. The resignation leaves two impor- tant offices vacant in the health de- partment. The position of chief of the contagious disease _service, which pays $2.750 a vear. has been vacant for more than a year. Health Officer William C. Fowler has been unable to find a capable man who would take the post of chief of the contagious disease ar the salary offered. and he expects to have the same difficulty to obtain an assistant health officer at the salary fixed by Congress. Many Changes in Department. Inspectors in the health department have been coming and going regularly since the war because of higher sal- aries offered them on the outside. There is one vacancy now in the corps of food inspectors. Dr. Norris received notice this morning of his appointment as a sur- geon in the reserve corps of the pub- lic health service and probably will be given an assignment in a few days. Dr. Norris has been in the local health “department since 1898, when he was appointed a medical spector. He left after a faw months of service to enlist in the army for the Spanish war and the Philippine campaign. At the cloge of the war he returned to the District. but because of the condition of his health could not re- sume his dutles in the municipal service. Eight Years in Mexico. He then went to New Mexico. where he served for eight years as surgeon for the Santa Fe Central railroad and the New Mexico Fuel and Iron Company. = Returning in 1908, he again entered the health de- partment an_inspecter and after a short time was promoted to assist- ant health officer. ‘When the United States entered the world war Dr. Norris again. entered the military service as a captain and was placed in charge of the medical detachment of the 3'lth Engineer: 86th- Division. He went, overseas. where he was promoted to major, After the signing of the armistice Dr. Norris returned to his position of assistant health officer. When Dr. J. Paul Fry resigned as chief of the con- taglous “disease service in March of 1920, Dr. Norris took over his duties. The present situation in the health office 13 regarded by District officials as a striking illustration of the in- adequate scale of wages paid many departments of the city government. APPOINTED ACTING DEAN. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 11.—Ap- pointment of Prof. Henry P. Talbot as acting dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was an- nounced by the executive committee today. He will fill the position dur- ing the indefinite leave ‘of absence grantpd Prof. Alfred E. Burton. =1 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled the use for republication of all news dispatches | credited to it or mot stherwise eredited n 1his | paper and also the local news pubiisasd nereia. All rights of publication of special | ‘[ dispatches herein are also reserved. | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,860 TWO CENTS. LEGISLATORS VOTE MOVIE PRICE PROBE BACKED BY DECREE |Powers of D. C. Committee | Held to Be Broadened by Court Decision. N |CLAIM PUBLIC INTERESTS INVOLVED AS IN HOUSING Recent Ruling on Saulsbury Act Cited in Action Instructing Subcommittee. Construing its powers to have been 1 broadened by the Supreme Court de- i cision upholding the Saulsbury act. E(hn House District committee today laid down the rule that it has author- ity to investigate any matter affect- Ing the interests of the people of the Distriet, and proceeded to inaugurate the rule by authorizing an investiga- tion into the prices charged by mo- | tion picture theaters in Washington. The decision to investigate movie |prices was not reached, however. until after there had been a sharp irmish between Representative { Blanton, author of the motion. and | Representative Underhill. The latter | questioned the authority of the com- mittee to investigate theater prices, |He =aid that the “movies” are lux- {uries, and the committee would be |exceeding its authority in investigat- ing the charges made for entertain- ments which are not a necessity for 4 |the pubhc. | Representative Blanton insisted { that Washington's entire population the duty of Congress to determine 1 whether the prices maintained for this character of public diversion are reasonabl He said the Supreme “ourt_decision upholding the Sauls- | bury act made certain the fact that : into | Congress is vested with police pow- New Superintendent Appoints | csix Samminimering ‘Distrier afairs { Makes Point of Orde: | akes Point of . 437,”) Here to Co- | After considerable discussion of the i matter, in which venll meme"; i : - ticipated, Representative _Underhi Operate With Him. | made a point of order against the Col motion on the ground that there was oL C. O. Sherrill, the new superin- | no bill before the ‘committee. Mr. itendent of public buildings and | Blanton retorted he would introdu Erounds, today appointed every one | Such a bill if necessary. = Chairman Focht then overruled the jof the 437,000 and more people in! point of order on the ground that the | Washington members of a committee | Supreme Court decision referred 1o t - vi i 5 = unquestionably gives the comm e | ':‘:,"' """’:{‘E with him in keeping the | aychority to consider any matters | c parks of the city clean. which relate to the interests of the 1 The code of regulations for United | People of the District. in the States parks and reservations makes it a violation of Jaw 1o throw paper. fruit skins or other rubbish in a pub- lic park. i While the park police will enforce this regulation whenever they see it violated, Col. Sherrill believes the Tesidents of the Nationa! Capitul wiil [voluntarily obey the law if they are made aware of the fact that tie | beauty of their city is being marred by the scattering of all sorts of litter in the parks. Provisions for Committee. Col. Sherrill wants all who read this to regard it as notice of appoint- ment to his committee. To be a member in good standing here is 'l’ll You must not do: If you spread a newspaper on the Brass to rest on, do not walk off and leave it there. “If you are Waving a picnic in the park, do not depart without gather- ing up the remains. If you are in a hurry, do not cut across a lawn where there is a sign or barrier indicating that you should keep off.” Representative Kunz, who, earlier part of the discussion, had questioned the right of the committee 10 investigate theater prices, suggested that the subcommittee, headed by Representative Wheeler. which is now cousidering @ bill to regulate attend- ance in the theaters, be authorized to tend its inquiry to include the question of admission prices. - This uggestion was accepted by Repre- sentative Blanton, and when the mo- tion was put it carried with but one dissenting vote. which was cast by Representative Underhill. Explains His Vote. In voting for the resolution author- izing the Wheeler subcommittee to investigate motion picture charges, Kepresentative Hammer stated to the committee that he did so solely for the reason that he favored the prece- dent being established as to the com mittee’s right to investigate any sub- ject relating to the people of th District, for whose welfare Congre: is responsible in a legislative way. Mr. Hammer said he thought the question of rent more important than that of theater prices, and suggested the committee might more properly look into charges maintained by land- lords for properties under lease in the District. Although waiting for the sub-com- mittee report on schools. which will Feorgotten During War. During the war period. when the city was crowded and the attention of every ome was centered on vic- | | tory overseas, it was natural, Col.| S - Col-t.ot be ready for several days, the Sherrill pointed out today, that the!fyl] committce today showed its in- people should forget the question of {terest in the needs of the District beautifying the city. |school systesn by discussing several | healthy he wants the public_to have | Dutch to Issue Book on Exchange But with the return of peace and the tide of tourists and conventions flowing once more toward Washing- ton, Col. Sherrill has set himself to the task of keeping Washington a city beautiful. He does not want visitors to go home and say that waste paper and fruit skins were as plentiful as shrubbery in the public parks of Washington. Baskets and other containers are | placed throughout the federal park system for rubbish, and the park policemen have been instructed _to watch for points where they believe additional haskets should be set up. Will Protect Gras: With the advent of summer, the season of band concerts and park outings. Col. Sherrill believes it is timely to call upon the community to co-operate with his office in en- deavoring to keep the parks free from unsightly litter. Ten men, at $3.16 a day each, are kept busy gathering up paper alone that is thrown carelessly about the lawns of the public parks. Four more workmen spend all of their time clearing the lawns of fruit skins and miscellaneous refuse. Six others are engaged daily in repairing broken fences erected to -Keep people off those lawns on which the grass does not_thrive. ‘Where the grass i is thick and the fullest use of the lawns, Col. Sher- rill stated. But when a stretch of parking becomes worn and “bald” it is essential that “No trespass” signs be erected until the grads is restored of the matters which have been em phasized by District authorities in charge of the schools as calling for immediate attention. Out-of-Town Pupils. | Discussion centered in the disclosure that there are twenty-four hundred children residing in Maryland and Virginia who attend school in the District without being required to pay tuition charges. Representative Blanton stated that he was opposed to the District giving free tuition to these children. even though it is Isanctioned by existing law. which permits parents wno earn their living in the District to educate their chil- dren here. He gave notice that when the committee shaped its school pro- gram he would recommend that this ilegisiation be repealed. | 1t was disclosed by Representative Blanton that he has been investigat. ing charges of congested conditions in schools in he third division. He stated that he had inspected the John- son and Powell Schools, and in ai- I most every classroom found a greater number of desks than were required for the pupils enrolled. Chairman Focht interrupted at this point to say that it was important the committee should know the board of education had adopted the rule that no classrooms should contain more than forty desks. He called attention to the figures given by Mr. Blanon, showing that in practically all of the rooms in the Johnson and Powell schools visited by the Texas member there are more than forty desks. the to life. —_— WILL REVEAL OIL VIEWS. With United States. LONDON, May 11.—A dispatch to the London Times from Rnllerdlm,l quoting the Handelsblad, says that the Dutch government shortly will sue an orange book, containing the exchange of views between Holland and the American government re- garding the Djambi oil fields l FATALLY SHOO By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 11.—An old feit hat and a sawed-off shotgun were the only traces discovered by the police of the three men who early today shot and probably fatally wounded Anthony D’Andrea, nin teenth ward political leader. Tucked in the band of the hat was a bill, with a slip of paper marked “For Flowers.” - Nelghbors who heard the shots additional seats having been pro- vided to accommodate a demand ex- ceeding the normal number approved by the board of education. i Chairman Focht stated that the two |most important matters before the committee are the need of additiongl school facilities and a merger of the street railway interests of, the Dis- trict, and that he considered that the committee should concentrate its ef- forts to settle these questions to the satisfaction of the people of the Dis- trict. Merger Question. He called upon Representative Zihl- (Continu 6 %, Column 6.) LEAVE $20 “FOR FLOWERS” AFTER TING POLITICIAN. say they were fired by men hidin; in’ a vacant apartment beneath D'Andrea’ The police found the hat and shotgun in the rear of the bullding, and the doors to the vacant flat were unlocked. The nineteenth ward has been the scene of many recent shoot- ings and bombings, attributed b: the police to a political fe D’Andrea, who was defeated in g;-;mnrml‘e race in Fel lderman John Powers,