Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1921, Page 13

. ! Senate EXPECT KEEN FRAT ONNAVAL NEASURE H:quse Opposition in Confer- ence Seen Over Senate In- crease of $98,000,000. DISARMING ALSO AN ISSUE House Leaders to Try Blocking Borah Amendment, But in Vain, Is Belief. The naval appropriation bill, having passed the Senate yesterday afternoon by a vote of 54 to 17, now enters the conference stage, with every prospect of a sharp fight between the Senate and House over the Senate proposal to Increase the total of the bill by $98,- 000.000. There have been indications, too. that the republican House leaders will seek to amend the Borah disarmament amendment, which now applies only to naval armament and the three sreat naval powers. the United. States, Grest Britain and Japan. However. the sup- porters of the Borah amendrh tending that a broadenina- amendment at this time would merely prevent successful action looking to disarmament. will resist this effort. and are confident that the and file of the House will not follow such leadership, if it js/attempted. Charges have been made that the opponents of a reduction. in armament through internatior:af agreement are back of thg plaw to change the Borah amend- ment. As Bill Passed Semate. As passed by:the Senate. the bill earries $434,000.000. as compared with $396.000.000 voted by the House. Five republicans and twelve democrats voted in opposition. principally on account of the Senate increases. teen -democrats joined with thirt eight republicans in voting for. pas: sage. Almost three weeks of vigorous contest were required in the Senate to dispose of the bill and the economy drive waged against it was continued up to the moment of its passage. The drive. however. netted a reduc- tion of but $2.500,000—$1.500.000 by elimination of the committee amend- ment to start a new Pacific coast naval hase at Alameda, Calif. and $1.000.000 lopped from transportation and recruiting funds. Tn yesterday's final effort for re- duction, a_motion by Senator Kingz. democrat. Utah, to recommit the bill to committee with instructions to cut out $100.000,000 was defeated. 43 to 25. the afirmative including ten.re- publicans. Other amendments by Senater King to suspend work on new battle cruisers and superdreadnaughts of the 1916.building program were re- Jected without record votes. Keep Persommel at 120,000 The Senate retgined. by a supple- mentary vote of 38 to 24. the com- mitted .amesidment providing about $40.000,000 additional to maintain an enlisted personnel of 120.000. Th House fixed the personnel at 100,000 The ten republicans prominent in’ the economy campaign voted for the re- duction. The Senate. without a record vote also provided for continuing -appro- priations of 1918 for tHe dry dock and channel at the Charleston. S. C.. navy yard. These include $1,150,000 for the dry doek and unexpended appropria- tions from a fund of $1.560.000 for dredging. 2 Another amendment _previously adopted and finally ieliminated was that of Semator McKeMars*democrat, Tennessee, authorizing reappointment 1o the Annapolis Academy of 110 mid- shipmen ywho were forced to resign last term because of “scholastic de- ficiencies. Borak Amendment Intact. The Borah disarmament amendment, adopted recently by the unanimous vote of 74 to 0. was retained intact. Because of its inclusion, Senator Borah, its author. vated for the bill. ‘When the Senate reached the point of voting on passing the bill, Senator La Follette, republican, Wisconsin, of- fered his amendment to prohibit use of any warcraft to “coerce or compel collection™ of any priyate claima in- dividual or corporate.. A point of order by Senator Poindexter, repub- | lican, Washington, in charge of the bill. was sustained and Senator 1. Follette then offered thrée similar amendments ;which also- went-out on | points of order. Another amendment by Senator La Follette was adopted, after being accepted by Senator Poindexter. It ‘would prohibit Army and Navy officers from having any financial relations with manufacturers of ordnance or otner supplies sold to the government. —— DRINKS POISON IN PARK. Think Department Worker Com- mitted Suicide From Despondency. Gertrude Esta Lee Trotter, a State Department employe. last night end- ed her life by drinking poison, while on the Ellipsg in sight of the _executive mansion, The girl was found in the park by an unidentified man, who noti- fied Assistant Hack Inspector Thayer and Policeman Jackson at 14th street and Pennsylvania avenue. She w: dving_when the policemen arrived. ‘The Emergency Hospital ambulance as summoned. but she died shortly after arrival at the hospital. Tdentification was established by a number of letters she left on a bench at her side. One, addressed to a Wash- ington man, explained to the satisfaction of the police that Miss Trotter had ended her life on account. of despondency. A message to the public also was | left. It read: “My vanity hangs wit me to the end and T don't want it said that T committed suicidé in a temporary state of insanity. I'm not. I do this deliberatel v Coroner Nevitt gave a certificate of suicide and the body was sent to the District morgue from Emergency Hospital. Arrangements are being made to send the body to her_home in Augusta, Kan. PLANS DRY CHANGES. Commissioner Blair to Reorganize Prohibition Unit at Once. Early and complete reorganization of the federal prohibition wunit is planned by the internal revenue bu. reau, Commissioner Blair announced yesterday. More efficient and less eo!!l{ administration is sought, Com- missioner Blair said, with the Vol- stead act Interpreted as at present. The commissioner indicated that he had under consideration possible cre- ation of federal prohibition super- visorg in each of the separate states to réduce the present departments comprising several states. Mr. Blair said he had conferred with Senators Penrose and Watson of the finance committee on the question of reorganization and would present his views to the committee in the near future. CLOTHING LABELS URGED. hearings on the Capper-French “truth in fab- rics” bill. The measure is designed te accomplish in textiles what has been done for foods and druge by the laws prohibiting adulteration and misbranding in those lines. . Alexander Walker of New York, %vn-lflnn of the Ni and ‘ool Bureau.- was ‘the witness cally and his testimony was di- w toward showing the nation- s demand for such L O SELF-DETERMINATION' . FAVORED BY QUAKERS- . AS-AMUSEMENT RULE " Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., June 2.— M lembers of the Society of Friends Q Stood to_view. libe: the pro- posal to leave the m: ot 4 laying, dancing and .amusements fo “self-determination,” rather than adhere to old-time. rules of Whflx ct. Seritiment in this respect has :;’s:?t"':‘l‘y‘ it l:l uldhflnlcl the meetin; of the year in un.'eeu;n.“h the Some of the Friends tak position that they are living in ecid! Self whether.he. is. trespassing on religious ethics: when"he plays a social game, or dances the Vir- ginia reel. The local soclety is to be represented at the regular fall meeting of the Baltimore year- ly, when, it is expected, a special committee will report recom- mendations. ¢ Hopewell Quakers, however, have gone on record as opposing “large armies, big navie: training. and the like, resolutions urged = members write to their senators and repre- sentatives, “that they may brought to realize how many of thelr constituents are opposed” to such. From 80 to 93 per cent of .the government’s expenditures are for war purposes, it was asserted. UL TLE VAL T0 GERMAN SHIPS Reparation Commission Can- not Call Seized Vessels Teu- ton Assets, Belief Here. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. America considers absolutely valld her title tq the German ships seized in American ports about the time of the outbreak of war with Germany. Dispatches from abroad stating that the reparation commission would ex- amine whether the ships should be turned over to that commission as & portion of German assets failed to disturb the equanimity of official opinion on the subject. No claim, has as yet been made for the ships, but if it should be presented the United States government will take the posi- tion that title to the ships was ob- tained by President Wilson after the passage of a special act of Congre: suthorizing him. to seize the ships. So far as domestic law 18 concerned, our government's right to the ships is unquestioned. As for a German claim for the re- turn of those ships, the American gov- ernment finds nothing in the Ver- sailles treaty which permits Germany to make such a claim, as the Berlin government gave away all her rights to the ships in that treaty. Therefore the only parties who could dispute the American ownership of the vessels are the allies. The lat- ter have taken possession of all the assets of Germany and it is insisted here that even though the United States hasn't ratified the treaty of Versailles, this government continues to have-a voice in the disposition of | any property in the hands of the prin- cipal associated powers at the time of the armistice. Secretary Hughes will instruct the American’ ‘representative on the reparations commision to express the American viewpoint _if any- claim should be made for ‘the German shipa. The theory on which the allies have been kelping themselves to German shipzizg has been that Germany must me s 00d losses by submarine de- stise cn. American tonnage sunk by suumarines was not very large, but it has been assumed that in dling claims against Germany Ameri- can shipowners would be d out of the proceeds of such shipping es had been seized from Germany. Forced Actien Unlikely. In view of the uncertain status of all war claims because the United States has not ratified*the Versailles treaty, it is unlikely tbat any action will be forced by the allles at this time. which ~would eml the American government in working out its foreign policy. It is another sig- nificant develonment, however, which g Cel s treaty America's nego- tiations will nominally be with. the Germans, but actually with the allied powers. This is now officlally ad- mitted. The sending of American representa. tives to ‘the various allied commis sions is a step, therefore, in the direc- tion of negotiating a treaty, for it will through Ambassador Harvey, at London, who sits on the supreme council, or Ambassador Herrick, in France, that the United States gov- ernment will work out the details of the treaty which must *follow the passage of the <Porter peace resolution. (Copyright, 1921.) VISITS LOCAL Y. M. C. A. Presence of Jap “¥” Officer Re- minder of S. W. Woodward’s Gitt. K. Morita, rer of the Young Men’s- Christian Association at Kobe, Japan, was a visitor at the local Y. M. C.. A. Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Morita, who also vice president of the Kobe Chamber of Commerce and director of the firm of J. ana & Co. of Kobe, is on his way to South !America and to London in the inter- est of his firm. He stopped off in Washington to make an inspection of he local “Y” institution and ita meth- od of operation, the ideas obtained to be inaugurated in the erection of new $600,000 Y. M. C. A. building at Kobe. Mr. Morita’s. visit to Washington has a local interest. in that the build- ing in which the Y. M. C. A. at Kobe is now installed was presented to that assoclation by the e 8. W. Wood ward, about thirteen years ago, af time when he was making a tour of the world. He was ipressed with the work of the “¥™ tion in -{Japan that he bought lhli ‘bullding outright and presented it the as- Since that time the Japan associhtion has continued to grow un- til now it has 1,300 students enrolled in its educational department and 1.200 members in its physical depart- ment. sociation. —_— TRYING PERIOD PASSED. Gov. Harding of Reserve Board Says U. 8. Is on Road to Recovery. On completion yesterday of a two- week survey of tha agricultural gnd industrial sections of the middle west and south, Gov. Harding of the Fed- eral Reserve, rd expressed the conviction-that the'country has passed the most trying period of readjust- ment and is on the road to recovery. Mr. Harding traveled through seven states and said he -wm‘uv great activity on -an abundance of farm labor, with ap- e A eref Y more _optimistic bankers .and jons: are I vival in the fall: ssem to have no 4 e R LR quirements. t world-wide readjust; prices and are on the road to recov. COMMITTEES RUSH: Hearings- Will‘End- Saturday and' Legislatior” Will Be. - Sought Promptly. In the bellef Congress will see the wisdom of passing a law at this ses- sion to standardize government work and raise the pay of government em- ployes, the Senate and House civil service committees today threw thelr Joint classification hearing into high gear, with the object of getting a recommendation before Congress at the earlist moment possible, It wés indicated a bill would be ready for introduction’ in the Senate and the House possibly within two weeks. Hearings which have been in progress before the joint committee for two weeks in all probability will end by Saturday. Senator Sterling. who has presided at all the session said today the joint committee woul begin executive sessions immediately upon the conclusion of the hearings and would rush the work with the ob- ject of acquainting Congress as soon as possible with the situation in the government departments, in order that remedial legislation may be had at this session. > Seaater Is Optimistic. Senator Sterling is optimistic over the outlook. Testimony given dur- ing the hearings has impressed upon members of both committees that government worke: re grossly underpaid and that a situation ob- tains in the departments which puts a premium upon inefficiency. They believe that they can present to Con gress facts developed in the course of the inquiry which will show the necessity of immediate action to remedy the conditions complained of. Additional light was thrown on the question of inefficiency in the de. partments resulting from the inad. equate compensation given employe: by the first witness at today's hear- ing, Wilbur J. Carr, director of the consular bureau of the State Depart ment. He said the government is suffering from the present salary schedules, which are much lower than they should be; that the personnel constantly is experiencing a heavy turnover by reason of the dissatisfac- tion with the salaries paid, and that the government is losing money every year because it does not pay ough to employ sufficiently capable ‘workers. Mr. Carr cited that.the average pay of stenographers employed in his of fice is $1,200 per annum, whereas in private employment stenographers in Washington make as high as $1,800. 53| Law officers in the State Department are poorly pald and could treble salaries if they -left the service. He explained that ve of the public service and attraction of Washington as a city in which to live primarily are responsibie for many efficient em- ployes continuing in the service when they could go outside and make much larger salaries. Differences in Pay. The witness referred to the dispar- ity in the wages paid in different de- partments for similar work. With respect to a classification law, Mr. Carr expressed the view it should be £0 framed as mainly to establish prin- ciples for the guidance of a classifi tion agency. rather than to enumer- ate divisions to which employes would be allocated under set rules. Mr. Carr thought that the classify- ing agency held within certain limi- tations to be established by Congress could more effectively standardize and develop the government service than cauld & law gavernifig the situation in such detail as to render pract impossible an elastic administration of the personnel. It was the opinion of the witness also. that eficiency system should be established. and there should be an outside body having a representa. tive of the cfliciency board of each department. Following Mr. Carr, P. B. Gilbert, director of the political and economic information division of the State De- partment, presented the committee with data showing the wide variations in salaries paid government employes doing similar work in different de- partments. He sald there are operatives in his division who receive but $1,600 a year, whereas. employes doing similar work In other departments are paid $1,800 a year. '~ Faver. Sterling-Lehlbach Bill “Employes of the District governmen! will be tickled to death if Congress will enact .the Sterling-Lehlbach bill,” Cor- bin Birch of the revenue inspection branch of the water department of the District and. Mrs. Edith Kinkead of the office .of the collector of taxes told the commlittee yesterday afternoon. They appeared as representatives of Federal Employes’ Union, No. 83, made up of employes of the . District government. The District- employes were subjected to a wage cut of 20 per cent in 1874, it was_ stated, which has left them that much more in need of a salary adjust- wment than employes of the federal gov- ernment. Mr. Birch presented a brief on behalf of the union, in which he called atten- tion to the prevailing salaries in the District government, and stated that there was no rule in effect for promo- tion on efficiency, and the employes ‘were driven to the ‘extremity of getting outside_jobs to supplement their very low salaries in order to support their families. In the office ‘of “the -revenue inspection branch of the water depart- ment, Mr. Birch said, there were forty- two men, all engaged in clerical work, who had an average salary of $976, most of these receiving less than $1,100, while the maximum for the entire] group is $1,600. Mr. Birch expressed the belief that the government could save many thousands of dollars by in- creasing salaries in the District gov- ernment to & point which would prevent the high turnover-that now occurs. Many Misapplied Titles. Mrs. Kinkead spoke of the' great variety of work in the District gov- ernmept and the many instances: of misapplied titles. Baliliffs, she said, at $1,200, do the work of balliffs for only a ‘short time each year, the rest of the time doing clerical work of a very ex= acting kind. The head cashier in that office, who handles much more money than bank cashiers, and under very much more dificuit conditions, is paid only $1.800 a year, and his assistants onl wi stated em- the District at the time the federal depart- ments were coyered. 4 Other witnesses heard yesterday were McDonald of the archives divi- of the Department of Agriculture, who asked for inclusion of the informational service i the ml;ml.mul service of the B. Brad- No. 1. of that city, whp dflfllbfl‘l’nt‘.l;-r necds of the fleld aervices for reclassific STUDENTS TO GRADUATE. Business High® Night School Ex- m‘i’:‘. 1 will be eld fn the as- embly hall of the row night at 8 o'clock. follow. ution tomor- A dant® will FYING WORK|, P RETIRED POST OFFICE VETERAN | ‘CALLS ON NEW BOSS OF MAILS Richard S. Lawrenson Says “He_Finds New Regime Running 0.:K. Has §ervice Record of 54 Years Without Ever Hav- | ing Been Late. 'Richard B. Lawrenson, seventy’ seven-year-old retired clerk of the Post Office Department, who had a sorvice record of ffty-four years without ever being late for work, to- day called upon Postmaster General Will H. Hays to see-If the old de- partment is being run properly. Postmaster General Hays soon con- vinced Mr. Lawrenson that the big postal headquarters is being run bet- ter than ever, and was 50 hearty in his greetings that the retired clerk éxpressed himself sorry that he had not been able to have the honor of retiring under the new regime. The Postmaster General seemed tremendously pleased with the visit of Mr. Lawrenson, who served under twenty-five Postmasters General, and whose father, . Lawrenson, had served in the Post Office Depart- ment seventy-one years. - Mr. Lawrenson did not put it into these exact words, but the gist of his expressions after the interview was that the Postmaster General he missed serving under was perhaps the t of them all. The retired em- ploye is a republican, and as such took peculiar pleasure in greeting Mr. Hays, His Early Experiences. When Mr. Lawrenson entered the postal service, it took mail twenty- our days to go from the Mississip- pl river to San Francisco by stage. Recently letters were carried by air plane from New York to San Fran- cisco in about thirty-three hours. r. Lawrenson's reminiscences of the great gas explosion tragedy at the Post Office Department in_ 1863, in which he narrowly escaped di; aster, greatly interested Mr. Hay: “It was when I was in the Wash- ington city post office, which, with the department proper. was located at 8th and F streets.”” Mr. Lawrenson told Postmaster General Hays. “The Postmaster General had got an appropriation of $40,000 to erect a gas plant in the department, be- cause the charge of the gas company BUENOS AIRES REDS' STRIKE TIE-UP FAILS was verv high. Yes, new under the sun, after all. every morning at 5 o'clock, to sort mail and attend to the other work. 1 about 4 two others severely burned. a tragic morning at the post office.” some folks, Mooney. BAR ASKS HARDIG TONANE HOEHLING President Receives _Attor- : neys’. Petition Urging Ap- " pointment as Justice. A petition from & committes appoint- od by the District of Columbia Bar As- sociation ‘urging the appointment of Adolph 4. Hoehling, for more than | thirty years a member of the local bar, RICHARD S. LAWRENSON. there is nothing Reported Early for Work. “Five of us employes had to report in order ways managed to get there a.m. . “That morning 1 was a bit late, and it was ten minutes to 5 o'clock when 1 mot to the patent office. I saw three other men ahead of me, but I had sienly of time to reach the office, 80 not hurry. J had just reached the street In front of the office at five minutes of § o'clock. that dark morning, when I heard a terrible explosion. Into the building and was"able to e I rushed p. ne of the men had taken a light- ed candle, having smelled gas in the street as they approached, and gone into the basement. door gas swept out, ignited from the candle and blew the men before it. As he opened the “Ome employe was killed and the It was Mr. Lawrenson, who lives at 109% K street northwest, is in possession of all his teeth. “No store teeth for me,” he said. “Nor do I have to wear glasses, like he smiled. at Chief Clerk “Y” BOYS TO GRADUATE. Day School Exereises Will Be Held Tonforrow. Commencement exercises of the boys' day school of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the assembly hall of the Central Y. M. C. A. building, 1738 . ~ G Little Success in Attempt to oilock. o deliver the commencement address, and Arthur L. Ward, director of education of the association, plomas. Stop Public Services ) by Walkout. By the Associated Press, Eiven to the first and second base street, tomorrow afternoon mt 3 William Knowles Cooper, gen- secretary of the Y. M. C. A., will , will present the di- Awards of emblems and prizes will be ball BUENOS AIRES, June 2.—Efforts|teams. A loving cup will be presented by communists to cause a general strike in Argentina have thus far failed ‘o win complete success. All public “ervices, with the exception of taxi- sabs, continue in operation, in the port zome is proceeding with non-union laborers. to the best all-round boy'and a sflver loving cup will be given to the bo; showing the greatest improvement phy- sically and mentally during the year. Coley Baynes Davis is president of the duating class. Other officers are while work | James Tillman Owen, vice president; l,:ent Braddock Pyles, secretary, and ichard Karl Walterman, treasurer. Other” members of the class are George The maritime strike. which became | Walter McCoy, Robert Charles Cald- igaeuve yesterday, tied up many ves- | s belonging to the Argentiné -Navi- gation Company, but the concern was | reported - last night to be recruiting | non-union crews. ~Various manufactur- ing _concerns, including flour mills, bakeries and print shops, were closed cown yesterday, but they were small, few of them employing more than 200 | men. Newspapers generally credit the u-‘ thorities with preventing the spread of | the strike by vigorous repression of | communist activities and preventing | gatherings and demonstrations. A manifesto was issued by the Ar- gentine Labor Federation yesterday, calling on affiliated unions to assist in making the general strike effective un- | til the authorities released persons who had been arrested, restored to unions | the headquarters which had been seized | and permitted meetings to be held. The manifesto closed by declaring the gov- | ernment had “gone over to capital.” | Should this call be obeyed, the situa- | ::‘on'\:ioulf' befnmg dmore serfous, as! e federation fs credited with a & bership of 300,000. B SIDDONS TO HEAR PLEA. Argument for New Trial for Arn- stein et al. Tomorrow. Justice Siddons, presiding in Crim- inal Division 1, has uetzdown f?;rl argument tomorrow the motion for a new trial in the case of Jules. alias Nicky Arnstein, Isadore. alias Nick Cohn of New York. and David W. Sullivan, Norman S. Bowles and Wilen W. Easterday of Washington, co victed of a econspiracy to_bring se- curities, stolen in New York, into Washington for hypothecation with local financial institutions. The case was tried ‘before the late Justice Gould. who died on the date set for the argument. Should the motion be overruled, Justice Siddons will impose sentence on the men. An appeal will be-noted to the Court of Appeals, which:can- not hear the case until fall.-. Arnstein and the other defendants are at lib- erty on bail bonds of $10,000 each and it is expected. the same bail will “be accepted pending action by the Court of Appeals, WAR TRADE BOARD ENDS. Ceases to Exist Under Provisions of Tarift Law. In accordance with the provisions of the emergency tariff law, the War Trade Board section of the Depart- ment of State has ceased to exist and all the clerks and employes, together with all booky documents and other records of, that section, have been tnn:lemd to the Treasury Depart- men By the terms of the act all indi- vidual licenses issued by the section will be permitted. nded funds and appro- priations or the use and mainte- nance of the War Trade Board sec- tion hereafter will be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury. The employes and records of the section have been assigned ers in the temporary building at the corner of 20th and B streets. OPPOSES TRADING B".l:. Towa Man' Says Loss of Exchange Would Work Damage. % Opposing the Capper-Tincher grain Murray of _exercises of Business Night throba) it cipate- their future means root Stor several shead. . - TR Ny 14" it Chatrman pfll said ko thought but_the wit Teplied that tracts, there would follow expense and 1 e but no grain to keep the mills well, Ve ‘George Cornwall Loomis. Ralph Hardy White, Charles Hall illion, George Mich: Holley and to' be associate justice of the Supreme Court “of the District of Columbia to il the vacancy caused by the death of Ashley M, Gould, has been received at | the. White House. It wus forwarded to the Presfdent today by Attorney Gen- etal Daugherty. The petition sets forth that at pres- ent the dockets in the several branches of the District Bupreme Court are overcrowded, and the appointment of a man familiar ‘with’ local procedure would, in a measure, tend to relieve the condition, The death of Justice Gould has somewhat complicated matters in so far as handling the vast amount of business in the . courts is concerned, ‘it is said. Resolution of Committee. The committee submitting the petition is comprised of Henry W. Sohon, Henry E. Davis, Leon Tobriner, Alexander H. Bell, J. M. Chamberlin, H. P. Gatley, John E. Laskey and Clarence R. Wilson. A resolution indorsing Mr. Hoehling wam _unanimously adopted _ yesterday afterncon by the bar association at & largely attended meeting, reading as} follows: > “The Bar Association of the Dis- trict of Columbla in general meeting respectfully invites the attention of the President, through the Attorney General, to the fact that the calen- dars of the several oranches of the Supreme Court of the District of Co- lumbia are congested with untried cascs, owing to the insufficient num- ber of justices to handle the busine; of the court, and that this condition has been accentuated and made more serious by the death of the late Jus- itice Ashley M. Gould. Familiarity Seea Needed. - “It is, therefore, of vital impo tance to the effective and expeditious administration of justice in the Dis- trict of Columbia that the syccessor | of the late Mr. Justice Gould should! be a lawyer aiready familiar with the practice of the court and capable of aiding in the speedy and efficient dis- ition of the court's business. The association, therefore, strong- ly and urgently recommends that the successor of the late Justice Gould be a member of the bar of the court, who for at least ten years and who demonstrated his ability to afford such aid. “After due-and careful considera- tion the members of the association have unanimously united upon Adolph A. Hoehling_as the member of the bar most suitable in the present cir- cumstances for appointment to fill the vacancy in question. Thirty Years of Practice. “Mr. Hoehling has been in active practice before the bar of the court for upward of thirty vears, and is, therefore, conversant with its practice and requirements. He is a thorough | and sound lawyer, and admirably fitted | by his legal attainments and by his temperament - to_fill the office ac- ceptably and to the satisfaction of the bar and of litigants. Accordingly the bar association strongly requests and es his appointment. regoing -resolution was unanimously adopted at a meeting of the bar association held at the court- house this 1st day of June, 1921.” e e Mrs. Lloyd George, wife of the Brit- ish premier, says that she attended Sunday mcheol regulariy until she was thirty yéars old. 1 upon busi has been in active practice before It} niry, guring the next two weeks, erganisa and operation of the postal serviee. Teach a child to stymp and sd- dress = letter properiy, Mr. Hays belleves, and when it is older it will not-depart from it. Postmasters are asked te ar- range to deliver talks to puplis on the delivery of the mails, the classification of mil matter, the parcel post, the res- tstry, memey order savings systems, the proper ad- dressing of letters, ete. of the pamphlet of postal infor- mation. QUICK COLLECTION OF MAIL EXTENDED, Forty-Minute Service to Be| Continued to June 15 as Test. The Post Office Department has ex- tended until June 15 the operation of the “quick collection” service from the letter boxes in the downtown business section of the city. ‘The move is made in order that of- ficials of the de nt may more thoroughly study the operation of the collections every forty minutes, with a view to ‘determining whether the service =hall be retained. William R. Spilman, superintendent of the division of post office service, today began an extensive study of the system now under operation by the Washington city post office. He will report to First Assistant Postmaster General Work at the expiration date. May Try Other Citles. The “quick collection” service was to have ended yesterday, but the fifteen day®’ extension was determined check-up on the operation. If finally approved by the department, it is likely that the “quick collections” will be_authorized for other cities. In the meantime it is felt that the ess_men have a banner oppor- of jamming the letter boxes during the morning and early afternoon hours of each day, and proving to the Post Office Department officials the need of the “quick service. Comsidered Sumeeess. Officials of the Washington city post office are agreed that the rapid collection service is a success, and one which meets the needs of the entire downtown business communi- y as no other service could. the thing is to get the Post Office Department officials to think the same w: Collections are running at a satis- factory and steady rate now through- out the day from the more than 200 boxes that are collected every forty minutes. By the use of this service. and “mailing early.,” business men are gaining hours of the delivery of their letters, and the post office and its employes being helped immensely. —_— Rosa Bonheur, the famous French painter whose centenary is to be cele- brated next March, always wore mas- culine attire, except on social occa- sions, when she invariablx appeared in lack silk gown of the plainest make. in order to give an absolute| Commissiébér Oyster Effective Court: Plan to_: Check Whisky Traffic. Assignment of one of the Poliet Court judges to devote his entire ati tention to prohibition cases was proj posed today by Commissioner Jame F. Oyster as an effective means checking the traffic in whisky in thi District. § The Commissioner voiced this beliel when his attention was called to thy fact that there are now approximatels 250 cases involving violations of thy prohibition law awaiting action is the court. : Commissioner Oyster belicves thal speedy trials would go far toward ref ducing the amount of bootlexring Prompt_hearings, it was pointed ouf | would render it easier for the pnlic to get witnesses in court. Less Liable to Ply Trade. The Commii that if violators of the Volstead knew they would be prosecuted wi in a short time after being arrest: ! they would be less liable to ply thei “I believe it would be an excelle: move,” said the Commissioner, “if could be arranged to have a' Poli Court judge assigned to liquor case: The police are doing good work i apprehending violators of the proh bition act and I am sure that tl jinauguration of a prohibition coums would ald the department greatly !enforcing this law.” | Carrying out Commissioner Oy ydeclaration of war on bootleggers, thi i police department made approximate! {100 arrests during May for violatl of the Volstead act, according to report submitted to the Commissio by Maj. Gessford. Large Amount of Goods Taken. These arrests included charges illegal possession, transporting an selling. The goods confiscated woul fill & small sized warehoyse and i cluded everything from barrels of cider also were -emata the prohibition squads of the diffe: cincts. i _Commissioner Oyster has reque; ‘ed that a monthly statement be sei i to him of the activity of the precinciy in enforcing the prohibition law, in ers jder that he may keep in close per”lfl jtouch with the campaign to stop t traffic in intoxicants. 3 Following an investigation of thy small fire that occurred at 310 63 street yesterday morning, police the sixth precinct and Revenue Age: Harold Stephenson seized 150 gallol of mash, a still and small quantity corn whisky. 2 David H. Zukerman and Noah Bist kar were arrested and four charge preferred against them. They Having a still in possession, having a in operation. having in = mash fit for distillation and failure t§ pay internal revenue tax on distill spirits. They gave bond to appe; before United States Commissions !isaac R. Hitt next week. H FAIL TO AGREE ON BILL. 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