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Unsettled tonight and probably local thundershowers; followed by somewhat cooler weather tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours p.m. today: Highest, 88, at_noon today: lowest, 64, at 6 a.m. tinued warmer tonight, 2 ended at today. Full report on page WEATHER. tomorrow, con- 4. Closing New York Stocks Fas** No. 28,167. SECRETARY DENBY - ORDERS SIMS HOME, REVOKES HIS LEAVE Without Waiting for Ad- miral’s Reply. INSTRUCTED TO REPORT IN WASHINGTON AT ONCE Liner on Which Officer Has Al- ready Planned to Return Will Be First Available. Rear Admiral Sims’ leave'of absence in England was revoked today by Secretary Denby and he was ordered to report at once to the Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Denby’s action was taken with- out waiting for a reply from the offi- cer to the Secretary’s cablegram ask- ing whether he had been correctly quoted as attacking Sinn Fein sym- pathizers in the United States In 2 speech delivered in London this week. Admiral Sims had announced that he would sail for home from England on June 15. He was granted leave of absence to go abroad to receive a degree from an English university. The naval Secretary’s cablegram, sent today to the officer said: Remainder your leave revoked. You will return to the United States im- metiately and report in person to the Secretary of the Navy. Acknowledge. Mr. Denby’s order was not expected to expedite Admiral Sims’ return from England. The liner Olympic, on which the officer already planned to return. was the first available ship for the trip when he booked passage. WOULD HAVE SIMS EXILED Admiral Is Called “an Undesirable Alien” in the House. A resolution declaring Rear Admiral ims “an undesirable alien” and deny- ing him readmittance to any Ameri- can port was introduced in the House late yesterday by Representative Gal- livan, democrat, Massachusetts. The resolution referred to Rear Ad- miral Sims as “a foreign-born citizen of the United States, but now con- neeted, unhappily and unfortunately, with_the naval establishment of this country.” O other occasions, it add- -d, he had “publicly stated that in. ase of a war between the United States and Great Britain one British <hip could easily dispose of four or five American ships of corresponding tyPe,” and it charged t has publicly depreciated his superior offi- cers in the naval establishment and the character and quality of the gov- ernment of this republic.” SIMS’ DISCHARGE ASKED. Metal Trades Department of A.F.L. Demands Recall. DENVER, Col, June 11.—The recall of Admiral Sims from England and his dishonorable discharge from the 1'nited States Navy by President Tarding, if his remarks in London on Irish question are found to be rectly quoted, were demanded in a olution presented in the annual con- vontion of metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor. LOST CHILD'S BODY FOUND MUTHATED Little Girl, Aged 7, Throat Cut and Abdomen Siashed, Buried in Cellar. By the Associated Press. MOORESTOWN, N. J. June 11.—A particularly atrocious crime was re-| vealed here today by the Burlington county authorities, when they an- nounced the finding of the badly muti- lated body of seven-year-old Matilda Russo, who had been missing since last Saturday. The police are search- ing for Lewis Lively. a negro, thirty- five vears old, in connection with the killing of the child. ‘The child's body was found buried In the cellar of Lively’s home, which i= within fifty feet of that of the Russo family in East 2d street, East Moorestown. The throat had been cut and the abdomen slashed. According to the authorities, the child had been mistreated before it had been killed. The body was found yesterday, but the crime was not revealed by the police in the hope of capturing the murderer. Lively is employed in Phila- delphia. and came home to Moores- town every night. Last night he was seen in town, but has not been found by the police. Buried Under. Suspect’s Hom The little victim was the daughter of Michael Russo, a tailor. Lively's family. consisting of his wife and five- year-old son, has been away from home for more than a week. In the hunt for the child County Detective Ellis Parker directed Chief of Police Bradshaw of Moorestown to search Lively's house. While poking through the dirt flpor of the cellar Bradshaw found the body. 4 - Lively’s wife was found by the po- lice today and locked up in the Bur- lington county jail at Mount Holly. She said she knows nothing of the crime. According to Parker, Lively’s house was searched because of his apparent nervousness when spoken to about the search for the child during the week. % The community is aroused and ex- tra precautions have been taken to safeguard Lively when found. JURY COMMISSION FILLED. <. Phiip Herrmann Selected as Third Member. J. Philip Herrmann, of House & Herrmann, has been selected by the Justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia as the third mem- ber of the jury commtssion. Mr. Herr- mann is to serve out the unexpired term of B. F. Shaw, The term expires next. May. The other members of the commission are Edward B. Eynon, jr, and J. Harry «Cuaningham. p who. resigned. | be de tered as second-class matter Doat office Washington, D. C. WA YANK'S BODY IN CAPITOL, PROPOSAL OF D. C. LEGION Placing of Coffin of Unknown American Sol- " dier, Who Died on French Battlefield, in an unknown American soldier who died on a bat- tlefleld in France in the crypt in the Capitol, just north of the rotunda, is to be urged before the executive committes of the American Legion at its meeting at Indianapolis Tuesday. Col. James A. Drain, - department commander of the District, and mem- ber of the national executive commit- tee, is to present the proposal to the national body. Col. . Lester Jones, past commander of the local legion Kenneth A. McRae and J. Bentley Mul ford, acting as a committee from George Washington Post, framed the resolution which will be presented at Indianapolis next week. The committee’s recommendation is “that the American Legion take imm diate steps to bring from France the body of one of our unknown comrades. to be buried with appropriate services in the Capitol building, in Washington, ARTISTS WILL AID NATIONAL GALLERY Commission Created by Smithsonian Institution Holds Meeting Here. A national gallery of art commission has been created by the regents of the Smithsonian Institution to promote the development of the gallery, to as- sist in securing acquisitions and ad- vise in the matter of administration. ‘This commission, which held its first meeting here, consists of five public men interested in art, five experts, five artists and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who will be ex-officio a2 member of the commis- sion. The five public men are W. K. Bixby of St Louis, president of the 8t. Louis Art Museum and well known as a collector; J. H. Gest, director of the Art Museum of Cincinnati and president of the Rockwood Pottery: James Parmelee of Cleveland and this city, a trustee of the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art, and Herbert L. Pratt of New York. secretary of the Nation: Art Commission, which has lately a quired for the National Portrait Gal- lery the notable group of portraits of leaders in the great war recently shown here in the National Museum and now making a circuit of the museums ofthis country. List of the Experts. The five experts are John E. Lodge, now director -of the Freer Gallery, formerly on thé staff of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, sori of Senator Lodge; Frank Jewett Mather. jr., of Princeton, well known as an critic and ome of the foremost au- thorities on European art in this country; rles A. Platt of New York, the architect of the Freer Gal- lery and equally well known as an eteher and connoisseur; E. W. Red- fleld of Center Bridge, Pa.. the dis- tinguished Jlandscape painter, and Denman W. Rose of Harvard Univer- sity and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a recognized authority on tex- tiles and designs. The five artists are Herbert Adams, sculptor of the MacMillan fountain in this city; Dan- iel Chester French, the sculptor of the Linooln statue in the Lincoln me- morial, of the Dupont fountain and the Gallaudet memorial; Willlam H. Holmes, director of the National Gal- lery of Art and president of the So- ciety of Washington Artists and the ‘Washington Water Color Club., and Gari Melchers of New York and Fal- mouth, Va., painter of figure pictures and portraita. Officers Selected. At the initial meeting of the com- mittee, June 8, Mr. French was elected chairman, Mr. Mather , vice chairman and Mr. Holmes secretary. Special committees on American, mod- ern and ancient European painting, oriental art, sculpture, architecture, mural painting, ceramics, textiles, prints and national portrait gallery were organized and chairmen ap- pointed. An advisory committee to re- pert on works of art submitted for the National Gallery of Art also was named. This puts the National Gallery of Art on a vigorous working basis and assures -it the best adyice possible in matters pertaining to its develop- ment and upkeep. The great. need today is for a suit- able building. The present collec- tions, valued at over a million dollars, are temporarily housed in impro- vised quarters in the natural history building. Suitable housing in a b ing designed for the purpose is en- sential to continued growth. Value af National Gallery. Eevery other great nation has its national gallery of art. A gallery of art worthy of our nation here at the nation’s capital would prove not only of educational and recre- ational value to the people of t country but a possession in which all the people might justly feel ownership and pride. From a purely commercial viewpoint it ~would be- come a valuable national asset. The rapidity with which vaiuable acqusitions have come to the gal- lery in the past few years indicates the interest taken in it by public spirited citizens. The lately appoint- ed commission serves without com- pensation. TEXAS MAY PUSH SUIT ATTACKING THE I. C. C. Questions Constitutionality of That Body and of the United States Railroad Labor Board. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., June 11.—The Texas attorney general's department an- nounced today that the Supreme Court of the United States had granted its request to file a suit attacking the constitutionality of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the United States Raflroad Labor Board. The Supreme Court inf ed the depmrt- ment that subpoenas been issued to the two organizations requiring them to appear before the court The suit was filled June 6, the an-|' nouncement ‘Texas in the nl:‘wln also that an acts and orders the and In te ercs Commission transportation act of 1920 be held constitutional, the remaining sections be declared invalid. y - Crypt North of Rbtunda, to Be Urged. - Navy Department Head Acts| ... . .. bosy of on Armistice day, November 11, 1921. The crypt at the Capitol originally was designed and intended to hold the body of George Washington, but the plans were never carried out. Te use it to enshrine the body of an unknown thero of the world war, it was pointed out, would add dignity and impressive- ness for all time to come, as has Eng- land’s burial of her unknown dead in Westminster Abbey and the burial of the French unknown dead in the Arc de Triomphe. It was pointed out by members of the legion today that the carrying out of the proposal of the legion for the resting place of the body would com- mand more widespread attention and interest than the selection of a site in the Nationgl cemetery at Arlington. Following favorable action by the national executive committee, the whole force of the legion will be thrown behind the proposal with the view of obtaining the approval of Congress to the suggestion. PAID T0 GALBRAITH Funeral of Legion Head Given International Phase by French Officers. By the Amsociated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, since the funeral of Gen. Joseph Hook- er, of civil war fame, which took place in the '70s, has there been such a mil- litary funeral cortege in this city as that which will be presented as the sequel to the services this afternoon over the body of Col. Fred Galbraith, national commander of the American Legion, who was killed in an automo- bile accident in Indianapolis Thursday morning. The funeral will be given an inter- national phase by the presence of Marcel Knecht, French high com- missioner to the United States, who was a close friend of the deceased soldier, and Capt Levergne, alr attache of the French embassy at June 11.—Not Washington, who will officlally rep- resent Ambassador Jules Jusserand. The French officia rived - this orning. M. Knecht ccompanied Yy two French veterans, who will carry the tri-color in the funeral pro- cession. Tribate From Chateaw Thierry. Ome of the most impresstve of the- hundreds of floral tributes will be a. paim. wtomnd which will Be the e} color, which will be bl on the coffin. It is the tribute of the_city of Chauteau Thierry, France. With the palm will be a card bearing the inscription, “To One of Our Bravest Liberators, From the City of Chateau Thierry.” The citizens of that city cabled to M. Knecht to order the tribute when they learned of the death of the com- mander of the legion. Other arrivals early today were Assistant Secreta: of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, Col. T. M. Miller, alien property custodian, and J. T. Taylor, vice chairman of the legion's legislative committee. They came from Washington. Okio Officials Aitend. Gov. Harry L. Davis of Ohio, Adijt. Gen. George W. Florence, Auditor Joseph Tracey. all the members of the Ohio state supreme court arrived to represent the stite of Ohio at the obsequies. Col. John R. McQuigg of Cleveland, Ohio, departmental com- mander of the legion and a large number“of legionnaires from up-state represent the Ohio department. Franklin d'Olier, Philadelphia, past national commander of the American | Legion; John H. Emery, Grand Rapids, Mich., vice national com- mander. and Maj. Gen. George W. Read, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., commanding officer of the 5th Corps Area of the United States Army, also arrived early today. In addition there were many dele- gations from Rotary clubs of several midwest cities. But probably the greatest and most Impressive turn-out will be by the citizens of this city. Galbraith was so highly popular that men ‘and women. from all walks of | life will be sincere mourners at the services, which will be held in Music Hall at 2 pm. URGED MERCHANT MARINE. Col. Galbraith Was Deeply Inter- ested in Ship Board Plans. Indorsement of the Shipping Board's- motion picture entitled. “America’s Merchant Marine” was given by the late Col. F. W. Galbraith, -American Legion commander, just before his death. Col. Galbraith reviewed the picture a short time ago. mobile accident Col. Galbraith I a telegram to the Shipping Board sai “The growth, maintenance and pro. perity ' of American shipping must ever be close to the heart of every patriotic American citizen. The Amer. can Legion heartily subscribes to the ' motto, ‘Keep . the Stars and Stripes on the Seven Se: Tmble to our con o merchant marine is a national ssset in peace and a nece: weapo! i isary weapon in Today’s News in Paragraphs Placing of body of unknown sol Capitol crypt proposal .-of Legion. Page: 1 Commission created by ~Smithsonian Institution to promte national gallery of art holds meeting. " Page . 1 Guards face 3,000 about “where wife slayer is confined. - Page 2 Greek lunchroom keeper shoots former partner to death. 2 Far East republic protests presence of Japanese troops. Page 2 Bright winter cont being re- atars. stellations placed by faint summer : Page 3 ith from fall cauges indictment for er. Page Lower street car 88 assured Distriét. *s Page 3 Minority Zionists decide to.hold: mass conference. ldier in D. C. manslaught 3 fares seen for : Brightwood citisens will urge G?&th avenue. " SHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NATIONAL TRIBUTE |~ B - = DECLINE IN PRICES OF SHOES FORESEEN Trade Commission Tells House Leather and Foot- wear Are Going Down. A further decline in leather and shoe prices is expected by the Federal Trade Commission, according to a re- port it sent to the House of Repre- sentatives today in response to a reso- lution adopted by the House calling for information concerning conditions in the leather industry. present prices of hides and the report says, “and the con- ditions eXifteft In these phases of the | industry, justify an expectation of atiil mr’mmmu‘- im the quoted prices of and ghoes.’ High of footwear ‘which ob- tained du ns 1918 and were greatly inereased in 1819 resulted from “ab- normal conditions of supply and de- 18, Both économical and paycholog- ieal, arising out of. the war,” the com- misalon finds. Incident to these conditfons, it adds, “were lirge margins of profits taken by tanners, shoe manufacturers, wholesalers, jobbers and retailers,” whose large earning: have been “out of the increase in their unit cost.” Buyers® Strike Ended Advance. The so-called “buyers’ strike.” fin the spring of 1920, is credited with having terminated the advance in the price of shoes. Failure of leather and shoe prices to decline as extensively as did hide prices after the “buyers’ strike,” is at- tributed by the commission to a ™ten- dency to base selling prices on actual rather than replacement costs, and to the fact that other prices had not de- clined as much as had raw materials. “During 1919 prices of shoes, leather and hides,” the report said, “increased more than in any year of the war period, .1914-1918. ‘In 1320 a cor- respondingly rapid decline in prices of hides seems to have been accom- panied by a somewhat less rapid and less extensive decline in leather prices, and by a still smaller decline in retail prices of shoes. “While average imports of hides and skins in the fiscal years 1013 and 1914 prior to the war, were 566,633,688 pounds, imports for the year 1918 were only 432,615,693 pounds, and for the fiscal year 1919 only 448,141,726 pounds. Since the greater part of the hides and skins tanned in the United States comes from foreign countries these declines in imports in 1918 and 1919 represented an important decrease in available supply. there was an in deman of large foreign and domestic orders for leather and shoes. Goatskins and calfskins in particular were accumu- lated in large quantities by tanners. Demand Greater Than Supply. “In spite of these increases in raw stocks, tanners increased their leather production in 1919 only very slightly and not enough to offset increased leather exports, leaving a domestic supply .inadequate to increase in do- mestic demand. there was not Guly an unusually strong domestic demand for shoes in 1919, but also a marked shift in demand to the higher he | The day before he died in an auto- | quality grades, in spite of the great increase in price, is indicated.in re- rts from the shoe trade. “Another important factor in the in- | ! crease in prices was a general in- crease in costs of production. Wages, suppiies. and general expenses, in- creased at every stage of production and distribution. The most important factor, however, was the increase In . namely, hides and In the aver- leather for. the shoe industry. shoe manufacturing industry age increases in 'typical cos! pair in the fall of 1919 and over the srring of 1918 ranged between 18 per cent and 72 per cent for men's shoes, between 19 per cent and 45 per cent for women’'s shoes and be- tween 7 per cent and 55 per cent for Uieh the sh u;z and extremely active'demand, there occurred a rapid advance In prices during 1919. While the peak I hide and leather prices came gem- erally in the summer and fall of 1919 prices of shoes continued to increase until the spring of 1920. Large Profits During War. “Incident to the high:prices pre- vailing in_1918 and 1919 were large profits earned by tanners, shoe man- ufacturers, whalesalers and. retailers. .of eighty-nine tanners of EarnIng her, whoss, production in 1918 was .about 65 per cent of total produgtion as reported to, the.com- mission, were 13.1°per cent on inves ment '(as represented- by capitsl stock lus. and borrowed m and 29.8 per cent in and surp oney) in 1918 1919. these tanners the. :esrn- ings df twenty-two companies tan- ning Kid-Tenthers-with production in bout 70 per cent of the total Taports kid leather production, were t, averaging 26.8 per ocent on nvestment in 1918 and.S1 per eent in 1919, Earnings ef 341 EContEi iR shoe manu- heminy WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION At the same time | round numbers, 2,900. d_for | ing hides and skins in 1919 in anticipation | ey | a 4 | increase over the pre-war strength in per| ¥ ort supply, increases in | DECISION IS SWEEPING. Kansas Supreme Tribunal Sustains Industrial Court Law. TOPEKA, Kan, June 11.—In the most sweeping decision yet handed down affecting validity of the Kansas industrial court law, the state su- preme court today affirmed the de- NE 11, 1921—_TWENTY-TWO PAGES. FEDERAL APPROVAL 10 FOREIGN LOANS ‘CONFEREES AGREE ON :$200,000 ITEM FOR BETTER WATER SUPPLY The conferees on the Army bill to- day agreed to the Senate amendment providing $200,000 to begin work on :}': iincreased- water supply for the istrict of Columbia, it was learned following a meeting of the conference committee. “This amendment was intro- duced by Senator Sutherland of West Virginia. “The so-called Norris amendment, providing $200,000 to begin work on the: proposed Great Falls water power project, however, was resisted by the House conferees, it is said, on the ground that the item was not an emergency itei as was the water supply item, and that it was not properly ‘in an Army appropriation bill. The Great Falls project will be stricken from the bill. The conferees made considerable progress in adjusting the differences between the two houses, although a number of important Senate amend- ments were passed over for future action. The conferees will meet again Monday afternoon. FAGTS ON CONDUIT FACING CONFEREES Sturdy Statements Pointed ' Out Dangers to Washing- ton’s Water Supply. Senate and House conferees on the Army bill, which carries a provision for a new water conduit from Great Falls, were confronted with sturdy facts when they came to determine whether the conduit item should re- main in the measure, it was pointed out by government ‘officials today. These are: First—Washington is depending for its water supply on a nine-foot brick tunnel, built sixty years ago, which engineerz say is in danger of break- cision of the Crawford county district i ing at any time. SOuRt Stntencins Aleunder Hiowat 10| CO-Operation of Govern-| 5. Rt somnel s detivertng one year in jail for contempt. 2 n 65,000, lons of water The law was held valid on each of| ment and Bankers to Reg- |daily, which was the limit placed on the eight issues raised. its safe average. carrying capacity WAR DEPARTMENT Pre. administration has passed the first when it was new. Third—A serious break in the con- duit would jeopardize the lives and health of the people of the National ulate Money Flow. ‘BY DAVID LAWRENCE. sident Harding feels that the | private property here to unlimited 1fire hazards. | the average citizen and members of H: milestone in the journeys of under-| High 1’;1-“x ;. Situation. standing and good feeling to be| These are the high points in a situa- - traveled by the government and pri. | 1on declared to be more serious than vate Civilian ' Employes Must Be ] trom Dropped Because of Re- i duced: Appropriations. = | To meet reduced appropriations for fgs: our g nounced that the government here had recelved satfsfactory assurances bankers to ‘the effect -that .the latter would gladly co-operate” with the |" overnment in_the matter of enterpri Kuropeean governments have always business. The President an-|Ccngress probably realize. Those charged with the responsibility of bringing to the attention of Con- £ress the need of immediate legislation jto s=afeguard tho .capital against a | water famine believe the conduit item, ‘which met ‘with no opposition in_the Senate, will receive the approval of the conferees and will be adopted by the House by a substantial majority. Figures made. public today show that consumption of water in the District .every group of international financ- for { peoples. s i really & new departure for overnment in peace-time, though 4 nex & worked .in close and intimate rela- | steadily is i Jnth t i e riLes i | ey, iR R or 9307 ifa | Sdus ',’Z“"" ¢ S d,"w'f “ine"scai 4 2 it 3 . . B Tnited States government did all the | Hon v o boomae o o1 San pcoRsump- 1an employes in the'Wdr Department and its branches in this city. between now and July 1. The number of War Department employes in this city at present is 8,538, which is less than three times the number before the world war. By July 1. according to plans projected for reductions in the various bureaus and services, the present force of 8,538 will be reduced to about 6.600. which will lcave the force at that time—two and one-half years after the armistice—at about two and one-third times its pre-war strength. While reductions of the clerical force will be made in all bureaus and services of the department. the major- ity of the separations will occur in the adjutant general's office, where over 1,000 are scheduled to go: the air service, which will lose about 300: the finance service, 275; the quarter- callin, suppos tratio; cal ai tectio: lénding of money to foreign govern- iments and peoples. Prior to that @ e, while America was neutral, the iz banking institutions of this coun- try lent large sums to Great Britain and France. and though sympathizers did all in their powes to prevent the floating of such loans, United States government, neverthe- less, didn’t interfere in the slightest, giving neither encouragement Politie: 't Disappears. Now, bow?&r. the Harding adminis- tive participant.in the' situation for entirely different reasons. The politi- | appeared. and at present it is entirely a question of .world economics and particularly a matter of domestic pro- tion was in excess of 51,000.000 gallogs. In 1917 it Jumped to a point beyond 53,000,000. The year following it jclimbed to 62,000,000, and in 1919 to {2 point -in excess of €5,000,000. The consumption in 1920 was close to 67,- 000,000. , Dally Use Past Safety Mark. Daily consumption this month has the. German g _them unneutral acts, the 5,000,000 gallons. May's figures show- ed a daily average increase over those lof the corresponding month, a year ago, of more than 400,000 gallons. There is no escaping .the fact that consumption is growing and the con- duit is being subjected to a constantly increasing strain which eventually can have but one ending. Such a calamity may be precipitated at _any time, engineers frankly admit. It is impossible to unwater the tunnel long enough for inspection and repairs be- cause of the necessity of keeping it in nor rt to the loans. n has decided to beccme an ac- spect of foreign loans has dis- n agains the uninterrupted flow master service, 166; the ordnance|©of American capital to.foreign coun-|Operation constantly if the city service, 34; staff, 45. The remaining | trles at atiractive rates of interest. | Water needs are to be suppiied. The services of the department will all| Mir. Harding and the cabinet have |City's surplus supply of water in the suffer reductions, but to a smaller ex- tent. Department employes that were here November 11, 1918, are now borne on the rolls of the War Department. More than 77 per cent have gone back to their homes, to other branches of the government, or to employment in clvil life. Reduction Begun at Once. The pre-war force of the War De- partment in Washington was, in lettin that best. of the armistice the department jloans, 37,406 civillan employes in this city—over twelve times the pre-war Reduction was begun the day after the armistice and the depart- ment is down now to 8.538—a reduc- tion of 28,868 civilian employes of the | that War Department in Washington ginni since the armistice. That is a reduc- tion of more than 77 per cent.. Chief Clerk Scofield says that the it. do will’ appropriations for the current fiscal| 8PRIOval of the government in the sense_that the Harding administration year for the departmental service S DIThAYSL bt aTvan fhe s e seracion aggregate in round numbers $8,400,- 000 and provide for a potential | tO X strength of 6,460 employes. For the next flacal year it is estim: the appropriations will total about ‘1", $5,400,000, and ‘provide for a poten- = tial strength of about 4,150 employes. £ a larger number than that is em- | %] ployed at the beginning, July 1 next, [-©! the number employed at the end of the next fiscal year must be corre- spondingly reduced. Mr. Scofleld says that the aver- age of 4,150 employes would mean an shall vate the departmental service of less than one and one-half times for the 4scal ear beginning July 1, 1921. Out of the appropriation of $4,000,- 000 for additional employes Tendered necessary by the war for the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1520, there was turned into the - expended balance of $41,687. 2,855 in Field Serviee. ing h other no ph: on an; ment the departmental service in the Dis- | fiate tions. interruption ‘of service involved in trict, there are at present. 2,855 em- Meanwhile more conferences are to | this condition. of course, must be ployes under the department in the{be held with -western bankers 1o get | taken. is 1o help for it. The District in the “field service” as fol-|tBe Viewpoint of other sections of the |longer the new work is postponed > country besides the east. The Treas-(the greater will be the 'risk. It lows: Quartermaster department,|ury and Federal Reserve Board have |should be clearly understood, there- 1,162; .medical department, 582;|representatives out west now who are | fore, that new works are recommend- finance service, 543; engineer depart ment, 218; ordnance department, 133; Signal Corps, 113; General Staff Col- lege, 50; air service, 41; the boards for civilian ' marksmanship and promotion of rifie practice, 13; total, 2,855 * “The strenggh of the field service em- ployes in tife District is not limited by .the appropriation acts. They ai pald out of the various appropriations which are available in the fleld any- where the Army is stationed. The number, therefore, in. the District is|jy 1able according to the furiction and | gu00q volume of work charged to"the local |y, ¢ fleld agencies of the Army. Many New Functions. ‘Wash “The down posed The plans now.projected provide for | timistic republl reductions in the field rvice in!paign ashington from its present 0 flis“to about 2,300 between now |satisf: ~~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) no legal power to interfere with the floating of any loan in peace times. han 5 But the exercise of moral influence lem ! et O pihe War|hy the government can’ be made an important factor. If the administra- tion were to issue a public statement ness situation the banking houses en deavoring to float such a loan would run up against an indifferent lot of people and the loan would be doomed. est of the bankers as the government At the sign-|that there should be co i N ‘which the government disapproves. It was made quite clear at the White House that this doesn’t mean the be- of private loans. Nor does it mean in | proposition offered by the Interna- about thirty months, which reduction | tional bankers as a ‘good The public will have to judge for it- is at a rate of more than 900 a month = I:‘M erltBOf N enats ated that | SRIASE the interest of the people as ole. 4 keep track of all loans or enterprises which may in any way take funds out administration feels that foréign gov. ernments ought to agree that the sums received i finance American export trade. In other words, as President Hard- is contemplated by the government i guiding the country back to normale: but the whole situation, national and international, is belng surveyed, and Un-|ing, .is being permitted to encroach In addition to the 5,683 employes in | understanding all around for the ulti- investigating the financial situation and making a list of bankers and busi- ness men who should be invited to the mer months the Harding administra- tion will be taking a good deal of counsel, and the only discouraging factor in. the whole. situation ‘is the fact that Congress has not yet gotten iff.or taxation, It isn't that Congress loafing,. far ut the two subj ation—.are m strength | time used, reservoirs barely is sufficient for a two days' supply. while practically that much time would be required to unwater the conduit and get it run- ning to full capacity again. Maj. M. C. Tyler, Corps of Engi- neers, United States Army, whose plans’ for a new conduit were ap- proved by the Senate, discusses the importance of starting ‘the work with the least delay possible in his report, which is before Congress. He says: engineering structures need maintenance. Without maintenance work sooner or later failures will occur. With the consumption of water what it has been for the past two years, it is impossible to un- water the ‘conduit for longer than two,_ days, which is an- insufficient Itime to do much more than inspect it. It is impossible to do any work the tunrel under the city, because the time required to pump it out is about equal to the time that the storage in McMillan Park reservoir will supply the city. The District of Columbia is, therefore, dependent for its water on a'single line of supply, which, on account of the amount of water it is carrying, can not be main- tained properly. “This condition cannot be improved until additional facilities are pro- vided. While, 50 far as known, all structures are in good condition they | cannot remain so without mainte- nance, and the longer the new work is postponed the greater will be the risk of a failure in some part of the supbly line which will stop for.a time at least the delivery of water. The time has passed when an expansion of the system would be simply a wise provision to care for a growing pop- ulation. It is mow more than that, It is a mecessity as insurance against 3n interruption of service altogether. ? the project for.expansion. which g the American people know a certain Jean was not to the interests of our domestic bus it is just as much to the inter- 01 -operation.. No will be floated therefore, of ng -of a government guarantee the government vegards every investment. loan. But es mean that every loan issued have had in advance the tacit pross an objection an d thus kill loan if it deems s the project this way the government will ing borrowing money here be used indirectly to'pay off pri- obligations to America or to imself explained to friends the day, no single measure of relief can be most,speedily completed be authorized, additional water cannot be delivered Inside of two and one- half years. five yéars or more. ther projects will take ase of it, like internatianal bank- This means that y other phase. Thus, the govern- hopes to. bring about.an era of | tinue for several years without prop- er repairs to supply the D betterment of business condi-|Columbia with water. The risk of ed in this report, not only to provide an adequate.water supply for the in- creasing population of the District of Columbia, but ‘beciuse are an urgent necessity for the pro- tection of the District against an in- terraption, of its water service. —— DEGREE FOR PRESIDENT. ‘NEW CONCORD, Ohio, June 11.—A degree. of doctor of-law awaits Pres- ident Harding at Muskingum College hére, ‘it was announced yesterday at the -commencement exercises. The of “by July 1st,” a5 50 many op- | degree will be conferred, it was said, promised in'cam- | whenever the President can find time days. - N¢ y ‘will begrudge. the | t6 come to New Concord. President however, if the results are | Harding is a graduate of Ohio Central 3 College,” later combined with Mus- ington meetings. prospect s that during the sum- to brass t&cks either on the tar- i6_same con, nal is being maintained as usual, —tariff and tax- 00 big to,be dis- lactory. Capital and subject government and | gone far beyond the safety mark of | i i i i such works.| -] COLLAPSE OF ALLIED TWO CENTS. NEAR EAST POLICIES NOW IS THREATENED Influence Evaporates as Red Moscow Binds Vast Ter- ritories With Treaties. KEMAL HAS SCRAPPED PACT WITH THE FRENCH Supreme Council Must Face One of Gravest Problems Since the Armistice.” BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. Coy PARIS, France, June 11.—Mustapha Kemal Pasha's denunciation of the French agreement, which is now so occupying the entente, appears from information recently reccived here to be only the first sign of a new condi- tion threatening the collapse of the whole aflied near east policy. The re- .cent publication of the Russian-Per- sian and Russian-Afghan treaties and the dramatic change in the Persian government reveal clearly for the first time what has been happening behind the Asiatic mists in the last twelve months while the alliecs have been quarreling, compromising and delay- ing. o= The bald truth is that Moscow has formed a molid block of allied or as- sociated states, largely Mohammedan, extending from the Mediterranean Lo the Indian border and from the Black sea to the Persian gulf. Within this territory, which is larger than half of Europe, virtually no allied troops remain and the last vestiges of allied influence are evaporating. This block is of two kinds: The first is made up of the Caucasian republics of Georgia, Azerbaidjan and Armenia, which are nominally bolshevist and are firmly under the military control of Moscow. The second is composed of Kemalist Anatolia, Persia and Af- £hanistan, all closely bound to Mos- cow by treaties which have been rati- fleld or will be soon. These in the Pprocess of national reawakening, are iconfident in the expectation of mili- tary aid from soviet Russia and they now feel strong enough to defy Eu- rope. Cause of Kemal's Act. Kemal's scrapping of the French treaty was due not only to his wvie- tories over the Greeks, but also to & feeling of security because of the bolshevist block. These states are confident that Europe will be unable to send the half-million troops neces- sary to reduce them to obedience. All ‘this Muscovite diplomacy has gained at lfttle cost or sacrifice by skillfully taking advantage of the Mohammedan fear of the allies and the allies’ distrust of each other. The Russo-Persian treaty must be considered one of the most important diplomatic events of the last year. It appears to decide the Anglo-Rus- sian struggle’ of the last quarter of a century for commercial and polit- ical domination in Persia in favor of Russia. Under present conditions it is difficult to see how Britain can prevent this _settlement. In the meantime in Moscow a new treaty is being drafted for presentation to the Persian people at the psycholog- ical moment. Last February, the adventurer, Sey- yid Zialdin, with a force of Cossack troops, attempted 2 coup d'etat in Per- sia, having, so he loudly proclaimed. the assistance of a large number of British experts and officers. But his Cossacks resented the British methods of drill and withdrew their support. Meanwhile ‘- Mushaver-el-Malik, turned from Moscow wi treaty and denounced Seyyid, who was overthrown. Mushaver became for- eign minister while one Kavam-es- Sultaneh was called from prison 1o be premier. This completed the Russian victory over the British in Persia. My information is that the country considers the British treaty to be com- pletely dead, and it is believed that the British officers and experts will soon be out of the country. However. this. does not affect the British oil concessions in Persia. Not Menace to India. Moscow’'s Mohammedan block s not a military menace to India. Such a danger will be moonshine for many years to come or until an overwhelm- ing army equipment is assembled, but it tends to consolidate Mohammedan opinion for political purposes, espe- cially in India. Its chief importance is to checkmate the plans of the eco- nomic exploitation of the near east. Further, Moscow’s block makes pre- carious the position of the allied troops in the bordering countries, namely Syria and Mesopotamia. It will be difficult for the allies to com- ®at this combination. The Greek army seems to be on the point of collapsing and the allied control of Constanti- nople may be lost. Although the newspaper talk of the danger of Kemal capturing Constantinople is absurd. this is probably Greek propaganda to persuade the aliles to lel them annex it. It is impossible for Kemal's army to capture Constartinople while the British fleet is in the harbor. Per- haps Moscow’s plans are to engulf the city by revolution. ] The Persian treaty renounces with a great flourish all the Russian special Tights, privileges and control in Per- iz formerly cnjoved by the ezarist government—Tfor instance, the repay- ment of the interest and principal of the loans to Persia by the czar and the right to control the administration ot the finances and to guarantee these. Appears as Friead. Thus the treaty becomes propaganda tending to.meke Russia appear as a generous friend, and Great_ Britain, which does not renouncé similar rights, as_a grasping enemy. The treaty further provides for the usual exchange of commercial and diplo- matie privileges. Persia specially her territory shall not e for military operatio; , and provides that if a force exists in Peraia ! Russia’s opinion menaces. Tk 1D nd Persia it unable to expel. sia will have the right to send Foops on Persian soil on Pers 5 m‘l‘”)'-': Afghan treaty ilar, but Russia seals the pact with is broadly sim- “of 1,000,000 rubles in geold e annually to the emir and aid to an amount which is. to the Afghan state. Rus- sia will dlso send technicians to ‘melp comstruct telegraph lines aad assist in administering the country. It ‘will be remem that the Komalist treaty was of a similar character, Thus Russia by renoune-. ing that which she could not enfores gains military security, _extended trade relations and 2 ndous propaganda lever on the Mussulmas population of the nsar cast. a ($500,000) financial not stats ;