Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1921, Page 2

W.R &EPROTESTS T O INGAR A Against Public Utilities’ Con- sideration of Issue Before September 1. The Washington Railway and Elec-, tric Company today protested against | the announced intention of the Pub- lic Utilities Commission to consider a reduction in car fare before Sep- tember 1, when the existing fare order expires. The commission yesterday evening gave the companies notice that on June 28 it would fix the date for a rate hearing. Ten working days must elapse between tne nxing of the date and the opening of the hearing. which means that the hearing will be held about July 11. i William F. Ham, president of the W. R. and E., made public this morn- ing a letter he has sent {o the com- mission, questioning _its right to change the rate during July or Au- gust, when the existing rate order was definitely fixed until September. Congreas Action Ewnential. Figures worked out both by the eommission_and the Washington Rail- way and Electric indicate that not much of a reduction in the cxisting rate of fare can be made unless Con- gress enacts one of the bills now pending to change the form of rail- way taxation, relieve the companies from paying crossinz policemen and paving the track spaces. The commission estimates that with = straight S-cent fare, or five tokens for 35 cents. instead of four for 30 cents, the rate of return on the com- bined valuations of the Washington | Rallway and Electric and the Capital | Traction companies would be 6.04 per cent. [t has been construed by the commission in the past that the street railways are entitled to at least 6 per cent. If this change is made it would amount to a cut of only '; cent in the token rate. According to Mr. Ham, a straight 7- eent fare, which also has been sug- gested, would give a return on the combined value of the two companies of 5.16 per cent. Commission's Letter. The commission, in notifying the companies to prepare for a rate hear- Ing said: < “In accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 38 and 39 of section 8 of the act of Congress approved March 4. 1913, making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Colum- bia for the fiscal vear ended June 30, 1814, and for other purposes. notice is hereby given that the Public U ities Commission of the District of Cclumbia_has made an investigation | of the effect on the earnings of the several street railway corporations in the District of Columbia of the pres- ent rates of fare covering the opera- tions of the companies for a full year from May 1, 1920, on which dates the present rates became effective. This investigation shows that the comp: nies. considered as a whole, have earned a return on the combined fair value of their properties, as ascer- tained by the commission as of De- cember 31, 1920, In excess of the amount which the commission con- iders reasonable. “Further investigation by the com- mission of the earnings of the com- panies for the first four months of the calendar year 1921 shows that the return for that period is at a still higher rate than obtained during the year beginning May 1, 1920. “In view of these increased earnings and of the decrease in the cost of materials and the price of labor that have obtained since the present rates of fare became effective. the commis: sion is of the opinion that a revision of the rates should be considered in advance of the expiration of the period for which they were establish- ed in_commission's order No. 417, is- sued March 28, 1921 “In accordance with the foregoing provisions of law, the Public Utilities Commission will” on Tuesday. June 28, 1921, proceed to set a time and place for a formal public hearing upor the question of the reasonable- ness of the present rates of fare on the lines of the several street rail- ‘way companies operating in the Dis- trict of Columbi 'At_this hearing consideration will be given to the petition of the Feder- ation of Citizens' Associations of the | District of Columbia, filed with this commission on May 25, 1921, claiming that the rates of fare on the lines of the Capital Traction Company are unreasonable and unjustly diserimi- matory and praying for a reduction thereof. A copy of this petition is| transmitted herewith.” Mr. Ham's Reply. In his letter to the commission, made public today, Mr. Ham states that “since the last hearing no material changes in conditions have occurred to justify a change at this time in the raté of fare. During the vear ended May 31, 1921, the total number of revenue passengers carried by the Capital Traction and the Washington Railway and Electric com- panies within the District fell off nearly fourteen million as compared with the previous vear, a decrease of more than 8 per cent. Traffic_is still decreasing, | and we can reasonably expect such de- crease to continue, especially in view of the reduction in government employas scheduled to take place on or before the first of next month. “As to the question of separate fares on the two railway systems, the commission has constantly maintain- ed the policy of a uniform rate of fare | on all street railway lines within the | 1 District of Columbia. It.is needless for us to refer to this, but we feel that possibly the attached memo-! randum may be helpful to the com-| mission. showing brief excerpts re- lating to this matter from the orders of the commission dated October 1918; May 29, 1919: October 18, 191 April 15, 1920; December 30, 1920, and March 28, 1921. “Further, the effect of separate fares on the street railway systems would be to create a zone system and impose higher fares on the suburban lines, the system advocated by th company as a measure of relief, against which there was unanimi of opposition on the part of the cit 3ens’ associations, who demanded that the same rate of fare be maintained on all railways throughout the Dis- rict. BOY DROWNS IN RIVER. Believed to Have Been Stricken With Cramps. Raymond E. Stark, fourtecn years old, 1025 30th street. was drowned in the river near the power plant of the Capital fraction Company, at the foot of 31st street about 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It is believed the boy was stricken with cramps. Twenty minutes after the swim- mer disappeared beneath the surface of the water Clinton W. Scott. Wis- consin avenue and K_street. recov- ered the body. Dr. R. J. Beachley, member of the staff at Emergency Hospital, was at the river front When the body was brought ashore. The physician accompanied the body to W. T. Reynolds' boathouse, where a pulmoter recently p ~chased by Reynolds was brought .n.o use for the first time. Young Star: had been in the water too long a time for the pulmoter to be used success- fully, however, and when Dr. Beach- ley said further efforts at resuscita- tion were useless the hody was taken to the morgue. A certificate of acci- dental death was given. —_— SCHOOL YEAR BOOK OUT. ‘The Westerner. vearbook of West- ern High School. has just come off the prems and is being distributed to- day to students and members of the faculty. It is considered the best k: ever produced at the school. A speciall feature of the Westerner is a numbeg of {llustrations by Churchill ‘Hutton. Berkley Jones was editor-in- chief of the publication. Miss Grace Houghtea was tire faculty advisor, Declines to Witness “Evidence” Test; Says He’s Father of Family NEW YORK, June 17—A bag containing dynamite, thirty feet of fuse and blasting caps today was brought Into the Bridge Plaza court in Brook- Iyn an evidence that Jacob Sple- vach and Abraham Serper had been found with burgiars’ sup- plies in their possessfon. When the prosecutors direct- ed an e: len to in proceedingw. 1 don't want you to mentleme more, thix in a crowded court- roo If there in any testing of thix evidence, let it be doue before the grand jury.” ‘There were only a few apecta- tors left to hear the concluaion of the magistrate’s exhortation. CAPITAL AS BEAUTY SPOT IS FORECAST BY MISS BOARDMAN (Continued from First Page.) needs quick action to save it for the varking system. Study of Playgrounds. The parking committee also will make a study of the playgrounds, their needs and beautification, and make efforts to have attractive hedges around them to improve their unsightliness from the streets. Instruction of the people on what, how and when to ds planting to as- sist in the beautification of the cap- ital is the important duty of the sub- committee on planting, of which John Small is chairman. It is made up of experts on plants. landscape gar- dening, soils. etc.. and in August plans to start a publicity campaign to teach the people just what to do each week to have beautiful vards when spring. comes around. It will provide for a series of popular lectures, leading up to annual flower shows and open-air flower markets here. The subcommittee on architecture will work to develop an orderly arch- itectural system of bullding in Wash- ington, and work with the zoning commission. It will study and de- velop a general style of architecture for business bulldings and residences with a view to making the entire city inviting and attractive. Tt would develop plans for placing beautiful fountains about the city. and consider the question of the unsightly adver- tising signs. The smoke nuisance would come within its province. Miss Boardman pointed out that everywhere in the city the settlement of soot on and in the marble buildings was destroying thair heantv. It ought to be possi- ble, she said, for one to wear white out and not have it solled. It cannot he dons now. although Miss Boardman says she remembers. not many years ago. when one could do this. Centering of the art of the nation, or even the world, here would be the duty of the subcommittee on art in the schools, of which Mrs. F. A. Delano Ix chairman. Miss Boardman has laid out for it a program the culmination of which would be establishment here of a natlonal studio of fine arts. bring- ing the best painters and sculptors here to give instruction. Establishment of fine and well known art collections such as the Freer collection is another object set for the committee on museums. Mrs. Walter B. Howe has been named chaiman of the committee on music. This committee would seek to center here all of the fine music. and in this connection it would work with the committee on architecture and the committee on parks in developing places where concerts could be given in the evening and where tke popu- lace could have light refreshments, surrounded by beautiful gardens. There also will be committees on dramatic art and pageantry to assist in developing pageants and plays for the instruction of the people. a committee on shop windows. which would try to develop them into the “people’s picture galleries,” and a committee on markets, the latter of which would beautify the markets and make them attractive and in- viting to the people. Four Subcommittees Named. Four of the subcommittees into which Miss Boardman has grouped the members for effective work are: Subcommittee on parks and play- erounds, McMillan plan—William P. Eno. chairman; Glen Brown, Col. C. O. S. Sherrill, in charfie of public parks and grounds; C. Hunt, city en- gineer of highway: Dr. Abram Si mon, president board of education: Mrs.'S. R. Rhodes, superintendent mu- nicipal playgrounds; Charles Moore. president Fine Arts Commission: Dr. L. S. Rowe. director general Pan-’ American _Union: Rt. Rev. Alfred Hardine, Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Sha- Franklin MacVeagh, Frederick Delano, William Corcoran Eustis, T. Wayland Vaughan, k. A. James W. Wadsworth, jr.; Mrs. Medili McCormick, Mrs. John Hays Ham- mond, Mrs .Charles Richardson, Mrs. Charles Sheldon. William J. Eynen, Rev. Dr. James E. Freeman and Miss Mabel T. Boardman, ex officio. Subcommittee, Planting.—John H. Small, chairman; Willlam F. Gude, J. D. Blackistone, Charles H. Diggs. George W. Hess, director, Botanic Garden: Ciifford Lanham, Dr. Paul Partsch, Charles Henlock, propagating gardens: Mrs. C. D. Walcott, Mrs. Henry Dimock, Miss Martha Codman, Mrs. Joseph H. Bradley, W. D. Greeley, chief, bureau of forestry, Department of Agriculture; Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, F. L. Mulford and Miss Mabel T. Boardman, ex-officio. Subcommitiee on architectural im- provements.—J. H. de Sibour, chair- man; Elliott Woods. architect of the Capitol; Maj. C. H. Brown, George Oakley Totten, Frederick H. Brooke, H. C. C. Stiles, James Rush Marshall, Louis A. Simon, W. V. Boyle, Boyle- Robertson Construction Co., Inc.; Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt. president Woman's City Club; Albert L. Harris, . Bryan Pitts and Miss Mabel T. oBardman ex officio. Sub-committee, art in schools: Mrs. F. A. Delano, chairman: E. C. Graham. president City Club; Dr. F. W. Ballou, superintendent of schoois; Mrs. Robert W. Bliss, Mrs. Charles J. Bell. Miss Grace Lincoln Temple, Miss Katherine Dumbell, Gilbert Grosvenor. Coleman Jenrings, Mrs. Charles Richardson and Miss Mabel T. Boardman. German Ring Found Smuggling Dope to U, S. in Sailors’ Bags By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. BERLIN, June 17—Rellable information has been received showing that there is a wide- spread conspiraey Iin Germany to smuggle “dope” or forbidden drugs on American boats to the United States through sailors of cattle ship crews bringing milk cows to Germany. The baggage of sailors is exempt from customs examination om arrival in the United States. Agents of the German “dope | Ting” kave appreached mumer- i ¥, of- ited States, and guaranteeing _delivery there. One of the leaders of the ring Bas two relatives amemg the ecrews smuggling drugs into the United States. This information bears out’ the charges made at this year's anti-drug _conference im “Phil- adelphia, that wholesale smug- xling of drugs from Gevmany, Britain and other European ior THE BVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1%L VAN ADMITS PAR INKABER SLAYING Salvatore Cala Arrested Near Buffalo—Alleged Poison Dispenser Identified. By the Associated Press, BUFFALO, N. Y., June 17.—Salvatore Cala, thirty-one years old. arrested at the village of Eden, fifteen miles from Buffalo, shortly after noon to- day, admits that he had a hand in the Killing of Daniel F. Kaber of Cleveland two years ago, District At torney Moore said in a message sent to the Ohlo authorities after Cala's capture. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 17.—Goun- ty Prosecutor Edward C. Staunton continued today his investigation of alleged activities of Mrs. Erminia Colavito, under indictment for first d‘ogree murder in the death of Daniel F. ‘Kaber, in dispensing “medicin similar to that which she is alleged to have admitted she sold to Mrs. Eva Katherine Kaber, widow of the dead man, and which Mrs. Kaber is sald to have administered to her hus- band to “cure” him of alleged bad habits. M:s, Kaber, Mrs. Mary Brickel and Marian MeArdle, her mother and daughter. respectiv o are under indictment for the fi ce murder of Kaber. A womun, whore name Prosecutor Stanton refused to divuige, late last night identified Mrz. Colavito as the woman wio dispeased “medicine” to her six-yoar-old sister four years ago, following which the child died. Admitted Giving “Medicine,” Mrs. Colavito admitted giving the child the “medicine,” the prosecutor said. but denied that it caused her death. The woman told Prosecutor Stanton, he said, that the child suffered an at- tack of convulsions upon taking the first dose and died within a week. The city chemist, upon completion the final analysis of “medicine” Mrs. Colavito is alleged to have sold Pasquale Juiian to “cure” his brother, declared that it contained poison. CLEVELAND, June 16.—Announce- ment tonight by counsel for Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber and her daugh ter, Marian MeArdle, that he will ask for a continuance of their trials, brought forth a declaration from County Prosecutor Edward C. Stanton that he will oppose any delay until the fall court term. PHONE COMPANY TO ASK PRESENT RATE CONTINUE Figures Compiled for Business of Year Indicate Return of 41, Per Cent on Valuation. The Chesapeake and Potomuc Tele- phone Company will ask the Public Utilities Commission. some time next month to continue its existing rates for another vear, A. E. Berry. presi dent of the company, stated toda. The present rate order expires Au- gust 1. and the commission will hold a hearing in July to determine what rates should be ordered for the pe- riod beginning August 1. Mr. Berry said today that when the commission established present rates last summer it estimated that they would give the company net earn- ings of $605.000 for _the twelve month, cnding June 1 of this year. which would be equivalent to a re- turn of 4.65 on the value of the telephone property. Figures just compiled by the tele phone company show. according to Mr. Berry, that the actual net reve- nue for the twelve months was $59 000, or approximately 4!z per cent on | the valuation. The biggest problem facing the tele- phone company today, the president stated, is that of keeping an ade- quate force of trained operutors. The company has had great difficulty in the past few months in obtaining local girls, and for that reason Is stil] holding on to some of the ex- perienced out-of-town girls who were brought here for the war emergency. —_— AZTEC PUEBLO INDIANS SEND DELEGATION HERE Visitors Confer With Commissioner of Indian Affairs on Matters Relating to Their Tribe. A delegation of Aztec Pueblo Indians is in Washington conferring with Com- missioner of Indian Affairs Burke upon matters relating to their tribe. ‘Representative Monteya of New Mexico escorted the delegation to the Interior Department, where the Indians were re- ceived by Secretary of the Interior Fall, who has visited the tribe many times and is well known to them. ‘There are about 25,000 Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, descendants of the origi- nal Aztec Indians, who were conquered | by Cortez shortly after the discovery of America. Those Indians have their own government, although they are under the Wilson had against Huerta. | on based his objections on the broad | principle that peace would come to | Latin-America only by refusing to ardianship of the United States. B ey will return to their homes within a few days. e ORDERED TO THIS CITY. Capt. Jerome Clark, finance depart- ment, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.. has been ordered to this city for duty as finance officer at Walter Reed Gen- eral Hospital. OPPOSES COAL BILLS. Protesting that it was not permitted to be heard, the American Wholesale Coal Association, through its managing director, George H. Cushing, yesterday sabmitted to Vice President Coolidge a petition opposing the Frelinghuysen coal bills, scheduled a5 the next Sepate busi- ness. NEW: JUSTICE OF D. C. SUPREME COURT, WHO SUBSCRIBED TO OATH OF OFFICE TOD. JUSTICE ADOLPH A. HOEHLI Who succeeds the late Justice Anbley M. Gould, photographed in his Judicial robe. Ploto by 1. Pridgeon. U. S. FINDS FALLACY IN MEXICO REFUSAL (Continued from First Page.) for the death of Carranza. The evi- dence is much more tangible than that which President Wilson possessed concerning the part played by Huerta in orderink the death of Madera, and | because Huerta believed to have gotten into office as a result of violence to his predecessor that Mr. Wilson absolutely refused to rec- ognize him. The State Department now has been urged to act because it has a stronger case against Obrexon than President | Mr. Wil- recognize governments that obtain pow- er by force and by assisting only those governments which were legally elected as a result of orderly processes. Could Refuse Recognition. Tha Mexicans themselves inserted a clause in the new constitution to pre-| vent ambitious citizens from ejecting those who had been legally elected ! and it is therefore argued that the Harding administration would be Justified in refusing Obregon recogni- tign because of the provisions of arti- cle §2° of the Mexican constitution. For one of the first ténets-of a recog- nition policy Is that the executive of country shall have been legally elected. The United States government thus far, however, has declined to use ar- ticle eighty-two as a basis for action and has simply preferred to await Mexico's attitude toward another ar- ticle In the same constitution, which in actual practice has violated verbal assurances given the United States by the Carranza regime when the latter was extended de jure recognition. The American government does not ask that the constitution be changed but that the varying. interpretations be cleared up by a definite statement in! a treaty which shall protect Ameri- cans against retroactive action. Wilson Regime Given Assurance. It was learned by the writer today, for instance, that the Wilson admin- istration was given 'assurances at Mexico City, through Ambassador Fletcher. to the effect that the Mexi- can constitution would not be retro- active. Mr. Fletcher now is undersecretary of statc and is a guiding influence in the Mexican policy of the Harding adminis- tration. He has given the Harding ad- ministration the benefit of his recollec tion on the subject, and the, American case is based not so much upon the lan- guage of article twenty-seven of the Mexican constitution, as the way the article actually has worked out in prac- tice. The American government is still walt- ing for the Mexicans to take t3e next step, but.it is evident that the Washing- ton authorities are not as much im- pressed with the violate character of article twenty-seven when they have reason to suspect that article eighty-two governing the qualifications ‘of a presi- dent are subject to dispute and could, if desired, be made the basis for a re- fusal of recognition. That is the view- point here, disappointing as it may be to those who had hoped for the early resumption of diplomatic relations be- tween the two countries. (Copyright, 1021 JOFFRE GOING TO ORIENT. PARIS, June 16.—Marshal Joffre will make an official visit to China and Japan in the fall, returning to France by way of the United States. He will leave Paris at the end of September and will visit Indo-China and Tonkin and later will go to Tokio, where he will stay several weeks. Then he will sail for San Francisco on the way home. ) 'mond Rupper MAY PUT DROPPING OF U. S. EMPLOYES UP TO PRESIDENT (Continued from First Page.) said the commission. “In fact. the present reduction in force is wholly unprecedented: it is not seen how it will ever be necessary in, except as a result of a ximilar contingency | which by the iaw of probabilities may occur again for a generation. not “Still further, it may be pointed out. that the present reduction of force will largely, if not entirely. be con- summated by July 1. It is further suggested that it is within the power of the President now to regulate the manner in which the reduction shall be made, and it may be regarded wise- 1y to entrust the discretion to him rather than to prescribe a hard and fast method by law, which the Presi- dent would have no power to vary. no matter what unanticipated hardship might result to individuals or to the public service. “The commission offers these com- ments, not so much as arguing for or against the proposed measures. but rather for the information of the com- mittee.” DIPLOMAS AND MEDALS AWARDED TO GRADUATES Ciosing Exercises Held at St. Mary's School—List of the Honor Winners. Diplomas and gold medals wekre awarded to graduates of St. Mary's School at closing exercises last night in the auditorium of the institution. Very Rev. Agatho Rolf delivered the commencement address. The awards were announced by Rev. J. R. Rothe, pastor of St. Mary's Church. The gold medal for proficiency in Christian doctrine was presented to Lillian Braham, Catharine Bussink, Catharine Diegeiman, Elizabeth Mills, Marie Menke, Hilda Spahn, Lawrence Auth, Fabian Diegelmann, Louis Kol- ipinski, George Menke, Frank Rup- pel, Bernard Widmayer, Joseph Har- rison, Bernard Bonner. Carl Diegel- man, Joseph Gubisch. August Neuland. Edward Sheehy, Paul Rosinaki, Ray- . Virginia_Garv - nadatte Glebel, Lottie Badue, Brer ence Keller, Eva Mills, Emily Auth Charles Achstetter, Anthony Auth. Robert Dillon. Thomas Garver, Albert Lemp, Francis Neubeck. John Neu- beck. Paul Neuland, Urban Maley, Gertrude Prizhorn, Elizabeth Dan- hakl, Ruth Brandt, Catharine Schle- gel, Eleanore Hopkins, Edith Hammel Francis Penkert, John Schlegel. ¥ The @old medals for application were awarded to Catharine Diegel- mann, Catherine Bussink, Elizabeth Mills,” Lillian Braham. Hilda Spahn, Bernard Widmayer, Lawrence Auth. Frank_Ruppel, Fabian Diegelmann, Carl Diegelmann, August Neuland. Virginia Garver. Bernatte Giebel, Lottie Boldus, Edward Sheehy. Paui Rosinski, Raymond Ruppert, Joseph Gubisch. Francis Neubeck, ' Charles Achstetter, John Neubeck, Robert Dil- ion, Hubert Auth, Thomas Garver, Albert Lemp, Urban ,Maley, Paul Neuland, Gertrude Prinzhorn, ' Eliza- beth Danhakl, Edith Hammel, John Schlegel, Theodore Widmayer ~and Dorothy Rehage. The gold medal for regular attend- ance was presented to Hilda Spahm, Fabian Diegelmann, Frank Ruppel. Carl Diegelmann. Anthony Auth, Al- bert Lemp, Francis Neubeck, Regina McQueeney. John Schlegel, Egli Schiavone, Richard Tyrrell, John Heil, Anna Diegelmann, Catherine Neubeck, Madalene Giebel, Adrian Kloczewski and Carl Winkler. A. A. HOEHLING TAKES Is Sworn In as the Successor to the Late Justice A. M. Gould. A simple but extremely impressive ceremony marked the induction into office today of Adolph A. Hoehling as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to take the place of the late Justice Ash- ley M. Gould. The general term court- room ‘proved entirely inadequate to accommodate the members of the bar and other friends of the new justice and the assemblage overflowed Into the corridor. When Chief Justice McCoy and Jus- tices Siddons, Hitz and Bailey had mounted the bench and the crier had {ovened court, Justice Hoehling, es- corted by United States Marshal Maurice Splain, entored the court- room. Marshal Splain announced the presence of Mr. Hoehling with his commission from President Harding. The commission was then passed to the bench, and after it had been in- spected by the justices, Chief Justice McCoy administered to Justice Hoehl- ing the judicial oath.’ Standing in front of the bench, the new justice repeated the oath and, after signing it, took his place on the bench. Chief Justice McCoy announced that an opportunity would be afforded all the friends of the new justice to con- gratulate bim. “I hope,” said the chief justice, “they are also friends of the court and will extend congratulations to the court as well.” The assemblage grected the announcement with loud applause, and no attempt was made to check the enthusiasm. A line was formed and the new justice shook hands with each of his friends. Among the special guests at the cercmony was the mother of the new justice, his wife and two children and his sisters, Mrs. Ogilby and Mrs. Wil- mer. Justice Hoehling will preside Equity Division 1 next Monday. —_— GEN. J. H. RICE IS GUEST OF HIS CORPS OFFICERS Army Ordnance Officer, Who Soon Is to Retire, Tendered Farewell Dinner. Brig. Gen. J. H. Rice, ordnance de- partment, United States Army, who is retiring from the service, was ten- dered a farewell dinner by the young- er officers of his corps at the Army and Navy Club last evening. In addition to_the guest of homor and the junior officers of the ordnance department, the invited guests includ- ed Maj. Gen. C. C. Williams, chief of ordnance, and Brig. Gen. W. S. Felrce, assistant chief of ordnance. There were more than fifty ordnance officers P esent. Maj. C. M. Wesson, ordnance de- partment, was toastmaster. Gen. Wil- liams deiivered a brief address cov- ering the valuable services and achievements of Gen. Rice and his sucresses in various activities through out his career in the ordnance de- partment, and expressed the hope that Gen. Rice would live in the minds of all present as an example and inspira- tion. Gen. Peirce made a brief talk touching upon the severe loss which the ordnance department sustained by the retirement of so able an officer. fand stated that, as one of the older officers of the department, he wanted all to feel that the older officers shared with the younger officers in the sincere admiration of Gen. Rice, and that in the retirement of Gen. i Rice the Army was losing one of its | great men Col. L. M.*Fuller of the ordnance department. who is on the retired list, also made a brief speech, wel- coming Gen. Rice to the ranks of the retired officera. WOMAN’S HOMEOPATHIC LEAGUE TO MEET HERE With the assembling here Sunday lof the American Institute of “Home- opathy, the annual convention of the Woman's National _ Homeopathic League. an auxiliary of the Institute algo will be convened for a six-day {sexsion, ending June 24. An elaborate social program has been arranged for the league, having as its outstand- ing feature a reception to be given the members by the President and Mrs. Harding at the White House Wednesday afternoon. Other events will include a luncheon at the Women's City Club, at 1 o'clock, Tuesday_afternoon: the alumni dinner, Wednesday evening: boat trip to Mount Vernon, Thursday afternoon, and the honor banquet, Thursday evening. The local executive chairman for the con- vention is Mrs. L. B. Stormstedt. The chairman of the committee on informa- tion and registration is Mrs. Ernest Sappington. DROP IN MEN’S GOODS. Clothing and Similar Articles Are Reduced 25 to 30 Per Cent. CHICAGO. T, June 17.—Men's clothing and furnishing goods have dropped 25 to 30 per cent from the peak of war prices, according to com- pilations made by the National As- sociation of Retail Clothiers. The ) association figures were obtained from 700 retaflers. Only 6 per cent of the merchants showed depreciations as low as 25 per cent. A majority of clothiers reported de- | preciations ‘of 30 to 40 per cent on furnishing goods and similar reduc- luon- ‘were reported for shoes. Merchants of eastern states report- ed that their overhead expenses aver- aged 25.7 per cent for the first four months of 1921, as against 22.3 per cent for the corresponding period in 1920. OFFICERS REASSIGNED. Col. Paul H. McCook, infaptry, at Camp Benning. Ga.. has beenfassign- ed to the 53d Infantry at Camp Grant, 111, and Col. Willis Uline, infantry, also at Camp Benning, has been singed to the 63d Infantry at Mad{son barracks, New York. INDIAN CHIEFS HERE FROM NEW MEXICO. | AZTEC PUEBLO INDIANS, i TIVE GOVERNORS OF VARIOUS TRIBES IN NEW MEXICO, PHOTOGRAPHED TODAY AT THE CAPITOL WITH REPRESENTA- MONTOYA OF THAT STATE, WHOM THEY HAVE COIE_ TO SKE REGARDING LAND QUESTIONS, 4 4 A REVENUE HEAD PLANS AY |PLACE ON THE D. C. BENCH| DRY LAW ENFORCEMENT Commissioner Blair Discusses Ad- ministrative Reorganization With Prohibition Director Haynes. A plan for administrative reorgan- ization for enforcement of the Vol- stead act has been completed by In- ternal Revenue Commissioner Blair and Maj. Haynes, federal prohibition director. The plan proposes abolish- ment of administrative districts com- prising several states and, instead, making each state a separate and complete unit, with the state prohibi- tion director responsible. According to those tamiliar with the plan, the reorganization will tight- en up enforcement by centralizing au- thority and abolishing red tape. An innovation would be establishment of “a mobile force of specially qualified agents” to operate under the imme diate direction of Director Haynes. But the whole plan, it was explained, is contingent upon retention by th Treasury of jurisdiction over prohi- bition. —_— CARL EGGE NAMED HEAD OF AIR MAIL Successor to Zolle Has Been in Postal Service Many A.F.OF L. PROTESTS JAPANESE INFLUX Demands Congress Take Ac- tion to Curb Immigration . From Orient. Col., June 17.—Demand that Congress take action to protect the nation's interest against the “growing menace of Japanese immigra- tion and colonization” is made in a res- olution submitted today to the annual convention of the American Kederation of Labor. The declaration, submitted by M. M. Council, has the approval of the Japa- ha sthe approval of the Jupa- * nese lixclusion League of California, Los Angeles Anti-Asiatic Association and the Jupanese Exclusion League of Washington, various patriotic, civic and fraternal organizations on the coast. Labor organizations declare that the resolution is the most drastic measure on the Japanese question ever consid- ered by organized labor. 1t calls for: Draxifc Provisions. Absolute exclusion in future of all Japanese immigration, not onl. but female, and, noi only 1 skilled and unskilled, but farmers and p men of small trades and pro as represented by Theodore Roose Permission for temporary Years. CARL EGGE. Photo by I. Pridgeon. Carl F. Egge of Minneapolis today was appointed general superintendent of the air mail service. with head- quarters at the Post Office Depart- ment here, to succeed Maj. E. C. Zolle, resigned. He takes office following the first week in the history of the air mail service in which a 100 per cent ef- ficient service was rendered by the air mail_planes. . Supt. Egge had this report laid be- fore him today, upon taking office. and expressed his pleasure at beginning his new duties under such favorable auspices. Break All Past Records. Last week air mail planes of the department flew 50,000 miles without a forced landing, breaking all past Irnfords. The planes covered the New York-to-San Francisco transcontinental route and the route between Minne- lis and St. Louis. believe the future of the air mail service is great.” said the new su perintendent. “As surely as the old stage coaches took the place of the horseback riders, and as surely as the trains took the places of the coaches, the air mail plane will take its proper place.” Enthusiastic Over Service. Mr. Egge does not believe that the air mail plane will ever supercede the railroads, or put them out of business as mail carriers, but he is tremendously _enthusiastic over the sure and proper place which he be- lieves the planes have made for them- selves in carrying the country’s mails, Supt. Egge has been superintendent of the air mail service at Minneap olis. He has been with the postal service thirty years. having served as a post office inspector. and later as superintendent of the mail transpor- tation service. e WOMAN SAYS SHE SAW McGANNON SHOOT KAGY Miss Mary E. Neely Startles Court at Cleveland When She Gives Testimony at Trial. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 17.—Testi- fying today in the perjury trial of former Judge William H. McGannon, Miss Mary E. Neely startled the court and spectators when she said: “I saw Judge McGannon shoot Harold Kagy.” The state is seeking to prove that McGannon swore falsely when he said he was not present when Kugy was shot and kilied on the night of May 1920. home in America. gala day at the White drawings by W. E. H Together with dozens o of interest to Star readers, Events of the World in Photographs in Next Sunday’s Star «“Among Us Mortals”—A full page of those famous to be given only to tourists, artists, commercial men, others! Three cities have t the 1 ation. They Worth, Tex.; Cincinnati, | Birmingham, Ala. The executive coun can Federation of 1 and completely repudi 1 of inter- national Federation of Trade Unions ) as it is now conducted. This announcement was made J night at the conventton headquartems of President Samuel « who made public a copy of tter sent to the secretariat of the n trade union movement ut Amste Mr. Gompers' Repudiatio: President Gompers' letter said: “Your letter in connection with portion of the d larly offensive and n It is moreover a clumsy to make it appear that the American Federation o of Labor is & suppor! reaction and of war, “An_example of thix is found in your statement that ‘we must candid- Iv confess that we fail to understand how it 18 possible for vou, as demo- crats, to set yourselves in opposition to the struggie ag is a statement 1 inst react " This might w come trom the plutocratic. selfish interests allied against the workers, but that can be considéred ax no less than in- sulting when coming from the officers of an organization mmably rep- resenting trade unions, addressed to a bona fide organization of trade unionists, “The American Federation of Labor ’ does not need to defend its progres- sive record. It does not need to pro- claim here its unending struggle against autocracy and greed. Those who op- pose labor and those who make eve at being informed under- Tul a preten: stand those things “Your manifesto not misunder- stood. Its full implication was thor- * lop.:my comprehended and it was pre cisely because such was the case that our opposition to it stated.” The convention adopted a resolution calling for a_congressional investi- gation into conditions in the cotton mills of the south. E: ssistace was pledgzed by the fcderation to united textile workers now conducting a strike of more than 15.000 workers in these mills |PRESIDENT TO MEET CLUB was so firmly i Negro Republicans Arrange Visit to White House. Members of the Blaine Invinelble Republican Club of the District of Columbia, an_ organization of colored men, which has been active in the , interests of the republican party for {more than forty vears. will be re- ceived by President Harding some jtime within the next two weeks Francis Wells, who was an organizer among the colored voters in and near Washington during the last campaign and who is an otheer of the club, was at the executive offices today to ar- ! runge for the sit He said that the { members of the club are anxious to meet the President to pay their re- spects and to extend their good | wishes. The date for the reception | will be announced later by Secretary Christian. IMRS. E. A. McMILLAN DIES. Widow of Philip H. McMillan Suc- cumbs at Larz Anderson Home. Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson McMilllan, widow of Philip Hamilton McMillan of Detroit, died at 9:35 o'clock this morning at the home of her brother, Larz Anderson, after an illness of several months. The body will be taken to Detroit Sunday for Intermeut there. No services will be beid here. Mrs, McMillan, who was the daugh- ter of Gen. Nicholas and Mrs. Eliza- beth Kilgore Anderson, was born in this city forty-six rs ago. Her parents had come here from Cincin- nati, and resided here many vears She 'was married to Mr. McMilian in 1897, in this city. He died last year. Her husband was the son of the late Senator McMillan. who was interested in the parks system for the District, nd for whom McMillan® Park is named. | Mrs. McMillan came here early in the spring to the residence of Mr. | Anderson, and for several months had been ill. ) ... ———— “Cuban Armv Invades U. S.”—ThatAiS. a part of it comes to Washington to play polo with U. S. «Views of White House in Harding Administra- tion”—The very latest photos of most famous «White House Garden Party for Wounded”—A House for Walter Reed boys. ill. f other local and foreign pic- tures. 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