Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1921, Page 1

r WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; little chan, in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: at 5 p.m. yesterday; low. a.m. today. Full report on page 14, Closing New York Stocks, Page 1.. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. No.' 28,176. QFFICIALS WORRIED IN DELAY TO NAME “ BUDGET PERSONNEL No Appointments Made, Al- i though. New Law Becomes Effective July 1. EIGHT BUREAU HEADS WILL LOSE POSITIONS President Must Fill Four Offices Be- fore Organization of Forces Can Begin. With but ten days intervening before the whole accounting and disbursing system of the government is complete- ly revolutionized under the terms of the budget law, so, it was learned to- day, not a step has been taken toward organizing the forces that will handle these important problems in the future. Under the terms of the law eight dureau officials will be legislated out of office on July 1. They are the con- troller of the Treasury and his assist- © ant, and the six auditors. No provision 1s made for taking them into the new system. . President Harding has so far not an- nounced the appointments of the direc- tor and assistant director of the bureau of the budget and the controller gen- eral and assistant controller general of the United States. Must Drop 400. The office of the director of the budget will have to be organized, there being mno provision for taking over any other office, while the con- troller of the United States will take over the office of the present con- troller of the Treasury. But while he will not have to recruit a force, he will be faced immediately on July 1 with the problem of cutting down his staff by 400 positions. Many of the present employes of the present controller’s office are be- coming restless to know whether they will be among those whose official heads will be lopped off. Controller Warwick is unable to give them any information. for the reason his au- thority ends on June 30, and as the controller of the United States has not been appointed there is no one with whom he can confer concerning the situation. After appointment the director of the budget first will have the im- portant duty of, selecting a large s of experts "who will be needed prepare the detailed information which the act calls for the submis- rion to Congress. This will involve delay and necessitate that the work of preparing the information will have to be rushed after the staff of the director is completed. Power to Fix Salaries. 'he director of the bureau of the budget and his assistant are appoint- ed by the President. but do not have o b nfirmed by the Senate. Thel: salaries are to be $10.000 and $7.500 a year, respectively. The former offi- cial has a wide latitude in making up his staff, having the power to himself appoint and fix the salaries of attorneys and other employes. ‘The controlier of the United States and his assistant are to be appointed by the President for a term of fifteen years, must be confirmed by the Sen- ate, and can only be removed from office by a joint resolution of Con- gress, for cause. Their salaries also will be $10,000 and $7,500 a year, re- spectively. Until the appointments are made. those now directing the accounting branch of the government are at a loss as to just what steps to take. They cannot go ahead and proceed to organize in the case of the bu- reau of budget or reorganize in the case of the controller of the United States’ office. The auditor for the Post Office De- partment, Charles A. Kram, it was said today, was probably the only auditor who would continue in”office. The law provides for the administr. tion of the accounts of the postal service by a special bureau in that branch of the government. For this duty, 1t was said today, it is prob- able that the Department would just take over the office of the auditor for that department. ‘Wide Scope of Law. Some idea of the vast amount of wérk which will have to be performed by the director of the bureau of the budget after he is selected and or- ganizes his force is gained from the following information which he must provide for Congress. The law says he (a) Estimates of the expenditures and appropriations necessary in his Judgment for the support of the gov- ernment for the ensuing fiscal year; except that the estimates for such vear for the legislative branch of the government and the Supreme Court of the United States shall be transmitted to the President on or before October 15 of each year, and shall be included by him in the budget without revision; (b) His estimates of the receipts of the government during the ensuing fiscal year, under (1) laws existing at the time the budget is transmitted and also (2) under the.revenue proposals, if any, contained in the budget; (c) The expenditures and receipts of the government during the last co(l;lpl%!:g fiscal year: mates of the expendi and receipts of the gvvernm:;t fll:‘:lr:; the fiscal year in progress; (e) The emount of annual, per- manent or other appropriations, i cluding balances of appropriations for prior fiscal years, available for expenditure during the fiscal year in progress, as of November 1 of such year; (f) Balanced statements of ‘(1) the conditions of the TrSasury at the end of the last completed fiscal year, (2) the estimated condition of the 'l‘lrenmry at thod end of the fiscal year in progress and (3) the esti: - ed condition of the Treasury -tmt‘rte end of the ensuing flscal year if the financial proposals contained in the bu?;:t .A'J‘i adopted: o t3 essential facts regardin, the bonded and other 1ndeb‘t:dneui of ;;Ae s‘ocv;m&wmfl; mdm (! juch other financi statement: and data as in his opinion are necez;3 sary or desirable in order to make known in all practicable detail the financial condition of the government. Sec. 202. (a) If the estimated re- ceipts for the ensuing fiscal year con- tained in the budget, on the basis of laws existing at the time the budget is transmitted, plus the estimated amounts in the Treasury at the close of the fiscal year in progre avail- able for expenditure in the ensuing fiscal year, are less than the estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal ear contained {n the budget, the ‘ulident in the budget shall make recommendations to Congress for new taxes, loans or other appropriate ac- tion to meet the estimated deficiency. (b) 1t the aggregate of such esti- mated receipts and such estimated amounts in the Treasury is greater than such estimated expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year, he 11 make ruch recommendations as.in his opin- Aou the public interests require. —N —3, Highest, 81, est, 60, at 5 Irish Girls, Reaching U. S., Spurn Domestic Service for Movies NEW YORK, Jume 20.—Sev- eral hundred Irish immigrant girls arrived today on the Cel- tic seeking careers as movie ac- tresses, artist models and ste- nographers. Few expressced any desire to enter domestic service. NEW LABOR GRISIS OF-BRITISH MINERS Leaders Will Call on Other Workers to Make Their Demands Mutual. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 20.—Leaders of the Miners' Federation of Great PEritain took no steps yesterday to prevent the withdrawal of the government's offer of a 10,000,000-pounds-sterling subsidy to the coal industry, and it ‘would appear that unless the govern- ment renews its offer the money will not be provided by the government for the carrying on of tne business. The situation is full of uncertainty, the main outstanding fact being the call of the miners’ union to all trade organizations affected by the wage dispute to meet at an early date for the purpose of taking national action to secure mutual demands. today's newspapers described the de- cision to call this meeting as an “S. O. S prompted by desperation. As yet nothing has occurred to in- dicate how the call is likely to be re- ceived. The annual conference of the labor party will be held at Brighton to- morrow and Herbert Smith, president tof the ‘miners’ and_Frank Hodges, the union's secretary, will attend. They will probably determine the attitude of the leaders of other unions, whose_aggregate membership is more than 3,600,000. Many in Wage Disputes. Most of these unions are now fin- volved in wage disputes, and are ready, according to spokesmen of the miners. to take a stand with the coal diggers against what they regard to be a “conspiracy” on the part of employers to reduce Wages below the pre-war level and break the unions. On the other hand, less interested observers predict the experience of the miners themselves, who up to today, the eighty-first day of their strike, have gained nothing and lost { much,” will deter other unions from | making common cause with them. Re- ports of the sentiment prevailing in the ranks of the miners are contra- dictory. Some represent the men as | weaking, while others state they are holding fast. It seems certain that South Wales, at any rate, will have nothing to do with a movement making for surrender or compro- mise. Fight Against Government. “The fight is now taking on an en- | tirely different character,” said A. J. | Cook, a prominent South Wales lead- er and a member of the miners' fed- eration executive, yesterday. “The vhole body of the British miners is golug into the struggle for socializa- tion, or nationalization of the mines. union, T It 18 going to be a fight directly | against the government.” ‘There were reports last night that large sections of _the miners. cspe- cially those in the Midland districts, were eager to resume, and if the pits should be opened, would do so, but time alone can tell whether these ru- mors are true. Some owners are re- opening their mines to enable the men to resume work if they wish, but no one could say late last night whether the miners would avail them- selves of this opportunit; OYSTER WILL FILED. Widow, Named to Receive $25,000, Offers No Objections. No objection having been filed by the widow or heirs-at-law of George M. Oyster, jr., Justice Hitz, presiding in the Probate Court, this afternoon admitted to probate the will of Mr. Oyster and the codicil which he signed at Atlantic City shortly before his death, leaving his widow, Cecil Oyster, twenty-six years old, a legacy of $25,000 in lieu of her dower. Letters testamentary were granted to Edwin C. Brandenburg, named as executor under the will. The bond of the executor was fixed at $65,000. The fact that Mrs. Oyster made no objections to the probate of her hus- band's will, it is stated, does not mean that she has determined to ac- cept the legacy. She has six months under the law to decide whether she will accept the bequest or ask for her dower. It is expected her counsel, Daniel W. O'Donoghue, will await filing of a formal appraisement of the estate by the court appraisers before advising his client whether to accept the legacy of $25,000. The executor in his petition for probate put a value of $90,000 on the estate. VATICAN APPOINTMENTS. Pope Benedict .Elevates Three American Clergymen. ROME, June 20.—Mgr. Peter J. Muldoon, Bishop of Rockford, Ill., has been named by Pope Benedict as as- Fn enin ~—*7 SUNDAY MORNTNG EDITION WASHINGTON, . D. .C, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1921-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. BOY, AGED §, DIES TRYING TO SAVE HIS DROWNING BROTHER Two Little Lads Are Swept' to Death by Current in Four-Mile Run. Lee Rollins, eight years old, of Del Ray, Va. gave up his life today in a futile effort to save his brother Harold, ten years old, from drowning. i Both boys were caught in the cur- rent of Four-Mile run and carried klhmugh the archway that conveys | the stream under the tracks of the i Southern railway between Washing- | ton and Alexandria. Their bodies were irecovered shortly afterward.. [ saZne bovs sons of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Rollins, rode a bicycle to Four-Mile run shortly before noon today to take a swim. They found several playmates at the “swimming hole.” The older boy ventured too far from shore and was caught by the_current, which was in- tensified by an outgoing tide. When he cried for help, Lee started to his rescue. Thomas Pence tried to restrain the younger brother. He pulled away, and 'soon cgught up with Harold. Two girl . schoolmates, _Anna Eathorne, ten ‘years old, and Emma Cobean, twelve years old, realized Ilhelr predicament and sought to aid !them with fishing poles. In a flash ithe boys had been carried beyond each of their friends and disappeared jin the archway. H Both Bodies Recovered. |, The companions who had witnessed |the tragedy rushed across the rall-| road track to the point where the Four Mile run_tunnel empties into! the river. The body of Lee was the | first to appear and was rescued by | James McBride. Efforts to revive the boy proved unavailing. Dr. Robert J. Yates arrived a few minutes later, but pronounced the boy dead. As the body of Harold did not ap- pear within a few minutes after the accident the police department in Washington was notified and the po- lice boat was dispatched to the scene. An hour later search was made through the tunnel, where the body of the older brother was found lodged against an obstruction. An inquest [¥as held over the bodies a short time T Other Brofher Changed Plans. An older brother, Richard, was to kave accompanied the boys to the “swimming hole” this morning, but, instead, went on a visit to his uncle. Efforts’ to locate the father. who is sald to be employed in the War De- partment in Washington, had been unavailing up to an early hour this afternoon. The mother of the boys, who also holds a position in Wash- ington, did not go to work today, and was at home when the accident oc- eurred. %4 Small boys of Del Ray have used the Four-mile-run_as a swimming place for many years, and more venture- some boys have negotiated the cur- rent through the tunnel. There was talk today of steps being taken by the. authorities to prevent swimmin, at this point. AGREE TO 150,000 ARMY. Senate conferees on the Army ap- propriation bill decided today to recommend that the Senate yield to the insistence of the House that the Army be reduced to 150,000 enlisted men by next October. The decision of the Senate conferees tween the two houses. The Senate con- ferees, supported by Secretary Weeks, have held out for an “orderly” reducs tion in the Army from the approxi- mately 220,000 men now in service to 15062(0’0. Suéhbn lrednclh)n, it was esti- mated, woul ring the Army dow: 150,000 by next May. Floeity SENATE VOTES MEMORIAL. A joint resolution authorizing the | erection in Washington of a memorial to employes in the Departrent of Ag- reulture who died ih the war vAlfh' Germany was passed by the Senate today. The Jones bill. restoring the half- and-half-plan of appropriating for the District of Columbia, came up during the consideration of bills on the calendar, but went over on ob- jection by Senator King of Utah. The daylight-saving bill for the District of Columbia, also introduced by Senator Jones of Washington, was reached on ‘the calendar, but it. too went over on objection by r Smith of South Careling. =7 Senator Today’s News in Paragraphs New Plan urges extendin; beside 16th to District H‘nal‘l;hrola!;ei: barred from hospital grounds. Page 1 Ulster to protect king and ' parliament opening. ~ - “Fage °§ Royal welcome given Dutch ship as it lands food at Petrograd. Page 4 Fewer animals per capita Shown by cenmia, 7> In gountry Senator Wadsworth and S General Newton cleared in building BPW":- — Page 11 ranch post office proposed f G streets to replace 11th ll::e?l"t;t.l:g tate Attorney sistant o the vn‘mlugc;‘l throne. The| ordered discontinued. Page 12 pontiff has appointed Mgr. P. F. Far- t lars D etor et ine. (Charen wemees S it ovo yoollars resumed after Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, | gpectator shot dead whi Pageily Emmetsburg, Iowa, and Anthony H. Pfrm“e is bein, !‘; le remarkable Steln. rector of St. Josephs Church | Gomes of o paid Nte Braident aterson, N. s o e lomestic P {4 prelates. ; Boosters declare two-day trip best out. He 2180 has conferred the decora-| ing merchants _and manufacturers tion of knighthood of the Order of | have ever planned. Page 13 St. Gregory The Great on Capt. P. H. Rice of Augusta, Ga. Gessford proposes one day off month for policemen e Dt HUMOR AND TRAGEDY ARE REVEALED BY POSTAL CERTIFICATES LOSERS Humor and tragedy are revealed in statements made to the Post Office Department by depositors to secure duplicated postal sav- ings certificates for ones lost. “Lost. Not known, as wife deceased and cannot be foun runs one answer. Other answers, from persons all over the country, read as follows: Pocket in church. “Mutilated. Mistaken by mem- bers of the family as stage money.” “Stole out of a bag, my own bag, by who I can’t say. I suspected my wife, but she says has not got_them. I can't do no more.” “The certificates went down with the rest of my belongings on torpedoed transport, S. S. Tus- ‘when the wood: WerAa b:fi?d l:lzfiro_ burned they “A cl taken from the dresser and P\llt?: lnm;?: garbage pail, and was taken away by"&l;eplz,lrb‘g‘ e cal]l-etnr." bt n stove for safety sak Fire was made In stove, forger: uq%:bout'cenmu*u' ner lost certificates battlefleld of Chl‘!lll-“lo::’r;h: ‘wounded in engagement.” = “I was knocked down and :-?&bag while paying for a eircus et.” : “Bound for France when steam- er was torpedoed and sunk. I lost all my belongings. Steamer Spite- “Became intoxicated and awoke on a doontov#vlthont the cer- tificates. “Improperly withheld by broth- er, who refuses to deliver them A lew out bf my band in th Lasitor s heating whew abe”aaisd ] ou my band in the sitor a beating when she middle of the Pacific ocean.” ?:r them.” ‘ o “I had them buried in the “Lost while celebrating = Me~ . ground, but not deep enough, and J morial day overzealously. . forecast a break in thg deadlock be- |, ry JUSTICE WILL WIN, SAYS MR. COOLIDGE Righteousness Must Govern Present Problems, Vice President Declares. By the Assoclated Press. AMHERST, Mass., June 20.—Three thousand sons of Ambherst, including Vice President Coolidge, Robert Lansing, former Secretary of State, and Arthur P. Rugg, chief justice of the Massachu- setts Supreme Court, were back in their old college town today to participate in the opening festivities of their alma mater's centennial celebration. Discussion of Amherst activities, past, present and future, composed the pro- gram of today’s meeting, which was presided over by Arthur C. James of New York. Spiritual values are the only reliance of the world in trying to meet present problems, Mr. Coolidge said in an ad- dress at the opening exercises. ‘The of the world will not by e done,” d, “unless it is dore from 2 Eh o After recalling that Amherst Col- lege was founded for the purpose of civilizing and evangelizing the world by the classical education of indigent young men of piety and talent,” Vice Pregident Coolldge said: “Individuals and nations are at the present time afllicted with great bur- dens. As a result of the readjust- ment which has taken place during the last year men find their resources much impaired, with no cor- responding reductions of their expen- ses. Oftentimes both capital and credit have been entirely exhausted. The nations of the earth are strug- gling under a great load of debt in- curred and resulting from the war. The raising of sufficient revenues to meet the cost of government is not only a grievous burden, but in some cases has not yet been found possible. ! Justice Must Be Guid “The question that confronts us on every hand, whether in the consid- eration of private or public interests, is how these burdens can be borme. It can scarcely be said that they should be borne solely in order to se- cure a resulting prosperity. “The world must look for something ore than prosperity in the present Situation. The individual must look: for' something more than wages and profits for his compensation. Unless this satisfaction can be found by pro- ceeding in the way of right and truth and justice the search for it will fail. The “material things of life cannot stand alone. Unless they are sus- tained by the spiritual things of life they are not sustained at all. The Work of the world will not be done unless it is done from a motive of righteousness.” ARRIVE AT HOME. Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge . at Northampton. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., June 20.— Vise President Coolidge and MMrs. Tidge arrived at their home here ?::t:ggxy, ‘motoring with Frank W. Stearns from Springfield after their return from Niles, Ohio, ‘where the Vice President delivered an ‘address at the ‘Harding-McKinley exercises. In the evening the Vice President will attend a dinner of his class of 1895, to be held at Holyoke. On Tuesday he will attend a meet- ing of the Amherst ‘board of trustees, of which he was made & life member recently, and in the afternoon he will leave for Washington with Mrs. ’r::‘g':llee President said that his two boys would be sent away to school in the fall, but that he would maintain his home here and that this city would continue to be his sidence. l‘{'.hler:flee l!Pl'esldeflt sald that the administration is working bard to restore the prosperity of the country and is deliberating especially on how best to help the farmers of the west and manufacturing and commercial interests of the east. - His father, ColL John C. Coolidge, of Plymouth, -Vt, is in the city for a visit with: his son. ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION REPORTS ITS PROGRESS VANCOUVER, B. C., June 20.—The British imperial antarctic expedition, which sailed from England last Sep- tember, landed on Graham Island, at- Iatitude 64.50 south, longitude 62.40 west, on January 12, said a dispatch today to the Vancouver Sun from the Sydney (Australia) Herald. The dis- patch added-that, the -expedition had found rich seal and penguin colonies at_Enrood bay. Dr. John L. Cape, biologist and sur- geon, commander of the British ex- pedition,-said when he left on his five- year trip that he would attempt to reach the south pole by airplane. His ship, Thor I, was last beard from February 11’ when & from Sant rted The expedi- e tiago, Chile, repo: jon sailed from Port Stanley, l‘:.nd Islands, December 20, 1920. TWO MURDERERS SAW WAY OUT OF JAIL WITH FIVE OTHER PRISONERS NEWPORT NEWS, Va., June 20. —Seven prisoners,’ two of them (awaiting deportation to the peni- tentiary for murder and pick- pocketing, respectively, escaped from the city jail here last night. Eziquel Cuevas, Spaniard. a few days ago was convicted of murder and is thought to have been the brains of the delivery. The men sawed their way out of the cells in the jail, gaining entrance to the main corridor. They then sawed one two-inch steel bar from a rear window and went out over a high fence stud- ded with barbed wire and jagged points of broken glass set in ce- ment. The outside watchman found everything apparently shipshape at the rear window at 8 o'clock. When he made his next inspection at 8:14 the men were gone. Police of all nearby cities have been fur- nished with descriptions of the men and asked to be on the look- out for them. MR HUGHES TRGED 10 SAFEGUARD OIL American Interests in Mexico Ask Protection Against Taxation. Secretary Hughes was urged today by representatives of American oil companies operating in Mexico to take steps to protect those companies against taxation regarded by them as confiscatory. More than a dozen men, including E. I. Daheny, president of the Mexi- can Petroleum Company; F. R. Kel- logg, general counsel of the Associ- ation of Producers of Petroleum in Mexico, and Guy Stevens, director of the association, placed before the Secretary a memorandum reviewing the history of Mexico's taxation of oil since its discovery in that country p to the recent decree of President Obregon increasing the tax 25 per cent. The situation was presented to the State Department a few days after i the promulgation of the decree, but |8 no action has been taken by Secre- tary Hughes. It was asserted by the oil operators then that the de- cree was unconstitutional, since the President of Mexico, under the pro- visions of the constitution, could is- sue such a decree only when special powers had been conferred upon him. Department Reluctant. Some _administration officers have tet an impression go out that full credence was given to the conten- tions of the oil operators, but it is understood ~ that the State Depart- ment has been reluctant to make any special representations to the Mexi- can government at this time because of the efforts made through George T, Summerlin, American charge @' faires, to negotiate a treaty of amity and commerce with the Obregon ad- ministration as a basis for the res- toration of diplomatic relations. The delegation calling on Secretary Hughes today was mobilized by the oil association, which requested every company to send representatives. Spokesmen for the oil men argued their side from the unconstitutional and confl!catoryf l;pe&t:flol the new tax, the policy of the ican govern- ment inpocontimlnlly adding to the tax burden was unfair, unjust and calculated to drive Americans from the oil fields of that country to reduce the production. Note Cited. In support of the contention that taxation might become so heavy that it could be regarded as confiscatory in character, the delegation cited a note seat to Mexico by the State De- partment in April, 1918. In that com- munication the Mexican government was informed that. ordinarily the United States would not presume to express_its opinion concerning taxes levied by another government, but that it would do 5o in instances where the tax imposed was 8o great as to be tantamount to confiscation. | DEATH PENALTY TO STAND President Declines to Commute the Sentence of Negro Murderer. -President Harding declined today to commute the death sentence of ‘William Turner, & negro held in the state penitentiary at Richmond on conviction . of murdering Morgan ., near Alexandri: Vi ¥u°:xrx:'r 1’: sentenced to be Sanged next Friday. 7S In_refusing to /exercise clemency, the President is understood to haye followed .the recommendations of-At- torney General Daugherty. AMERICAN GOLFERS AREPLAYING WELL Turn in Good Scdres imBrit- ish Tournament—Fred McLeod Has an 81. By the Associated Press. ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, June 20.— More than 150 golf players of world re- nown began the qualifying rounds of the British open golf championship tourna- ment here today. were seventeen American professional and amateur golfers who had crossed the Atlantic to attempt to carry away the chief golfing laurels of Britain from this historic course. Altogether. there are 158 entrants, who embrace the reigning titleholders of six countries. The low scores for the first eighty men will qualify a player to com- pete in tho champlonship rounds. The goifers ff wind today. L Score Is High Fred MeLeod of Washington, D. C., went over.the old course in Sl The profeasional record for this course is 71 and the amateur mark is 73. % amateur Chick Evaas, champion, was around nchhlrlu Hoffner, Philadelphia, did well with a 3. ',Wlmam_ Melhorn, Shreveport, had an James Braid of Wal!of; Heath, former open n, scored 78. Alex Herd, former British open champion, had a 79. J. Douglas Edgar, Atlanta, turned in a score of 98. of Detroit -went Walter Hagen around in_80. Robert T. (Bobby) Jones of Atlan- ta, Ga., had a 76. Jock' Hutchison of Chicago did 77. Harry Vardon, the English’ star, bad 75. Scores on Eden Corse. Among the best scores over the Eden course were: ‘A. H. Taylor, Mid-Surrey, 76, Angel de la.Torre, Madrid, 79. Dr. Paul Hunter, Los Angeles, 80, George McLean, Grassy Sprain, New York, 71. George Duncan, Hanger Hill, British {open golt champlon, 76. | :;vmrfig Reh_.l,lérnerkn, 82. m_Barnes, Pelham Count | New York, 78. A John Burgess, Ashville, N. C., 82 Emmet French of Youngstown, Ohio, 4. Clarence Hackney, Atlantic City, Cyril Tolley, former British amateur champion, 8 Atna Massey, French champion, 79. Edward Ray of Oxhey, 81. Joseph H. Kirkwood, Australian open champion, 73. Abe Mitehell, North Foreland, 77. W. C. Hunt, United States, 78. Tom Kerrigan, New York, 78. 10,000 MINERS STRIKE. Claim Pennsylvania Coal Company Has Broken Wage Agreemient. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., , June 20— Nearly 10,000 anthracite mine workers employed by the -Pennsylvania Coal Company went. on strike -today, claim- ing the company is not paying wages in accordance with the agreement signed o ovapany offclals declare th ‘ompany officlals declare the strik ilegaj and will fight it to the end- ° ** Member of the Associated Press The Apsociated Press Is exclusiy titled to the use for republication of all news dlspatchics eredited to it or not otherw'se credited in this taf. In that number there the local news pubitshed hereln, s herein are also reserved. paper und alxo All rights of publication of specisl dispatc Saturday’s Net Circulation, 82,726 Sunday’s SOLDIERS’ BONUS BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED Senate Finance Committee ¥avors Five-Way Plan, Indorsed by American Legion. The soldiers’ bonus bill, with the |five-way plan indorsed by the Amer- ican Legion, was reported favorably Ilodly by the Senate finance commit- tee as revised by the subcommittee headed by Senator McCumber, re- publican, North Dakota. When the bill will be reached in the Senate is uncertain, several other measures having precedence under the informal program. There was no opposition to the bill in the committee, but several sena- tors reserved the right to offer amendments in the Senate. Provisions - for adjusting compen- sation of former service men, as pro- vided by the bill, include the cash bonus, or “adjusted service pay.” de- ferred payments under “service cer- tificates” = vocational training aid, farm and home aid and land settle- ment aid. The bill contains no provision for taxation or other means of meeting the expense, this being left for future legislation. MANY INDUSTRIES TURNFOR BETTER Others Beginning to Sag After Having Wintered Other Storms, Says Review. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The business situation throughout the country presents to government eyes certain good and bad aspects. The good comsists of a turn for the better in many lines which six months ago was hardest hit, and the bad arises out of the fact that certain industries. which didn't feel the wave of depression last winter. now are beginning to sag. The situation is not now and never has been uniform. No two industries have been hit in exactly the same way and the same moment. This ex- plains the almost continuous flow of pessimistic talk whose undercurrent has becn sensetnhere ever since last December. The only danger in the talk itself is that certzin industries hich are on a sound basis. may be influenced to curtail their activities simply because of a fear that the business depression makes promotion and expansion inadvisable as a matter of_principle. ‘Therefore officials here are inclined to sound a warning against the ac- ceptance of pessimistic statements for sanything more than a reflection of the particular industry or business about which the pessimist happens to be -informed. Gov. Harding of the Federal Reserve Board has insisted in his recent speeches that if the pessimist had done more talking last October, when retrenchment was be- ’v'llgul:rge\dre lt;: the government, he a; en a valua the readjustment. e sesenln Many on Upward Swing. But much of the pessimism is be- ginning to be circulated just at the time when many industries are on the upward swing and when their prog- ress will be made painfully slower by the continuous murmuring about bad times ahead. ‘The clearest idea of the business re- adjustment which this country has experienced since the war is given by one man who uses the simile of a marching column of troops to illus- trate the march of the industries themselves. The column has been making a right wheel turn. The troops nearest the center move slow- ly and mark time. These are the in- dustries like the woolen and textile businesses, which were hardest hit last | winter, and then marked time while they adjusted their labor costs, ar- ranged their loans in bank, wrote off their losses and then slowly began to move again. Most of the trades which suffered in December and Jan- uary are gradually coming back—not rapidly. of course, but with sufficient progress to make the pessimist’s pre- diction of “many years of bad times’ entirely unwarranted. It has been a matter of months and not years. Oll and Steel Hit. Just now the oil and steel busi- nesses are at the edge of the march- ing column, with a long distance to £o to make the complete turn. Pre- diction as to when the steel busi- ness will have made the turn and gotten back into line is a matter of personal opinion in Washington. There is, however, an inclination to expect the steel industry to cut wages soon and to cut also the price of steel. Steel was in a prosperous mood last winter, when wool and silk and leather were in distress. There has been a decided tur@ for the better in wool and textiles and leather, while steel is on the edge of the marching column. The industrial conters are begining to feel the re- adjustment pains which six months ago were hardly felt. hand, the agricultural regions which sent out “S. * calls all winter now begin to see rays of Sunshine ahead. Crops have been planted at lower cost. Copious rains in many sections of the country have belped. The banks have tided over their customers and this year's earn- ings will be applied to pay off a ~(Confinucd on Page 2, Column 3.) SECRETARIES INVITED TO WITNESS Special Dispatch to The Star. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 20.— Possibility that both Secretaries A. B. Fall of the Interior Depart-. ment and Edwin Denby of the Navy Department will visit Wy- oming this summer is related in a telegram received by the Chey- enne frontier days committee to- day from Republican Floor Lead- er Frank W. Mondell of the na- tional House of Representatives. Several weeks ago the commit- tee sent Mr. Mondell invitations to the two department heads to attend the frontler days celebra- tion, July 26 to 29, inclusive, ask- ‘Wyoming representative to present them to the cabinet mem- rs. Today Mr. Mondell wired: “This morning I personally pre- sented the frontier dayd invita- tions to Messra.” Fall and Denby, urging that they arrange the itin- erary of their’ coming western trips 50 a8 to stop in Cheyenne for the’ silver ‘anniversary of the big celebration. = Both expressed the hope that this might be possible.” The invitations to the two cabi- net members, , in part: < “You will see a celebration known throughout the world for having the. most spectacular and virlle sports. latter-day mankind COWBOYS IN WILD WEST STUNTS | af- th pa; ing the be has evolved. You will find that these sports are no tame rehearsed affairs, but that they provide the keenest kind of competition for the real cowboys and cowgirls from all over the west for the world’s champlonships in broncho busting, steer roping. bulldogging, trick riding, fancy roping and all the other sports of the open range. And you will find every contest chuck full of thrills. s “You will see wild men and ‘wilder horses in action and fight- ing for their very lives. You will see mighty steers brought to their ‘knees’ by mightier men of the plains. You will see full-costumed American Indians attacking stage coaches and driven off by the greatest fighters of xll times—the~. American soldiers. You will see lived again, and with all the re- ality of old, the. blood-curdling days of pioneers and stage coaches and pony expresses and aborigines. “We of the west want.to get better acquainted with you. We want you to get better acquaint- ed with us. If you're tired of the petty annoyances and exactions of public life and need recreation you'll find it here. A genuine western reception awaits you.. All ‘Wyoming will welcome you. . “We invite you to come to the ‘mmt outdpors—to hit the trail west." L On the other last | Net Circulation, 89,297 TWO CENTS. LEWIS OPENS FIGHT FORHEADOFA.F.L AGAINST GOMPERS Mine Workers’ President to Permit His Name to Go Before Convention. PRESENT LABOR CHIEF’S SUPPORTERS PREPARED Second Week at Denver Is Opened With Many Problems Before Delegates of Unions. By the Associated Press. DENVER, Colo.,, June 20.—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, today formal- ly announced that he was a candi- i date for the presidency of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor in opposi- tion to Samuel Gompers. “I have decided to permit my nameé ‘{ to be submitted to the convention as a candidate for the presidency of the American Federation of Labor,” was the brief announcement made by Mr. Lewis. He declined to make any fur- ther statement. Gompers Accepts Challan President Gompers announced that he will be a candidate for re-election in the following statement: “The delegates to the convention will determine who shall be their of- ficers, and if they see fit to re-elect their president, they will have the opportunity. My name will go before the convention and it will not be withdrawn.” Followed by Conferences. Lewig announcement came at the close of the morninz session of the Convention, when he callel the newspapermen aside and made his brief statement. While the action of Lewis was not unexpected there was a flurry of | excitement among the delegates as the report was spread about the con- floor. ] imediately ! went_ into conference to dsermine i whether they would suport the min- ers head or President Gompers. Lewis as head of the miners or- ganization—the largest union in the United States—comands 4,257 votes in his own organization alone. The Tnited Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, the second largest union, has also announced its in- tention to support him. Lewis sup- porters also claim the support of the railroad organizations. The Inter- national Association of ~Machinists came to the convention instructed not to vote for Gompers. ‘Attack on Shipping Board. Declaring _that nited Statcs Shipping Board had esfablished the “open snop.” Andrew Furuseth, presi dent of the International Seame Union, today asked the federatio convention to support the seamen in {heir fight against this policy. 4 The resolution, which was submit- ted by the seamen’s leader and re- ferred to committee, declared that the Shipping Board was “hiding be- hind a smoke Screen of union hate, 2nd is torpedoing the merchant ma- Tine and seapower of the United States.” A resolution was adopted instruct- ing the executive council to ©o-op- erate with organizations of federal employes to obtain the right of ap- peal from decisions of officials in- volving demotion or dismissal. "The resolution said that at pres- ent there was no recourse for the de- moted or dismissed employe. Strenuous Program. Faced by one of the most strenu- ous programs in its history, the fed- eration opened the second week's Ses- sion of its forty-first annual conven- tion. The Irish question, the railroad problem, determination of future re- lations with the European trade un- ion movement. jurisdictional disputes and many oiher important matters were scheduled for the action of the delegates. It was learncd that President Gompers and administrative forces have made plans to meet a contest. Gompers' supporters have held sev- eral conferenccs during the last twenty-four hours and taken can- vasses of the situation. The complicated situation growing out of the split between the two fac- tions of Irish sympathizers was ex- pected to be disposed of today or to- morrow when the resolutions commit- tee brings in its report. The commit- tee is understood to have decided to reject the resolution urgzing boycott of Eritish-made goods and report favor- ably the less drastic resolution of sym- pathy for the Irish cause and calling | for recognition of the Irish republic. 1" Supporters of the boycott resolution, | who declare it the “official resolution of { the Irish republic,” asserted they wiil carry the fight to the floor of the con- vention in an effort to overthrow the committee's report, if it is unfavorable. They said they wiil also demand a roll call on the measure. Sam Evans, per- sonal representative of Frank P. Walsh, is here directing the fight in behalf of | the boycott resolution. Internatio; The International Association of Machinists announces its determina- tion to have thé convention repudiate the action of the executive council in severing relations with the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions. Jt has -submitted a resolution directing the council immediately to reaffiliate the federation with the European la- bor movement. The request of the United Brother- hood of Maintenance of Ways Em- ployes and Railway Shop Laborers for reinstatement in the federation, it was learned, bas the full support of all the railroad organizations. This union, with its membership of nearly 1200,000, was suspended in 1919 be- cause of a jurisdictional dispute with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The carpenters’ union ha delegations | 1 i [ | | Labor. announced its intention, with co- operation of the building trades | unions, to fight against the railroad organization reinstatement. The question of putting into effect the federation’s railroad program call- ing for “government control with democratic operation” is expected to be one of the major issues. The opening of the actual nation- wide campaign to unionize the steel industry has been postponed indefin- itely because of the industrial depres- sion, it is officially announced. ——— MR. WEEKS GETS DEGREE. * MEDFORD, Mass, June 20.—The honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon Secretary of War John W. Weeks at the sixty- fitth commencement exercise of Tufts College today. Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army, was awarded the degree of master of arts.