Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1921, Page 3

- HEARING ONREFUND . OFFOREIGN LOANS Senate Finance Committee Takes Up Bill Introduced by . Senator Penrose. Plans were being made today by the Senate finance committee to begin hearing on the bill introduced by Senator Penrose for the refunding of the loans to foreign natiens. The hearings are to hegin mnext Wednesday, with Secretary Mellon of the Treasury as the first witness. The wide powers proposed to be given the Secretary are likely to arouse some opposition, it was said today. List of the War Debts. A letter written by Secretary Mel- lon, seht to Senator Penrose by the President, contains a table summar- izing the war debts of foreign nations to_the United States, as follows: Great Britain, $4,166,318,358; Franct $3,350,762,930; ~ Italy, $1.648.034.05 Belgium, 3$375.280.147; 661,659; Czechoslovakia, $91,179,52 Serbia, " $51,153,159; Roumania, $36. 128,494 Austria, $24,055,708; Greec Esthonia, €85,835; Liberia, s°6 900, Advances under the liberty loan in- cluded: Great Britain, $4.166,31%,358; France, $2,950,762,933: Italy, $1.648.- 034,050; Beigium, $347,691,566; Russia, 181,729,750; Czechoslovakia, $61.256.- 6; Serbia, $26,175,139:; Roumania, $23205.819; Greece, $15.000,000; Cuba, $9,025,500; Liberta, $26,000. Sales of Surplus Materials. Obligations received on account of sales of surplus war materials in- cluded: France, $400,000,000; Poland, $59,636,320; Belgium, $27.588,581; Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, $24.9 020; Czechoslovakia, $20.621,994; Ru- mania, $12,922,675; Esthonia, 313.213, 377; Lithuania, $4.159.491; Letvia, 32, 521869; Russia, $406,082. Obligations held by the Grain Cor- poration included: Uoland, $24,333.- 590; Austria, $24,055,708; Armenia, $3 931.505; Czechoslovakia, $2,873,238; Hungary, $1.685,835. Obligations receivea from the American Relief Administration in- cluded: Poland, $51.671,749; Finland, $8,281,926; Armenia, $8,028, 412; Czecho- slovakia, $6.428,089; Letvia, $2,610,417; Russia, $4,465,465; Esthonia, $1,7. 85, 767, and Lithuania, $822,136. Secretary Mellon's Letter. Secretary Mellon's letter said that obllnuon- in respect to loans from e proceeds of liberty bonds are all Gtmnd or overdue obligations, while the other classes referred to mature at _various dates, beginning June 30, 1931, and extending to August 1, 1929. The obligations mentioned. as held by the United States Grain Corporation were received by that corporation from foreign governments on account of the sale of flour under the act of March 30, 1820. As they may at any time be turned into the United States Treasury, and some of them mature on June 30. mext, they are included here, 80 that they may be dealt with along with like obligations. “I am advised,” continued Mr. Mel- lon, “that, except as to the advances made out of the proceeds of liberty loan bonds, this department is with- out authority to consent to any exten- sion of the time for payment of the principle or of the intercsl of these obligations or to proceed With the re- funding thereof. As to the advances made out of the proceeds of liberty Joan bonds, the existing authority con- tains such diverse provisions as to interest rates, the maturity and other terms of the refunding bonus that may be accepted by the department as makes it difficuit to formulate a plan whereby the interests of this ;ovemmen: may be well protected nd the bonds to be received be in as de-lnblo form as would be the case if the entire debt of each country could be dealt with as a whole and free from such restrictions. “In some cases the debtor nations owe large amounts to other countries as well as to the United States, and it may be advisable, and in some cases indeed necessary, to consider com- prehensively the entire debt of such SPECIAL NOTICES. Miss Tawney Apple is th’ proud possessor of a dandy pair o’ second-crop eyebrows. Mr. Lemmie Peters is practic- in’ at th’ shootin’ gallery fer a postal job. (Copyright National Newspaper Service.) countries, their financial condition and resources, so as to work out a re- funding plan reasopably within the ability of such countries to carry .out. “In the case of some of the debtor countries it is impossible for them to make payment of their obliga- tions as they now mature. It is im- possible for some of them to make payment of the maturing interest. To insist on payments might be dis- astrous to the peoples of such coun- tries; and, besides, there may have to be given consideration to thd bearing of the adverse forelgn ex- change rates existing at the time against these debtor countries and which may make it desirable to de- fer payment of interest. “Under the circumstances I have briefly referred to, it is, I think, clear that by reason of the lack of any authority as to a part of these foreign obligations and the restric- tions upon the existing authority as tn the others, it is impossible in any refunding, under the varying con- ditions that exist. to deal fairly with the debtor countries and at the same time protect the interests of this country. “To do this it is essential that the department have full authority as to all such foreign indebtedness to de- termine the form and terms of the settlements and of the refunding obligations, the rate or rates of in- terest, the maturity dates and the right to extend the time for the pay- ment of interest on the indebedness to be reffunded. It is also of im- portance that the department should have adequate authority to adjust and settle claims against foreign governments, which are not in the form of bonds or obligations, as, for example, the claim for costs of our military forces of occupation.” —_— BEER TANGLE CLEARED. House Judiciary Committee Re- ports' Willis-Campbell Bill. The House judiciary committee. by unanimously reporting the Willis- Campbell; bill, designed to prevent promulgation of beer-for-the-sick regulations, by the bureau of inter- nal revenue. has cleared away the reatened tangle over anti-beer legis- tion. Machinery was immediately set in motion for its early passage by the House, probably Monday. The committee adopted an amend- ment by Chairman Volstead to meet a situation created by a recent de- cislon of the Supreme Court, which held, in effect, that revenue laws ap- plicable to the manufacture, taxation and traffic in intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes were no longer in force. The amendment would specifically continue in foree all such legislation, both as to beverage and non-beverage lquors. SPECTAL NOTICES. RBIGHT RATES TO PACIFIC t, household goods. automo- Shies. I Somsotidsted catloads si:cuun STORAGP COMPANY. luo 1 u- GHAN \TE_OF AN AMERIOAN. g INSUR- ANCP COMPAKY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMPIYY certity that at a regularly s Bt stockbolders n( me ealled meeting of the German American Fire Insura the_District of Cnlumml. beld Ol !hQ ‘Glh dl! ‘June, 1921, at the office of the company. No. 511 7th street northwest. ‘Washington, 'C., pursuant to pul bl\shedn '-::flie :hel'.\'cof “I’( thi 30) days lor reto in accord- e ) e, and of notice deposited the United States mlll postage prepaid. ssed to each stockhoider at his usual vllfl of RIMkIN‘ as his address is contained in the records of he corporation, in accordance ‘with the by-laws ol the said company and the statutes such cases made and provided, ‘motice containing a statement of the ”-Mtobemnl cted thereat as hereinafter !Qd‘!fi mm ‘were present in per- som and by proxy the owners of 819 shares of the L&“‘hfl of said company out of & total of t to a vote concurred in by 819 shares of said stock, being more than two- -thil intarest of the entire stockholding body h: mn the following resolution was ;FSH;‘. i ' é that it is deemed advisable that the name of this corporation ¢hall be changed from ‘the German Romerioan Fire Insorance of the District of Columbia® to ‘the American Fire Insurance Company of the Dis- of Columbia.. and that the paragraph “Ist' of ‘the certificate of incorpora- so as to purpese of i recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. In testimony whereof the said company has "f These preseats to. be sigmed io ifs cor- amve by tts preaident and its corporate Teal to be attached hereto attested by its sec- fi this 20th day of Yune AD. ozl EMAN AMERIC! N COMPARY OF TRE DISTRICT OF CASFV COLUMBIA e A o eal test: BERGMANN, Secretary. pertet of mmax.. to wit: a nogary public, in_and for’ the District of Columbia, do hereby certify that Charles Schafer, who is personally weil to me as the ‘Person named as the at- toruey in fact for the German American Fire surance Company of the District of Colum- bia. to ackaowledge a certaln certificate bear- Dag’ date on the J0th day of June. AD. 1921, hereto annexed, personally appeared before me ta said District'and scknowledged the xad gertificate o be the act and deed of the taid The German_American Fire Insurance Com- pany of the District of Columbin. under my hand and seal ‘this 20th day “The ealy 42 ofiginal “Biger” in the Heattag TheBx EnginmngCo. : 1810 14th st. n.w. 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Main 314, Sh Efficiency : GAS_RANGES REPAIRED AND nzmm.r S the commission of which Abram L T.HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO\I BRITISH FEAR CANADIAN ENVOY HERE WOULD HARM DIPL OMATIC UNI TY Speclal Dispateh to The sar. | OTTAWA, Canada; June 24.—Pre« mier Meighen's intimation in Lon- don of Canada’s decision to have a Canadian minister at Washinigton ‘was_commented on at length yes- terday. He outlined the advantage of such an appointment. Canadian editors both agree with his vie: and welcome the Wnsmngt n i timation “that the Unjted States would welcome a Canadian minis- ter, and tbat reciprocal action would be taken by Washington. In Ottawa, British statesmen of note are represented as- favoring such a step, only for the passibil- ity of other parts of the British empire also seeking diplomatic representation at the United States capital Th ble a Londo: Y | REDS, HOLDING AMERICANS, SPURN INDIRECT NEGOTIATIONS. WITH U. S. By the Associated Press. RIGA, June 24.—The eflor(s of the American State Department. through the committee headed by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and diplomat, to obtain the release of the American Drisy oners in soviet Russia, have been unsuccessful, according to advices received here today. The soviets are understood here to be determined to ixnore any negotiations through Dr. Nansen and, it_is said, will consider only to Ottawe, “no disguising'the fact that, notwithstanding statements by Lloyd George and others, the idea of a Canadian minister to the United States has had a some- what disquieting effect in official circles here. It was not that ob- Jection was taken so far as Canade is concerned, or that it was feared that it Was a step ip the direc- tion of empire disintegration. “What troubled British statesmen was that the example of Canada might well be followed by South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and that the presence of S0 many Britishers in a single capital might conceivably lead to differences of opinion and be productive of dis- furbing consequences, and would alsa, have the effect of destroying the 'appearance of the diplomatic unity of the empire in the eyes of the world’ United States. Some of the pris- the advices say, have been oners, informed it is possible they will be exchanged - for _communist . prisoners in America. A’ Washington dispatch of May 17 said the Harding administra- tion would refuse to have an deal- ings whatever with the Russian soviet _regime, While Americans were being held prisoner in Rus- sia.” Dr. Nansen, on the invita- toin of the administration of for- mer President Wilson, undertook to negotlate with the soviet gov- ernment for the release of the American prisoners in Russla. a direct official request from the GLADYS DEACON MARRIES DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH Religious Services Held for Boston Girl and British Peer in Paris. | By the Amociated Press. PARIS, June 25.—Gladys Marie Dea. con of Boston has become the Du('hess1 of Marlborough, the second American girl to assume the title. The religious ceremony was performed this noon by the Rev. T. H. Wright, pastor of the Scotch Church in Paris, at the home of Eugene Higgins, a cousin of the bride. About 200 guests were present, includ- ing Ambassador Wallace and Mrs. Wal- lace, a distinguished company of French, British and American friends of the couple. Mr. Higgins gave the bride away, and | Judge Walter Berry, president of the American Chamber of Commerce of Paris, was the best man. The bride was attended only by twelve-ycar-old Chris- tine de Boisrouvray, daughter of tne Countess de Boisrouvray, who carried her train. i The civil ceremony, which lasted three | minutes, took place in the British con-} sulate yesterday and was pertormm by H. G. Mackie, the British consul. There were two witne: s for the| duke. Judge Walter Berry, president; of the American Chamber of Com- merce here, and J. T. B. Sewell. the duke's legal adviser. Leon Renault. former minister of the intcrior, acted as witness for Miss Deacon. She; was attended by the Countess Du Boisrouvray and the only other’per- wons present were Eugene Higgins, a cousin of Miss Deacon, and several American anu British newspaper men. The first Duchess of- Marlborough before her marrizge to the duke was Consuelo Vanderbilt of New York. She obtained a decree of ab-| solute divorce from the duke May 13 last. ALAND ISLANDS AWARDED | BY LEAGUE TO FINLAND ‘Neutralization From Standpoint of Military Use Ordered—Sweden Criticises Decision. By the Associated Prew, GENEVA, June 24.—The council of the league of nations today awarded the Aland Islands, in the Baltic sea, to Fin- land. The council decided that .the islands should be neutralized from the military standpoint and the population given-the rantees recommended in the report Elkus of the United States was a mem- Hjalmn.r Branting of Sweden protest- ed against the decision of the council, but agreed to recognize it. In the course. of his declaration pro- testing against the award M. Branting said: “The Swedish government cannot re- frain from expressing the fear that the council has badly shaken the confidence of all peoples, and more particularly those who, like Sweden, long have | striven for a realization of international law and who had felt that the league of nations had been created to place the world under the reign of justice.” FEDERAL CENSUS PROBE OF JAPANESE DEMANDED Figures Giving 71,942 Orientals in California Declared Incorrect. 109,000 Claimed. SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 25.—A telegram requesting Investigation of federal census figures showing the Japanese population of California to be 71,942 was forwarded to Senator Hiram W. Johnson by State Controller John S. Chambers today. “The federal census figures on Japanese population in California are extremely .incorrect.”” the telegram stated. “The bureau of vital statistics has proved by checking up the death list of Japanese that there are at least 109,000 hare. State figures tally with federal census on every race except Japanese and it appears that approxi- mately 38,000 have escaped the census. This evasion is just another attempt |2 to discredit the Seriousness of the oriental issue.” : fas MEDAL UNIT DROPPED. Economy Hits Distributors of Vic- tory Awards. Due tb the necessity for economy | I feel that in some cases. further cxtension of government credit COMMITTEE TO LAY OUT ALIEN WELFARE WORK Parsonnel Announced by Head of Immigration Bureau and Prompt Report Is Expected.' A committee to recommend a policy for welfare work among immigrants both at ports of entry and at their points of destinations was named yes- terday by W. W. Husband, commis- sioner general of immigration. The members are Miss Julia La- throp, chief of the federal children's bureau; Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, di- rector of the division of immigration and Americanization, Massachusetts department of education; W. W. Si- bray, inspector in charge of the im- migration service at Pittsburgh, and Fred C. Croxton, chalrman of the United Council of ‘the Social Agencies, of Columbus, Ohio. The committee has been asked to meet here at an early date, and; Commissioner Husband expressed hope that it could complete its sur- vey and recommendations in a week. | The commissioner general *said the bureau was anxious to improve pres- ent_methods as soon as possible. “There is a deep and growing in- | terest in this subject,” he added, “and at least, opportunities to promote the welfare of immigrants at our stations and to protect and otherwise aid those in transit to destination are being neglected. “I am very anxious that the bureau shall do its duty to_the immigrant in every respect, and Secretary Davis, who is one of the truest humani- tarians I have ever known, is even more insistent than T am in that regard:” —_— EXPORT CORPORATION URGED BY MR. QUICK Former, Farm Loan Head Says Some Credit System Must Get to Work. Congress has “no alternative than the passing of this bill" Herbert Quick, former member of the Federl Farm Loan Board, declared vesterday before a Senate committee considering the Norris measure to create a one- hundred-million-dollar __government corporation for farm exports. “We must get some credit S)x«ltbm to will move surplus farm product: Mr. Quick said. “If we| don’t, gentlemen, hundreds of banks| in the agricultural districts are going | to have their doors shut “The people and governments of Europe will mortgage everything they hve. got to give us security on our advances.” Senator Ra-llsdell, democrat, Louis- iana, asked if the proposed corpora- tion ‘could find a market for securities based upon credit of Poland and other new European countries. “Farmers as a class will take their securities rather than sec their prod- uc}: not in warehouses,” Mr. Quick sal Chairman Norris and Senator Good- ing, republican, Idaho, here expressed doubt that the bill could pass with a attached to it. -tr. Norris announced that Secretary Hoover would be asked to appear and 4ot age, a farm laborer who, police s D C, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1921-PART T SIGNATURES OF UNION SOLDIERS FOUND IN OLD VIRGINIA MANSION LABORER ADMITS HE | KILLED RICH WIDOW Boys Told Kubal of Mrs. Bart- lett, His First In- - timation. By the Associated Press. WEST HEMPSTEAD, N. Y‘. June 235. —Lawrence Kubal, twenty-six years said, confessed to the murder of Mrs. Minnie S. Bartlett, a wealthy widow, in her home here last Wednesday, was formally charged with the crime early today after he had repeated the statement to District Attorney Weeks. Kubal's alleged confession contained the statement that he Killed Mrs. Bartlett with a_chisel while on his second visit to the house under pre- text of purchasing the property. Po- lice said Kubal told them he had never heard of Mrs. Bartiett until the morning of the murder. He was on his way to the house to look -for, work when he noticed small boys stealing cherries from the orchard, he was reported to have said, and asked them if they were not afraid they would be caught. Boys Gave Him “Tip.” The boys gave Kubal the first intl- mation that a wealthy widow lived alone in the house. Kubal was said to have told the police he had asked Mrs. Bartlett for $500, and that she refused. She twirled a fountain pen nervously, and this caused it to come into his mind to kill her, according to the police. First, however, police said he con- fessed to struggling with her, and. it was after he had thrown her to the floor that he saw her trying to un- loosen the cap of the pen. Kubal Shaved Moustache. Kubal was arrested at his home, where he remained after the murder, refusing to leave in search of work. He had shaved off his mustache and was said to have told members of his family that he had killed a woman. This fact became known and led to his arrest. Kubal was born in Poland, and has a wife and two children. He has served short prison sentences tn New Jersey. NEW MAIL ARRANGEMENT ASSISTS N.Y. CLEARINGS Postal Clerks in Far-off Cities Will Have Plan of Metropolitan Finance Distriot. Changes in methods of handling registered bank mail arriving in New Yorly_city early each day will be in- augurated July 1. through efforts of Second Assistant Postmaster General Shaughnessy and the railway mail service. Heretofore this class of mail_has nét been delivered in the New York financial_district sufficiently early to permit the banks and other financial houses to put it through the clearing hcuse on the same day, and as a result there was great loss to them in inter- est charges. This delgy to the regis- tered mail was due to the fact that it has been customary to have it all come to the general post effice, Penn- sylvania, station, and there be record- ed, then dispatched to the substations inthe financial district, where it was again recorded. The new plan is to have more than one hundred of the larger post offices through the United States make up direct sacks of registered mail for the substations at the city hall, Wall street and station P, located in the finanoial district. In addition to this, the clerks in the railway post.offices in_the incoming trains will also sort this bank mail and make up direct sacks in the same manner, which are to be specially handled, direct to the substations, without going through the general post office. - Putting into effect an arrangement of this kind iavolves an amount of detail that is not known to the gen- eral public. For example: In order to arrange for the outside offices to make the direct sacks mentioned, it is necessary to furnish them with the street plan of lower New York, show- ing the location of each financial house, and clerks in these outside of- fices must learn these charts and dis- tribute the mail in far-off points like St. Louis just as if they were working -in one of the substations in the finan- cial district of New york. This also applies to the postal clerks in the railway mail cars. SEEKS SPEED ON TARIF‘F. President Also Takes Up ‘plx Leg- islation With Fordney. In an effort to meet the demands of the cduntry and of the national com- mittee for quick action on tariff and taxation legislation, President Hard- ing called Chairman Fordney of the House ways and means committee to the White House. House members are inclined to discount the promise given to the President by Mr. Fordney that thé tariff bill will be ready early next week. There is a feeling among House leaders and some republican members of shat hearings would be closed Tues- ay. JAPAN BUSINESS MEN - URGE ARMAMENT CUT Resolution Passed by Osaka Cham- ber of Commerce Advocates Country Taking Lead. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 24.—A resolution urg- ing Japan to take the lead in bring- ing about' armament reduction has been adopted by the Osaka Chamber of Commerce. It will be submitted to the convention of representatives of the leading chambers of commerce of the empire which is to open soon l%r;foklo‘ it e resolution, a copy of which has already been handed to the cabinet, asks Japan to propose a conference on armament reduction to the United States fiml Great .Britain, ‘because armament cartailment is based on a -piruof humn.nny and & desire to pre- vent the -horrors of war.” The Nation denounces Japan's rule having been evel ere, and es- pecially in Korea and Slberla." be— yond l“ ‘western nroeed thless and bloody.” —— MAY FOREIGN TRADE LOW money and. porssnnel the Secretary. of | Shipments - Abroad:: Greatly De- w-r has directed that the force which as been maintained at the War De- | partment for the purpose of distributing ; vl.ctory medals to veterans of the world ; be discontinued. Army officers, . fleld clerks lnd enlisted men Who have ¢ engaged in that work In cities and ' tmm.n throushout the country also have | been relieved from thai flu.t the adjutant ge has been asked to !ubmlt a plan for ac- tion u‘p.ut{nn:vvllnum for victory medals : available for use i Sitibution of the medals,” T T O t Pa.{nt —you will find our reofiag ol oae st S JOEN CRITICALL Lawn ""“‘::’... o [ Wall and IRONCLAD 2zt 1asrst 2w CEA:!AE?XO)CFA‘ Tenn., m} ol Bench et ‘e ‘seoncmyof| Floor | 7921 w,' o was thken T nu’u‘:‘. Detore the tant | & Paint "““,',": St Devoe| pinishes by Adems i fi:"m:'han'm his m..fi.‘"a'#m hlvinlxn S oin MORE bustvess. ‘BIGH-G! B, BUT NOT HIGH PRIOND. Becker Paint and Glass Co. | THE SERVICE SHOP. CHAS. B. nomm u-'u-a Phose We e &YROHS.A.DAMS. “,m._ of_his reco He had ropreunttd the third Ten- nuuuu' rll-gln {2.'., mr‘n’ty-tour e::- secu years, defeated b; Brown last Novem! % Joe creased From Last Year. Heavy decreases in the country’s foreign trede with Europe and South i Ameriea during May, as compared ‘with the'same month’last year, was nhown in the monthly ‘réport i!llud by _the Department of Commerce.; Export.l to Europe during the monqa 1B ated $77,000,000, - compared 384,000,000 in May of last year, whno for the. eleven. months ended { with May the total was 83,2!1 000 0.0 as compared .with $4,568,00! the same months of 1920. Exports .to South America. during vy aggregated $18,000,000, against $38,000,000 in May of last year, while for, the eleven-month period the total :");l $506,000,000, as against $445,- Imports from Europe for the nfonth amounted to $61,000,000, -as against 89 000,000 the same ‘month last year, for the eleven months the total Sras $383,000,000, as “compared with | $1,061,000,000. Tmports from Sonth America l‘;u- ted $23,000,000, as compared with 3,000,000 in May of last year, while for ionths the total was it $780,000,000. the ways and means committee that the tax question will be pushed before provisions. Mr. Fordney informed - the Presi- dent that the republican committee draft -of the® permanent tariff bill would be ready by Monday or Tues- day for consideration of tke full com« mittee. He did not indicate how much time would be required for considera- tion of the bill by the whole commit- tee membership, although he ex- plained that.a caucus of House re- publicans would be held before the 'KING PETER IMP IMPROVES. Report of Delthv Denied by Serb- ian Legation in London. BELGRADE, June’23.—The improve- ment in the health of King Peter of Serbia, who has been. seriowsly fil, continues. A London dispatch of Tueaday quoted the weekly newspaper the Near East as saying it had learned: King Peter died’ three or four days ago. The Serbian.legation in London and the British foreign office, however, de- nied any knowledge of the king’s re- ported death,:the dispatches said. e latest previous news on -the. king’s condition from Belgrade, under date of June 17, said the king’s health was improving steadily and that his ph sicians had said he'was out of dang: UNION . - SAVINGS BANK _ , OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN WASHINGTON . 910 MTH ST. NW. "~ -, is submitted formally to the Special Dispatch to The Star. . FREDERICKSBURG, Va, June 25.—A discovery was made by ‘workmen at the historic mansion of Chatham, on Stafford Heights, opposite Fredericksburg,after they had scraped three layers of wall paper from the walls. On the walls 1n & small hall, just inside the entrance to the left wing, there were many signatures of officers and men of the Union Army, written on the white plas- tering in pencil, some of them still very legible after more than half a century. During the _civil war Chatham was used to quarter soldiers of the northern army on several oc- caslons, and it was during this perlod that the names were writ- Amon‘ the signatures standing REAL WAR RAGING IN UPPER SILESIA Four Cities Which ~Poland Feared Germany Would Con- trol Center of Conflict. “Four cities of Upper Silesia, which are reported to have been seized by Polish insurgents, who feared that the bulk of Upper Silesia was to be turned over to Germany, are experi- encing real war for the first time since they became cities,” says a bul- letin_ issued by the National Geo- graphic Society. “Phe cities are Tarnowitz, Beu- then, Koenigshutte and Kattowits. Though they are situated practicall at the meeting point of pre-war Ri sia,Germany and Austria-Hungary— a rather precarious position on the outbreak of the world war—so valua- ble is the mining and industrial di trict which surrounds them that Ger- many took care to keep them outdide the zone of hostilities. Lie Near Each Other. “The four cities lie within a few miles of each other and in the heart of the coal fields for which the coun- try is famous. None is more tha five miles from the old Russian bor: der, now the boundary of Poland, and all are almost equally close to the old Austrian line, now that of Czechoslovakia. “Of these cities Beuthen alome is of appreciable age. The others are the direct resuit of the developmnt of coal mines and metallurgical in- dustries in the vicinity after the mid- dle of the nineteenth century, and Beuthen itself received a great im- petus from mining and industrial de- velopment. It the capital of a district, and hll a pulation of about 68,000. When Silesia was a part of the old kingdom of Bohemia Beuthen was _capital of the duchy of Beuthen. The title, duke of Be then, is one of the mediatized titles amang the German nobility. “Konigschutte, with nearly 75,000 in- habitants, is the me(ropolll of the Upper Stiesian mining_d! may be considered the Sll!!lln Pitts- burgh. It lies only three miles south of Beuthen. In Konigschutte is sit- uated the largest iron worki Sile- sia. Half the population is said to consist of Poles. Supreme as Coal Market. ~“Kattowitz, three miles south of Konigsthutte, is supreme as a coal market. It is perhaps the strongest Polish cepter among the Upper 8ile- sian cities. Zinc, as well as coal, is ined in the neighborhood. The place was only e village in 1815. lation is now about 45,000. “Tarnowitz, a few miles north of ‘Beuthen, is the smallest of the group. Its inhabitants number close to 15,000. In addition to iron works, it has other metallurgical fectories and lime kilns. 1t is also a Polish center, and its vote in the plebiscite is reported to have been markedly adverse to Germany. “When #he world war broke out, the Russians were able to push through the German-Russian frontier on its northern portion, but the line, which ran a few miles west of the Silesian coal cities, held firmly. Only twice was this rich and important district in danger of passing from German hands: when the Russian offensive against Austria advanced to Cragow. less than fifty miles to the east; and when the Cossacks made a rald into Posgen, a short distance to the north, threatening to cut cfl the Upper Sile- sian ‘wedge’ On both occasions the Germans, realizing that one of their most important centers of munitions and manufacture was endangered, drove ‘the attackers k" TAX SLACKERS NEXT. Publication -of the slacker list of those who evaded income and profits taxes is now called for. Representa- tive Beck, republican of Wisconsin, in a resolution calls upon the Treasury for such a list of individuals, firms and corporations who made net profits exceeding 25 per cent of their out- standing capital in 1918. It asked also for names of persons and firms “who evaded, falsified or willfully under- stated the amount of their incomes and profita during the period in which the United States was engaged in war.” in a statement, charged £l Mr. Beck, that big business interests, “in order to divert attention from themselves, prevailed upon the War Departrhent to publish a list of the names of de- sertera” OlhgySmeel,Vl. ' Lo-n\y Bldx. Fr-.nk P. Fmick. Manager The Shannon and Luchs New Home Development: 14th St. Terrace N.W. -—Offers unusual interest to those ‘whio contemplate buy. ing.a New Home. Here ‘may Nbe seen N.v ew Designed all the various stages of construction. _Homes - Priced : From -$12,750 to $18,500 Our terins are equitable and have meant success to every pnrdnur since 1906. Ceo- It takes but a few minates of your time !o see the new I.:::e: in this " Sube | It Is an Ideal Location % lor!]ncluy Man The’ convenience to reason- * able markets .and - the. ade- quate ' school facilities, . to- . gether with the cleanliness of * the community, make it nlul A for the family. ‘To * Take 1dth St car (best car. NEARNG ONREFUND] =i Sovs: [z s cnapna vvor s | \BORER ADWTS | srcvarumes o o sorouzzs TCH LD POLY ON OIL S JUST ONE By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, June 22.—The Dutch Bovernment today made public its re- ply to the American government's out most distinctly were the fol- lowing: Gen. Burnside, Brig. Gen. Judson Klilpatrick, commanding the 3d Division Cavalry Corps; Lieut. James B. Seywell, 1st New York Mounted Rifies; T. W. Mof- fett, 3d Indiana Cavairy; Brig Gen. Buford, September 2, 1863; Nelson, Company B, 1st Regiment, New Jersey Corps; John F. Brad- shaw, April 1, 1365, and F. D. Gorman. Scores of other names are scrawled on the walls and are more or less distinct. The hand of time has obliterated g large number of the signatures. During the war between the states this imposing old mansidn a8 known as tae “Lacy House,” being owned at that time by Maj. J. Horace Lacy. In 1862 it was occupied for a time by Gen. Burn- side, who placed pontoon bridges over the Rappahannock river, on which the federal troops crossed to Fredericksburg. About this nmo President Lincoln spent a day Chatham. note of May 27, protesting against the policy of the Netherlands government with respect to the exploitation of the Djambi ofl flelds of the Dutch East Indies. ‘The reply was dispatched June 21 It pointed sut that as far back as last October the minister of the colonics bad supplied the American minister in an interview with clear information on the Djambi question and concern- ing arrangements by which the Dutch government considered itself bound. By September last, the note sald, the negotiations with the Batavia com- pany were 80 far advanced that there no longer could be any question of taking proposals from the United States or elsewhere into comsidera- tion. The Dutch government, the note said, was unable to admit that its bill passed by parliament, closing Djambi flelds to the participation by Americans in the oil industry, was contrary to the principle of reci- - procity. This theory, it declared. arose from the supposition that after - Djambi there would be no more ail fields in the Dutch Indies to exploit. Moreover, the Dutch government ob- Jected to its policy toward foreign nations being represented us less Jib- eral than that of the United States the note said, t was here that Washington and his bride spent their honeymoon, and where Gen. ‘wooed Robert E. Lee won llla heart of tecture, with massive brick walls and flanked by spacious wings. It was built before the revolution- ary war by William Fitzhugh. Many changes were wrought in the mansion with the passing of . the years, among them the erec- tion of large porches at both the back and front, with columns typical of colonial architecture. Chatham was recently purchased from Mark BSuliivan, the writer, by Col. Danlel B. Devore and Mrs. Devore, nee -Miss Helen Gray Stewart, of Washington and Wis- consin.. Col. Devore, who is now in California on a furlough, is in active service in the United States Army and has been stationed at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. It is his intention to return Chat- to its original design as far as possible. The mansion was designed by the English archi- tect, -Sir Christopher Wren, and 18 8aid to be almost a reproduc- tion of Chatham, which was bullt and still is standing in the sub- urbs of London. The contrary, rather the case. In any case, the note declared, a country pursuing a policy of carrying out real reciprocity could not obtain its object by decreeing unilaterally some sort of regime depriving sub. jects of countries not adopting iden- tical measures of rights connected - with the matter concerned. The note, which was written by the minister ofgthe colonies, concluded by , repeating that the Dutch government did not desire to exclude American capital from an equitable share in . the petroleum industry of the Dutch Indles within the limits legally pre- | scribed for private enterprise. E, the undersigned banks, in order to give our clerks and officers a much needed and well deserved rest dur- ing the heated months, have agreed to’ close our institutions Saturday evenings during July and August. Lincoln National Bank Franklin National Bank Bank of Commerce and Savings Security Savings and Commercial Bank Standard Savings Bank Mt. 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