Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1921, Page 2

o \ " THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1921 CHLDRENINVADE - CANPCOD WL First Party of Several Score . Leave on Outing After Inspection. The first party of several score children to go to Camp Good Will this summer left the Webster School today for the camp, following medi- cal inspection at the schoolhouse. The youngsters are to stay two weeks, and then be replaced by others. Dr. Joseph A. Murphy. chief medi- cal inspector of the public schools. and his staff conducted the examina- tions today for the Associated Chari- ties. He was assisted by Drs. Arnold, Conkling, Heitmuller, Hornaday and Coale, and school nursex as follows: Mrs. Everett and the Misses Coleman, Flynn, Ohr, Walker and Woodzell. All Spick and Span. Mothers had been instructed by visitors of the Associated Charities to have their children spick and span, and there were but few rejections. One family applied as early as last March for the trip. Another mother was up m. today to get her children ready. she The children. accompanied by r mothers, went to Camp Good utomobiles loaned by vari- Arrive for Dinner. The camp on Military road was reached in time for noon dinner, pre- pared under supervision of Miss Isa- bel A. Stevens, visiting dietitian, who also” instructs the mothers in the preparation of food for their children. Camp Pleasant _received its first party yesterday. The doctors who of- ficiated at the examination were Dr. Charles A. Tignor. Dr. Hartford R. Burwell. Dr. A. L. Curtis and Dr. J. Hayden Johnson. Mrs. Laura B. Glenn, the superintendent, reported last evening that a storm visited the camp soon after the arrival of the first party. but that the tents stood the gale and that everybody was happy with the passing of the storm. ASSAILS ANTI-BEER BILL. Senator Broussard Predicts ‘“More Drastic Legislation” Later On. Senator Broussard of Louisiana, in the first attack delivered in the Senate upon the Willis-Campbell anti-beer amend- ment to the Volstead prohibition act, ves- terday predicted that this measure was only a forerunner of more drastic legis- lation. He declared the bill would bring “dis- content and unrest.” “If booze is dead.” he said, “why should we appropriate millions to en- force the law, and why should the time of Congress 'be consumed in passing laws respecting the dead”" The cighteenth amendment was char- | acterized by Senator Broussard as “the act of a minority.” Senator Broussard, at the conclusion of his speech, formally introduced an amendment to the national prohibition act which would have the effect of per- mitting the manufacture, production, use, sale and transportation for beverage purposes of beer, ale and porter up to 5 per_cent alcoholic content and wine up to 14 per cent alcohol in such states as should so determine by referendum vote. —_—— PORT CHANGES FAVORED. Chamber of Commerce Urges Stand- ardized Facilities. Standardization of port facilities is advocated by American delegates for discussion at the first annual meeting of the International Chamber of Com- merce, now in session in London. Set- ting forth its reasons for advocating such standardization, the American committee on port facilities says: A general and complete standardi- sation of those physical elements ‘which in the aggregate constitute the facilities of a port is impracticable. Differences in conditions, some of them natural and others fixed by custom long established. impose limi- tations upon standardization hich, in the near future least, are prob- ably insurmountable. Neverthele: the committee believes that grea economic benefits will result if the improvement of port facilities at home and abroad can be carried on in the future with the aim of attaining, | wherever practicable, uniformity of design, equipment and practice. To- ward this attainment the committee believes the International Chamber of Commerce can largely contribute.” N. Sumner Myrick of Washington is secretary of the committee. —_— FREIGHT RATES REVISED. Reported That Readjustments Are Progressing Rapidly. Readjustment of freight rates is progressing rapidly, according to the current issue of American Railroads, the official organ of the Assoclation of Railway Executives. The transcontinental freight bureau of Chicago reports. the publication sald, that up to June 9 more than 1,200 reductions had been made in Wwest-bound domestic rates, 153,319 reductions in east-bound rates and 120 reductions in export and import rates, the reductions affecting grain, iron and steel, food products, lumber and many other commodities. The Trunk Line Association of New York reported that in trunk line ter- ritory, from September 1, 1920, to May 81, 2,662 rate proposals were taken up. of which 2463 were approved. Most of them were reductions, it was elaimed. —_—— VISITORS LEAVE ON TOUR. Japanese Parliament Delegation to Be Entertained in Cities. The Japanese parliamentary dele- gation which is returning a visit of American congressmen to the orient last summer left here today for Philadelphia. Pittsburgh and Bos- ton, where official receptions have been arranged, e party plans to sail fe - 120 Tdly 9. © oF EnE VALUE SET ON LINES. Figure for Central of Georgia and Subsidiaries, $79,083,523. A supplementary tentative valuation of the Central of Georgia railroad and its subsidiary lines was made public today by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the figure for that road, the Southwestern Railroad Company, g-he lAuP:usthll snddSnvlnnnh and_the attahcochie and Gulf bei 79, ”9‘:”1 ; ng $79, he_tentative value of the Spoka and British Columbia raliway was placed at $722.423. SHIP MEN ASK LOYALTY. New Board Heads Meet With De- partment Officers. Loyal support of every member of the Shipping Board staff was asked of the employes by the Shipping Board vesterday when it met with the department heads. The board ex- plained that members of the board were 80 busy on reorganization of policies and plans that they had not yet gotten to the matter of per- sonnel. The board assured the employes that those who brought initiative. Intelligence and enthusiasm to the work would find appreciation and a future. but that incompetence and disinterestedness would be cause for dismissal, Appointed by the President TOND McCARL 0f McCook, . recently appointed controller meneral of the United States by President Harding. Mr. McCarl has been secretary of the re ican congressional committee for three years. DAWES’ FIRST TASK TO STOP BIG LEAKS (Continued from First rage.) should amount to that much. What may be true of the War Department is true of other departments of the government. Another menace to economy is in the handling of government lawsuits. Congress always hesitates to author- ize the expenditure of large sums of money for legal talent. Yet the law- yers for the claimants usually get big fees, ranging all the way from $10,000 to $100,000. Such fees on the side of the government are unknown. The government, therefore, is _frequently outwitted and must pay millions of dollars in judgments simply because it will not spend the relatively small sums to win lawsuits. Another factor in the same situa tion is the tendency to ignore the out come of government lawsuits because Congress always appropriates money for the payment of judgments. K Thus a department officer dodsn't feel that the judgment must be paid out of his own appropriation for this year. Usually the lawsuits take years to settle in the courts. Congress has not insisted that any special sums be set aside by any department to meet adverse judgments in the courts. Indeed, it has happensd in certain cases that u certain department set aside 75 per cent of the value of cer- tain propertivs because it thought that was a fair price. The courts have since decided that 15 per cent wasn't cnough. Congress has had to make good the balance. First Thought of Personmel. The usual thought of the average man about government economy is to reduce personnel. He imagines that the government has too many em- ployes and that the buik of the money is paid out in salaries. That isn't the fact. Much of the waste is due to bad acoounting and the vague and indefinite powers of administrative officers who can buy or eell govern- ment property. Secretary Glass, in his last annual report, suggested that Congress meet the nceds of govern- ment agencies hereafter “by definite appropriations, with the requirement that all recelpts acgruing to the United States from whatever source shall be ocovered into the Treasury for the general purposes of the gov- ernment.” Problems like these will engage the mind of Gen. Dawes when he gets deep into his job far more than the salaries of government clerks. Mil- lions of dollars are spent annually for river and harbor works and construc- tion projects in which constant ad- justment must be made between money authorized in one fiscal year, but for one reason or another is un- expended, and sums authorized the next year for the same general ob. ject without taking into account a surplus that may have been available from previous years. Government economy is as much a matter of good bookkeeping as watchfulness by Con- gress of expenditures. There is very little dishonesty in the whole busi- ness, as the records of the government detective agencies will show, but the money spent as a result of careless- ness and inefficiency is astonishingly large. Gen. Dawes may not be popu- lar with the rank and file of govern- ment officials when he gets through, but he has blanket authority from President Harding to go ahead, and the executive will support him un- flinchingly. (Copyright, 1921.) ALTERS REFUNDING BILL. Amendment in Senate Would Give Body Mpre Power. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts yes- terday introduced an amendment to the administration bill for the refunding of the foreign loans of this country, un- der which any agreement with a for- eign nation for such refunding nego- tiated by the President and the Secre- tary of the Treasury would have to be ratified by the Senate. Fear has been expressed in some quarters that German reparation bonds might be accepted by the United States in lieu of the obliga- tions of the nations to whiich this country loaned some $10,000,000,000. —_— ORDERED TO CARLISLE. Many Army Officers to Take Spe- cial Medical Instruetion. Many officers of the Army Medical Corps have been ordered to take & course of instruction at the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle. Pa., including Capts. James R. Hudnall and Frank McA. Moose, at the Sol- diers' Home, in this city; Capt. Rob- ert E. Thomas, at Forth Washington, Md.; Capt. James A. Orbison at the Army Medical School, this city; Capts. Clarence C. Harvey and Logan M. ‘Weaver and First Lieu Charles R. Mueller and John M. Tamraz, at Camp Meade, Md., and the following-named at the Walter Reed General Hospital, this city: Capts. Albert Bowen, John F. Edwards, Sam Hardeman, William C. Pollock, William D. McLelland, Montreville A. St. Peter, Willilam K. Turner and First Lieu Arthur D. Haverstock and Joseph A. Mendel- son. RICKARDS IS CONFIRMED. The nomination of George C. Rick- ards, a brigadier general of the Penn- sylvania National Guard, to be chief of the War Department militia bureau. with the rank of major general, was confirmed yesterday by the Senate. The appointment of Gen. Rickards was criticised by Senator Capper, repub- lican, Kansas, who said that Adjt Gen. Charles I. Martin of Kansas had been indorsed by governors of thirty- five states. —_— NEGRO, 72, T0O BE HANGED. MOBILE, Ala., June 29.—Unless Gov. Kilby intervenes and grants a re- prieve, Dick Davis. a seventy-two- year-old negro, will go to his dea! on the gallows next Friday morning. The sheriff has made all preparations to hang Davis, who is believed to be the oldest person in Alabama to be sentenced to death. He was convicted and sentenced to hang for the murder of a negress. He is quoted by the sheriff as saying he is ready to die. SPEECH BLOGKS ATERNTY BIL Consideration of Measure Again Before Senate on Motion of Mr. Kenyon. The so-called maternity bill was taken up in the Senate for consideration again today soon after that body met, on mo- tion of Senator Kenyon of Iowa. A speech by Serator King of Utah on the proposed sales tax interfered, how- ever, with consideration of the maternity bill. Kenyon Defends Measure. Calling up the maternity bill ves- terday, Senator Kenyon described it “the one piece of legislation the wom- en of America want.” He challenged statements of opponents that the bill would promote “birth control and tfree love “We have appropriated $25,000,000 for a gang of bandits down in Co- lombia. why shouldn’t we appropriate $1.000,000 to save the lives of this nation’s babies?" he asked. Senator Sheppard, democrat, Texas. one of the authors of the bill, de- clared that if this nation declined to take necessary steps to end the ap- palling waste of the lives of mothers and children in America, a destruc- tion exceeding every year our total casualties in the most stupendous and terrible war of history, it will invite severest censure. Senator Reed, democrat. Missouri. | ure up again. characterized it as opposing a motion to take the meas proposal to have the federal govern ment take charge of the country family life.” E —_— HOUSE STICKS TO CUTS IN NAVY APPROPRIATION Refuses to Withdraw Opposition to Senate Amendment Adding Pier and Rifle Range. The House refused today to recede in its opposition to a Senate amend- ment to the naval appropriation bill carrying $500.000 for a pier extension and $90.000 for a rifle range at the Puget sound, Washington, navy vard. The House cut from $1.000.000 to $500.000 an item added by the Senate for enlargement of the naval hospital at San Diego, Calif. House Approves Compromises. By a blanket vote the House approved compromises the conferees had author- ity to make in the naval appropriation bill, including the provision for an en- listed naval personnel of 106,000 men and a Marine Corps maximum of 21,000 men. Several hours were spent in discuss- ing the advisability of increasing the appropriation for aviation, the House voting finally $5,323.000 appropriations for new aircraft’ in lieu of 36,125,750 authorized by the Senate. The House devoted yesterday entirely to the conference report. but did not reach the Borah disarmament amend- ment, the last of thirty-three Senate additions to the measure, which, under House rules, must be voted on sepa- rately. ¥ In the hope that the Borah proposal might be disposed of today. agreement was reached to dispense with business on the Wednesday calendar and con- tinue discussion of the Navy budget. —_— ARMY CHAPLAIN, PAROLED, RECEIVES FULL PARDON Pranz J. Feinler, Sentenced to 15 Years in 1918, Wa$ Accused of Propaganda Work. Franz J. Feinler, a former Regular Army chaplain, who was dismissed from the service and sentenced to fifteen years in the federal peniten- tiary in 1918, on charges of uttering treasonable language. has been par- doned by President Harding on rccommendation of Secrctary Weeks The pardon was signed on May 18, it became known today, but Feinler had been at liberty on parole for nearly a year at that time. Feinler, who is a native of Germany, ontered the Army as a chaplain from South Dakota in 1909. He was sent overseas early in the war, but was re- turned because of alleged statements showing German sympathy, and was as. signed to the station at Honolulu. It was charged that he carried on there a propaganda favorable to the enemy, and his trial by court-martial fol- lowed. Some time ago it was recommended that kis sentence be reduced to four years, and Secretary Weeks recom- mended a pardon on the ground. it was said. that Feinler already had been punished sufficiently. VOLUNTEER AS TROOPS IN'W. VA, MINE FIELD WILLIAMSON, W. Va., June 29.—It will not be necessary to draft citizens of Mingo county for service !n the two military companies authorized in Gov. Morgan’s proclamation yesterday, ac- cording to the county authorities today. Already ninety-five men have enrolled as volunteers, and it was expected that the full quota of 130 men would be ob- tained before tonight, when a meeting to complete the organization will be held in_the courthouse here. L. E. Lawson and Alonzo Keadle have | seen _on the way The | accompanied by an been commissioned as captains. men will elect their lieutenants at to- night's meeting. MADE DEAN OF WOMEN. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 29.— Miss Adelaide Douglas Simpson of New York, a graduate of Bryn Mawr and Co- lumbia and a former dean of women at Hillsdale College, Mich.. has been elected dean of women of the University of Vir- ginia. She will assume her duties with the opening of the university in Sep- tember. ——— GEN. HARRIS TO SPEAK. Maj. Gen. Peter C. Harris, adjutant general of the Army, has gone to At- lanta, Ga., to deliver an address on “slackers,” and Brig. Gen. James T. Kerr, his chief assistant, GEN. PERSHING, WHO SUCCEEDS JULY 1, AND ¢ 'SWEDISH GRAND LODGE IN MT. VERNON TRIBUTE Members Place Wreath on Tomb and Hear Address—Open Six- Day Session Here. C. H. STANG Chalrman of local convention com- mittee. Delegates to the thirteenth bien- nial convention o fthe Grand Lodge of the “Vasa Oren af Amerik Swedish fraternal society, whici con- vened at the Burlinston Hotel yes- terday for a six-day session. made a pligrimage to Mount Vernon this afternoon and placed a wreath on the tomb of George Washington. Prayer services at the shrine were conducted by Rev. John Weidley, pastor of the Lutheran Church of Reformation. An address was_delivered by Represen- tative A. P. Nelson of Wisconsin. The delegates were entertained at a reception last night at the Burling- ton. Axel Wallenberg. minister from Sweden, was the guest of honor. A program of entertainment was given by Von B. Smith. Deward Bowersax, Lew Worth and Miss Ester Celander. Dancing followed the entertainment. SPLIT ON INQUIRY. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to Make Two Recommendations. | The Senate judiciary subcommittee which has been considering various suggestions for lobby split yesterday on its recommenda- tions. Senator Cummins, lowa. and Sterling, South Dakota, republicans, dectded against a general lobby in- vestization. but decided to recommend {to the whole committee an inquiry into the alleged dve lobby. Sénator Walsh, democrat, Montana. disagreed with this view and stated he would submit a renort recommending a ge: {erul investigation of all alleged lobby {activities, especially those asserted to {be connected with tariff and revenue legislation. GEN. SEMENOFF GONE. Anti-Red Leader, Barred From Leaving Steamer, Makes Escape. By the Associated Pres VLADIVOSTOK, June 28.—Gen. Semenoff, the anti-bolshevik lcader, who for some time has been on board the steamer Shodo Maru, from which he was not permitted to land, dis- appeared from the steamer Sunday night. Prior to his disappearance Sem- enoff's troops left in the direction of Grodekovo, about 100 miles north- west of Vladivostok on the railway, from which place, it is is anticipated, a separate government may be pro- i One regiment which was to Grodekovo was automobile hav. fng in it Russian and Japanese of- ficers. A number of Semenoff's followers here have been arrested. Negotia- tions between Semenoff and M. Merkuloff, head of the anti-bolshevik government in Vladivostok, have re- sulted in_ failure The government organs allege that Semenoff demand- ed $200,000 as a consideration for non-interference in the situatioa. —_— DOCTORS UPHOLD RIGHTS. Baltimore Critic Deplores “Lack of Common Sense” in Liquor Rules. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, June 29.—The attack which Dr. A. D. McConachie of this is in charge | city made on the Volstead prohibi- of the adjutant general's office at the| tion law at a hearing before the War Department. Payne Finds English Never Mention Idea Of War With the U.S. Cable to The Star and Chicago Dall o ;'I'I. Ofifl;fl;hl. 1921. ! LONDON, June 28.~*Trouble between England and the Unit- ed States? The English mever mention such a thing,” wsa John Barton Payne, recently Secretary of the Interfor, now in Londom after a month's pleasure tour of Scotland ar England for the purpose of learniag “how to improve my of golf.” “The English do not even think of the possibility of the ‘war’ about which uninformed people chatter so much. , They spend their leisure in thinking about sport. The ‘Anglo-Ameri- House committee this week has re- ceived the indorsement of the medical profession here. with few exceptions. Dr. McConachie pointed out that he had drawn_a prescription for an ear condition, but was told it could not be filled without the addition of bi- chloride of mercury or formaldehyde, both of which, he said, were poisonous and detrimental. Dr. McConachie said he had not reg- tered the fill alcoholic prescriptions. T am a legalized physician,” he added, “and it ought not to be necessary for me to have a special registered right to write a prescription. We know better than Dr. Volstead and his asso- ciates what our patients need. The trouble is that not only is there an entire lack of intelligent discrimin. tion in the enforcement of prohibition, put there is 'also a total absence of common sense, decency and honesty.” ASKS REPORT ON DEBT TO U. S. A resolution requesting the Secre- tary of the Treasury to report to Congress the amount of money due the United States by Great Britain and France and the prospects of its collection “in time to relieve the Amerioan taxpayers during the fiscal year,” was introduced in the House Representative Ryan, republican, 5 ll’iyew York. ARMY HEADS CONFER. HARBORD, HIS PRINCIPAL A investigation | GEN. MARCH AS CHIEF OF STAFF ISTANT. HARVEY IS CALLED BUCK PRIVATE OF DIPLOMACY Legion Speaker Attacks American Ambassador—Special Campaign Conducted by Organization. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va. June 29.—Dé- manding that the administration at that the American Legion would not tolerate such utterances as have late- 1y beon expressed by “that buck pri- vate of diplomacy,” George Harvey, and that unequivocal protest be made against settyng at liberty Eugene V. Debs, Dan S. Hollenga of Indianapo- lis made a red-hot speech here at the opening of the Virginia department's campaign for new members and a wider teaching of American history in the rural and city schools. State Commander Robert T. Barton of Winchester outlined the work that the state officials of the legion pro- pose to do throughout Virginia, with a view of putting new Jife into the organization and getting them in pace with the national movement. Others making ‘speeches included W. A. {Baker, commander of Robert Y. Con- rad Post. and A. W. Horton, who ac- companied Mr. Hollenga on the trip here. Similar meetings are to be held throughout the state on the follow- ing dates: Harrisonburg today. June 20; Staunton, tomorrow; Clifton Forge. July 1; Roanoke, July 4: Lynchburg. July 6; Culpeper, July 8: Fredericksburg. July 11; West Point, July 13; Petersburg, July 15; Farm- | ville. July 18: Portsmouth. July 2 Fort Monroe and Langley Field, July 22; Chatham, July 25; Big Stone Gap, {duly 27: Abingdon, July 29; Coving- ton. Julv 2; Lexington, Jul Char- lottesville, July Alexandria, July 9: Richmond. July 12: Williamsburg, July 14: Blackstone. July 16; Suffolk. ! Julv 19; Newnort News, July 21; Dan- iville, July 23;° Bristol, Tazewell, July 28. July 26, and | {INSISTS ON DISMISSALS | ON STATE QUOTA RULES |Senator Harrison Declares Depart- | men Heads: Fail to Observe Civil Service Apportionment. The failure of heads of the executive departments to give attention, in making dismissals of civil service em- Iloyes. to the quotas allowed fach state under the civil service law gwas assailed again in the Senate tod: Senator Harrison of Mississippi. erat. Senator Harrison said that he had calded up several heads of depart- ments on the telephone today and had been informed by them that they were not being guided by the appor- | tionment law in making dismissals. From this Senator Harrison said he judged that the matter had not been taken up with department heads by | President ~ Harding. although ~ the President had§l been requested by | members of the civil service commit- tee of the Senate to do so. Many of the states are below their quotas in the list of civil service em- iployes here, Senator Harrison contin- ued. He said he saw no reason why, if the efficiency of two employes was equal. the question ofestate quotas should not be a ruling factor in de- termining the discharge of one. SAYS NEWSPAPERS ARE KEEPING PEOPLE WELL Dr. Morrison Asserts Instruction Is Helping to Do Away With Doc- tors and Medicine. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., June 2 Newspapers were credited with keep- ing people well by Dr. Caldwell Mor- rison of Newark in an address to- day before the convention of the Al- lied Medical Association. “The daily newspaper,” he said, “keeps the people well instructed. The masses are growing wise. (They lare learning not to need the doctor inor his medicine. Soon the great surgeon, the distinguished specialist, the ‘doctor-druggist and the scientist will alone be left." He said the specialist was elbowing the “general practitioner in a way that was reducing their number and causing alarm. He predicted the time was coming when the general doctor would be placed on a salary basis. Proposed legislation in several states calling for compulsory health insurancé was condemned by Dr. Ig- natz Moyer of Detroit. URGE VOTE BAN PROBE. Fifty-two House republicans at a conference last night voted to favor an immediate and comprehensive in- vestigation into alleged disfranchise- ment. particularly of negroes in the south, with the view of reapportion- ing the.House on the basis of the findings. Two votes were cast against the proposal, which was submitted in the form of a resolution offered by Representative Tinkham of JMassa- chusetts. Before a_vote was reached Repre- sentative Mondell, the House leader, said, that only eighty out of the re- publican House membership of 298 were present, and suggested the lack of a quorum. Several thereupon left, but those who remained organised another conference and placed them- selves upon record in the matter. A committee was also appointed to seek consideration of the questions before a full republicn conference. —_— STUDENTS IN UNDERWEAR. RALEIGH, N. C., June 33.—Not to be daunted by temperatureg ranging from 90 to 100 degrees, the local Y. M. C. A. officers have adopted a scheme where- by the heat will no longer have any effect on the attendance at the regular Monday night meetings of the Bible class. ‘Wear only your underclothes to class,” is the solution to the comfort of the students. Last night twenty-five of the dormitory men appeared in the reg- ular classroom dressed only in their union suits. s ‘Washington be given to understand | VOCATIONAL BOAR 10 BE UNDER FIRE Disabled Veterans’ League Will Act on Charges at Convention Here. Charges involving the management of the Federal Board for Vocational Training and specific charges against certain individuals employed by the board are to be brought up for discus- sion and action at the convention of the National Disabled Soldiers' League at Central High School this afternoon. The charges, according to E. C. Copley of the New York delega- tion to the convention, were made by an employe of the federal board. A committee, of which Mr. Copley is chairman, was appointed by National Commander Gillen to investigate the charges, which will be read at the con- vention' this afternoon and will form part of the convention’s protest to Congress. The election of officers will take place this afternoon. John T. Nolan of Washington, it was learned. is scheduled to be elected national com- mander of the organization. succeed- ing George H. Gillen of New York. The election tod according to an agreement reached ‘after an all-night caucus at convention headquarters at the New Ebbitt, will install officers, who will serve for six months. Favor Half-Fare Travel. Resolutions favoring travel by rail- disabled men were enthusiastically adopted by the convention today. The convention adopted a resolution which would practically abolish section 3 of the rules of the Federal Board for Vo- cational Education by causing pay to be given to all disabied men in train- ing. The campaign of Senator Walsh in behalf of better care of disabled service men was indorsed. Charges and allegations against in- dividuals connected with hospitals under the Federal Board for Voca- tional Education and the bureau of war risk insurance were made on the floor of the convention today. None of the charges, however. with one ex- ception, was specific. and only one. in- volving a hospital in New Jersey, be- came part of the record of the con- vention. Senator Howard Sutherland of Wesl Virginia, in an address, today reiter- ated the promise of Senator Walsh, made vesterday. that the Senate is de- termined to get to the bottom of the neglect of disabled men and to pun- ish the officials responsible for such neglect. Complaints Almost Heartbreaking. “The complaints which we get from day to day are almost heartbreaking.” ! . testi- | Senator Sutherland said. ~ “The imony before our committee is enough {to make the heart sick and this testi- {mony only brings out typical condi- tions. Because there has been failure in_many instances, however. do believe the people do not appreciate the sacrifices of the men who went to France to preserve the world. The people are determined the fault shall ibe remedied and Congress is de- termined to investigate the matter | thoroughly Senator Sutherland said the com- mittee had had several examples of propaganda stimulated by hospital superintendents intended to white- wash their particular institutions. These places will be investigated as well as the rest.” he said. “Our obli- gation to the disabled men is a large one, involving large sums of money. yet it is no less binding.” Senator Sutherland predicted pas- sage of the adjusted compensation bill and was roundly cheered by the convention. Will March to Capitol. The constitution of the orzaniza- tion. under which it will conduct all business, was adop:ed today on pres- entation’ by Thomas Fields of New York. chairman of the committee on constitution. The constitution pro- vides that the orgaization shail be non-political, non-sectarian and shall be bound to uphold the Constitution of the Uited States and to further help for disabled men. This afternoon practically the en- tire delegation to the convention ren- resenting nearly all the states will march fros the Central High Schoot to the Capitol. whyre resolutions adopted by the convention_will be presented to Congress. Wounded men, many of them bearing visible marks of their participation in the world war, will march in the parade. The convention vesterday went on record as favoring appointment of disabled soldiers at the hcad of the three government agencies charged with the care of disabled soldiers. A resolution opposing enactment of any bonus legislation was adopted and another resolution that disabled serv- ice men be permitted to select their vocational training courses wag passed. Motion that the league cxtend its best wishes to rges Carpenticr. heavyweight boxing _champion of France. in his coming fight with Jack Dempsey, the Amerioan champion, was tabled after discussion, “as a matter of policy.” —_— NAVY HONORS BONAPARTE. Flags of Vessels and Shore Stations To Be Lowered. Flags of all naval vessels and shore stations were ordered to be flown at half-mast and half-staff tomorrow as a_mark of respect to Charles J Ronaparte, former Secretary of the Navy. who died vesterday at his Maryiand home. The order was broad- casted today by direction of Secre- tary Denby. SHIPS GOING TO PERU. The battleships Oklahoma and Arizona will represent the United States Navy at the centennial celebra- tion of the independence of Peru, be- ginning in July. Admiral Hugh Rod- man has been designated as the naval representative on the American com- mission to the celebration. PARIS FACES DROUGHT.. PARIS, June 29.—Owing to the pro- tracted drought Paris is menaced with a shortage of water, as the rivers Seine and Marne are barely supplying the 400.- 000 cubic meters of water necessary daily. The municipal council today de- cided to ask bids for plans to supply Paris with water from the Loire. Robbers Fail to Daunt Storekeeper, 91, But Escape With His Cash Speciai Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., June 20. —Two colored men entered the store_of Clifton Turner here late Saturday night and found | James Turner,ginety-one years old, in charge. ‘While one of them covered the old man with a revolver the other atarted to ransack the cash rexinter. “You fellers &0 get my gun,” said to have told and he suited the word by calmly walking to atairway which leads to the per floor of the Ruilding. “You stay right where you are or 1Il blow your brains out,” one of the robbers warned, but Mr. Turner continued his halting way up_the stairs. He returned with a revolver just an the two m with $65 in cash, hurried out and into an automobile. The Hyattsville police have a description of the thieves. ay here while I Turner ix road at half the regular fare rate for| not | Georgia Girl Selected Queen of the Carnival MISS ROSEBUD ALMOND, Who fs to be crowned queen of the carnival, to be given thix evening at the Dean estate for benefit of the | ussintant secretary of the Navy. LOSES RACE WITH DEATH. Ship Speeds to Port, But Master Dies Before She Docks. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., June 29. Capt. John Rattrev of Mobile, Ala. master of the Dominican steamship Sa- Fua, lost a race with death Monday night, dying a5 the ship was nearing American shores. Death resulted from natural causcs. Capt. Rattrey had been since leaving Cuba and the ship was <ing for this port at full speed. The vard liner Mexico was overhauled and aced her physician aboard the Sagua, but the doctor gave up the fight as hopel r an hour. FRANCE LANDS IN RIGA. Senater Expects to Proceed to Mos- cow Tomorrow. o Press. une 29 —Scnator Joseph I ce of Maryiand, who is on the to soviet Russia to investigate e possibility of trade relations be- tween Russia and t United States, cd here toda. Unless complica he does not expect hopes to leave F morrow | { | m: i i | arise, which Senator France g4 for Moscow to. His permit to stay in Rus- couriers luxurious salon and sleeping cars are operated direct from Riga to Moscow and privilezes for thy generally are extended to Fuests. isia, recently granted him, is under- |stood to extend to July 23 For the |Denefit of sovict diplomats and 1 use important —_— BISHOP IS CONSECRATED. {Host of Dignitaries of Catnolic Church at Pittsburgh Service. PITTSBURGH. Pa., June 29 —In th presence of a host of church dignie taries. including his eminence, Den- is Cardinal Dougherty of Philadel- a. the Rt. Rev. Hugh C. Boyle was ‘ndm,\;‘ consecrated Listop of the Pitts- “ireh Diocese of the Roman Cathol.e e T he Roman Catholic The services took place in St. Paul" Cathedral. the, ceremonies mclud}:n‘:: solemn high mass, the vesting of the bishop with the robes of his office. and benediction, conducted by Bishop i i | | { | i s of the church | and well known laymen were present. | HELD IN ANARCHY CASE. - ’ Circular Distributor Accused of Exhorting Negroes to Violence. NEW YORK, June 29.—Morris Sor- !ner. a clothing cutier. was arrested vesterday on charges of distributing circulars exhorting negroes to mob violence. The circulars, which were signed “Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America,” charged that business men of Tulsa provoked and participated in the re- cent race riots there. Sorner told the police he had been CONGRESS RUSHING PEACE RESOLUTION Compromise Measure Ex- pected to Be Sent to Presi- dent During Present Week. Establishment of peace by congres- sional resolution neared its final Stage yesterday, when Senate and House republican conferees agreed upon a compromise resolution which they hope to have in President Hard- ing's hands late this waek. The compromise embodies the House plan of declaring the state of war with Germany and Austria at an end and adds the Senate provi- sions reserving American property and other rights Democrats Oppose Plan. The democratic conferees, Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska and Repre- sentative Flood of Virginia, called in for the final compromise’ after the republicans had previous® arranged their compromise resolution. refused to sign the report, and said that w other mocratic colleagues the would oppose the republican plan to the end. Overwhelming republican majorities in both Senate and House, however, were saiq to leave no doubt of adoption of the conference draft. The conference report was presen ed to both bhodies late yesterday. Democratic leaders on both sides said that the final discussion would not be protracted and the republicans kaid they hoped to have the peace measure sent to the White House by Friday. in expectation of ils signa- ture by the President before the Fourth of July G. 0. P. Leaders Pleased. Satigfaction over the compromise was cxpressed by both Senate and House republican leaders. Chairman Porter of the House foreign affairs committee was pleased that hig plan for declaring the war at an end had been accepted instead of the Knox resolution repealing the war dec- larations. Senator Knox, however, gave out a statement deciaring Ahat both plans accomplished the same result. EXPERT SAYS GITY FACES FIRE PERILS Representative O’Brien Will Ask Congress to Enact Re- medial Measures. Washington lacks adequate fire pro- !tection in the opinion of Repre- lseptative Frank K. O'Brien of New | Jersey. an expert on this subject, who proposes to introduce a resolution calling for a thorough investigation and remedial legislation Representative O'Brien left Wash- ington today for his home in Jersey City. where he has been director of public safety. having been called in as an authority to see if proper fire protection has been provided in the Lig stadium for the Dempsey-Carpen- tier fight. Inadequate Department. Representative O'Brien has had ex- tensive expericnce in municipal af- fairs in charge of police department, scheols, fire department, public build- ings program, etc For wceks he has been making a personal investiga- tion in Washington. particularly in hotels and government buildings. He said today that his-opinion is that Vashington is woefully lacking in fire protection. and that the present fire department is entirely inadequate to meet a big fire. Next week Representative O'Brien intends to confer with the District Commissioners regarding & campalign to_remedy this situation. He pointed out today that Wash- ington has un unusually large number } of hotels. and that these are patron- ized for the most part by transients, who are apt to be carcless in flicking away a cigarette or cigar butt or iighted match. First Step in Campaign. With so many costly buiidings in st beautiful city in_the world, ntative O'Brien believes that criminal” that better fire pro- tection is not afforded. He said today that pushing this bill will be his first step in & campaign for progressive municipal legislation through the House District committee, of which be 15 4 member cmployed by persons unknown to him to distribute the pamphlets and declared he did not know the na- ture of their contents or realize that it was offensive. He was held under the criminal anarchy statute. INDORSES LEGION PLEAS. Farm Bureau Federation Acts on Program of Legislation. Chlcago. 1il., June 29.—The Ameri- can Farm Bureau Federation an- nounced today that it has indorced the program of legislation asked by the American Legion of Congress. The legislation indorsed follows: Legislation consolidating the three ex-service burecaus. Appropriations for a hospital building program. Legislation decentralizing the bu- reau of wur risk insurance. Legislation to extend further the benefits of vocational training, and providing vocational training with pay for all disabled men with %isahil- itles of 10 per cent or more traceable to the service. Legislation providing privilege of retirement with pay for disabled emergency officers of the war. —_— ASKS “BANK OF NATIONS.” International Institution in New York Proposed in Senate. permanent Establishment in New York of an international banking institution to be known as “The Bank of Nations,” with two billion dollars capital, to act as the fiscal agent of the United States and such other governments as might be admitted as stockholders, was proposed in a bill introduced to- day by Senator Hitchcock, democrat, Nebraska. Subscription by the Treasury De- partment to enough stock to control the bank was proposed in the bill, with nine hundred million dollars subject to sale to “solvent govern- ments” admitted to participation u der treaties or trade agreements ne- gotiated by the President. “The resources and facilities of the Bank of Nations shall be used to pro- mote international commerce, to sta- bilize international credit and to sta- bilize international exchange,” the bill provides. ¥ The bank would have power to lend money, deal in securities and issue notes and currency with a 33 per cent eserve. The bill was referred without dis- cussion to the-Senate banking com- mittee. —_— The various currents in the North sea are now being tracked by means of sealed botties. BELIEVE STILLMAN IS ON'STAND TODAY Banker Reported to Have Slipped Into Court Early This Morning. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y.. June 29.— James A. Stillman, New York banker, was reported to have gone on the witness stand this afternoon for cross- examination in the divorce suit which he instituted against Mrs. Anne U. Stillman. The banker was said to have been taken into the building where Referee Gleason is holding hearings early this morning before a corps of reporters and camera men posted themselves on the sidewalk. It was planned to have him remain inside until after night- fall. in order to evade photographers, the newspapermen were informed. An account of telephonic cavesdrop- ping on a conversation between Mrs. Anne U. Stiliman and Fred Beauvais was spread upon the record of the Stillman divorce case today. kEd- ward J. Lawler. landscape gardner at James A. Stillman’s estate in the Pocantico Hills, was understood to have related what he heard at dusk one evening, when Beauvais. in his room on the estate. tjlked over the long-distance telephone to Mrs. Still- man in New York. The witness, it was said, held the recqiver of another cut-in_line to his ear. His testimony, it was said, told of Mrs. Stillman saying to the Indian guide, who is named as co-respondent in her husband's divorce action, that she was tired and fagged from a da. of shopping and expected to retire immediately. “Open the window and imagine that I am hugging you"” Beauvais then said, according to an account of the gardener’'s testimony. DRIVE ON TAX EVADERS. Blair Announces Campaign Under Anti-Narcotic Laws. Internai Revenue Commissioner Blair today announced a new drive on tax delinquents, directed at vio- lators of the tax nrggisions of the anti- narcotic laws. Ta: f this sort are due July 1, and the commissioner said be had instructed his field agents to use as much vigilance against such evaders as has been cumployed against } other tax dodgera.