Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1921, Page 1

Partly cloudy tonigh fair and warmer. | ~) 2:30 p.m. yesterday; lowe: WEATHER. Temperature for twenty-four hours nded at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 90, at a.m. today. Full report on page 4. it; tomorrow st, 71, at 5:30 Closing New York Stocks, Page 21. ‘Entered as sec No. 28,192. FOCHT TAKES D.C. . NEEDSIN CONGRESS _ TOTHE PRESIDEN Finds Mr. Harding in Sym- | pathy With Policy of De- velopment for Capital. ‘SCRAPPING’ ON QUESTIONS . BEFORE CITY DEPLORED Committee Chairman Believes School and Traction Issues Are First to Be Solved. President Harding was acquainted today by Representative Focht, chair- man of the House District committee, with the general legislative situation regarding the needs of the District. To newspaper men Mr. Focht stated, after the conference, that he had found the President very much in sympathy with his own policy for the development of Washington on a scaloe commensurate with its dignity ms_the nation’s capital. Mr. Focht saiq that the President did not go into the details of the improvements which he considers IWashington to be most in need of at present, but indicated in no uncer- tain terms that he favors a compre- hensive and vigorous development olicy. POMr Focht told the President that one of the difficulties encountered by the congressional committees that ook after District affairs is the di- Yergence of opinion -developed at committee hearings between citizens and civic organizations. ~He sald there had been entirely too much *scrapping” before Congress on local questions, particularly in the street rallway cOntroversy. Deplores Lack ot Unity. ; r. Focht characterized as deplor- l\bll‘e the fact that District citizens more frequently do mot iron out thelr differences of opinion and approach Congress with a solid front, when petitioning for needed District im- v ta. PN e Housé District committee chair- man sald that street railway legisla- tion and provision for adequate school development are the two outstanding District needs which his committee will give first consideration to, and that it is hoped both questions will be brought to a point of satisfactory solution_before the present session ends. He praised the efforts of Superintendent of Schools Ballou, stating that this official has an intel- ligent grasp of the school problem and is moving vigorously and wisely to bring about a satisfactory.solution of it. v ™ No Action Tememrow. —— According to Hepresentative Focht there will be no #&ction tomorrow by the House District committee on the street rallway question. Several mem- bers of the commit wired the chair- man today to delay a decision until their return to the city. It is expected that the committee will report out a bill at its first_meeting next week. While at the White House Mr. Focht indorsed J. Newton Baker, a Washing- ton lawyer, for ome of the vacancies on the Municipal Court bench. Mr. aker formerly lived in Lewisburg, 'a., the home ‘of the House District committee chairman. He has been in- dorsed also by Senator Penrose, Dr. David Jayne Hill, former ambassador 2o Germany, and others, it was stated. COMMITTEE IN SESSION. Benator Capper Expects Action on School Appointment Plan. The Senate District committee was called into session at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Busines on the calendar in the committee Included action on | the nomination .of Henry Lincoln Johnson of Georgia to be recorder of deeds for the District. Senator Capper of Kansas planned 1o obtain action by the committee on 1he bill to transfer from the justices of the District of Columbla Supreme Court to the President the power of appointing members of the board of education. Senator Ball, chairman of the com- mittee, made an effort to call up in the Senate vesterday afternoon his bill extending the life of the Ball fent act until May, 22, 1922. but was blocked when Senator Underwood of Alabama demanded the regular order, which was the maternity bill. FISH DIE BY POLLUTION. Recent Freshets Produce Slaughter . Below Staunton. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va. July 6.—Sports- men who have had cccasion to visit Middle river, from Verona to Port Republic, since the recent freshet: report a slaughter of fish, attributed to pollution of water from Staunton. ‘This occurs periodically, residents of ‘this section of Middle river.say, and thousands of fish are killed by pol- Junc- lution of the river below its tion with Lewls creek, which carries sowage from taunton, every year. Maj. C. S. Roller made a canoe trip down the river last week following the heavy rains and says that one evening he saw as many as 500 dead fish on the river banks, left there when the water receded. Buzzards were busy on the'feast, he says. All of these fish were seen below Lewis creek, and country people told Ma; Roller that every year they wit. nessed a slaughter of fish, eels, tur- tles and frogs below the creek, carp ne seeming to be fmmune. ets, apparently, and the theory here 1e that deposits from Staunton plants @long the creek bank are washed loose and carried downstream, PERU TO REBUILD PALACE. Received by Government. LIMA, Peru, July -Reconstruc- tion of the northwest wing of the government house, which was de- Ktoyed by fire on Sunday, has been decided upon by the Peruvian cabi- Det, and 200 men began work yes- gerday in clearing away the debris. Various labor organizations have Badopted resolutions protesting against the “criminal attack against the pal- ace,” the view that the fire was of i;uizfldllr! origin being generally eld. Investigations by the authoritles would appear to Indicate that all fires in the building had been extin- finhbed before President Leguia and is assistants left the palace on Sun- ond-class matter post office Washington, D. C. FIRST WEIGHT LAW CASE. Fruit Dealer Charged With Selling 12 Peaches for 14. The first prosecution under the new weight and measure law was made today, when Inspector W. C. Diller charged the employe of a stand on Loulsiana avenue with sell- ing short count of peaches. It is al- leged by the inspector that the ac- cused sold twelve peaches for four- teen. The inspector sald the man did not answer when his name was called in court and $5 collateral was for- feited. Under the new law peaches and similar fruit must be sold by welght or numerical count. Under the old law peaches were sold in baskets of vary- ing sizes. —_— DAWES' ORDER CUT SUPPLY EXPENSES Government Must Use Stand- ard Office Furniture, Says Drastic Ruling. Whims of government officials and employes for particular kinds of fur- niture, equipment and office supplies no longer will be catered to. Director Dawes of the bureau of the budget today came out of his “submerged” state just long enough to fire a dras- tic —order which struck a blow in every government department and independent bureau, which prohibits any one from calling for a particular style of furniture, and requiring them to use only avallable surplus turniture and equipment. i The order, issued by direction of the | President, calls on every department head and bureau chlef to make dnn immedigte survey of his office to de- termine the amount of material, sup- plies and equipment not now e~ clently used. If efficient use cannot be found for it in the department or bureau where it now rests, it must Dbe turned in immediately to the gen- eral supply committee for the use of other departments. To Eliminate Waste, Gen. Dawes' order saystfat all unnecessary purchases must be elim- inated immediately. A thorough investigation must be made in every office also of all files with a view to putting into active service or releasing to the general supply cominittee for reissue filing equipment which is not absolutely essential to the conduct of business. The order also says that active records should be consolidated and inactive records removed to less ex- pensive transfer or storage ca Contraet Articles. “In providing furniture and equip- ment for offices,” the order says further, “only standard contract ar- ticles may be purchased in such cases as the property, now in the possession of the government, is not obtainable by transfer. “Responsible officlals must make every effort to utilize such types and styles of equipment as are availabl from surplus stocks, rather than fin- sist upon & particular style not so available. Where no typewriters are available for reissue or transfer within the department, used type- writers in possession of the general supply committee of the Treasury Dopartment must be utilized irre- spective of make.” PLAN $3,000,000 HOTEL ON OLD HAMILTON SITE 300-Room Structure Overlooking ‘ Franklin Park to Be Begun at Once by Corporation. Erection of a three-million-dollar hotel on the site of the old Hamilton Hotel, northeast corner of 14th and K | streets northwest, will be begun at | once bv the Hamilton Hotel Corpora- tion, composed of substantial New York and local hotel Interests, it was learned today. The F. H. Smith Com- pany of this city has underwritten a jfirst mortgage of $1,200,000 for the | profect. 2 The new hostelry will contain 300 rooms and 310 baths, and will be of the latest fireproof construction, it is understood. Detailed plans of the new project were not ascertainable today, but it is said the hostelry will be one of the largest in the downtown sec- tion. Work of demolishing the old Ham- ilton Hotel, which has stood on its site overlooking Franklin Park for more than fifty years, already has been started. Construction of the new building will be begun as soon as the old structure is razed. The Hamilton property recently was acquired by Felix Lake, local in- | #estor, and at the time it was a nounced that a large office building would_be erected _on the site. Mr. Lake, however, disposed«of the pro erty to the Hamilton Hotel Corpor: tion. | | TO ARCTICS IN SCHOONER. Donald B. MacMillan Will Leave ‘Wiscasset, Me.,- July 16. BOSTON, July 6.—Donald B. MacMil- ian will make his start for the arctic regions in the small schooner Bowdoin July 16 from Wiscasset, Me., he an- nounced today. Gov. Baxter of Maine and_other stal party godspeed.’ The _addition of Ralph Roblnson of al Haverhill as the seventh member of the | 8iders herself at peace. Pollution is strongest after fresh- |exploring party also was announced. | Were true there would b He forme Academy, a5 general assistant to the explorer. ry was a student at Worcester under MacMilla: Assistant Secretary of the Navy Rooseveit was appealed to today by John B. Simering, a veteran employe of the Washington navy yard, to make an effort to precipde a further reduction in the mechan- ical and clerical forces at the big plant. Clad only in his working clothes and coatless, Mr. Simer- ing entered the assistant secre- tary’s office and conferred with Mr. Roosevelt for about half an hour. Mr. Roosevelt, it was said at the Navy Department, informed Mr. “Bay afternoon, and reports that ex- .plosions were heard in the bulild! ortly before the fire was discov: ~ red | Simering that the proposed cut in the forces at the navy yard would have to be carried out, because ot the small appropr! graated — M Htavor officials’ will bid the | Other thing to n. He will act ¢ —_—— W e Column ey VETERAN, IN WORKING TOGS, SEEKS [Evidence of Explosions Before Fire ROOSE VELT To SA VE JOBS OF 600 he ‘WASHINGTON, L.SWILLYETRATIY VERSALLES PACTF “HUGHES S W How Can U. S. Keep Rights Under a Treaty Discarded Is a Question. PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO BACK ‘LEGAL ADVISER’ Senate Irreconcilables Believed in a Tight Place and Must Eventually Agree. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Has the “irreconcilable” glement in the United States Senate unwittingly |played a joke on itself> This group OPposes the Versailles treaty and would prefer not to have it submit- ed, even with reservations, but Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State and lawyer extraordinary, has 8rasped one sentence in the Knox- Porter peace resolution, which has just been signed by President Hard- ing, and that one sentence is the key to the whole situation. It is that sec- tion of the peace resolution which announces that while the United States declgres a state of peace with Germany, the Washington govern- ment does not vield any of the rights | obtained either by ng the armis- | tice or through the Versailles treaty The resolution of Congress specifical- 1y_mentions the Versailles pact. Now. asks Mr. Hughes, in effect, how | can the government here conserve ! American rights under the Versailles treaty by officially discarding that| document. Mr. Hughes doesn’t intend | to throw it aside. He intends to use | it. He regards the resolution of Con-' BTess as imposing a duty on the ex- ecutive branch of our government to |safeguard all American rights under | |the Versailles treaty. Feeling that {way, he will recommend ratification of that treaty with reservations. President Harding will have the final say as to what-shall be done and he ! is besought by members of the Senate | to forget the Versailles treaty and make a new pact with Germany call- ing it not a treaty of peace, treaty of “amity and commerce Loses No Time, But Secretary Hughes has gone at his job with the same energy as he used to give to the preparation of a | case before the Supreme Court of the United States. Ever since Congress passed the peace resolution Mr. | u“;na has been concentrating on his par¥ of the task. Congress having acted, he feels it is up to the executive to move next. Mr. Hughes has lost no- time. He has been in constant gon- ference with 3 ing for gtfii days, and while he refuses publicly "I‘:o t‘llltu&u 1{':"&”': uafl;ere is no doubt al e kind of advice he is givi Mr. Harding. R Secretary Hughes gives the impres- sion of a big lawyer advising his most aluable client. © He will tell the United States government what ghould | be done to safeguard rights growing | out of the European war. ' He will recommend certain things as a la anda Jurist, S t will be up to Mr. Harding as President and custodian of American foreign policy to say whether he will follow law or domestic politics. It is true the irreconcilable element is making considerable noise, but the ir- reconcilables are not as strong as they were when the Wilson administration was In power and the &ntire republi- can party was conducting a general attack. Now it becomes a party mat- er. Could Swing Senate. One of the irreconcilables himselt privately admits that If Mr. Harding and Mr. Hughes get together on & program and announce it there will be considerable support for the same even from the irreconcilable group.| He predicted that if Mr. Harding made the treaty a party matter probably | L: only a half dozen votes w. against it. h Certainly the democrats would sup- port the Versailles treaty, even thouxph | they will make a determined but prob- ably vain effort to retain the clauses referring to the league of nations. ore than two-thirds of the Senate the ratification of the Ver- sallles treaty with reservations. Pre- vious votes show that and present sentiment confirms it. urthermore, Mr. Hughes will prob. ably advise his client that unless ne Versailles treaty is used as a basis, just as President Harding said in his first message to Congress that he be- lieved it would be the wiser course to follow, the entire foreign policy of the United States will be in a tangle. Certainly one big fact has already leaked out of the Department of State, It is that there is mo present inte: tioh of renewing diplomatic relations with Germany until a treaty 1s signed between Germany and the United States. The Knox-Porter resolution is really a one-sided affair. It proclaims a state of peace 50 far as statutes of the United States are concerned. It doesn't bind Germany, and Mr. Hughes is going slow about giving Germany thé ad- vantages of ~peace-time relationship with the United States until Germany signs on the dotted lines a treaty dis. posing of the many claims which the United States holds directly and indls rectly against her. Delay Is Significant. Even the proclamation of a s peace, which usually makes neace':::e:f tle:éaed Jfact, atter p2gireaty has been sl and raf l, 8 not by the White House: beemiiaeued The delay is significant. thing to have a congression; tion declare a state of peace, ould be cast It is one lllnzolu- . It is an- put forth a tion notifying the world, n‘r'z;“mn‘ Germany, that the United States con- If the latter e no need of and the law- themselves ', Column 4., a treaty of peace at all, yers are expressing (Continued on by Congress. It wa; Mr. Roosevelt indicat, was averse to lay ployes. stated that ed that he ing oft the em- he forces at the d“!"eld Jug 1 It 0 12y of 430 of the employes, but it b::: learned at the Davy yard today a larger number would have to be cu pEovably pay rolls before Au; total number to be 1 said, probably would The reduction in the forces is being made despite the fact that there is a_large amount of work pending. It was pointed ot that an dt:lt.lon lof one-third ‘:f the present employes, or an increase of about 1,500, is needed to carry .-on._the work, 7 tion in t| d off, 1t wa: reach 6.00. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening D. C, WEDNESDAY, . MARKING HISTORIC SPOTS IS REVIVED Committee to Have Charge Is Announced by Commis- sioner Rudolph. The placing of permanent markers on all historio spots in the National Capital, & task interrupted by the world war, has been revived by the new board of Commissioners. Commissioner Rudolph today nounced the appointment of a com- mittee to carry on this work. H also let it be known that the Com- missnoners, in framing their estl- mates for next year, will consider ask- ing for an appropriation to continue the erection of the markers. The first meeting of the newly appointed committee will be hell In the board room of the District Build- ing at 10:30 ‘on July 1 .. Willlam V. Cox was made chairman of the new committee, with the fol- lowing associates: _Frederick D. Owen. John McElroy, W. P. Van Wic- kle, judge Job Barnard, Dr. Marcus Benjamin, Judge Charles S. Bundy, Frederick C. Bryan, Henry L. Bryan, W. B. Bryan, Allen C. Clark, Walter C. Clephane,” C. C. Calhoun, Samuel W. Curriden, Willlam S. Parks, John C. Epkloff, Selden M. Ely, Frederick L. Fishback, Dr. Edwin A. Hill, Wil- liam M. Hannay, James F. Hood, Dr. Gaillard Hunt, Joseph L. Keefer, Maj. Charles D. A. Loeffler, former Com- missioner Henry B. F. Macfarland, Edward B. McLean, C. C. Magruder, John B. McCarthy, Hugh Morrison, Theodore W. Noyes. Osborn H. Old- royd, John Clagett Proctor, Albion K. Parris, A. S. Perham, John S. Ran- dolph, Charles W. Ray, A. E. Riddle, Henry W. Samson, J. Harry Shannor G. A. Lyon, Albert D. Spangler, Ed- win K, Staley and Newton A. Strait. Dr. William Tindall, Washington Top- ham, Henry Ambler Vale, Dr. W. D. Wirt, Elliot Woods, Francis J. Young, Charles E. Kern, Clarence Corson, Her- bert L. Davis, W. A. H. Church, Mrs. Kate Scott Brooks, Gen. George Rich- ards, Howard S. Fisk, Capt. Lee W. Wright, Capt. T. S. Cox, Rev. Morton, Appleton_P. Clark, ir.; Frank G. Car- penter, P. Lee Philiips, F. P. Reeside, . C. Luxford, John 'B. Larner, Dr. Charles Moore, F. L. Averill, Fred Mc- Kee, Samuel Herrick, George W. Evans, A. G. Bishop, Mrs. L. D. Carman, Miss Maud B. Morris, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Miss Eliza R. Skidmore, Mrs. Louls A. Abbott, Mrs. Jullan James, Mrs. James Carrol Frazer, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Mrs. Charles W. Richard- son, Mrs. 1. W. Bail, Mrs. Logan Tucker, rs. H. D. Frye, Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, Mrs. Voliand, Mrs. Henry F. Dimock and Miss Natalle S. Lincoln. CHOLERA IN RUSSIA. Six Thousand Cases Reported, Prin- ‘cipally in Cities. STOCKHOLM. July 5.—Asiatic chol- era 18 spreading rapidly in the whole of Eurapean Russia, according to the public health recorder. There were eported up to June 25. O e more subject to the in- fection than rural districts; recently Petrograd_and Moscow have become infected, the disease spreading quick- ly and being propagated by the un- usually hot weather, and refugees who have fled from the famine dis- tricts. According to the Rosta News Agency, in Moscow, all the imperial castles and country houses of the nobility in the Crimea will be con- verted into hospital Today’s News in Paragraphs dopt military measures to Ales e vance. of Turkish national- ists. Page 1 Committee named to revive m: iy rted in House; dis bill_reported .in ; dis- N aion to begin at once. @ P British and Irish leaders hold extremely important conference in London. ¥ against Page an- arking of Page 1 . Revenue agents start drive evaders of tax laws. Attack on train brings out troops in Georgla. Page Summer schools here may reach rollment of 4,000. R o f Upper les] Yy T B ond “Poles_attended by disor- ders ascribed to ‘“hootch. Page 13 School authorities considering new ‘building for Business High and trans- fer of present quarters to Tech. 4 H. Moyer, soon to take charge it 13 . an; Ml-'lsch vo:tli sta- be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sohy enlet Glerk announces. Page 13 Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association asks co-operation of other civic bodies in aid of D. C. playgrounds. ul:m 3 sident takes up next step peace l>“\I”lfl.‘:um' m by constit: uunnu lavia hampered co uf T avastic doubts. Page 1 ot D. C. penal institutions, pays to city. P. O. Jockey lhw. neck brohn. ‘x; Zlof this 1]|and San 2 Page 2 Page vis Page 1 4 JULY 6, 1921—-TWEN \ W, FAVOR DISTRICT HEADS NAMING SCHOOL BOARD The Senate District committee todny ordered a favorable report on a bill transterring the power of appointment of the members of the board of education from the justices of the Distriet Su- preme Court to the District Com- oners. LANCATAXDRVE o * |“Flying Squadron” to Comb City for Willful Evaders of Revenue Laws. Government coffers are expected to be enriched by thousands of dollars from taxes and fines assessed against delin- quent taxpayers in this city as a result of a campalign started here today by a corps of internal revenue agents, who are invading jewelry stores, soft drink em- poriums, theater and Insurance offices. Thirteen deputy collectors started out early today from the local internal reve- nue office, at 1422 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, and are working under the direction of H. H. Fridley, deputy in- '(emlr revenue collector for this district. Two other deputy collectors were detached and sent to the headquarters aistrict in Baltimore, where | they are receiving special instructions i from the collector. They will form a fiying squadron to follow up the checking up the receipts in the vari- | ous stores. { Wil Look Over Books. ! 7These collectors will go over the books of every store which sells a taxable article, and ascertain whether the proprietor has complied with the tax laws. Every proprietor, no mat- ter how small a store he maintains, i8 required to keep books showing his sales of taxable articies, and failure to have such books ready for the col- lector is punishable by a fine of not ceeding $1,000. exgeeding fey vaid today that he ex- pected that much additional money will be brought into the Treasury as a result of the campaign, and that store proprietors will learn that they must keep a close watch for the gov- ernment on their tax money, or suffer the penalties. The movement is partly educational, it was explained, as the collectors will instruct shopkeepers in the methods that must be followed to comply with the law., Many proprietors, it was pointed out, are selling articles which they believe are not taxable. The collectors will give them correct ad- vice on this, . Want Evaders Punished. It was made plain at the Treasury Department and at the office of the local collector that where the collec- tors find wilful intent to evade the tax or refusal to keep books the govern. ment will insist on the maximum pun- ishment by a fine of not more than $10,000, or five years' imprisonment, or both, together with an added as- sessment of 50 per cent of the amount of the tax. It was estimated today that it will take approximately two months to Wwhere taxable products are sold. The Treasury Department officials said that the time to fle amended returns is before and not after the govern- ment_investigators have visited the stores. Taxpayers who, prior to in- quiry by revenue officers, file amended returns accompanied by evidence to| show the delinquency was due to no wrongful intent will be given every consideration, it was said. Drive in Fifteen Citfes. The “drive” is being made simul- taneously in fifteen cities of the coun- try, including Boston, N.w York city, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Atlanta, New Orleans, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louls, Dailas, Denver Francisco. Before the fevenue men complete 1ltheir work they will' have visited every important city in the United States. Reports of the progress of the local drive will be made to Deputy Collector Fridley, and by him senf to the commissioner of internal revenue. Merchants are required under the law to submit monthly returns of the taxes which the investigators are now looking into. KNIFE PLUNGED IN HEART. WAUKESHA, Wis,, July 6.—Arthur Taubert of Milwaukee was found to- day by a party of fishermen in an oarless rowboat floating on Pewau- kee lake, with a knife in his heart. Taubert was last seen Monday night in the company of a young woman, according to his brother and several Milwaukee friends, who had been spending the week end with him at the lake. None of the party knew e knice was the only clue of. The - had®o the supposed murder. [ MERCHANTS work of the force which is out today! cover all of the stores in the district | 211 Sta TY-EIGHT PAGES. Member of the Associated Pres The Associated Press 1s exciusively enttcled to the use for republication of all news dispatches “eredited to 1t or not othefw'se credited In fhis paper and also the local mews published berels. Dublication of special erein are also reserved. * Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 89,669 TWO - CENTS. —— et INEW TARIFF BIL REPORTED IN HOUSE Republicans to Confer at Once on Best Ways of Handling Measure. ! A tariff law which would “become the | Magna Charta for the perpetuation of | our American standards of living and be, the constitution of a uniform and uni-! versal prosperity” was the goal which | the republicans of the House wavs and | 1 means committee set for themselves in {drafting the administration’s permanent tariff bill, says a report filed with the House today by Chairgan Fordney. With the report the bill was formally present- ed in the same form it was introduced last week. f The report was unsigned, but Mr. Fordney said he understood all repub- lican members of the committee, except Repesentative Frear of Wisconsin, were ready to affix their names to it. Mr. Frear made public last night a minority statement, attacking the dye control and other provisions. Plan Misority Report. Democratic members of the com- | mittee will meet late today to drdft a minority report, which' probably will be presented tomorrow. Republican leaders will seek at a conference of all republican members tonight to reach an agreement as to procedure and methods of handling the bill in the House, The report as presented by Chair- men Fordney sald tife committee mem- bers in drafting tho bill were gov- erned by a desire to encourage Ameri- can industry without, at the same time, saddling upon the American consumer any unnecessary burden. Discussing protection against an- ticipated inroads of German com- petitors, the report stid the Germans had open to them only the American markets into which they could go with methods “as ruthless and as de- structive” as ever had been known in commerce. Discussion to Begin Tomorrow. ‘When Chairman Fordney offered the report, Representative Garrett of Tennessee, acting democratic leader, | objected to its insertion on calendar [Wednesday under the House rules, but | Speaker Glllett permitted the report |to be filed. Formal consideration of the bill will begin tomorrow under present plans of republican leaders. “Your committee is of the opinion. the report sald, “that no tariff dute: no matter how high, can meet the co ditions that would arise when Gen- many again is in a position to force her dyes and dyestuffs on American markets. Utterly unscrupulous as th !great German dye syndicate was fore the war when its supremacy was uncontested, ® * ® it now will at- tack all competitors with r regard of business decenc; Valuati Poliey Vital Adoption of the policy of American valuation—basing the duties on the value of commodities in American rather than foreign markets—was ‘deemed vital, the report sald, in order to eliminate “the long established practice of fraudulent undervaluation” and for the further reason that no other method of estabiishing a_stable basis for duties was found. It was argued that regardless of fluctuations in- the foreign market values or in currency, the new policy would mean an equalization of assessment so that imports would enter American markets on even terms. Taking up the varlous schedule: the report said that the duty on cloth- ing wool had been fixed at 25 cents a pound on a scoured content basi I plan advocated by wool growers for | years, and addea: “The compensatory duty on manu- facturers of wool has been kept down by the committee to the lowest point i,:;llu‘lol‘:tnt ‘Wwith the principles of pro- Guards Right of Farmers. The_agricultural products schedule was_described as “an _all-American tariff on a normal basis.” “In the rehabilitation of our fmdus- the report said, “the product * Ctmtinond on Page 7 CoR T PAPER LOST FOR FI | | i I | { d 1 less dis- NEW . YORK, July 6—A scrap of paper that for five generations has reposed between the covers of a faded copy of Spencer's Faerle Queene may mean wealth and lux- ury to Alfred Watkins Seymour, keeper of a small restaurant in Seattle, Wash. Th."D‘Pel’ 1 a certificate of ven shares of stock in the Bank, left by Thomas who died in New York Its actual value, to- Wi dollars. The certificate had :Il::ppeofl f sight, but was dinc MAY BRING WEALTH TO CAFE OWNER Trotsky Arrested And Thrown in Jail By Lenin Is Report By the Assiciated Fress. PARIS, July 6.—Reports have | renched here from demand notice to the Leon Trotaky, THREAT OF ATTACK ON- TURK CAPITAL STIRSALLIEDACTION British Warships Reported Concentrating to Block Nationalist Assault. tuky would ha a free hand fn con international EXTENSIVE MILITARY MOVE MAY BE MADE NECESSARY Serious Fighting Near Brussa. Bulgarian Intrigue to Retake | Western Thrace Causes Anxiety. By the Askocintod Press, LONDON, July €. — Great Britain, France and Italy may be compeiled to | | #dopt extensive and concerted meas- | ures against the Turkish nationalists, {1t w38 declared by a number of Lon- don newspapers this morning. Re- ports that the nationalists have ac- tually penetrated the neutral zone €ast of Constaintinople and along the Sea of Marmora have not been con- firmed, but there is reason to fear that they are concentrating forces 1o attack Constantinople. The situation has given rise to serious anxiety, and the allied hiXh commissioners at Con- ntinople have been conferring with n. Harrington, commander of allied | forces there, regarding steps to be taken in the event of a probable ad- vance by the nationalists. he reported arrest Trotaky. LONDON PARLEY GIVES NEW HOPE FORIRSHPEAGE Gen. Smuts Believed to Have | Secured Definite Proposals From de Valera in Dublin. of | | Must Resist Advance. B5 the Acsociated Press i . Harrington will have no alter- LONDON. July 6.—Gen. Jan Chri 1‘ e qour Lo sesist a Turkish ad- tian . the South African pre- rr;ie. upon his return from Ireland|Zone. Which was established by the this morning, after i -nces | €Ntente, and insuring free navigation i S conferences | of the gtraits in accordance with the h Eamonn de Valera and other : terms of the treaty of Sevres. Should Irish republicans in Dublin yesterday, hostile action be necessary, British conferred here this mornin naval forces may be employed in op- : g withy paval 3 X s i g the Turks, the Li Premier Lloyd George, Sir James| states today. Aondon Himes Craig. the Ulster premier, and Earl, Connected with the situation aris- Middleton. the souther i ing from the cencentration of na- Texaes ern unionlst| jonalist troops around Ismid and sy [ farther north in Asia Minor is & Gen. Smuts reported the resuit of | Supposed Hulgarian intrigue to re- is talks with the Sinn Fein leaders | Cover western Thrace. which Bul- on the Irish situation garia lost as a consequence of the war. Resume Peuce Efforts.. Conversations between government leaders and prominent Irishmen rela- tive to some plan by which peace may be obtained in Ireland continucd here today. Earl Middleton, south IriZh unionist leader. continued conferences he began following his arrival in London yesterday, and Sir James Creig, premier of Ulster. was expected Convention to Check Plans. i rted Italy, Rumania. Jugo- Czechoslovakia have al- gned a conventfon which heck the Bulgarian plans. Rumania. Jugoslavia and Czechoslo- vakia form what is known as the “little entente,” and, by virtue of the treaty of Rapallo and subsequent understandings. Italy is believed to have become sponsor for the “little to meet government officials after |entente.” reaching London this morning. An- Rumarga is believed, said the Daily nouncement was made in Belfast yes- | Mail today, to have offered 15,000 terday that Sir James was coming to | iroops to the allled forces in London on private business, but it was believed probable he would take occaslon to consult with officials here regarding the situation. Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, premier of the Union of South Africa, met Irish leaders at Dublin yesterday, but those concerned in the discussions there were reticent as to the matters considered. Officials generally appear loath to talk on the Irish question. but there Is a certain degree of opti- | mism that the Irish situation may on fits way to solution. —> 0" ™Y D€ | Russian soviet minister of trade and Stopping Honstilitlen First Alm. commerce, last week asked the Brit- The conference was surrounded with | ISh government whether it was true the Ereatest secrecy. but it is under- | that the staff of the Russian trade = D”m""ey cr:,:crz:gdqu&:s‘m ‘:};:«-':;delegntion at Constantinople was ar- conditions for the possible suspension | Tested and deported. says the Daily of hostilities in Ireland. Herald, the labor organ, but up to Officlal circles express belief i . . - Gessation of selise ohraa hat @ [the present has recelved no reply. most indispensable as an aid to prog. , The newspaper adds that M. Krassin ress in the peace deliberations. inow has received confirmatory in- LoontaSenerally was that to- | formation from other sources and has Constantinople. which are estimated at 10,000 British, in¢luding a number of Indian orgsnizations, and 5,000 French. SOVIET ASKS EXPLANATION. Inquiry Goes to England From Krassin. LONDON, July 5.—Leonid Krassin, day's conference would have a marked influence on the conversa- | made an official request for an cx- tions to be resumed in Dublin Friday ! Planation. between Eamonn_de Vale: the re- M. Krassin. the Herald understands, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) _ | !¢ leaving for Moscow Friday. pite it Sl FIRES SWEEP FORESTS. | Two Burned to Death, Great Dam- | age in Ontario. COBALT, Ontario, July 6.—Forest fires sweeping over northern Ontario Late in June Constantinople ad- ! vices reported ihat British soldiers there had raided the offices of the bolshevik trade delegation and arrest- ed an assistant of Bronislau Koudish, soviet commercial delegate, and other | members of the bolsheviki mission. In | British official circles in Constan- | tinople, it was announced, this raid | was carried out because the presence v v o e of bolsheviki in Constantinople men- have already claimed two lives and | 3ced the security of allied troops caused great property damage. Only | ihece. 2 heavy rain can save the country B from a widespread conflagration,| STOCKHOLM, July 5.—The Rosta refugees reported. Two men. who ran | agency, official news agency of the int® a dugout to escape the flames, | Russian bolshevik government, has were burned to death. | jasued an emphatic denial of reports The fires are particularly menac- | that soviet agents are involved in ing near Timmins and Uno Park and | plot against the entente at Constan the Cochrane and Larder lake dis- | tinople. It savs no soviet agents are tricts. in Constantinople, and denies that | soviet troops are supporting or will support_the followers of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish national leader. The discovery by the allied authori- ties at Constantinople of a Turco- | bolshevik plot of vast proportions was reported in regent Constantinop dispatches. WARSHIPS ARE ON WAY. P MUTINY ON POCAHONTAS. Crew Refuses to Repair Machinery. German Passenger Aids. By the Assoclated Pres NAPLES, July —During the voy- age of the American steamer Pows: | hontas, which left New York May | 23 and has just arrived here, the crew mutinied and would not make repairs to damaged machniery. A German passenger volunteered to re- pair the damage, thus enabling the steamer to reach Naples. Many British Vessels Within Easy Reach of Constantinople. Br the Associated Press. e MALTA, July 6.—Virtually the en- On June 17, it was reported from | tire British Mediterranean fleet, with London, that the Pocahontas had ar-|all the attendant ships, Including the rived at St. Michaels, the Azores, with aircraft vessel Pegasus, is en route’ engine and boller trouble and would | for or concentrated within easy reach atidstalned mhout, Mvo days. of Constantinople, where the situa- is viewed with some anxlety. BATTLESHIP UTAH AGROUND. It is said.that British military rein- forcements also are going out from BOSTON, July 6.—The battleship | England. ~ Utah was ‘aground for half an hour | Never before has the harbor of in the harbor here today. She was| Malta been so empty. Even the re- not damaged. Aboard are the mem- | serve ships here are destined for the bers of the United States rifie and | east, and the vessels. which rcently pistol team, entered in the interna- | sailed in that direction have carried tional tournament at Lyon, France.|large supplies of nfunitio In view August 6 to 16. AS the Utah is to|of these movements the commander- in port week here, their tral - f in the Mediterranean, Ad- here July 21, is not considered likely 1o Comenaly exceptions to_the maval movement eastward are five vessels of the light cruiser squadron under Admiral Tyrwhitt, which are at Alex- andria. ; , July 6.—Serious fighting has ocilfiszg in the neighborhood of Bog- hadrich, about seventy miles south- be i ing period at Coblenz will be cur- tailed and possibly abandoned. VE GENERATIONS ;}Ieyho\lltholfl of a family in Troy, where Seymour had had a | west of Brussa, Asia Minor, says an ister and an aunt. Seymour has bra dispatch, quoting an official Dlis t ‘was asserted, that |atsjement issued by the Turkish na- tionalist military headquarters. CALL AT WHITE HOUSE. John Wanamaker and J. Ogden Armour See President. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia and J. Ogden Armour of Chicago talked over business conditions today with President Harding and remained for luncheon at the White House. They eclined to reveal details of-their dis- Hon with Presidente g w s was his great-grand- father and that he is now the sole heir to his property. His claim has been substantiated in everal courts, but a legal battle is still in progress. The bank, now known, by virtue of varfous as the Mechanics tional Bank, main! no record of the issue of stock and pleaded the statute of_limitations. Supreme Court Justice Wagner recently ruled inst this plea, but attorneys for the bank d clared they would carry the case