Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1921, Page 13

PLAN AUDITORIUM | INPOTONAG PARK Chamber of Commerce and Merchants and Manln{actur- ers Seek Convention Hall Site REJECT IDEA TO REMODEL Committee Finds New Scheme . Cheaper and Having Many ) } More Attractions. Rejection of the plan to remodel the | js asserted, which will make it pos-| 1st and B streets|sible for many to drive their cars to;h Emery building, northwest, and the adoption of & reso- lution to procure as soon as possible | crowq; a site on which to build a model con- vention hall building featured the meeting yesterday afternoen of thé joint committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Association on the proposition of securing a con- vention hall for this city. ‘While members of the joint commit- tee, previous to the meeting yester- day. had been practically unanimous in their on to make use of the Emerv pildine for this nurnose an entirely new plan was introduced by Koverd N. Harver, [oruer presideni of the chamber and originator of the convention hall pian. Realizing that the Emery building project might run into a great deal more money than was anticipated by those promoting the plan, Mr. Harper said that he had looked around the city for other sites for the convention hail, ‘After careful canvassing of all available locations for the proposed buildings, Mr. Harper asserted that he found, in his opinion, an ideal site. Near Navy Buildings. It is situated near the Navy Depart- ment buildings in Potomac Park, and although the present plan Will en- tail the tearing down of a government building now on the land and the building of a new and model hall, both members of the committee and Mr. Harper felt that it would be much more saitsfactory in the end. The cost of remodeling the Emery | building was estimated at $350,000 by members of the committee and architects who had looked over fhe ground, while the cost of the site, to- gether with the building, near Poto- mac Park was set at only $250,000 by Mr. Harper. Although this figure. approximately $100,000 lcss tan the Emery building plan, does not include the furnish- ing and equipment of the new build- ing. it is thought that even when that is completed there will be more than $50,000 less to pay than on the other proposition. The committee was unanimous inf Indorsing the new plan and steps will | be taken in the immediate future to put it into effect. Athletic Advantages. Not only does the new site excel in beauty. being near the Potomac and | the speedway, but the athletic ad- vantages are manifold, members of the committee point out. Golf, tennls, wimming, driving and walking, they assert, are almost at the door of the| all and can be readily uscd by the| people attending conventions. inj ‘Washington he building is to be one story in| ht and will seat about 4.000 peo- | ple. Special attention will be given | to acoustics and arrangement of the! chairs and stage. A large and spa- cious_basement, set above ground to give lighting facility, will be used to house the exhibits and the first-floor chairs, which will be removable In g of a dance or other entertain-| ment. It is planned to build runways into the b. ment. so that in case of ge exhibits trucks can drive traight in and unload. One of the features of the location g of the frafures of the ocal® " Soiled - isnt spoiled Light-Colfired Palm Beaches Show Dirt Quickly That's why we suggest dye- ing YOURS to a darker— probably more becoming— shade. 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But the rule was broken yesterday when Chief Buffalo Bear of the Sioux Indlans of South Da- kota, carrying a tomahawk, called for a friendly powwow with the President. The chief wore the headdress of his high office, while Mrs. Buffalo Bear, who accompanied him, was resplendent in finery becoming her state as the.first lady of the tribe. It is understood the Sioux leader proposed td’ the President that a day be set aside and observed as “Indian day.” in commemoration of the 2,000 Indians who gave up their lives in the world war. is said to be the almost unlimited parking space around it. Cars can park on two sides of the building, it the hall and park within reasonable distance, no matter how large the Steps to Push Project. Active steps are now being taken by the committee to give impetus to the project. The first step will be to get an option on the ground, the sec- ond to find out how soon the govern- ment will vacate the present build- ing and the third the clearing of the land and ghe erection of the model convention hall. The joint committee of the two or- ganizations will be Immediately in- ereased to twenty members. A com- plete list of prominent men Yterested in the project will be made dut and they will be urged to underwrite the project. \ The present committee consists of the following: Robert N. Harper. chamber, chairman: James T. Llovd, chamber; M. A. Leese, merchants; Rudolph ‘Jose. chamber; Ross P. An- drews, merchants; Edwin S. Kennedy, chamber; Charles J. Columbus, mer- chants; Frank Hight, chamber. Al- bert Schulteis and ' Phillip King. presidents of the Chamber of Com- merce and the Merchanty and Manu- facturers’ Association, espectivel mittee. Appointment of the needed mem- bers to make ten from each organi- zation is expected o be announced in the near future by Mr. Harper. ! MIDDLE WEST HEAT JWAVE STILL HOLDS ON Five Deaths, Dozens of Prostra- tions at Chicago—>5,000 Men Take Rest. CHICAGO, July 7.—Chicago and much of the middle west today were still in the grip of a record-breaking heat wave, with the logal weather bureau announc- ing no relief in sight. The thermometer here, which registered §2 early this morning. was steadily rising, after a ! sweltering night, when thousands sought the beaches and parks, which had been cpened for sleeping purposes. The heat yesterday was held directly responsible for five deaths and dozens of prostrations in Chicago. while health officars _asserted the city’s mortality rate had been doubled. One large foun- dry concern laid off 5000 men.because the heat was too great to continue | work. Des Moines, Towa, reported there had been no break in super-normal tempera- tures in_thirty days, with the maxi- reading there averaging a Farmers _in lowa reported corn had been growing one inch every twenty-four hours for the last two weeks.® The finest unworked iron fields in the mum_da Clea . ly All $35 Saits, Now $26.25 All $40 Suits, Now $30.00 All $45 Suits, Now $33.75 All $50 Saits, Now $37.50 THE -EVE MRS. KABER LOVED Medium Says She Was Asked to Aid in Murder for Big Insurance. By the Associnted Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 7.—Mys- lteries of the spirit world were dis+} cussed today in the trial of Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber, charged with the murder of her husband, Daniéel F. Kaber. Mrs. Mary J. Wade, who claims to be a medium, capable of communicat-| ing with spirits, told on the witness stand of visits by Mrs. Kaber to her me to obtain advice. ‘I want you to to get rid of Dan Kaber for me,” Mrs) Wade said Mrs. Kaber told her on the last visit. *How?" Mrs. Wade said she asked Mrs. Kaber. I want you to kill him—any way | to get rid of him. The man I love has no money—only brains—and Mr. Kaber has $50,000 life insurance,” Mrs. Kaber was alleged to have replied. Mrs. Wdde previously had told of a visit by Mrs. Kaber to her home when she said Mrs. Kaber told her that she had met a professor of an castern col- lege where her daughter, Marian M Ardle, waf in school and that she loved him. On cross-examination by Attorney William J. Corrigan, Mrs. Wade said she had been abis to communicate with spirits ever since her birth. Would Talk With Spirits, ‘an you get into communcation with the spirit world now?” Corrigan e The jury and spectators were all | set for a seance, but the court sus- tained an objection interposed by County Prosecutor Edward C. Stan- on. Mrs. Wade then told briefly how she communicated with spirits. On one visit Mrs. Wade said Mrs. Kaber was accompanied by her spirit friends— Mr. Corrigan asked if they were ‘good spirits.” She said they were. Mrs. Wade said Mrs. Kaber came to her the first time to get her to intercede with her first husband, Mr. McArdle, to send money to Marion McArdle to pay her way in school. Mrs. Bertha Miethke, grandmother of Patricia, the little girl adopted by Mrs. Kaber, testified the latter had told her she “hated Dan Kaber and was going to get rid of him or other. In his opening statement to the jury Attorney William J. Corrigan, for the defense, asserted that many of the stflte’s contentions were true. but that defense testimony would show. that i Mrs. Kaber had not intended to mur- der her husband and that her actions were the result of a mind diseased from childhood and even after birth and worn down by “horrible t| that will reflect no credit on the man.” He asserted thut Mrs. Kaber's acts wore down her wental capacity and warned the jury to be prepared to listen to “some horrible things that would come out in the testimon. E tant Court Prosecutor James T. Cassidy, outlinifk the state's case. sserted that testimony will show that Mrs. Kaber first attempted to kill her within | {the next six months in some manner danger of an immediate government \deficit, Secretary Mellon asked Com- Eress yesterday to defer action on the |soldiers’ bonus bill. “This is not a_time to impose sev- {eral billion dollars of mew Ifaoilities on an already overburdened Treas- ury,” the Becretary of the Treasury said to Senator Frelinghuysen, repub lican, New Jersey, in a letter which was read in the Senate when the |bonus bill was called up. The bil ‘has already passed the House, and )the letter was in response toa request from Senatdr Frelingnuysen' for a statement of the financial obligations which the bill would place upon the | Bovernment. - Declared to the Point. | The letter was characterized by Sen- ator Underwood. democratic leader, who after its reading made an attack on the bill, as “strong, forceful and to the point.” In passing the bill, the Alabama senator said, the republican majority would “wrife in the coun- try’s history that men no longer sac- rifice, but measure their services in idollars.” Replying briefly, Senator McCumber, republican, North Dakota, jin charge of the bill, denied that any attempt was being made to measure |the serv, of soldiers of the world {war in_dollars. Mr. Mellon estimated that the bill would “cost the country between a billion and a half and five and a quarter billion dollars; that it would “swell the cost of government and virtually defeat the administration's program of retrenchment and econ- and that it would block all, | om | debt and depres !of liberty bond: These, he said, {would be “inevitable direct financiai consequences,” adding that probable indirect results would be “grave dan- ger of renewed inflation, increase commodity prices and unsettled busi- ness conditions Impresxes Seriousnes | Al of his estimates, the Secretary { explained, were devoted to the cash ipayment sections of the bill, and took “no account of expenses of ad- ministration, or possible cost of af- fording vocational training, farm or home aid, or land-settlement aid to veterans who elect such benefits.” should be derelict in my duty the country and to the veterans if 1 failed to give this inevitable financial consequences of the pending bill," he toncluded. “The result would be serious injury and loss to the whole community, and in the long rea the veterans themselves would lose far more than they would gain. I cannot bring myself to believe that this would be ‘adjusted compensation’ for a service that was performed as the highest duty of citizenship and a sacrifice that can never be measured in terms of money. Burden on People. Not the least disturbing feature, he continued, was the bill's plan to post- pone actual distribution of fundsy until next year, which, he said, “tends to mislead the people into the belief that in some way the proposed pro- gram can be accomplished without to themselves warning of the husband by poisoning and, failing in!imposing serious burden on the coun- this magper. hired assassins to kill | try.” him. The motive, he asserted, was to } ~“Jt must inevitably inerease the war obtain possession of Mr. Kaber's es- tate for herself and daughter. Marion McArdle, who also is indicted for first- —-It Starts Today Our Semi-Annual Sale of Our Entire Stock - Three-Piece Suits Including Stein-Bloch Off rance 1 No Charge. for Alierativiis Sidney West, Inc. All $55 Suits, Now $41.25 All $60 Suits, Now $45.00 All $65 Suits, Now $48.25 All $70 Saits, Now $52.50 burden which the people have to bear.” he continued. “It could be financed only by adding to the burden world have e v heen discovered in |degree murder, for her alleged partici- {of debt and taxes under which the the Philippines. The quantity of ore | pation in the plot to kill Mr. Kaber, Country is now staggering. How- {adjacent to good harbors will, it is au-| The jury was taken terday aft- |ever financed, no such sum could be thoritatively stated, be sufficient o as- | ernoon to view the scene of the mur- |taken out of the public Treasury | o6 the future of iron and steel pro- |der in Lake Wood. Members are|without throwing a corresponding | duetion in the United States for genera- | guarded continuously by deputy sher- [foad upon the whole people in the pdues z iffs and locked up at a hotel at night. |form of increased interest charges, \\\\\If///,/ D 2/ S Z - CLOSED =/ \= SATURDAYS = S Sl During July MEN’S WEAR cnd August Delay of Soldier Bonus Urged, i Becauise of Financial Danger Secretary of the Treasury Mellon Warns Congress That i Government Faces Serious Deficit if Money Burdens Are Increased. irefunding operations on the national’jclared, further the prices which might enable soldiers t6 get With a warning that chere is grave |increased taxes and increased cost of living.” Liberty Bond Depresaion. Cost of retunding the early —ma- turities of public debt. the Setretary aid, “would ve vastly increased .and the refunding operations themselves seriously embarrassed.” Holders of liberty bonds, he added, would “have to face the threat of further depres- slon.” t scems particularly inappro- priate” he sald, “to give present corf- sideratlon to the measure when we still have before us the pressing prob. lem of revising the internal tax lav and finding sufficient revenue to meet the existing requirements of govern- ment. This problem must be dealt with' In the midst ot extreme und widespread ~ industrial _ depression. These conditions affect not only in- dustry in our own country, but are world wide. and our past experience furnishcs no sure guide as to their | duration.” Should Care for Disabl Continuing, the Secretary sald that “our first concern, of course, should be to make full provision for the rieeds of disabled veterans.” “To that object,” he said, “the country is pledged to give without stint of its resources. It would be unfortunate in the extreme, while we are still struggling with that problem. to dis- sipate our resources in a sweeping plan for cash payments to able-bod- ied ex-soldiers and sallor: Senator Underwood “described bill as “political camouflage.” the ‘The at fifty dollars quarterly, he sal would not aid the woldiers. He chal lenged the republitans to pronose a lump sum payment. which, he said. he plan of “peddling out” cash paymemg, would suppcrt, and wh he de- w=rfid provide a “stake" into business or buy a home. Declares Faix Wage Needed. The best service the republicans could render “to the soldier and to the country,’ Senator Underwood continued, would be to “bring the country back to stable financial and business conditions.” when men would get a far wage. Substitutes for the land settlement plan of the bill were offered by Sena- tors Pittman, democrat. Nevada, and Borah, republican, Idaho. FORDNEY TO PRESS BILL. Has No Doubt “Some Such Legis- lation” Will Pass. Despite Secretary Mellon's state- ment opposing enactment of a bonus bill, Chairman Fordney of the House: ways and means committee said he intended to press for action on his measureXo compensate former service men as soon as tariff and tax legisla- tion was completed. “I have no doubt.” Mr. Fordney as- serted, “that some such legislation will be put through at this session of Congress.” s COOLER “TOMORROW.” Weather Man Holds Out No Hope Until Afternoon." Having made good on his forecast yesterday that hot weather would re- | turn today over the Atlantic coast region, the government weather man refused to hold out any hopes of a let-up in the heat wave before to- morrow afternoon. “The weather will remain w: generally east of the Mississippi river during the next thirty-six hours, was today's forecast. It added. how- ever, that unsettled weather and local showers were indicated for the Great Lakes and South Atlantic section. PREMIERS CRITICS OF NEWS' SPEED Imperial Conference to Ap- point Committee on Commiunications. HITS AMERICAN METHODS Churchill Says Press Here “Dumps” Reports on Other Nations. : By the Awwociated Press. LONDON, July 7.~§harp criticism of the paucity and slowness of commu- nications by steamship, airplane, tele- graph and wircless between Great Britain and the Dominions was volced at Tuesday's session of the imperial iconference, at which a decision was reached to appoint a committee to con- isider fhe development of communi- jeations throughout the empire. The official text of the speeches delivered at the meeting was Issued today, and Lriwxrl ‘:hlcre’ Jere expressions of dis- 'oval o merica’ v approval of 4 a’s world distribu Premier Hughes of Australia made an unfavorable comparison between the British wireless service and with the German installations that were In operation before the war, as well s those at present existing in th United States. o He said the United States was conducting wireless serv- ices to England, France, Norway, Japan and Germany, and was arrang- ing to cover other ficlds. i ’. 8. Radiates Everywhere. He declared America was daily, jradiating in every direction. not oniy | American news. but American con- | cepts of world events, and instanced the trangmission of such news to China, which, he said, formed its opinion of the British empire thereon, | While Great Britain did nothing. He : contended that if Great Britain and wireless telegraph and wireless tele- phone service in the immediate fu- ture they would be left far behind other countries. Premier Meighen of Canada said that, while Canada had less caus to complain #pan Australia and New Zealand, her éxchange of news with the motherland was unsatisfactory. “News that comes to Canada,” he jasserted, “filters through New York, {and is censored there, not by govern- ment authorities, but from the Ameri- can standpoint. Tt reaches us in an undesirable condition, and, as a re- isult, has an undesirable influence, and a very serious influence it is.” Churchill Comments. Winston Spencer Churchill. secre- tary of state for the colonies, spoke sympathetically regarding these com- plaints. “There is no doubt.” he sald, “that the American press is able to collect its news on a vast scale, and, having been jaid the cost of this collection by internal circulation, it can afford to dump news into other English- speaking countrie “And advertise itself,” interjected Premier Massey of New Zealand. Mr. Churchill declared it was vital, in the dissemination of news of the | Britis) empire, that a strong British | empiré atmosphere be developed, add- 1in, “This will come when the mother ! country and the Dominions are able to tell their story to ezch other in- stead of having it told by other men." . S — Probably in no country of the world are fish more largely consumed than in Burma. Fish, either fresh or fried or in the form of fish paste, is a concomitant lof every Burmese meal. the Dominions failed to increase their | WEARS WHITE TROUSERS ; FALLS IN PEACH MASH; GOVERNMENT AID ASKED Walls of - the telephone booths have ears, and the following con- versation '(one-sided as it is) was heard following the tinkling of the dropped-in nickel: 4 s this the post office informa- tion bureau? I want the peach julce expert. What? Haven't got one? Well, you government folks ought to have one these days when Deaches are getting loverripe and white trousers and all—well, any- way, give me the hootch expert, I know there are plenty of them 'in * the government—You don't? Oh, I bet you don't—say, listen, how do you get peach stains out of white flanne] trousers? My husband was down in the cellar working over some peach hootch and he slipped on a’lemon rind and sat right down | into a pot of peach juice—terrible stain—use lemon Jjuice? How d’y'get that way with the high cost of Jemons and all? 1ll not use any Jemons on any man's trousers - these days—good-hye! CITIZENS: SUPPORT OF GARDENS ASKED Connecticut Avenue Associa- tion Also Discusses Branch Library Plan. | Karl Langenbeck, member of Mount ; Pleasant Citizens' Association ap- peared at a meeting of Connecticut | Avenue Citizens' Asspciation, last night in the parish hall of All Souls' Church and asked co-operation in {turthering the nature study and gar- jdening plan of the association which he represented. The Visiter told of the deep interest taken in the question by members of {his association and presented a reso- | lution adopted at a recent meeting | of that body. | | President Harry Wilson assured the !visitor that every effort would be |made to give the assistance asked.| | Because of the small attendance last | inight, however, he deemed it advis- able to refer it to a committee and said the executive committee would give it consideration at a meeting that will be held the coming week, Branch Library Urge Mr. Langenbeck also called atten-| tion to the question of procuring a | branch library for the northwest sec- | tion. The chances for procuring such | an institution, he said, are good. He| told of what was being done in the| thatter of the southeast section's| branch library. President Wilson and Secretary A. R. Wingate assured the representative of Mount Pleasant Citizens' Associa- tion that both subjects he had dis-} cussed would receive favorable con- sideration. ~Both questions will be considered by the executive commit- tge in order to submit recommenda- tfons to the District Commissioners in time to have provision made for ap- propriations in the budget. The association also will consider the street railway merger and lower fare questions. SPONSOR OF WARSHIP. OLYMPIA, Wash., July 7—Gov. L.| F. Hart today announced the appoint- ment of Miss Jean Summers of Walla Walla, Wash., as sponsor of the dreadnaught Washington. She is the daughter of Representative and Mrs. J.W. Summers. | publican factions. 1 constructed Portugal, ~ag " PORTUGAL IS SURE 10 STAY REPUBLIG Registration Lists Bar Most Royalists From Voting in Coming Elections. SEE NEED OF MONARCHY Exiled Leaders Say Present Govern- ment Has Hands Tied by Many Facticns. By the Amsociated Press. MADRID, July 7.—Elections will be held throughout Portugal July 10, but royalist exiles living In Spain do not expect thelr party to obtain a major- ity in the chamber of deputies. or even™ a strong representation as a result of the balloting. They assert that the republican government of Portugsl has decided to use the registration lists of 1919, from which most royal- ist partisans were excluded, together with followers of former President Sidonio Paes, who was assassinated at Lisbon in December, 1918. They say that as a result of this action they will be unable to cast the number of votes their party is able to muster. Col. Paiva Couceiro, acknowledged royalist leader, former governor of Angola, and leader of various incur- sions into Portugal since the proc- lamation of the republic there, declar- ed here today that a return of the monarchy in Portugal was necessary for the future development of that country. In the course of an inter- view with the Associated Press. he asserted that monarchist opposition to existing Portuguese institutions was not because the present govern- ment was operating as a republic, but that national existence under the pres- ent system would be impossible. Twenty-One Revolutions. “The present republican govern- ment,” he declared, “is hot a people’s zovernment, but a government of re- Since 1910 there have been twenty-one revolutions and seditious movements in Portugal. and in the same ,period there have been twenty-nine cabinets. No president has occupled office for the full legal term. “Besides the anarchists and revolu- tionary syndicalists there exist four- teen republican political groups, mak- ing administration absolutely imprac- ticable. The logical consequence is ruin and bankruptcy, materially, po- litically and socially. The disinte- gration of soclety there is evident to any observer in Portugal. the inhab- itants of the country being without trust in any one or anything. Radical Change Needed. “Notging except a radical change can extricate Portugal from her pres- ent position. The monarchical regime endowing _the country with the best traditions of prosperity and glory. The royalist movement does not mean reaction, but authoritative action and social disci- pline, without which no civilized na- tion can make Progress. “Encouragement of agriculture and industrial production, together with rigid public economy, is the first aim of the royalists. en Portugal be- kins manufacturing more goods and fess paper money there will be hope that international credit will be re- established, but Portugal, in order to obtain help, must begin by helping e portuguese exlles here have expressed the view that the campaign in that country is proceeding without The Washington will be launched soon at Camden, N. J. 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