Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1921, Page 1

bering WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Member of the Associsted Press The Associated Press i exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this ! paper and also the local news published herein. 5 4 WEATHER. 3 i . Local thundershowers this afternoon :‘r|n|‘ht; not quite so warm. Tomorrow r. ‘ Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at noon today: Highest, 93, at 3 i Pp.m. yesterday; lowest, 75.6, at 5:: .m. $ - today. Full report on page 3. Closing New York Stocks 27 8 All rights df publication of special dispatches herein are also Teserved. Star. I No. 28,195, T oie Wasnington Boic WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1921-EIGHTEEN PAGES. © TEADS AN mersees DRSO OTNEL - UP RAL STUATON WITH SECRETARIES Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 89,443 TWO CENTS. FIGHTING IN IRELAND ENDS AS DE VALERA CONSENTS TO MEET LLOYD GEORGE Leader Issues Orders to Followers to Discontinue 7 S (S Dmar ~N\E Keeping records for the govern- ment tax collectors does not coin- cide with a free country, the in- dependence of which he had but recently helped celebrate, in the » opinion of one local store keeper. The tax collectors went into a L little store in the northwest to check up on the shopkeeper’s tax on sales. They found him dropping iron washers into a little box, one TAX'PAYE%S JUST SPENT A FORTUNE To Commissioners Order “Full ¢ Speed Ahead” to Com- plete Program. NINE PRIVATE ARCHITECTS ENGAGED TO HURRY WORK Maj. Brown Confers With Dr. Bal- lou and Mr, Kramer on Selec- tion of Ground. Losing no time upon receiving au- thorization by the District Commis- sloners to begin construction of new schoo! buildings costing $1,207,000, public school and District officials to- day examined maps showing pros- pective sites for the new institutions and personally examined several of the locations proposed for the more important schools. Maj. Brown of the Engineer Com- issioner's office early appeared in the office of Superintendent of Schools Ballou and conferred with the super- intendent and with Asst. Supt. Kramer on the question of selecting ground on which to erect the newly ordered structures. High School Site Discussed. It is understood that one of the first toplcs discussed was the location for the proposed junior high school in the Eckington section. A number of sites available for this building have been offered for the consideration of achool officials, and these were to be inspected today by the two school leaders and Maj. Brown. Other sites which came under the special_discussion today, it is stated. were those for the new Bell School and for a building near the Smothers School. The Bell School will be an eight« room structure, and will replace the present building. _The cost, as af- thorized by the Commissioners yes- terday, is $140,000. The Smothers School addition will consist of a four-room building to cost $70,000. Asslgnments to Architeets. In their policy of “full speed ahead” on the school building program, the Commissioners have engaged the services of nine private architectural firms to assist Municipal Architect A. L. Harris in drawing the plans for the new schoolhouses. These outside firms have been given the following assignments: A. P. Clark, jr.. of this city, plans for ti twelve-room addition to t! Wheatley School; cost, $250,000. Gregs & Leisenring, this city, eight- addition to_ the = Buchaman ""Delos H. Smith, this city, four-room ;g"dmnu to the Monroe School; $75,- Donn & Wheat, this city, eight- yoom addition to the Bell School;|and d: $140,000. Upman & Adems, this city, eight- room building to replace the Mott | Bahool;, $140,000. MoNsughton & Robinson, Boston, t-room _bufldi: in vicinity of 5 n Park; $140,000. ‘W. H. 1. Fleming, this city, four- ! bullding at Smothers School; f hy & Olmsted, this city, four- addition to the Deanwood firms will begin immediately reparation of plans and it is exe, ' jpected contracts for the work will be. {B¥sn che ran. I BRIDGE TO BE CLOSED. ‘lqnednet to Be Barred to Traffic From July 17 to 20. ’ ‘The Commissioners issued an order today closing the Aqueduct bridge {from 7 o’clock on the morning of July 17 until the same hour on July 20, to vehicular traffic. The closing of the bridge during that period will be necessary because of repairs to be made to the govern- ment highway leading from the Vir- ginia end of the bridge. Motorists will be required to use the Highway bridge or the Chain bridge on the days mentioned. Cars of the ‘Washington and Old Dominfon Rail- way Company will operate as usual from 36th and M streets. SERVICES FOR WAR DEAD. Bodies of 7,264 Heroes Will Be Honored Tomorrow. HOBOKEN, N. J., July 9.—The body of Capt. Hobart A. H. Baker, former Princeton foot ball star, is among the waP dead, brought from France on the transports Somme and Wheaton. He was killed in December, 1918, near Toul, the day before he was to leave for home. His airplane developed en- . Rine trouble at low altitude and crashed before he could regain con- trol. He brought down three German airplanes during the last ten days of the war. The French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre. Memorial services for the 7,264 vet- erans whose bodies are here will ba held tomorrow afternoon. Gen. Pershing will be present and Maj. en. Robert Lee Bullard, Maj. Gen. C. B. Summerall, Maj. Gen. David C. Shanks and National Commander John G. Emery of the American Legion. Every overseas division is represent- ed among the dead. U. S. SHIP ON ROCKS. LONDON, July 8.—The American * steamer Western Comet, from Balti- more for 8t. Nazaire, France, with a cargo of coal, is agroynd off St. Na- zaire, says a Lloyd's dispatch from Nantes today. The vessel is on 2 rocky bottom in 2 critical position, the dispatch adds. for each penny’s tax. He had no other record to show how many one-cent tax drinks, two-cent tax drinks or three-cent tak drinks he had sold. The government agents told him he was violating the Jaw and must keep an exact record of every drink he sold. “I just helped celebrate your In.. dependence day.” he said. “Thls country is not free-if you have %o do all that In order to make a v~ ng."” e The tax collectors argued. So did the shopkeeper. He was shown that it gight cost him $10,000 /f he falled l’comul)’ with the law.. The collectors won the argumen.. He will keep the records now. DEMAND FOR HASTE HEARD BY GONGRESS Business Men of Country Im- 1 patient Over Delay in Tax Revision Program. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Public epinion is making itself felt in the National Capital. The impa- tience of the country over the failure of Congrees to get started on a pro- gram of tax revision has penetrated both the legislative and executive branches of the government. Letters of éomplaint from prominent business men. most of them republicans, have reached Congress, and while it is true that the average man outside of Washington has little conception of the immense amount of work in- volved in shaping a tariff bill, it is a fact that most of the criticism has been placed upon the preference given to consideration of the tarift ahead of the tax question. Representative Mondell, republican leader of the House, who is as con- scientious a public servant as the re- publican party has ever had, makes a point of the tremendous iabor the ways and means committee has had before it in shaping a tariff bill, and rgues that this same committee could obviously handle only one thing at a time. The ways and means committee unfortunately charged with the task of making both tho tariff and tax 5. Object to Tarift Precedenmce. ‘There, i3 no other committee to which “the revenue measures could have gonerwhile the ways and means committee worked on the tariff. But the nub of the present situation is not that the wavs and means com- mittee has been wasting time, for it has been working hard. both night y on the tariff bill, but that it gave right of way to the tariff on the basis of an alleged overwhelming opinion from the country In favor of that course. If. in other words, Con- gress misread public opnlon, it really is partly due to the failure of the country to assert its wishes unmis- takably. It now becomes apparent that there are serious differences of opinion on the tariff, and that many of the ad- vocates of a permanent tariff are in doubt as to whether any bill enacted at this session will not have to be changed in a month, as the result of constantly changing economic con- ditions throughout the world. As for the tax question, on the other hand, there is no division of opinion among the advocates of a change in the tax rate. Sentiment is unanimous. While the tariff, therefore, is im- portant, there never has been any doubt among disinterested observers that .the country would approve of prompt action on the tax question ahead of tariff revision. The truth is the agricultural group in Congress, as well as other elements represent- ing class interests, have demonstrated again that a minority which holds the veto power in the government can frequently threaten the majority and can practically dictate the course that shall be taken. President Harding frankly is dis- turbed about the situation. He real- izes that Congress should have tackled the tax question first. He indicated as much when the problem was first submitted to him, but felt reluctant to insist upon his point of view. He now wishes he had put his foot down hard and compelled action on the revenue measure ahead of the tariff. On the other hand, there seemed to be as much noise made at that time about tariff revision as taxes. The articulate element won over the inar- ticulate. The mass of the people, who had little interest in the tariff ques- tion, falled to speak out about taxes. They took it for granted that Con- gress, after what had been sald In’ the last campaign, would reduce taxes at once without further reminder from the country. The delay, however, has not been fatal. The warning from the pountry has com opportunely. Congress is bestirring itself. Just as soon as the tariff bill is voted on by the House, the ways and means com- mittee of the House will get at the tax question. Meanwhile, the Senate will de- bate on the tariff. 'President Hardin hopes that the discussing of the tax bill in both the Senate and the House w not require much time. He figures thai a tax bill can be gotten through both MBuses of Congress much more rapidly than a tariff measure. In the first place, there are not so many changes to be made in the revenue 1aw, and, in the second place, the chances are that this time the revenue measure agreed upon by House leaders in confer- ence with the Treasury Department and the White House will not have to be re- written in the Senate. Thus a good deal of time may be saved which, under other circumstances, would be lost in the Sen- ate. The ident that the party will caucus &nd get the tax bill ready by autumn, a} the latest. (Copyright, 1921.) Sets Aside Hour to Confer With Messrs. Mellon, Hoov- er, Clark and Davis. KEEN INTEREST SHOWN IN RATES BY EXECUTIVE Chairman Lasker of Shipping Board to Discuss Plan for Re- organizing and Claims. President Harding had set aside an hour today for discussion of the ailroad situation with Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, Chairman Clark of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion and Director Davis of the Rall- road Administration. Negotiations between the railroads and the Treasury Department. under which the government would advance $500,000,000 to the carriers on account of earnings spent in bettermente dur- ing federal control, are expected to be concluded soon. The expediting of railroad claims is another subject to which attention has been given. Aside from assisting the roads in financial _ rehabilitation, ~ President Harding has expressed a keen inte est in rate adjustments. He ais- cussed this subject recently with Chairmam Clark at the Interstate Commerce Commission and was un- derstood to have taken the position that in some instances reduction of rates would increase movement of commodities. SHIPPING CLAIMS UP. Lasker to Discuss Appointments ‘With President. President Harding had an engage- ment today with Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board to discuss plans for reorganizing the operations di- vision of the board and the appoint- ! ment of a claims board to review cdlaims aggregating half a bRlion dollars pending against the board. It was expected that Chairman Lasker {would ask approval from the or- ganization of an operations board to consist of at least three experienced shipping men, understood to have al- ready been selected. Mr. Lasker returned last night from Chicago and New York after a series of conferences with steamship operators. The new claims board, it is understood, will consist of one technical member, probably a col struction officer of the Navy, one lawyer and one auditor. PLANNING TO USE WATER FROM BASIN Bureau of Engraving Making Inquiry—May Save 800,- 000 Gallons Daily. Investigations have been instituted by the bureau of engraving and printing and the government printing office, it was learned today, having as their object the devisement of plans for reducing the amount of filtered water used in these bulldings. A saving of from two to three million gallons of water a day may be ef- fected. James L. Wilmeth, director of the bureau, said today his engineers are making a study of plans for furnish- ing that department with water from the tidal bagin. He sald he would confer with Brig. Gen. Beach, chief of engineers of the Army, and Col. Sherrill, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, next week as to the advisability of using the tidal basin water. Believes Plan Feasible. It is the opinion of Mr. Wilmeth the plan is feasible and that it can be put into operation this summer, which willmean a saving of at least 800,000 gallons of water a day in the bureau. George H. Carter, public printer, is investigating the economic advisabil- ity of having the government printing office obtain its power from the Cap- itol power plant. He has made a re- | water daily. port to George B. Christian, jr., secre- tary to the President, regarding water usage in that department. Mr. Carter today sald he is op- posed to the use of flltered water for condensing and other commercial purposes in his department and that he hopes the situation will be met eventually through the drilling of wells or the running of a pipe line to the river. If the department's needs should be met in this manner it would result in a saving of about a million and a half gallons of filtered May Connect With Capitol. save the water condensed for power purposes in the government printing office by shutting down the power plant and hooking up with the Capi- believed the expense can be met out of current funds, although the ap- proval of Congress would haveé to be obtained before the Capitol plant could extend its service to the govern- ment printing establishment. lons of water could saved daily if the power plant were shut down, and the improvement could be made thi summer in time to relieve the stra For the present, Mr. Carter would | tol service. It is estimated this would| cost from $30,000 to $40,000, and it is; It is estimated ahout 300,000 gal- | “JIMMY.” OF OWL JURY RENOWN, PLAYS POLITICS TO AID NATURE M[XIBAN DISURDER {Braves Sacred Portals to Urge Study of Trees and Birds in Schools. President Praises Erudition in Deciding Fate of Winged Creatures. Nature study and garden work must be retained in the public schools. James Bradley, 2118 P street north- west, better known to the “gang” as “Jimmie,” says it will be retained, for | he is developing into a powerful poli: tician, as well as an able jurist. “Jim- mie,” it will be remembered, was fore- man of the now famous “‘owl jury” which gained presidential reprieve from a d&* ntence for the owl when the jul rted in fts favor to President Harding. “Jimmie” has been lining up a lot of powerful votes for his nature study and garden work, and no leader in the national political system is too big to be made a mark for his pleas. He is lining up leaders of the administration, beginning _with President Harding, then Vice President Coolidge, and now is working among the powers “up on the hill.” "He is meeting with success, too, and if political pressure amounts to anything, when “Jimmie” resumes his course in Western High School at the coming term those in the lower grades will have the benefit of instruc. tion in nature work and gardening. Question Hits Home, In his campaign “Jimmie" has put the pertinent question to his listeners as to “Why have all the beautiful parks here | in Washington when you do not know the trees by name and how to fight the insect pests when they are observed destroying the treesT” President Harding wrote to “Jimmie" ing his owl jury report, as fol- 1 have been very much interested since your call on me the other morning to read the verdict of the Force School John Burroughs Club in the case of “birds.” I think you have stated the case excellently and the verdict is de- cidedly appealing to me. “Your view is that while some birds kill other birds, yet even the worst of them have phases of economic usefulness by reason of the fact that they also de- stroy vicious animals and insects. Your conclusion is that the balance is in fa- vor, even of the least desirable of the birds, and I am inclined to agree with you. For, why would these birds have been put here, unless to perform some useful service? On the whole, I think we will grant them a reprieve. I think your John Burroughs Club must be doing a useful work, if I may judge it by your presentation of the case of the birds, which suggests that you are gathering a good deal of use- ful information. I hope you will con- tinue your nature studies and that later on, when you all become men and women, you will be as much dis- posed to apply the rules of equity and justice as you have been in this case.” Senator George H. Moses, in a let- ter, said to him: * “I very much hope that the nature studies which have been carrled on in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and in the first year of the Junior High School in the public schools may be continued. Nog, only because of their intrinsic valud, but because of the collateral help which they give in the training of the youths to become good citizens. These studies seem to me to offer a very great return for a IS DECLARED ENDED Calles Charges Oil Interests Try to Create Trouble With | United States. By the Associated Prees. | MEXICO CITY, July 9.—Disorders that occurred at Zacamixtla, state of Vera Cruz, on Thursday, when work- men at a petroleum camp attacked oil | properties in that district, have sub- | sided and the situation there is tran- Plutarco E. Calles, secretary of the interior. He had just concluded a telegraphic conversation with Gen. Adelbérto Te- jada, governor of the state of Vera Cruz, and declared the demonstration acter. Says Rumors Are Exaggerated. Secretary Calles characterizéed ru mors regarding the trouble at Zaca i mixtla as “another attempt by oil companies to place difficulties be. tween the United States and Mexico. 3 ’an Thursday was of a minor char- for exaggerated rumors, inasmuch as the unemployed workmen there had I quil, it was announced last night by | He asserted there was no foundation | All Attacks on Civilians and Crown Forces. British Lift All Restrictions in Dublin. BASIS FOR FORMAL PEACE CONFERENCE EXPECTED TO BE REACHED AT PARLEY Erin and England Show Anxiety for Peace After Declaration of Truce—Belfast Receives Proposal Coldly—Premiier to Fix Date in His Reply to Irish Chief. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 9.—Premier Lloyd George will, it was authoritatively stated this afternoon, accept Eamon de Valera's proposal of yesterday and meet the republican leader to discuss the basis for a formal confer- ence. The meeting will probably occur next week. The only thing remaining is the fixing of the date, which Mr. Lloyd | George will name in his reply to Mr. de Valera’s letter. | The government is subordinating all other problems of state to the \ question of Irish peace, and is bending every effort toward preparations for the meeting. 5 The Irish office stated this afternoon that Eamon de Valera had issued instructions to his supporters to cease all attacks upon crown forces and civilians. The instructions from Mr. de Valera, the Irish office said, also were to prohibt the use of arms. to abstain from interference with public -or prisate property and to discountenance and prevent action likely to cause disturbance of the peace which might necessitate military inter- ference. INSTRUCTIONS EFFECTIVE MONDAY NOON. The instructions, it was added, were effective ifrom noon on Monday. An air of the greatest optimism this morning pervaded No. 10 Down- ing street, the premier’s official residence, and the Irish office, where the i belief was freely voiced that there was every reason to hope the blood- | shed in Ireland was nearing an end. It is understood the details of the forthcoming conference will un- doubtedly be discussed over the week end at Chequers Court, where Mr. Lloyd George is entertaining the premiers of the dominions. Military Patrols Withdrawn. Herald. organ of labor, that a truce Military atrols were withdrawn|Was not a peace, and that it would from the streets of Dublin last even- |be folly to rejoice prematurely. The says a Central News dispatch newspaper admitted. however, that S “that city. Many of the police|the Irish truce should be the prelude {auxiliaries were walking the streets|Of peace. and declared that ultimate leisurely, fraternizing with civilians|responsibility —rested upon British and discussing the prospects of peace | Statesmen. It asked if those states- in Ireland. The truce between the Sinn|men would show “the courage and Feln and the crown forces may, there- | generosity the situation demand fore, be said to be already begun, al- 2 though the time for commencing it Compinins of Humiliation. officially has been set for Monday) The Morning Post, a conservative noon. lorgan. complained of the “humilia- | It is understood the ari ! tion rebels have inflicted upon Eng- be signed by Sir Nevil Macreas d|land,” and said the British govern- | Michael Collins. commander of the|meni was “negotiating terms at the Irish republican army. .| point of a loaded pistol.” Earl Midleton, south Irish unionist{ Developments leading to the truce leader, reached London this morning | were divided between London and after baving traveled nearly all night| Dublin. In Dublin Ezmonn de Va- very small outlay and if any word of | Gen. Tejada is said to have informed mine will be of influence w h the au-the secretary that more than 12,000 | thorities for the continuance of these!men were out of work in the Vera| studles I hope that you will make use | Cruz oil fields. of it and emphasize it to them. Others who strongly on his eron, McKinle: lined up|last night relative to the situation in side are Senators Cam- | Tampico was reassuring, although it Many s stated troops were being rushed yag geeth: school and citizens’ associations are|to that district as a precautionary | Jreland, w back of him. But he is after others.|measure. It was sald that garrisons | 3 Better let him know that you are with |at various points In the states of San | him by writing him a letter In care of | Luis Potosi, Coahuila and Nuevo Leon | Association, | had been ordered to hold themselves| Announcement of the date upon and Capper. the American Forestr: 1214 16th street northwest. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES BILL IS REINTRODUCED Amendment Proposed by Repre- |the unemployed, was made public atia truce between the crown forces in sentative Zihlman Would Estab- } lish Size of Bread Loaf. given “a laudable example of de- corum.” | King George. It 1s understood he re- i ported to the King details of yester- A statement issued by the war office | Prime Minister Lloyd George. | topic of conversation. Date Anxiously Awaited. in readiness to give any needed as-| which Eamonn De Valera, Irish re- sistance to the 15,000 soldiers at pres- | publican leader. would meet Prime ent In the petroleum region of the| Minister Lloyd George to discuss the state of Tamaulipa basis on which a scttiement of the - Irish question might be reached by Rellef of Unemployed. the proposed conference between The text of an offici | army, asking all soldiers to give 10 tains in this city was anxiously await- per cent of their pay for the relief of [ed by London today. The fact that the war office. It was understood, | Ireland and the Sinn Fein would be- however, that President Obregon did | come effective at noon Monday was not desire this order to be carried out, | taken as an indication In some quar- believing there were sufficient funds in | ters that the meeting of Mr. De Va- day’s momentous conference at Dub-| |lin, at which a truce in Ireland was; prime minister, read a letter from arranged and steps were taken to! Mr. Lloyd George to the effect that | bring togcther Eamon de Valera and ole country this morning| ing with talk over peace inj military commander in Ireland. ap- hich was the one absorbing orth Irish and South Trich chief- | from Dublin, and was almost im-|}lera, Irish republican leader, and his mediately received in audience by nationalist associates, renewed their conference with the southern union- ists. Earl Midleton, a unionist, who recently conferred with the British hostilities must cease if negotiations looking to peace were to succeed. Gen. Sir Nevil MacRead British peared at the de Valera conference, and iit was not many hours later that the announcement was made at the prime minister's official residence in don, that, in accordance with premier's offer and Mr. de Valera reply, arrangements were going for- ward for the cessation of hostilities from Monday noon. King Leading Figure. The King of England has been a leading figure in the developments up to present. while Gen. Smuts, the South - African premier, has acted as the pivot on which, the peace move- ment has turned. There is hope in Londom, and in Dublin, too, that peace duced his bill This in the District Zihlman bill crackers, pretsels, or -loaves of fanc: less than one-fourt! also -excludes what known as “stale bread.” T T Americans to Rebuild Great Library of Louvain Plans have already been drawn for beautiful struc- ture to take the place of that destroyed by German army. Read this remarkable story from hunger. today reintro-| “mpe president vesterday directed an which would amend |official inquiry by Gen: Cesar Lopez the act establishing standard weights |de Lara, governor of Tamaulipas, rela- | and measures for the District. bill provides that the standard loaf of bread shall tive to the extent of the shutdown in the oil fields. He asked for immediate estimates on the number of welis not eigh one pound, but |i; gperation. and the number of me bread may also be manufactured in|ou g; Ao A e nq“medn:h,;l loaves of one-half pound, one pound [ 08 OF QoK o e T ore of the and a half or multiples of one pound. | §RCTERE 0 7o TS 1t also provides that every loaf of | “Dicritones telling of the withdrawal bread manufactured for sale shall|, " Armerican warshipe from Tamplen have affixed a label at least one-inch | 3oreTeceived late last night, after the square or one inch in diameter, on |gzous TIIENCRCCL 1Y Cloned. OMeinly Which shall be printed in bold type!Sho were reached declared they woula Ihe weight of the loaf In pounds or|{noi®pecuoted on the situation. fractions _thereof, a 3 standard loaf, and the name and ad- NAVAL CR. SR dress of tlll:e m?kb"'n.d AFT er of bre: s e ivedl under the Zihlman bill to itable scale and shall, when- ucsted by the buyer, welgh| f bread offered for 80 eludes| 'The situation in the Mexican port buns, rolls, scones of Tampico is not at this time such as bread welg! n {I R one poundalt ecessitatcs the maintenance there of is commonly Cleveland and Sacramento Orders weigh Explained by Government. an American naval guard to pro American Interests. That waa the e planation given in official circles to- day of orders for the cruiser Cleve- land and the gunboat Sacramento, which have just arrived at that port, |to_return to” their home atations. Withdrawal of the naval craft was decided upon at yesterday's cabinet meeting. Assurance that the presence of the ships in Tampico harbor had “noth- !ing whatever to do with disputes be- tween labor organizations” was given by Secretary Hughes yesterday in re- plying to protests sent-to the depart- ment by ‘union labor leaders. The Cleveland and Sacramento were sent as “a precautionary measure” ‘for rendering adequate protection tothe lives and property of American citi- it was said. . —— the national treasury to provide all|lera and Mr. Lloyd George would not ey Representative Fred N. Zihlman of |the aid necessary for workmen. many | % . must come out of the force Maryland, a member of the House|9f Whom were said to be suffering | be_long delayed. s ed in seeking a set- | Mr. Liovd George left for Chequers | #r¢ TOW engags 2 Court, his _suburban home, today in | Ie" . .r of Mr. De Valera ac- Somuie e other dominion premicrs | cepting Lloyd George's invitation who are in London to attend the im-{ T4d8: S o oy express on perial conference. It seemed proba- SAE: ¢ the British government !ble that during the week end at|the part o centuries of conflict be- Chequers Court arrangements would | 10 €n £ these two islands { British prime minister and the lead- | 308 ¢ 500" fry genuine desire | "The result of the conference held | of the people :‘gm';e Ly ) in Dublin yesterday, at which Mr.| “I have consulted with ¥ TO7 | De Valera decided to meet Mr. Lloyd | leagues and secur elewsoten | George, was announced so late last resentatives of g‘elom(he o evening that several of this morning’s | nation in regar ;e Invitetion newspapers did not comment on the | you have sent me. n SRR - UT0 i new development. The news every- | sire to say I am reacy f0, TICC 53 | where was displayed as being of ! discuss with you ov;‘ o great importance, however. and the a conference as that BEOROSCC COR few editorials which appeared wel-| reasonably hope to achie j comed. with one exception, the Irish | ject desired: iy vour truce with the greatest cordiality, an “I am, sir, h = the hope was expressed that it “EAMONN DE VALERA. might lead to permanent peace in SniTTen o8 CHES END. Atmosphere to Change. —_— The London Times declared that,|c, few Restrictions Also Lifted by once active hostilities ceased in Ire- land the whole atmosphere of that Military Authorities. country would change, “and that the gravest menace to a settlement by | By the Aswoclated Press. e ! negotiations will disappear.” DUBLIN, July 9.—The gov | It observed that Mr. De Valera’sl, . i order to co-operate in provid- Jetter to the prime minister, in which | here e, it 18 explained, “In he accepted the plan of a conference, | ing an atmosphere, oyl was guarded and non-commital add- | yhich peaceful discussion may be pos-, ing: “The fact remains, however, that | 1o~ hag directed the following: 3 Valera has chosen the pa " the military N neotiation in preference to that All e of continued warfare.” It declared | Police s tivity shall be restricted his gave substantiai grounds for | Military activity IR o "in their hope, ‘éspecially in_view of arrange- |to the support of ments made for a‘truce on Monday. jnormal civil dutiel, oy pe re- The newspapers noted that Mr. Lloyd| The curfe George “seems clearly to have under- | moved. i of selnforcements shall stood the danger of continued war- | The dispatd fare,” and concluded by -expressing be suspended. = .., 0 cnan be belief that “the end of this secular | Police functions '8 Tl 0 i, trouble, ruinous to Ireland and hu- n by the e ective from miliating to_this country, is Within| These directlo measurable distance.” noon Monday. ‘New Plane of Hopefulness. In Tomorrow’s Stgr Other articles and fiction in the Magazine by James A. Buchanan, Sewell Ford, Ring W. Lardner, Jonathan Brooks, Sterling Heilig and other well known writers. COLDLY TAKEN IN BELFAST. — The conclusion of a truce in Ire- FIRE INSURANCE CHANGES T the Chronicle asserted. lifted Exc a hange Makes New Bules Fol- | ipa negotiations (o a new pisne of | By the Associated Press. wing - Locl Tness and reality, the newsp: CPAST, July 9.—The new de- lowing- Lockwood Investigation. |NoP*Tamctiing’ upon the extraordi- | | JoUCNC | frish politics was coldly NEW YORK. July 9.—Three impor- | nary fact that Sir Nevil Macready.| eceived in Belfast, “Truckling 1o ihe COOLDRINKS, FANS, ETC., THESE DAYS; [ isioiia i St St ALL NEEDED BECAUSE OF METEORS | sty St WP an ao tive interest in the water sit: and has had one conference with- crom the Belfast News Let- By the Associated Press. i VALLEJO, Calif, July 9.—The extraordinarily warm weather of the present summer is caused by an unusual downpour of meteors on the sun, increasing its radia- tion and effective surface tempera- ture, in the bellef of Prof. T. J. J. Seo, government astronomer at . the Mare Island navy yard. Citing the fact that unusually” ‘Warm summers occur every ten or eleven years, he sala that “now, for the first time, by profound re- searches, astronomers are able to thro wsome light” upon this great mystery. “Since a mass of meteoric mat- ter greater than our moon is fall- ing into the sun every century,” “ he said, “it is very improbable that the downpour proceeds at a uni- form rate. If it comes down in gusts under the actions of the chief planets, Jupiter and Saturn, which are now near conjunction and are seen together in our even- ing then we should have sudden increases of the sun’s radi- ation, just such as we now witness all over the world. *“This is a sufficient explanation of the unprecedentedly hot mer.” Beach regarding measures that ma; be :g:phud ffirhmmrv-um It is nxy- pec e will have another conf with Gen. Beach next week. e — TAFT RAIL DUTIES END. MONTREAL, July 9.—Proceedings to determine the sum to be allowed stockholders in the Grand Trunk rail- way by the Canadial government, which has taken over the property, have ended after eight weeks of ar- gument. William H. Taft, a member of the arbitration board and newly appointed Chief Justice of the United States, will leave for Washington to discuss his new duties with President Harding. tant changes in the rules of the fire insurance exchange, which was criti- cised by Samuel Untermyer during ~ The Sunday Star’s Rotogravure Section contains the story of the “battle of the century”—the Demp- sey-Carpentier bout—in pictures, round b You do not miss a single interesting phase of the bat- tle, even if you.did not have a ringside seat. In Tomorrow’s Star icommittee, are announced by N. S: rton, president. inge of reinsurance is to be allgwed between companies w ymembers of the exchan, n that Mutual compan -which have been practically prohibi .ed.-from doing business in the New York market may now become mem- ‘hers of the -exchange. dmeni adopted {imstructs ‘okerage committee of the exchange hereafter not to exact from compa- nies who™ are members of the old pledge that they will not do business with irms which ere not members. the, investigations of the Lol:kvlood‘-‘ commander in Ireland, was =Ly Thle o’ arive throush the strects of 33’5‘.’5.5.“.‘“. editorial on the truce, Bubtin’ dn full unitorm and umat- | {8 SAPULCR, i complications in the tended, but without molestation, 82y-} owning street truce announ D e disquieting “to all loyal mply in pros- | S} ot of the king and repulsive to | Wil oy rare for any truce arranged | = The Arst IMPLCA TR Lrce men e has for_the purpose of negotiating peace |, "rozched between the premier of to be tollowed by a reversion 1o Wor: |y, ‘United Kingdom and the presi- there was'a prospect hs Soat of the Irish republic whereby % Bellof the One jatter undertakes that the murder e police. soldlers and loyal citizens, The burning of residences of unionists " h and west, the wrecking of “ though the last chapter [in the sout! t oe"én,':‘a'."..'.:' and nflury is at length | trains. seiz mails, the cut ure of of wires, the robbing of post clore ~(Continued o Fage % Column 43 Wa on -