Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. Thunderstorms late this afternoon or night; tomorrow fair; no change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 87, at 2 p.m. today: lowest. 72, at 4:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. \ Closing New Yotk Stocks, Page 21. No. 28,205. Fntered as second-cfass matter post office Washington, D. C. - S SOUNDSALLES ON PROPOSAL FOR, - SEPARATE TREATY, Enters Into Discussions With i Powers on Alternative to Varsailles Papt. OBJECTION NOT EXPECTED, FRANCE WANTS SUPPORT | Believes Moral Effect of American Signature on Existing Treaty Would Have Been Great. BY DAVID LAWRENCE The United «tes government has entered into informal discussions with Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan to determine whether they as £ the group known-as the| Ilied and associated pow- ¢ objection to the mak- member: *“principal ers” have Y ing of a separate treaty between the United States and Germany, which shall include in its text the same | rights and privileges granted the| United States in the economic and | reparation clauses of the Versailles | treaty. ! This step. which has been in prog- ress for several di is the alterna- tive to the submission of the Ver- sailles pact with reservations, and if the allied powers interpose no ob- Jections and no legal complications arise the “irrcconcilables” in i the | American Senate will have their way to the extent that the orizinal Ver- sailles pact will not be submitted to | tlem again, while the pr + ment will ‘have the satis knowing that approximately 30 per ‘nt of the Versailles pact will be | included in the new treaty to be ne- | gotiated with Germany Objections Not Anticipated. Ohgections from the allies are not anticipated. though it is known that | France would havs liked to see| America_sign the Versailles treaty | and ratify it. even though the reser- vations excluded the league covenant + and participation in the enforcement | clauses of the treaty. France be- | lieves the moral effect of America's | signature on the Versailles treaty is | a viluable asset in making Germany | understand that the partnership of | powers begun during the war has by no means been dissolved. On the other hand, the answer made here is | that Germany cannot possibly derive | any impression of division in the | allied ranks because she w.l be | asked n a treaty containing | clauses on reparations almost identi- | cal with those in the Versailles pact. | Germany's obligation to pay for the ! war_will. be_just as muc] sre:sedi in the new German-Am treaty @s in the Versailles convention. Little Difference in Pacts. There is in reality little difference in substance between the submission | of the Versailles pact with reserva- tions and the alternative now being worked out with the aliies covering a separate treaty with Germany. But there is a difference in form and | it is sufficient to cool the wrath of the “irreconcilables” and make easier the ratification of the treaty. Pres dent Harding and his cabinet practically every day come face | face with problems which cannot be | because America’s economic | | 1 solved relationship with Europe is unset- tled. it is with the idea of a speedy settiement of all important questions pending. with Europe that the sepa- rate treaty plan has been more or| less determined upon. Its final ap- | proval by the administration will, of | course, depend upon the replies of | the allies and the arguments they | make as to the validity of Amer.ca's ! rights when granted under a sepa- | rate treaty i It does raise some interesting legal| points, for, while America <will in one | sense be withdrawing from the legal | partnership created by the joint sig- | matures on the Versailles treaty, she Wil be asking the partners to agree | 10 a cession of the same rights through another instrumentality—a Sseparate treaty. Allies Have More to_Gal i Just now the allies have more to| . zain than lose by agreeing to America’s wishes. The funding of the | allied _debt over a period of years| mean® more to the allies than techni- cal questions and abstract rights. The con: nt of the allies is confidently ex- ted. Diplomatic notes vxn:hangn-d“ between the United States and the al- lied powers will be sufficient to safe guarnd America’s rights and when once those notes have been received the United States government will feel free to lay the text of the new treaty before the German govern- | ment. | Of course Germany might balk and | try to reopen the economic clauses of | the treaty for general discussion, but Germa would soon be told that the matters are not open for parley and de- | bate but are closed. G more to gain than lose by accepting the | American viewpoint, erybody in | the government feels A;min that when | the all consent ha heen obtained ! the rest will be smooth sailing. 1 The Harding foreign policy is slowly being evolved. Step number one is| settling our economic relationships with Europe; step number two is the confer- | ence on disarmament already called, butl svhich is expected to remove sources of friction in the far east, and step number | three is a general plan for the preserva- | tion of world peace either by a league ! or an association of nations or some ! other nd of international conf\‘rencef body which shall substitute counsel and discussion for war. (Copyright, 1921.) SCHOOL SITES ORDERED. Commissioners Approve $22,000 for Buchanan Street Land. Another school site was ordered to pe purchased today in connection with the District emergency school build- | \ gng program. The ground adjoins the | Buchanan School, in the block between 13th and 14th and D and E streets southeast. It comprises 61,688 square | Seet of ground and will ‘provide addi- | tional room for a playground as well Bs a site for a new school building. The District Commissioners in board jession today approved a proposal to fBcquire the site at a cost of $22,000. * MEXICAN REVOLT NIPPED. feader Defeated and Troops Dis- 4 “ persed by Federals. VERA CRUZ, July 19.—Gen. Pelas- icietas, the revolutionary leader, has Peen defeated at Chinampa and his roops dispersed by federal soldiers un- er command of Gen. J. Guadalupe San- ¢ &hez, chief of military operations in the tate of Vera Cruz. The federal forces arms and ammunition from the . N \ i President Confers With Secretaries | which extends until November 1. New Chairman of House Appropriations Committee REPRESENTATIVE _MARTIN B. MADDEN. (Harris & Ewing Photo.) MADDEN CHAIRMAN OF APPROPRIATIONS Seniority Rule Is Broken in House in Selection of - " - linois Representative. Represetnative Martin B. Madden, | republican, of Illinois today™ was elected chairman of the committee | on appropriations of the House. suc- ceeding Representative Good of Iowa, | who recently resizned from the House. Mr. Madden was chosen over the anking republican of the committee, Representative Davis of Minnesot and Representative Burton of Ohio and Representative Wood of Indiana. He received 153 of the 285 votes cast in the committee on committees, Rep- resentative Mondell of Wy ming. chairman of the committee, an- nounced. | The vote cast for each candidate | was: Madden. 153; Davis, 61; Burton, 5 Wood, 14. Total, 285. Necessary to elect, 143. The new appropriations chairman | has served nearly sixteen years in the House from the first district of 1lli- nois (Chicago). His selection marks a break in the seniority rule, which hitherto had largely governed the naming of committee chairmen in; the Hcuse. Mr. Mondell said the rule was dis-| cussed in the meeting, but that there appeared not to be a disposition to adhere to it to the point of making it a fetish. RAIL PROBLEM DISCUSSED Mellon and Hoover. The railroad problem was discussed by President Harding again today with Sceretaries Mellon and Hoover and Charrman Cummins of the Sen- ate interstate commerce committee. Jt was indicated afterward that no detinite solution had been reached. It was understood that among otiaer things the President asked Senator Cummins’ views on what legislation might be necessary to 1aise money on ratiroad securities held by the V- ernment 'n order to pay to the roads 1sh amounts owed them as a result oi governmental operation. N GEN. MARCH IN COBLENZ. Traveling in Europe for Data for World War Articles. i COBLENZ, July 19.—Gen. Peyton C. March. former chief of staff of the United States Army, arrived here Monday night. Gen. March is on a leave of absence He announced before iling that visit to Europe was for the purpose of collecting material and data for a series of articles on the world war. SENATE OFFICES MAY | BE MEETING PLACE OF DISARMING DELEGATES It was intimated at the White House today that it was very possi- ble that the Senate office building will be the meeting place of the delegates to the disarmament con- ference, to be held here in Novem- ber. It is known that the President has expressed the desire to hold the meeting in a government building, and those who are in a position sto know say that he is favorable to the selection of the Senate office building. The President today intimated that there would be at least one member of the Senate delegated to represent the country at the con- ferenc {other it realiz ¢ neutral ~ @he WASHINGTON, | EAGUE FIGHTING OR LIFE IN FACE OFU.S.PROPOSAL Europe Feels Disarmament Call Is Plan to Substitute New Alliance. CHARGE AMERICA REFUSES TO JOIN OR TO CO-OPERATE Austrian Reconstruction Scheme Brings on First Skirmishes in Bitter Contest. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. able to The Star und Chi Copyright. 1 PARIS, France, July 19.—The first skirmishes of what threatens to be a bitter contest between the Harding administration and the league of forty-eight nations having its head- quarters in Geneva, Switzerland, have occurred.- There is no doubt in the minds of European statesmen that one of President Harding's principal aims in calling a disarmament con- ference in Washington is to attempt to substitute any alliance there formed for the existing league. Whether the league lives: or dies By seems to depend largely on what Mr. | Harding can definitely propose and on the attitude of the principal European sowers toward the proposal Europe's dilemma is serious. On the one hand it ardently desires the co- operation of the United States in world reconstruction, but on the that to_dissolve the league of nations would necessarily entail a revision of the treaty of Ver- sailles and consequently the calling of a new peace conference. What the outcome will be no one can guess. L. S. Refuses Co-Operation. Meanwkile the United States gov- ernment apparently has decided not only not to join the league, but to re fuse co-opcration in any way. A few weeks ago the league communicated to some fifty governments, including that of the United States, the recom mendations of its conference on pass- port regulations and asked for com- ment. From the United States no re- ply was received. The other day however, the American consul in Ge- neva called at the headquarters of the league and explained in the name of his government that as the United States had no relations with the league it could not answer the league's letters. Here is another Incident that is no less significant. The supreme coun- cil having tried in vain to evolve an ©d the problem over to the league financial commission. The latter soon obtained the consent of all parties in Austria to a reconstruction program based on the Termeulen credit plan. Promises of small temporary loans were obtained from France and Britain and for the first time the countries. Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Holland, all promised loans. However, before the scheme can be put into effect the existing financial claims on Austria must, it i estimated, be postponed twenty years. The allies, even including Jtaly, have agreed to waive their claims for this length of time. No Acknowledgment Received. Would the United States, to which Austria owes $25.000,000 for relief, do likewise? The league reported the situation back to the council of ambassadors. That council cabled t Washington inquiring whether the United States. fhe interest of Eu- rope’s reconstruction, was also will- ing ta postpone its claims. Up to date no acknowledgment whatever has been received from Washington. It is understood ‘that it is the de. cision of the league disarmament commission to proceed with its work in spite of President Harding's call- ing of another disarmament confer- ence, but this is not intentional oppo- sition to the American administra- tion. The league's disarmament ac- tivity was set in motion by the league assembly and the commission is obliged to report back to the as- sembly when it meets on September 1. Rene Vi viani hopes that the league's {work will serve as a basis for the work of the Washington conference. Prof. Alphonse-Aulard of the Sorbonne considers that “the United States will be unable to bring about general dis. armament without the league of na tions and the latter will be unable to realize its Dprogram without the United States.”” 3 Philippe Melett, one of the leading French political writers, considers that while it is possible that open antagonism_ will ~ develop between President Harding and the league, is far more likely that the leagu conciliatory policy will succeed winning over ti in he United States to some form of collaboration. At bottom,” he says, “republican United States asks nothing better than to reach some honest compro mise. In the end it will become recon. ciled to this league of nations, whose greatest fault is that it was utilized in an American presidential cam- paign. In the end everybody will see (Continued on Page %, Column 6.) gorence. . - | TwonmedonPee B TRMD) URGES NAME PLATE FOR EACH TREE IN PUBLIC GROUNDS OF WASHINGTON 1 In a letter today to Lieut. Col. 1 C. O. Sherrill the marking of the trees in the public grounds of Washington is strongly urged by P. S. Ridsdale, secretary of the American Forestry Association.® The object in view, the letter says, would be making the nation’s Cap- ital a national arboretum that would be a great benefit not alone to the citizens of the District, but to the thousands of citizens who Visit the nation's capital every year. The letter to Col. Sherrill fol- lows: “From time to time there has been suggestions made for mark- ing the trees in the District, both with their scientific and their com- mon names. It seems to me there is in this a great opportunity for making the nation’s capital ulti- mately a real national arboretum for all the people. “There has becn a great awaken- ing to the value of nature study in our public schools. The time to teach these things is when the pupil jis young. Every day they have mahy opportunities for study because of | the tree beauties of Washington. If the trees of the District are marked there will be a fine opportunity to turn ‘lessons’ into pleasure, not alone for the young, but for all the rest of u: ashington is the world's capital when it comes to display- ing nature’s beauties and wonders. Then why not build up what would in reality be a national ar- boretum. I _am told by Miss Blanche C. Howlett you favor such a plan. I will be glad indeed to help push such a plan to a con- clusion.” “I1 believe that the trees of the District should be marked.” said Secretary Ridsdale today. t may be that a little guide book to trees can be issued, just as we have an organization that.marks the his- toric and interesting places in the District. This book could be fur- nished the schools, and the_ visitors who _ are interested and the plan would be a big advertising asset for the District. The astonishing interest on the part-of the school children in nature study must not go to waste and everything possible must be dome to encourage such interest. “In many cities the trees are marked in some way, but the gen- eral rule is to mark them only with the scientific name. This is wrong; the common name of a shrub or tree should be included king.’ bening SBtaf. WITH AY MORNING EDITION Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise eredited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rigits of pullication of special dispatches bereln are also reserved. LG e | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 89,278 D. C, TUESDAY, NEWPORT SCANDAL Senate Commitiee De- nounces Former Navy Chiefs in Report. Former Secretary Daniels and for- mer Assistant Secretary Roosevelt of jat the Newport training station in | the majority report of a Senate sub- i committee made public today. | The charges made by clergymen o { Newport and the Providence Journal, | the report says, “have been proved to |ard both the clergy and the Journal, says the report, “deserve the thanks {of the people at large.’ t the same time today, Mr. Roose- velt issued a statement declaring that Senators Ball of Delaware and Keyes of New Hampshire, the two republi- cans, who constituted the majority of the investigating committee, had issued their findings without giving him a hearing, after promising to do {80, which Mr. Roosevelt in his state- mént contended “shows a premeditat- ed and unfair purpose of seeking what they mistakenly believe to be a_partisan political advantage.” Senator King of Utah, the demo- cratic member of the investigating committee, will file a minority report later. Details Unprintable. Most of the details of the Newport iscandal as it is disclosed in the in- | vestigation are of an unprintable na- ture. The crux of the majority re- ort’s charges is that with hte knowl- ort's charges is that with the knowl- I velt enlisted men of the Navy were improperly “used as participants in immoral practices for the purpose of securing evidence on which to dis- miss offenders from the Navy. Mr. Roosevelt, under whose office the investigating was conducted, is eld by the majority to be “morally responsible” for the orders. The findings of a naval court-mar- tial which investigated the scandal are introduced in che record for the first time. It held the action of Mr. Roosevelt “unfortunate and ill vised.” Secretary Daniels disapprov- ed the portion of the findings which condemned the method of investiga- tion, and on that point the committee report today says: “The committee agrees that Franklin D. Roosevelt's | action was not only ‘unfortunate and ill_advised,’ but most reprehensible, and Mr. Daniels' disapproval of this | opinion of the court is to be severely condemned.” Sent Orders to “Stop It.” Mr. Roosevelt in his statement said that at no time was the work of in- vestigating supervised by him person- ally, and that when, in September, 1919, he and the acting chief of the bureau of navigation were informed | that members of the investigating squad “had used highly improper and | revolting 'methods 1n getting evi- dence,” immediate orders were sent out “that day to stop it.” The insinuations that I must have known, that I supervised the opera- | tions, that I was “morally responsi- ble,” said Mr. Roosevelt's statement, i “are nowhere supported by the evi- dence, directly or indirectly.” On that point, however, the major{ty findings of the investigating commit- tee hold that Mr. Roosevelt was pres- ent at conferences which determined the methods of the investigating and that “it is beyond the comprehension of the committee how the methods to be used could have been entirely eliminated and forgotten at the con- ferences.” If Mr. Roosevelt did not inform himself of the methods used. the majority report says, he “was most derelict in his duty.” “Ijt is probably true says the majority report, “as contended by both Secretary Daniels and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, that they were ~ INQUIRY SCORED the satisfaction of the committee.”| ad- ! JULY 19, 1921_TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. 2 | i ] PRECAUTIONARY. i Released, Mrs. Bergdoll Says; Mrs. Emmmess=RBergdoll of Philadel- | money. but asserted “he was an agent Iphia ‘today told a House committes flf‘.‘gh-- Sg\'firr:m‘:im.' ; Lo Zating the @écane el “Campbell told me he could not ac- tigating the escape of Grover .., any money for himself.” said Mrs. nd Bergdoll, her slacker son. Bergdoil, “but that he wanted the | he gave $5.000 to Maj. Bruce|$100.000 for the higher-ups at Wash- Campbell, an Army officer at Gover: ington and New York. | Through Joseph F. Houlahan, book- nors Island, for use “among high offi- el M| keeper for Wassermann Bros. mem- cials at Washington” to help obtain | bers of the New York Stock Exchange, | his freedom. | it was developed that Maj. Campbell had deposited $4,500 in with the | Campbell. she said, first demande rm on ebruary 10, 1920. Mrs. Berg- | | doll had testified that the pavment to | 1$100.600, but she refused. the Navy. are denounced for the! Mrs —Bergdoll said she took the | Campbell was made late in January methods used in investigating the!money to the island and handed it to| T €arly in February of that year. war-time scandal amog enlisted men |Grover. by whom it was turned over| The ledger ‘account showed that p el from February 10 to Junme 30, Camp- | « ell, she ambiell e it l:,l“};bell lost $5.416 on a series of trades. | | other officer for the purpose indicated. | HiS account was closed on the latter | 1" May. Campbeli recently told the|date, and Houlahan testified that he | | committee he did not receive one dol- | Stll owed the firm $415. ilar from the Bergdolls. He has been| Campbell's regular bank account | { summoned from Camp Pike to answer :*h‘;hm‘:h;\;:\;_ ‘\n«:?l(“:ea:cke l‘n':)epec;;:imnx ; 3 < - the charges of Mrs. Bergdoll. { e { tee was informed, showed the usual | Mrs. Bergdoll said she did not know | 16 Wa8 1nfermed, showed the | |the name of the men mentioned by and | "Camybell - as havifig™ recelved ‘the I~ (Continu Column 7.) {to Campbell her e had pass on Page DEADLOCK CAUSED |LASKER DISGLOSES | IN PEACE PARLEY | HUGE SHIP DEFICIT BY PREMIER GRAIG sss0000000 vostingpers: tion Last Year, He Says, in Startling Charges. With the publication today of re- vised estimates of the Shipping { Board's deflcit for the last fiscal year 1 Showing a total of $380,000,000, or ap- | | By the Associated Tress. proximately $280,000,000 more than LONDON, Jaly 19.—Eamonn de Val-|Previous estimates. Chairman Lasker | era, the Irish republican leader, ana | ©f the board said he was prepareq to hin colleagues who nccompanied him |2PPear before congressional commit- to London for the conferemce with|!¢®S t0 explain the condition of the Prime Mintster Lissd George, In the | P02T0’s finances and ask for a relief effort to Iny the basis of a tri-partite | 2PPropriation of approximately $300,- | conference for n solution of the Irish | 000.000 for th ecurrent fiscal year. | | question, are marking time in antici-|IN announcing the new estimate of | pation of the conversation of Mr. de; the deficit incurred in operation of . {the government fleet, Chairman Las- | | Valern and the prime minister Thura- | ker Geclared the books of the Shipe day morning. It in reported that by:ping Board were 4n a that time Mr. Lloyd George will have ! condition” and that they “could not | ihave been kept in much different | | certain propositions to present to he! shape had they been kept with a view Irish lender which will have recelved|to cheating and deceiving Congress | the npproval of the British cabinet. .““'ll tllle coumdr 1 LONDON, July 19.—Irish negotia- now and want to explain.” the 0] ; & chairman added, ‘that Admiral Benson tions appear to have reached a dead-| (former chairman of the board) and | lock in so far as they concern a tri-| Auditor Tweedale had not the re- | partite conference between David|motest thing to do with such gross Liloyd George, the British prime min- | ™ iSTepresentations.” { ister; Eamonn de Valera, Irish re-| , SYttem Started During War. publican leader, and Sir James Craig. | wynne ACCOURtINE systems, Ulster Leader’s Refusal to Compromise Political Rights Brings Alarm. r he said, in the stress of war T e MEInY when S James, A he dec|and continued in the stress of “in- : ! e ough outside | varted for Belfast, issued a statement { S0URCICNY, ) TR0, (houkh outside | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) igiven out, “I don't guarantee them 5 “When I shov ’l the President the | figres he was stocked and CaPnayed | that such a condition could exist,” Chairman Lasker continued. ‘“Bhe $300,000,000 reecived from operations | when deducted from the $680.000.000! received by the board from all| sources shows net expenditures of $380,000,000, although the public rec- | ords show $100,000,000 to be all that | had been appropriated by Congress | for the year. This is an astounding | case of absolute deception of the | country and of Congress. It will be | a shock to Congress, as it was to the President, to hear that the net cxpense of this enterprise paid out | of public funds last year was $380,- | 000,000.” Funds From Sale of Ships. Chairman Lasker explained that the extra funds to keep the estab- lishments going were obtained chief- ly from -the sale of $200.000,000 of |.J, FARRELL LEAD Gave Major $5,000 to Get Son ' | Mitchelr: {qualify.ng round than “deplorable | . 'Today’s News TWO CEN S. \ Dollar-a-Year Salary Voted by City Heads; All Bank Presidents Associa ;19— iden wan y the city com- | . the first under the new | | | commixkion form of zovern- | | | ment here. The commissioners, | | | eneh of whom ix prexident of a { local bank, voted themwelvex | saluries n yenr and fixed salary | [ the m )rulilv‘ and councilmen under the old form of govern- | ment were paid salariex of | #1500 annually. | i i SRS Y GOLFERS WITH A 74 Morning’s Play at Columbia ! Leaves Mitchell Second and Hutchison Third. J.J. Farrell of Quaker Ridg ¥ led] the field up to 1 o'clock today in | the first half of the qualifying round for the open golf championship of the United aver the course of the Columbia untry _Club. arrell | turned in a card of 74. He was one | stroke in front of Abe Mitchell of | land and two strokes ahead of Jock Hutchison, the British open | champion. Hutchixon Off His Ga Jock Hutchison, the Dritish open champion, and Abe Mitchell of Eng- land turned in card cf 76 and respectiv . in the qualifying round today for the open zolf champion of the United tes over the course of Celumbia Country Club. Hutchison did not play up to his| urual fine game and had to work hard to secure his 76, Mitchell. on the other hand. played well within | himself at all times and notwithstand- | ing ho a &ix on the par finished with a enteenth The Hutchison-Mitchell match carried the gallery, fully 2,000 people following ‘the players in the latter half of their rounds.” The scores on the incoming nine follow : Hutchinson..... 4 454 4 43 4 4—36 Total. 76. Mitchell . 454344364—37 Total, Hutchison was very erratic around | round, he putting greens all during h while Mitchell was very accurate and did not miss a holeable putt. Drives Out of Bounds. At the seventeenth hol vards in | length, Mitchell's tee shot carried to the | green and rolied out of béunds. He in-| curred a two-stroke penatly, and had to | take six on the hole. At the eighteenth hole, with a large | gallery banked around the green, second shot was sliced and struck a spectator, bounding within five feet of the putting green. The scores turned in up to 1 o'clock were distinctly on the high side, none of the contestants playing as well as| they have done in practice rounds. Hutchison In Favorite. All the contestants up to 10 o'clock went off on time. The weather was favorable for golf today. although the sky was overc The course w slow and the putting greens had been thoroughly watered during the night, making possible pitches up to the hole. A half hour before he was scheduled to play Jock Hutchison appeared on the practice tee and drove a number of balls down the eighteenth fairvay Hutchison was forced to stop his prac tice for a while just before 10 o'clock to face a batlery of cameramen anxious to secure a picture of the holder of the British title. When Hutchison and Mitchell teed off Mitchell outdrove Hutchison by some twenty yards in the tee shot. = Abe Mitchell of England reached the turn in 38, while Hutchison of Chicago! went out in 40. Neither man played | good golf, both being erratic around the greens. Scores: Hutchison. 53616543440 Mitchell....... 44545443538 At the third hole Hutchison was short of the green in two and took three putts. At the fifth he put his second shot out of bounds and played his fourth on the green. Kirkwood Starts Well. Joseph Kirkwood, Australian cham- pion. had a good outward trip. He made the nine holes in 36, one over par. He made the 39%-vard fourth hole with a birdie “three. Scores for the first nine holes indi- jcated probable higher scoring in the had been ex- pected on the basi§ of the pract Sunday and Monda; 40. White, Wykagyl as did Jack Dingwall in the air, and Rowe, Germantuwn was paired with William ' Hermitage, Richmond, scores Rowe, 40; Skelly, 44. Other were Platt, 41; Manley,™ 45, w scores Lorms, 42; Beese, 45. Scores for 1S Holes. The first comvlete scores returned were those of Longworth and Ellis. The former came in in 39 for a round of 82, while Ellis made the course in S1. Other scores were: Charles H. Lorms, Inverness, Toledo, 42—41—83. Arthur Beebe, West End, N. J., 45— 39—S84. James E. Ferguson, Spring Lake, N. J., 38—40—78. Wilfred Thomson. Country Club of irginia, 39—39—78. (Continued on Page 2. Column i in Pa; in Paragraphs Gave major $5,000 to get son released, Mrs. Bergdoll testifies. Page 1 New method adopted for purifying water in tidal basin. Page 1 Ulster premier causes temporary dead- lock in Irish peace negotiations. Page 1 Senatorial committee scores Daniels and |ix the estimated back | BAOTOSHED INOPERATIV OST 3YPUBLCPRIER Vast Cuts Effected by Gov- ernment Office Through Economy. TREASURY DEPARTMENT TO RECEIVE $2,316,786 Mr. Carter Expects That Expenses Can Be Pruned to Even Greater Extent. Three and a half been cut from the the George million dollars has expenditure rolls of zovernment H has printer, it was learned f ment issued from the Of this amount, returned to the Ty out of the printi the past fiseal y print Carter oftice = been state- blic ofti asury Department appropriation ar, while $1,1 6.70 aving from - propriations of the current fiscal year which Mr. Carter has reported 10 the bureau of the hudget. Rigid Economy Practiced. During th of April, May and June Mr. ¢ ceted a reduction amounting 1o 4 million dollars for a month in ditures of the |oftice, the ¢ for that period as M with the ame three months 1 being § 523.71. Rigid economy is credited a the cause for the saving. { A reduc purchases of paper, machinery. equipment and suppl |for the office, which the printer d cided was not necessary at t time, jespecially in view of the declining tmarkct. resulted in a saving of $l- 135846984 The 1 der of the de cre for th. months. totaling 1 $150,052.87. was due 1o o reduction in {the total of wages paid. as compared {with the preceding year on July 1. when th on the rolls. Approprintion, $8,005, The direci appropriation government printing office i year amounted to $8.0: ddition to which that office did i paid for from other funds in were more employes in print excess of $5.750.3i1. The total funds handled by the public printer thus amounted to $13.845.211.52 for th i fiscal ar just ended. The rep printing ne, which is paid for by Ithe departments from funds other than {the regular printing allotments, in- creas: 31 over the preceding fiscal yea . notwithstanding this increase in repay printing. the ex- penditures of the government print- ing office for the year show a net de- crease of $2,148.31¢ as compared with the fiscal year 1 As before indicated, $1.508,323.71 of this decrease was effected by Mr. Car- {ter during the last three months of | the fiscal year, while the decrease dur {ing the nine months of the vear that {his predecessor was in charge of the 1 B rnment printing office amounted {to 639, The decreased expenditures will make it possible for the publie printer {to turn back into the Treasury more thun $2.316.786 as the pnexpended bal ance of the direct appropriation of {$8.095.100.52 which Congress made to {the government printing office for the {fiscal year just ended. | “The met saving in th direct_appro- priations for the last vear is Yully 35 per cent, notwithstanding the plant improvements which Mr. Carter has under way. such ax the the eighth floor to provide a big cafe- teria and auditorium for the em- | ployes. the expense of which has al- ready been charged to the appropria- tion for the fiscal vear and ac- counted for in the reductions. Saving on Paper. In its report to the budget bureau the government printing office has estimated a saving of at least $1.- 123.536.70 out of the direct appropria- tion of $7.455 0 for the public alterations of $5,402. printing and binding the ensuing fis- cal year. This is a reduction of more than 15 per cent, which the public printer figures - saved the com- ing year by the government printing office in co-operation with the bud- get bureau and the departments. The principal items in this saving are an estimated reduction of at least 25 per cent in the cost of paper next year and the more economical opera- 1“(!" of the government rinting of- {fice. The public printer states that | even greater reductions can be made if the departments themselves de- crease the amount of printing ordered of the government printing office. In | his report to the budget bureau, th {public printer estimates that repay | printing ordered of him can be re- tduced by fully $1.000.000 the coming vear. The figures for such printing may amount to approximately $4.500,- 1600, as compared with $5,730,111, which | the departments spent for printing {last year from appropriations other than " their regular printing allot- ments. It has been the practice of public {printers to stock up the warchouse of the government printing office during the closing months of a fiscal vear {if they found sufficient funds on hand |for that purpose. Mr. Carter decided {that such a procedure was not to the | best interests of the government at this time, especially in view of the { prevailing’ market conditions and the {plans of the budget bureau for rigid economics in the public printing and binding. Explains Policy. | “I concluded it would be a most un- businesslike and decidedly improper use of the people’s money to contract for vast quantities of supplies, such Roosevelt in Newport scandal find- :as paper and expensive machinery, in ings. Page 1|the face of a declining market.” said not ‘officially’ informed regarding acts of operators or detectives” until Tater, adding that “all through the| records before this committee strenu- | ous and strained efforts were made by naval officers fo differentiate between official knowledge and knowledge as the ordinary layman has it Hits at Lieut. Hudson. Lieut. Erasmus N. Hudson of the Medical Corps, who was in direct charge of the investigation, the re- rt says, “showed utter lack of moral responsibility,” should have been court-martialed. The maval personnel “would be benefited,” the report says, if the name of Chief Machinists Mate Ervin Arnold. Hud- son's assistant in'the investigation, were “stricken from the roster of the Navy.” The report notes that ‘no commissioned officer of the regular naval establishment was involved. Mr. Roosevelt in his statement on the majority report summed up his reply this way: ““Throughout their report I accuse them of deliberate falsification.of BVl-' dence, of perversion of facts, of mis- statements of the record and of ‘a de- Jiberate attempt to deceive,” s g The most suspense- laden detective story of a decade. It deals with the mil- lionaire set of New capital assets, ships and supplies, plus $80,000,000 of a balance from funds left from last vear, “Approximately $200,000,000 repre- sents the absolute loss on operations | in the fleet,” he continued, “and then ; there was $160,000,000 spent on ship | construction. What these newly ac- quired assets are worth is highly questionable. “The plans for the steamer American Legion, which starts on its first trip in a few days, were redrawn seven times, and it is easy to see how that would run up the cost. First the American Legion was an Army trans- port, then a Navy transport, then a hospital ship, then it was determined to make her a cattle boat and aftéer spending money on all these blue prints, it was decided to transform her into a passenger ship—and she is a beautiful and fine passenger ship. But she cost between $6,000.000 and $7,000,000 before she sailed her first miles Her real worth is probably haif her cost. So you can see-the s are pretty sick assets. But, after all, there is a fleet. So that our task tflul_mnudonrm.z.colmnl.)_ l'rwo convicts missing after serjous riot League fighting for life in face of Hard- ing disarmament proposal. Page 1 U. S. sounding out allies on proposal for separate peace treaty with Germany. . Page Lasker reveals Shipping Board deficit of $380,000,000. \ Page 1 Defense is pleased in court-martial case of Lieut. Col. Shelley. Page Air bombers score eleven direct hits before sinking cruiser Frankfurt. Page 3 Operator tells of killings in Mingo mine district. Page 4 in Pennsylvania penitentiary. Page 13 Commissioner Oyster may ask trial of plan to increase electric rates to cut car fares. Page 13 Soker is seen in new parking regula- tions. Page 13 t guard cutter Bear reaches Nome Conrtn Srescued men, aboard, tions for zoning régula A'gyl:-.mulon. Page 13 President seeks estimates on disarma- ment conference costs in order to ask " Congress for funds. Page 17 1] Page 13 | J¥ jons reach | The i{Mr. Carter, in explaining the big un- expended balance he is turning back into the public Treasury. “We have a fair stock of paper and { other materials on hand and 1 believe further reductions in prices will fully { justify my refusal to stock up at this time. 2 any event, T am sure that Con- | gress would rather have me turn this money back into the Treasury mow, and later ask for additional’ funds, With which to buy supplies and equip- ment. if needed, in the future, than o have me load up at high prices and without regard to the needs of the service. Though the offict could make good use of considerable new ma- Shinery and Congress authorized me fo expend $100,000 for this purpose alone, 1 have spent only $2.100 for i necessary machinery, as I believe that Jower prices- the coming -year will fully warrant this action. us well as my refusal to fill the warehouse with kh-griced paper and other materials. lay has passed when favored contractors can fill their pockets with profits from the government printing office at the expense of the publie Treasury.” -