Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1921, Page 2

AWAIT FOUR MORE U. S. Officers Take .Over Ships Chartered to United States Mail Company. . By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 23.—Agents of the United States Shipping Board waited today for the arrival of four big steamers chartered to the United States Mail Steamship Company, in order that they might add them to five selzed last night. The steamers seized last night were among the finest in the United States merchant marine, and all were for- mer German liners. They are the George Washington, which President Wilson used on his trip to the Ver- sailles peace conference; the Amer- - ica, Susquehanna, President Grant and te~ Agamemnon. Their aggregate value * is said to be $25,000,000. The seizures resulted, according to Elmer Schlesinger, counsel for the Shipping_Board, from failure of the United States Mall Steamship Com- pany to pay rentals aggregating about $400,000, and because of cer- tain other ‘alleged laxity by the company in carrying out its contract with the Shipping Board. Will Man One Ship. Custodians were placed on board all the seized steamers, and in the case of the George Washington, which is booked to sail for Europe on July 30, with a large 'passenger list, the Shipping Board proposes to operate « her itsell, unless another company can %. be found In the meantime to operate her, Mr. Schlesinger sald. Mr. Schlesinger sald an investiga- tion showed an unwillingness on the part of the previous Shipping Board 1o enforce obligations due them, and that approximately five million dol- lars had been spent by that board in reconditioning the vessels after they had been chartered by the steamship company. This money, he said, need not have been spent by the govern- ment, as the ships were chartered on a “bare boat” bas Denies Line Is Responsible. It was emphasized by Mr. Schles- inger that the cdmpany was not re- sponsible for this outlay of money, declaring it to be a voluntary act of the retired board. The seizure of the vessels leaves the Uniteq States Mail Stéamship Company without a 2 shlpmng Board vessdl under its flag. 'A. Quarles, assistant to the presi- amntor The United States Mall Steam- ship Company, issued a Statement de- claring that the Shipping Board's ac- tion was without warning and abso- lutely inexplicable. 8 “It was reported some Weeks since.” the statement said, “that certain forces, foreign in nature, were deter- mined to take the fine fleet of pas- . senger ships being operated by our company from us and that they would leave no stone unturned to accomplish this end. It was further reported that these interests were moving Leaven and earth to get the newly ap- pointed Shipping Board to take some Dort ‘of action detrimental to this American gompany. Rumors Not Considered. “So confidenty however, was the management of the company in its own integrity and so little did it believe any government official could be influenced by statements being made against it, that rumors brought to the management were not con- sidered as having sufficient basis to merit action. “The action taken today would seem to indicate that foreign inter- ests and rumor mongers have been more successful than probably even e they hoped. It can be said on be- half of the management that this action will be fought to the last, and - that the real forces back of this movement will in the end be made perfectly clear.” —_— MR. DAVIS ORDERS PROBE. 't Labor Secretary Asks Inquiry Into Immigration Service. n. Becretary Davis yesterday, on recommendation of ~Commissioner 1+ General Husband, ordered a thorough nquiry into the immigration service ;o -l the principal ports and stations. The inquiry will be conducted under \» a committee composed of Assistant Secretary Henning, R. E. White of the bureau of immigratiod!, and Irv- ing ixson, assistant United States commissioner of immigration ¥+ at Montreal. The purpose, Sedfetary Davis said, “: was “to_promote economy and effici- ency and to find means of preventing the undue detention of immigrants pending admissiom, or departation.” He said no cha gu of graft at the . Ellis Island 8 are involved. The inyestigation , will. include a survey of the .hfn‘cll roperty of the service and Will take into consideration problems regarding the enforcement of the’ Chinese and Jap- anese exclusion rules. IGNORANT OF BRIBE. = Bergdoll's Brother Says He Knows Nothing of $5,000. Charles A. Braun' of Philadelphia, brother of Grover Cleveland Berg- doll, the draft dodger, who has changed his name since the notoriety attached to the Bergdoll family, told a House investigating committes to- diy that the first he heard of: the alleged payment by his mother of $5,000 to Maj. Bruce R. Campbell was * when he read of it in the newspapers. Braun was called as ‘a witness by Maj. Campbell in connection with Mrs. © Bergdoll's charge that she had pald the officer $5, aoo 1o help get the er out of pri e E. Ramin. (omnfly a Phila- delphia magistrate and long a confi- dential adviser ot the Bergdoll fam- Ly, also was called by Campbell. He /testifled that when he asked Campbell to - defend Irwin Berguoll, also a slacker. the major declared that he had enough of the Bergdolis. NAMED . C. C. MEMBER. Fred 1. Cox_of New Jersey has been seclected by President Harding as a - miember of the Interstate Commerce Cammission. He will succeed Chalr- man Clark, who has resignéd. While he was appointed as a mem- % ber of the commission, it was under- m%d that ‘Mr. Cox would not suc- to the- chnlrml!llhlp held by Commissioner Clark. ‘Thé chairman of-the commission, it 'IA said, would be selected in the regulaar way and it was not rohlbls that the new member would be given that im- » partaat position: - HEAR CHARLES PLANS' - ATTEMPT AT THRONE - " AGAIN, BUT IS BROKE ‘BERN, Switzerland, J 22— Many rumors concerning the fu- tare. plans of former Emperor les of Austria ‘are current - re, but no official announcement Bas confirmed any of the_re mwmle, the_former n.rer is at . ¢ nstein, near Lucerne, await- ing a decision of the Swiss gov- ernment on his future, which at present seems uncertain. Charles’ nor financlal condition is said to 2 dll!ln‘bln‘ factor in his plans. ‘The recent visit to tha 1omsr ruler of the r 8pain revived rumors !hAt he would go to that country, while the knowledge that Charles has the subject of diplomatic cori- vegsations with France has given rise to the belief that he desired to live in the Riviera. Meanwhile, the fact that the former monlrch‘ .nd uvlru “u Em dapest ‘ll “ Q’mfl tln ildl?flt“u\% sttempt to regain the nnmhn suzone would g: i e & W STREET CAR LEGISLATION PUT OVER TO WEDNESDAY House District Committee Finds Lack of Quorum for Monday . and Postpones. Consideration of District street car legislation has been postponed until Wednesday., owing to the fallure of the House District committee to mus- ter a quorum for Monday, to which date adjournment was taken yester- day. When the committee resumes consid- eration of the Woods bill for disposing of the street car problem here only the last section awalts approval. To this Representative Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland, chalrman of the special, subcommittee that conducted the traf- fic hearings, proposes to offer an amendment. The Zihlman amendment will allow the street car lines only six months in which to avail them- selves of the inducements offered them to merge under the Woods Lill. ‘The alternative proposed by Repre- sentative Zihlman to be written into the law is that if the street car com- panies do not merge within six months the Public Utilities Commis- sion would be instructed to determine a separate rate of fare for each com- pany, based on its individual fair val- vation as determined by the commis- sion. Representative Florian Lampert of ‘Wisconsin, who led the fight against the Woods bill in the committee yes- terday, also proposes . to offer two penalty amendments in the event that the street car companies do not promptly consolidate. If the merger is not effected in three months the proposed aLmpert amendment would straightway declare a rate of fare at four tickets for 25 cen! if they did not consolidate within six month: Representative Lampert would auto- matically put into operation the Kel- ler bill for municipal ownership and operation. EAGERLY AWAIT OUTCOME OF EMBEZZLEMENT CASES Three-Day Intermission in Pressing Charges Against Illinois Governor and Others. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, July 23.—Illi- nois today began her three-day inter- mission in the greatest political drama of her ' history—the Small-Sterling- Curtis indictments for embezzlement and fraud, growing out of the Sanga- mon county grand jury’s investigation of the state treasury. Until next Tues- day at least thé case remains in status quo. Gov. 8mall, temporarily immune from arrest, is expected to remain de- flant toward Sangamon county authori- ties who issued warrants for his ar- rest.. Lieut.-Gov. Sterling and Vernon Cur- tis, Grant Park banker, the other de- fendants in the case, have arranged their bonds, and their next appearance depends upon orders from the court. The all-important question in the capital today was: “What will happen next Tuesday?” If Judge E. S. Smith orders warrants served on Gov. Small next Tuesday there is a possibility of a clash be- tween state troops and deputies from the sheriff's office. The governor sald he will not submit to arrest. The prosecution contends that his position as chief executive of the state gives him no immunity. Counsel for the governor claim that it is within his power to call troops to shield him from arrest. This right is denjed in some other' quarters, which contend that troops ‘can be cplled only for the protection of the public upon the request of local au- thorities. . SETTLEMENT SEEN IN LLOYD GEORGE TERMS TO IRELAND (Continued from First $ake) based on dominion self-government and are made to both the north and south, the correspondent continues: “If the south accepts it will be open to the north independently to reject them. Then there would be the un- happy perpetuation of what the Sinn Fein stigmatize as partition. It is part of the cabinet’'s scheme that Ul- ster must not and cannot be coerced, and that the Sinn Fein should recog- nize the justice of applying to the north the principle of self-determina- tion in local affairs. “But_while, according to the cabi- net’s plans, the north is to retain in full measure the safegunrds provided by the ‘better governjpfient in Ireland act,” there will be very strong induce- ments for the north and south to co- operate in establishing and maintain- ing a central governing authority for the whole of Ireland to deal with questions of common interes ly the Times declares that he issue between the Irish leaders “oan almost be reduced to the question whether a joint body to administer all-Ireland affairs, be it parliament or council, should be constituted upbn the basis of equal or proportional rep- resentation.” ULSTER NOT CONCERNED. —_— . Has No Interest in Discussion of Fiscal and Financial Issues. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, July .23.—Ulster at the moment i not comcerned with the negotiations being carried on by the British government - with the Sinn Feln, it is declared in unionist qun - ters .hege. ~Theése négotiations, nerally assumed by the public, da-l with fiscal and financial questions. It is conceivable, political circles say, that in . certain eventualities Ulster 'tmilhd beco‘l!ng‘}‘nvoly‘z'ga but that 'stage o e proceedin not yet been reached. < ¥ Fresh developments in the political situation here were lacking today. No anxiety was expressed in unionist Cuarters, because they regard the position of Ulster as secure, holding that there. is ho question either of :Ile st'l:\r;rlxle“n‘t Oftln:epublh: or of the of e northe: Dnrllnmtntl. S REah, WALSH TO GO TO FRANCE. England Refuses to Vise fmport . of de Valera Adviser. NEW . YORK, . Jnly 38.—Frank P. ‘Walsh, Americah adviser to Eamon de Valéra, was here today to sail for France on ths steamship Rochambeau, having been unable to obtain a pas: rr; vlu‘so that he might visit Eng- ind. He sald that although Secretary of State Hughes had inquired ln(:’th. imatter, -the British representatives here had refused fo vise his passpott, asserting that théy were awaiting in- structions from ,the. foreign office in London. They siid that they had been ordered some time &go not to vise his p.unort. Ba declared. “Ther no legitimate reason in the wnrld he added, “why port should * lze held up. purely prejudicial ruaonl that this delay has occurred: If I am denied Ermlulcn to-go to-England, no Brit- h lawyer should-be allowed to land in_this country. “The treaty guarsiitees the rights of any American citizen to go to Eng- luna and hnve free movement. I stand right: )(r ‘Walsh said tre would go to Paris and transact personal business, and if he did not get permission to go to d he would return to the ates and immediately start an Investigation into the matter. ‘CALL TOBACCO MEETING. FLORENCE, 8. C., July 33.—Definite action as to what is best to be done jdealing with the general subject of | the documents should not be made EAL[S F[lR I]HAILS OF JAPANESE PAGT House Committee ‘Stirred by Report of Flooding of Hawaii. Informed that Hawail was being flooded with Japanese, the House im- migration committee asked the State Department yesterday to furnish de- tails of the “gentlemen's agreement” of 1908, with respect to Japanese con- trol of immigration “to the Unii States. Diplmoatic correspondence leading to the understanding, which the committee is told does not-apply to Hawall, never has been made pub- lic and the committee decided to in- vestigate. Despite contentions of some mem- bers that discussion of the matter at this time might impede plans for in- ternational conference'on disarmament and Pacific questions, the committee decided to go into the thirteen-year old immigration arrangement, atter it had heard J. V. A. McMurray, chief of the division of far eastern affairs of the State Department, and had re- ceived a telegram from V. 8. Mc- Clatchy, Sacremento, Calif., publisher, Japanese immigration. The committee has under considera- tion a resolution which would author- ize the President to lift the immigra- tion ban in Hawali to meet seasonal requirements for labor by importing Chinese and thus to aid the insular territory to get over the rough economic spots. The resolution was immediately subordinated to the broader question. U. S. Diplomatieally Bound. Mr. McMurray told the committee that Japan had never regarded the agree- ment as applying to Hawaii, and added incidentally that inasmuch as it was a voluntary proposition from Japan, this country was diplomatical- ly bound until ghe other party to the understanding should withdraw. His statement concerning Hawail brought from Chairman Johnson the exclamation that the time had ar- rived for a declaration that “Hawaii is a part of the United States with respect to Japan and all others.” Every angle of the exclusion ques- tion was touched on in some form or other, and members of the committee freely expressed dissatisfaction with loopholes which they said apparently were left In the agreemeent. They dencunced the practice of pcrmil!llll’ “plcture brides” to enter this coun- try, which Chairman Johnson said continued despite the diplomatic un- derstanding. Some Questions - Unanswered. Because of the delicacy of the sub- Ject, Mr. McMurray answered most |p, questions guardedly and some were nol answered at all. It was said that, if the correspondence is lonhcomlnx. it would be gone into behind closed The disastrous end of the German navy is vi Germans Skimp ISVID A LANDMARK [N HISTORY'S PATH Situation Today as Central Point in Near East Fight Recalls Ancient Glory. “The name of the town of Ismid,|the world over. where the recent retreat of Greek| Later, when we started for the Zo- forces made possible an attack on|ological Garden after coffe¢, my hos Constantinople by the Turkish na-|csg drew on a pair of very much the tionalists and raised the first grave jzame kind of gloves. “How do you threat of drawing other European|jike them? They are homemade,” she powers into the fray, would have ap-|said. They were. And they were made of peared many times in heavy black |, % 0. To¢ Ker son's oid tricot undy headlines if the modern newspaper|vwear She said that she had ha d ° existed throughout historic| pattern; she “cut them out of her t says a bulletin issued by the|jeq, National Geographic Society from its | Byt she told me, “they are charg- Washington headquarters. ing 30 marks for such gloves in the; “Ismid's once important harbor is|siores. And rather than pay such a BY MIRIAY TEICHNER. BERLIN, July - —The woman who rode opposite mie on the bus wore Queer gloves; they were rather shape- less, and they were unfamiliar as to glove material, and they had on their slightly baggy backs none of the em- broidered stripes S0 non-essential and yet so much a part of gloves, all doors. Mr. Johnson was not at all|now siit ed and its population is bare- | pr hout them.” Her certain the diplomatic exch-nte-hy 26,600, Buc hetore Conatantinopls (bl ia7ould go withol mb:m, ar: veonla. s supplied by the department,| was enlarged by Constantine the|chant. n e planned confer on that|Great, Ismid—then Nicomedia—was 63 Marks for a Dollar. Conscious of an exchange rate which brought me 63 marks and some pfen- phase with Secretary Hughes and other department heads. He said, however, that he saw no reason why for a time the capital of the Roman empire and the metropolis of the near east. nigs for a dollar, [ was meekly silent. Once Great Caravam Port. hd I remembered a fat mining man Situated at the head of the Gult of | froa, Carthage: who walked down the Ismid, which forms the sharp Asiatic{main street of a small German town, end of the Sea of Marmora, and with| wheezing comments on the prices of high ground behind it, the town lay|things in the windows. He translated in the route of the natural highway!the marks into terms of dollars, and from Syria, Persia, Mesopotamia and|j gollars commodities of both food the entire near east to the Bosporus|ang clothing were delightfully cheap. and Europe. And he said he had been asked by his In the old days camel caravans home paper to write his impressions innumerable, carrying the riches of|of Germany, and that he was going the east, plodded around the end of|rignt back to his hotel to do it. “These the gulf, paused to pay commercial|people are crazy,” he said. “What tribute to the strateglically situated|gre they kicking about? Things are city and continued west along the 10w ) cheaper than they are at home.” coast of the gulf for the fifty miles| “A13°T also remembered a comfort- that separated Nicomedia from By-|gaple looking working man afd his zantium and now parate Ismid|wife wandering up the main street from Constantinople. And when thel '+ 1o game town and stopping at a steel highway and iron horse that|joweler's window and scoffing at the were to connect Berlin and Bagdad|pogest display of fancy combs and came to replace the more mcture:qua bracelets therein dispiayed. They Dt lens eMclent camel and his dusty | characterized the display as typloally al path was util- | & ” hey began {zed and Ismid became 2 rallway sta- G RLTe on. “Darius and his hosts swarmed through the site of the present Ismid 500 years before Christ, to bridge the Bosporus and conquer Thrace and Macedonla. Xenophon and his 10,000 Greeks passed through the place in their memorable retreat from Persia to their homes. Near,there the de- feated Hannibal, a refugee from the Romans, committed suicide; and in a villa close by Constantine the Great died. Force after force of crusaders held the town during the middle ages. | Seat of Constantine. “From Nicomedia Diocletian direct- ed his implacable campaign of perse- cution against the Christians, and later ‘the first Christian emperor, Con- stantine, governed from its palaces. | counter of the restaurant in which Barely twenty miles to the south of | the coffec party was going forward Nicea the church council sat which|and cast her appralsing eye over the framed the Nicene creed, and only a |display of cakes. They were one short distance to the west on the|mark seventy-five pfennigs and two Ismid peninsula in 451 A. D. was held | marks aplece the ecclesiastical assembly - from | “Expensive,” said the old lady,‘in which ' the Armenians bolted to form | her stentorian tones: “it would have the separate Armenian Church, which, | been cheaper to take something from with the Roman Catholic, the Greek [home. 1 shall tell my husband. Oh, Catholic and the Protestant churches, | yes, very expensive. “But.” trumpet- helps make up the four major divi- |ed the magnificent old lady, in epic sions of Christianity. tone, “I shall have one just the same.” “History is cl le]y repeating itself | And she did. at Ismid. Just as the Turkish nation- | Those cakes cost me somewhere in alists drove the modern Greeks from |the nelghborhood of three ocents the town In recent weeks, so in 781 |aplece. But no gifts of persuasion the Moslems, pushing far into the|on my part were sufficient to con- Asiatic territory of the Byzantine|vince the old lady that two marks Greeks, defeated their armies at Nico- | apiece was not an outrageous sum media and camped on the east bank of | to be pald for cakes which before the |two marks” == the Bosporus.. The KEmpress Irene BUYS BARGES OF ARMY. ransomed the city and the other oc- Transportation Firm at Baltimore cupied territory. But the Mohamme- dans slowly encroached, and in 1338 to Begin Business August 1. Special Dispatch to The Star. Nicomedia fell permanently into the BALTIMORE, July 23.—According to hands of the Turks. It remained a threat to Constantinople until 1453 Franklin C. Morris, $1,000,000 is in- volved in the purcl made by a when the threat was made goad, and Constantinople became Stamboul and the church of Sancta Sophia a Moham- company of which he is general man- ager, of five self-propelling oil burn- ing barges and seventeen cargo medan mosque. barges from the War Department. available to Congress, and deplored the fact that half a dogen or more such understandings as that entered into with Japan had not required ratifica- tion by .the Senate, Mr. McClatchy's telegram, which was read prior to Mr. McMurray's statemeént, warned of impending racial, political and economic control by the Japanese in the islands unles the American government acted im mediately. He neither supported nor opposed the résolution which the com- mittee had under consideration, but declared that if such were not the le, islation deemed proper by Congri it should geck spme other measure at ofice. BUDNITZ BEGINS MONDAY. Prohibition Director Makes State- ment on Law Enforeement. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, uly 23 —Edmund Budnitz, the Baltimore 1. er who, despite the strongest kind of opposi- tion by the Maryland branch of the Aflliffll‘()sn League, was nameg pro- hibition director for Maryland and the District of Columbia, will prob- ably assume the duties of his office on_Monday. Mr. Buanlu today issued the first statement he has “given out since he was chosen by the republican cau- clllldln ‘Washington for the place . He said: “I am fully sensible of the trust imposed upon me by my appointment to the office of pmhlbmon director for the state of Maryland and the Distriot of Columbia. will en- deavor to overcome its difficulties and discharge the duties to the bést of my ability, without fear or favor. I will enforce the law so far as I have ;he power and the assistants to o s0.” GORKY ON WAY TO BERLIN T0 ASK AID'FOR STARVING Russian Writer Will Make Per- son_ul Appeal for Food and Medicines. BERLIN, July 23.—~Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer, is said to be on his way to Berlin to make & personal appeal for help for hunger and chol- era riddén Russia with shipments of provisions and medicines. It is semi- officially said that Germany may fur- nish physiclans and medical supplies to be used under the direction of the international Red Cross, but that no food will be sent from here. The German government, it is as- serted, has assured itself that M Gorky is acting with the approval of the soviet regime. Recent Berlin advices sald the ap- Go! had to translate its cost into terms of bread and sausage. “Expensive, Very Expensive.” And I remembered a magnificent old lady, the wife of a former direc- tor in Germany's shipbullding, now an employe of Krupp, who wasg one of a party of women with whom I visited Potsdam. Most of the women had brought along the familiar little aper bundles containing brown gfe&d sandwiches, but this old lady had brought none. She said that her husband had sald she could buy some- thing wherever she was. Then coffee time came, and with it cake and sandwich time, and the old lady, in her nine-year-old Swiss muslin blouse and her woolly black skirt of ancient cut, marched gloriously up to the E) 5 “The Ismid of today has little t remind the observer of its glorious history. An old Greek ‘acropolis flanked by Roman add Byzantine tow- ers is about the only remaining link Wwith its opulent past. The iron and peal, which Maxim Ky, sent to ny having the barges is the Germags to help the starving Rus- | #00d caravans of the Bagdad rallway the"" Belimore, - Philadeiphia " and sians was' meeting with slight re- | 40 not need to pause i famid as did Soutnern | Mransportation Company, Shomae, the ‘gencral sttituds —appar. | the camel trains, and its toll from So4thern \Travsporiation manager commerce has dwindled away. To it the world no longer looks either for creeds or the treasures of Araby—only for a modest supply of silk cocoons, tobacco and forest products.” ently being that the Germans were in no condition to help anybody. TEAR GAS QUELLS “RIOT.” New York Police Stage Battle to Test Bombs. wm make his headquarters more, The stockhold Morris, are will be started August 1. The company plans to run the bnrfe ———e between this city, New York, Phila- delphia_and points on the coast of North Carolina. The first trip will be 9,000 CARPENTERS YIELD. made from re_to Elizabeth City, Men on Strike in PWclphh Ac- | N, C. on August 1. NEW YORK, July 23.— Tear gas The purchase was made from the Jopbe broke up'a irioft atEort| - cept Contractors’ Terms. . |NRcoL SRRES.SL Al ient ‘otten _yeste: . d by two an Sl cnmpnul.y of " the ork police |, PEILADELPHIA, Pa. July 23.—|of the War Department. department’s rlot battalion, in a |Nine thousand carpenters, who had been on strike here since May 1, yes- terday acoepted the terms laid down by their employera, including a mate- WANT FORD TO RUN ROADS rial reduction in wages. S s ofiomnc::r; claimed the carpenters |400 Fruit Growers Send Petition action probably would bring to an end the entire bullding trades strike, to Mr. Harding. which was called when a lower wageé { HART, Mich., July 23.—A petition to scale for all classes of labor was an- | President Harding asking that the nounced. rallroads _of the country be turned The new rate for carpenters was|over to Henry Ford, the automobile fixed at 90 cents an hour, the old rate {manufacturer, for operating, signed having been $1.12% an hour. In ad-|by 400 fruit growers of Oceana county, dition, the carpenters agreed not to|was mailed to Washington today. call sympathetic strikes for the ben-| The frult growers, who allege in the efit of other classes of labor, and to[petition that present frelght ratés are protect b pon union men from molesta- | taking most of the profits on their tlon. A forty-four hour week is to|crops, polnud qut that Mr. Ford re- former forty-hour week, |cently reduced freight rates on his .nfl overtime pay is to be-on the basis|railroad, the Detroit, Toledo and Iron- of time and & half for the first four | ton. hours and double time thereafter. demonstration to prove the ease with which a mob may be dl-pmcd with- out revolvers or night After eighteen bom! h been thrown, - the policemen, with tears rolling down their cheeks and ga: ln_g for breath, beat a hasty retre. he test was witnessed by Army and police officials, who agreed this proposed method of quelling disord ‘would beé a success. A similar t was made recently in Phllualphu. DEMAND RAIL RATE CHANGE. Chautauqua companies complained to the Hnterstate- Commerce Com- mission today that railroads dlscrimi- nate against them in fares ,and charges, by réfusing to grant bag- f“e cars to their parties of less than twenty-five. They claimed that theat- | Saturday afternoons, Sund d hol- rical companies were given lower |idays lryo to be w‘l‘fl‘" torhnu{;e. :ateuot Scm BY PROPELLER. rates. double tim ' NEWPOR' NEW!. Va., July 23— r | Bid wae compioiery scaiped Thura: . eld was completely scal - STORE IS BURGLARIZED. m SEIZED ON CRAFT. day moralng wn;:“m- head got in Antonio Meletakus, 713 Nonh Capitol ann, Jul; .—An | the way of a propeller on a seaplan street, nponed today a - | suxiliary oemn 1ad. 'leh gentch !n which he was going to take nm itted In ‘his 5 and 5:80 mi stol E today. g A Thisky ‘and belisved By, the police in the bomblng of the former German o'clock this mlu to the pollm 0! He trance through & to be ttleship _Ostfries En Was Tear nvluflm laq t to mul, vhm door, he and in cash, dia- | shore, boarded/ at ht ns found that his séal Soont g vaived St 9100 Snd s ‘check Dot carly todey her crob metsed n.:f.“j.rkea off, but that his skull had xonm stolen. and 250 caggs of whisky confiscated. Inot been been fractured. \ . dly pietured here. This photograph, taken at Cherbours, shows the remains of a dozen U-boats surrendered to the French, converted into junk. Low to Americans by Exchange Deaugherty agreed to recom had mmum{o‘ of the sentences of the .|fund and improvement to Meet Prices war had cost somelh(nx like thirty pfennig. Other Price Changes. It is the before-the-war psychology of the mark that is making things 80 hard today for so many people of the older generation. Before the war the mark was worth not quite an American quarter, but its purchas- ing power more nearly approximated our fifty-cent piece. A man could buy an excellent suit for seventy or eighty marks. A dressmaker came in and worked by the day for a mark fitty or less; at Kempinsky's, the mammoth wine restaurant on Leip- ziger strasse, you could buy half a chidken en casserole, with veg- etables, for a mark. Eighteen eggs cost a mark; milk was fourteen pfennig the litre. Today. milk is 4 marks 80 pfennig, and one does not buy eggs by the dozen; one buys them by the plece and they are, now that it is summer. 1 mark 35. Street car fare in Ber- lin, where they do not use the zone system that prevails in many Ger- man cities, used to be 10 pfennig and is now a mark. Just as an instance of the petty su in which the German has been accustomed to thinking may be cited the fact that a Hamburg paper made the announcement a few days ago that no income tax need be paid on the amount given by the worker in riding to and from work every day, and gave the zone price list which obtains in that city. 1 have walked myself almost to exhaustion on Ger- man pleasure outings. They do not ride for what they call short dis- tances. And their idea of a short distance is not ours. And so it is with a mind trained to pfennig values, accustomed to a pfennig that, though only the hun- dredth part of a mark, which in its turn, was less than a fourth of the American dollar, still had a definite and respectable purchasing power, that the German is trying to adjust himself to a world of new values. He earns more than he used to—from five to ten times as much—but the things he must buy have Increased ten jo twenty times in price. Against American Instincts. He skimps in ways that to the American, persistently translating the mark into less than two cents, are petty, irritating and silly. He tells you not to buy a 30 or 50 pfennig newspaper, bécause you can read the files in a restaurant or a cafe over a glass of beer d e 30 or 50 pfennig, which to an “Auslander” seems so little worth saving. He treasures a ci !te and if he is going into some building in which smoking is not permlned he does not throw it a puts it out and stows it carefully in(n s pocket and smokes the remainder another time. He impales the last diminutive butt of his cigar on a toothpick until it all but fires the redundancy of his mustaches. Meantime, he sees a younger gen- eration that has learned new wis- dom—or new foolishness. He sees working girls wearing cobweb silk stockings who once wore cotton: he sees dance halls and cinemas and theaters crowded with men, women, girls and boys who refuse to save their money because they believe that, with new taxes always threatening, saving is the most expensive thing they can do. And, occasionally, those of the older generation, satiated with petty economies, break the bonds of that virtuous pettiness and have something they want. He goes to a restaurant or a cafe, and, like the old lady with the cake, trumpets mag- nificently: “It's expensive, b\lt I'm go- ing to have it—even if it does cost two marks.” FRUIT SHIP SINKS. Reported to Have Struck Reef Off Yucatan. MEXICO CITY, July 23.—The Leora M. Thurlow, a small American-owned sailing vessel loaded with fruit, is re- ported to have sunk off the coast of Yucatan on July 12, when she struck a reef near the Island of Cozumel. Dis- patches received here say that the crew of seven were saved through the efforts of a Mexican sailor, who took the men .aLE“I "Il( a launch shortly after the ship ! ————e. OIL FIRE STILL BURNS. Blaze in Mexican Fields Reduced to Two Wells. MEXICO CITY, July 23.—Fire in the Amatlan ofl flelds, which broke out Wednesday and caused property dam- age estimated at several million dol- lars, has been reduced to two wells, which stlll are durning flercely. Re- ports from Tampico say the conflagra- tion 1s unHkely to spread further. —_—_— JAMAICA HITS ALIENS. Bill in Council to Bar Their Hold- ing Land. KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 23. —The emmant has introduced a bill in the aflllnlve councll which would prevent llens_holding land in Jamaica. Pas- sage Of the measure would seriously af- fect American companies np'ntln ere, pfimlpllly the United Fruit Co mnlny‘ inst the proposed hlve mn entered by foreign clpltdlm RUSSIA TO ADMIT RADICALS. NEW YORK, July 23.—Soviet Ru sia has ‘f"ed to admit to that coun- try l(ol o Bmmsr, Jacob. Abrams, Hyman Lachowsky nnd Samuel Lip- man, now serving F r' sén- tences for vlo!luon of th iplonage act in comnection with their cam- paign against American military in- tervention in <Russia, it w. nounced t Harry Weinb: attorney for the four. Last month Attorney Genmeral imend & ger, prisoners if they consented to be de~ ported, Weinberger said. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23.—A new ordinance providing for a bond issue for $300,000, to be known as a general bonds, wi adopted last night at an adjourned meeting of the common council. The bonds will be registered and non-reg- istered cupon bonds and will bear in- terest at the rate of 6 per cent, the interest payable semi-annually in Oc- tober and April. They will be in de- nominations of $1,000 each. It is provided tkat a sinking fund be es- tablished and that the bonds be re- deemed at the rate of $9,000 a year beginning October 1, 1924, and that the last payment on the bonds be in ;!slzllurn of $12,000, payable October 1, A number of bills for repair to sidewalks done by the city engineers office in conformity to the ordinance recently passed by city council pro- viding that the work be done by the city and two-thirds of the cost be a lien against the property and one- third be paid by the city was up for discussion. Councilmen ~Bagett, Mc- Caffrey, Drury, Fletcher, Sullivan and others expressed themselves as op- posed to the city engineer building entire new sidewalks. City Engineer Dunn was given the floor and he reviewed the work done thus far and among other things said that up to the present he had only done three new sidewalks in their entirely. He suggested that the entire work be given out by contract to the lowest bidder. A petition from the Alexandria Jit- ney Association, asking for a redu tion of the city license tax, was re- ferred to the finance committee. Col. J. Q. Nolan of Georgia last night addressed a gathering of nearly 300 men and six women in the opera house on the principles of the Ku Klux Klan. Many of his hearers| were from Arlington county. The speaker, among other things, said the organization was 100 per cent Ameri- can and open to American Protestant Gentiles. It favors white supremacy and the Americag Constisytion, he de- clared. This order, he #ald, was reor- ganized December 5, 1915, and he gave a history of the old Ku Klux Kla ‘The organization, he said, will pre- serve the memories and traditions of the south. The speaker paid a tribute to the Confederate soldier. One of its purposes, he asserted, is to correct the slanders and scurrilous attacks made on the old Ku Klux Klan. Mrs. Caleb Randolph Davis has is- sued invitations for the marriage of her daughter, Geraldine Fairfax, to Mr. Herbert Raymond Hoar, Saturday, July 30, at 8 o'clock in the evening, at Christ Episcopal Church. The concert given last night by the Citizens' Band at the Friends' play- grounds was largely patronized and a very successful affair. WILL TRY T0 STOP DISORDERINITALY Deputies to Take Any Step te Check Internal Factional Trouble. By the Associated Prest ROME, July 23.—The fighting betweer ) extreme nationalists, communists ani carabineers, which has been responsibl for numerous fatalitics st Sarzana province of Genoa, during the past twi days, was brought up in the chamber o deputies at the close of Friday's session when Benito Mussolini, leader of th fascisti, asked for all avallabie informa | tion pertaining to the conflict. Premiar Bonomi responded to the re quest by reading several official dis patches from the troubled area, where upon Mussolini declared he was noz sat: isfled with their contents. He added however, that he was pleased with des cisions recently reached by the genera federation of labor and the socialisi party in favor of pacification, but sai¢ that they were most moderate in th. language. communists continued their provocative tactics the fascisti would carry on it struggle against them. Premier Bonomi, in reply, said thi he regretted ward pacifi back, nevertheless he was confid responsibility of all the parties an( hoped that peace would be achieved However, as it had been declared that i pacification efforts failed the struggl would continue, it was his duty to de. clare that the government would taks steps to prevent it at all costs, in_the interest of the entire country. Upot hearing this declaration all parties ex. cept the fascisti and the nationalisid jumped to their feet and cheered the T, MORE KILLED IN CONFLICT. One Raid Leads to Another in Sar- zana District. ROME, July 23.—From twenty-fiv to iwenty-seven persons were killed Curing the conflicts between extremt nationalists, and carabineers an¢ communists at Sarzana, province o Genoa, according to the latest re ports received here. It is impossib| to give the number of deag with c: tainty, because some of the bodiel were thrown into the sea while oth: ers were scattered throughout the countryside. The conflict was the result of 1 raid by the nationalists Sunday, wher they entered Sarzana and killed sev. en comumnists. The communists ane peasants of the whole district joined ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 23 (Special). —Robert H. Harmon has resigned as principal of the Rockville ngh School | for nationalists. and will, it is understood, become as- sociated with a Washington educa- tional institution. of the Rockville scfiool just one year. It's another case of inadequate salary costing the county a teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Ledoux E. Riggs of Goshen, this county, have announced [ been ordered to preserve order and the marriage in Baltimore Monday of their dsughter, Miss Sarah G. Riggs, and Franklin Dwyer of Layton ville. The bride pal of the public high-class | killeq on a railroad engine. to repel further attacks. They hunt. ed throughout the region for na- * tionalists, and wherever one wa ! found he was killed. Later communists lay in ambust Several women were in the ambushing parties, many o! them using rifles while the com- He was principal | munists used machine guns. These were turned against all pass. ing nationalist wag Severa! trains arrived in Rome riddled witk bullets. ‘The carabineers of the district had trains. One proceeded against the nationalists According to the carabineers, the na. tlonalists fired on them and an en. counter ensued. The nationalists, or the other hand. claim that shots were this county, and at the time of her|fired at them as they were approach- marriage was atiending school in Baltimore. Harry A. Dawson, appointed by President Harding postmaster Rockville to succeed Joseph Reading, took charge of the office today. He announced that George W. Mullican, annum. Mr. Reading wi about five and & half years. temporarily living here against Mrs. Helen C. igh, otherwise known as Helen Hemmings, otherwise known as Helen Franks and otherwise known as Helen Nicol, claiming dama; in the amount of of the plaintiff's husband, Alexander Mathew Nicol. The man in the case was at one time private secretary to Ballenger Booth of the Salvation Army, and is also understood to have been time on the staff of one of the Lon- don daily papers. All are English people, who came to this county within the last year. The defendant in the case recently | OWners Thiy | given yesterday B potomac, thls | Fepresented by 8. Marvin Peach sut purchased property county, and is now living relatives. Mrs. Nicol is_represented by Dawson & Dawsou of Rockville. HYATTSVILLE. HYATTSVILLE, M4, July 23 (Spe- cial).—The Hyllll\'l“e Public Library will move, Monday to its new quar- ters in_the M\lnhlpll building, M Agnes L. Espey, libraria; The formal opening wi ‘Tuesday evening, when the publlc s invited. Beginning Tuesday, the libr: will be open each week on that nl'hl lnd on Saturday night from 7 to 9 o’'clock. Miss Espey states that the library, since its opening a few months ago, has shown an encouraging growth. During both May and June more !hln 300 books were distributed. A juv. nile department has just been org( ized under the direction of Miss Agnes Brown. UPPER MARLBORO. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., July 23 (Special). — Nicolas Orem, formerly superintendent of schools county, August 1, succeeding Eugene S. Bur- roughs of Clinton. summer in_rh assistant postmaster, and Oscar T.|of the people's ard: Gaither, clerk in the office, would be|ants are declared to be committing retained. The office pays $2,300 perall kinds of violence against fascist postmaster | and their supporters. 5 will become superintendent|ican Legion, manne: of schools for Prince Georges county | posed almost exclusively Prof. Orem will be | for Sarzana. e national organization of the extreme nationaliste at a meeting ir Rome adopted resolutions condemn- at|ing the government and urging tha those guilty of causing the conflic in Sarzana be punished. * The country is still in the hands itl. Armeq peas. A group of fascisti succeeded ir saving the life of a companion whes Mrs. Elizabeth Hurheu Nicol, who is| he was about to be put to death, but Baltimore, has|three of them were killed and fou instituted suit in the circuit coul;‘t wounded. —_— FIGHT HYATTSVILLE TAX. $26,000 for lllen‘lfion of the affections | Property Owners Ask Injunction in Street Improvement Case, Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE. July 23. — Testi. for a|mony on the petition for an injunc. | tion to restrain the town of Hyatts ville from enfarcing the assessmen! for the improvement of Owens ave. nue, sought by varlous properts in that thoroughfare. wat by the plaintiffs Vincent A. Sheehy, before Judge Fill- more Beall in the circuit court fo Prmce Georgen county at Upne T'he pl‘lntlffs contended that town ordinance for the improveme of Owens avenue required the work to be carried to Columbia avenue and that the improvements had bees completed only as far as Luttrel avenue; that an assessment could nol be legally made against the properts owners on the improved part of tht street until the entire street had been improved; that Owens avenue had never been accepted by the tow: as a public street; that the expenst of the improvement was 8o greal that it is confiseatory, nnd that they street was improperly graded. The town’s side of the cnle will be presented Monday by Attorney! rles W. Clagett and T. Howar¢ Chai Duckett. —_— AMERICAN LEGION SAILS. New Liner in South Americar Service Takes Maiden Trip. NEW YORK, July 23.—The new in Talbot | Shipping Board passenger liner Amer d by & crew come = of"?deml\‘;rl American Legion, sal todn o~ t;‘Kek'b de Janeiro and Buenos Airel formally inducted into office at a meet-|on her maiden voyage in the Socutt ing of the county board of education | American service. August 2. dge J. Chew Sheriff, a member of | operator, o8 the board Rpl: within ten days—two days unde! pable | the present sailing record. chool affairs| The the board, stated today ti regards Prof. Orem and is confident tha will be conducted fh most cap: highly satis- factory manner during his tenure of | aitered at Prof. Orem will make his home | first-class passenger liner, is ose ol office. in Hyattsville, The county board at its July meet- ing made the following appointment: Miss Maude Gibbs, supervisor: Miss Blanche O.Ie, attendance officer, Frank C. Munson, her mlm\.lnl estimated she would re: American Legion, originalll bullt for Army transport service. bul the close of the war into ¢ under the t ships sailini the largest ship e tond merican fll( She is SS :nd has a tonnage of 18,000. Bl e clerx o the boara. Upon “VILLAGERS” MAY DANCE, recommendation of the board, the county commissioners have agreed to buy property iIn Cottage City, on which a four-room school will be built. Sites also have been bought and plans approved by the county board for three-room schools at Ardmore, For- estville and Berwyn. Although plans for thess bulldings | Greenwich Village have been approved by the county ‘board, they have yet to be approved by the state board, various minor changes having been requested by citizens of the communities. As soon as the plans are approved by the state board, approval which, it is belleved, will be forthcoming wi days, the county board will request| This the county commissioners to ask for|ordere bids on & bond issue to cover the cost. None of these buildings will be read. by the fall term, however, it is stated. addition to lll. school at, Seat Plount has just colored schools n Ducketsville, Bowie district, and other places. The board has decided to in- stall tions in the schools at Blllflllhurl. Riverdale and College Park. In contrast to conditions of the pnt few years, the county has large number of lwlhmnt- for the teaching force, & member stated to- Several of the uppllunt;( tl meeting of the board August 3 dates|and d schools ellville school has changed Mullikin School. thin a few|new dancing ewerage and sanitary connec-|Tulsa - | conspiracy to The name of the “"'c?o lnd.vocll”t e Tearooms Reopened by Consent of New York Authorities. NEW YORK, July 23.—Dancing it oms that helpel e e Village maintain its Bo banned by polia # l’o!lowlnlx !oon: ints of old residents against a :‘Z':..xf‘ disorderliness, been re “}‘tm‘dru learned today that Comxm:‘ . censes Gilchrist had issu e o licenses to’the tearooms followed an investigatiol red by Mayor Hylan, which con vinoced the authorities that condition! in the village were not as bad as thej had been painted. AnSRREREER——— POLICE CHIEF GUILTY. Officer Held Responsible iz Race Riots. TULSA, Okla, July 23.—John A Gunmlson. suspended chief of police as been found guilty by a jury o hemian reputation, are uanl for safety or the wmighl o] O oF e racsnt race Tigt herd on. another count o 3 lllo 1l oo rt ‘{rue automobile thievel The jury delib erated six hours.