Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1921, Page 2

— 2 SHIPPING BOARD WITHORAWS ORD Bows to Injunction Prevent- ing Interference With Steamship America. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July'26.—The United States Shipping Board today bowed to an order of a New York state supreme court justice in rescinding temporarily the seizure of nine ves- sels from the United States Mail Steamship Company, at least so far as the steamship America is con- corned. The Shipping Board abrogated an order to the owners of the pier where the America was berthed in Hobo- ken to recognize only the United American lines as operators of the vessel, and preparations were made for her to sail this afternoon for Ger- many under the auspices of the Uni cd States Mail Company. The lat- ter's flag was run up on her and mails ‘were put aboard. ; Temporary In ction. Supreme Court Justice Burr re- stored the steamers to their charteg- ers yesterday by means of a tempo- rary injunction restraining Shipping Board_officials from interfering with the United States Mail Steamship Company's possession of them, pend- ing a further hearing Thursday. Elmer Schlesinger, counsel for the h Shibping Board, induced Justice Burr by the receipt of .reports from com- P 1 provided for in the aivil wervice retirement met, just appointed by Commissioner Gardiner of the| WAy solvency and efliciency are es- |Ment would do only an incidental to hold a second hearing at his club as Caretaker, He munities of the increase of the ersennel ro or_in wervice retiroment act, ppoln 14 sential to our healthful indusirial, |hin€ and would not engage in last night on a motion to vacate the ease. Telegraphic inquiry at the state ;r;:l;:-:’::r'-:l.- 'l:;t to right; George B. Buck of New York, Dr. James D, Maddrill of Philndelphia and Joseph ( [“70 'O | = agrh'uhuml‘ l;l:c. financing private business on a large restraining order. Justice Burr, how- Says :\;{fl(};'f:’:"t‘hu‘:ql::rlle“‘bru’lljlgdhl back the g Everything hinges on transporta- ociie. \ ; ever, denies e applicatio er ex- . a ey not kngw tion. Farmers Not Satisfie 2 tended arguments, and warned Mr. of the conditions. conditio: n opulation After necessary and drastic cur- But the revival of the War Finance Schlesinger agll_nsl permitting any of | By 'I:O'Auocllhd Pr-:; " 26 t Further, it was pointed out by the|in lI%‘lr‘;’:’:‘aoclfolllh;l"tll::lB?)lr:n.belt s‘a’ B ’.d. F'o 'el GRANTS lN]uNchvE ORDER tailments, after harrowing straits Corpum!:'m ‘l:;;n'tu pn‘;\vl—d lrfl!lth4<:‘4,::v his agents to violatesthe restraining| PENSACOLA, Fla. July 26.—Cabl.|federal officials, the state officers do are confirmed by a public statement e o) a in meeting their financial difficul- |The farmers are not satisfied. They order. Hugo Wentsel, alias Mentcal, of the not want to admit the prevalence of | from the public health service. They As Investment on Life IN CHALONER LITIGATION| tes. the railways need only this |realized that the corporation did help Following this hearing. Mr. Schles- auxiliary schooner Viola, which went pellagra in their own states, because | indicate that;, due to the depressed financial aid which the fulfilment |finance exports, .but its powers were Inger recalled United States deputy o of the fear that it weuld give them.|cotton market, many thousands of Surprises Wall Street of our obligations will bestow to |not adeyuate to finance the delivery marshals whom he had placed on |ashore off St. Andrews last Thursday.|a “black eye.” They do not want the people are unable to sell their one e P_ = inaugurate their far-reaching revi- |on this side of the water—the move- bolafl.ii th:xin; Iileamn'r;h wh{n"h; has made a confession, ‘according to l‘;zl:l\;,rts“t; 5:; out, and, fl;erem‘!’o. roduct for monev whar~- oxt _‘!:::V I:O:‘ n;’-l: 2:;:"-# Justice Holmes Says Virginia Au- Vln‘:d ‘nds effects will be felt in va- |ment from farm te seaboard. So the seizge ! riday. e Tnites orts concernin; n- = i | i ndust 3 N i v . W P American lines, to which the selzed |United States District Attorney JOhD | croages in the disease, . tain necessary variety of wholesome. | Lhrewd salesmanship by Frank thorities Must Not Pro- o darse. ;‘efl(l:'eaendu:emdl:;?:::;i;:: L s wmue S Bl steamers had been' temporarily allo- 25,443 Canadian Ex-Soldiers Put On Farm Lands OTTAWA, Ontarlo, July 28~ It - Canada’s soldier-farmevs were to pool their holdings, they 0 sturdy houses and farm build- ings. Population of this one bis figurative farm, aceording to a e ottiemont huard, would e e . , woul e thnn 126,000, catimatl family of five t been held in idle months and phases of mixed farming, scientific dilrying a cattle raising &iven intensive cational, a very high percentage of the men are be- coming successful farmers, the report says. v VIOLA'S GAPTAIN MAKES CONFESSION Made Trip With Chinese Only L. Neeley. Wentsel is_in jail at De __THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. :C., TUESDAY, JULYY2, 1991 . NEW BOARD OF GOVERNMENT AGTFUARIES. SOUTH DISCOUNTS: PELLAGRA REPORT| Seven States Deny Fean of Famine—Plans for U. . ~ Action Framed. - In a determined effort to ‘clmply with President Harding's direction, the United States Public -Health Service and the American Red Cross preventing further spread of in the south and to avoid extension of semi-famine conditions which are sald to exist. While the public health service in- sists there is an increase in the num- ber of pellagra cases, and the Pre; dent has taken cognizance ‘of it, re: ports from seven state health offi- cers in the south denied that there has been any increase of the disea: and repudiated the statement that semi- famine conditions exist. See Notable Increase. 1t was gaid at the public health serv- ice that despite these reports on mon- increase of the disease, there is a noticeable increase of pellagra in certain sections. State health authori- ties are not cognizant of the prevas lence of disease in their own localities. according to the public health serv ice, becaue of the incomplete organi zations' of their health departments to _get complete reports. This has been indicated many times recently, federal health officials said, The federal officials said that the today were working out plans for - 4 of an epidemic of pellegra. attorney general of wogld have one giant farm of out and furpished without ed with crasers, aceo % to Secretary al &3, patches of Labor Davis. The Labor Sce- of “frult trees, siios aud many Bel sach employe Secretary Can Save $50,000 If Pencils Have No Rubbers Saving of about $50,000 u year ‘would result to the goverament if pencils were used untll worn the pen d that pen should be purchased wnh-:-t t He has transmitted belief to Charies G, Dawes, ¢ rector of the budget. Secretary Davis further be- lUeves the money thus asved could very properly be used or appropriated for the use of the division of conciliation of his department, which, he ways, meods funds badly to carry on its work of averting labor con- troversies. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE URGING EARLY RELIEF FOR THE RAILWAYS (Continued from First Page.) agricultural needs, will enable it finally to meet the nation-wide emergency. This is an impelling moral obligation to American farm- ing in ali its larger aspects, Wnd it will be most gratifying to have your early sanction. In the case of the railroads there is a moral and a contractual ob- ligation, and your favorable action 18 no less urgent and will no less appeal to public approval. Rail- which, though inevitable in war's PRESIDENT FORGED TOINTERVENTION Frames. Policy for Congress to Meet Needs of Agri- culture and Railroads. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding has had to inter- vene again in the affairs of Congress, The agricultural group, which has once before threatemed to upset the administration program, has finally succeeding in forcing to the front its proposals to finance agriculture, and the Harding administration now has worked out a compromise plan which is designed to satisfy the agricultural element and cure a few other domes- tic troubles at the same time. It is the most significant step that has been taken to meet the ailments of business since the 4th of March. The President is suggesting a broad policy, which is in a sense a re- versal of republican policy of a year ago, but which has been made neces sary by developments and circum- stances. When the war ended the re- publican Congress put an end to the War Finance Corporation and.the cry cverywhere was to take the gover- ment out of the banking business. Economic distress developed a demand for the revival of the War Finance Corporation. This was bitterly fought by Secretary Houston and the Wilson administration, but Congress passed the measure over the presidential veto. It was argued that the govern- available sums all the way from $100.- . ot . wed |increase in pellagra was not general in disposing of ceed Further. Wi a axi L:?."&’:L’Q?;c"e"‘éfl;r‘-é’firffl?'; ;);s:u:_ f,:":':kmdf;":y ';': N,,l:;leA:m.? ;n jSuy. Soe ftste o "'yfoug:lr?"tl the 5 “°°"‘ "b‘: "'"'"'h k" "(' th 81,000,000 worth of state bonds, Mr. Justice Hol £ th :cfl::e .el:::i'ed g oAl o nions f-(:'ém:-’;nm :i’."i‘lflfi?a".?“‘l"..'li .',‘,..‘,‘L‘L"?'. > ol A - = | south, bu e reports show that cer-| “It must bring a shoc o the The issme, which w: r. Justice mes TUnited 2 3 2 i pending further bookings for the |, o'l Mr. Neeley Capt. Wentsel said | tain ~communities S toan o reanze that a o e e e States "Supreme Court, in :acunliilnn, 1 am appending herewith mem- |set up a rival organization to the America and for the George Washing- ton, scheduled to sail August.3. Another Application Heprd. Vice Chancellor Lewis of Jersey City had under consideration today an ap- plication of the company for an in- Sam Yuen of 5335 Clark street, Chi- cago, was sole instigator of the plan to bring the Chinese into the United States and Jack O'Leary of Pensa- cola, owner of the schooner was dou- ble-crossed in the deal. have large in- creases. There may be a large in- crease in one corner of the state, ulnd no noticeable increase anywhere else. * - One of First Things te Be Done, One of the first things to be done American people great section -of their own country. which they are wont to think of as immune from such experiences, is 'actually menaved with famine and plague. For that is what it would be called if it should befall in any other tuberculosis sanitarium, was of- fered at par with 5% per cent interest. Bankers were not in- tereated because they felt the terms were too low ent conditions. Mr. has signe: and levy Chaloner. d an_injunctive order re- straining the county circuit court and sheriff of Albemarle county, Va., from proceeding further with a' judgment against John Armstrong The order is an_outgrowth of the suit filed against Chaloner in oranda concerning the progress of railroad liquidation and revealing existing conditions which Congress will be interested to note, while considering the simple remedy pro- posed for the relief of the situa- tion. The information is submitted War Finance Corporation. Senator Lodge expressed the admin- istration's opposition in tixe open Sen- moned Secretaries Hoover, and Mellon and Eugene Mexer. man- junction similar to the one issued | The alleged confession clears |;, 05, o% 2N fArst things to be SOM |country, and we may as well give it 4 ne Meyer. ol o H ¥ - 1919 by W. Gilmer Dunn, w laimed by the director geperal of the rail- |aging director of the War Finance (or- by Justice Burr, rostraining officials | 0'Leary of the charge of Smugglng | direction to take steps to combat the |1t8 right name. It is of course, a con yW. iimer hunn, who claimed |, b the directer senerat of-the ratl- {a£i0€ dirctor of the War Pinssce Cor of the Shipping Board and the Unit- ed American lines from interfering with the possession of ships tied up on_the Jersey side of the harbor. The contested steamera are the America, George Washington, memnon, President Grant, Susque- hanna and Potomac, all tied up here; the Mount Vernon, at Boston, and the Princess Matolka and Pocahontas, seized at foreign perts. Officials of the United States Mail Steamship Company renewed today their charges that the seizures were brought about by “foreign” influences. These charges were denied by Mr. Schlesinger, “who 'declared that the failure of the company to pay $400,- 000 due as rental, failure to make contracted alterations and other vio- lations of contract caused the seizures. —_— WILL INVITE SECRETARIES tend Shows. Invitations to attend the Lew Dufour shows, being presented on the plaza east of the Union Station, will he extended today by the Vincent B. Costello Post of the Americdn Legion to the Secretaries of War and.Navy and_their figst asslstants, Gen. John J. Pershing%and Maj. Gen. John Le. jeune. ~ A" committee ifrom the pos headed by William F. Franklin, wili deliver the invitations. the Chinese, Wentsel saying that he took over the Viola at Havana June 23, the papers being signed before United States Vice Consul Hodges at Havana. The Chinese were taken aboard after the schooner had cleared and had sailed, a return trip being made to the dock of the Havana Coal Company to pick up the Chinese. He made the trip, he is alleged to have said, in charge of the schooner as caretaker, because he was to be well paid by Yuen and.expected to return to Havana without the knowledge of the voyage reaching O'Leary. 2 When Yuen's man at Pensacola. who was unknown to Wentsel, failed to answer the signals made by the Viola, the confession concluded, Went- sel decided to beach the schooner, and set the Chinese ashoge with instruc- tions to escape if possible, but if captured to say that they had been forced to land because of the storm, and not because their destination was an American port. Their ignorance tion here tonight Wentsel's confession was not signed,.but was witne Sheriff ‘Bell of Walton, and it w: said to have agreed to name all of the persons implicated in the smug- gling_operations. Yuen, 0 made the trip from Havana with the Chi- nese on the Yiola ig in Jail at De Funiak with Wents. The Chinese are held at St. Andrews, Fla., 8waiting action by the bureau of immigration. spread of the disease, it was said, is for the states to take kindly to fed- eral efforts to help them. They must admit the fact of the increase, be- cause the official reports of the fed- eral reporting agencles show this to be true. In addition, the government has reports made to it by communi- ties which have asked for help. Or- ganization of the communities is the next step to be taken in the fight- ing the disease. Local, state and fed- eral Red Cross agencies must be or- ganized to co-operate with other or- ganizations in & community where the disease is shown to be spreading, in order to make a determined fight. Just what steps the federal govern- ment is to take in the pr has not yet been determined it was sald today at the office of Surgeon General Cumming of the public health service. The receipt of the President' letter regarding the conditions jn the south started all of the forces work- ing at fast speed to determine upon some plan .whereby the federal gov- Cummins in Conferencve. Surgeon General Cummins was in | ta: conference practically all the morn- ing with his staff of assistants going’ over thg detailed reports and working on some plan for aid which will be forwarded to the President in answer. to his letter of yesterday.® This afternoon the surgeow. general is to confer with Dr. Farrand.of the American Red Cross. Offer of every possible aid by the nt case, | sequence of the economic disorgani- sation folpwing the war, and mands instant and vigorous attention. Qur people, so long and ap often moved by splendid charitablenesses toward the upfortunates' of other lands, will never permit such an af- fliction here at home. Moved by a realization that there must be no delay in coping with such a condition, I'am writing to ask you if the Red Cross can make an immediate investigation and report the present situation, the outlook for the future, and the measures neces- sary for prompt and effective relief. Ready and Anxious to Help. i “I am inclosing a copy of the re- part which Surgeon General Cum- ming has made, and am asking to be advised whether the Red Cross 'possesses the organization and means to make, perhaps in co-operation with Lthe public health service, a survey conditions are normsl in all sections of the state. pellagra is no more prevalent than in previous years, according to Dr. C. W. Garrison, ‘staje health officer. Dr. Garrison said that while there had heen an increase in pellagra the number of cases reported did not indicate that there was anything alarming in the situation. He ssl that an increase i might be expected at this time of the year. The total number of cases, how- | ever, shows a decrease rather than an increase when compared with several recent years. a large su. CI However, Chaloner case from case is se In the me into the county an se ral district court trict of Virginia. the federal judge held that was not a legal resident of North Carollna and dismissed the his docket. An appeal to the supreme court was filed and the t for a hearing in October. antime Dunn took the case state court in Albemarle d secured a judgment. Attorneys for Chaloner, in seeking i the injunction from Justice Holmes, tempt,” that sary if tl maintain No such conditions as were described a ine of necessary measure S50 “out ine - in President Harding's letter exist in Inasmuch as promptness and accu- blic instrumentalities that ‘may ign :;xnpl::fly be employed to assist ip. the | in Arkansas and other southern states a s movement to_be welcomed and that President Harding's action was to_ this exten A R e Hoporls o “the state healtn depart- | ment, he sald, were far from complete, but showed an increase in June, 1921, of aix casesover-the same-month last yeer, when geventy<six- cases -Were ve- ported. No Increase in Georgia. ATLANTA, July 26.—Bhere gre no eren “Concurrently with this letter, I 4m also.addressing one of like &nor to Gen. Cumming suggesting;‘ds I am also takingrthe liberty to do ith you, that.3youd and Bout the matter. You may sured of my “full ce-operation. proper for me to add that if your swrvey shall de\'elu? the need of leg- tion provision_for r special relief, 1charged the action in the state court Amounled‘ to a disrespect, if not con- o restraining order was neces- the Supreme Court, and he Supreme Court was to its jurisdiction and “to pre- velit a question regularly brought { before i1t by process of appeal duly allowed from being taken out of its hands before a decision could be ren- dered.’ two years ago won a long fight in the New York courts for the right to handle hi rastored.to him valuable property -in s own affairs and to have that state. Among All But $2,000,000,000 Distributed RELIEF AID, - Children in War Zones. The White House, July 26, 1921. —_—_— D. C. HEADS T0 ASK PLAYGROUNDS BE CITY CONTROLLED ———{Continued from First Page.) tives of the United States of America | in Congress assembled, That Commissioners of the District of C lumbia be and are hereby wuthorized to take and possess any vacant lots or parcels of ground in the Dietrict of Columbia owned and possessed by any individual or corporation, other than government - owned property. and use same for children's play- ground purposes unti lsuch time as occupy such lots or vacant places or parcels for building purposes.” ILLINOIS GOVERNOR WILL BE ARRESTED (Continued from First Page) _ which would attempt to broadan ihe scope of the War Finance Corpontiui 0 as to do all that the Norris bilk in- tended. War-Time Methods Necessary. At the game time the administration, realizing that Congress wasn't in @ mood to y out money to the rallroads decided that it would be a good idea couple the railroad finance problem witl the farm aid proposal and try to make an omnibus bill of it. In other words. the Harding administration has in ef- fect found it necessary to go back to war-time methods and build an institu- tion which will be an auxiliary to the government's flnancial machinery and will devote ‘tself exclusively to emergen cy credit situations growing out of th readjustments on the farm and on the railroads and presumably will help of classes of industry which need finan private capital legitimate export companies. of the plans caused the scheme to|ernment could be of some help toward|racy -are vitally important in such|this state he sald Chaloner is well known as a resi- (the owners thereof may file bona |government is obliged also to scrutl Legion Post to Ask Them to At- |go astray. According to the informa- | conboring ir. a matter. I will be glad to enlist any | Dr. Garrison stated, however, that he | 4ons" G New York and Virginia, and |fde evidence of their intention to |the Class of securitics offered " erodst te finance But the is unable and the nature of the contracts of the export concern. The President feels that it is desirable to have a single board look after all these questions rather than to have credit extended through different government agencies. Steps to Help Bustuess. The agricultural eclement doesw't like the idea of financing the rall- rcads through the new bill; which on the one hand sidetracks the Norris measure and on the other hand makes provision for payments to the rail- The Lew Dufour shows are being| 10 ASK THIRTY MILLION Red Cross in the situation confront-{].ill be glad, wien the ‘evidence is|ingjcations of an e of the num-| NEw YO 3 i = Cons , July 26.—More than |cution should be suspended. To sus- |roads. The farmer spokesman would Drosented to help raise a fund which ing thousands of persons In the south|at hand. to lay it before the Con|ber of pellagra cages in Georgla this | sy 000400 thas collecied in thia |tain this contention the monarchical |like to See the railroads reduce ‘an be used to care for penniless ex- soldiers who come to Washington, finding upon reaching herehey have no claims against the govelpment. ————— FUNERAL OF MAJ.PISCHER. 3 Services for Former Official in Bu- reau of Standards Tomorrow. Funeral services for Mafi. Louis Al- bert Fischer, chief of the @ivision of ‘weights and measures of the United States bureau of standards. who died yesterday morning, will be held at his residence in the Wellington apart- ments tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Interment will be in Arlington Na- tional eemeter: The honorary pallbearers will be Dr. 8. W. Stratton, Dr. C. W. Waid- ner, Dr. L. J. Briggs, Dr. G. K. Bur- gass, Dr. W. F. Hillebrand, Dr. F. A. Wolff, Ross Perry and Robert How- ard,- The active pallbearers will be Joshua Evans,.Alfred B. Leet, Ar- thur Hellen, Henry W. Bearce, Ralph W. Smith and F.'S. Holbrook. Rev. Edgar Carpenter of Grace Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Va., will officiate. FOR PLANE-CARRYING SHIP BSecretary Denby Thinks Atlantic and Pacific Fleets Should Have Mother Ship. Secretary Denby will ask Congress to appropriate approximately thirty million dollars for the construction of airplane carrier. He said today he had decided on that course, even be- | fore the recent bombing tests, but that the results of those tests had convinced him that the Navy needed more airplane carriers. Senator King, addressing the Senate in behalf of his bill, said that the bombing tests had demonstrated conclusively that “too much importance” had been attached to capital ships and too little atten- tion devoted to alrcraft and subma- rines. Secretary Denby indicated that in his opinion it would be wise to con- struct two new airplane carriers, one for the Atlantic fleet and the other for the Pacific forces. Two carriers were provided for in the current naval appropriation bill as it passed the Senate, but the House refused to ac- cept the provision and it was stricken wag made to the President today by Dr. Livingston Farrand, head of the American Red Cross. In a letter ac- knowledlging one from the President asking the ‘8id of the Red Cross to prevent the spread of pellagra and Dr., Fi tire resour prevent spread of the “famine and Dlague” to which the President re- ferred in his letters to Dr. Farrand Red Cross Meeting. A conference was held this aftec- noon at ‘Red Cross headquarters in which Red Cross officials and officials of the public health service partici- pated to ascertain the need for co- operatiop between the two agencles. Dr. Farrand made statement today to a representative of The Star: ‘The Red Cross will im-, mediately get in touch with the pub- lic health service and other govern ment agencies; with the ious offi- clal and unofficial state agencies in an endeavor to ascertain both the facts as they now exist and probable developments during the comin, year, and with these agencies will de- vise such means and make such rec- ommendations as may be necessary to meet any unusual distress now exist- ing or likely to arise.” Dr. Farrand indicated that the state the following| & { with twenty-ni) the corresponding I;ermd of cording to Dr. T. F. Abercromble, secretary of the sta board of health, in discussing today reports from Washington that the pellagra situation in the southern cotton belt was alarming. He stated that from avalilable reports there was nothing to indicate any spread of the disease in any part of the state, and added: ‘“This fact alone refutes r mor current to the effect that ca after case has been cited or that the situation thre: s to assume menac- ing proportion Cases Fewer in Tennessce. NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 26.—Re- ports to the Tennessee state board of health do not indigate-anything un- usual in pellagra conditions, accord- ing tq.Dr. Olin West, 8ecretary of the board.” There, were fewer cases in Tennessee in June, 1921, than in June, 1920, or June, 191 Telegrame were sent this morning vo county health officers in west Tennessee inquiring as to present conditions. Decroase ia Alabama. MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 26.—The report of the' state board of health of Alabama showg that there was a de- crease last year i;n thhe num‘ber oé’ cases of,pellagra in the state, an there were fewer deaths from this malady than .in the preceding year. year over _“Fllorlly that I a’'year ago,’ uld promptly nt on the need be shown. i Please consider me ready and anx- ibgs to help in any proper way, by agnterence or otherwise. ’ DISCOUNTED BY STATES. shm Report Disease on Decrease i and See No Famine. COLUMBIA, §. C., July 26—~Dr. James A. Hayne, state health officer, declared today that although there had been an _increase in the number of deaths in South Carolina from pel- lagra, there was no condition of tamine, and the not aflarming. , : According to reports.made to.the state health department, ther: were in May of this year twenty-eight deaths throughout the state, as com- pared with twenty last year. In June of this year thers were forty-three deaths from pellagra, as compared increase wa but Dr. Hayne tive state these figures, compiled to- day, do not indfcate any alarming condition. Few Cases in Louisiana. country, and 11 but about $2,000,000 of it alstfibuted for child relief in the war-tor: to May 31 sections of Europe up by the European Relief Council, of which Herbert Hoover chairman, it is set forth in a report made public here. ofr the sum unallocated $1,000,000 is in pledges not “yet collected and the remainder has been transferred to the European relief administra- tion. Newport cept m NI F'Poa'r CITY CUTS DOWN WAGES. New: E\pployeu Must Ac- %0415 Per Cent Drop. EWS, Va., July 26— Action 6f the city council has re- sulted in all city e cent, effective the reduction of salaries of mployes from 10 to 15 per September 1. Fiscal difficulties of the city were given explanation of the cut, which is e. pected to ury of 37 Further reductions of be “expec effect 3 saving to the treas- 5,000 annuall ges are to ted, City Manager L. G. Thom said. —eeeeee maxim ‘the king can do no wrong is_quoted. “The king can do no wrong is an ancient doctrine, but in this republic, it has never reached the application that an_ elected official can de no wrong. We have been extremely for- tunate in the character and conducts of elected officials, but there has never been an intimation or suspicion that they were not capable of committing crime before, during and after the term of office. Our governors are not born ‘kings.’ They are not surround- ed by a halo by birth that gives them immunity from the temptation and frailties to which other humans are subject. “It is said in the constitutional his- tory of England that in ancient days the functions of the king and priest were the true progrative of birth and it is said the King's power is, there- fore, from God, that of parliament freight rates before being given any more money. That's why the ad- ministration program will encounter much opposition in Congress, and the democrats will probably assist the re- publican insurgents in their fight to keep the farm credit plan from being tied up with the bill to assist the railroads. The administration will have its way eventually, but the significant thing thus far is that a broad plan for the finuncing of private enter- prises has had to be proposed by President Harding and his advisers to meet the demands of the agricul- tural group and the needs.of the rall- roads. All these steps are calculated to help business back to normal, though the requirements and desires of the different classes of industry are making the road a rough one to travel. Every day the legiglative situat gets more and more entangled with from men. gained perhaps by rebel- lion, but what right can arise from rebellion? G. A. GILLILAND DIES. Employe of Pension Office for Over Thirty Years. the problems of business and the Harding administration now finds it necessary to add to tariff and taxa- tion another essential—the financing of exports and domestic transporta- tion. (Copyright, 1921.) —_— HITS HOOVER HOUSE PLAN CANDLER COBB GIVEN POST. Secretary Hoover announced today the appointment of Candler Cobb. formerly of Chicago, and now of New York, as assistant to the American commercial attache in London. Dur- ing the war Mr. Cobb was assistant United States attorney in New York, in charge of restrictions on foreign trades and fraudulent passports. NEW ORLEANS, July 26.—“There no epidemic of peliagra in Louisian: said Dr. Oscar Dowling, president of the state board af health, today. “On the contrary, there are fewer case. than usual at this time of the year. For the week,enfllnf July 23 only five new cases ‘were reported to the health board, while the report for the previous week showed eighteen new cases. There -is -no method of determining the exact number of cases in the state, no report is made to the board of health of cures effected. but and local organizations of the Red Cross are ready on short notice to go to the stricken areas and provide such assis- tance as may be necessary. Declafing thesshortage of morey re- sulting from the inability of the people of a large section of the south to sell their cotton was threatenimg " “famine | and plague,” the President wrote Surgeon General Cumming of the public health service that “immediate ard effective measures of amclioration are manifestly demanded if conditions even approximate the gravity suggested by the health serv- ice.”” Promising the full co-operation of George Adams Gilliland, for more than thirty years an employe of the pension office, died at his home, 1383 F street northeast, yesterday. Fu neral services will be held at the re: idence tomorrow afternoon at 2 'o"clock. Born in Pikes county, Ohio, Janu. ary 2, 1850, Mr. Gilliland came to this city as a young man. In 1869 he married Miss Charity Butcher, and the couple celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary March 28, 1919 Besides his widow, he is survived by four children. George W. Gilllland, Banker Says Theory Is Faulty in Estimate of Funds at Hand. NEW YORK. July — Herbert Hover's plan for relieving the short- age of homes throughout the country is based on the faulty theory tha at least 40 per cent of the nation's savings, aggregating $23,000,000,000, is available for financing new con- struction, W. A. Sadd, president of the savings division of the Amerl Bankers' Association, declared in a statement here. Mr. Sadd questioned the existenc No Information of Increase. RALEIGH, N. C., July 26.—“I have no information that would lead me to be- lieve that pell 1s on the increase in North Carolina,” declared Dr. W. S, {Rankin, secretary of North Carolina state board of health, when his atten- tion was called to Washington dis- patches to the effect that President Harding has called on the public health service and the Red Cross to investigate and report on an alleged situation of semi-famine and epldemic of pellagra in a large section of the southern cotton belt. out. Coincident with Mr. Denby's an- nouncement, Senator King, democrat, Utah, introduced a bill which would provide for conversion of the battle cryisers Saratoga, Lexington and Con- stellation into airplane carriers and for stsoppage of construction work on the battleships South Dakota, Indiana, Montana, North Carolina, Iowa and Massachusetts, * and on the battle cruisers Ranger, Constitution and United States. —_ DROWNED BOY IDENTIFIED —_— Thomas Economou Lost His Life in the Tidal Basin. The boy whose body was taken from the tidal basin bathing beach. yester- day morning was Thomas Economou, nine vears old, son of Mr. and Mr: George Economou, 229 3d street, I was between § and 9 o'clock when the boy left.home yesterday morning and Recent experiments are said to have proved conclusively that sugar cane can be grown successfully on the muck lands of the Florida Everglades. ‘went to the bathing beach, and it was about 9:30 o'clock when his body was found. Coroner Nevitt viewed the body at the morgue and gave a certificate of accidental drowning. The scratch over one of ‘the eyes of the dead boy vas a trivial one, the coroner stated, and did not cut through the skin. Yesterday afternoon the boy's par- ents became alarmed because of his failure to return home. His father reported his absence to the police and was told of the recovery of a boy's body at the bathing beach. He went to the morgue and identified the body. MOVE TO OUST OFFICERS. Local Pressmen Confirm Petition to Recall National Executives. Confirmation of a petition for the recall of president George L. Berry and members of the board of direc- tors of the International Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants' Union wa. given at a meeting of the Washingto; Local No."1 last night in the Typo- graphical Temple. The petition, which was drawn up and authorized at a meeting two weeks ago, did not become valid un- til the confirmation last night. It will now be circulated through- out the country for review by each local union. ~The subscription of fourteen additional local unions to the petition intact i& necessary, under a rule of the orgamization to auth- orize a referndum vote on the recsil —_——— DENIES IN SUIT. Felix Lake. prominent realty .in- vestor, has flled an answer d that he is indebted to J. and C. B. Hazard for $23,160 commis. €ion on the sale of certain apartment houses of the total value of $725,000. Mr. Lake says the exchange Droj by the plaintiffs ‘was nol completed. He is represented by Attorney Charles N. Joyce. * e Onée of the great American mail- ?n;‘«‘er hous a.‘ w!t:\“l:,euqnnrtor i‘t': “hicago, employs pers n Philadeiphia branch &lone. URGES BOARD INQUIRY. Mr. La Follette Asks of ‘“British Influences” Here. Investigation to determine if 8hipping Board policies have been “molded by British influences” an are hostile to organized labor, wi urged in the Senate yesterday by Senator La Follette, republican, Wis- consin. The new hoard, he said, ap- parently had continued the labor pol- icy of the old board, and a congres- sional inquiry was needed to protect the Amercian merchant marine. If ' was the purpose of the new board to “change any of the vicious practices of the old board, such pur- pose has not manifested itself in ac- tion so far as 1 have learned,” the one ever had any experience in the management or operation of ships,” and an luvauu%ulon would be helpful to the board. The past policy of hos- tility to organized labor had driven men away from American ships, he charged, and “coercion and decep- tion” had been practiced on seamen by Shipping Board agents in recruit- ing workers. . 3 —— MOURNS CAR.AND CASH. W. B. Parker Says Auto Was Stolen While He Was Fixing Tire. Willlam B. Parker, 1816 Calvert street, has to police of the ninth precinct to recover au auto- mobile and $490. The automobile, he states, belongs to James Mahe: living at' the Calyert street address, and he had possession of it last night, ‘When: he reached - Blandens road and Rhode Islagnd avenue north- east last night about 10:30 o'clock, he said, he had to stop because of tire trouble. He said he removed his coat, the pockets df which contained $490, and threw it fn the car. . - = A you man ' bosrded the car, the police, and drove off all federal agencies, the President also declared that if found necessary Con- gress would be asked to pass speclal legislation to meet the situation. Letter to Gen, Cumming. The President, in his letter Surgeon General Cumming, said: "l have beem greatly concerned to note the public statement from the public health service as to the men ace of pellagra and condition of at least semi-famine in a large section of the cotton belt. That sucH & con. dition is obviously temporary, imci- dent to the economic disjocation fol- lowing the war, cannot lessen our coneern. Famine and plague’ ‘are words almost foreign to our Amer- ican vocabulary, save as we ve learned their meaning in connection with the afflictions of “lands less favored- and toward which our peo- ple have so many times displayed large and generous charity. “Immediate and effective measures of amelioration are manifestly de- manded. if conditions even-approxi- mate the gravity suggested by the public health report. It is unthink- able that we should delay for a sin- gle day the institution of such meas- ures. Therefore, I am writing to ask you for the most complete pos- sible report that can be made at once—provided there {s anything to add to what you have already Mmade public—and especially for suggestion of proper measures to deal with the situation. ‘Writes to Red Gress. T am also writing to Dr. Living- stone Farrand, head of the ‘American Red Cross, in the same tenor, #nd sug- gesting that co-operation bet®een h! organization and your owa might be helpful, having in mind-the need for );]n:te in making’ 3 _full sitvey and in nning relief measures.” I wish you both to be assured.of my co-operation and of all aid that can appropriately ‘be - given through the executive de- partments, and to kiiow that if full information abeut the situation shail make apparent that legislative mction to In his letter to e i htter Dr. Dr. Dowling expressed the bellef that Mrs. Florence Hanen, Mrs. Victor M. Hurley and Mrs. Bert Robertson. He also leaves seven grandchildrep and one great-grandchild. 5 " MEXICO CUTS SALARIES. Reduction of 10 Per Cent Made for Federal Workers. MEXICO CITY, July 26—In line with a recently announced program of economy by which it is hoped to stabilize Mexico's finances, President Obregon last night fssued a decree providing for a reduction of 10 per cent in all federal salaries except those of less than three pesos daily. The reduction applies to military and civil employes alike, and will be ef- fective between A t 1 and De- cember 31. In addition to a cut in federal expenses, President Obregon has ordered that the cost of munici- pal administration also be sharply curtailed An urgent need of money to rehabil- itate the railroads, establish a mer- given as the eral reconstruction was reason for the order. . SLATED FOR CHINA POST. —_— Germany Expected to Send Dr. Adolph Boye as Minister. BERLIN, July 26.—Dr. Adolph Boye, who is slated for the post of minister to China, has been a foreign office officlal since 1897. He has Serv- ed in the diplomatic service in Japan and China. He once was vice consul at Shanghal. During the war Dr. Boye was as- signed to the German embassy in Vienna in the capacity of commercial Since 1919 he has been head Dr, Boye is a resident of Bava: He {8 fifty years old. ~ He ed c;ul'flcn:l: attention ::mucr- many’s far-eastern trade ests commerelal of so large a sum as that named b) the Secretary of Commaerce various savings institutions. | | | and insurance ¢ imal portion of the total i for home building because of other demands on each insti available the tion. securities, he declared, could not pos- sibly be materially increased. Housing operations. the banker as-; serted, will not multi until con- struction prices have 8o adjusted themselves that new projects will find an advantageous market in competi- tion with those completed when prices were lower. - GERMANS LOST 1,792,368. Revised Compilation Made of War Dead From 1914 to 1918. By the Asvociated Press. » BERLIN, July’ 25.—Germany lost 1,792,368 men killed and 4,248,874 wounded from 1914 to 1918, according 0 a reyised compilation of the Ger- man casuaities during the war. In addition, 200,000 men stfil are re- ported as missing. *'The losses in the navy, which are included 1in _the casuaities glven above, were 34.266 men killed and 21,085 wounded. e e RADIUM USED ON ANIMAL. Incipient Cancer Treated in Horses, Dogs and Cats. NEW YORK, July 26.—Animals as well as humans now are being treat- ed with radium for incipient cancer. Dr. George W. Little, surgeon at the animal hospital of the soclety for prevention of cruelty to animals, said today that interesting results had been obtained with radium in treat- ent of horses, dogs and cats. A store of radium valued. at more than $400,000 and owned by pitsl-16°used on the The amount now tied up in real estate )