Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1921, Page 2

™ ‘id —— Y CALL MEETING N PELLAGRA FIGHT th Service Head Makes i;,.Renort at White House on || Situation Today. il St | ) | NCE NEXT WEEK Surgeon General to Offer Advice to President as to Most Effective Measures. Immediate Steps to avert a wreat- | pned spread of pellagra in the south imvolving about 100,000 pegsons will be taken by the public health service, workipg in conjunction with the Red Cross, it was announced at the office ©f Surgeon General Cumming of the Jublic health service today. 1 An_ emerge committec by Surgeon ner; Cun . prganized at a meeting held at Red T'ross headquarcers rday to fully Jnvestigate and devise measures e cope with the dis: amony the | Yurmers of the south. Will Report to President. n General Cumming was ex 2 Sur; Pected to go to the White House today | 10 make a direct report to President Jlarding. and to advise the President | s to the proper measures to plrsue; the existing emergency. Gen. Cum- | ining. it was announced at his office 2oday, is prepared to summon State Jealth authorities of the southern Btates to Washington to attend & ronference on the situation as soon as| he has communicated to the President his knowledge of the extent of the disease and possibility of spread. The yonference will probably be held early Dext week in this city i Pellagra is a Seasonal disease,! health swvice officlals said, and is at| its height now. In August and Sep- Aember the number of cases will Probably gradually drop off, while] fluring the winter there are practi- fally no cases of pellagra. During ihe summer months. it was said. there §s always a heavy increase. SIn the face of contlicting reports from the south regarding the preva- jonce of pellagra. the public healh servic- today explained the method o ¥ hich boc.on was base ! ind 10 wouid stand by “00C urrent cases .3 a s s dnate Dey e Last Year's Number. Last year. according to Dr Long. ecutive assistant to Surgeon ¢ea- eral Cummings. the tw!ai numb.o: of QUSes a1 T'US Lme Was ap roxiniely 80 per cent of what it is now. - In only about one-third of the south- ern states i« pellagra a disease whici s be repor‘ed. arcording to Dr nd in the remaining two- compilations are made by offi- Pals of the United States public “l'h service. based upon experience | for ten vears in the sections affected and a «d stoly o7 the ratin between ths reported from pel- and the number of cases re- ted. Surgeon Joseph Goldberger, an ex- in pellugra for the past ten. . it was stated. used the census | -ports on deaths and the reports of | state health officers in the tates Where report of the disease is com- pulsory for the basis of his estimates. According to officials the method is is Deaths and causes must be report-! ed from virtually all sections. Mr. | oldberger has worked out a ratio Ratwoen deaths and the prevalence of | the disease. As a result, when a cer- (ain number of deaths is reported for & certain period, a general average of | the number of cades fer- that period may be obtained from the use of this | vatio. This is the method by which | the estimate of 100,000 cases, which | ix suld to be very conservative, was | compiled. U. S Oficlals Meet. ““Surgeon General Cumming and Dr.| Joseph Goldberger, pellagra expert of | the public health service, met in con- | ference vesterday with.Br. Livingston | rand, chairman, and other Red| Cross officials. The session was quite lengthy and no information as to con- clusions reached was disclosed. The! response from the south was wide- spread and varied. In all cases the state health officials 00k vigorous issue with the reports of the public health service. which | has publicly estimated that due to| impoverished diet frced upon them | b depression of the cotton market, | a1 least 100,000 persons in the south ern cotton belt would have pellagra ! d that 10 per cent of them will die, | r. Cumming said tonight,- however. ! that the public health service would | stand by its figures. Senator Dial of South Carolina said | yesterday he was not an “alarmist” and understood that a pellagra e demic did not exist, but might be ex- pected under the conditions prevalent, especially among small cotton plant- Senator Dial said that he knew niany laborers who have been laid off. Workmen and small farmers were be- ing forced to economize on their foodstuffs. Due to the enforced eat- iog of corn products alone, Senator Dial said. he feared that pellagra in wide form may result. Reports Protested. Senator Harris of Georgia received a telegram from the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, saving: “We strongly protest published reports of alarming pellagra menace and semi-famine con- ditions in cotton belt as unwarranted by the facts and likely to prove an- other serious blow to the south. Re- norts to state health board show no increase over last year and no pros- pect of such menace as indicated. Sit- uation certainly does not justify such adverse comment.” “Another telegram from Clark How- ofi; editor of the Atlanta Constitution. said: “Bureau of health reports concern- iwg pellagra conditions alleged to ex- ist in the southern cotton belt does great injustice to Georgia. These re- ports should make clear just what states are referred to. In original re- port published last week statement made by federal board of health that Georgia having more diversified crops was less affected than any other sputhern state and that trouble was confined chiefly to Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. This exception should be emphasized. since reports by the Associated Press indicate condition is widespread.” - RATIFY PEACE TREATY. PARIS. July 26.—Ratifications of the peace treaty with Hungary were exchanged at the Qual d'Orsay today. The ceremony, which lasted twenty minutes, was presided over by Paul Cambon. The minutes of the proceedings ‘were signed by the representatives of the principal powers and governments affected by the treaty or its annex and the Hungarian minister to France, Ivan Kraznovsky. Sunday School Head Shoots Wife to Death, Then Directs Services WILMINGTON, N. C., July 27. wrife led 24 of which he is superintendent and calmly directed the serv- fe: en. The bedy his wife was dis- covered while Sunday scheol ‘was in progress and Sneed was arrested by Sheriff Lewis, when he left the chureh. News of the killing reached this city teday. e e e o e e e e e N T ‘ 2, Co——————————————— e e e Given Important Post ARCHIBALD W. WOLFE New York, who has just bee: ry of Commerce e of the mew di- vixion of commercial Inww, just estah- ished in the bureau of forelgm nnd dumeatic commeree. Mr. Wolfe lmme tintely take stepn to awsembl informution regarding the commer-ial avws of countrien of the wi ve of Amcrican experters. DAWES TAKES STEP TO CONTROL SALES (Continued from First Page.) of supply in corps areas to select those classes of stocks which repre- scnt substantially the bulk of th» money value of all stocks, and con- centrate upon these until disposed of. “It shall be the duty of the chief co-ordinator to advise as to the methods of expediting the inventories of surpl s stocks in th: possession of the various departments and .nde- jendent establishnents of the gov- ernment concerned. “He shzll advise heids upon policy governing the sules of commouities 1eld surpius in mere than one departm.cnt of the gov- crnment, which policy shall aim tn nrure uniformity in prices receivel nd tend to protect the state of the market in the government's interests. “The co-ordinating officer assigned o each territorial subdivision of the United States and its cxtra-continen {al possessions shall wierclse withil his area such like gupervisory pow- ors over the purclasing functions of the several departments and estab- ilishments as may he required cf him the department by the chief co-ordinator at the seat of government, in co-operation w.th the department heads. “In each executive dep. independent establishment of the gov- ernment there shall be a director of #rtment and | 1 By Secretary Hoover ‘ LADT | | 1 {to one building. The appropriation| AP available for the hotels for the cur-| irent fiscal year. she said, is $45.000 ilcss than thot for the preceding vear.i i i 1d for the: Commissioners | | ILLNESS OF 100 WOMEN: 0 “OTHER CAUSE” Dormitory Manager Says It ‘u Not Food Served—Hears of Like Cases Elsewhere. Recent illness of more than one hundred women living at the gov- ernment hotels on the Union Station and Senate plazas wns not due to the food served in the dormitory dining rooms. but from “gom= other cause,” according to Mrs. Sarah H. Sumner, generzl menager, in a formal state- men: fssucd today. She rbarcd her statement on reports from the health department, which made a comple:e analysis of ihe foodstuft: coll:cted and failed to reveal a condition that could be definitely =stated as being resvonsible for the illness. physicians, who have most frequently heen calied into consuita- tion by gues-s of the hotels,” said the statement, “have advised that this pirticular form of illn~ss has not been peculiar to the occupants of the hotels, but has more or less been prevalent throughout the city within the recent past.” In the statement Mrs. Sumner pointed out that the determination of the management to close the C-D buiiding was based upon a desire to meet_the financlal limitations iinposed by Congreas and in the interest of ordinary economy to confine vacancies —_— SCHOOL R!TF CHOSEN. Acguire T Stree Land for Junior High. The District Commissioners today selected a site for the Junior High School, s0on to be constructed. It is located on the south side of T street, between 1st and 2d streets northeast, and acquired through the Washingion Loan and Trust Com- pany, for the sum of $26,367. Two small lots adjoining this property also were ordered to be purchased at cost of $980. t SCORES TARFF VALUATIN PLA T. H. Eddy Says Provision Would Kill Some Classes of Import Business. American valuation provisions of domestic business and wipe out some YORK REFUSES TO CAPITALIZE “ACT OF PROVIDENCE”' TO SAVE FARM NEW YORK. July 27.—A special dispatch to The Tribune from Pall Mall, Tenn., says: Sergt. Alvin York 1s about to lose his farm near here because he can- Rot meet 2 mortgage of $12.500 due on it this fall. The outstanding American hero of the world war, who with his own hands captured 132 Germans in the Argonne on October 18, 1918, has found the drop In corn and produce prices in the last year a much tougher enemy than the boohe machine guns. But if he loses his farm York will retzin his self-respect. Under no consideration will he exhibit himseif for profit, though to do so would net him far .more than erough to pay off the mortgage. His religlous scruples and sense of obligation to the nation won't per- mit him to capitalize what he calls “an act of Providence.” And so today he is working in the flelds and worrying how he will meet the note and take care of his wife and Alvin, jr. Bergt. York could pay his note and his grocery bill of $250, about which the store is getting restive, if he would de one thing—capital- ize his war record by giving lec- BRIG. GEN. HOYLE l | | | | Was Distinguished Retired Army Officer—In Service Forty Years. Brig. Gen. Ely D. Hovle, a dis- tinguished retired officer of the Army, died at his home, 1732 P street, today, following an illness of several months. He is survived by his wife, a son and four daughters, one of whom is the widow of Col. James A. Shannon, who was killed in action during the world war. Arrangements are being made at the War Department for the funeral. Burial probably will be at Arlington national cemetery. Gen. Hoyle was retired January 19, 1915, after an efficient service of almost forty vears. He was born in Geurgia on January 19, 1851, and graduated from the milltary Academy in the class of 1875. He for age DIES AT 70 YEARS| tures for fat fees, writing articles for newspapers and magazines and acting ‘in_films. But he has said that he would lose his farm first. “I would far rather lose my farm and go back to work upon it as a common day laborer than te ocom- mercialize the fame which wa snly incidental to an act of Prov ence,” he say When York bought the farm pros- pects were bright. Corn was sell- ing at war prices and he was able to make his first moi e pay | ment. When this year prices went to pleces the war hero did not com- plain. He went ahead and by hard { work tried to raise enough at the | new low prices to meet his pay- ments. There is no discouragement, how- ever, in the heart of the man who braved the German guns. He is sustained by that same faith which carried him through the crisis in the Argonne. “I was only a pawn that day over there and any credit that was due should go to the Lord; for me to attempt to take any gredit per- sonally would be to do a great wrong, and He will see me through now as well as He did then. York's farm was partly pald for |2:§~50 popular subscription of $11.- | | l Swimming in Street Latest Joy Fad in Greenwich Village | By the Assoc.ated P'ress. NEW YORK, July 374—6}0;-- 1t (s the strect swimming party. Several huadred adult vil- lagers ehristened last wnight, with delighted whoops and gur- a swimming pool con- stracted iy the middle of West 10th street. The otx feet wide, fourteen feet long and five feet deep. was built by fire- men for ehildren, but the Krown-ups lost me time im try- ing it ewt wunder Fire Chief Kenlon's ruling that adalts weuld be permitted to use the Sre department baths after the rengh e’clock ! the Fordney tariff bill would cripple i was assigned as sccond lieutenant /] with the 2d Artillery and served at: the academy as Instructor in artil- classes of import business. Thomas H. Eddy of Marshall Field & Co., Chi- cago. told the Senate finance commit tee today. The plan also would de- pu-chares and a director of sales. who ! velop. he sald. an uncertainty in in- shall co-ordinate all activities involv- | ternational trade, the eftects of which ing purchases and sales within their|could not be forecast. e departments and be in di-igaid, would be compelled to appeal ison with the chief co-ordi- to whom they shall furnisl nator, copies of all their surplus property reports. These directors of purchases and sales shail be subject to call by the chief co-ordinator for conference in all matters involving the co-ordl- nation of sales and purchases in the various departments of the govern- ment service.” Organisati Is Indep nt, . ‘While the necessity for using. ex- isting agencies to_promptly meet the ‘general situation requires for this or- ganization the detail to this duty of those already in different departments of “the ‘public service; this organiza- tion is independent of any depart- ment,”” Gen. Dawes said. “The word- ing of the order must not create the impresaion that the War and Navy Departments are being placed in con- trol of the organization. because of the fact that, for supply and purchase co-ordination purposes. the country is divided along the lines of the present corps areas of the Army and some | Army and Navy officers may be used in it. Experiénced men will be se- ted. irrespective of the present de- rrment status. 1t will be noted also that the co- D | ordinating machinery set up by the order does not interfere with existing departmental authority. save in the matter of co-ordination of action. which can be properly accomplished executive order alone. Under the order there is set up the machin- ery to fachitate interdepartmental transfers of property. Negotiation be- tween the departments as to the price at which surplus material is trans- ferred from one to the other is ren- dered unnecessary by the authority given to the co-ordinating supply officers in the different corps areas to fix the price at which the bookkeep- ing entries incident to such transfer are made. Thig co-ordinating ma- chinery also will be concerned in the systematizing of government pur- chases. By the establishment of this machinery immediate rellef to the existing situation is expected. and it will continue to function pending the study of the question of whether or not better machinery can be institut, ed through legislation. Its operation will provide an opportunity for the executive and Congress to determine whether or not the purchase and surplus supply situation will be bet- ter handled by a central organization created by law or by the continuance and improvement of this system, which is one of the co-ordination of existing agencies.” CENTRIST LEADER DIES. Karl Trimborn Held Position of President of Rhineland. BERLIN, July 26—Karl Trimborn, the German centrist leader, died at Bonn Monday. S Karl Trimborn held the position of president of the Rhineland, to which he was appointed by the Berlin gov- ernment in 1919. In the midst of Germany’s political crisis in 1920, he accepted the task of forming a new cabinet, but failed after he had offered the chancellorship to Dr. Fehrenbach and Wilhel Mayer. BRINGS UP RENT LAW. Senator Ball’s Request for Prompt Action Is Refused. Senator Ball of Delaware, chajrman of the District committee, today made rent act conridered, by the Senate. Soon after the Senate met. he asked unanimous consent to take up the bill. Senator Sterlinz of Scuth Dakota, in ciiarge of the ant'-teer VLill, ol ted, saying ihit he consiGered it smpera- tive and of great irterest to the country at :erge tr have the anti- beer bill acted upcn with as little delay as possible. Renator Sterling expressed regret at interposing an ob- Jjection to the rent bill, which he fa- vored. - Senater Pall calliG atvention o the fact that the 1ért act a;pires October 2, unl>:s it is furtnes extended By Congr:: Fie sa’d that the time was growing shoct. aal h-. the bill 1t only must pas: the Senate, but alsc the House, the law i to be rx- tended until next May a* proposed in the peraing b Il —_— CONTRIBUTION FOR FUND. The Star has received and hereby ac~ knowledges a_contribution of $7 to the fresh air fund of the Associtted Chari- 5 e Ao, i T 2o organizations = | 1 | | | another unsuccessful attempt to have {moral men and unmoral women, the bill extend.nig the life of the Bali|said. His firm, he every appraisal “to protect our own in- terests, as it could not accept the opinion of a single individual as to what constituted comparable articles in _the foreign and home markets. The witness said he did not know to what extent importations would be eut down, as epplication of the Amer- ican basis was an unknown quantity with respect to 90 per cent of imports to which it would apply. George C. Davis, New York customs officlal, continued the attack on Amer- ican valuation which he started yes- terday. WOMEN VOICE PROTEST AGAINST MAN-MADE LAW (Continued from First Page.) Miss Robertson said also that she had seen the habit of smoking by women “in a charming way at one of the functions at the Pan-American building,” and asked how it wils pro- posed to handle such a situation. Representative Johnson said he didn’t suppose it would be possible to reform the old cigarette fiend. .but his hope was to save the children, who, he argued. will ape those pointed out to them as society lead- ers. Elizabeth G. McMahon of Boston, who described herself as an old Army nurse, with overseas experience, spoke from fhirty-five years' ex- perience. She sald that sixty years ago, she remembered carrying to- bacco to her grandmothe: ‘who smoked, but that two wrongs do flot make a right. She described sev- eral cases of inveterate woman smokers which had come under her observation as a nurs Representative Focht ““Why make this legislation ply teo men?’ There were several responges of “right” from young women in ti audience. Dem: Woman’s Rights. Mrs. C. E. Cassidy, 1416 N street, testified that she had never smoked a cigarette in her life, but that it riled her to have any group of men tell her what she should or should not said. 0 do. She said that the women through- |G out the country are taking offense at men in committee and legislation a tempting to tell women how far they can go in the matter of dress, bath- ing suits, stockings, the way they do their hair, etc. She objected to the insinuation that smoking underniined the morals of women any moré than the morals of men. She emphasized that the women of this country are just as anxious not to have the future generation deteriorate as any group of men. ‘You can trust the women to regulate themselves,” she said, and laid streas on the fact that women have led the way for better atandards of living every- where. Miss Fanny Wolfson of Louisiana ex- pressed the same sentiment as Mrs. Cas- sidy. She offered the suggostion that there were t:o|mu\ly“::::m to make le good by legislal “ ughen Chairman Focht said “Then, you think we had better quit trying to reform both men and women by legis lation,” the crowd applauded. Mrs. E. C. Atwood, director of the woman's board of the Anti-Blue Law Assoclation of America, expressed. the opinion that the Johnson bill is the open- ing wedge for all anti-Sunday legislation. “What would poor old Uncle Joe do if you passed an antl-smoking bill?” she Saen’a subl such a sul rather than correct it. * she Election Board Head Celebrates His 924 SBiniidey by W oput ot the New ot el R. Vi lery actics for several months. Sub- sequent services Inciuded duties at Fort Macon, N. lumbia, S. C.; Washington, D. C. Fort McHenry, Md., up to July In Charge at West Pol He went to West Point, Y. adjutant of the Military Academ 1882, and remained there in capacity for three years. He te! 'ved at Huntsville, Ala.; Fort Bar- cas, Fla.; Fort Adams, R. I.; Fort Riley, Kan., and Fort Schuyler, N. Y. He recelved his appointment as chief of ordnance of the United States Volunteers, July 18, 1898, and was assigned to duty with the 1st di- vision, 18t corps. He took part in the Porto Rico campalgn with Gen. Wi son’s column, and was in the engage- ment of Coamo, August S, 1888 1o T16 a8 acting o generai.of the i1st Division, 15t Corps, Aligast to September 15, 1898, and was chief ord- nance officer of the 1st Division, 2d Corps, October 28, 1898, to January 27, {1899, He became a a{hln on September 118, 1898, in the 1st United States Artil- ilery, and was promoted to major of iartiilery in 1908. He served at Fort Myer, Va., in that capacity and was also i president ‘of the board for preparation of 1 regulations for the three-ineh rapid-fire fleld gun and president of the fleld artillery board. next promotion, to lieutenant colonel of the artillery, was in 1907, when he was placed in command of the recruiting department and post of Fort Slocum, being transferred later to the $th Artillery. Commands Ceatral Department. For a time he w: in temporary jcommand of the Central Department, with headquarters at Chicago, and was transferred in the summer of 1913 to the 2nd Artillery, with which organization he served in the Philip- pine Islands. - He became brigadier general on Sep- tember 24, 1813, and was put in com- mahd of the Department of Luson, Philippine Islands. It was at Fort McKinley that he was retired in 1915. | Since his retirement and return to the United States he lived with his fam- ily in this city. Those who survive him are his wife, one son, Maj. R. E. B. Hoyle of th fleld artillery, and four daughters, Mrs. J. K. Herr, Mrs. James A. Shan non, Mrs. E. F. Graham and Mrs. H. D. Higley. —_— TRAIN DECAPITATES MAN. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn, July 27— The decapitated body of an unidenti- fled youn: man dressed as & laborer was found lying on the tracks of the ‘arolima, Clinchfield and Ohio rallway at Okolona station, foyr miles t of this city, early this mornin t l‘. sup- posed that he was riding on & freight train and fell between the cara. The head'was completely severad from the body, leaving the features unmarked. A search of his clothing failed to re- veal marks of identification. The body was brought to Johnson City and lies in'an undertaking establish- ment. FOUR GUILTY OF MURDER. Convicted of Slaying in Tennessse. To Be Electrocuted. _CLINTON, Tenn., July 327.—Otto Stevens of Columbus, Ohlo, and Oakdale, Tenn.; John McClure of Baltimore, Tom Christmas of Harriman, Tenn., and Charles Pebree of this town were foun guilty of m in the first degree here yetserday sentenced to be electro- cuted at Nashville next September 15. Motion for a new trial will be heard, probably July 3. AUSTRIA TOWN BARS JEWS. VIENNA, July 27.—No Jew shall re- main Jonger than twenty-four hours in Efferding, in Upper Austria, ac- | | Lancaster and Co- and 8’ -+ OPEN SHOP POLICY \ to Intervene in Hearing on Pennsylvania Road. By the Assoclated Press, CHICAGO, July 27.—Petitions from four industrial associations seeking to interveme in the controversy between the Pennsylvania raliroad and the shop crafts labor unions now Lefore the United States Kuilwsy Labor Board have been presemted to the boarl, it was announced today. | The associations seek to appear for & hearing on behalf of the public and in support of the Pennsylvanla's open shop policy. The petitions were National Association of turers, the Nutional Found ailon, the Nativnsl Erecto ation and the Employers f lcago. | 1 from the Manufac- Assocl- Ase_ci- oclation The case came before the labor board on July 8, when on complaint of the shop crafts unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, Pennsylvania officials, headed by Vice President W. W. Atterbury, jexplained their employes’ plan. Negotiation of Rules. By direction of the labor board, all railroads were to negotiate working Tuies with their employes to replace the national agreements put into ef- fect under federal control. The Penn- sylvaniu negotiated with a committee selected by a referendum vote of the lemployes, refusing to deal with the system Shop Craft Kederation, which clalmed representation of a majority of the men. “We claim to represent the public, which is interested in this raliroad problem, and hold that the Pennsyl vania’s p lon is correct,” sajd Her- bert E. Herrod, secretary of the Chi- cago_ association, In explaining what the four organisations sought to do. ¢ desm It against the public in- terest to have the railroads or any other industry saddled with union- ism against their will. We stand for freedom of contract and the right to select the kind of shop each industry desires and to have the protection of the law in its operatio May Not Affect Case. It was said that the board's deci- sion on the Pennsylvania case virtual- ly was complated, although the asso- clations’ petitions have not yet been taken up, it being Intimated they were too late to affect the case. A previous attempt by the National Industrial Traffic League to appear before the board in connection with the national agreements case last March resulted in & ruling barring th league from intervening on behaif of the public. CITED IN PATENT CASE. Inventor Says U. 8. Uses His Bights Without Permission. Justice Hoehling of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to- day cited John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, and Edwin Denby, Becretary of the Navy, to show cause August 1 why they and their subordinates should not be enjoined from manufac- turing and vending certain kinds of high explosive projectiles, the pat- ents for which are owned by Robert Lee Wright, an inventor, of Los An- | cording to an é&dict issued by the |geles, Calif. eommunal authorities. The Jew! ‘The court's order is based on a pe- members of the numbl{ have pe-|tition for injunction filed by the in. titioned the government to take ac-|ventor, through Attorney arles E. tion in the matter,.saying the edict is contrary to law, and also to the mi- nority clause of the peace treaty. = e BREAK IN UNITED DRUG ENLIVENS STOCK MARKET NEW YORK, 27.—A violent ly Uni Drug day's otherwi, stock exchange. The stoel lost nearly nine points y opened at a further decline of 5% points, and by midday this way - tended on rrllltent -emn’ to Ilh oints at the low of.34. It ralli ater, however, to §0. The remainder of the list was fair- Iy steady, particularly representative rails and industrials. COMMODORE RELIEVED. Cémmodore V. relieved from duty at Portsmouth, ¥. ., the Asvy yard, "x Morganston, in which he claims =a commission of $6,250,000 for the use of his patents on préjectiles, for which the povernment has contracted with the American Can Company of New Jerssy. The contract calls for 5,000,- 000 shells at a cost of $125,000,000, the court is advised. Mr. Wright explaing that he aided the government during the war by furnishing plans and specifications for the improved pro- Jectile, and agserts that the War and Navy departments are proceeding to continue the use of his patent with- out permission since the war has ter- minated. CHEAPER BREAD IN FRANCE. PARIS, July 27.—A reduction in the price of bread, which has often been publicly demanded, is promised in the THE EVENING .STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1921. TOUSSAINT PUT ON TRIAL | FOR KILLING OF FATHER| Depositions of Washingtonians ‘Will Be Introduced as Evi- dence in Defense. I Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. | WICHITA FALLS, Tex., July 27.— Both state and defense announced they were ready for trial at 9 o'clock this morning, when Judge H. F. Weldon called the case of the state of Texas vs. Henry J. Toussaint. Depositions from the following resi- dents of Washington will be introduc- ed by the defense: P. Craig Jones, !G. Mayer, R. C. Brown, Fernund Petit, | Charles Hillman, India Beha, W. M Davis, Jumes Berrall and John Beh The defense has thirteen depos tidns in all to Introduce and twenty |two witnesses, who have been sub- ipoenaed, while the state has a list of ielghteen witnesses. ‘Whether Toussaint shall hang or shall he be sent to the insane asylum will be tle big issue which the jury Wil be called upon to decide. The accused, with a pale and weary look, unchanged, however, in general appearance, with the exception of a f’,,':,',',‘f" mlu-uch:. entered the court- a few minutes befor Weldon called for order. — o ° Ju98¢ Toussaint, who has been in the county jail since February 7. the day after he confessed to the killing of his father. accidentally had his wish Branted with reference to the day of trial. fe stated to his counsel weeks ago thit he preferred going to trial on p Wednesday. as that was his jlucky day. i Former companions_ of the accused while in the Army and in school were jon hand to testif. i { TOKID ACGEPTANGE | BELIFVED RECEIVED, Communication Being Decod- ed—Comment Now Is Refused. A communication from Tokio. be- Socialist Nominee for Controller of New York i | i 1 | i MRS. HARRIOT STANTON BLATCH, Prominent in the suffrage who has been nominated for cn of New York city on the inlixt ticket. Mrs. Blatch, who joined the party a year and a half ago. was nom- inated by mcclamation at the socialist musicipal convention. BOARDTOSETILE BAS RATE QUICKLY Telephone Case Disposed of, i Question of Depreciation | URGES SWEEPING CHANGES IN TAXES W. H. Stackhouse Would Re- peal Excise Taxes, Cut Sur- taxes and Fund War Debt. Repeal of all excise taxes, reduction of all surtaxes to per group and the funding of the entire the cent war debt for a period of fifty to seventy-five years wepe proposed ‘o the House ways and means commi’ tes today by W. H. Stackhouse of Spring field, Ohio, president of the National Impiement and Manufac turers tion. ackhouse's alternative Jor the se_and higl surtaxes was a general sales tax, dix cussion of which the committee ruled out. The witness said the funding of the war debt of twenty-three and one half billion dollars would stabilize the market value of the bonds and put them nearer par than at present. H. estimated that the proposed new of 5 per cent. wh Gurner, democrat. would increase the government penditures § r would be Amneries dar Metr Pederation of olgtion adopte 2 cor of retaining the cx \d income profits taxes Workingmen, he said. felt that t) corporation: in urging repeal of profite 1ax, were endeavoring to shif the burden to those less abie to pay me Tax Suggested. Imposition of a “purchase tax.” re- peal of the excise taxes on candy and bottled soft drinks and amendmen! of the eslate tax provision were among suggestions made to the com- mittee yestarday by witnesses. n addition. the Chamber of Commerce of the United Btates, in a communi- cation, urged a general turnover tax on all business transacvions as a part neral tax program advanced s « result of a final referen- dum vote among the comme: industrial organizations within membership. lieved to contain the formal aceept. | i H ey Teommeidiiions ok pt- Chamber of Commerce were repcal ance by Japan of President Harding's | Still Holds Attention. profits taxes and invitation to participate i ey o 2 ) |t both those on tFa 1 national discussion ,P! n an inter: With the telephone rate case dis. and communication and those levied s of far eastern quen- | posed of in itx decixion to continue | n relation to particular pusiness. I ons, as well a3 disarmament, reach- | existing charges for a period of | the place of these taxes & tax on al ed the State Department today. Pend- | seven months, the Public Utilities | lUrnovers was urged ing decoding and examination officials | refused to comment on the nature of | the communication and had made no| decision as to its publication. I r Expresses Surprise. Special Dispateh to The Star. TOKIO, July 26.—The Jokumin | Shimbun, the militarist organ, says | today it is astounded that Japan is anxious to settle the Yap and Shan- tung questions before the proposed conference on far eastern questions and disarmament. “Japan's attitude in dealing with these problems’” the newspaper de- clares, “partakes Lf the nuture of one secretly returning stolen property ! before arralgnment has been reached in open court.” Japan, the Jokumin continues, has been the target for abuse and hatred | the world over for ite alleged ag-! gressiveness. but says this does not mean that the attacks were justified. | PLAN FOR REORGANIZING U.:S. JUDICIARY READY A comprehensive plan for the reor- ganization of the federal judiciary, to meet the growing business needs of i the country and clean up congestion | of Mquor cases, probably will be pre- isented to President Harding for trans- { mission to Congress within the next few days, according to Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty. ‘The new judicial scheme was work- el out by Mr. Daugherty and a spe- cfal committee of federal judges and district attorneys, with the advice of Chief Justice Taft. Details of the plan would be with- held temporarily, Mr. Daugherty said. as it_involved some of the duties of ! the Chief Justice and had been sent to Mr. Taft at Montreal for his ap- proval before submission to the Pres dent. The creation of additional judges is contemplated, but not as many at this time as had been originally con- sidered order to keep the expense as small as possible, Mr. Daugherty One of the important proposals said to have been considered by the com- mittee was legislation giving the Jus- tice Depsrtment authority to request | the assignment of a judge from one district where the court calendar was light to another district for te zor-ry service to help clean up a eavy docket. COMMITTEE TO LOOK OVER PROPOSED NAVY STATION House Members, Headed by Mudd, to Investigate Drum Point Harbor. Representative Bidney E. Mudd of Maryland is to head an investigation y special subcommittee of the House naval affairs committee leav- ing Washington Friday to determine the feasibility and prlv.‘lk:lbllllgo of using Drum Point harbor, near Solo- party will make the trip on the , the use of which has been ten- dered by the Navy Department. Reprasentative Mudd cl‘l.l'r.i'lll that e — e o - g w Drum Point ‘harbor is locked, nearly ninety feet g and a mile wide. It would an ideal rendez- ‘vous, capablé of sheltering the entire fleet, he zald. The _investigating committee, be- sides Representative Mudd, will in- clude Representatives Hicks of New York, Padgett of Tennesse¢, Stephen of Ohio, McClintic of Oklahoms, Kline of New York, Swing of California, McPherson of Missouri, Burdick of Rhode Isiand, Patterson of New Jer- sey snd Drane of Florida. This investigating committee is_to report_on improvements at the In- dian Head proving ground, where large additiens were made duripg the war. WILL TRY “RED” SENATOR BUENOS AIRES, 27.—After a o -vnnl:':llzvl. the senate thy riia: tary immunity of Senator K. Del Vaille Iber- luces, (6‘ b'flnml(!lnl his trial on charge itious utterances, wl:lnh, it is claimed, were madc at Bahai Blanca during the holding of a socialist o statements complained of are leged . t0 have been made during the course of & speech by the senator advo- catl adhesion to the third interna- tlol at Moscow. - ——— @. A. GILLILAND BURIED. ULl R LA da L3 ORI A0 RS- B o S S 5535 {electricity is still in a state of devel- | mong Island. as a naval station. The lubcli)mmlt:'cln also wl&l ln!tpec’t a:he, naval proving grounds at Indian Head, where the government has test- CONVICTED IN HOSPITAL CASE ed guns of large ahd small caliber for A jury in Criminal Division 2 be- about thirty years. The congressional | fore Chief Justice McCoy has’ con- Commission, it was indicated today. ! probably next will decide what prices | are to be charged Washington users | of gas. The gas company has offered to reduce the present charge 10 cents | per 1,000 cubic feet, and, as th is not involved with as many tions us have been injected ir traction and power cases, it is slated | for early settlement. 1 Ham Heard on Depreciation. The commission was still delving | today into the intricacies of deprecia- tion. William F. Ham president of : Ithe Washington Railway and Electric! {Company, occupied the witness stand | dvuring a hearing to determine what | rate of depreciation should be estab- lished for the Potomac Electric Power | Company, a subsidiary of the railway | concern. | Mr. Ham contended power companies | require the largest depreciation rates. | He based this claim on the fact that opment and new inventions and equip- ment constantly are being placed on | the market wnlch made much Exlsl-l ing equipment obsolete before it has been used for the length of time con- | templated when it was purchased. The rallway head raid accrued deprecia- tion for the Potomac company up to| June 1, this year, amounted to $2,016,- 9.75. In its decision in the telephone case yesterday. continuing existing rates to February 25 next, the com- mission referred to the company’s | showing that its earnings on fair{ valuation during the year ended May | 31 last, was but 4.56 per cent. “Fair and Reasonable.” ! “The evidence shows, and the com- mission believes,” states the order issued, “that the prospective increase | in business during the coming year, with possibly further reductions in | operating costs, will enable the com- | pany to earn a larger but not un- reasonable rate of return at the present rates. These rates, the com- mission believes, are fair and rea- sonable and should be continued for a definite period.” The order refers to the petition of the Federation of Citizens' Associu- tions that the company abandon the present monthly settlement basis fo calls on mensured service lines and substitute the old system of annual| settlements. No evidence has been | presented. it states, to change the | opinion of the commission that the | present monthly settlement basis is | the more equitable of the two ASKS FOR $125,000,000. Shipping Board Chairman Requests Emergency Appropriation. Chairman Lasker of the Shipping | Board appeared today before th& House appropriations committie tof urge an immediate $125,000,000 ap- | propriation to meet expenses during the mext five months. NXo action on the request was taken by the com- mittee, and airnan Madden said the hearing probably would continue through tomorrow. The seizure at New York of Ship- ping Board vessels for alleged fail- ure of the operating company to pay rental was teuched upon in connec- tion with Mr. Lasker's explanation of the shipping situation. according to Mr. Madden, but was not developed. Necessity for prompt granting relief to the Shipping Board was emphasized by Mr. Lasker. victed William B. Dixon, colored, a cripple, of an attempt to assault a female patient at Emergency Hos- pital, where he was employed as an elevator operator, May 21 last. Dixon was allowed to continue at liberty on bail of $3,000, pending the deci- sion on a motion for a new trial. Assistant United States Attorney Cromelin conducted the prosecution, Newlett ap. | while Attorney E. M. peared for the defense. Profit by ~which has PosTUM similar experience of others that Instant Postum is better for health than to coffee, but con- that can di health and comfort. “Theres a Reason” . for POSTUM . Sold’by grocers everywhere PROLONG SAFETY EF¥ORT. |Baltimore People May Repeat Their No-Accident Week. Specinl Dispatel to The Ktar BALTIMORE. .uly fied are the members of the dent wek committee by the resuits of the rafety campaign taat already repetition of the movement in Octo ! ber is being considered The fact that there was no fatal accident in the cight-day period termed No - Accident week. where during the corresponding period lusi ear there were eight deaths due 1o automobile sccidents, ix looked upon a8 a demonstration that most of fis distressing accidents occuring in and about the city represent a needless. extravagant waste of life. slip into careless habits; hence the tion will have a continufng influence on the habits of motoriste and trians. It is recognized. he that there is always a tendency 1« slip into careless habits hence the suggestion of a follow-up campaign in_the fall. S The particular advantage of bev- ing such a campaign in October. is ‘pointed out. is the fact that the schools ‘are then in session. givine ar opportunity to reach the chil- dren more effectively. than was pos- sible last week. BISHOP AWAITS CALL. Michael J. Curley Not Yet Inform- ed of Elevation. ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla., July Bishop Michael J. Curley of the Cath- olic diocese of St. Augustine. who will become Archbishop of Baltimore succession to the late Cardinal G bons, had not received from Rome eurly today official confirmation of his appointment - Bishop Curley, when elevated to his resent office in 1914, was only thirts our years old and at that time w the youngest bishop in the country His elevation as archbishop com. in his forty-first year, and he will be the youngest prelate in the United States to hold that position. —_— PAINTINGS GO TO GALLERY Court Authorizes Disposal of Oys- ter Collection. Justice Hoehling, presiding in the Probate Court, today authorized Ed- win C. Brandenburg, executor of the estate of George M. Oyster. jr. to place with the Corcoran Gallery of Art for safe keeping a number of Valuable paintings belonging to the estate. Some of the pictures are to become the property of the gallery under the terms of the will. While the inven- tory being made by the court ap- praisers has not been completed, it is estimated the paintings are worth about $12,000. Through Attorneys Tobriner and Graham the court is told hat the gallery has special arrange- 27 in {ments for the care of such paintings HOTELS SUFFER BY THEFT Much Silverware and Linen Stolen Annually in New York. NEW YORK, July 27.—New York'« large hotels average losses of more than $50,000 each annually in thefts of silverware and linens, H. F. Shaul, manager of the Plaza, said today. Shaul's statement was made in con- nection with the arrest of Ramiro Vasquez, a_ hotel employe, in whose home was found nuguunllly of silver- ware and linens bearing the hotel's stamp. the thousands tea or coffee. has a flavor Pl