Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. Showers this afternoon and prob- ably tonight; tomorrow fair; little change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest. 83. at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 68, at 3:30 a.m. today. Closing New York Stocks, Page 19. vl 5P - The E 411! WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION < 0 Member of the Associsted Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches creditad to it or pot otherwise credited in paper and also the local newr publisied berein. All rights of publication of special 1 dispatches aerein are also reserved. Star. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 87,465 _No. 28,220. 50"smee Washington, Entescd as second-class matter D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3. PROBE IS ORDERED INREVENUE BUREAU FORIRREGULARITIES Commissioner Blair Will Run Down Charges of Ob- jectionable Practices. PROPOSES CLEAN SWEEP OF GUILTY EMPLOYES Offenders Will Be Punished—Vio- lations Not Believed as Numer- ous as Generally Charged. Sensational charges of of the bureau of internal revenue are 10 be made the subject of a thorough investigation Commissioner Blair an- nounced today. Cursory investigation of some of the charges, Commissioner Blair said, had been made personally, | and the results he found pointed to the need of a sweeping probe of the charges. The investigation will be conducted by Assistant Commissioner Matson, under. the direct supervision of Com- missioner Blair. he did not believe that there were ‘in the bureau as many cases of irregu- larity as had been charged by Go Allen of Kansas or others, but. if any were found, the offenders would be yunished to the limit of the law. Com- missioner Blair declined to state how many persons were involved in the charges prompting the inquiry. Many Changes Made. Conditions ifi the local office will be the subject of much of the investiga- tion. The charges cover many angles, including the giviug out of informa- tion regarding the income tax state- ments of corporations and individuals and collusion between persons in the bureau who are in a position to di- vulge the confidential information and people on the outside representing clients who have cases pending before the bureau. Comm ioner Blair made it plain he intends to make a clean sweep of the ‘bureau, and that he will tolerate noth- ing which is a violation of the law. ‘While cleaning out the bureau of any employes guilty of culpability in the discharge of official duties, Commis- sioner Blair said that attention also would- be given the practices of at- torn before the bureau with the view to disbarring those guilty of questionable operations. Sweeping Investigation. Some of the charges which have been made, he said, are of a serious char- acter. Many of these charges have emanated from within the bureau, while others have been made by per- rons not_connected with the office. He said that“any ‘umstances or fact that will tend ‘to support a charge that income tax cases or other | matters handled by the bureau are: not disposed of according to the law ' #nd regulations is a proper ,subject he most sweeping investigation. | Hearings will be eld and each tness will be examined under oath. full stenographic record of the pro- | w the record and determine upon nd take the necessary action. Probe Will Be Impartial. ave issued instructions.” (g he m2id, full and impartial, as I want to get the exact facts regardless of the con- blic upon conclusion of the hear- and my review of the testimony. impossible at this time to give a tentative date, because of 1he large number of witnesses and the investigation necessary in each| individual case.” TRAL O SPURGIN LEADSTONEAED Said to Have Communicated With Friends in Interior of Country. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 3.—With the! trail of Warren C. Spurgin, missing president of the closed Michigan Ave- nue Trust Company. leading into Mexico, and the authorities apparent- 1y close on his trail, local authorities, as well as those financially interested in the bank. today considered his ap- prehension imminent. 1t is also hoped that the bank’s| shortage of $1,124,369, as announced | by bank examiners, may be materi- ally lessened by the determination of | the ue of loans, bonds and stocks | that are now listed as doubtful. { Following messages received from | Marfa and 151 Paso, Tex., yesterday that | a man answering Spurgin's description | had been seen in that section and, it ! was thought, had crossed into Mexica. being headed for Chihuahua, local offi- cials redoubled their efforts to appre- hend him. A reward of $2,500 has been offered for his capture, and word from the “Texas border today was to the effect that both sides of the international boundary line are being patrolled. “MINING MAN" SUSPECTED. it v is n EL PASO, Texas, August 3.—Immi- gration officers along the Mexican ! horder today believed Warren C. Spurgin, missing Chicago banker, is somewhere in Mexico, probably with friends he is known to have been as- sociated with. and who, at one time, made El Paso their headquarters. From authentic sources it was ned today that prior to leaving (hicago he had communicated with 1wo former residents of this city who arg now in the interior of Mexico. Posing as a mining man, a man who answered the description of the missing banker, left a train at Marfa, Texas, July 19, hired an automobile, drove to Presidio and on July 20 crossed the river into Mexico. Local immigration authorities an- nounced today that they had received 2 report from immigration men at Presidio and Marfa that a stranger who answered Spurgin’s description presented a passport made out in the name of€:Scott.” He said he was a mining man, and carried a large suit | case. The report also said that after he 1:ud passed inspection he hired a Mex- n a rowboat to take him across river. Persons coming from the ican side to the American report- that the stranger left Ojinaga, Chi- irregular | practices in the conduct of the affairs | The latter said that| { had a number of offers of engineering . dings will be taken, and upon com- | he has been advised by his physician ion of the hearings. he will Te-ito take a period of rest before ac- that the investigation will be | quences. The results will be made| NEARLY $18,000,000 - EXPENDED IN BUILDING INTHIS CITY LAST YEAR Nearly $18,000,000 was spent in Washington last year in building projects, according to announce- ment by the Department of Labor | today. A total of 4,342 buildings were erwted. involving expendi- | ture of $17,892,919, the announce- | ment said. | _ More money was spent in build- ing in Washington last year than at any time in the past six years, | with the exception of 1919, com- | parative figures show. In 1919 a total of $20.665,683 was spent in building here. while in 1914 only $10.415.645 was spent. Building in 1916 nearly approxinrated the 1920 total, $17,494,804 having been spent in that year. In 1919, how- ever, there were 5239 permits, Wwhile in 1920 there were but 4,342. Building generally all over the country showed a slump in 1920 over 1919, the figures showed. ASKE PHILPS QUTS D.C.OFFE |Sanitary Engineer Tenders His Resignation After Serv- ice of Thirty Years. ASA E. PHILLIPS. After thirty years of service, Asa E. Phillips has resigned as sanitary en- i gineer of the District government, it became known today. Although his resignation was submitted to the Com- missioners only a few days ago, it is known that he has been contem- plating leaving the District service since early spring. g The veteran municipal official has positions outside of Washington, but cepting any of them. Since entering the service of the city lin 1891, Mr. Phillips has served con- | tinuously in the sewer division, once |as superintendent and later as sani- tary engineer. Samples of His Work. He is credited with having designed and supervised the construction of the six-m#lion-dollar sewage disposal plant of the city, which is regarded as one of the most perfect in the United States. Mr. Phillips also leaves behind him as a monument to his long period of service the up-to-date sewerage sys- tem. the comstruction of which has cost a total of $25,000,000. n his letter of resignation ‘to Col. Charles W. Kutz, Engineer Commis- sioner, the sanitary engineer took oc- casion to refer to the earnest and sin- cere labors of the personnel of his of- fice, and also pointed to inadequate salaries paid them. As an example of this situation, he calls attention to his (Continued_on Page 2. Column 4.) —_— ORGANIZED LABOR SCORES VICTORY IN RAILWAY CASE Board Rules Long Island Road Must Deal With Pennsylvania Employes. CHICAGO, August 3.—Union labor scored a victory on the Long Island railroad, in a decision by the United States Railroad Labor Buard today, rul- ing that negotiation of rules should be held with System Federation No. 90. affiliated with the railway em- ployes’ department of the American Federation of Labor. "The officers of the system federation are all employes of the Pennsylvania railroad and the company declined to negotiate with them. Long Island officials declared they would deal only with their own employes and the union took the case to the labor board, where it was heard on July 9. The dispute arose over who should represent the employes at conferences to negotiate new shop crafts rules to replace the national agreements. Until the road negotiates new agree- ments With the system federation, the national agreement was ordered con- tinued in effec TO LOWER Henry Ford, automobile manu- facturer of Detroit, is determined to reduce rates on his newly ac- quired railroad, the Detroit, To- ledo and Ironton. He has resolved to bring about lower freight rates on certain artioles on the road, notwithstanding rules and regula- tions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. . P Following rejection by the com- mission of his application to put into effect August 20 new sched- ules providing a 20 per cent-cut in the present rates on stone from Sibley to Detroit, attorneys for Mr. Ford late yesterday filed an- other schedule containing the same reductions, with the effective date September 1. The commission, it announced last night, rejected his previously filed schedules because the effective date of the proposed 1 uahua, the horder town across from ¥residio, in an automobile, presuma-j Liy for Chihuahug City, i schedules violated_a rule of the commission, which says that any schedpies must be in effect thirty, - lSnlesmen Say Many Foreigners HENRY FORD PERSISTS IN EFFORT RATES ON HIS RAILROAD i I | GROWING BUSINESS AT PATENT OFFICE SWAMPS WORKERS Records Broken by Number of Applicants Offering New Inventions. LIMITED FORCE UNABLE TO COPE WITH SITUATION | Wide Attention Given to Motor and Flying Machine Designs | Partly Responsible. Inventors all over the United States | have so flooded the patent office with | applications for patents on inventions, | that the number is far in excess of | what properly its limited force can | handle. During the last six months, it was reported today, applications have broken all previous records, with the result that there are now 51,865 of them awaiting action. The congestion, it was said, is seri- ously hampering and interfering with many manufacturers and exporters of the country. The cdnditions, patent office officials claim, are destined to become more serious unless additional help and increased salaries are pro- | vided. Autos and Flying Machines. A great majority of the applications | are for patents on automobiles and fiying machines, to which inventors have turned their attention since the | war. Many of them, however, are for | patents on electrical attachments, | chemical processes and improvements | on wireless apparatus and agricul- tural implements. The business of the patent office for | the last six months was the heaviest | for any half year in its entire his- tory, it is stated. The applications for patents amounted to more than |, 50,000, as compared with 42,607, 37.- 143 and 31,568 for the first six months of the years 1920, 1919 and 1918, respectively. The applications for trade marks to- taled 8,369 in this time. as compared with 7,950, 5,447 and 3,730 for the cor- responding periods of 1920, 1919 and 1918, respectively. The gain in appli- |the campaign of Commissioner Oyster for patents received in the|to improve traffic conditions. The Commissioner declared that he is inclined to believe that a applications amounted to 124 per cent. | reduction in the speed limit might help to reduce accidents and he has discussed the question with Capt. Headley, head of the traffic bureau. No decision in the matter has been arrived at, however. Go @ Little Faster. “Theré are many. people,” said the e “who feel that the speed }imit should be greater, rather than lowered. The great trouble is, however, that some people show a tendency to go a little faster than They may not always do intention of violating the law, but with an eighteen-mile find some going at and cations half yearly period just closed over tne | first six months of 1918 was 421 per| cent, while the gain in tradé mark | In spite of the industrial depression, it is stated, the amount of business presented to the patent office in every branch has constantly increased since 1918 by leaps and bounds. The de- mands upon the patent office are be- yond any previous figures in its his-| tory, with-no recession in sight, and are far In excess of the y .of its Ifmited and practically station force to handle properly. Reanons for Delay. Delay in acting on the applications, which is responsible for the conge tion, officials of the patent office at- tribute to the insufficient examining and clerical force and the small sala- ries pald the workers. It was pointed out that the wages of the patent of-| fice employes are much lower than those in other government depart- ments and outside firms, resulting in | and clerks resigning to obtain more remunerative positions in patent at- torn offices and elsewhere. Legislation designed to relieve the conditions in the patent office, it is re- ported by the American Engineering Council, which is making efforts to rcform them, is being held up in Con- gress. HOME SEEKERS CHEATED. | | Have Lost by Promises. NEW YORK, August 3.—Testimony that hundreds of home seekers, most- | 1y foreigners, had been induced to pay sums of money into the hands of officials of the Strilling Home Builders of New York. as first instaliments upon houses that the company promis- ed to build for them, and which never were built, was offered here by Al- wi by the concern. He appeared before Magistrate Francis Mancuso, who, as the result of a John Doe inquiry into the alleged practice of real estate concerns sell- ing lots on false pretenses issued warrants for the arrest of three per- sons, charging them with larceny. The names of the three were with- held. FACTIONS MAKE PEACE. “Treaty’” Signed by Socialists and Fascisti in Italy. LONDON, August 3.—An agreement was signed in Rome yesterday for peace between the fascisti and the socialists, says a dispatch to the London Times from Milan. According to a Rome dispatch last Friday arrangements for a Settle- ment of the differences between the socialists and the fascisti had been completed by Signor Denicola, president of the chamber of deputies. The ar- rangement was to be in the form of a treaty signed by representatives of both parties. The agreement is ex- pected to bring to an end disorders which have been going on for several years. days before the effective ‘date of a new schedule. Freight rates on stone, providing a reduction of ‘5 cents a hundred pounds, became effective on the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton road July 28, and would have been in effect only twenty-three days before the new schedule, including the 20 per cent decrease, became effective. Under the rules of the commission, as stated, tariffs must be in effect thirty days before the effective date of new tariffs. The reason given for this is that the public must be apprised of the rate and’ to enable competition to meet .the new rate. Mr. Ford acquired the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton less than a year ago. Since that time, with the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, he has sev- eral times reduced rates and has raised ‘wages on the road to a scale approximating that his em- ployes in his automobile plants re- ceive. The road runs through a rich agricultural section. of Mich- money maker; the limit. so with termination office. of Asa E. Phillip: 'ommissioner, the mit you will twenty miles an hour, many of the experienced examiners|limit was fifteen miles there would be some driving at eighteen miles an hour.” NOT LOOKIN AUTO LIMIT MAY 8 16 MILES AN HOUR, Commissioner Oyster Consid- ers Curtailment of 18-Mile Privilege in D. C. A reduction from eighteen to fifteen miles an hour in the speed limit for |automobliles may be the next step in today i if the The Commissioner renewed his de- Motorists from to round up permanent Washingtonians who are using Vir- ginia tags throughout the year with- Gut a District tag. in order to avoid buying a Maryland tag. This. practice is resorted to because a Virginia tag is good, both in Maryland and the Dis- trict, whereas a District tag is not recognized in Maryland. aw Violations. every state except | Maryland are permitted to remain in [Virgini the Disrict for a stated number o | days on their home state tag. but it|morning in Brunswick count is a violation of law for a I dent to drive his car month after month on a foreign tag. resi- The Commissioner is confident that ould die out, Capt. Headley reported to Commis. sioner Oyster that only one accident bert Goodian, a salesman employed| quring the entire month of July, re- of U. thirty-eight years’ sulted in a death, and that did notj occur until the last day of the month. The number of traffic arrests during e z July was about the same as for June. The life of Will Elmore, another ne —_—— CONTINUED IN POSITION. W. R. Stansbury to Act as Clerk Supreme Court. Chiet Justice Taft today issued an order recognizing William R. Stans- bury as de facto clerk of the United States Supreme Court and directing him to continue as such until the court shall meet in October, when proper steps may be taken to fill the This action was necessitated by the death of Henry C. McKenney, the deputy clerk, who succeeded James D. Maher, clerk of the court. Mr. Stansbury is the senior assist- ant in the clerk’s office, with a record service. lives at 1716 Oregon avenue. arrive at border. primaries by 25,000 sulting congestion. resigi sanitary postmaster. Today’s News in Paragraphs Americans freed by Russia, but no word has been received of where they will Trinkle for governor carries Virginia Patent office records brokeén, with re- in D. C. service thirty A mob of 2,000 hanged a negro who had confessed to the murder of a Virginia Gen. Pershing yesterday paid a visit to the training camp at Meade. for Russia famine. indicted. denled. New Hampshire. hall wealthy men. French battieflelds. Mr. Hoover blames general decadence Directors of Baltimore Coal Exchange Claim that Germany is only European. country showing industrial activity is President isolated in mountain retreat in Commission refuses to agree to sale of temporary war building for convention ~tWhisky ship ring round-up may trap Amcrican Legion members sail Senator France accuses Red Cross man ~igan and Ohio and is said to:be a‘ | .of instigating Kronstadt reve it Maryland and the District could agree on a plan of reciprocity, the practice of using Virginia tags only He Page 1 Page 1 Page 1 engineer’s Page 1 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 3 Page 12 Page 13 Page 13 Page 13 for Page 13 Page 14. P S <1 G UP:V Nominated for Governor By Virginia Democrats E. LEE TRINKLE. MOB OF 2,000 HANGS CONFESSED SLAYER First Lynching in Virginia in Years Follows Murder of Postmaster. By the Associated Pross. PETERSBURG, Va. August s first lynching in years was recorded shortly after midnighg this when a mob of nearly 2,000 Dinwiddie and Brunswick county citizens took one of the negroes charged with the mur- der of Tingley Elmore, postmaster and storekeeper at Tobacco, Va. from Deputy Sheriff James Seago of Brunswick, between McKenney and Lawrenceville, and hanged him to a tree at the scene of the murder. The negro confessed his guilt be- fore going to his death. His identity had. not been learned early today. gro, held for the murder, was spared by the pleas of Deputy Seago. He is now in the county jail at Law- renceville, and fears for his safety are entertained by authoritie; Denies Knowledge of Crime. Elmore denies any knowledge of the crime, although when captured at McKenney, about 11 o'clock last night, a pistol and gold watch be- longing to the murdered postmaster were found in his possession. He claims he won these in a crap game from another negro yesterday. The body of the lynched negro had not been cut down at 10 o'clock to- day. although Brunswick county au- thorities have gone to the scene and will hold an inquest this afternoon. An investigation of the lynching will be_ started immediately, it was said today at the county seat, Lawrence ville. Deputy Seago and his two assist- ants did not have a chance to save the prisoner from the mob, which was thoroughly organized. So quietly did the mob carry out its work that few in the neighborhood knew what was going on. Not a sound was made When the negro was taken to El- more’s store at Tobacco and strung up to a tree in the store yard. Per- sons living only a short distance away were not' disturbed, while one resident, about 200 yards from the store, said today that not a word was spoken by the mob nor a sound heard from the scene. Admitted Robbery Was Motive. When asked if he had anything to say, the negro confessed Killing the postmaster and said robbery was the motive. He said Will Elmore, the other negro held’ had nothing to do with the killing. When Elmore and the negro lynched were captured at McKenney shortly before midnight, feeling was running high and a mob of infuriated citizens quickly gathered. Sheriff Boisseau of Dinwiddie took charge of the situa- tion and he and his deputies. with drawn guns, held the mob at bay un- til the arrival of Deputy Sheriff Seago from Brunswick. The men were bundled into an auto- mbbile and the trip to the county jail at_Lawrenceville started. The mob increased rapidly and sev- eral hundred automobiles set out in pursuit of the Brunswick official and his prisoners. At a point about nine miles from Lawrenceville and seven- teen miles from McKenney, the depu- ty's car was overtaken and surround- ed. Most of the members of the mob wore masks, end, unheeding the pleadings -of the officials, one of the negroes was taken, Jhe 1921—-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. CATION LITERATURE. | ALLIES WARN GREECE AGAINST AN ADVANCE ON CONSTANTINOPLE | By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 3.—The allies have warned that an ad- vance on Constantinople by her troops, which now are engaged in var with the Turkish nationalists, will not be tolerated, it was au- thoritatively stated here today. No ground exists, however, it is added. for believing that Greece contem plates any such advance, which | would bring her in conflict with | the allied army of occupation. | Reports from Athens that Great | Britain favors a Greek advance on | Constantinople were characterized as absurd—the exact reverse of the truth. Great Britain. it was declared, is maintaining strict neu- trality between Turkey and Greece. MEET TO TAKE UP ECONOMY PLANS Department Agents to Dis- cuss the Curtailment of Printing Expenses. Greece Representative of Gen. Dawes to i Aid in Measures for Saving Public Money. The meeting of the govern- ment's agents on printing Barneg of Chicago, expert in commer- cial printing and representative n. Dawes, will call to order a de: Virginia Women Contribute to Majority of 25,000 in Gov- ernorship Fight. partmental conference. Each department of the government will have a representative sitting at the table. authorized to recommend fand approve items in the name of the {department. The $13.000,000 printing bill of the United States government represents the subject to be dis- cussed. Kpecial Dispateh to The Star. ! IH“O\D‘ Va. August 3.—The in- | e of the government shop will be complete returns so far received indi- | within call to - discuss and advise on cate that Senator Trinkle of Wythe’technical details. The conference will has be o by | be the agency of adviso: Lt ,'"::""“,“‘d Lo O ey |1l printing details. It will advise the Jority that is expected o exceedipygger bureau, the public printer and 25,000 Tucker carried Richmond by |the joint congressional committec on 1153, whereas he was claiming 5,000 in this city alone. The vote claimed; by Trinkle in every district that he| said he would carry is much heavier| In line with the campaign of economic than he indicated. efficiency inaugurated by the bureau of West is winner of the second place |the budget, Public Printer Carter today on the ticket and Adams for corpora- {announced the personnel of two super- tion commission kas an enormous ma- :visory commitlees appointed by the jority over Folkes of this city. government printing. office adminis- The woéman vote is responsible for | tsation. the big -majority given to Semator{ One is the requisitions review Trinkle, as they stand by him on the | board, which will inspect and discuss jscore of voting for suffrage and for |requisitions of the departments in his position on prohibition. printing, with the aim of discovering There have been immense sums ofthe most economical and eflicient money won in the election, the Tucker | Méthod of handling jobs coming into people offering odds on their favorite, | (e Bovernment printing office, Mem- and it was taken up in quick time. bersjoriahsbonn Enre S ol eene superintencent of work: William A. J. D. Craig. a deputy in the oflice of | {iP€rItendent - the city treasurer, who was defeated | nutonell Chiel estimater: Robert W for re-election, died suddenly this|SUmmers. chief Jacket writer: How- morning. Craig had been a deputy & = SECAEE oAt for years. All of the city officers who Revision of Style Book. had ‘opposition were defeated. The second board is the committee Tueker Leads in Staunton. o e o oLz cintyle ook fartilon -, controls e type and equipment of Special DispatehitoameRIar the government printing office. It _STAUNTON, Va. August 3.—Harry | will recommend changes made neces- St. George Tucker of Lexington, for-|sary by progress in the art of print- mer Staunton man, received a flat- tering vote from his friends here, al- though he lost out in the state at large. . Voting was very light both in city and county. Woman voters took an active interest, although numbers of them are known not to favor the present primary system of selecting! candidates. Voting dragged all day, first econom: ment when printing office, where the experts in ppropriations, which are needed. Supervisory Committees. of style governing federal printing work. Members of this committee are: Charles E. Young, foreman of the day proofroom; William H. Cor- nish, Nreman of the night proof- room; Walter R. Johns, Herman B. Barnhart, John P. Murray and James E. Maynard, proof readers. —_— FRANCE DENIES PARLEY WITH RUSSIA ON DEBT jbut in the evening after the polls had closed much interest was manifested in the results, crowds swarming |around the polls, newspaper and tele- graph offices until a late hour. ARLINGTON COUNTY VOTE. Declares No Negotiations Are Un- der Way With Soviet Govern- ment on Obligation. PARIS. August 3—Reports that ne- gotiations for recognition of the Rus- sian debt to France were impending, which have been in circulation for several days, were given official nial today The denial seems 1o have been prompted by a circumstantial state- ment. declared to be on reliable au- thority, printed here this morning. that such negotiations had been be gun last night by Y.ouis Loucheur, French minister of liberated regions, and Leonid Krassin, Russian soviet minister of trade and commerce. It was said at the foreign office to- day that France had had no direct communication with the Russian so- viet government for a long time on any subject other than mere details of the repatriation of prisoners. It was pointed out also that George Louis. former French minister to Petrograd. to whom in the version of the story-the initiative in the reputed negotiations between Krassin and the French government was at- tributed, had been dead for three years. Before the collapse of the czarist regime in Russia that government had contracted a debt to France ap- proximating $5,000,000,000 dollars. When the soviet administration of Russia was established the bolsheviki refused to acknowledge this debt, and to this fact has been attributed the refusal of France to enter into any negotiations with representatives of the bolsheviki or to arrange a trade agree- ment such as was recently entered into between Great Britain and soviet Russia. Trinkle Receives Majority of 180 in Contest With Tucker. E. Lee Trinkle, candidate for Gov- ernor of Virginia, was given a ma- Jority of 180 over Harry St. George Tucker by the voters of Arlington county, the vote being: Trinkle, 634 and Tucker, 454. The county also gave its candidate for the state legisiature, Capt. E. W. Jordan, a g00d majority over Charles Henry 'Smith of Alexandria, but not enough to offset the wide margin, said to be about two to one, gained by the latter in his home town. \ The vote from the various precinct for governor follows : Jefferson precinct— Trinkle. 89: Tucker, 142: Arlington, Trinkle, Tucker, 65: Ballston, Trinkle, Tucker, 55;° Clarendon, Trinkle, Tucker, 78; Rosslyn, Trink : Tucker. 23: Cherrydale, Trinkle, 71; Tucker, 57; Carne, Trinkle, 12 Tucker, 12; Falls Church, Trinkle, 25 Tucker, 22 The vote for legislator follows: Jeffer- son, Smith, 124 Jordan, 102; Arlington, Smith, Jordan, 46 Ballston. Smith, 9; Jordan, 60; Clarendon, Smith, 58 Jordan, 221: Rosslyn, Smith, 53 ; 40: Cherrydale, Smith, 53; Carne, Smith, 12; Jordan, Church, Smith, 22 Jordan, 23. Smith, 478 Jordan, 576. ALEXANDRIA FOR TUCKER. s Totals, Gilpin Leads Vote for Lieutenant Governor in That City. Correspondence of The Sta ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 3.—By (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CHARLES AND RUPPRECHT BLOWING BUBBLES TO GET BACK THRON .BY GEORGE WITTE. By Oable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1821. BERLIN, Germany, August 3.— Ex-King Charles of Hungary and ‘former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria are passing the time he is said to be immensely popular and he tells the people that wh he wants to construct is not a kingdom of the ordinary variety. but a “people’s kingdom.” Charles is not as fortunate as Rupprecht, for he cannot get into personal touch with the Hungarian 5 people. For that reason he is these extremely hot days blowing | DeoPLe Fof, that reeson be 18 bubbles. Both, according to latest | through his agents on propaganda. reports, are hard at work with | Two-thirds of the Hungarian army police force are said to be on his side, and in London political circies they are reported to have promised him their support the next time he attempts a coup d'etat. Paris has so far been non- committal in the matter. As Charles’ permission to rémain in the fatherland holds good only until August 31, it is expected that any move he intends will be made _in the next few weeks, their confidants making new plans to win back their thrones. The bait-with which they hope to catch their former subjects is this: “As soon as our kings are back, food prices will drop 50 per cent and coal prices at least 30 per cent.” Rupprecht is making use of the old political trick of meeting the common _people graciously and shaking hands with even the sim- plest of farm }aborers. Already- CUTS IN BILLS PROPOSED | The conference is to be held at the | ¢ supervision in printing of the changes and revisions in | ing and act upon the various details! de-! 7 TWO CENTS. AMERIGANS FREED BY RUSSIA, BUTARE - STILLINCOUNTRY | ‘No Word as to Number or When They Will Be De- livered at Border. COMMITTEE FOR RELIEF OF STARVING ORGANIZED | EERETR, lloscow Installing Field Guns for | Protection Against Attack by i Hunger Stricken. | s the Associated Pr | RIGA, August 3 American prison- | ers in Russia alr have been re- |leased from confinement, according 1o unofficial reports at the bolshevik le- | Bation press bureau here today, but there was no word as to the number | released or when, how or where they { will be delivered across the border. An international committee has been |orsanized here to render relief to the starving of Russia. This committee. | with the international Red Cross or- | ganization in Riga, which is lookink |after the transport to Russia of for- [mer prisoners of war. will maintain relations, with regard to relief work between Moscow and westen Europe it is announced A conference is to be convened all the great international and tional benevolent organizations in t | connection, the annoyncement state: of | ; BURNING ABANDONED HOMES | Hunger-Stricken People Firing Vil- lages Before Deserting. i LONDC August 3. — Hunger- stricken people in the famine districts of Russia are setting fire to their vil- lages before deserting them for other iparts of Russia, according to Helsingfors dispatch to the Central News Agency today, quoting persist- ent reports said to have been received this morning from the interior of Russia. Many villages are said to be in flames From the same source it was re- ported that great preparations were | being made to deal with the masses of ! peasants now moving toward Moscow. | Many trenches have been dug about ithe city and much war material, in- ! cluding field guns. has been installed, | the reports say. | Other telegrams received at Hel- isingfors reported that the Petrograd garrison had mutinied again. FALL OF SOVIET SEEN. |End Predicted by Intervention of | Western Powers. | By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921 | PARIS. France, August 3.—Under | the terrible pressure of famine the { Russian situation is apparently de- | veloping very fast. While on the one {hand the American relief administra- | tion and the American Red Cross are | rushing their leading relief organ- izers across the ocean to prepare {for the work of saving Russia, on {the other hand the bolsheviki an- nounce that they are sending a mis- sion, headed by Maxim Gorky, to | western Europe to plead for imme- {diate aid. When the supreme council meets next Monday its first preoccupation | probably will be with the Russian | question, for France, Great Britain | and Italy seem disp d for both hu- manitarian and political reasons to collaborate energetical in the task of Russian relief. which otherwise would fall entirely upon the United States. It is announced that the first Ameri- can food shipments for the relief of Russia will be se to Petrograd, but considering the dilapidated condi- tion of the Russian railroas it is | difficult to see how shipments there jare well calculated to relieve the “Tnmins area which is in southeastern 1 Russia Although no newspapers are Say- i ing so openly. it is the common belief here that this relief intervention by the western powers will quickly bring about the downfall of bolshevism. Lo men e | PREDICTS BILLION CUT. Senator Lenroot Points to Saving on Armaments and by Refunding. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., August 3.— Addresking the annual convention of the Cycle Trades Association here, United States Senator Irvine Lenroot of Wisconsin predicted a drop of a | billion dollars in the operating costs jof the federal government. Half of this decrease, he said, would be the i result of the proposed disarmament conference at Washington in the fall The chief element of the saving would be the curtailing of naval appropria- tions. A half billion dollars would flow nto the national coffers, the senator continued, through a refunding of the | American war loans to the allfes. Which now total $11,000,000,000, and agreement with these nations that they will_pay the interest annually amounting to a half billion dollars, {on these obligations. PRESIDENT OPPOSING EARLY ACTION ON BILL RESTORING FREE TOLLS President Harding has informed Senate republican leaders, accord- ing to information today, of his opposition to early action on the Borah bill to restore the free tolls privilege to American coastwise vessels using the Panama canal. Mr. Harding was said to take the position that to avoid a possible dispute with Great Britain and other nations the free tolls ques- tion should be deferred altogether until after the approaching di armament conference, as discussion of the question at this time might create obstacles to success of the conference. The President also was repre- | sented as preferring settlement of the free tolls question by diplo- matic negotiations rather than by legislation, aside from the disarm- ament conference complication. Senator Borah was said, however. to be disposed to press his free toll bills within the next few weekts