Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1921, Page 2

PLANS AN ATTACK ONG. 0. . POLICIES iChairman White to Call } Democratic National Com- ‘ * mittee Together. ! BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | Chairman George White has decided ’tu call the democratic niatlonal com- mittee together some time this au- tumn for a general discussion of }dtmocrullc policy toward the Hard- ing administration. The time of the meeting has not been fixed, but probably will be im- mediately after the republicans have passed a new tax bill and the country 3 h had a chance to learn definitely fwhat has been done by the repub- ;lican party on tax revision. Thus far the democrats have main- §llh’l0fl a licy of passive resistance to republican doctrines, believing that the country wanted to give the inew administration a fair chance to make good without democratic ob- struction. When the tax and tarift bills are passed, however, the demo- crats, who already take exception to the republican proposals. will en- 7deavor to convince the couhtry that those policies are wrong and can ibe corrected only by the election of ‘s democratic Congress a year hence. Basis of Demoeratic Hopes. President Taft lost Congress imme- diately after the passage of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and the dem- ocrats are hoping that history will repeat itself. They are basing their hopes, however, not o much on the tariff, but on taxes. The democratic line of attack already is apparent. The democrats say Secretary Mellon's proposals mean merely that people hy incomes ar year will be taxed higher than before, While those with incomes above $100,- 000 will have their taxes reduced. Of course, Secretary Mellon’s suggestions have not yet been adopted. and the republicans in Congress may yet de- prive the democrats of much of their ammunition. The democrats admit that the re- publicans can reduce taxes if they want to, but only by adopting the scheme of Representative Fordhey, chairman of the ways and means committee, who is credited with the idea of cutting taxes radically and .Garmany Must Pay One Billion Marks Before August 23 By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1921. PARIS, France, August 5.— The exact status of the repara- tions settlement is mow as fol- lows: . Before August 33 Germany must pay to the reparations commission to this time aggrega: marks. All this money 690 gol n s wtill in the hands of thé rep- arations commission. Under the treaty of Versailles, greemen since the signing of the treaty, will receive and pesetas. Germany in Fre franes, equal to about 70,000,000, will be given to Franece, while tl sum paid in lire, equal to about 30,000,000, will be accorded to Maly. MERCHANT FLEET NEED, $125,000,000 Shipping Board Chairman Plans Putting Service on Paying Basis. Confidence that the marks. The paymgats made up | 5 ‘FR'ID.AY,“ AUGUST 3, ANDS OF WASHINGTON CHILDREN MADE HAPPY BY RE- ~ OPENING OF PLAYGROUNDS. At A FEW OF THE THOUS government merchant fleet can be put on a pay- below $6,000 a|ing basis was expressed by Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board when he appeared before the House appro- priation committee to request an ad- ditional _ §135,000,000 for during the next five months. expenses A re- port on the executive hearings, made publie, ¢ that Mr. Lasker said if Congress and the press and the count are patient and helpful, this wreck can be turned into an asset so great that from a money value 000 that the war cost us. Optional Propesition. it { will be worth the whole $26,000,000,- Jail is Overcrowded; Prisoners Must Await Turn to Serve Time BLUEFIELD, W. Va., August 5—The Mercer county Sail here has beeome so crowded that there 15 mot emough room for those givem jall seatences dur- ing this term of court., How- r. & plan was accepted by Judge J. Frank Maynard of the H eet the emergeney. When defendants are given jail sentences they will be perm ted to give bail and take th turnd at serviag the sentemces as soon her prisomers’ terms are completed. TIRED AND ACHING, 0 TOWORK AGAIN Lads in Military Training Corps at Camp Meade Please Commander. Special Dispatch to The Btar. CAMP MEADE, Md, August 5.— One thousand three hundred tired and aching bodies dragged themselves from bed this morning and prepared for the second hard day's work of the Citizens' Military Training Corps at Camp Meade. When the boys return- ed to their berths last eight hours' drill and exerc parade ground, six infirmary cases were reported to the top sergeant. One of the Washington boys in Company M sustained a severe sprain of the left ankle and it was necessary to carry him to the infirmary. After applying linament to the injured member he re- turned to his company. but was un- ble to report for roll call this morn- ng without assistanc The other five students reported biistered heels, sore feet and “store-up” feet and ach- ing backs. Capt, Goe, commander of Company M, =tated that these ailments were common among the troops and that good, hard daily exercise was neces- "' to train the boy's body so that withstand plenty of rough outdoor treatment. RISON INIPRISONED ON MURDER CHARGE Declares He and Wife Quar- reled Before She Was Slain. Formally charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Regina Knell Rison. at 317 Pennsylvania avenue early yesterday morning. Jaumes T. Rison, Baltimore and Ohio raiiroad employe. this afternoon was taken to the Di trict jail afid lodged behind the bar His case will be investigated by the grand jury when that body reocon- venes in the fall. Rison was committed to jall as » result of the verdict of a coroner's v at an inqucet heid at the morg Brothers Arrive. Two_brothers of Rison came here from Baltimore vestenlay afternoon in response to @ message from the prisoner telling of his plight, and d Attorncy Frank Smith to nd the interests of the alleged . Several times yesterGay the police made efforts to question the prisoner, who finally conscnted to respond to their questioning. His story to Detetives Wilkon and Emanuel of the sixth precinct was that his wife scratched his face with some in- strument. What transpired after that. he said. he dJid not know and could net recall. Rison told of his wife going to Baltimore Wednesday morning 1o visit her relatives, as had been her custom since moving here three months ago, and said he went home from work that afternoon, dressed and hurried to Union station to meet her on her return. Declares They Quarreled. His wife, he sald. accused him of not remgining at work all day, and from that time until they retired at night. he added, they had several slight quarrels. Early yesterday morning. he sald, his wife struck him with something, he was unable to say what, and after that his recollection falled him. Asked if he remembered handing Policeman R. H. Johnon his pistol and telling him he had struck his wife with what she had struck him, it is stated, he answered in the af- tirmative. Dr. Herbert E. Martin, deputy cor- oner, and Dr. D. W. Prentiss told the jury of the uutopsy. It was ex- “I do not mean the three and a half billion dollars that the fleet cost us, because it will mean the m-int!ll_lnc_e of an American merchant marine/ continued Mr. Lasker. f you do not do that, you are left with the option to pay a greater loss to keep the merchant, marine tied up or else to sink it.” The Shipping Board chairman de- clared that the profit in the export business is in the freights, which he described as “the kitty of the inter- rational poker game of trade.” “Both that we may have boats to carry our trade and where we need them and are not at the mercy of the foreign nations who will shut us off from boats when trade gets good and kill off our commerce, “and because of the profit in interna- plained that several pleces of the skull were missing, and these m ing pieces were produced by the pre- cinct detectives. The spirit level, re- volver, hatchet and other instruments taken from the room at 317 Penn- ania avenue, the scene of the killing. were exhibited. Other testimony heard by the jury enabled that body to reach the con- clugion that Rison was the slayer of his wife, and such a verdict was . Mrs. Rison's body will be tanen to Balumore for interment. DOUBT AMERICANS After breakf: this morning, which was served at € o'clock. the boys removed their puttes and over- shirts and were marched to the ath- letic fleld, there they indulged in twenty minutes of setting up exer- cises.” Returning to the barracki they put on their puttes and shirt : equipped themselves with belts, bay- i onets. canteens and first-aid sets. and OFFICIALS TEST CONCRETE USED |EMBARGO ON CHEMICALS |fis sioimas satee 1t i IN GEORGETOWN BRIDGE ARCHES | MND DYES IS REQUESTED rade grounds. where the manuel of port a weight of about a ton on leaving the government with a def- icit to be made up after the congres- sional elections have been held next year. This is in line with the theory that the tax burden should be dis- tributed over a period of vears, so that future generations may bear a large part of the cost of the war. This_policy., however, is opposed by republican economists in the exec- utive branch of the governpment, who think the government's borrowing power would be adversely affected by such a plan. Strange Line-Ups Expected. The country will see some strange political line-ups before the end of the present session of Congress. Many western republicans do not like the idea of repealing the excess profits 1. B. GORDON NAMED SANITARY ENGINEER arms was executed under the direc- tion of the battalion commander, Maj. Hartigan. / Maj. Hartigan expressed himself as | being highly pleased with the pre-: 1iminary showing of the three battal- i Urges Provision in Tariff Law as |ions now in camp and stated that they were the best working green troops Commissioners ~ Promote From | concreie in the arches of the taxes Several democrats will find it ;‘i‘t’;‘:-lmb‘;:e‘:;!:p“t‘ml_h;:;;m:- me| Ranksin Filling Asa E. Phil- new Georgetown bridgs is being | SACh square ‘l_’,‘l‘;'l‘“,‘;"(,,“,'.'b‘,',‘"{.,"“‘n., Only Means of Saving that he had ever reviewed In Kis mili- tax and; taciif Dilis_while & Roodly 't e Ameunt te 100,000,000, lips’ Place. Army engineers and experts of the | they will receive only about one- thusiastic over the showing made by mumBeE {of trépanlicans.cwhose” celi: mess; Ames third that load. On account of the | Joseph H. Choate, jr., representing the | the Washington high &chool boy bureau of standards to determine the quality of the material that * will support the bulk of the welght of the bridge, the Depart- ?enl of Commerce announced to- ay. Each day samples of the con- orete chuted into the forms which incase the steel Interior supports of the bridge are molded into cyl- inders and sent to the laboratories of the bureau of standard: here they are crushed in machines that apply and accurately measure pressures as high as 150 tons. In this way the quality of the con- crete in the bridge construc- tion is determined. .+ - Ordinary concrete, according to experts of the bureau ,will sup- MAY BE MINIATURE PEAGE CONCLAVE Supreme Council Session to Hear Representatives of Various Countries. By the Associated Pres: PARIS, August 4.—There are pros- pects that the meeting of the allled supreme council here next week will develop into a minfature peace con- ference, with elght or nine different countries represented at various stages of the proceeding: The status of the Beigian delega- tion has not yst been fixed, but it s certain that ~Belgian delegates will participate during the discussions on ;*“3 M')"“ quarter closes with $67, re?:nltlonadundtm xz;l.puuhm.ls, e’ c‘;‘;,"_’:v;'n'r‘n: ::'dde-. N auanfio:"r'v;rwmtfux:fml:"fi’fl: in the sales of old war """i have glans to sit during the dlscussion n producing of the Bilesian question, as it is closely | Lpos, ':;:‘:"m?r?:'u:::"étlbur{' o o T T R Z‘Z“'-'."’,P.'" of which sum the cost for the slavs will be heard on the Albanian|i%,000,000, the navy tra3snee o, and near east situatlon. The Britiah |air force £330,000, tha otk mrolxern delogation will mumber about thirty |organisation '£300,000, the eaqi®ors’ persons and will come to Parls by |aidy £10,000,000 and indemnificarss special train, via Calals. for railway profits £10,000,000. i nevelisjandithersicanibe ina n to the clvil serv- PEACE ANTHEM HIS HOPE. e ce or any branch of it as that of e LIGHT HORSE HARRY LEE |.agitatoy or, tat of ‘trouble-maier. Premier Lioya George, spesking m| MEMORIAL GETS SUPPORT tions. They are epithets, and epithets to’be applied at the whim ot In the Welsh before 8,000 people today at _— e Ry nb o ybontys the thé annual eisteddfod, or musical words haye no definition. np . estab- and literary festival, alluded to the lished meaning. and those 1o whom forthcoming meeting of the allied supreme council at Paris, and said they may, secretly be applied are he could only hope the volces of the o stituencies will have been hard hit by the tariff or tax measures, will vote against their party. But, broadly speaking, the demo- cratic party will range itself against the Fordney tariff and the new revenue law, and base its whole attack on them in the next congressional elec- tions. . It is too early to know what the democrats will do about the peace treaty situation. They are waiting to $29.000,000 for payment of pressiag ms. see what formula is brought forth by | The Shipping Board chairman said - the Harding administration. The othef | he was in doubt as to what should be Senator Harrison of!done with the steamer Leviathan. It Mr. Lasker trimmed his request to $100,000,000 after the committee had pointed out that $25,000,000 sought for ship oconstruction already d been appropriated. He said $50,000.- 000 was needed for losses expected. to result from operations, $14,000,000 for reconditioning and insurance, $7,000,- 000 for administrative overhead and heavy stresses put on the struc- tuer of a bridge the concrete used in bridge construction must be unusually strong nad is subject to strains and stresses unusual in ordinary bullding construction. Experts say the concrete used in the bridge construction is goag. Unlike steel, experts said today, which is manufactured in & mill under constant supervision, con- crete is made of cement, sand, gravel and water right on the job, usually by relatively unskilled laborers. For this reasno many of the leading engineers require tests of concrete as it is being placed in the structure, #o they may know the strength of the concrete actually used. BRITISH REVENUE PLANS FACE DOUBTFUL FUTURE American Dycs Institute, urged the Sen- ate finance committee today to embargo dyes and chemicals in the next tariff law as the only means of establishing per- manently an Americal chemical industry. The United States will be afforded no opporturity to build up an industry alue to its national safety, health and prosperit; independent of the world, Mr. Choate said. Without such aid, he added, the industry could not last long once the “tenacles of the Ger- man dye-&kartel are fastened upon the American market.” “Let me say that those horrible night- mares about what the Germans are £0InE to do to us don’t affect me in the least,” Chairman Penrose sald. “They Just roll off of me without leaving a BCAT. Mr. Choate said he admired the chair- man’s courage. BUREAU EMPLOYES CHARGE INJUSTICE (Continued from First Page.) hind the m cadet corps and said that the school authorities of the District were to be complimented upon the fine military system which was used in the nation’s capital. Beginning tomorrow noon. the boys will be given their first opportunity to leave camp. They must return, however, for taps, which will be sounded at 9 o'clock, and if they wish to spend Sunday at home, it will br necessary for them to secure another from their company commander. Relief Officials Place But Little Faith in Reports Con- cerning Prisoners. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 5.—The American relief off s in London are placing little faith in the report that the American prisoners in Ruesia have been released and now are leaving that_country. ‘The word we received vesterlay was merely a Letvian newspaper r port forwarded by our representative in Riga,” said the secretary to Walter L. Brown. European director of the relief administration, this morning. “We are keeping a vigilant watch over every possible exit the Ameri- cans might «take from Russia, and none save Mrs. Marguerita Harrison has yet come through. “This leads us to believe.” he added ‘that the Letvi report of their re- case must be & product of the bol- shevik propaganda organization.” LEAVE FOR FRONTIER. day, however, Mississippi, democrat, fired the open- | is costing the government $750,000 a ing gun by inquiring from the repud- | year to keép the.liner tied up at Ho- licans whether America was at peacé 1d. with Germany. The democrats, for the most part, are silent, however, while Secretary Hughes conducts his secret negotiations with Germany and the allies. The democrats will unquestionably decline to accept the Hughes formula, when submitted, on much the same grounds as were adopted by the re- publicans against Wilson. The demo- crats are already beginning to say that the treaty with Germany is not being arrived at very openly, and that when the treaty is finally submitted they will not swallow it without the crossing of a Mot of the Washington bo were planning to leavg camp Sunday ‘noon and remain home until late Sunday night, but the regulations of the camp are that a pass shall not be granted to a student for a period longer than one day. boken h said. U. S. Wias Egypt Cotton Case. The United States has won an initial victory in the Egyptian cotton case conference in London, according to a cable received last night by the Ship- ping Board. The British conferees were said to have agreed to allocate 50 per cent of the shipments of cot- ton from Alexandria, Egypt, to the United States. British shippers, the cabled report said, refused to accede to the demand of the United States that a similar proportion of indirect shipments go- ing by way of the United Kingdom be ! allocated to American bottoms. Shipping Board officials were of the opinion that the stand taken by Brit- ish owners in regard to indirect ship- ments was the result of their failure to understand in detail the American claims. The board’s claim to half the tonnage between ports of transship- ment in the United Kingdom and the port of destination in the United States was entirely suitable, these officials said, and would be insisted upon. The board has cabled Capt. Ferris, its representative at London, advising him that the demand i{s for one-half the indirect shipments from United King- dom ports to the United States and not for participation in the first leg of the transportation from Alexandria to the United Kingdom ports. —_— EVIDENCE IN FRAUD CASE SHIPPED OUT OF COUNTRY Notes of the Camp. Austin Swartwout, 12 Towa circle. a2 ‘student at Central High School, is the tallest and youngest looking in the District of Columbia contingent. He was particularly nolsy during the first night in camp, but after receiv ing threats of a severe hazing from his bunkies. if he repeated. nothing has been heard from him since. Jack Resni Coff of Georgetown University has a penchant for spring- ing old jokes when the other boys in the barracks are trying to sleep. He 18, however. usually the last man to report for roll call in the morning. Chancellor of Exchequer Sees Lit- tle Hope for Revision for His Estimates. LONDON. July 24—Sir Robert Horne, chancellor of the exchequer, has cold comfort to offer in respect of any revision of his estimates of future British revenue. Questioned in the house of commons whether he expected his original estimates to be realized, he answered curtly. “No, of coupse not. No sane man would. British revenue for the first quar- ter of the flscal year just ended amounted to £204,188, of no less than $110,818,067, compared Wwith the same perfod last year. Although income tax yleided rough- ly £10.000,000 more, excess profits duty dropped nearly £40,000,000, and under other heads also, important de. clines were shown, so that, with a total expenditure of £271,420,000 the United Kingdom's balance sheet for are members of various high uhtnl\ " or the® dotting of Outline of Tactjes. ords ‘agitators and trouble- Instead they will endeavor to attach | ers. hat this is plainly so,” continues i the brief, “is established beyond all room of doubt by the names. character, length of service and effjciency of the protestants under corMderation. They have not been inefficient, inat- tentive to duty, tardy or excessive time losers. But many of them hav been the victims of the spirit in which the bureau has been and is being ad- ministered; they have resgnted unfair treatment; they have protested against injustice, and they have as- serted their self-respect; wherefor, they must be either ‘agitators or ‘troublbe makers. Oppression Hinted. “But let it be questioned or even denied that any one of the protest- ants has In fact been removed from the service for the reason indicated, it remains that the instruction under consideration is neither proper nor lawful; it is an immensely potential weapon of injustice and oppression; it 18 unprecendented in terms and in- comparably elastic for sinister and tyrannical purposes, and it is wholly without the pale of law or regulation governing the civil service. “There is and there can be no such ~ the Versailles pact with.the league l Red Cross Detachment to Care for Pearson C. Conly of Business High Outcoming Americans. School is small, but. oh, my' He 1815, e Associated Pres not_exactly belligerent. but he does | RIGA, August 4—A detachment of of nations covenant and when that is 3. BLAKE GORDON. Harris & Ewing. ed down they will offer the Ver- lles treaty with the Lodge reser- vations and call for a vote in an ef- The policy of promoting employes in the service to executive positions again was followed by the Commli sioners today when they made J. Blake Gordon, senior assistant en- gineer in the sewer department, san! tary engineer of the city. He suc- ceeds Asa E. Phillips, who resigned a few days ago, after thirty years of service. Mr. Gordon has been in the employ of the city at various times since 1900, when he began as an asalstant to Mr. Phillips. He resigned in 1905 to take up private engineering work, but returned in 1910, Ig 1917 Mr. Gordon was given mill- tary leave of absence and enliste in the Engineer Corps as a private. He assisted in laying off draina systems in camps in France and wi promoted to lieutenant before the war ended. He resumed his position in the Distriot building in 1919. It is believed he was selected by the Cor oners because of his experience in the sewer department and knowledge of the position swhich he will assume on August 16. Mr. Gordon studied engineering at George Washington, Gaiversity. MAY SHIP SOVIET GOLD. Ambassador Harvey Cables Result of Test Case. As a result of a recent test case, Russian soviet gold may now be shi, ped to this country from Great Brit- ain, the Commerce Department was advised today by cable from Ambas- sador Harvey at London. 'he London Board of Trade now takes the ground,” the cable said, hat the outcome of the test ci demonstrates that no holder of im- perial Russian securities can success- fully contest the soviet claim to legal ownership of the Russian gold re- serve; and I am informed that the Bank of England will henceforth grant _export licenses on documents of title for soviet gold without re- gard to the character of the assay marks it carries. . HUNTING SEASON DECIDED Fairfax Supervisors Make Dates From Nov. 1 to Dec. 31. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., August 5.—The board of supervisors at its meeting Wednes- day fixed the date for the hunting se: son from “wen:l,:er 1 t %"'"M.'m & fers Paralytic Shock. Efforts to have the an earlier date for squirrel hunting were unavail-| BRISTOL, R. I., August 5.—~Col. Sam- ing. t, cnalrman of In order to increase the number of t partridges in the county, A. B. Carter, | nited States Rubber Company, suffered county game warden, has received no-'s paralytic shock early today at his tice from the state game authorities |summer home here. Physicians sald his that & covey of partridges has been |condition was critical shipped 10 him at Burke. -He will re-| " Col. Colt, who is sixty-nine years oM, lease the birds in one of thé game sanc- [had been ill after a genéral nervous tuaries of the county. The shipment, breakdown since June, when he came whieh numbers ten pairs, is from Flor- { here faom his camp at Mount Katah- ida, and the birds are sald to be some- ! gin, M what larger than the Virginia partridge. NAVAL ATTACHE CHANGED. —_— Commander Harry L. ce, as- SENT TO NAVY DEPARTMENT. e t naval attache at the United Commander Thaddeus A.: Thomaon, commanding the cruiser Paul Jonés, E:‘ embassy, London, ‘m% been ordered to this city for du in the office of naval intelligence, Navy Department. fort to place the republicans on record as having reversed themselves on foreign policy. The democrats control more than one-third of the Senate and can block ratification of any treaty. They are saying that the Senate ian't -~ being consulted in advance of the agree- ments being made with foreign powers and that as a consequence amend- ments and reservations will be in order when the treaty *is finally submitted for ratification. The democrats are quiet mow, but they are planning to play a more ag- gressive part as an opposition party just as soon as the republicans have passed tax or tariff legislation. Poli- tics, which has been adjourned for sev- eral months, will soon be reconvened. (Copyright, 1921.) Proof Expected to Be Used Against Soviet Agent Sent to Russia. EW YORK, August 5.—The physi- cal evidence with which it was ex- pected to prove that Jacques Roberto Cibrario converted to his own use 9890,000 from a million-dollar Russian soviet fund on deposit in the National City Bank, was moved out of the United States aboard the steamship Lackawanna Valley last Saturday, two days before Cibrario was arrest- ed, Charles Reicht. soviet government, night. The evidence, in the form of 910 shipping cases flled with motion pic- ture equipment and films that the complainants against Cibrario declare is not worth the amount it will cost to transport it to Reval, had lain stor- age here for two and one-half years. The order to ship, according to the shipping agents, came from the bank, but no confirmation of this report could be obtained from the bank of- ficials. Mr. Reicht cabled Moscow to re- ject the shipment at Reval and an- nounced that it would be returned to New York en the Lackawanna Val- ley CANAL' SHIPMENTS GAIN. Cargoes Increase 23 1-2 Per Cent and Tolls 32 1-2 Per Cent A total of 11,599,214 tons of com- mercial cargo was carried through the Panama canal during the last fiscal year, or 23% per cent more than for any preceding year, while the tolls amounted to $11,276,890, or 32% per! cent more than for any preceding Overman and Steadman Will Offer Joint Bills for Monument to Revolutionary Hero. Special Dispatch to The Star. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., August 5.—In- terest is growing in the movement to erect a monument to Gen. “Light Horse Harry’ on the battlefield in Ala- mance county, N. C. It was here Gen. Lee killed 300 tories and caused 700 others to disperse, thu Frevznv.ln‘ the presence of 1,000 men in the British army at the battlefield of Guiford a few days later, which meant so much for American independence. Senator Lee Overman of North Caro- line and Representative J. M. Stead- man have agreed to introduce joint bills in Congress asking for the erec- tion of the monument. It 18 proposed that monuments and markers commemorating historical deeds be built all along the line of the Bankhead highway, from Wash ington to San Diego, 50 that this great transcontinental highway will be one f the moat interesting historicaly routes in the country. GETS $370,000 PROPERTY. U. 8. Awarded Judgment in Con- test Over Canadian Plant. Bpecia] Dispatch to The Star. 'AWA, Ontario, August 65— ‘Washington owns property worth $370,000, at Brantford, Cansda, Jus- tice XKelly of the Ontario supreme court has given judgment that the sovernment of the United States is owner of bufldings and property hich werp claimed by a firm ki n as Motor Truck, Limited, of that The disgute was the outcome of a contract which the company had for the making of howitser shelis for the United States Army during the ter other adjustments had mgde, the question arose as o Toward who owned' the Bulldinigs and- prop.imon was -dettvered year, according to the Panama Canal attorney for the Record. announced In addition, ot e without notice or knowledge of the Sels, which passed through the canal tolls free Paris conferees Wi be as har- application, and are defenseless against the pre-judged condemnation monijous as those singing in the fes- tival yesterday. which the application implies.” The final paragraph asks that the The premier given a great re- ception. Marshal Foch was expected approval of the instruction be with drawn and canceled, and also that to be present today, but sent word that he was unable to co those whose removal may be assi, to It be Testored to the service ang re. In the course of his remarks the m:’vr'pler sald: tained therein pending investigation hen I return to London shortly of their individual cases. —_— I ‘shall be leaving for another eisteddfod, an eisteddfod in Paris, eisteddfod of the principal natio; BABY w LoT. £ th, 1d. 1 should like t it e e atenang, ) IS aaxe Abandoned Infant Labeled “Baby Bbdy Brown.” might cry out, ‘Is there peace? “The four greatest nations of the ‘Baby Boy Brown was scribbled on 2 plece of paper that was pinned to the world will be represen hy America, France, Italy and Great Britsin. There will be four voices, £ndthose Tour Tolces. will_be- sie: clothing of an abandoned infant found ng an anthem of peace. I can only at 8th and Lawrence streets n hopé that their voices will be as about 11:45 o'clock last night ofi:&:: harmonious as the voices singing at P. Flood, 3217 7th street northeast, on the Welsh elsteddfod. his way home, discovered the foundling on a vacant lot. Police took charge of the waif and took him to Foundling Hospital. No clue to the identity of the infant’s parents has been obtained. SHILOH BAPTISTS MEET. Sunday School Convention Is Held at Amissville Church. CULPEPER, Va, August 5.—The tenth. apnual session of the Shiloh Killed. Baptist Sunday school convention was| NEW YORK, held at Amissville Baptist Church y Jpland’ Li terday and today, and was largely at- tended. g ‘The address of welcome was deliv- eréd by Rev. Charles Clements, and the respoiise on behalf of the del gates given by Rev, William Brook Carter. The subject for general di cussion was “The Church's Attitude Sunday Schools A ser- By Rev. J. W. carried 453,769 tons of . cargo. Dash From Taxi Driver Ends Fa- tally for Young Woman. NEW YORK, August 5.—Katherine Hogan, twenty-four, was electrocuted by the third rail in a Brooklyn sub- way today, after dashing down the tracks away from a taxicab driver, who had carried her and two_girl companions to the station from Man- hattan. Her companions told police that the American, British and Japanese ves- sels carried 89 per cent of the total commercial tonnage, the American amounting to 45 per cent, British to \. 32 per cent and Japanese to 7 per cent. The total number of ships pa: ing through the canal was 2,892, which 1,212 were American, British, 140 Norwegian and Japanese. pletely organized by Monday, and it [outcoming American prisoners, a Washington high school teams. The Lettish government also is pre- Walter L. Brown and the other Amer- Amcrican relief in the Russian fam- ASHEVILLE. N. C., August 5.—Gov. | probably will be called to meet in Ashe-| Russ Foreign Minister Explains planter, and, if possible, to work out disorders In Russia owing to the pointed by the governors of the cotton shevik foreign minister, to all co power to call such a conference. fully and state the exact needs in of sensational reports of disorders, the government and there have been the regions to which the crop failure —_— driver offered to carry them home|Simuirsk. the Tartar and Tchuvash ntil it reaches the fistic Sniovatanth the American Red Cross left here to- - day for the Russian frontier station ected that the entire personnel | though no official advices have yet I O team will consist of former | been received as to when the prison- paring to assist the American pris- CONFE_—"_‘_RENCE ON COTTON oners, and has arranged to place com- e ican relief administration officials for Proposed Meeting to Discuss | their conference with the soviet rep- ine districts. Cameron Morrison of North Carolina has ! oo N ohat & wonference of cotton| DENIES GREAT DIEOEDERS. ville for the purpose of “ascertaining the % world deml:d Tor cotton, the cost of | Russian Conditions. By the Associated Press. some scheme to finance the crop in order to maintain the price so fixed. migraiion of peasants from the fam- Btates at the request of the North Caro- | ine-stricken regions are denied In « lina governor. The state legislature re- tries. In the note M. Chitcherin gives thanks for offers of aid, and says he —_— KILLED BY THIRD RAIL. {RuTia%s faf'ss 56 porsivie. _— M. Chitcherin declares t th none of which is true. Although there is a great migration from the no important disorders. The foreign minister places at 10.- is confined. These regions embrace Astrakhan, Tsaritein, Saratov, the GOOD ROADS BILL FRAMED without charge, and that when he | territorles and some districts of Urfa asked for $2.70 fare as they .uxhtenlnna Viatka. In these regions, he says. = BSenate Committee Combines Pro- d visions of Two Measures. A compromise report on good roads The base ball team will be com-|of Rejitska, equipped to care for the stars who played on the various|ers will arrive at that point. modious quarters at the disposal of resentatives regarding conditions of World's Demand and Prices. commissions from every cotton state . production. the price to be fixed by the Z RIGA, August 4.—Rumors of great The cotton commissions will be ap- note issied by M. Chitcherin, the boi cently vested Gov. Morrison with the will attempt to explain the situation European and American press is full 13 famine districts, it is controlled by 000,000 the number of inhabitants of German Volga Commene, Samara. near the subw station, they ran.|the crops either have been completely and two of them jumped down upon|destroyed or will yield only from 1 the tracks. to 12 per cent of normal. To feed the Two subway employes pursued|people on half rations, 41,000,000 poods them. reaching the girls just in time|of grain will be required, while =erd to dodge a roaring express by stand-|necessary to prevent a repetition of ing between pillars separating the|ihe famine next year will aggregate tracks, When the cars had gone by |15 000,000 poods. Miss Hogan again ran away. and it ¢ js pointed out in the note that al) ‘was while trying to climb back on the{ gy, regardiess of politica, are platform that she fell to her death. |aiding in famine relief. The note re- The taxicab driver, arrested on &|quests forelgn governments to place technical charge of homicide, denied| , gifficulties in the way of the collec- offering to convey the passengers £or | jon of relief for the Russians by any nothing. +1 organization, and aiso to permit the free movement of delegates of the jan famine commission. A Moscow dispatch, gquoting th Rosta Agency says the foreign head ian famine relief London. WIND REMOVES ROOF. Metal Top of Dairy Barn Hurled 100 Feet—Loss by Lightning. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Augusts. —During & severe wind and rain storm at the farm of Judge J. L. Pan- coast, about two miles below this city in Stafford county, a sudden gust'of wind, with the force of a cyclone, swept up from the river, tearing off one end of the roof on the dairy barn and carrying part of the metal roof and framework for more than a hun- dred feet. Two wooden silos were utterly de- molished and a tenant house was blown down, but the occupants mirac- ulously escaped injury. In one fleld the corn was laid flat on the ground. ‘While the gust of wind had terrific force, it was of short duration and seems to have been confined to a very narrow strip. The loss to Judge Pan- coast more than $1,000. Lightning struck the barn of W. 8. Headley in Northumberland county and building and contents were de- stroyed. - ineluding an automobile, horse, farming- implements, ete. The loss was $1,200, with $300 insurance, legislation was drafted yesterday by 5’ the Senate post office and post roads 3 committee. Formal agreement on the 1 plan is expected next week. The compromise combines the Dow- ‘ell bill, passed by the H and the Townsend bill of the Senate, retain- ing_the latter's provision for a fed- — COL. S. P. COLT STRICKEN. U. 8. Rubber Company Official Suf- eral highway commission. The report also contemplated division of federal highway appropriations by expendi- ture of three-sevenths on interstate trunk highways and the balance on state and county roads, which would be required to connect with the in- terstate routes. SEARCH FOR “BOMBS.” Police Comb Beach After Boy Is quarters of the Ri committee will be | ACCUSED OF WHISKY THEFT. Luther ., apartments, 42 nue, will appear in court as the pros- ecuting witness against Robert H. Willis, colored, a former .janitor of theé” apartment house, who is alleged to have stolen fifteen cases of whisky, alued at $3,000. Willis, arrested in orfolk. Va., antl brought hete today. Detective Ira Keck, s said to have imjtted the theft and stated that he seold the liquor to two ' colored bootleggers for §7 a quart. INJURED BY ROAD SCRAPER. Bpecial Dispatch to The 8t WARRENTON. August 5.—Maurice T. Schwab was driving a road scraper, August 5—Staten expl the :-nk llulil-y ‘ln ;elrch further “bo simlilar to the one O e exploded yesterday, killing one boy and seriously injuring two others. After the explosion detectives found on the beach s, hand grensde, be- leved to have been on n- i into the harbor It was drawn by six horses, and as he was trying to guide it out of the ditch the scraper struck a set-fast rock. throw- ing Schwab in the road. where the scraper ran over him. He was badly cut and bruised, but not seriously in- jured. 3t %s thought the rock. lifting the blades at one side, saved bis life. signment dumped after the end of the war. feared other grenadea had n washed up and might be found by children dlaying on the beach. bas been assigned to duty im the of- fice of maval inteiligence, Navy De: partment,