Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1921, Page 2

€ FORECASTS CROPS FOR CURRENT YEAR Department cf Agriculture Shows Volume of Produc- tion, Compared With "20. “orecasts of production this year of the country'a principal farm crops, a sinterpreted from their condition August 1, and other details, were an- nounced toda. by the Department of Agriculture in its August crop re- port, as follows: Winter wheat—Preliminary estimate of production. 544.000,000 bushels, spring _wheat. production forecast, 213,000,000 bushels; condition, 86.8 ptr nt of a normal. All wheat. Pro- forecast, 757.000.000 byshels. on. 3.032,000,000. bush- coridition, 84.3. “Production, 1,137.000.000 bush~ els; condition. 64 Barley—Production, 171,000,000 bush- ;Is; conditfon, T1.4. Rye—Preliminary production mate. 64.300.000 bushels. Buckwheat—Production, duction Corn_produc esti- 13,000,000 bushels; condition, 8 acreage, 691.000. White potatoes—Production, 316,- 000,000 bushels: condition, 65.8. Sweet potat Production, 114,- 000.000; condition, $4.5. Tobacco: Production, unds; condition, 66.8. Flax: Production, 8,900,000 bushels; condition, 70.0. Rice: Production, els; condition, $6.5. Hay (tame): Production, $1,600,000; (wild), 15,500,000 tons; condition (all), 82.5 889,000,000 1 33,500,000 bush- ubar beets: Production, $,000,000 tons: condition, 399 Apples: Production, 109,000,000 bushels. 31,300,000 37,600,000 aches: Production, Production, ain, sorghums: 000 bushels. Winter wheat—A production of 3,930,000 bushels was forecast last month, while »st year's crop was 57 3,000 bushels and the average pro- Production, 130,- WRITE LETTERS HOME ON P. 0. STATIONERY, MR. HAYS’ INVITATION Just as If his office were a sum- mer hetel, Postmaster General Hays provides stationary and writ- ing facilities free of charge to all callers at his office. In the center of the waiting room a large table is provided, cquipped with a atore of “envelopes, paper bearing the heading of the Postmaster Gen- eral's office; four pens, ink and blotters Herc callers are free to write to their heart's content, although it is presumed that they wlill not take advantage of the facilities to write long eplstles to their host. Callers are using the stationary to write to “the folks back home,” on officlal Post Office Department stationary. It “looks big.” they say, and is ~generally pleasing all around. The envelopes are plain, but of the finest quality. Stamps are not provided, but may be purchased at the branch post office on the first floor of the bullding. MOVETOSPEEDUP TARIFF HEARINGS Four Months Would Be Con- sumed at Fresen’ Rate of Progress. The Senate finance committee moved today to speed up tariff hear- ings on the ground that it would take from two to four mouths to zet the bill to the Senate at the present rate of progress. A resolution by Senator i Curtis, republican, of Kansas, limiting witnesses to fifteen minutes, was adopted. with only Senator La Follette, republican, of Wisconsin, opposing. Chairman Penrose said he expected to conclude hearinzs on the dye em- bargo and American valuation ques- tions during the day and reach deter- mination of the committee’s policy by duction of the five years, 1915-19, was | the week end. Hearings, he said, had 572,401,000 bushels.” This year's acre- | been “spreading like a forest fire,” age is 1.000, or 2.5 per cent more |with fully 300 requests for time re- than last vear | ceivea. Spring wheat—A production of 235.- | Henry B. Thompson of Greenville, 482,000 " bushels was forecast last|pel, chairman of the State Depart- month, while last year's crop was|ment advisory committee on dye im- 209,365,000 bushels, and the average |port applications, told the committee production for the five years, 1915-19, was 235,495,000 bushels. The condition of the crop on July 1, was 80.8 per cent of a normal. while on August 1 last year it was 3.4 and the ten-year August 1 ave! 73.2. This year's acreage is 18,0 or 7.2 per cent less than last year's. All wheat—A production of 809,412.- 000 bushels was forecast last month, while last ye: crop was 787,128,000 bushels, and average production for the 1915-19, was §30,- 5.000 bushels, This year's acreage 744,000 or 0.8 per cent less than the five years, Figures on Corn, Oats and Barley. Corn—A production of 3.123,139,000 bushels was forecast last month, while Ia car’s crop was 3,232,267,000 and the average production for 1915-1919, was 25,- The condition of the crop on July 1 was 91.1 per cent of a normal while on August 1 last vear it was 86 and the ten-vear -August 1 average IS 5.1, This year's acreage is 108,901,000, or 4.1 per cent more than last year Oats—A production of 1,328,937,000 bushels was forecast last month, while last years crop was 1526055000 ushels, and the average production for the five years,}1915-1919, was 1,432,697, 900 bushels. *The condition of the crop on July 1 was 77.6 per cent of a normal, While on August ¥ Jast year it was 87.2, and the ten-year August 1 average is r's acreage is 44.829,000 5 per ‘Centsmqre than-last Lushels the five vears 000 bushe! Barlev—A forecast of 184,288,000 bushels was made last month, while last vear's preduction was 202,024,000 bushels and the average production for the five years, 1915-1919; was 208,098,000 bushels. The condition-of the crop on July 1 S1.4 per cent of a normal, while on August 1 last year it was 85.0, nd the August 1 ten-year average i 30.8. Th vear's acerage is 7,713,000 acres, or per cent less than last year's. Rye, Buckwheat, Potatoes. Rye: forecast ’of 69,956,000 bushels was made last month, while last year's production was 69.318.000 bushels, and the average production for the five years. 19 19, was 69,- 59,000 bushe This year's acreage is 4.544,000 acres, or 9.9 per cent less than last year's. Buckwheat: Last year's production was 13.500,000 bushels, aml the rage production for the five years, was 15,000,000 ‘bushels. The n of the crop on August 1 ear was 90.5 per cent of a and the ten-year August 1 average condition is 88.6. Last year's acrcage was 729,000 acres. White potatoes: A forecast of 376,- 977.000 bushels was made last month, while last year's production was 430,458.000 bushels, and the average production for the five years. 1915-19, W3 371,283,000 bushels. ‘The con- dition of the crep on July 1 was $3.4 per eent of a normal, while on August 1 last vear it was 87.0 and the ten- vear August 1 average is §1.0. This vear's acreage is 3.972,000, or 1.6 per 4 cent more than last year's. Sweet potatoes: A forecast of 112,- 023,000 bushel: as made last month, while last year's production was 112,- 000 bushels and the average pro- duction_for the five years, 1915-19, was N 000 bushels. ” The condition of the July 1 was 85.1 per cent of a normal, while on August 1 Jast vear it was 36.9 and the ten-year August 1 average is $3.2. This year's acreage is 1,186,000, or 9.3 per cent more than last year’ Tobaci A forecast of 932,157,000 was made last month. while r's production was 1,508,064, 0 pounds and the average produc- on for the five years, 1915-19, was 1.271.717,000 pounds. »f the crop on July 1 was 71.9 per cent of a normal, while on August 1 Jast year it was 84.1 and the ten-year August 1 average is 79.1. This year's acreage is 1. 00, or 29.4 per cent less than last year's. i crop on Fiax, Hay and Sugar Beets. Flax: A production of 9,671,000 bushels was forecast iast month, while last ye production was 10,- 990,000 bushels and the average pro- for the 1915-19, five years, duction was 11 of the crop on July 1 was S2.7 per cent of a normal, while on August 1 last year it was 80.1 and the ten-year August 1 average is This year's acreage is 1,242,000, or 30.4 per cent Jess than last year's. Rice—A production of 33,603.000 ‘Lushels was forecast last month, while Just year’s production was 53,710,000 bushels and the average production for the five years, 1915-19, was 37,189,- 000 bushels.” The condition of the crop on July 1 was 8% per cent of a normal, While on August 1 last year it was $8.7 and th August 1 ten-year av- erage is 88.3. This yvear's acreage is 564,000, or 35.4 per cent less than last = year's. Hay—. production of 81,695,000 ton was forecast last month. while t year's production was 91,193,000 tcns and the average production for 1he five years, 1915-19, was 85.793,000 1ons. The condition of the crep on July 1 was 79.5 per cent of.a normal, While on August 1 last year it was 90.5 and the ten-year August 1 av- age is 86.1. This year's acreage is 73.842,000. or 0.9 per cent more than Jast year : Sugar beets—A production of 8,012,- €00 tons _was forecast last month, ~while last year's production was 8, £16.090 tons and the average produc- tlon for the five years, 1915-19, was 6218000 tons. The condition of the rop on July 1 was 90.3 per cent of a normal. while on August 1 last year it ~was 91.9 and the ten-year August 1 guverage is 88.4. This year's acreage is The condition | 04,000 bushels. The condition.| he believed most dye consumers de- sired to be freed from German dye syndicate control. “As a user of dyes, I want to per-| aid that em- the American “The now petuate Mr. Thompson appears possible bargo. SAILS FOR RELIEF WORK. Forrest D. Yowell Leaves for Con- industry, only way is by an stantinople. Forrest DeLacey Yowell of 1444 Alton place. was one of a party of three who sailed on the anada fer near east relief work in Constan- and points east, according to in tinople an announcement made yesterday New York. Mr. Yowell saw four years' service He spent time in the Army overseas. FORREST D. YOWELL. and later as a Red Cross worker in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. He vol- unteered his services with the Near East Relief as an expert accountant and general relief worker. Since his return from Poland, a year ago, he had been engaged in the real estate business here. IMPROVEMENTS LISTED BY GEORGETOWN CITIZENS Repaving of Wisconsin Avenue and New Swimming Pool Requested by Association. Three improvements which the Georgetown Citizens’ Association de- sires to have incorporated in the Com- missioners’ estimates to Congress were laid before the city heads today by ltion. They are Repaving of Wisconsin avenue from 37th to 35th street, from P to R street and from M to Water street. Erection of a public comfort station near the intersection of Wisconsin avenue and M street. i Construction of a mnew swimming | pool at the Industrial Home School. | B A Bowles told of the need for ! improving Wisconsin avenue, which, i he pointed out, is one of the main { thoroughfares of Georgetown and one i of the gateways to the city. | The necessity for a public com- ifort station in Georgetown was em- i phasized by Frank Leetch, while | John Hadley Doyle told of the de- sirability of installing a new swim- ming pool at the home school. Phillip Walker, another member of the organization, came prepared to tell the Commissioners of the school and playground needs of Georgetown, but Col. Kutz suggested that those matters should be laid before the board of education, where all school projects must originate. Joseph A. Oliver, president of the association, also spoke. i i e 882,000, or 9.8 per cent less than last year Frult Yield Decreases. Apples—A production of 102,199,- 000 bushels was forecast last mont while last year's prodnuction was 240 442,000 bushels and the average pro- duction for the five years, 1915-19, was 182,706,000 bushels; Peaches—A production of 30,758, 000 bushels was forecast last month, while last year's production was 43,- 697,000 bushels and the average pro- duction for the five years, 1915-19, was 46.608,000 bushels. Peanuts—A production of @6,568 000 bushels was forecast last month, while last year's production was 35,- 960,000 bushels and the average for the four years, 1916-19, 41,718,000 bushels. Grain Sorghums—A production of 124,733,000 bushels was forecast last month, while last year's production was 143,939,000 bushels and -the av- erage production for the five years, 1915-19, was 86,107,000, v a committee from the organiza-! QUOR PERNIT VARG SSUE Commissioner Haynes Séys Violators Will Suffer Consequences. A change of prohibition enforcement policy” to effect the strict compliance with the law rding liquor permits was announced today by Commissioner Haynes. In the past, Mr. Haynes sald, le- niency was perhaps justified in dealing | with violations by persons to whom | permits had been issued, but with the passage of suflicient time to enable every cne to acquaint themselves with the provisions of the act, experience has shown it to be necessary to in- augurate a different policy. Not to Be Condoned. “Violations of the law or regulations or of the terms of permits committed. Mr. Haynes said, “after the date of this announcement, wiil hereafter not be condoned, and guilty persons will be severely dealt with.” Mr. Haynes cited the provisions of the prohibition act which declared that no permit should be issued to any person who. within one year be- fore application, has vioiated the prohibition laws and declared that enforcement of this requirement would pre from He of the feiture with and Lilit be nt violators of the law arrying on business for a year. illed attention to the sections act which provide for for- f property in connection illegal manufacture of liquor declared thut in_the future lia- to forfeiture of breweries will djusted upon a much less lenient asis than in cases which have been already settled. - Penalizing Taxes. He directed especial attention to the penalizing which may be imposad upon the illegal manufacture i jor sut of beer and declared that {hercafter any case involving the il- {lesal manufacture of beer or any }n(l r liquor by a permit holder will be settled on such a basis will bear most heavily upon the violator of the law. * “There will be no further warning, he said. “but the law will be enforce with all the vigor apparently nece: sary to accomplish the object of in- suring observance of the law. _“Excuses to the effect that viola- tions are due to unauthorized acts of employes or other agents will not be accepted. It is a well known rule of law that the principal is responsible for the acts of his agents, and persons to whom permits are issued will not be allowed to avoid such responsibil- “Any permittee date of thi of vio after the is guil the regul; suffer the acts have whom, announcement, of the law tions or his permit, mus consequences which his brought upon him.” RAIL FUNGING BILL CONSIDERED TODAY Director Meyer Explains to Senate Committee Need- » ed Legislation. Consideration of the administrition bill for funding of about $500,000,000 of railroad debts to the government! was begun today by the Senate inter- state commerce committee. Eugene Meyer, director of the War Finance Corporation, which would have charge of the funding operations under the administration plan, explained to the committee - the legislation which President Harding recently urged in a special message to Congress. Except for Director Meyer's ex- planation procedure with the bill was not determined upon by the commit- tee. Republican leaders are to sece President Harding to urge postpone- ment of the bill until after the pro- posed Senate recess. “Simple,” Mr. Meyer Says. Director Meyer told the committee that the amendment of the traasuor- tation act proposed was “simple” and would facilitate the marketing of yail- iroad securities held by the gover iment as a result of government.op- eration. It is only reasonable. Mr. Meyer said, that the railroads, pro- posed beneficiaries of the act, would pay the cost of distributing the secur- itles of the publit. Chairman Cumming of the commit- tee, who has been /1, returned stoday to take charge of the legislation. Opposes Appropriations. Appropriations to aid the railroads, Mr. Meyer said, were neither neces- sary advisable, as the War Finance Corporation could intervene in a temporary way and help restore normal tunctions of the railroad in- vestment market. Private capital has been cut off largely from railroads, Mr. Meyer said, because of their r duced earnings during the last eight or ten months, due to acute industrial The government now has $322,000, 000 of the railroads’ equipment fund i bonds, Mr. Meyer said, and some of these, he believed, might be sold in the open market. Congress would not have to provide any additional funds for the railroad funding before June 30, 1922, he estimated. “The President's message and the possibility of this action already has nad considerable effgct on the mar- ket for railroaG-S=urities,” Mr. Meyer said. . “To say that a million more men would be employed in railroad work during the coming winter is, I think, a very conservative estimate.” g A meneral economic _restoration might be_expected, Mr. Meyer said, adding: *Then material reduction In raiiroad rates ought to follow. Contemplates No Gift. “We are on the upgrade nad this measure would accelerate restora- tion,” Mr. Meyer said, “and the bill contemplates no gift to the railroads.” ample sccurity being required. He explained that the corporation had over $400.000,000 of its cash fund available for operations and power to issue three billions of bonds. Senator Townsend suggested that a corporation be required to raise funds for the funding by selling its bonds. Mr. Meyer said there was “no possi- ble advantage” in the plan, but thatj it was not_objectionable. Senator Townsend asked whether a “crigis in railroad affairs” required the legislation. Mr. Meyer said that he would rather that the director of railroads be asked. “But I think an emergency exists," Mr. Meyer said, citing general busi- ness and employment conditions. Director Meyer's examination will be continued tomorrow and Director Davis of the railroad administration will follow. —_— WILL DEPORT SPY. Capt. Werner Horn Is Pronounced Insane at Montreal. MONTREAL, Que., August 9.—Capt. Werner Horn, German spy, who at- tempted to blow up the Interna- tional bridge at Vanceboro, Me.. in 1915, will be deported Wednesday to Germany on the steamship Poland. Horn, who was pronounced insane after serving six years of a ten-year sentence in the Dorchester, N. B., penitentiary. is at present Confined in the immigration building here. Photograph made by a United States Army air service cameraman today showing an unusual view of Anacos- | tin viver und surrounding country and the Prexident's yacht steaming to her dock at the navy yard. eld in ¥ Bolling wn in the lower PRESIDENT WILL CONFER ON TAX Republicans of Ways and Means Committee Take Problems to Executive. Chairman Fordney and other repub- lican members of the House ways and means committee will confer with President Harding late today on the whole general subject of tax revision. Discussion, it is understood, will cen- ter particularly upon what present estimated extraordinary expenses can be provided for through other means than direct taxation. : Mr. Fordney hopes that it will possible to take care of about three quarters of a billon dollars of such expenses without provisions in the new revenue law, thus saving, he said, approximately $8 in taxes for every man, woman and child in the country this year. He is understood to bg particu v anxious t way be worked out to take care of the proposed $545,000.000 payments 1o the railroads, $100,000,000 to the Ship- ping Board, and $100.000,000 for re- deeming war savings certificat which fall due the last half of this fiscal year. Want Freight Tax Repeal. Repeal of the 3 per cent tax on freight on next January 1. with re- tention of the 8 per cent tax on pas- senger fares until January 1, 1923, was discusééd today by ‘members ' of the House Wi means committee, but without majority s and deci- sion. Removal of the 10 per cent tax on carbonated beverages also was considered. The committee turned from tax re- vision to order a favorable report on Representative Longworth’s proposal to continue the dye embargo after amending the bill so as to make the embargo period end next November 27, when the emergency tariff ex- pires, instead of next March 27, originally proposed. Favorable report, also, was ordered on the bill of Representative Graham, republican, Illinois: to impose a duty of 90 per cent on all A. E. F. supplies sold overseas and shipped back to this coyntry. Lown in Revenue, $30,000,000. Loss of revenue in the proposed changes ir the luxury taxes agreed upon vesterday, it is estimated, would be slightly less than $50,000,000. Wearing apparel levies, proposed for repeal, are 10 per cent of the amount by which the cost of women's and misses’ hats, bonnets and hoods exceed $15 each; women's silk stock- ings in excess of $2 a pair; men's, women’s and children’s shoes in ex- cess of $10 a pair; men's and boys’ silk stockings or hose in excess of $1 a pair; men's shirts in excess of $3 cach: men’s and boys' hats in excess of $6 each; men's and boys’ caps in ex- cess of §2 each; men’s and boys' neck- ties and neckwear in excess of §2 each; men's, women's and children’s pajamas, nightgowns and undergar- ments in excess of $5_each; kimonos, petticoats and waists in excess of §1% each; men’s separate waistcoats in ex- cess 'of $5 each, and lounging robes, smoking jackets and_similar leisure apparel in excess of $7.50 each. Included in sporting goods, on which it s proposed the tax would be cut to half, are tennis rack: nets, skates, snow shoes, skiis, toboggans, canoe paddles, canoe cushions, polo mallets, base ball bats, gloves, masks, protectors. shoes and uniforms, golf bags, golf clubs, lacrosse stocks, balis used In the following sports: Base ball, foot ball, tennis, golf, la- cross, billiards and pool; fishing tack- le, billiard and pool tables, chess and | checker boards and pieces. dice, games and parts of games (except playing cards and children’s toys and games) and all similar articles. Agree to Cut Luxury Tax. Agreement was reached yesterday among House ways and means com- mittee repubiicans to eliminate the soda fountain, ice cream and so- called luxury tax on wearing apparel and a 50 per cent reduction in the levy on sporting goods. Further reductions are planned. A 50 per cent cut in the transporta- tion levies, both passenger and freight, was declared to be practi- cally 2 certainty. Those members who heretofore have urged immediate repeal of all of these taxes were un- derstood to be prepared to, press their point with the argument that this could be done readily if repeal of the excess profits and higher sur- taxes is delayed until next January 1, as noW proposed. The total loss of revenue involved in cutting off the transportation taxes was estimated at; $260,000,000, or less, it was claimed, than the loss that would be entailed this year through making the repgal of the ex- cess profits and higher income ‘sur- taxes retroactive to last January 1. It also was argued that the cutting oft of the levies on freight and pas- senger traffic would prove of real help to business through savings' in freight chatges and added expenses of traveling salesmen. Not Yet Agreed on Tot Formal agreement among the ma- jority members as to the total that will be absolutely necessary to run the government this fiscal year has not yet been reached, and it was said that further specific tax cuis might await such an agreement. There also was talk of conferences with Presi- dent Hardinggto obtain his advice in the solution of the major problems before the committee. Having been excluded from partici- pation in the framing of the bill, democratic members of the Committee are giving'independent study to the revision _question. Representative Kitchin, the democratic leader, who is detained at his home in North Carolina by illness, has been kept | as OM VACA and corner of the picture. ! DEATH OF PASSION PLAY PROMOTER SADDENS OBERAMMERGAU VILLAGE OFERAMMERGAU. July 26 — Through tiw death of Father Schroe- der, who has been the priest in charge of the Oberammergau village church for thirty-two years and the most zoalous supporter of the traditions of the Passion Play, this little village has been much saddened, just at the time_when preparations for the pro. duction of the Passion Play in 1922 are under way. The first texts of the were prepared by pri from the Ettal monastery and re- peated pevisions have been made by the clergy in the past 300 years to assion Play ts and monks . NEAR COMPLETION Obelisk to Be Unveiled_Next June at Kentucky Bir_th- place. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. August 9.—The Jefferson Davis obelisk, crowning monu- ment to the president of the Southern Confederaoy, will be unveiled June 3, 11922, at Davis' birthplace in Fairview, |Ky., on his 114th anniversary. The Davis homestead is about 140 miles from Hodgenville, Ky., where | Abraham Lincoln was born. |_ The obelisk, which will be 175 feet high, is today within five 'feet of com- pletion. It was planned originally to erect a shaft 350 feet, to_be excelled only by the Washington monument, but i the Jefferson Davis Home Association decided to hasten the unveiling in ac- cordance with the wish of Confederate veterans. Anxious to_participate in the ceremonies, the thinning ranks urged completion as soon as possible. The work was started in 1917 and inter- rupted by the world war. Profiles in bronze of Mr. Davis and his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Davis Hayes, one of the most beautiful women of the South, ornament the base of the monument, which is forty-three feet square. It contains a room for relies. The shaft is situated in Jefferson Davis Park, which takes in part of the farm on which the president of the Confederacy was born on June 3, 1808, less than a year before Lincoln. The park comprises about twenty-two acres. The town of Fairview gains its mame from one of the most beautiful land- scapes in the South. Cost of the monument to date is al $100,000, which was raised by popfiar subscription. Mrs. Roy McKinney of Paducah, Ky. president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, at the head of a committee of Daughters and Confederate veterans, organized every county in the state to complete the shaft. Gen. William B. Haldeman. formerly owner with Col. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal, is presi- dent of the Jefferson Davis Home Asso- ciation, succeeding thé late Gen. Ben- nett H. Young of Louisville, four times ut commander-in-chief of the United Con- federate Veterans. Gen. George W. Littlefleld of Austin, Tex., and Gen. Julian S. Carr of Durbam, N. C., were Ppromoters with Gen. Young of the origi- nal conception. Care of the monument and park will be supervised by the State of Kentucky after the unveiling by act of the 1920 legislature. Two other monuments commemorate the Confederate president, one in Rich- mond, Va., the capital of the Confed- eracy, and the other in New Orleans. Both ‘were bullt through efforts of the women of the south. _— GIVES 3-YEAR COURSE. The course of instruction for nurses offered by the United. States public [Eealth service at some of the larger gov- ernment hospitals covers a_period of three years, not four, as was stated in a | previous announcement of the new course. Students who complete the prescribed course and pass physical examination become members of the regular United States Public Health Service Nurse Corps. Candidates must be between twenty-one and thirty-five vears of age, be graduates of a recognized high school or present evidence of an educational equipment. Further information may be obtained by writing to the surgeon gen- eral, United States public health service, Washington, D. C. i fully informed on the public hear- ings, and it is understood that his counsel will be sought in framing any report that the democrats may decide to make after they have studied the republican draft of the measure. : Garner Fiat in Opposition. Representative Garner of Texas, the ranking democrat on the ways and means committee in the absence of Mr. Kitchin, came out flatly today for full repeal of the transportation taxes and the so-called nuisance taxes, including the 10 per cent tax on bottled soft drinks, and against any of the new or increased taxes suggested by Secretary Mellon. The Texas member also is of the opinion that a much greater return can be had from back taxes than the Treasury has estimated.. He thinks that instead of the $235,000,000 given in Mr. Mellon's statement to the committee, nearly $500,000,000 can be obtained from this source this fiscal year. adapt the production to changed con- | productions to be filmed ditions and”_improve its iterary | William Rutz. the burgoma | character. Father Josep Alois | Oberammergau. has just issued Dalsenberger s chiefly reaponsible | statement WAFBIng the public against for the text which has been used imitations of the play which the | now for many decades, and which | Oberammergau peasants have given | the recently deceased priest, Father | cvery ten vears for three ¢ | Schroeder, protected against efforts | in fulfillment of their ancestors’ | of many scholars, who sought to in- | vow to do so in expression of their | terweave it with modern ideas which | gratitude to God for the deliverance | appealed neither to the Oberam- of the village from the plague. ] 1 \ |[RETURN OF THE MAYFLOWER, BRINGING PRESIDENT HARDING |ARMY AVIATORS SPEEDY FR TION TRIP Aportion of mergau actors nor their devoted | priest. Commercial producers in several other German cities are offering re- ligious plays which they advertise such a_way as to give the impre sion that they really are the Oberammergau Passion Play. One production which is being-given this | year openly announces that it uses old Oberammergau text. Mo picture theaters are also offering so- called Oberammeragau films These productions are extremely distasteful to the Oberamm. the village and have never allowed t liam Wells, $10; Joseph Wright. $10; Icaas F. Burch, $10: Stanley Kingsbury $10; George E. Nally, $5 John Tanner, $5; William J. Mangam, $10, and Nicholas Sakelas, $20. Wil-§ liam Woodland, John B. Singerhof and William J. O'Donne were among those who faced court on speeding charges and were fined $20 each. Lo some of these ca it was said. the drivers were going as high as| twenty-five and thirty miles an hour. A few of them, however, were said; totbe averaging about twenty miles anthour, or exceeding the speed limit by two miles an hour. Court officials} said the police have been instructed ! to force automobile drivers to keep | within the speed limit, and they will be_arrested if they exceed it-by only | a fraction of a mile. With every indication that the bu: ness of the Police Court is to be in-| creased about twofold by the cam-| prign against speedy drivers, Francis | A. Sebring, chief clerk of the court.| today renewed his movement for the| establishment of a traffic court. Mr. | Sebring vigorously denounced the ggestion that the court hold night sessions to dispose of the traffic cases, pointing out that it would vir- tually double the hours of labor of the judges and the clerical force of the court. —_— SUIT FOR ACCOUNTING. Widow of Claude 0. Cochrane Brings Action. Suit for an accounting has been filed in the District Supreme Court by Mrs. Laura M. Cochrane. widow and administratrix of Claude 0. Cochrane, who died May 4 last, against Robert L. C. Cochrane, who conducts a com- mission business at 931! B street northwest. Mrs. Cocnrane says her husband had a considerable interest in the business, the extent of which is unknown to her. They were mar- | ried in January and he died in May. and because of the short time she had not been able to learn of her husband’s business connections. The ! defendant denied that her husband jwas interested in the business, she | states, but offered her $700 in monthly | payments of $100 each to sign a pa- | Per quit claiming any interest. ! The plaintiff also tells the court that her husband informed her he had a life insurance policy of $1,000, pay- | able to his mother, but intended to | transfer it to her. He died without making the change in beneficiary. At- torneys Jeffords & Dutton appear for the plaintiff. DRIVE FOR MEMBERS. Holy Name Society to Seek In- creases in 37 Parishes. As a substitute for the annual public demonstration of the Holy Name Society this October, a drive | for inreased membership in all of the thirty-seven local parishes will be launched. Announcement to this effect was made today by officials of the society. The announcement also stated that Holy Trinity Branch had been gladdened by the return to active work of Rev. E. J. Magrath, §. J., who has been prevented from co-operation with the society for the past three years on account of illness. It was due to his work during 1913 to 1918, according to announcement, that the Holy Name branches made rapid strides. He will be in charge of the meeting at Holy Trinity on Thursday, when the plans for the campaign will be_discussed. | i i i BAND CONCERT. | tanton Park at 7:30 p.m. y the United States Ma- At today. rine Band, Taylor Branson, sec- ond leader. March, 'mpus Fugit”...Davies Overture, “La S‘rene”. .Auber Alto saxophowe solo, grand fantasia, “Scenes That Are Brightes?,” from “Maritana,” Wallace Musician Frank Wiblitzhauser. Excerpts from “Chin Chin,” Caryll “Danc:s Norwegian, Nos. 1 and 2 Grieg Novelties— (a) “Mello_Cello’ ...Moret (b)**Mon Homme™. American _fantasia, {from his home in ihappy with the man she loved, a by | Business Best Here, { ployment IN SNAPPING MAYFLOWER Thirty Minutes After Exposures Made, Print Is Brought to Star Office. As the Mayflower, hearing Presi- dent Harding's v ) party back from their northern trip, steamed up the Potomac this morning and came abreast Bolling Field, photographers of the air service jumped into a De Haviland Army plane and soared 1,000 feet above her fc 4 test™ in photography The yacht was “shot” several times and as she swu into her dock at the navy yard the plane descended at Bolling~ Field, the plates w, do- veloped and within. twen minutes Harding had tim fo o President | to reach the White House number | of pictures had been printed, all of them clear, all of them showing the yacht in detail and her grouped along the rail Half an hour lat in The Star office, courtesy of Maj. manding officer at KENNEDY INQUEST SCHEDULED TODAY Burch and Mrs. Obenchain Held Pending Investigation. Still Seek Gun. assengers pictures we. i through the nion, com- Bolling Fild alif, August shotgun with which for the Svanston on a tele- graphic request from Mrs. Obenchain, Mrs. Obenchain has admitted re- ceiving $85 from Burch, but said that it was in payment for loans made by her while they were both students in Evanston. She wrote today to her for- mer husband, Ralph Obenchain, of Chi- cago. who had allowed her a divorce, she said, in order that she might be that he come to her assistance. Oben- chain, when he heard of the trouble Lis divorced wife was in, said he would do all he could for his former school- mate, although she had abandoned him for love of Kennedy. Find Versex. véhses found were beingz examined investigators. They said Mrs. n had admitted authorship of One poem began the twilight, Obencha the lines. We will 2o to the gl And watch the darky The closing stan: 1 will #o o the gl And Watel the darkness come Mrs. Obenchain. the investizator had no s said, declared the lines { nificance, and she had penned them in idle moments. WASHINGTON LEADS. Retail Coal Dealers Are Told. Business conditions in Washington are more favorable than in any other , James McCarthy of Philadelphia. field secretary of the National Retail Coal Merchants’ Association. told members of the local retail coal mer- chants' exchange at a meeting last night in the Fendall building. “Washington, today. is far better off, financially. than any other city in the United States,” he said. “Wash- ington also is less affected by unem- and unrest than other ti Mr. McCarthy said he based his statements on a comprehen: study of business conditions through- out the country. POWDER BLAST KILLS 100. HIROSHIMA. Japan, August §.—One hundred persons were willed or in- jured here today. when the govern- origin of th ccident is not known. inent powder magazine exploded. The | principle: DE VALERA GREETS FREED IRISHMEN Informal Gathering of Fornter ~ Prisoners at Dublin DUBLL August the wen b of the | n parlt ment who ha sed fre prison were re ay by Eamon de Valera, Irish republican leader al the Mansion House Although the meeting a® mot of a formal character. it is understood that the conference considered Ui -sirability of making a joint st ment on conditions at the Ball minlar internment camp, of which | members who have been released serious complaint release from prison of John J. McKeown was received with great relicf by newspapers of all iades of inion. For the first time in many years here were numerous English visitors there here today to attend t ie horse show. PEACE BREAK BRIDGED. Release of McKeown Considered Sinn Fein Victory. Byt ociated Press LONDON. August 8.—The threatened break in further peace negotaitions between the British government and the Sinn Fein in Ireland was bridged today the release from prisor J. McKeown by order of David the British tions from w dirish republican John Belton Kennedy was killed near cKeown was in prison under con- the summer eottage in Beverly 4;1-1._!\“:“,, for the murder of Chief In- Friday night, was pressed vigorously | JPet! ;‘!“ All the other mem- most important link still missing in | the authorities of Dublin Castle the chain of evidence which has been | Zt1H "” u Mc '\"]‘“ n f o St | fact had o Stirred t h peo so far discovered in connecton with|pi. who o8 ot McKeow the murder. tshould be accorded the same immunity An inquest over Kennedy's body |# 4 been nted the other repub was scheduled to be held hercethis P Il h afternoon. The search for the gun is ecial courier sent by being pushed among pawnshops and r\'n"ulhlwx 3 G ey -‘,Udlv'-\nd Il«‘b'\.r:d : stores here and along h ailroad | ARON Jnisidiadicd i Tene oy "‘w‘.‘ < " h‘"f A‘}'”"H:F 25 ‘_1‘.4 attending the supreme council, .-rr:|:n'l and brought back here for{vaiery ving he did not believe stionings Both Eurch and Mrs. made in detaining M- delyng Obenchuin: who considered # medy the night he was s i binet, but that iswer any furt it was due to the action of govern- tions of authorities. Burch {mental subordinates in Ireland. who mally booked on “suspicion of mur- | were proceeding under technicalities der,”” while Mrs. Obenchain is | He also wid to have announced tained as a witness { that he would not continue peace ne- Attempts to interrogate {gotiations with the British govern- Ay n et I e {ment if the government persisted i ST AT S {holding McKeown in prison. Shortly by them, were balked by their fterward word came from Paris that Y Ik Bl et esa sl he {it had been decided to set McKeowr sulted 7 firE . In London the incident is consid Gun Important Clue. ered a victory for the Sinn Fein. The County officials assert that the gun |general belief is, however, that ths from which were fired the shells | Dublin Castle officiais acted without found near the Beverly Glen cottage | 3 um!x-: the 1;.,:|e\.n: soverament will prove the most important | when they issued their notice that in the case. Borch admitted, county | McKeown could not be released, and officials declare. that the auto ili- | that the London government. in the parked near the Kenmneds summer |interest of peace, overruled them, hou the night of the shooting had been hired by hin The garage owner. who rented it to nim, sdensi- | DEAD MAN IDENTIFIED. fed Burch, after the car had been traced. through the peculiar tracks s e e $ ““**|Body Found in Potomac June § The mysterious man and woman < who follgwed Mrs. John D. K.»nnul_\.; That of Pennsylvanian. !mother of the slain broker, th uwlx‘ The body of the man found floal- llh(- !;-lrn(-;‘(s lnf» her hu nd’s ing in th Potomac river near the ast Friday afternoon als Hig SES ras fdentifi [last Teigay (altemopniatos | Highway bridge June € was identitivd jare concentrating their attention. |today as that of John Schreyer Mrs. Obenchain has stated that imme- { fifty-eight years old of Charleroi, I'a {diately after the shots were gr-'; The identification was brought which killed Kennedy two personsiapout by the police department send- fled past her in the darkness. The|ing photographs of the dead man description of the two given by Mrs.{throughout the country. An exami- Kennedy does not fit any one so tar {yaion of the body at that time de mentioned din_connection with thelveloped he had not been drowned mystery. authoriti His skull was fractured and he is k e e jleved to have bren murdered and Uhe e body thrown into the river. The keeper of the hotel in which | PQO¥ th S hreve A ) Burch remted a, room. across the | JRIE, B SCATSeR Drother of dhe street from Kennedy's office. today ; ooaeaseds - rols e tertren) T O B hcnchain. as. the |and identified clothing worn by 1l n i e s s man that of his brother. He suid female ' cousin” who had visited | an as that of h 1 ) : Busch ot the hotel room.siBurchihad s Ahe aecenned pEor o ast Necember Bl o Deputy Shewiff Joseph No- | had en manager of a hotel in his 0 R ity ame. to Lot Angeles [ home city and later went to Norf lan said, s and Roanoke, Va. 4 his He telegraph brother for money to return F and it was sent to him four or WV days prior to his death. N chreyer was manager of Luni Park at Four-Mile Run, Va. wien that place was operated_geveral ye ago and assisted in its construction The body will be taken home this evening _ GROTTO OUTING PLANS. Will Compete With Baltimoreans at Tug of War. for Prey ions an unusually large number of Washing ton prophets of the “mystic on the nnual family excursion « Kallipolis Grotto 1o Chesapeak Beach tomorrow are about completed Chairman Henry J. Gompers of the outing committee is in charge of ar- rangements. The Washington grotto delegation will compete with the Baltimore prophets in a tug of war contest for possession of ‘a silver cup. which must be won three times before becoming permanent trophy. The Washing- entertaining a ton team annexed one leg on the cup in the initial contest last year Many novel features have been planned for the day. including a pro- gram of athletic events in which prophets and their families may par- ticipate. Valuable prizes will be awarded the winning contestants. The Grotto Band will furnish music during the day. Motion pictures of the various contests and of the dele- gation will be made for showing at a later date. S LABOR EDUCATION. PLANS. last Arrangements were made night’s Central Labor Union meeting to open @ campaign of education and publicity in Washington which would increase interest in the work of or- ganized labor in this jurisdiction. A committee was appointed, headed Frank A. Kidd, to devise plans for making local unions more active and stronger. Although -the open-shop drive is regarded Ly organized labor as virtually dying, the committee on ducation and publicity will have nti-open-shop items on its progra nd measures to combat open-shop n the District will be con- meetings ered during it