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settled, probably shower: change in temperature. Temperature for twent: 74: lowest, 53. | + “Full reort on page 10. WEATHER. Partly cloudy today; tomorrow un- ended at 10 p.m. last night: s; not much y-two_hours Highest, No. 857.—No. 28,245. ENGLAND T0 BLOCK Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. FIFTY REPORTED DEAD, MANY HURT IN WRECK he Sunday Stad. WASHINGTON, D. C, REVOLTINGERMANY SUNDAY, MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1921. ————————— Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exelusively entiiied to the use for republication of ali pews dispatches eredited to it or n3t otherwise credite¢ o this Daper and aler the lotal news nntlished suris. Al rights of publication of special @ispatches hereln are aleo reserved. | FIVE CENTS. \F.L.OPENS FIgHT Millennium is Here! g OF TRAINS NEAR ROME 1> Cots B Mes RENDING OF ENPRE, | "z, | FEARED AS RESULT st | | T OBTAIN SHARE N SAYS LLOYD GEORGE " Separation Would Plunge lre- land Into Civil War, Premier Asserts. VOICES HOPE COMMON SENSE WILL PREVAIL Dublin Reply Held Up Until To- killed and many seriously injured when a passenger train collided Wwith a freight train ten miles from Rome today. The passenger train was return- ing from a seaside resort. ALIENS VICTIMIZED, LASKER CHARGES Line, Official De- OF POLITICAL FEUD Attempt to Crush Govern- ment Seen in Assassina- - tion of Erzberger. MURDER RING CHARGED WITH STIRRING WARFARE Evidences of Monarchist Plotting HIMSELF THE ?SIEU'SEAS OF ; EAR SOVIETISM! $1,200,000 Diverted by Ship e e park henches today were utter- | | e NDUSTRIAL PROFIT a West_ Thirty-Fourth Street restauranteur, | Coincldent with the opening | of the doo the mew bean emporiu there was elabo- rate display of the »ign paint- ers’ art, bearing t(he following phrases: | All (he beans you can eat for | | en centx.” i All the wpaghetti you mImmers . |REGRETS DISCRIMINATION' | AGAINST WAGE EARNERS nand mont beloved benefactor, | ‘Proposes to Force Operation of Corporations “for Common Good.” ant for a nivkel.” | Council Advocates Wiping Laws “People ank how we do it morrow—A. F. of L. Urges I to Overthrow Republic—Pub- { | The amswer fn: ‘We dos ! Preventing Collective Rights clares. The proprietor said the restau- Long Truce. rami wax a great succesx. | Off Statute Books. By the Associated Press. BARNSLEY, England, August 27— Great Britain cannot countenance the tearing up of the United Kingdom, sald Premier Lloyd George in refer- ring to the Irish question in a speech here today. It would mean civil war in Ireland itself, he declared. He hoped, however, he said, that com- mon sense would prevail. “I am proud that Great Britain has risen above all prejudices and pro- posed terms such as have never been proposed before,” sald the prime min- ister. “They are terms which com- mend themselves, not only to Great U. S. REGAINS 9 VESSELS “Americans Will Not Be Driven From Seas” by Change of Man- agement, Asserts Board Head. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 27.—Charges that the United States Mail Steam- ship Company had diverted through ! prior uses $1,200,000 obtained from | immigrants were Chairman Lasker made today by of the Shipping Board after the government had re- lic Called to Down Enemies. BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN. (By Wireless to The Star and New York ‘Tribune, Copyright 1921. BERLIN, August 27.—Te assassina- tion of Matthias Erzberger. former vice chancellor and minister of finance, in the Black forest is attrib- uted to a political murder ring, or- ganized in monarchist circles to crush the present German govern- ment. The conviction is held in au- thoritative circles that the junkers committed the crime in an effort to precipitate an internal war, and the | question uppermost here is whether | President Ebert, Chancellor Wirth ; and their folluwers will be able to 1 TO US. “There are few.” xald he, “who tx. Those who xood walk- advertixementx that it is 10 wee ‘em eat” By the Axsociated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, August 27.—In order that corporate industries con- i jducted under corperate grants shall be operated for the common good {4nd “not merely for the profit of a dass men” the itive council iof the American Federation of Labor . tonight unnounced ghat it proposes ito investigate this eutire subject, so |that the “pedple of our land may be {fully and accurately appraised of the real situation of affair: Rights, privileges |ties equal to those and granted opportuni- the cor- Senate Will Take Up Revision Britain, but to the whole civilized ! b porate interests are demanded by the World. I trust common sense iwill | 52ined possession of nine ships| throttle the efforts of the national- T R PR Measure When It |wage earners, said the council, de- prevail. , |originally chartered to the company.| ists. i Tire Tubes Dropped lelaring thot an inquiry will also be P Mr. Lasker announced that, with| The government virtually is going| % H 2 view of devialoe & o “Whatever our views are, we can- ¢ s | ew of devising a com- not countenance separation. We ean | the Vessels restored to the board by|out into the sireets to summon the | | From Airplane Save | : Reconvenes. |prenensive pian for the corsection of - Mo more countenance the tearing up of the United Kingdom than America could countenance the tearing up of the United States. Severance would lead in Ireland itself to civil war. | | court order they would be operated by a special committee until the board decided whether to sell them lor charter them to another company. Will Protect Immigrants. German people into mass meeting and demonstration against the ene- | mies of the republic. Without excep- tion the entire government press does not hesitate to say who these ene- FROM MINGO TRIP Three Girls in Surf | By the Associated Press HAMPTY BEACH, N. H., August 27.—Inflated nutomobile inner tubes dropped from a low- PLANFORD.C. 10BS {the “grave dangers and great evils |that have fastened themselves like {barnacles upon our people.” FREFERENCE OVER TARIFF 1 Intends to Remove Screen. If southern Ireland is not satis-| He declared that the $1.200,000| mooe an::nuo::;e:?tmo:':o:fueuf o = 4 :'_:""':,::_"';’;:' il “',':: o . | British Deputation Will Be Heard | ~Or&anized labor, statement fled with freedom, then I fear all |represented advance money collected Authorities Certain Protest =% 2 Efficiency Experts Consider- | 2 = said. “intends not to suffer lonmer P et B B S SR DR ferich and Ludendorff. were struggling in the bdc-.t-t on Protest Against High Speed |under the reistent efforts being abandoned. We only, want to do what | expenses, railroad fares and immi- Govermment Stepu Urged. March of Strikers ot i Mammertn soxercy | | ing Extension of Civil Serv- Steel Rates. {ade 2o miSeoresmnt Sheis (hopin, is fair, right and just. If Ireland | gration head taxes, and that decision| At a hurriedly called meeting of the & "o". “""“ & ‘“;_ '“: ) jaims and aspiratio; and to deny has a right to separation, so has|temporarily to operate the vessels as|cabinet today and forty leaders of the Has Ended. | | arownea. 5 ice Rules to Employes. them equal rights and opportunities Scotland and so has Wales, but no Welsh or Scotch patriot would ever dream of demanding separation. Real Freedom Offered. “I belleve that when the irish people realize the sense of the free- dom which is theirs, that real free- ! dom is offered them, and that all they are asked to do is to come into the proudest community of nations in the world as free men. I believe You will find that that gifted people a patriotic service was reached because “the government feels that it could not permit fraud and hard- ships to be worked on thousands of immigrants.” Diversion of the funds, he asserted, was an “unconscionabtle ot : ‘The fight for possession of the nine vessels has heen in progress since they were seized by the board last month on the ground of non-paymenct of rental. The company temperarily democratte republicans, it was decided that the government can no longer re- main inactive in view of the lateht crime of its opponents, who in their own newspapers call for an unbroken serles of mestings throughout the country to stir the people against the government of Chancellor Wirth. Erzberger, who even in temporary | retirement arising out of his conflict with former Vice Chancellor Helfferich was acknowledged to be the guiding force behind the Wirth government, BLAIR CAUSE OF ANXIETY Gen. Bandholtz Places Responsibil- ity Directly Up to Officiels of Mine Workers. By the Associated Press. P& 8t 27, A number of bathers were eaught well off shore and un- able to awim back. Life guards re beaten back in their first efforts to rescue them and Miss Moxeley sank. Aviator J. R. Binke of Wellesley, Maxs., who was making n flight mear the beach, saw the predicament of the bathers and bringing his Inne down close to the wat Ne snd his mechanis, Clifto: ’NEW LAW MAY BE NEEDED Federal Statute Not Applicable to District Service, According to Opinion Given in 1898. * T The efficiency experts now study- The tax revision bill will be ready | W't} all other classcs of citizens. 1t for the Senate when it reconvenes | 1{“NdS to remove the smoke screen {on September 21, according to the that has been raised to place into judgment of Chairman Penrose for | SeCUTity those interests whose profits the finance committee. It was defi- {2T® ennlarged when the people’s nitely announced late yesterday that |Suffering is increased—whose rights the tax measure will have prefer- and powers are extended when the ence over the tariff legislation and {liberties and rights of the peopls that consideration of the House tax jare curtailed.” revision bill will be begun by the| Deploring the discrimination against Senate committee on Thursday and {the workers in favor of organized in- to be the exclusive business of the |dustrial corporate interests, the coun- committee until ready for presen- cil declared that ~it will give atten- - i . CHARLESTON,. .. ¥au Augu will realize that their destiny is|’°S3ined possession of the ships 4 b 3. W 03 Kemp of Conenrd, munaged to Cition ¢ 5 e greater—a free people fiside a free |thTOUEh infunction proceedings, but|¥aS eXpected To return (o sctive|—State and fedsral authorities were | | drop the tubes close {0 the three 156" che Jopemiiions) of Ihe SDintrict wnen"d:::;rf:nm‘ {fon se S ey L paana by il federation of- peoples.” 4 when the csse came up today b politigal Jife:with;the TesSsAMbUAL 02| & unit tonight In declaring that the]“| girls. They eluug ta the tuben | | oo ment are consldering the ad-| =~ M0 B0 M it o Freached to dis- ithe group rights of wage earners Federal Judge M.nton he ordered re- | the réichstag iate niezt month and as-|march of miners from Marmet to visability of recommending to the|P e tariff, it was said in somelmay be fully recognized and ad- In the course of his speech Mr. Lloyd George made several striking | utterances. “We have all got prejudices.” he declared. 1 have seen anllJHehi projudices lashed into unwisdom, and | 1 have seen anti-English prejudices | on the other side, lashed into unwis- | dom. For God's sake, let us clear | aside prejudices. A nation that lives | celvers for the company, appointed after the seizure, to return the craft to the board. The receivers re- quested that the decree be issued, and informed the court that they intended to dispose of the company’s assets for the benefit of creditors. Committee to Operate Ships. The committee which will operate sume the leadership of the government forces on the floor of parliament. It ‘was no secret that extreme national- ists had been driven wild with frenzy over the prospect of his return. Resort to Murder. The government's enemies have been bent upon wrecking the legislative program, upon which the fulfillment Mingo county as a protest against Gov. Morgan's martial law had come to an end, and hundreds of the men were already back in their home towns. Brig. Gen. H. H. Bandholtz, who came here from Washington to in- vestigate conditions for the War De- partment, in answer to Gov. Mor- BONB IS EXPLODED until the life guards were able to reach them, but were un- conseious when brought askore. ‘The were soon revived. Commissioners that all employes be placed undeér the civil service rules, it was learned last night. The idea of applyisg the civil serv- ice requirements to the District building has been discussed in the quarters that tke permanent tariff | bill wi s 111 would probably not be enacted | corporate interests may mo longer uss untll after the new year. Hearings | qpe; it ew e e | their organized power to deny a like ut one- | o et fourth finished and. in adaition, | Of oréamzation and collectiv Treasury experts have yet to begin | o« % i assembling data on American whole- equately safeguarded and so that Claims Laws Are Misused. past, but has never been carried into eftect. If the bureau of efficiency makes the recommendation the Commission- sale selling prices, without which, ac- cording to committee members, the T“e ('fl“n:fl d‘::arEdht'h':,the ;.uxr- contemplated revision of House rates | " - "o anticombination faws were being misused against the work- on prejudices is doomed, just like ! of the terms imposed by the allles’'|gan’'s re t 1 federal Y ers will take it und dvi cannot be started. = {the vessels comprises W. Averfll quest for federal troops, U ler advisement, : 3 a man who lives on hatred. | Harriman, Kermet Roosevelt and A.|Ultimatum depends. Unable to kill\drove from Charleston to Racine along with the other suggestions in British to Be Heard. »r: = h: ha’: o'e(lihe mr?clr:-“ "“:I: “Whether it is in public or in pri- | # L RER (IR FOOTUE AR out | Ersberger politically, his enemies over the line of march taken by the the report of the experts. Until taxes are tak. thi K .: . ”x am.::xr| “::::c]l:wguto“anle vate trust. no man can endure who | ‘- % finally resorted to the last wi ¢ : 3 en up this week | Kansas industrial y Ras = vendetts i Dusirens or Solities, | combensation. | Mr. Lasker. in'dhis[E20Y 580 et EAmeapomiett ’“‘""; ':,’"""'“ 'h: ‘W"k “"1 == Three Groups Examined. the committee will continue hearings |another “attempt to deny the wage and a nation's vendettas are just the | Statement, declared that the board : 2 pressel mself as being convinced ‘Three groups of city employes are |on the tariff, taking up the wood |earners the right of organization and same. It had started its action to maintain According to the Tageblatt, the junker that “the jig is up.” He addressed a Chicago Business Section | reautrea now to take civil service ex- schedule and some of the agricul-|of collective decision to protect,them- 3 is a sour pasfurage of 1 crowd has been trying quietly to organ- |party of miners at Racine, who were hatred. There is no nourishment, the American flag flying on the aminations, namely, policemen, fire- | tural list. The committee a! - th croachments of s iize a peasant strike against the proposed | waiting for.a train to take them e at the re- |selves against the encroach: nothing but disappointment, in it. Let | us_sweep it on one side, whatever it | covis, even when there is reason in | it. I am proud to think that Great Britain has risen above all its preju- ; dices and has given its prime min- istep a fair chance to speak in the | name of the people of Great Britain. “If you had severance it would lead in Ireland itself to the the most cruel | and most terrible civil war Ireland has ever seen, and help would be ruehed from all sides and every part of the world to assist the parties who were fighting out the battle. We could not witness civil war of that kind at our own doors, which would invelve our own people throughout e empire and other peoples as well. seas and to protect innocent immi-| grants who we discovered were being | fleeced.” No so-called ‘alien shipping’ in- terests will be permitted to drive the American flag from the seas—not so long as American citizens are willing and able to operate American ships for America,” Mr. Lasker added. The nine vessels which Judge Man- ton ordered returned to the govern- ment are former German liners. ‘The Agamemnon, Susquehanna, President Grant and America now are in New York; the George Washing- ton and Princess Matoika bound for this port; the Mount Vernon in Bos- ton, the Potomac in Bremen and the Pocahontas in Naples. object of “starving out the cities.” The paper calls Ludendorff and his followers traitors to the country for trying to incite a mnew coup “at a time when after seven years' storm the for- leign situation is beginning slowly to turn in our favor.” SERIOUS CONDITIONS ARISE. government taxation program. with the Demonstrations Flaming Up Over Country Cause Grave Concern. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 27.—President Ebert has authorized the government to offer a reward of 100,000 marks for the apprehension or information lead- home, and after further investiga- tion along the line returned to Charleston to prepare his report for the Washington authorities. Reports Cause €onfusion. Much confusion, was occasioned during the afternoon by reports from Williamson, Mingo county, and ‘Welch, McDowell county, that Sheriff Don Chafin of Logan county had sent out a hurried call for assistance, and that forces of the state palice and deputies had been hurried to Logan by automobile, expecting to arrive there late today. The movement of the state police from Willlamson was explained by the fact that fears were felt in some ti; plosion shortly after midnight shook the en-[law of the United States could be ap- w ing been reopened for the season. Several persons were reported, how- ever, to have been injured by flying glass. explosion was due to labor trouble. a.m. The bomb had been placed at the entrance to the stage door in an Shaken and Hundreds of Windows Broken. men and Inspectors of the health de- partment. Practically all other statu- tory employes are appointed upon written application. Although the Civil Service Commis- i bolAstociated Frons! sion now holds examinations for the CHICAGO, August 28.—A bomb ex- |three departments referred to, there in the Columbia Theater|is doubt whether the civil service re business district. The theater|Pplied to all District employes with- as empty at the time, not yet hav- |out action by Congress. In fact, Attorney General Griggs in 1898 rendered an opinion to the ef- fect that employes of the District gov- ernment could not be placed under the United States civil service law. It is belleved by some that the Com- missiBners could enter into a volun- tary arrangement with the Civil Serv- According to the police, the The explosion took place at 12:10 quest of the State Department, Chair- man Penrose said, also had agreed to hear a British deputation, which, it is understood, will protest the pro- posed rates on high speed steel. The delegation includes Arthur Balfour, S. J. Robinson, Peter Macgregor and J. C. Ward, who represent the Shef- field Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of the Chicago As- sociation of Commerce also will be heard on the subject of American valuation, on which, however, the committee bas already acted. Closed Hearings. Present plans of the committee do not contemplate open hearings on revenue legislation. Mr. Penrose said, however, that “such does not mean corporate wealth.” “The council,” it was added, “pro- poses that a careful review and analy- sis be made of all laws and legal doc- trines of this kind, and if no ade- quate remedy can be devised to pre- {vent the grievances and abuses now prevalent, then efforts be made that all anti-combination laws and con- spiracy doctrines which have been re- peatedly used to prevent the workers exercising thelr collective rights and privileges shall be wiped off our stat- ute books.” Charges Rights Are Impaired. " The council slso declared that the judiclary departments of both federal and state governments have “serious- ly impaired the constitutional rights of the workers” and characterized alley. The force of the blast shattered the heavy steel door and broke hun- ice Commission to hold examinations for other branches of the District service, as 18 now done in the case of ing to the arrest of the assassin of Mathias Erzberger. “I trust common sense will prevail @nd good counsel be heeded. Courage that no opportunity will be given for interested partles to give the com- Conditions Amaze Lasker. Mr. Lasker’'s statement said that quarters that stragglers from the now disbanded “army” might remain in i8 of two qualities—the higher part 5 the courage that knows when to gettle and face settlement. There is the courage of a man who faces his eountry’s foes to the death; there is| the greater courage of a man who, when " > sees the time has come for * making honorable peace faces his griends to obloquy. That is the more @ifficult; that is courage which the country demands, and I trust it will} Pe forthcoming. United Kingdom Saved World. «Are we to split up this united Rir_dom at a moment when its unity of alm, its unity of action has saved the world, when nothing else could havd saved it? Are we to choose this moment to begin in Ireland tearing off a bit here, a second bit here and @ third there, leaving the empire shat- tered into fragments with no vitality, o power, no prestige, no glory, and of | 2o use to the world? “I have been presiding at the im- perial conference where we had rep- resented not only the old nations, but young nations—Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa—young nations, proud nations and fearless pations. “An Australian s as proud of being gn Australian as an Englishman is of being an Englishman. They have | immeasurable sums. the receivers on examination of the affairs of the company- found condi- tions even worse than had been rep- resented by the Shipping Board. “It was impossible for the receiv- ers,” the statement said, “to further operate the ships with the company’s income already diverted through prior uses. The government, con- sistent with its policy to do every- thing possible to keep its premier fleet on the seas, consented to the return of the ships and agreed that it would honor these immigrants’ tickets, making good the cash deposit and taking an assignment from the immigrants of their claim against the United States Mail Steamship Com- pany, Inc. “The Shipping Board‘agreed with Judge Manton that the operators would continue to use such facilities from the receivers as would be prac- tical, including the docks of the North German Lloyd Company at Bremen, Germany, and other terminal facilities. “Had the United States Mail Com- pany been permitted to continue with the ships the losses would quickly have been mounted into untold and Rarely has a like condition of commercial chicane beén unearthed. We feel that the The local police are investigating dreds of surrounding windows. The Boone county, and the presence of the the present whereahouts of Oltwig von Hirschfeld, the student who was re- cently released from elghteen months (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) —_— force would be needed there to” help | Sherift Hill and his three or four dep- uties to clear up the situation. There was no official statement on this point, but the assumption was TRAIN KILLS FIVE IN AUTO. Three Women Ans Two Men Die at Crossing, Near Laharpe, Il MACOMB, IlL, August 27.—Five persons, three women and two men, | were killed today when a Toledo, Peoria and Western passenger train struck their automobile on & cross- ing near Laharpe, twenty miles from here. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Miller of Bettendorft, Towa; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ege, and Mrs. Wil- llam Blaine of Albany, IIL | The party had been to Keokuk, | Iowa, and stopped in Laharpe to visit relatives on thelr .way home at the time of the accident. The controversial question of how old was Ann faded into sig- HOW MANY BIRTHDAYS MAKE ONE POSTMASTER, SENATOR’S PUZZLE borne out by people in Logan when Capt. J. R. Brockus and his troopers rode through the town on their way to the Boone county border. The one point in the mining country which has been the source of much anxiety for officials because of its po- sition along. the Boone-Logan border was Blair. The miners there are or- ganized and reports have come on two successive nights that fighting was in progress between them and the Logan county authorities. A statement with reference to the march and its consequencds was Is- sued by Gen. Bandholtz tonight, in which he placed the responsibility di- rectly up to the United Mine Workers' officials for this district. a clude from examination one of the ° most important candidates, from B; result, it was said, of trouble with the musicians’ union. wheel is in New York, and it operates cities, mostly in the east. of the business district, a half a block from the city hall and the sound of the blast attracted thousands.” A special detail of police was called to clear the streets and aided firemen in keeping back the crowd. announced that the bomb, apparently powder. found imbedded in the walls of sur- rounding buildings. The damage to the theater was declared slight. #AS a result of the explosion, a guard L of police was pliced-about the Colum- bia and several other theaters. FAIL TO DISCOVER ROUTE interior of the theater itself was not damaged. The Columbia Theater is a burlesque house on what is known as the Co- lumbia “wheel.” Recently it had been covered with “unfair” notices as a Griggs Opinion of 1898. Attorney General Griggs, 1898 opinion, said, in part: very title of the act its scope is lim- ited to the ‘civil service of the United States’ The different provisions of the body of the act all indicate that it is intended to apply omly to such officers and employes as can strictly be called officers or employes of the United States.” The Attorney General then went on to show by court decisions that the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) PAY ROLL BANDIT SLAIN' AFTER $21,000 ROBBERY The headquarters of the Columbla chain of theaters in a score of The theater is located In the heart After a hurried investigation, it was steel cylinder, had contained black Parts of the casing were|,; p.¢ $6,000 of Loot Re d Two Found Dividing Money ‘Escape. / FAIRMOUNT, W. Va., August 27.— All but $6,000 of the $21,000 pay roll today stolen from the paymaster of the New England Fuel and Trans- portation Company, near Lowsville has been recovered, company officials announced tonight. Two of. the three robbers escaped when a search- TO MT. EVEREST SUMMIT y the Associated Press. jpolice, firemen and health inspectors. in his «It will be perceived that by the mittee data during its executive meet- ings.” Secretary Mellon will be called to discuss the bill, probably Septem- ber 7. The tariff hearings this week on the agricultural schedule will not in- some of their decisions, including those of the United States Supreme Court, as “narrow, strained and class- biased interpretations.” In behalf of the wage earners the clude the principal farm products, un- der plans made by the agricultural group in the Senate. Its executive committee, meeting with representa- tives of the principal farm organiz: tions agreed upon a preliminary plan for presentation of their tariff needs and do not expact to appear before the finance committee until fall. National Program Sought. Senators from the program, the tariff bill. The fight in the House on the rates on certaln kinds of Iumber reappear- ed for a time in the hearings yes- terday. Duties on rough cedar and ma- hogany logs and telephone and tele- graph poles were opposed. Thomas ‘Williams of New York, representing importers, declared his firm had been in the business for eighty-three years, and never before had found it neces- sary to appear before a congressional agricultural states saild they desire to outiine a national in scope, and to confer with the committee members on their suggestions when the time arrives for action on that phase of council declared that it would not only protest against all “these judicial de- cislons, legislative tendencies and practices of corporate interests, but proposes to undertake the organizing of local committees throughout the - lend, and through them to familiarize the public with all that is going on and progressively to review the atti- tude .and activities of all groups and interests, as well as the legislative enactments and judicial decisions which are destructive of the workess’ rights, privileges and opportunities.” The council announced its intention to investigate the methods used by the banking institutions and insurance companies of the country in the han- dling of funds intrusged to their care for investment and safekeeping of the wage earners. ) Good Seem fin Charters. “It intends that the savings of the workers,” it was stated, “shall no longer be used to deprive them of their constitutional and eccnomical rights and opportunities. “The executive council does mot conditions unfolded more than justi- his point of view, for the post ‘office at Baker City, Ore. Examinations of .candidates for sppointment are to be held Sep- tember 6, and Connie J. ‘Grabb will not be thirty years old until: nificance yesterday, when Senator , Stanfield of Oregon submitted to the 'Civil Service Commission for solution an Inquiry as to how many birthdays a person may have. the same sense of being a separate @and distinct people. But at the same time they have a great sense of pride in belonging to this great family of nations in the world, known as the British Empire.” 4 LONDON, August §7.—The British ex- pedition which is aiming at the conquest of Mount Everest, in the Hamalayas, the world's highest peak, has completed its explorations to the north and west of the mountain without discovering a committee to protest agaimst a duty on the product. He said it was preju- diclal to the business to have duties on the raw materials, and asserted it would cost more to levy and col- lect the duties than would be derived ing party soon after the holdup dis- covered the men dividing the money at a point not far from where it occurred. The third, William Rowe, said to have been & former employe of the company, was shot and killed. view the granting of corporate char- ters for the advancement of our financial, commercial and industrial interests as & governmental policy ‘that should be discouraged,” added the statement. “To the contrary, it is fy the seizure in July. SHIP DESTROYS VILLAGES. MADRID, August 27.—Native Mo- roccan villages along. the coast| The Oregon senator based his | September 17\ Senator Stanfleld |jractical route to the summit, it is an- in revenue. THENE PEACE CRISIS NEAR. |southeast of Melilla have been de-| question upon an order of the | insists: that if Grabb couid have '|nounced in‘a Reuter dispatch from Simia He s reported to have nlu’n.ue great- | In Te : our firm conviction that much good stroyed by bombardment by the.Spa: commission providing that . more than one birthday, he had |(oday. 2 er part of the pay roll in his pos- !onm—m'm AUCKLAND. has come to civilisation by the ap- ish warship Bonifaz, according to a| cants:for appointment as .post- his thirtieth last September, when ‘Some hope is entertained, however, |Pession when shot down. : . |proval of the co-operative principles The paymaster, David Richardson, and Superintendent J. A. McKay and Assistant Superintendent James Mec- LONDON, August 27.—Lord North- cliffe has completed aunother lap of his trip around the world. A Reuter fundamentally underlying the en- couragement of corporate enterprise. Collective enterprize has and does Sondon Press !cyl Irish Negotia- gions Have Beached Critical Stage. message from Chafin: Island, oft the Moroccan coast, today. The fire from the warship, besides starting master at first-class offices must have reached their “thirtieth birthday” before taking the ex- he was twenty-nine years old. He figures™ that if any ‘one’s firat birthday is the day of birth, when that a réute may be gained on the northeast flank of the great mountain, and when the .monsoon abates another LONDON, August 27.—Tke Irish ne- | flames which burned the villages,| amination. With Senator Stan- he is one year old the day .cele- |offort will be made. Meanwhile the|Kenna were on their way to the|message reports bis arrival at Auck- |enable gigantic and marvelous une otiations\ now have reached the| caused numerous casualties and fore- |\ fleld -the solution is. of consider- | brated, if it may be designated as - m"‘"fi«wmm company mifies with the semi-month- {1and, New Zealand, today. -He re- |dertakings which are inconos} finflued on Page 3, Column 2.) ed the natives to flee to the interior. ' able Importance because it may ex- ~ "a “birthday.” must ‘be the second.. the eftort will be based. 1y pay r_n!l 'lfcn held up. celved an ofcial 'dc?ln. g (mu_nnu on Page 4, Column 6 ;