Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1921, Page 1

L " WEATHER. Unsettled weather, with local thunder- oday showers ts “and probably tomorrow; no change in_ temperature; moderate variable winds. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night—Highest, 21; 1owest, 70. Full report on Page 13. gentle to . 858.—No. 28,252. Entered as second-class mstter post office Washington, D MINERS SURRENDERING TO TROOPS; GEN. BANDHOLTZ SENDS. 400 HOME; FIVE FLYERS MISSING IN PLANE FALL S‘oldiers Protectl Men Returning | To St. Albans. NAMES RECORDED OF 80 WITH ARMS State Forces Also May Get Orders for D_ispening. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON. W. Va., September 3.—Gradual clearing up and dispersion of armed bands who for days have been opposing state and county forces along the Boone-Logan county line is foreseen here tonight as a result of the surrender of a body of 400 men to federal troops under command of Brig. Gen. H. H. Bandholtz. After the capitulation, which includ- ed the surrender of eighty men upon whom firearms were found, the pris- soners were sent to St. Albans under the protection of Col. Carl A. Martin of the 19th Infantry. Here they were allowed to go to tneir homes, after the precaution had been taken of re- cording the names of all who carried weapons. Further progress toward quieting the disturbed areas is expected to- night and tomorrow as the federal forces spread out and take up opera- tions farther away from their bases. No Opposition Met. In establishing themselves in the trouble zome the federal forces met with no opposition anywhere and they do not anticipate any. Gen. Bandholtz tonight would not say whether he would compel the state and county forces who have been holding the armed bands back from invading Logan county to also dis- perse. “They are now under the control of the federal authorities and they will do just as they are told,” said the general. The federal commander also stated he will not permit any sssembly of miners or other cifizens in the.dis~ turbed area at this ffiffe. “Ha mads this announcement in reply to a ques- tion as to whether ufffon men would be permitted to go into unorganized sections under the protection of the federal authorities and try to -hold meetings. Civil Authorities to Act. Any one arrested by the federal troops will be turned over to the civil authorities, Gen. Bandholtz said. Military rule and civil law, it was sald at Army headquarters,-can run concurrently, and no difficulty will be experienced in seeing that all persons are treated justly. The federal troops took up pos tions today behind the lines of the two opposing forces on the Boone- Logan line. Military headquarters ‘were established at Madison, Boone county, in the rear of the armed bands, and at Logan, county seat of Logan county, which was the base from which the county and state forces operated against the invaders. The regiment, which was hurriedly made up of parts of the 19th, 100tk and 40th Regiments, recruit attach- ments and other troope for duty in ‘West Virginia, was in complete con- trol of the area where they were placed. The 20th Regiment, from Camp Dix, N. J., did not arrive ac- cording to raflroad schedule, which forced Gen. Bandholtz to change some of his plana This regiment had not reported its arrival at head- quarters at 6 p.m, eastern standard time, when Gen. Bandholtz met news- paper correspondepts. It, however, arrived during the\night. Martial Law In Abeyance. Gen. Bandholtz = expressed confl- ! Visit at Midnight Paid Undertaker by Miners Bearing Body Special Dispatch to The Star. LOGAN, W. Va., September 3. St. Albans has probably beem controlled as have beem many of the men at the firing line under pressure. The valley echoes with stories, mot all of them substantiated, of how re- cruiting bands have gone from town to town impressing all the able-bodied men who have ever worked in the mimes. Onme of thexe relates how the nge undertaker at Beards Fork was awakened in the middle of the might by a party of men who Bad crossed the stream in a ecanoe. “Here’s work for you,” they shouted. “A fresh scab who wouldn’t stick.” There was a thud on the undertaker’s porch. When that worthy got down- stairs and opened his door, the men wete gome, but they had left behind them the corpse of a foreign-horn miner. There were five bullet holes im his jumper. (OF SITUATION, SAYS BANDHOLTZ REPORT Machine Cl;ashes As Three Run Into Storm. SEARCHERS HUNT FOR LOST CRAFT Two Others Plunge While Trying to Make Landing. By the Associated Press, CHARLESTON, W. VA., Sept. 3.— Five Army fiyers fell in a big bombing plane, near Poe, Nicholas county, West Virginia, late today. No word has been received at Army headquarters here as to the fate of the men. They werc Lieuts. Speck, pilot, and Fitzpatrick, observer, and three enlisted men. Their machine was seen to go into a spin and crash to the ground by Army flyers In two other bombers. One of the Jother machines flew low, located the TROOPS IN CONTRAL scene of the accident and found the bomber in flames with its tail pointing upward. Several automobiles were ob- !served in the vicinity. The exact place where the accident occurred is not known here. The fiyers who witnessed the fall judged from their maps that it occurred near Poe. Falls in Thunderstorm. The three planes started from the landing place here for a flight to Langley Field, Va. East of here they ran into a thunderstorm and a few minutes later one machine fell. SQQretary Weeks Given Au.' g:onnr continued on and landed at thority to Proclaim Army Law If Needed. ebert, W. Va.. about one hundred miles east, while the third bomber returned and landed near here. Army officers tonight were mak- ing every effort to find out what happened to the five missing men. Wederatitroope tol thel numbor of; They have enlisted the citizens near bl SHOT T0 DEATH | Sentenced by Cheka for Par- ticipation in Plot Against Soviet. SPYING FOR U. S. CHARGED Some of Victims Declared Russian Agents of the American In- telligence Service. AS ANTHBOLSHEVI, NAW, THEY AINT §§ LooKIN’, FOR. Weds Woman Thrice After Second Divorce in His Fifth Venture By the Associated Press. SERGEANT, Ky. September 3—~W. J. Tay sixty-five, & Kentucky mountaineer, today becnme a bridegroom for the fifth time, when he married Mrs. Rebecea Brewer, forty-five, the third time after being divorced from her twice. This was Mrs. Brewer's fourth matrimienial venture. After today’s ceremony she saids | xet along.” “But he promised to be good, so l T tried him again” Smiling, she added: more than- 2,000 yesterday took up positions in West Virginia's coal flelds, and last night were reported by ‘their -commander, Brig. Gen. H. H. Bandholtz, to have the situation well {n_hand. the districte in which mine disorders have cccurred took place without untoward incident, Gen. Bandholtz advised the War Department. He added that the residents of the dis- turbed areas had received the troops in a spirit of friendliness. Other reports from -Gen. Bandholts dealt with disposition of the troops. Meanwhile * the {issuance of a proclamation ‘declaring martial - law in the areas into which troops were {moved continued to be held up. Secretary Weeks, on leaving his office for the day, said, “The issuance of a martial law proclamation will be governed by conditions.” Troep Triins Released. Indications that federal officials generally viewed the West Virginia situation in an optomistic light were seen in the cancellation of orders holding trains in readiness to move the 16th Infantry from Camp Dix, N. J., to the coal flelds, and in the departure of President Harding on a ‘week ond and Labor Day cruise down the Potomac river. The 16th Infantry has been ordered to hold itself prepared to. move into West Virginia should it be found necessary to use more troops than comprised in the 26th and 19th Regiments, now in the state. Since Wednesday trains have been held on the siding at Camp Dix, ready to transport the 16th Infantry. _ President Harding Teft on his vacation trip, which it had been announced he would not take If the West Virginia situation demanded his presence 1n ‘Washington, after conferring with Sec- retary Weeks. The War Secretary was understood to have given final authority to promulgate the martfal law proclama- tion if conditions as reported by Gen. dence federal control will bring order | Bandholtz made it advisable. rapldly in the affected area. The question of martial law being pro- claimed in Kanawha, Fayette, Boone, Logan and Mingo counties is still held in abeyance. The military com- mander would not discues the ques- tion. There is, however, & general feeling here that if the armed baads disperse without resistance there ‘will be no n‘:d for proclaiming such law, ‘The first general order issued by Army headquarters here gives the personnel of the staff under Brig. Gen. H. H. giholtz and fixes the military dis- The staff follows: Col. Stanley H. Ford, general staff, chief of staff. Col. W. A. Bethel, judge advocate gen- erals department, judge advocate, Msj. C. F. Thompeon, general ataff (subject to approval of commanding gen- eral, Fifth Corps’ Area); Maj. N. N. Polk, fleld artillery, adfu- tant, Maj. W. C. Gutlion, 20th Infantry, as- sistant adjutant in addition to his duties with militis bureau. Five Counties Divided. The five counties of Kanawha, Fay- ette, Bdone, Logan and Minge have “been divided into the following mili- tary districts: Coal River district, comprising that portion of the area of control gemer- ally known as “Ceal River valley.” end extending from St. Albans to 11°air, ineiusive. » i Kanawha district, comprising Pay- ctte_county and thoss portions ef! (Continued ‘cn-Page 3, Columa- &) ~ Depends on Hest{lfties. Government officials. generally gave the Impression that' fssuance of the proclamation was not an immediate pos- sibility and gerhaps not even a certainty unless hostilities developed incident the employment of the troops. The inquiry inte conditions in the West Virginia and Kentucky coal flelds, authorized by the Senate, is un- limited in scope and may be extended to such places and for such periods as is deemed necessary, members of the special committee selected to make the investigation declared yes- terday, in connection with reports that United Mine Workers' officials (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) Poe to start out searching parties to find the burned plane. The twe planes that landed safely Wwill resume their flight to Langley Field tomorrow. “BECELBY, W Ve Beptember 3.— Two ' government airplafies’ of ‘the H-4-B type were wrecked near this B3 city Iate today while attempting to land for gas and.oil. One was_com= manded by Lieut. Goodrich and car- ried Sergt. Dildine as a passenger, the other by Lieut. Liebhauser. No one was injured. The plgne | piloted "by Lieut. Goodrich crashed when it struck a small ditch extend- ing across a fleld at Johnstown, near here, the landing gears and mator nd part of the body of the machine being damaged. Lieyt. Liebhauser's machine at- tempted a landing in a fleld near Harper and crashed. It immediately caught fire and was entirely de- stroyed. Both airplanes were en route from Langley Field to Charleston. They lost their bearings in a fog yesterday morning and landed at Mooresburg, Tenn., resuming their fiight this morning, but without suf- ficient fuel to carry them to their destination. NEWSPAPER MAN SHCT, FIVE LOST, IN MINE ZONE Squad of Soldiers Search All Day for Correspondents Later R Reported Safe. LOGAN, W. Va., September 3.— Boyden R. Sparkes, correspondent of the New York Tribune, was shot in the hei and leg while making his way ith other newspaper corre- spondents over the mountains from Blair to Logan today, according to Dr. H D. Hatfleld, former Governor of West Virginia, who dressed his ‘wounds. Dr. Hatfleld sald Mr. Sparkes’ wounds were not serious. None of the others was injured. MADISON, W. Va., September 3.— A squad of soldiers spent the entire day " searching the mountains near Beech creek for flve mewapaper cor- respondents who had wandéred into the thickets and become lost. A heavy rainstorm interrupted their quest, and until & late hour authori- ties here said their search had proved fruitless. Information from Logan, however, to the effect.that five news ‘writers had arrived there after a day in the mountains restored a feeling of hope at headquarters that the ob- Jects of° their searchk were out of danger. U. S. SWEET TOOTH BILL DECLINES $54,000,000; GUM COST UP $6,000,000 1t cost the nation $54,000,000 less to fill its sweet tooth during the past fiscal year than in the previeus year according to preliminary annual sta- tistics of the internal revenue bureau, $408,729,560 being spent for caady in the country, as compared -with §463,- 840,660 in 1930, It cost more, however, to keep the country’s jaws in motion, the chewing gum ‘bill for 1931 amounting to $44, 405,900, as against $37,498,100 i1 the previous year, Facial decoratich was 1ess costly. during the past year, the amount spent on-paiats,:cosmetics and| perfumes amounting to $245.029,100 & compared with $160,693,028 during 1920, . The country’s spending also fell off considerably in other lines, the total 1920, and on jewelry §486,078,100, as against $617,273,140 in 1920, In the fleld of art the curtaflment| was heavy, the amount spent for pi. anos and musical instruments drop- ping from $373,683,430 in 1920 to §331,+ 368,620 in }931, and the national bill fer -scul; -paintings - and .stat- 920 to uary falling from $165,431,830 in 1! $11,265,370 fwr193r, 44 ¢~ DOMINION STATUS REFUED Y- London Press Association §o Reports in Discussing De Valera’s Beply. By the Ascociated Press. RIGA, September 3.—Sixty-one per- sons were shot in Petrograd on August 24 after being sentenced to death by the cheka, or bglshevik inquisition, 10r . active_ participation. in the plat Agalnst the soviet government recently discovered ifi Petrograd, says a wire- less message from Moscow today. . Among those executed, according to Moscow newspapers reaching this city, there were believed to have been several persons accused by the cheka of belng Russian agents of the American intelligence service who crossed the border into Russia from CRISIS Terijoki, Finland. Plot Reports Exnggerated. The results of these activities, ac- cording to local bolshevik sources, may S be the strengthening of the cheka, | %‘hnd f"‘ m'yd Gwm which already are reported to be_ar- Conference. resting many persons in Moscow in|py the Associated Press, connéction with the alleged forefgn| LONDON, September 3.— Interventionist activities. Anti-soviet|Association says that the Sinn Fein observers in Riga today were of the |reply is regarded in government cir- opinfon that the cheka exaggerated|cles as a definite.rejection of the gov- thelr reports of the recent plot in|ernment's proposal of a dominfon IS HELD GRAVE Members of British Cabinet Resich order to save their own power. Detailing the cheka’s revelations, the Moscow Pravda says: “The Petrograd fighting organiza- tion kept in: close touch with other white agents in Petrograd, for in- stance the organization acting under the flag of the American intelligence service. The Petrograd fighting or- ganization had a number of secret in touch with circles made up of former naval officers, who after the Kronstadt revolt began building fight- ing units consisting of groups, of sallors from Kronstadt who arrived in Finland. Up to that time It had been purely-a spying organization, seliing military, political and economic in- formation to the Finnish general staff and leading American imperial- ists.” Full details of the cheka report make it appear that the victims of the past two months, instead of being assassinated, lost their lives battling with plotters, and that probably they were, for the most part, cheka police agents. The Pravda says that seven of them were killed and eight wound- o4 “fighting counter revolutionaries underground.” The revolutions came at a time w_ha-ll the cheka was fast losing power and when the movement for its total abol- fshment was geaining favor with many conservative bolsheviki. SCHURMAN IN PEKING. PEKING, September _3.—Jacob Gould Schurman, American minister to China, accompanied by his family, arrived here today. A He was greeted at the station by a representative of the foreign office and representatives of several American organizations, in addition to & marine band. - Labor Day Star meeting places in Petrograd and was |. status. The situation, according. to the Press Associution, is considered ex- tremely grave. e The reply of the dail eireann to Mr. Lloyd George, which is now in the hands of the British prime min- ister, will be given out tomorrow evening for publieation,. notwith- standing the fact that the British cabi- net_hu to take it under advisement. This announcement was made of- ficially tonight at Dublin, and was the outstanding news of the day rela- tive to the Irish negotiations. Re- ports from Scotland indicate that the | members of the cabinet are on their way to Inverness, where a cabinet council will be held next week. Whitehall has been the acene of lively activity on the paft-of tae ministers whom the premler's sum- mons found in - London.: Gen. Sir Neville MacReady, comminder of the troops in Irejand, arrived at Gairloch, Scotland, today on a destroyer from Dublin to confer with the prime min- ister. In view of the cabinet meating, Lord and Lady Seaforth have placed Brahan Castle, near Dingwall, At the disposal of the premier. . DUBLIN CERTAIN OF ’!ACI. Exchange of Notes Locked Upon' As “Stages”-in Long Parley. By the Assoclated Press. X DUBLIN, September 3.—So con- vinced is the Irish Public generally at negotiations between the ~dail eireann.and the British government Wil result in peace that-it s taking little or no“interest in the domings and goings of messengers between Dublin and Scotland, where;ths latest reply to the British peacs proposal was George. 3 Letters: are-generally: looked - upoh now as-merely’ the. necessary stages in the long parley. MR. COOLIDGE BACK SBON. Says He Will Return to Washing- ton at End of Week. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Septernber 3.—Vice President Calvin Coolidgs. will return to Washiagton the lat ter part of next week; he said to- night, on arrival at ‘his homa hére from Marblehead, whare he attahded & reception in his’ r last fight Early next-week he will pay:aucther wisit to-Boston, and miay g0 6rto the dellvered ' ‘to Premler Lloya| SQUASH CENTER DISCUSSES DISARMAMENT. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ali news dispatches ‘credited to it or not otherwine credite o this paper and also the local news pudlisked nersin. ARl rights of prolication of specisl dispatches berein are also reserved. DAWES SHOWS PRESIDENT FIRST DRAFT OF ENTIRE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR The budget bureau has com- pleted, in rough form, the national budget of appropriations for the federal departments, bureaus and other agencies for the next fiscal year, and, according to Gen. Dawes, director of the budget, it will be ready for presentation to Congress when it meets in regu- lar session next December. The complete budget, in its pres- ent rough form, was shown by Gen. Dawes to President Harding at tfe White House yesterday. The former made this fact known later, but he closely guarded everything that had any bearing upon the aggregate amount of government expense he has pro- vided for. He intimated that there is a very substantial cut, com- pared with the present year's ex- pense, but he would not discuss the figures nor their comparison with the figures estimated by him while appearing before a con- gressional committee, four or five weeks ago. So interested was the President in lhg figures shown him by Gen. Dawes that President Harding asked him to join his party of guests for the week end trip on the Mayflower, and to bring the papers along in order that they may study them during the cruise. |ONWARD, GOMPERS IVILITIA MEMORIAL | MESSAGE T0 LABOR BULDING PROPOSED « Structure as Monument to National Guard Would Be Erected Here. APPROVAL OF IDEA SEEN Chief of Pennsylvania Bureau Broaches Subject to Adjutants General of States. The erection in the District of Co- lumbia of & handsome monumental building ss a fitting tribute to the national guardsmen of the United States_and as .an-indication of - the appreciation of their services and the e8arifices of ghe oMcsrs dnd men who fiave given’'their iives for their coun- try. has been suggested by George C. Rickards; . chief” of the bureau of militia gffairs and a brigadier general of the Pennsylvania National Guard. | The §uggestion was embodied in letters gent by Gen. Rickards to the adjutants general of the states and made public last night. He also sug- gested in these letters that such a structure could serve as the home of the militia bureau of the War Depart- ment, as well 28 a suitable memorial to the National Guard. To add further to its importance and usefulness he points out that the building could ‘The Press | provide assembly rooms for adjutants general and National Guard associa- tions for rheetings and conventions and rooms for a National Guard mu- seum. Hopes for Congress Support. “While I have consulted no one on this project,” Gen. Rickards said in his letters, “I am sure that Congress would look upon it with enough favor to provide the site for such a build- ing, equip it for the militia bureau and under satisfactory stipulations maintain it as all other buildings of this character are maintained under federal control. ““This {8 no idle or wild dream of mine, but one over which I have given much thought,” he sald. “Yet it is now only the expression of thought. The details for the scheme will require deep study by broad-minded men of large business capacity, and I shall be glad to have the expression of those interested, elther for or against it.” Inasmuch as it is primarily to serve as a monument to the guard and those of the guard who have sacrificed their lives in Battle, Gen. Rickards. believes that the building should be built by contributions. In describing-his ideas, Gen. Rickards explained, first, that from time im- memorial it has been a proper and regular custom to.erect monuments and buildings of one description or snother in commemoration of those individuals and organizations who have rendered conspicuous service to community, state or nation. Otkier Memorials Built. “Memorials have been built,” <he said, “to the soldier, sailor, states- man, scientist and inventor; to the Army and its units; to the Navy and its ships; to the Red Cross, the Knights of Columbus, the Salvation Army snd others which have been identified with- the great problems F. of L. President Urges Larger Organization to Advance Cause. UNIONS’ ENEMIES FLAYED Estimates 6,000,000 Unemployed. Sees Eventual Triumph of: Employes Over “Tyranny.” American labor was urged “to go| forward” through more complete or-| FIVE CENTS. SEEKS $16.400000 ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR VETERANS' AD Senate Committee Will Ask Congress for Big-Sum for Disabled Service Men. DRASTIC CHANGES URGED AS RESULT OF INQUIRY More Complaint Boards and Train- ing Centers Favored—Other Recommendations. Additional appropriation of $16.- 400,000 for hospitalization of world war veterans and many other definite recommendations for improving the federal care of ex-service men are to be made to Congress immediately upon its return by the special Senate committee which has been investi- gating the administrative agencies caring for disabled veterans. This committee was appointed pur- suant to a resolution introduced some time ago by Senator David 1. Walsh ©of Massachusetts. It is composed of |Senators Sutherland, West Virginia; | Celder. New York: Weller, Maryland: Walsh, Massachusetts, and Pomerene, Ohio. The additional hospitalization fund is the t of the tentative recom- mendations, and the others are as follows: Would Clese Camps to Disabled. That the further use of war camps for the temporary housing of dis- abled veterans be discontinued. That the President be authorized to transfer to the veterans' bureau the operation, management and con- trol of any government hospital. That no state, municipal or private hospital shall be leased or taken for hospital purposes except by order of the President. That there whall be established a chaplains’ corps, large enough so that each veteraus' hospital could have at least one chaplain. | &anization by Samuel Gompers, presi-| That there should be a cemetery |dent of the American Federation oflocated near each hospital. This rec. Labor, in his annual labor day mes- | ommendation may be omitted in the sage to the workingmen of the United | report to the Senate. States, made public last night. - The message, which will be read at Frmlaing Bearte i gatherings of organized workers to-| THat there should be established in b each of ehe fourtégn regional offices “We meet to observe this Labor day | °f the Veterans' Bureau a board for at & time when the citizenship, the the investigation of complaints, this understanding, the loyalty and soli. |PO2rd t0 consist of one representative darity of all our people are passing |°f the bureau who 18 not a doctor, one i B e S ex-service man and a’ doctor who 1s “We meet at a time when the great |ROt an employe of the United States need is to stand together. “_’;:'“"’:“‘ 2 at there should be established an i 6,000,000 "::"""' inspection service to inspect all hos- e are confronted by unemploy-|pitals at regular intervals. lmem, Nearly six millions of our| That in the appointment of regional people have no work. officers 1o political consideration “The reactionary forces among em- bl b oh ;sh(?uld be involved and that in all ap- jployers are urn their minds | j,ointments to the Veterans' Bureau i {to constructive effort. . ipreference should be given to ex- | “They are slow to learn that the In- . gervice men. junction as abused in industrial Qis- Thay anl disabled veterans with vo- putes is an unlawful, ‘“Efl'e'-‘“"en!mnonal handicap of 10 per cent or tyrannical weapon. z more disability should be entitled to They are slow to learn that the|yicational training with maintenance so-called individual contract as a B pay. measure of industrial disfranchise- | s s ment is a badge of enslavement which | _ore Tralning Centers Needed. That there should be established ad- American workers will not accept. “They are slow to learn that the destruction of our movement is Im- possible, either through the infamous misnamed open shop campaign or by any other device. “But, theugh they are slow to learn, they do learn. “Every advance of labor marks an advance in the education of em- ployers. Urges Forward Move. “The constructive ability of our movement is called upon to the ut- most to bring the full flood of life back to our industries under condi- tions of freedom, with the democratic ideal dominating everywhere. “We will not be driven back. We will go forward. The light that has. come into the life and work of our people can never be shut away from them. There must be more, and more, and more—more tomorrow than to- day, more the next day than tomor- row, and more for every coming to- morrow. “The times of today are severely trying. They are not of our making, but they are for our redemption. “We must organize for our task. The unorganized are helpless. They can help neither themselves nor their fellows. Their strength, their skill, their inspiration, are lost until they organize. ‘Wants 5,000,000 Members. “Our first great task is to organige —to bring together the unorganized, to unite and federate the organised, to bring together In strength of united thought and action all of our people everywhere. “Man today wins no victories alone; (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) . RETURNED Ry the Assoctated Press. ZNEW YORK, September 3.— .¥ederal Commiasioner Hitchcock today received by special delivery from an anonymous writer a bulky envelopé: ,containing $25,000. in United ‘States ‘certificates of In- debtedness—part of $27,500 worth of government securities which mysteriously vanished from the " of of_the. collector of internal . _revénue,for. the ;third New York district in June, 1819, (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) ————__—-__——‘——'_ 425,000 IN. STOLEN SECURITIES ' WITH NOTE, ‘I AM SORRY’ Inclosed in the envelope was an unsigned note, which read: “You are accusing an innocent man.. I placed them in an old leather case. He made me late every morning, and I am sorry. God will forgive . me.” Frederick J. Kelly, a deputy col- lector, was recently arrested with Mrs. Elizabeth Von Nostrand wh he attempted to cash two of missing $1,000 certificates. He was released in 35,000 ball two days ago. 852 ditional training centers for mental {and tubercular cases. That the contract system of training | veterans should be restricted to insti- tutions or places of business in ex- istence for at least five years prior to July 1, 1921 That the Veterans' Bureau should adopt definite limits and standards for i training. That under no circumstances should shops and other places receiving men for placement training receive fee or any compensation for such training: That trainees wherever possible should be allowed to pick their own courses and should have the right of appeal to a local board. 3 That wherever a trainee is sent for instruction there should be sent with him a record of his condition. That preliminary training when needed should be given to trainees be- fore their being placed in training for jobs. = Regulation of Pay. That the director of the Veterans' Bureau should have authority to re- duce the maintenance pay of trainees in placement training when the trainee is receiving wages from the employer. That a commissary department should be established to provide sub- sistence for trainees at all training centers. ‘Then comes a recommendation which is expected to completely accomplish decentralization: That the compensation pay to dis- abled veterans should be based on ratings established by local boards of three each. composed of one citizen of good repute, a member of a vet- erans’ organization who receives no compensation from that organization and one doctor. This board would be gulded by the disabled veteran's earn- ing capacity. This is a reform for which the veterans' organizations have long been contending. Power of Appeal. This recommendation would give either the Veterans' Bureau or the veteran concerned the power to ap- peal from the board of compensation to a board of appeals, which would be established in each regional of- fice. This board of appeals would consist of a representative of the bureau who is not a doctor, an un- pald member of some veterans' or- ganisation, and a doctor mot in the employment of the government. The decision of this board would be TcContinucd vh-cuee 2,-Column 1.3