Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1921, Page 2

9 - MAY ALLOWL.C.C. T0 ARRANGE RULES.....—...... Must Fix Method of Figuring Telephone Company’s Depreciation. DOUBTS POWER TO ACT Public Utilities Commission Be- lieves Esch-Cummins Act Removes Jurisdiction. The Public Utilitles Commission has tentatively decided to let the Inter- state Commerce Commission fix rules to govern the depreciation fund of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, it became known last night. While no formal order has been issued by the local util‘ties board, a copy of a tentative decision was sent to A. E. Berry, president of the tele- phone company, vesterday. The sub- stance of this tentative decision fol- lows: “After carefully considering the arguments of counsel for the com- pany, and upon advice of its own counsel, the commission is of the opin- ion that there Is grave doubt as to its jurisdiction in this company's case, and inasmuch as the testimony given in this as well as in previous rate cases shows that the company’s pres- ent rates of depreciation are reason- ably fair and accurate, and that its methods of accounting therefor ap- pear to be in full compliance with the rules laid down by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the commis- sion_sustains the motion, and will await the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission to be taken in accordance with the provisions of the transportation act above referred to.” Under Esch-Cummins Law. The_transportation act mentioned is the Esch-Cummins law, which, the telephone company claims, gives the Interstate Commerce Commission ju- risdiction over the depreciation ac- counts of telephone companies. The right of the local commission to control the rates of the telephone company is not involved in the pres- ent case. In fixing the rates of all of the public service corporations, the commission has considered the rea- sonableness of the amounts set aside for_depreciation The commission, however. has had no definite rules to be followed by the various companies in figuring de- preciation on their property. Called Rule Conference. More than a month ago the utilities board called representatives of all the companies into conference for the purpose of formulating such rules. _ It was at this conference that Pres- ident Berry of the telephone company called attention to the fact that tele- phone companies have always fol- lowed the rules of the Interstate Commerce Commission. He further contends that the newly enacted Esch-Cummins law provides that the Interstate Commerce Commission shall control the matter of depreciation on telephone companies. Mr. Berry took the ground that his company would find itself in a diffi- cult position if the local utilities board should specify rules different from those of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Is First Decisfon. The tentative decision submitted to the telephone company yesterday is the first to be sent out by the com- mission since it began consideration of the subjedt of depreciation several months ago. A formal order im the telephone case and in the cases of other utilities probably will not be issued until after the hearing to be held at the District building on the morning of September 12, at which.the deprecia- tion question’ will, bé discussed fur- ther. ! 14 TEN HOUSES CONDEMNED IN MONTH OF AUGUST September Will Be Busy Period in Preparation for Conference on Arms Limitation. Ten houses were condemned dur- ing August by the board for the con- demnation of insanitary buildings. Nine other structures that had pre- viously been condemned were razed last month, and seven other dwellings were ordered repaired by the board. This was the substance ef a report submitted to Commissioner Oyster yesterday. In view of the proclamation of the Commissioners urging every one to remove “evesores” and “shine up” the city for the conference on the lmi- tation of armaments, the condemna- tion board is expected to be busy dur- ing September looking for dilapidated shacks that no longer serve any useful purpose. Clifford Lanham, superintendent of trees and parkings, also will keep his gang of laborers working during September on the task of cutting weeds on public parkings throughout the city. While Mr. Lanham is “dressing up” the public property police and health inspectors will endeavor to have weeds removed from private lots in the densely populated sections of the ‘eity. There is an act of Congress making it unlawful for a property owner to permit weeds to grow more than four inches in height. The police already have referred more than 1500 violations to the health department for action, and in- spectors of the latter branch of the government are now getting in touch wjth the owners and serving notice of the law upon them. The Commisioners intend to leave nd stone unturned to have Washing- ton looking at its best when the army of diplomats and statesmen from all parts of the world comes here in November. iINVITE D. C. STUDENTS. Two Latin American governments, mbia and Peru, are clamoring to be hasts to the next delegation of students that Georgetown University School of Freign Service sends to South America tof study commercial conditions at first hand. Formal invitations have been ex- tehded the school, it was announced last night, by the President of Colombia and the secretary of foreign affairs of Peru. t is the purpose of the foreign service 0ol to send a group of its best stu- dents to some South American country eafh summer, if possible, the policy hav- ing beem initiated last summer when :Ynty of the students made an exten- Vi siye investigation of economic conditions in? Venezuela. successful was the Venezuelan as it did to increase the ‘wiil between the sister republics of the north and south, that other South American countries have sought to have thie trip repeated next summer. . London Women Buy 20,000 Cuban Cigars; Cigarettes Too Mild the Associated Press. LONDON. 1l September 3— el Smeking among women, they say, s greatly fucreasing, and meny of them are using pipes. RIGA, September 3.—Industrial plants and machinery in’ Russia are steadily disintegrating, declared Royal C. Keely, the American engineer who was a prisoner in Moscow for many months and who arrived here today on his way to America. “Buildings are paintless and rotting and industrial machinery is rusting,” he declared while narrating to the correspondent his vicissitudes since leaving New York in May, 1919. He said he saw no appreciable gene- ral improvement In the industrial situation in Moscow over the period between September, 1919, and May. 1920, before his arrest by the soviet government officlals. Before his ar- rest, he sald, he had traveled through- out Russia in a special car and had in- spected many industrial plants, and he had informed Nikolai Lenin, the soviet premier, in personal letters that the situation was terrible. “Good-Bye to Your Liberty.” Mr. Keely related how, when he left New York May 24, 1919, with Pro- fessor G. V. Lomonosoff, formee head of the Russian railway mission to the United States, the latter turned to him as they were passing the Statue of Liberty and remarked: “Here's where you say good-bye to your liberty.” “He was joking,” said Mr. Keely, “but developments proved the truth of his statement.” Upon arriving in Russia . in Sep- temoer, 1919, Mr. Keely said, he was invited to inspect every sort of in- dustry, and he found conditions so hopeless from his viewpoint that he asked permission to leave. This was frequently postponed, he said, and finally he left Moscow May 7, 1920, only to be arrested as he arrived May 12 near the Esthonian border station of Camburg. He was sent back to Moscow and imprisoned. Trial Was a Joke. His first trial was April 24, 1921, when he was sentenced to two years at_a conceniration camp, charged with “communicating information to the press of bourgeois nations.” He said his trial was a joke, as the only defense he had was by a soviet attorney appointed for him by the boishevik court. He was freed August 1 last, and has had a month of freedom in Moscow to talk to many persons of his acquaintance. Mr. eely, who left Moscow on Thursday, said that only four other Americans — Harold Carlson, Mrs. Carlson and their two children—had obtained the necessary vises to leave Russia, while many others were held up because of technical difficulties, such as lost or stolen passports, and lack of money. He said the power of the Cheka or the bolsheviki_inquisition was still very strong in Russia and that its au- thority was increasing since the re- cent arrests of the Gorky famine committee and the alleged plotters, recently reported. Americans Still Delayed. He said the famine was extremely bad, but that Moscow was full of food for those able to buy and that it was easy to live on a few dollars a day with American money. Since the Russians, however, are earning the equivalent of only 12 cents to a few dollars monthly they are able to buy little or nothing, he said. Mr. Keely said that Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, former soviet “ambassador” to the United States, now was the head of the metal industrial department of Russia. Among the Americans whose depar- ture from Russia is delayed, he said, are Maron Hipman and Dr. Willlam Lanbie and Mrs. Lanbie, both of whom are dentists. He said they were held at Moscow because their passports were stolen when the Cheka arrested them and that now they cannot leave until they find the documents. Besides, he said, each of them must pay $23 in gold for fare to the frontier, a sum next to impossible for theé refugees. N. Y. PORTO RICANS ISSUE ATTACK UPON GOVERNOR Call Meeting to Urge Recall of Reilly, Charged With Using Bad Language. By the Asgociated Press. NEW YORK, September 3.—A call was issued today by Porto Ricans residing in New York for a mass meeting at the Waldgrf-Astoria to- morrow afternoon for the purpose of adopting _resolutions asking Presi- dent Harding to recall Gov. E. Mont Reilly, who was inaugurated about two months ago. The committee, claiming to represent 25,000 Porto Ricans fx.rfi, is composed of Gonsalo O'Neill, J. J. Ramos, D..Codazo and Rafael Fere! The committee’s letter calling the meeting m‘:;e:ln ting to Qfifvuf.’i.;‘nm party for separation z}t the island from the United States. ml declares in endeavoring to attain his nds he has used .coarse and vul:;r language in public documents - dressed to the president of the insu- lar senate. the aspirations of HAIL COOLS NEW YORK. Streets of Jamaica Covered With Slush After Electric Storm. YORK, September 3.—Showers olnflvi{uwnel that covered fl;e ‘u\d:; walks of Jnm.llc«ll 'I'l:n:lu:'!:.“l!::v‘ a brief electrical st Ao New York early ;’l‘!’!:!rldhth'n hot spell in which the city has sweltered. B ————— WASHINGTON THE HOME OF ARMY MUSIC SCHOOL —— Institution for Training of Mili- tary Bandsmen Transferred Here FProm Governors Island. tablish- The Army Music School, est 0 at Governora Is- £ 3 ew Yori aity. for the training dsmen, has been mo t:l %‘:mt;mln'd‘n occupies buildings 22-A and 23-A at Washington bar- racks at the foot of 4% street. These dings were recently va- cated bhyu‘:hi .-d]ntlnl general's d P et the regulations, the music lc;’:(:llfl;!onlllm of a band of thirty- jeces, & class of 150 bandsmen, :lxel:u of ten sololsta, and a class of twenty probationary and thirty band leader students. Probationary atu- dents whe prove qualified are eligible lor the d leader's course. The subjects taught at the school include instrumental training of all band in- struments, theory of music, ear train- ArgAnging “.t:l trmm_;:flflun. Y. on, et e tion and general educational subjects. Many v‘:nnelu exist in_the achoal at the present time apd offer & good opportunity for persons desiring a musical education. Applieations for, detall as Inb.uo:,lrr atudents should be made to commanders of posts or stations. - Those .desiring to !hl’b‘l;lfi‘lmg or, d'filohr courses should apply to the adjutant general of the Army and will be assigned to courses according to their demon- strated ability. 2 TAKES UP PEDDLERS’ FIGHT. The Italian Catholic Society of the ‘Holy Rosary Church has adopted res- olutions authorising the appointment the governor of at- | THE SUNDAY The British mission at Moscow, how- ever, is taking up the subject of aid. REFUGEES TELL OF FAMINE. Villages Burned to Give People Excuse to Migrate. By the Associated Press. BARANOWITCHI, Rushia, September 3.—Refugecs passing through this city from districts in northeastern Russia declare that the entire lower Volga basin, the region through whch flows the Don river and the districts along the lower courses of the Dnieper and Bug are stricken by the scourge of famine. In conversation with Dr. Roy Smith, head of the American Red Cross medical unit here, they tell of severe drought, grain destroyed by the intense heat, and of hunger, starvation and dis- ease. During the past two months Dr. Smith has been collecting reports from rerugees and they have agreed that the acreage cultivated this vear would be the smallest on record, partly ewing to the lack of seed. horses, implements and workers, and partly because the soviet government took the surplus grain grown by every farmer cultivating more than five hectares of land. Virtually the entire country between the thirty- fifth meridian of longitude and the Ishim river, in Siberia, is suffering in some degree, the refugees de- clare. The soviet government issued orders that any person having a house ‘ahould not be allowed to go to Si- beria from the famine district, and, it is asserted, that whole villages have been burned, so that the owners | of houses in them would have an ex- | cuse to leave. As a result, entire villages are migrating toward Si- | beria or have started toward Poland. The government, unable to secure food for soldiers in the famine- stricken district, has been obliged to move its troops to more favored lo- { calities. | WORMS DEVOUR CROPS. Plague of Caterpillars Adds to Russian Famine Horrors. By the Associated Press. RIGA, September 3—A plague of worms Is the latest Russian calamity in the government of Simbirsk, the heart of the Volga famine region. An official Moscow wireless dispatch that in the Ardatov district of Si birsk & swarm of worms has a| peared, which is devouring all vege- itallon. The district land department sent an agriculturist to aid in R ting them. It is belleved the |worms are a variety of caterpillar. Irivaling in destructiveness the grass- ‘hoppers and locusts which destroyed a large part of the poor crops in some of the other famine-stricken sections of Russia. . ¢ American food s _continuing to move into Russia from Riga speedily. Two ships have been unloaded in two days, and another was being unloaded to- day. The official bolshevist Rosta Agency tells of extensive epldemics of scurvy, typhus and cholera in the Tartar r public, and pictures the general fam- ine sifuation as growing worse. WILL SUPERVISE RELIEF. {Col. W. N. Haskell Sails to Take Charge of Work in Russia. NEW YORK, September 3.—Col. Willlam N. Haskell was a passenger today on the steamship Olympic, sail- ing for Europe, where he will as- sume control of the work of the American Relief Administration in feeding Russian famine sufferers. In London, Col. Haskell will meet Walter Lyman Brown, director for Europe, and will proceed with him to Moscow. where headquarters will be established. Col. Haskell was accompanied by a staff of fourteen persons. KNOX 'OFF FOR ENGLAND; TRIP IS NOT POLITICAL Senator and Wife to Tour Scbtland Will Be Gone About Five Weeks. Special Dispatch to The Star. { NEW YORK, September 3.-~Among | the distinguished passengers on the steamer George Washington sailing | from New York today were United | States Senator Philander C. Knox and | | Mrs. Knox of Pennsylvania. They occupied one of the finest suites and were continually busy receiving the farewells of friends and acquaint- ances. “There 1s absolutely nothing polit- ical in my trip abroad,” said Senator | Knox. “I am not going on any con- | fidential mission; in fact, I am merely going on a vacation to Scotland and England, and I will not leave Great Britain. I will be gone possibly four or five weeks, and will return in October on the North State, as I ha: chosen a slow boat because I want a complete rest. “I am only going to be interested in the rates for automobiles, hotel rooms and meals. 1 have motored through England and Scotland before. and, as Mra. Knox has expressed a preference for this trip, I am taking advantage of this time of the year ‘when those countries are at their best. “Recently, when I was on the May- flower with President Harding and Mr. Lagker, the latter spoke eloquent- 1y of this ship, but I had engaged passage on her before that. Why shouldn't we travel on American ves- sels?” PLAN CHURCH PAGEANT. Arrangements for the Episcopal pageant to be given at the Cathedral Close in October are rapidly taking shape, it was announced last night. ' At a meeting Thursday of the tem- porary committee plans for the or- ganization of the permanent execu- tive committee were practically com- pleted, with Mrs. James Carroll Fraser as chairman. Most of the meetings and possibly many of the rehearsals will be held at Mason House. The production will be staged under the direction of Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest of District of Columbia Community Service. ‘Written by Mrs. Minnie Gerode An- drews and called “The Cross Tri- umphant,” the pageant, which depicts the story of the churck in England and America, had its first reading by the author last spring at the British embassy. Bishop Harding promised the use of the cathedral grounds for its initial Ppresentation, and local Episcopal cler- gymen have pledged their active co- operation. The two performances to be given in mid-October will be for the benefit of St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, N. C., said to be the oldest church school in thiz country. % —— STUDIES TAX BILL. Senate Finance Committee Dis- cusses Measure in Short Sessien. Study of the tax revision bill re- cently passed by the House was con- tinued yesterday by the Senate finance committee, which devoted most of a hrief session to discusaion of the House provisions m:c\lns the nflmnnll exemptions for married in- dividuals and a basis for assessment of & committee to appear befare the |of taxes on personal service tiens. No decision was resched or it on amny subject taken up, ac- h-“ to m“run mm.w 2 STAR, WASHINGTON,' D, C, SEPTEMBER 4, 1921—PART 1. ° Russian Factories Rot and Ryst, |WILL BE PROMINENT AT CONVENTION OF U. S. EMPLOYES Says R. C. Keely, Freed Engineer CLINEDWTT MISS GERTRUDE McNALLY, Third vice president National Federa- tion of Federal E: yes. 10, AUTOSTS ARRESTEDINONTH Record Round-Up of Speed- ers Made—Other Viola- tions Charged. Eight hundred and sixty-one Wash- ington autoists were arrested while speeding during the month of August, according to a report made public by the police department last night. Strict enforcement of the speeding laws brought the collateral list up to high figures also, since the limit was enforced every time that speeding was found to be absolutely unwar- ranted. Other Violations. Seventy-five dead numbered automo- biles were taken in tow by the traffic officers during the month, and dazsling headlights on seven machines attract- ©d the official attention of bluecoats. One arrest was made for a dirty tag and two were made for mutilated tags. In nine cases, colliding and failing to stop meant arrest, while failure to show permits made 212 automobiles take a trip to the precincts. * Parking Causes Trouble. Changes in the parking rules, which went into effect recently, resulted in 133 arrests for violation of these regulations. The wrong-side-of-the- street driver found survelllance of the police rigid in forty-six cases, and twelve arrests were made for taking the wrong way at a circle. In fifty-eight cases there were no District tags on automobiles, and the owners were officlally requested to provide them after appearance at the precincts. Accidents during August exceeded those of the corresponding month of | the firth annual convention of the Na- last year by 161, and those of 1919|,/,4,) Federation of Federsl by 121, according to figures made pub- lic last night in the monthly report of Capt. Headley of the trafic bu- reau, which showed that 536 accident: took place during the month just closed. Only Ome Fatality. There was only one fatality. This occurred on August 19. Eight were seriously injured, as compared witl six in 1920 and five in the year pre- ceding, whereas four were killed during August in both 1920 and 1919. The minor injuries sustained in ac- cidents mounted to 167, as compared to 100 for August, 1920, and 166 for August in 1919, but property damage last month was reported in 345 cases, whereas August, 1920, showed only 254 such cases and August, 1919, showed only 230. In twenty-flve accidents there was neither damage to property or person during the month closed. Many Accidents im Day. The very first day of the month found the toll from accidents the highest. On that day eleven were sl{lghtly injured and twenty-two meulg':‘l; l: a of property damage were reported. oyes The next highest days were m‘:ozsmwalnry adjustments can at best only and the 17th, on both of which twenty- four accidents were reported. Stringency on the part of the traffic bureau in demanding efficiency in op- erating an automobile and knowledge of traffic regulations caused the re- jection of 230 applicants for permits during the month. Of the number of applicants 1,460 were approved and re- ceived permits. This is the largest number for the past four months, the July total being 1,359, the June total, 1,309 and the May total being 1,014. Disapprovals totaled 230, the small- est number for the past three months, when 252 in June and 234 in July were registered. 4n May only 162 were dis- approved. MR. HARDING UNABLE TO BE AT ROCKVILE ROCKVILLE, Md., September 3~ President and Mrs. Harding will be unable to attend the celebration here on Tuesday of the 145th anniversary of the founding of Montgomery coun~ ty. according to Mrs. Frank P. Stome of Janet Montgomery Chapter, D. A. R., which organization is in charge of the festivities. The regents and committee were informed in a letter from the White House that the President and Mrs. Harding will be away from the ocity on vacation on the day of the cele- bration, but that were it mot for this fact they both would have been present. The celebration is to be held on the courthouse lawn, begianing at 1.30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and a feature will be the dedication of ten trees on the lawn teo the ten commissioners who purchased the lots en which the courthouse now stands. The trees will be registered in the American Forestry Associa- tion's Hall of Fame. Appropriate bronze markers, one for each com- 'missioner, will be placed on each of the ten trees. . Patriotic songs will be sung by a ehorus, of Rockville voices, and ad- dresses will be deliverea by David J. Lewis, Col. Washington Bowie and C. C. Magruder, The region in and around Mont- gomery county was inhabited by the Yoacomicos, Anacestians, Piscata- ways, Senecas and Daxtuxonts about the time of the first settlement, in 1635. All of those tribes belonged or ‘were under the control of the Six Nations, the central pawer of which was located in the state of New York. Most of the early settlera of gomery County were of or descent, though a few were of Scotch and Irish lineage. They were an industrieus, frugal and temperate people, tilling thelr ‘tagnl. and accus- tomed to confliots savages and other .enemiea on the barder, and dis- tinguished for their bold and inde- pendent apirit. Their history forms a conspicuous part of the annals of Maryland during the French and rev- clutionary wars. P ooty RIGELOW TO WORK ABROAD. Prof. Frank H. Bigelow, the Ameri- can phyaicist, who haa been director Salar Prant prepare E b~ 1 [ .zm Mont- birth | | 1 ! MISS KATHRYN TRACY, President of the Women's Union of the bureau of engraving and printing. 1.5, AGENT FERRETS §2.265.000 IN NOTES Traced to Alleged “Swindle Ring” Operated' by French. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 3.—John Sawken, Department of Justice agent, ll! Cleveland, telephoned Col. John V. Clinnin, assistant United States dis- Upper: LUTHER C. STEWART, | trict attorney, today that he had re- Prest of Fed n of Federal|covered another $2,265,000 in promis- Employes. sory notes which he had traced to the Lower: DR. J. FRANKLIN MEYER, |2lleged “swindle ring” operated by President of the scientific and techni- | Charles French and others. cal section of Federal Employes'| Sawken last week selzed $9,060,000 Unie No. 2. in signed notes and $10,000,000 in un- MAY T HONOR agent, also seized by Sawken, in which the “home of master built tires” at Centralla, 111, is pictured, refers to Expected to Head Commit- tees of National Fed- eral Employes. |n contract entered into by the Com- Chairmanships af two committees at mercial Club of Centralia and Rudolph E. Kohn, president of the American | Rubber Company of Chicago, whereby the club was to build & factory for Kohn and give him $50,000 bonus. = 'WII Ratucoat Store. e facto; American Rabver ::%\:;‘:;m‘.";r e $2,600 raincoat store, which, under :‘.r.ench’l guldance, expanded into a 000,000 corporaton and issued notes ©r_wore than a million dollars. Xohn is under arrest and has turned over to Clinnin a complete file of his correspodence with French. This file gives a day-to-day account of the operations of the band since last May. Take $30,000,000 in Securities. Government agents to date have taken possession of considerably more than $30,000,000 in notes, certifi. cates of deposit, trade acceptances and stocks and bonds held by French, John Worthington and nine other men under arrest in_connection with the alleged ring. In addition i other enterprises traced to French include a gigantic stock-selling scheme in twenty ‘“paper corpora- tions” capitalized at $21,000,000, and a f;‘n t:nubtu'yh up lt¢hl'|ll of banks e coun noit‘es x;ld stock. 1kt rench was released from jait yes- terday on $15.000 bond, but W’or i ton, who is under indictment tl ‘master mind” in an alleged $6,000,000 mail ‘and bank robbery syndicate, is still held in default of $50,000 bail. FIVE CONCERNS INVOLVED. ployes are expected to fall to Wash- ington delegates. Local delegates will leave for the convention, to be held at New Orleans September 12 to 16, on a special car Wednesday night. Dr. J. Franklin Meyer, president of the scientific and technical section of Federal Employes Union, No. 2, is lated as chairman of the resolutions ommittee, which will deal with es- sential features of the federation's program for the coming year. Miss Gertrude M. McNally, secretary of the women's union of the bureau of en- graving and printing, and third vice president of the national federation, is expected to be chairman of the com- mittee on legislation. J. P. McKeon of Federal Employes Union, No. 2, will be one of the members of this com- mittee. Besides the Lehlbach-Sterling re- classification bills, Washington dele- gates to the convention will take ac- tive part in the convention in behalf of the proposed legislation to secure a commission on stabilization of the value of the dollar, because, as set resolution from Federal No. 2, “wage and Seized Papers Were Partly Ex- ecuted Notes, Says U. S. Attorney. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 3.— The papers recovered here in the al- leged swindle case of Charles W. French were partly executed notes of five concerns in and near Cleveland, according to Joseph C. Breitenstein, assistant United States district attor- ney. Union, temporarily correct injustice, because such adjustments are continually nullified by continued fluctuation of the currency.” The delegates from the women's union of the bureau of engraving and printing will ask the convention's assistance in securing sick leave for the employes of their establishment, also_higher pay for night work in the bureau. Mrs. Adele G. Guthridge, delegate from Federal Employes Union, No. 2, will ask the convention's indorsement of the project for a club quar- ters for the union, in the promotion of which she has been actively en- gaged for wome months. The officers and delegates from Washington will include, from the national headquar- ters of the federation, President Lu- ther C. Steward, Vice President Ger- trude M. McNally, Secretary-Treas- E. J. Newmyer, J. G. Gurley, editof of the Federal Employee, and Miss Ethel M. Smith, director of the iblicity department; from Federal mployes' Union, No. 2, William J. —_— LIGHTNING KILLS BATHER. Girl is Victim When Bolt Strikes Crowded Surf at Rockaway Beach. NEW YORK, September 3.—Light- ning struck and killed Hazel Dona- hue, twenty, in the shallow waters of Rockaway Beach late this after- noon, while she was hurrying out to join her mother in a search for shel- ter when the storm broke. The bolt struck in the midst of a throng of bathers. Several men were Hendricks, president of the govern. |te™mPorarily stunned. More than ment printing office branoch; Dr. J. {100,000 persons were in the surf dur- Franklin Meyer, president of the |ing the day. solentific and technical branch: Dr. George A. Hill, president of the Navy Department branch; J. P. the bureau of standards; Mra Adele G. Guthridge of the Agriculture De- partment branch, third vice presi- dent of the local; Edward L. Scheuffler, president of the Treasury branch: Lew 8. Mohler, president of the navy yard branch; from Federal Employes Union, No. 105, women’s union of the bureau of engraving and printing, Miss Kathryn Traoy, president; Misa g‘l"!’ 'grblfimflufl!n president; Miss lertrude ly, secretary, Mra Ella M. S(Dl'l.’ Zijang FORTY MOPLAHS KILLED IN BATTLE WITH BRITISH Two Fall On English Side—Rebel Leader and 30 Others Are Captured. By the Awsaciated Press, CALICUT, British India, September 2--About farty Maplah tribeamen and two British soldiers were killed in the fight of several hours at Tirirangad! which resulted In_the ¢apture of Alf Mudalier, the rebel leader, and thirty other Moplahs. Four British soldlers were wounded. Rxplosive material HURT IN MOTOR ACCIDENT. m—— Daughters of Dr. Uurf.lu C. Bur- ritt, This City, in Trenton Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Paul K. Winter and their youns son of Freeport, L. L, and Mrs. Howard P. Bayly of Rich- mond, Va., were seriously injured in an automobile accident at Trenton, N. J., Friday night, accerding to word received here last night. They are in a hospital at Trenton. Details of :‘hc accident have not been received ere. Mrs. Winter and Mrs. Bayly are daughters of Dr. Martha C. Bur:lt( of 1855 Calvert street. Dr. Burritt received word yeaterday afternoon of the accident. She said she had not learned any of the details. Dr. Bur- ritt left last night for Trenton. The injured were metaring. from Long Ialand to York, Pa., on their return from a vacati Island. tion spent on Long SUES FOR $7,997.80. Suit has been entered in the Dis- trict ' Supreme Court’ by the Climax against 8. G. Leofier and the Leot- fler Food Produc y, to Tocover s towal of S1.IVTIS, .h.fi:: be due on D\IM of paper C’lg“m’: an kirds from LeoMe and $6,450.50 from the him. Vs ¢ —_— HELD IN AUTO THEFT. Man Arrested After Dismaptled Parts of Car' Are Found. Following discovery of the dis- mantled parts of a racing automobile in_Anderson's swamp, neAr Cherry- dale, Va., Detectives Hughlett, Con- nors and Jett yesterday arrested Al- fred J. Frisaell, residing op New Cut road, on a charge of grand larceny. Frizzell is charged with the theft of an automobile belonging to Leo Taylor a week ago yesterday.. Ac- cording to the detectives, wheels and Wers found In the heme ot Peissels [oasel wert n me o - while the e other parts of the motor were abandoned in the ng, “ Ianidumis owned by T Arm PLAN HONOR TO DANTE. riemorqunnaz?m':'ux'mm", ot O e aarind arith the Church, have been coms i, e s i 5 B T inE ide by De: Aureile ogm- | an and.a number of carbimes. kmives, swords and other weapans were cap- e wGtner 1 no! been arr dation entertained for the the paralysis of labor. cturing - Company of Caster- Nagucagiran. Compent, o6, .| Policemen Berry, Mansfle! PLAYGROUNDS 709,408 ORI RER DAY I_ABM’I]AY PI_ANS 3] IN AUGUST, REPORT SAYS There was an average dally at- tendance of 9,408 children on the playgrounds of the city during Au- gust, according to a monthly report submitted to Commissioner Oyster yesterday by Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, Bupervisor of playgrounds. The total attndance for the month aggregated 244,620, Mrs. Rhodes told the Commissioner. These figures indicate, in the opin- fon of District officials, that the boys and girls of Washington want play- grounds and that these recreation centers are taken advantage of in the neighborhoods that are fortunate enough to have them. D. C. UNEMPLOYED AIDED BY BUREAU Employment Service Finds Jops for 4,706 During Past Three Months. The number of unemployed in Washington is being kept down through theé efforts of the District employment service in bringing the jobless man and the manless job together. Figures obtained yesterday from the office of the employment service, 1410 Pennsylvania avenue, show that out of 8329 men and women Wwho have applied for work in the last three months, 4,706 have been placed i n_positions. This showing at & time when the entire country has been feeling the eftects of the slowing-down in indus- try was made possible by the appro- priation of $7,600 allowed the Com- missioners by Congress in the last District bill to keep the employment office In operation. The Department of Labor supplements that appro- pristion. by paying the salaries of several employes in the office. It is lkely that in submitting their estimates to Congress for the next fiscal year the Commissioners again will ask for an allowance for the em- ployment office. 1,955 in August. During August 3,029 persons sought the ald of the employment service and 1,955 of them were immediately placed in jobs. In July applications for work amounted to s.gsz and 1,421 of the ap- plicants were given employment. In June only 2,245 jobless persons visited the office and 1,330 of them ‘were placed. During the same three months of last year the records of the employ- ment office were substantially the same. In that period 8,851 persons sought work and 4,220 of them were sent to establishments that had existing vacancies. In view of the hundreds who have been dropped from the government de- partments since June, it would seem that the employment service should have had more applicants for work this summer than a year ago. Many Retura Home. The great majority of dismissed employes, however, deal with the Civil Service Commission in endeavoring to find positions in some other branch of the federal service. It also is probable that many of the war work®rs dropped by the government, particularly women, have returned to their homes in the states without seeking private employ- ment in Washington. ‘The last weekly report of the employ- ment office indicates that most of the applicants are unskilled laborers and domestics. ‘This weakly report shows that 673 un- skilled laborers and 256 domestics sought work. The placed dn the week 210 of the laborers and 104 of the domestics. SEEKS $16,400,000 ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR VETERANS’ AiD (Continued from First Page.) final. After the compensation board made its award compensation would be immediately in effect, and if the board of appeals should’ reduce the compensation the veteran would have ta be given sixty days' notice of such reduction. That all men in hospitals should be and when rehabilitated they would be entitled to compensation to be fixed by a local board. This local board would also have power te open old cases for rerating. Ratings thus made in the case of veterans efter they had left the hospitals would remain_incontestable for six months, when the veterans would be subject to re-examination by local boards, not oftener than once in two mont! War Risk Raling Favered. The next recommendation would validate a previous ruling of the bureau of war risk_insurance. This ruling was to the effect that all vet- erans in hospitals should be rated as temporary total disabilities. The di- rector of the Veterans' Bureau should be given an appropriation to en- courage holders of government in- surance policies to continue them. That those holding less than $10.- 000 of term insurance should be al- lowed to inereas this to $10,000 be- fore converting it into government life insurance. That the benefits of all these acts for the disabled veterans should be extended to all United States citizens who served-in the military or naval forces af the allied governments as- soclated with the United States in prosecuting the world war. Col. Forbes® Views. Another feature is that the recom- mendations of Senate committee meet the criticism that in examina- ttons .:: vn‘.nnnum :"I‘fi ntt‘:lnlon ‘has n given to m evidence. Col. E. i Forbes, head of the Vet- reau, expressed some apposition to-having the local boards Tate, vi to their earn- he MUCH LIQUOR SEIZED. Two Raids on Colored Homes . Yield Total of Seventy Quarts. James T. Holmes, colored, of 226 Braoks Court was arrested yesterday fterpgen and el with illegal on of and selling intoxicants, lollowing a rald on his house, which netted Afty quarts of liquor, five re- velvers and one rifie, gocording to a police report. Holmes. who has two cork legs, is charged with having the liquor se- closet aon rfi: creted for sale in a nmflm. colored, fourteen years old, who was dismissed five months ago before Judge Sellars of the Ju- venile Court on charges of violatiion of the prohibition act, was arrested in yesterday at her home, 328 Sy- :g:x court ‘southwest, charged with melling and illegal possession of in- taxiean d o B $ h:-‘ Rosen- made the arrest. Twenty quarts FOR WASHINGTON Many Leave City for Holiday. Police Ball Game Feature. ‘With the government departments closed, business houses generally shut up and the schools yet to be opened. ‘Washington tomorrow gives itseif over to Labor day festivities. Judging from the sale of tickets at Union station last night the exodus from the city already had begun. With favorable weather tomorrow all the lines leading out of Washington are expected to be crowded. Police Ball Game. One of the local events tomorrow will be a base ball game between teams of the police department and the Home Defense League, under auspices of the latter organization. The game is set for 3 p.m. at the American League Park. The gate re- ceipts will go to the Metropolitan Police Relief Association fund for the benefit of widows and orphans of members of the police force. Labor Usmion Ox Roast. The Central Labor Union will cele- brate the day at Marshall Hall. An ox roast will be the center of attraction, with union butchers presiding. Com- mittees in charge are as follows: General committee—N. A. James. ex-officio chairman; H. 8. Hollohan, L. C. Pottiger, J. R. Hartley and Miss M. Miller. Law and order—Henry Miller, C. Cooper, A. Chamberlin, John Botts, B. A. O'Leary, C. Coulter, Alonzo Lawson. J. W. Reynolds, R. C. Rich- ard and Mark Jackson. Athletics—A. Bridges. J. Carroll Reeves, R. Peck, R. E. Henson, P. A. Strachan. Dancing —H. Hollohan, Nora B. James, Charles Otls, J. J. McCracken and George Everdale. Speaking — Henry Miller, Charles Frazier, G. J. McKeenen, J. B. Col- poys and P. A. Strachan. Reception—L. C. Pottiger. Miss M. Miller, M. C. Flanagan, Dave Mc- Cracken, J. E. Toone and P. J. Chrougan. Barbecue—F. J. Beuchert, J. Mew- land. George Bakersmith, Irvin Baker, J. Smith, William McQuea, William Seiffert, Charles Madden, John Krause, Edinger, L. Weaver, Fritz Mertense, E. Schueppe, L. Meier. George Krause, John Hartley, R. Kaufman and A. Eckert. n abor at Peace. The city rially seems to be at peace, accor ug to leading local labor men. The plumbers’ troubles, which threatened for a time to as- sume a serious aspect when a discus- sion arose over a wage agreement, have dissolved and the atmosphere has cleared. The_theatrical tradesmen, who had been figuring for a while on the possi- bilities of a combat against principles of the “open shop.” are working un- der a_tacit mgreement and the prom- ise of a satisfactory contract in the near future, according to the local representatives. In the building trades peace has been a matter of months, and in the manufacturing _trades, _including metal trades here, although the club of unemployment has been severely felt in quarters, the industrial sky appears devoid of trouble-clouds. ONWARD, GOMPERS’ MESSAGE TO LABOR (Continued from First Page.) he overcomes no injustice by him- self, he contributes nothing to the tide of progress while he walks by himself. The bagtle for justice, for progress, for democyacy, for freedom, for a better lifs for all, is the battle for all. It must be fought by all— and all must be united. “Organize for the five million mark —organize for justice, for freedom, for the great struggle Ro fight wrongs, for the triumph of serv- ice over tyranny and greed. “Take the message of organization everywhere. Unite in the service of humanity, for the good of our peo- ple and the greater glory of our country. “Organize for the five million mark. On this Labor day begin the forward march.” PUT RAILROAD EMPLOYES ON JOINT COMMITTEES Pennsylvania System Provides for Discussion of Working Conditions. Approximately 120,000 employes of the Pennsylvania railroad will be given a voice in the settlement of all questions affecting working condi- tions, the company announced last night. Joint reviewing committees, com- posed of representatives of the em- ployes and of the company, have been created to handle all grievances, rules and working conditions and the peal from the decision of the commit- tee to the division superintendent, the general superintendent and the general manager. In a statement the company ex- plained that, in adopting this new basis of understanding, the employes recognize that all differences should be capable of amicable settlement and the management agrees that the em- ploye should have a voice en equal terms with the company in matters affecting their welfare and working conditions. RADICALS STIR PORTUGAL. Government Accuged of Failure to Curb Criminals. MADRID, September 3.—Revolution- ists are carrying on active agitation in Portugal, according to reports reach- ing Madrid from the Portuguese frontler. Extreme republicans have issued a manifesto declaring the gov- ernment cannot continue in its present form. “The hour has arrived to clear out the elements which are committing robberies and causing scandal in the namé of the republic” says the mani- festo. “As the government fears to take action against oriminals, the people must act energetically for a radical and homest republic.” “