Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1921, Page 13

" SOVET CONVERTED EROM 0LD POLICES In Decentralization, It Un- loads Various Once Assum- ed Responsibilities. «“DQ IT YOURSELF,” MOTTO Only Communists Resist New Idea, After Three Years of In- ternal Disaster. By the Asseciated Press. MOSCOW. September where throughout Russia the soviet government Is unloading responsi- bilitles it is unable to meet. Factory workers are being urged to obtain their own materials, run their own affairs and obtain their own food. Decentrallzation; do it yourselves, and do not depend upon the central government for everything,” is the burden of instructions broadcasted' by the government since domestic free trade was instituted and the new economic policy of the bolsheviki was declared. Provincial officials, labor unions, co-operative socleties ~and famine relief committees are all told the same thing. Berates Local Officials. M. Kalinin, chairman of the Russian general committee for famine relief, chose this admonition as the text of his_speeches during his recent tour of famine areas. He berated local officials for turning their eyes to- ward Moscow. and urged them to go out and get food themselves, in dis- tricts where it was obtainable. Departments are being reduced and large numbers of men are being thrown out of employment. Those who have been receiving food have been placed on reduced rations, and workmen in nationalized factories are being paid in_manufactured products or in money instead of food, so that the food responsibilities of the gov- ernment may be lightened. Change in Policy Plans. It seems, however, that Russians, with the exception of the extreme communists, are pleased with the gov- ernment's change of policy. Attempts | at general centralization of every-: thing proved so disastrous for three years that it is probable anything new would be welcome as possibly promising relief for the average citi- zen. BAND CONCERTS. Montrose Park, today, 7:30 pm., concert by the United States Marine Band, Taylor Branson, second leader. March, “Marine Corps Insti- tute,” ............... Branson Overture, “Don Cesar de Bazan” ............ Massenet Cornet solo, “Willow Echoes,” & Simon Musician Arthur S."Witcomb. Excerpts from “The Merry Widow” .............. Lehar Intermezzo Tococo, “Rendez- VOUS" ....c.. .. Aletter (a) “Souvenir de Bal".Boccalari (b) “In Poppyland~ .Albers Grand scenes from “Ernani,” . Verdi “The Star Spangled Banner.” Concert by thelUnited States Soldiers' Home Band, bandstand, today at 5:50 o'clock, John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. March, “March of the Anzacs” «ve.s... Lithgow Overture, “Egmont” . . Beethoven Paraphrase, “The Loreley, Nesvadba Collocation from musical com- edy, “Maytime" ...Romberg Fox trot, “Jazzin' the Chimes” (requested) ........ Osborpe Valse intermezzo, “Kisses,” Zamecnik Finale, “Rebecca,”. .... Kalman “The Star Spangled Banner. stuffs without violation of the law. 1 The unemployment problem, with winter at hand and little fuel avail- able, threatens to become acute, how- ever. It is far more serious in Rus- sian industrial centers than in coun- tries avowedly capitalistic, where the food situation in country districts is easier and transportation is under less rigid control than in Russia. TROTSEY SPEAKS AT MOSCOW. Ultimatum From Poles Demands Fulfillment of Peace Terms. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 20.—Leon Trotsky, the soviet war minister, who has just returned here from the Ukraine, addressed an enthusiastic meeting of the Moscow soviet today. He said an_ultimatum had been received from | Poland on Monday, in which the Poles demanded fulfillment of the peace terms |_Re signed in Riga., but he declared Russi could also make demands for fulfill- ment of the treaty as Polish generals ere supporting ~ banditry in the Ukraine, and Poland itsell in many s was violating the provisions of the treaty wing his visit to the Ukraine, Trotsky said the maneuvers of the soviet army had been mistaken by civilians, and even by many soldiers, as a_massing of the Soviet troops on the Polish border. As a matter of fact. however, he declared, the soviet army had not been massed along the Communists stoutly insist that | horder, but was put there in sufficient the war and the blockade were wholly | numbers to guard against enemies. responsibie for the breakdown of the| communistic plans. and are explainiag ! that the new system adopted is really modified communism,-and not capital- sm. peasants holding land who will admit the government owns the soil. Apart from the ardent communists, there seems to be a general opinion that the scheme of granting conces- sions to operate industries is only camouflaged cagitalism. The military control that is being exercised and communist party discipline are so strong that the soviet government ap- parently has not been weakened by its change of policy, and it is probable it has been stremgthened. as the gen- eral public, tired of strife, is hopeful that further changes in the economic policy of the government will be made. Condition Is Easfer. Outside the famine area the condi- tion of peasants is much easier under the new plan, which fixes a definite amount which must be paid in prod- ucts, and guarantees the peasants against requisitions above that amount. It also enables growers to It is impossible, however, to find | N0 Trotsky asserted that banditry was declining rapidly in the Ukraine. which was becoming better organized. with the result that the population longer believed the representa- tons of bandit leaders that they were politicians seeking to free the Ukraine, but understood that they were outlaws and tools of Polish and French schemers.” ORDERS TRUCK MIRRORS. Gessford Instructs Police to En- force Regulation. Drivers of motor trucks that are not equipped with a mirror are subject to arrest and the police were instructed today by Maj. Gessford to see that the law is complied with. In the police bulletin Maj. 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Men were excluded from the hearing under an order issued last night, the authorities ruling that as Judge Lazarus' court is a woman's courtroom, no men except witnesses, court officfals and newspaper reporters should be admitted. - The prosecution will endeavor to Dprove at the hearing, District- Attorney Matthew Brady has announced, the contention that Arbuckle attacked Miss Rappe in his suite of rooms in the Hotel St. Francls, September 5, and caused injuries which resulted in her death four days later. The complaint charging murder, and under which | Arbuckle has been hled in jail without bail, was sworn to by Mrs.” B. M. Del- mont, friend of Miss Rappe, and one of | those who attended the film comedian’s party. Brady said he believed the prelim- inary hearing would occupy at least three days. “The prrosecution will take a little over a day to put in its testimony, and I expect the defense to take about as long,” he said. Witnexs to Be Heard. 22 The witne subpoenaed for to- day's hearing are as follows: Dr. Shel- | by Strange, acting autopsy surgeon,| who performed the autopsy on the body of Miss Rappe. Dr. William Ophuls, who performed an autopsy in company with Dr. Wil- liam Rumwell, Miss Rappe’s physician. Mrs. B. M. Delmont, complaining wit- ness against the comedian and friend of_the dead girl. Miss Alice Blake. one of those whoj attended- the Arbuckle party Miss Zeh Prevost, former moving plcture actress and one of those who attended the party as Arbuckle's guest. Miss Grace Halston, nurse who at- tended Miss Rappe up to the time of | her death, The preliminary hearing will be on a charge of murder, but it s in the dis- cretion of Judge 'Lazarus to fix the degree of crime he believes Arbuckle to be guilty of under the evidence. Arrangements were made to open the hearing at 1 p.m. Expense money was sent to Al Sem- acher for his appearance hcre fol- lowing his long distance telephone plea_from Los Angeles that he did not have enough money to make the trip. Semnacher is a motion picture producer and was Miss Rappe’s man- ager. The train fare from Los Angeles is $22, and the boat fare is about §18. LOWELL SHERMAN FOUND. Actor Agrees to Return if Wanted at Arbuckle Trial. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. September 22.—LoW- ell Sherman. motion picture actor, j é against the hardest Six light layers of rubber inside the fabric—proof FAMOUS PAINTING HELD AS BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. BERLIN, September 21.— Ger- many has never ceased denying the reports that her troops were guilty of looting during the oc- cupation of Belgium and France. But fate herself has gone out of her way to repudiate the German claim, as a report from Hamburg shows. A census taker happen- ing to enter a low-dive frequented by, sailors, found;an oil painting depicting the- “Repentant Mag- dalen.” . He recognized it as a valuable work of art, and told a friend,” and eventually the story reached the ears of members of the quesitoned today by District Attor- ney Swann at the request of District Attorney Brady of San Francisco, ex- pressed willingness to return to San Francieco when needed for-the trial of Roscoe Arbuckle. Sherman, located in his New York apartment’ after eluding a detective who sought him on a train which brought Nim from Chicago yesterday, came to the district attorney's office today with a detective. After he had been questioned, District Atorney Swann telegraphed District Attorney Brady as follows: “Sherman appeared today under the district attorne's subjoena. He made a full statement, which will be for- warded in_tonight's mail. He ex- presses willingness to return to San Francisco when needed for the trial.” Detectives sent by Mr. Swann to the Grand Central station yesterday to meet the train on which Sherman journeyed east, were told by the con- Guctor that the actor had stepped off i the train at Harmon, N.' Y., a_few miles up the Hudson. and disap- peared in an automobile with a red- PROOF OF ARMY LOOTING haired woman. An all-night search was conducted by the New York police and special detectives attached to the district at- torney's office. TELLS OF LIQUOR SUPPLY. DBy the Associated Press. 1.0S ANGELES, Calif., September 22. —Only Roscoe C. Arbuckle himself | had the key to the cellar of his resi- dence here, according to Miss Kath- Fitzgerald, housckeeper for Kle, in testimony given to Ralph Camarillo, assistant district attorney Miss Fitzgerald said, according to rillo, that she knew Arbuckle's cellar was “generously stocked” with liquors: that he alone entered it; that she did not know whether he A taken any with him wher he started for San Francisco on the trip| which resulted in his arrest for the alleged murder of Miss Virginia Rappe. film actress; and that while she arranged for the payment of other household expenses, she never had| seen a bill for liquor among them. Camarillo stated Miss_Fitzgerald's statements checked with evidence already in the possession of federal officers who were investigating the source of the liquor drunk at the Arbuckle party in San Francisco. All First National film exchanges were ordered today to withdraw al fllms from exhibition in which ap- peared Virginia Rappe, the actress for whose death Arbuckle is held at San Francisco on a charge of murder, it was announced here today. Thirty- two hundred exhibitors are represent- ed in the action. Admission declared to have been made by Roscoe Arbuckle that he had used a foreign substance in an attack upon Miss Virginia during a party at the Hotel Francis, in San Francisco, were described by Al Semnacher, a friend of Arbuckle, vesterday before the Los Angeles county grand jury, accord- ing to W. C. Doran, chief deputy dis- trict attorney. Doran said Semnacher swore Arbuckle had told of applying ice to portions of Miss Rappe’'s body. ibe determined by the percentage made Rappe ! ) IN GERMAN BAR ABSENT SENATORS SUMMONED BACK Legislative Wheels Threaten to Clog When Body Opens With Scant Quorum. Absenteelsm in the Senate threatens to clog the legislative wheels, and hur- ry-calls are being sent to senators to return to their duties here. Senator Lodge, republican leader of the Senate, was frankly dissatisfied with the failure of twenty-six repub- lican senators to put in an appearance at the opening' of the Senate session vesterday. after a.holiday of nearly a month. There were fifteen of thé dem- ocrats absent also, and the Senate roll call showed only fifty-six senators present, a scant quorum. The toll call today showed the same number present. With the important bwemess in hand, interallied control commission. An officer was sent to the place and he identified the picture as a paint- ing by Corregion, which had been stolen from the museum at Doual, France, at the time of the war. The government is now explain- ing that German roldiers found the painting in a peasant’s home when Douai was occupied by the Ger- mans. Not realizing its value, they I took it alond and used it as a dgc- oration in_a railroad car runnihg between France and = Germany. Later it was given to a soldier's casino. In the upheayal at the close of the war it was stolen and eold to a Hamburg saloonkeeper for less than $1. The painting is 8aid to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. CADET CORPS BAND GETS BANDMASTER including the new treaties of peace with Germany, Austria and Hungary, and the x revision bill, the republican leaders feel that some of the members of the ate are not taking the ‘situation as N seriously as they might. Treaties to Go to Committee. The German treaty and the treaties with Austria and Hungary are to be considered by the Senate foreign rela- Sergt. Hess Is Detailed by the War Depart- ment. ‘Master Sergt. Frederick Hess, 480 N street southwest, has been detailed by the ‘War Department as bandmaster rémr the Washington High School Cadet | treaty was discussed, but no action | o'clock, it was announced today by orps, It was ;'umounu'd today DbY|.ag taken. Senator Lodge expressed {Dr. W. Thomas Shepherd, president. school military authorities. He will | (he hope that they would be reported [ Diplomas will be presented to twenty organize a cadet band In the firstiout favorably and promptly, and ratified | graduates. two regiments of the soldier student organization, comprising companies at Eastern, Tech, Business, Central and Western High schools and the Colum- bia Junior High School Sergt. Hess will be stationed at Cen- tral High School. The proposed band will have a minimum of forty piec and will furnish martial music for the various functions of the cadet corps. Although school military authorities have made definite plans for form- ing only one band, they propose to or- with as little delay as possible. Three Bitter-Ens Absent. Three republican members of the, foreign relations committee are out of the city—Senator Knox of Pennsyl- vania, who is in Europe, and Senators s of Hampshire and Mc- prmick of Illinois. All three were bitter-enders” in the fight against the league of nations, but all three are understood to favor the new treaties with the central powers. With them absent from the city, however, ganize another musical unit at Tech High School if they can recruit a suf- | Senator Lodge may find himself em- ficlent number. Steps to organize the | barrassed at committee meetings and at Central will be taken nextjwhen it comes to considering the peace L SEEK 50 STENOGRAPHERS. One hupdred and fifty cadets, aspi-| Absenteeism in both the Senate and : : : rants for commissions during the|House is punishable by deduction from| The Civil.Service Commission an- Dresent scholastic year, took competi- | the salary of the absent member for | Nounced today that there is immedi- tive examinations yesterday. Lieut.|the days he is away. This rule is|&le need in the government offices at ol. Wallace M. Cra U. 8. A.. who | honored in the breach, however, and | Washington for ffty stenographers; has charge of the cadet organization, | has never been enforced against a [LOUR MEN and wemen, for temporary’ is busy today correcting the test|senator, certainly in the last half cen- | 2RHOINICNE &6 100 a Sear. papcrs. The ranks to be given the v, and only once against members | con' 0" has attained eligibility in hoys passing the examinations will|of the House, and then the House|poth & stenography and finally relented and allowed the money to be paid to the violators of the rule. Now and then there is talk of impos- ing the penalty, but nothing ever comes of it. in the test Col. Craigie that the names of the officers will be made public early next week. Every Time The grand jury session was called by Doran in order to hear this testi- mony. information concernig_Which was imynediately conveyed -to District Attorney Brady at San Francisco. rain! You Telephone “‘Momlily Clause” Calls Upon Actors to Keep Public Respect Ry the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 2Z— “A morality clause,” pledgicg actors and actreases to “conduct themnelves with due regard to public conventions,” on penaity tracts of a large ecorporation, it was here by its counsel. The action s taken, a statement by the attorneys waid, as a_direct re- ‘walt of the Arbuckle case In contraets ha company was 1i continue to pay the salary of mn actor or actress “who forfeits the respect of the publie,” but has to uy of atill having “Pletures unreleased releasable are pennity to pay for an fraction of the moral law of ny employe im whose name millions may be tied up and over whose conduct the com- pany has no control whatever,” they added. erick B. man, Cajigas, 8 Kleinpeter, jr.; Manuel F. Alvarez M.. Francis Carroll Johnston, Providencia E. Geigel Rivas, John P. Charles Donnelly _Bri lege department, Robert F. Barr. within the past five years, not now in the employ of the govern- once to the lerk at the office of the 24 F street. northwest. ment, she certification” commission, 20 TO GET DIPLOMAS. Columbia University Announces Fall Commencement Tomorrow. Fall tomorrow evening at The graduates are: High school de- partment—Clarenca Martin Jacob Milwit, Henry K. Jawish, Fred- Fitzgerald, Christopher C. Murphy, Frederick F. Ball, Anna B. Cajigas, John J. Sirica, Alberta Guz- Adelina Emeterio G. Villalon, C. L. Dacanay, Hubert junior —_— should report at commencement exercises of the Columbia University School w tions committee tomorrow. A meeting | be held at the institution, 8061 held today by the committee, and | street, 7.30 Hughes, orenson and col- Nettie Campbell and Pttt s 105 PROVIGES” STRRIG P WAR Hungary Proposes to Keep Odenburg and Give Aus- tria Remainder. By the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, September 22.—Baron Newton of the British foreign office, who is negotiating informally with the Hungarian government for a compro=- mise of the west Hungary situation, where the disturbances are approaching anarchy, has been informed that the basis of the Hungarian proposition is to keep Odenburg and hand over to | Austria the remainder of west Hungary. Baron Newton is going on a visit to the “lost provinces” to study conditions there. Alarming news is in circulation here to the effect that warlike preparations are bemng made by Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, which are supposed 1o have decided secretly to make thelr long-planned “corridor” through west Hungary in case of armed intervention. The national assembly has been con- voked for today. Allles to Be Firm. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 21—The coun- cil of ambassadors has not yet sent its ultimatum regarding the evacua- tion of Burgenlend, awarded to Aus- tria by the treaty of Trianon to the Hungarian government, but it is un- derstood the terms of the ultimatum have been decided upon. The time limit to be given Hungary for the evacuation of Bur- genland will be ten days to a fort- night. Failure by Hungary to com- ply with the ultimatum will result in the most severe measures being used by the allies, the ultimatum will say. Strike Ties Up Rallways. 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