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- 3 b . WEATHER. Unsettled, showers tonight and probably tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 3 p.m. today—Highest, 72, at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest, Full report on page 7. Closing New York Stocks, Page 21. 68, at 7 am. 1 Fhend ’ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION | Member of the Assocfated Press THe Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwisa credited in this paper and also the local news pubiished Nerein. All rights of publieation of wpeclal d@ispatches heis are also reserved. | Yesterday's net circulation, 87,533 No. 28,2274, COVERNMENT HELD | LEDOUX IS SURPRISED RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY UNEMPLOYED Federal Employes’ Union Charges Injustice in Dis- missal of Employes. ‘PSYCHOLOGY OF UNREST,’ LAID TO FEDERAL DOORS Political Play Scored—Courageous Policy Urged at Hearing of Pres- ident’s Jobless Conference. Charges that the United States gov- ernment has thrown thousands of per- sons out of work and “spread the psychology of industrial unrest,” made by the National Federation of Federal Employes at the first hearing today of the President’s unemployment conference at the Department of Com- merce. Luther C. Steward, president of Lee federation, sought to lay a bill of par- ticulars before the conference com- mittee on unemployment statisties show- ing wherein the government has been a “contributing cause to the present work stagnation. fore he had proceeded far with the charges on the ground that they did yhot come within the scope of the com- ./ mittee’s investigation. 3 It was suggested by Chairman Harry S. Robinson of Los Angeles, who presided at the hearing, that the complaint of the federation should be submitted ‘to the committee on emer- sency state and municipal measures and public works. Mr. Steward said this course would be followed. Holds Efficiency Saerificed. In its statement, covering two type- written pages, the federation charges fuderal authorities with having rown thousands of men and women into unemployment “without intelli- sent planning, without discrimina- tion, without justification and with- ut-even the humane consideration of much as one day’s notice. ot only have the previous stand- ards of efficiency, such as they were, been sacrificed,” ‘the statement said. “but the standards of employment conditions, which the government en- forced on other employers when it took supervision over private indus- tries, are being violated by admin- strative officials who are now over- borne by the hysteria for so-called economy. + Mr. Steward sald his organization H requested the government to set up “n’ employment policy “which shall be courageous enough to resist po- litical elamor; intelligent enough to discriminate between true and false | €conomy and to continue necessary | public w wesslike enough to make adjustments for efficiency and not for spectacular political effect and just eflough to provide that em- ployes who must released shall have at least due notice of dismissal. Four Remedial Policies. ‘The National Federation of Federal nployes, he continued. stands for four remedjal policies. These are: An- nouncement of the ultimate aims of the administration as to the size of Lovernment establishments and per- <onnel; transfer of released employes in preference to new appointments from new eivil service examination: release of efficient employes to be made in order of juniority where re- ductions in force are necessary and on thirty days' notice in all cases of release. Hundreds of employes, mostly wo- men, in the bureau of engraving and printing have been laid off without notice, Mr. Steward said. He added that in many other government es- iablishments throughout the country employes have been released without arning. Four witnesses, in addition to Mr. Steward, were heard by the commit- tee on statistics, which met in the auditorium of the Commerce building. They threw considerable light on the unemployment situation in New York, Massachusetts and Minnesota. Roswel] F. Phelps, representing the department of labor and industry of believed labor itself to be responsible for much of the unemploynfent in that state. The aversion of labor to ac- cepting work at reduced wages he as signed as the principal cause of idle- nes: Improvement Reported. Conditions are showing improve- ment however, according to the Mass- achusetts witness. Some industries, he declared, are employing more men than they employed in 1914. He said.| that the peak of unemployment appar- ently was reached last May, when there were thirty-six applicants for every - position offered. Records of last week, he stated. showed only thirteen applicants for each availa- ble position. Harry G. Jacobs, of New York, gave the committee illuminating data re- garding unemployment service men in New York city. He ¢ timated the number of idle former sol- diers now living in the metropolis at 75,000, of whom, he said, approximate- 1y 40,000 were “floaters,” or transients. A survey made by the ex-service men’ employment ~ bureau, Jacobs said, showed that 75 per cent of the former! fighting men are unskilled and that| v 80 per cent of the unskilled are illit- erate, these two factors being respon- sible for their inabiflity to obtain Rel The witness said the only relief that appears to be in sight for these men is the proposal for a rehabilita- tion training camp, where they can be fitted for various kinds of service. Representing the national indus- trial conference board, R. R. Lutz presented the committee with unem- ployment figures obtained in a recent survey conducted by the board, est mating the total number of unem- ployed workers in the United States at the present time at 3,500,000 The average unemployment in normal times he estimated at 1,000,000. M. Lutz said that the most recent inquiry instituted by the conference showed that during the last half of last_month American industry gen- erally was employing from 20 to 25 per cent fewer persons than in July, 1920. < J. D. Williams, appearing for the industrial commission of Minnesota, sald the commission's estimate of unemployment in that state at the present time is approximately 42,000. Mr. Williams will present later some ggestions for relief in connection Wwith public works. Witnesses Cross-Examined. Today's hearing before the com- mittee was called to order by Samuel McCune Lindsay, chairman of the committee on public hearings, who made an announcement as to the! scope of the statistical inquiry. He then turned the meéting ‘over to + Chairman Robinson of the statistical committee, All of the witnesses were cross-ex- amined, Prof. Allyn A. Young of Har- yard University being the principal {Coptinucd on Page 2, Coumn 5.) Beta s ¢ R were | He was stopped be-: Entered as second-class matter * post_office Washington, D, C. WASHINGTON, D, C, IDEMOCRATS HOLD AT FEW JOBLESS HERE Urbain Ledoux, self-appointed lead- er and champion of the unemployed of America, who recently leaped into national fame by conducting auction sales of human beings for their serv- ices, has had two big surprises since his arrival in Washington yesterday morning. 3 The first one was his reception, a most cordial and gracious one, by President Harding at the White House office. The second one, which in reality was more of a shock than it was a surprise, was his discovery of a noticeable lack of unemployment here. Mr. Ledoux last night made a personal investigation of unemploy- ment. Dressed in old clothes and a flannel shirt and wearing a cap, Mr. Ledoux left his hotel a trifle before 2 o'clock | this morning to wander about the downtown streets—to mingle and talk with the unfortunates he would encounter about the corners and lounging on the park benches. He would get their story first hand. He was anxious to hear what the home- less man in the nation’s.capital had to say—to hear how it felt to be put of work, penniless and bedless within the shadow of the home of the Presi- dent and the Capitol. Aider Is Disappointed. But Mr. Ledoux was disappointed. i The park benches were empty. and, | although he strolled many blocks, first in one ‘direetion and then in another, he met few individuals at that late hour, and only two or three of them were unemployed. Being surprised at seeing no one sleeping on the park benches, this champion of the unemployed asked a policeman for an explanation. He was told that sleeping on the benches was not permitted. It was then nearly 3 o'clock, and it was raining. “I am out of work and broke and would like to have a place to sleep.” he told the policeman. “Is there a place for a man to go who has not the | price of a bed?" he asked. |, The policeman said 'he thought there was one” Ledoux explained, | “and he looked through the pages of SUBMARINE SINKS . INPACIFIC HARBOR I {Two Men Drowned as R-6 i Floods and Goes Down in Sixty Seconds. By the Associated Press. SAN PEDRO, Caiif., ‘September 27—~Three men are belleved to have lost their lives when the United States marine R-6 sank in the outer harbor here last night, the result of an unexplained acel- dent, it was stated at the subm: rine base here today. LOS ANGELES, September 27.—The submarine R-6, attached to the Pa- cific fleet and anchored in the outer harbor at San Pedro, sank at 10:30 o'¢lpek last night, according to in- formation received by the Los An- { geles Examiner early today. It is be- {lieved the disaster was caused by { water rushing into the submarine {through an open torpedo tube. i . Two members of the crew, J. Dref- jfen, a seaman, and an electrician named Spaulsberg, are believed to have drowned when the accident oc- curred. A landing party from the flagship New Mexico told the Examiner that they were unable to give a detailed account of the sinking, but they be- lieved that while members of crew were filling a cylinder with al- | | I |€ohol the tubes of the vessel became | ¢ Massachusetts, told the committes he |oPened in some unaccountable man- iner and she sank within sixty sec- onds. S | Lieut. I R. Chambers, who was in icommand of the submarine R-6, is {reported to have been the last man to make an ‘ape from the craft | when it sank. | marine he immediately began to aid i members of the crew unable to swim to get to lifeboats and pieces of i floating timber. i Tied to Sister Ships. | According to a story told by wit- nesses of the accident, who were aboard the tender Camden and the sister ships, the R-6 was tied up at !6 o'clock last night with two hawsers { binding her to three sister ships and itwo hawsers connecting the string of submarines with the mother ship. Prior to the disaster the entire crew, it is said, was inside the hull getting torpedoes ready for battle practice. Suddenly the rear torpedo tube apparently yielded to sea pres- fill rapidly and the members of the crew rushed for the conning tower. One of the first men to reach the out- side of the submarine was seen to cut the hawsers releasing the other sub- marines. 3 Just _as the man believed to have been Spaulsberg, who was reported drowned, reached the conning tower ladder there was what seemed to be a gas explosion and it is said the man was thrown clear of the tower, a stream of water following him. The man beljeved to have been J. Dreffen, reported drowned, never reached the tower ladder, it is said, and he is be- lieved to have gone dowmy with the boat. The R-6 was of the Holland type, built in 1918. Lieuts. S. D.-Jutt and J. M. Steel were junior officers. Twenty Men on Board. The crew of the R-6 included twenty | officérs and men. It is said that the submarine went down bow first. As !soon as the alarm was sounded search- |lights from all ships of the fleet lying at anchor in the harbor were turned on {to the scene of the disaster. | “According to the Examiner executive officers of the submarine base and the Pacific fleet were immediately called {into conference aboard the flagship New Mexico. Advices regarding the reported sinking were telegraphed to the Navy Department at Washington and prepara- tions were made for” rescue werk. Naval officials stated that an investi- gation would be started immediately to determine the responsibility for the sinking of the vessel. Divers were working in thirty-five feet of water this morning alongside the R-6, endeavoring to fix-hawsers to the craft, which would make it possible: to raise her to the surfac It was possible, according to naval men, that any one inside might have escaped to an airtight compartment, forty-eight hours. Finds President Harding Cordial at White House Call—Tells His Experiences At Seeking Bed. the i After Lieut. Chambers left the sub- ! sure and opened. The vessel began to | in which life might be sustained for~the War Department under the ad- ministration of Secretary Weeks. a small guide book, such as tourists carry to direct them to the various points of interest. He could not find its.location, but he was positive that there was a place where ‘bums' could sleep. i} “I ‘met another policeman a few blocks away, and he, after hearing my story, directed me to the munici- pal lodging house, on 12th street be- low D. 1 went there. It was dark and locked. There was no answer to my summons at the door. The build- ing is located next door to the first precinct statibn house, and several policemen were in front of the lat- er. To them I told my story and xpressed regret at the lodging house being closed. Must Get fn Before 10 P.M. “‘You must get in that place before 10 o'clock if you want a bed,’ one of them told me.” Because of my express- ed concern and my apparent plight they told me I could sit in the squad. room of the station house ‘for a while. I took advantage of this and was dozing in a chair when I was awakened by a rough shake. On looking up I saw a lieutenant standing over me. He wanted to know what 1 was doing there. 1 told him my story and of the kindness of the policemen. But I made no hit with the lieutenant. ‘Well, this is no lodging house,’ he said. ‘You will have to get out.’ ‘It's raining outside and 1 am tired ‘and sleepy and I have no place to lie down. Can’t I remain here until daybreak? 1 asked rather piti- fully. Yes, you can stay here in a cell,’ the lieutenant replied. ‘We can bring a charge against you and then place you in a cell and you can en- joy its comforts until the time ar- rives for you to go to Police Court.' “1 did not care to accept this kind invitation,” Ledoux continued. “Be sides, 1 had some important engage- ments this morning 4nd could not af- ford to miss them. 1 then walked out into the night and returned to my hotel. It was raining hard and it was nearly 4 o'clock.” Ponders Over Experiences. At his hotel today Mr. Ledoux said | he pondered longover his experiences | and_observations last night, or at| (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) ARMY RESERVE - DVISIONSPLACED 27 Created Under New Des- | - ignation by General-Staff Plans. General staff plans to-carry oit orgaf- fzation of the Army reserves provided for under existing statutes wers ‘made | public today by Acting Secretary ‘Wain- wright and show that provision has| been made for the creation of twenty- seven divisions, representing about four | and a quarter million men, in which | will be included the old war-time Na- tional Army divisions, the numbers and insignia of which will thus be pre- served. Some 500 Regular Army officers and a number of enlisted men alrcady have i been assigned to duty in connection with the project, which will be carried out by the Corps Area commanders and pro- [vide a definite place in a national de- fense system for all reserve officers and trained enlisted personnel, whether vet- |crans of the war or graduates of post war training camps. Lines to Be Followed. The organization of the reserve fol- |lows the’lines of the present Regu- lar Army corps areas._division desig- jnations being assigned as_follow | First Corps (Boston)—76th d |ion, Massachusetts: 94th, Connecti- tcut and Rhode Island; 97th, New Hampshire, Vermont and_Maine. Second Corps (New York)—77th, New York city and environs; 78th. ew Jersey and Delaware: 98th, New York state, outside of New York city. Third _Corps.(Baltimore) — 79th, | eastern Pennsylvania: 80th, Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia: 99th, western Pennsylvania. These three corps cover the lst| jArmy Area, and these reserve divi- | sions, with the three regular divisions and the six National Guard divisions | in the same territory, would consti-} tute the 1st Army in the event of | war. s- Second Army Area. The 2d Army Area contains the following reserve division allocations: Fourth Corps (Atlanta) — Eighty- | first Division, Tennessee and Nonh} Carolima; 82d Division, Georgia, South | Carolina and Florida; 87th Division, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Fifth Corps (Indianapolis)—Eighty- third, Ohio; 84th, Indiana; 100th, Ken- tucky and West Virginia. Sixth Corps (Chicago)—85th, Michi- | ®an; 86th, Illinois; 101st, Wisconsin. Third Army Area—Seventh Corps (Omaha)—88th, North Dakota, Minne- ! sota and lowa; 89th, South Dakota, | Nebraska and Kansas; 102d, Arkansas and Missouri. Eighth Corps (San Antonio)—90th, Texas; 95th, Oklahoma; 103d, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Ninth Corgs-tSan Francisco)—91st California; 96th, Washington and Ore- gon; 104th, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Mon- tana and Wyoming. ‘These Numbers to States. In allocating the designations of the | sixteen former National Army divi- sions, beginning with the 76th Divi-| sion, the plan of organization assigns| these numbers to the states which during the war furnished the major- ity of the troops who served in. the war-time divisions. The new division | designations from the 94th on to the 104th were created to take care-of | me® from the other states. l The plan contemplates organization of the resreve divisions at strength of 19,500 enl: 900 officers. It will require 42,467 re- serve officers for the organized re- serve alone. Assignment of the exist- ing force of 66,886 reserve officers to these divisions is expected to be com- pleted by next July, when enlistment of personnel will be undertaken. “When _a national emergency arises,”” said the *angouncement is- sued by Secretary Wainwright, “the units of the reserve corps di- visions will immediately begin in- tensive training and be ready for ac- tion in weeks instead of months, without the waste of time or money which was necessary in the system of mobilization in force at the begin- ning of the world war.” Commenting on the reserve organi- zation plan, Maj. Gen. Harbord, acting chief of staff, said he regarded it as the most significant ‘achievement of article ten lett out.” sdded. PEACE PACTS ARE NOT PARTY ISSUES Will Vote as Individuals on Treaties With Germany, Austria and Hungary. TALK OF AMENDMENTS; WILSON RUMOR DENIED Growing Opposition Expected to Prolong Debates, But Not Block Final Adoption. Democratci senators in conference today decided that the pesce treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary were not matters for party action. In- dividual democrats, it was said, would be left to follow their own judgment in voting on ratification. At the same time it was made plain that democratic opposition to ratifica- tion is growing. The conference ad- journed after an hour and a half of discussion without any action having been taken, and it was decided to meet again Thursday morning. Wilson Rumor Denfed. While it is reported that some of the democratic senators have talked with former President Wilson, and that Mr. Wilson gave his reason for being opposed to the Harding treaty, it was said following the conference that Mr. Wilson’s views were not brought into the discussion today. Moreover, active democratic senators, high in the party councils, denied a rumor that Mr. Wilson was organiz- ing the opposition to the ratification of the Harding treaty. : Many of the democrats continued to decline to state how they will vote on the ratification. However, addi- tional democratic senators are join- ing the opposition. Senator Willlams of Mississippi announced on the floor yesterday that he would vote against ratification. Senator Pat Harrison, nis colleague. said today that he would vote against ratification, too. Long Debate Expected. With the opposition growing, it is likely that the debate on the peace treaty with Germany will last con- siderably longer than was originally expected, It is not likely that the op- position will be able to prevent rati- fication. for many of the democrats, probably a larger number than the opposition, will vote for ratification, it Is believed, even though they do not like the treaty. Many of the democratic senators said today that they had not had time to study the treaty as ne’u'.hted by the administration and frankly declared that they desired further in- formation before they were ready to say whether they would vote for rati- fication ‘of against it. There was Gofisiderable criticism by senators{o who have read the treaty on the ground that it was drawn in a “slip- shod manner.” Talk of Reservations. The democrats. it was said, may get together on some amendments or res- ervations to the pending treaty with Germany, even though they do not adopt_a party policy with regard ta ratification. ‘Democratic members of the foreign relations committee -are already working on proposed amend- ments to the treaty. Senator Reed of Missouri was one of the outspoken critics of the treaty at the conference today. He attacked many features of the pact. Senator, Underwood, democratic lead- er, and Senator Hitchcock, it is gen- erally understood, will vote for rati- fication of the treaty even though they do not like many of the de- tails, on the ground that it is advis- able to bring about an end of the technical state of war as 800n as pos- sible. Borah Attacks Trenty. The debate on the treaty with Ger- many proceeded yesterday afternoon, with Senator Borah of Idaho speak- ing in opposition to the pact. Senator Williams of Mississippi, democratic member of the foreign relations com- mittee, announced he would vote against the treaty—not for the rea- sons advanced by Senator Borah to the effect that the treaty would re- sult in America’s becoming entangled in European affairs, but because Senator Williams believed that the new treaty was an abandonment of the allies by this country. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. re- publican leader, urged prompt ratifi- cation. Another republican “irreconcilable, Senator Brandegee of Conecticut, and Senator Lenroot, republican, Wiscon- sin, intervened in favor of ratifica- tion. Asserting that the new treaty would entangle this nation in European af- fairs, Senator Borah emphasized pre- dictions that America would be re- quired to participate in the allied reparations _commission and become linvolved in European concerns. Sena- tor, Brandegee declared against such participation. * The reparation commission was de- nounced as militaristic govern- ment” by Senator Borah, who declared Europe could never recover until the Versailles treaty had been changed. “You could have gotten out of the league, but you can’t get out of this for forty years,” Senator Borah sald, referring to the term of German in-| demnity payments. He predicted that eventually thé German people would rebel against the Versailles treaty terms. Discusses Arps CeonZerence. The new treaty would ramify into all the things that we were supposed to escape from when we escaped the league,” said Mr. Borah. “I'm not willing to purchase peace with Ger- many by the surrender of those things which will not give the people of the United States peace.”” Turning to the disarmament conference, Senator Borah said France could not be expected to disarm by land until the Versailles treaty had been executed. “Disarmament by land is impossible 80 long as the Versailles treaty con- tinues to stand as a challenge to the lessening of the military burdens of the people of Europe,” he added. Senator declared that from his information as a foreign reiations committee member he was “satisfied the administration policy is to go into the reparation commission.” Refers to Versafiles Treaty. “This treaty is the Versallles treaty, in the President’s mind, with reserva. tions,” Senator Borah contifiued. “He was always for going in with reser- vations. The President now thinks that the only practical way to deal with the situation Is to become a member of the reparations commis- sion.” v Describing: Secretary Hughes as ‘“‘able, adroit and far seeing,” Senator Borah said the Secretary of State had “pursued a course which would take u‘\.m, into the league of nations with nd-he’s on his way,” Mr. Borah TUESDAY, - SEPTEMBER 27, 1921 -TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. THIS SHOULD BE THE ARMY OF THE UNEMPLOYED. The Jobless Conference Will Be a Success If It Can Put These Out of Bu ine: | Wife Offers to Slave Two Years for Person Who Will Aid Husband Special Dispatch to The Star. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. Sep- tember 27.—Mrx. Madeline Tay- lor, twenty-five ye old, of Succexs, Ark., in a letter to the Arkansas Gazette here, offers to sell herself Into mervitude for two years to any one who will place her invalid band in a ovide funds for Her hus wrote, ix a former SUGGESTS BRIDGE ACROSS CHANNEL Fine Arts Commission Would Connect Water Street With Potomac Park. A bridge across the Washington channel from Water street to East Potomac Park and a recreation pier in the channel for children were sug- gested by the Fine Arts Commission today as two projects that might he! made a part of the plan for improv- | ing the water front. : I The. suggestions were contained in| | jury to hix spine after return. ing home and had been he! since, abe waid. Her only con- dition Is that the party with whom she comtracts to give her Inbor for two years and the ture of the work be “re- spectable.” URGES EFFICIENCY SYSTEM FOR D. . fReporl of U. S. Bureau, Pro- viding Increases, to Go to Commissioners. { An efficiency system for District employes, which provides for sub- {stantial increases in salaries for | | those who show particular aptitude | and capability, is carried in the re- { port of the TUnitea States bureau of efficiency on reclassification of Dis trict employes, which is to be laid ! before the Commissioners late today i a letter addressed by the commigsion | to the J. Maury Dove Company, & cOpy of which was sent to the District Cadl:mlu'_;lon:;: E Jeclaring. the actiof 4# Hers in m& 2 “cleaning up theé -water fromt” I interpreted by the business men of Washington indicating an inten- tion on the part of the Commissioners 10 decrease and pagsibly prohibit use of the water front for commercial purposes, the National Rivers and Harbors Congress also forwarded to- v a letter to the District Commis- sioners protesting against proposed curtaitment of commercial use of the river front. The letter cites figures to show the amount spent on improving the chan- nel to fit it for commercial purposes, and to illustrate the amount of ton- nage which comes to Washington by water. The letter from the Fine Arts Commission was “accompanied’ by a note from Col. Clarence Q. Sherrill, secretary of the fine arts organiza- tion, commending the District Com- missioners “for their determined stand” in the water front matter and expressing the hope that the improve- ments will be accomplished at an (. ESTIMIATES Up Four Departments. fiscal vear were taken former Senator Sherman, up today ISusie Root Rhodes, supervisor of 3 v date. B Commiss Leiter. grounds, also conferred wth Mr. Sher- The commission’s letter, i {man. follows: 1M PArL ) These estimates, it is understood, call “The President and Commissioners who laid out the city of Washington reserved for public uses the entire water front of the Potomac river and Eastern branch, together with the vacant,space left adjacent thereto (as showp on the L‘Enfant, Ellicott and Dermott maps), to form a street. to be called Water stree:, 1or convenient access to such docks and wharves as might be constructed in the interests of commerce. and navigation of the city, which street should form the southern boundary of the city. Such being the decision of the Supreme Court, Congress placed the custody of the vacant space in the control of the District Commissioners, who are now undertaking to regulate the use thereof in the interests of the public. “The plan of 1901 contemplates that ' Water street, with its unusual width, should form a portion of the series of boulevards and parkways encircling the cify.. This development is not in- consistent with commercial uses of the water front—such uses as are rep- resented by the municipal fish mar- kets and the landings of river steam- ers, provided always that the property be maintained in an orderly condi- tion. ~ B |licemen, erection of two mnew poli | stations, apparatus, acquisition of a number additional playgrounds and ! health department. Increased Police Force Wanted. Enlargement of the personnel of t police force is lcoked upon by t ! than it wasbefore the population of t the war. Not only has the city grown rapid in the pas of the development of serious problems. i With regard to the motorization the fire department, it is pointed o that Washington is now particular. of engine houses, especially suburbs, where must be lepended upon to hai heavy apparatus over long and hil routes. < More Playgrounds Urged. The Commissioners feel that mo; playgrounds are a necessity now as Opnosed Powerhouse. “This commission did oppose with vigor the erection 6n the water front of a powerhouse. Such action was based on the fact that in its very na- ture a powerhouse would be a dis- turbing and dominating feature in a park area. “This commission has noted with satisfaction that the Commissioners of the District of Columbia have en- ‘tered upon-.the systematic develop- ment and improvement of Water street in such manner as to make it a satisfactory connection between the (Continued on Page 2, Column'2.) Today’s News in Brief Woodrow Wlluoln improveldhiin ;!Qllll(h d anniversary o is break- ; vt 2 Page 3|Congress a book of official lette With the small to seek recrea LETTERS BY PRESIDENTS BEARING ON WASHINGTO! / ‘Lleut. Col. €. O. Sherrill, officer charge ~of public buildings INDER SCRUTINY Ex-Senator Sherman and | Commissioner Oyster Take Estimates for the operation of the police, fire, health and playground de- partments of the District for the next by representing the budget bureau, and Commissioner | vancement to those who give the closest | Oyster, who supervises those agencies. District Auditor Donovan and Mrs. ifor an increase in the number of po- purchase of more motor fire the usual appropriations for the running of the { Commissioners asi an urgent necessity since the force is not much larger no city jumped into high figures during few vears, but the work the police deépartment has been made heavier by the passage of the i prohibition enforcement law and by traflic s far behind other cities of the same size in ghis There are still a number in the the faithful horse means of keeping children off the} thoroughfares, where scores are in- jured annually in traffic accidents. number of play- grounds now in operation, there are hundreds of children who have no place but the busy streets in which and grounds, has transferred to the man- uscript “division ‘of the Library of lyictory notes overshadowed all other or tomorrow morning. The experts of the bureau of ef- today by working out a table w | wéll show the percentages of in- creases that it is proposed the Dis. ! trict Commissioners can pay for dem. onstrated merit in excess of the in- creases recommended by the reclas- | sifiers. As a general rule, this will show a percentage of increase about double the percentage of increase recommended in the reclassification { schedule. The outstanding feature of the ef- ficiency bureau’s report will be that increases in salary are badly needed in the Disirict service, where, it is ladmitted, the present salary sched- | ules are’far below those in the de- partmental service. Wage Increases Optior 1t is recognized by the District Com missioners and by the efficicncy bureau jthat the establishment of a merit sys- {tem will be valuable in building up the working force in the District offices, and will aid materially in giving ad- jattention to their work. The increase in salary that it is pro- {poscd shall be optional with the Com- { missioners, giving them authority te i recognize merit, are shown in the range jof salaries within grades in the Smoot- Wood bill, which the efficiency bureau itook as a basis for its computation of salaries after allocating the various em- i ployes to their respective grades. The opportunities for winning this jincrease in each office of the District {government will be shown in a sepa- {rate table, which can be readily co pared with the table showing the in- creases recommended. May Use Schedule as Basis. There is every probability that the i budget bureau will use the salary | schedule carried in the efficiency bu ! reau’s report as a basis in pre he | paring the alternative budget. According to a ruling of the budget | bureau the District Commissioners | could not use this report, éven if they had it months ago, as a basis for computing their annual estimates. | The budget bureau held the Commis. sioners must send in their estimates on the basis of the old law. But when the budget bureau ioes before the House appropriations committee with its alternative budget it is prac- tically assured that the reclassifica- tion schedule will be used. The reclassification repori, which is now ready for the Commissioners, will supply them the information which { will enable them to bring the salaries {of the District employes up to the level of those other employes of the government in the departmental serv- ice. as planned in the Smoot-Wood bill, This is the first attempt that has been made to bring the salaries of the District workers up to a level ce of he he 1y of ut ul 1y re a i the various departments. —_— ENORMOUS PURCHASES OF LIBERTYS AND VICTORYS Buying Overshadows All Other Dealings on the Stock Exchange. NEW YORK, September 27.—Further enormous purchases of liberty bonds and in rs [dealings on the stock exchange this Consolidated Press Association moves|fror2 the Presidents of the United jmorning. The first hour's sale of bonds offices into Star building. Page Arbuckle again center of interest at police hearing. . Page & Fallure of Greeks to,defeat Kemal:|7 ists reopens old tangle in near.east. {3’ “pyler, 1; Taylor, 1; Fillmore, : Page 7|Pjerce, 1; Buchanan, 4; and Johnson Article’ 27 “held non-retroactive by Mexican court. of which Washington wrote reply to his note. ¥ Chicago begins proceedings against patrolmen accused of bootlegging. . ~ Page 13 inisters’ association in Baltimore ud:‘m:nrd! removal of Edmund Bud- nits, prohibition director. Page 13 s regarding MId-Cit$ Association urges bullding |ing tne Capitol of homes on vacant lots in_down-lafter their @estruction in 1814. town residential section. Page 1. Argentina “ elated over hous¢ and the Capitol. =i Georgetown University. Page 28 of W lhi‘nsmn itself, 3| States relating to the city of Wash- ington. There are 122 of these lzlte!-; 5 John Adams, 6; Jefferson, 37; Madison, ; Monroe, 1; Jackson, 1; Van Buren, “The Washingtton letters, with one Page 10 éxciwtl&n. '?‘tve .beelns pr‘in(ted’r:y llel:e X wviet's | Columbia Historical Society. The let- O e Semter e 1 et 2 tera Trom Jefferson are uearly all in his own handwriting, and in one of his letters to Latrobe he gives particular direction in regard to the work to be done on the President’s l ‘l'here! ‘g‘o an especially significant letter of Mon- o revariity the work of rebuild- and the White House ‘Ml of the letters express deep in- successful | terest and intimate concern which negotiation.of loan in U. S. Page15|the various Presidents have taken Senator Wadsworth praises R. 0. T.C. lin the public buildings and in the city approximated $6,000,000, and fully 75 per cent of this was represented by United States government Issues. Al- most all domestic war flotations rose to highest quotations of the year, but the feature was the victory 4%s. which advanced to 99%. This issue was taken in blocks run- ning from small amounts to_$250,000 and $400.000. One lot of $1,000,000 changed hands. MOOR ATTACK REPULSED. the Associated Press. MELILLA, September 27.—Moorish tribesmen yesterday launched a vig- orous. attack upon a Spanish' convoy proceeding into the eastern zone of hostilities from this city, it is an- nounced officially. The attack, how- ever. was repulsed and the Moors . were driven off, with heavy losses. . ficiency are polishing off their report | h i comparable with the salaries paid in | WO CENTS. NEW GRISIS FACED BY GERMANY OVER PAYING WAR DEBT Government Likely to Flatly Admit Inability to Meet $238,000,000 Instaliment. WIRTH CABINET EXPECTED TO HAND IN RESIGNATION Reichstag Opens Session to Consid- er U. S. Peace Treaty and Tax Problems. BY GEORGE WITTE. t The Star and Chic News. Copsright, BERLIN, September —The fiat statement that Germany will be un- able to pay the next instailment of the war indemnity, 1,000,000.000 gold marks ($238,000,000), which falls due {in a few months, is expected to be made in the reichstag this week by the government, according to infor- mation emanating from banking cir- cles and given general credence. For that reason it is also expected that the Wirth cabinet will hand in its resignation at the same time, make room for a ministry headed by the moderately reactionary Gustav Stresemann, leader of the German people’s party, who balked at signing Jhe allied ultimatum last spring, but ®ho during the war was a zealous ad- vocate of the Kaiser's ruthless sub- marine warfare. May Receive Reward. If these predictions come true Herr Stresemann will receive the reward of his six months of intriguing against Chancellor Wirth. He has even suc- ceeded in swinging the social demo- crats away from Wirth. At last week's convention he succeeded in establish- ing a coalition between his party and the social democrats, the latter re- nouncing its few remaining Marxian principles and adopting a creed that before the war would have been called conservative. Just what course the new govern- ment will take in the indemnity ques- tion is quite uncertain. Walter Rathe- nau, however, will retain his post as | minister of reconstruction, because of his skill in negotiating with the French minister of reconstruction, M. Lou- cheur. By Wirc Expeeted to;Blogk Treaty. It is hinted that Rathenau may have | been selected to play the same part in the present crisis that Mathias Erz- |berger did when the armistice was signed; in other words, Rathenau ix to do the unpleasant work, aud then if things go wrong the blame is to be put on him. The Strésemann party is aiso expect- ed to delay‘the ratification of the peace treaty with the United States, which {is one of ‘the most important subjects | before the reichstag at its present ses- | sion. 1 | REICHSTAG SESSION OPENS. | By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September legislation awaited reichsiag when —Important action by the it reconvened here today. this session of the German | parliament being considered as the | most important held since the treaty |of Versailles was signed. Ratification |of the peace treaty with the United | States and a tax measure (o bring or- | der out of chaos prevailing in Ger- | many’s finances were on the calendar, iahd there threatened to be partisan lacerbities as a resujt of the assas- | sination early this fhonth of Mathias Erzberger, former vice chancellor. Interest centered today in the pro- posed reconstruction of the Germa cabinet, and it was expected the iwnuld be a proposal that the present coalition would be extended by the iinclusion of representatives of the | German people’s party. There seemed to be some probability that this could not be brought about without pa ‘tisan bitterness, in view of the ho. tility to Chancellor Wirth, which h: |been manifested by an influentiul igroup of the German people’s party ‘The attitude of Gustav Stresemann was one of the most interesting fe tures of the situation today. | The majority socialists continued | to assert their allegiance to the chan- {cellor, despite his announced readi- | ness to co-operate in a government in { which the German people’s party was epresented. Party leaders conferred with Chan- ellor Wirth yesterday, without reach- {ing a decision regarding the recon- i struction of the cabinet or a division of the portfolios between the four participating parties. Herr Streh- imann continued as an aspirant to the post of foreige minister and the Ger- man peoples’ party was backing him in his campaign. { The date for ratifying the Amer- jcan peace treaty had not been fixed today. The government desires 1o have the issue disposed of without ex- tended parliamentary debate, but it { was declared today that it was not de- | sirous of anticipating the vote on tie treaty in the United States Senate. Trading in the bourse yester v was feverish, the mark being quoted at 117% and the volume of trading being unprecedented. The Abenblatt designated the present hectic move- ment of quotations as “the prelude ir the coming great cras| —_— ALLEGED BANK BANDIT FOUND AND RECOGNIZL After two months’ silent “digging” on the case of the robbery of the Georgia avenue branch of the Peo- |ple's Saving Bank, Detectives Kelly {and Scrivener today brought Phillip { Rudolph Greenfield from _Savannah, Ga., on a_warrant charging him with robbery of the bank, July 18. He w: identified by bank offigials today as the man wanted. | The robbery was a spectacular affair, {in which a lone bandit in broad day- light entered the bank, held up Cash- ier Ernest Brown at pistol point, and escaped with approximately $960 after an exciting chase through the streets of the northwest section in the vicin- ity of Georgia avenue. . Kelly and Scrivener were put to work ~ by Inspector of Detectives Grant on the case immediately. a word was mentioned of their tivities. They started on their hunt for clues. They discovered that Greenfleld had a wife in Savannah, who was in ill health and in urgent need of funds. They discovered that Greenfield, who had no visible means of support, had left the city imme- diately after the hold-up, it is_said. and had gone to Savapnah. There he rented a bungalow and sent his wife to a hospital. 3 When, after almost two months work they had run this line out, othe clues were run down. Greenfield's for- mer activities were investigated. It was found that he had been in the military service. When the prisoner grrived he was immediately taken to police headquar- ters. grhere Ing@-ator Grant confronted Rim. S z . i |