Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1921, Page 2

* DEFENDS PURPOSES OFKULKLUXKLAN Harry B. Terrell Sends Letter and Pamphlet to Members of Congress. Every member of Congress was in re- ceipt today of a long letter and printed pamphlets espousing the cause of- the iKu-Klux Klan, which were sent out Monday and yesterday by Harry B. Ter- rell, grand goblin of the Capital Domain, Realm of the District of Columbia, whose offices are 801-804 Munsey build- ing. The purport of the letter is stated in the closing paragraph, which says it is the desire of the organization to put in the possession of the various members of Congress what the order stands for, nasmuch as libelous statements of what it is not have been made.” Any additional information possible will be furnished upon request; it is promised. Charges Styled Untruthful. ‘The letter in part reads: “We do not think it amiss to point out that the unfavorable publicity the order 1s being given is through so-called ‘men’ who had been expelled from the order for violaticns of their obligations or of the rules of the order. For ‘thirty pieces of siiver these men (?) have exposed the secret ritual of the order. Realizing that the ritualistic work aione would interest few, and in order to make their alleged exposes ‘stand up,’ these men have coupled the secret work of the order with untruthful allegations. ropaganda has been manufactures from the fact that Catholics, Jews and negroes are not eligible for mem- Dership in the order. While we ‘wage war’ on these classes no more than do either of the three on white Protest- ants, we claim in all fairness that white Protestants have an equal right with negroes, Jews and Catholics to organize a secret order if they de- sire. Only Catholics are eligible for membership in the Knights of Co- Jumbus: the B'nai Brith is open only to Jews; and the negro has many secret orders admitting only the col- ored races. All these were organized long before the Knights of the Ku- Klux Klan. No Klansman Indicted. “It is a significant fact that while the: ememles, of the order have charged it with violations of the law, no evidence has yet been submitted to a grand jury sufficient to obtain the indictment of klansmen. Every Ylansman is sworn to uphoiu law and order. We deny that we have violat. ed the law or that we are organized for the .purpose of violating it, or _we have any intention of doing but ‘we insist that native-born, gentile, American citizens of character, who owe no al- leglancge of any nature to any foreign sovereign, havé a right to enjoy, un- molested, whatever benefits may ac- crue to them through the organiza- ‘tion of a secret, fraternal society.” PROPOSE KLAN INQUIRY. that: 80; white, good Georgetown Colored Citizens Ask for Government Action. The Georgetown Civic Association, eolored, unanimously asked for fed- eral investigation into the Ku-Klux Klan at a meeting last night at the Phillips School. G. A. Parker intro- duced the resolution. A scholarship at Hamilton College, 27 3 ¥nnual banquet of the organization, Wwhich includes in its membership more than 140 colored business and professional men. The banquet will ke held at Odd Fellows' Hall, George- town, December 22. EKLANSMEN OFF JURY. TPwo Veniremen Dismissed on Ad- )nitting to Be Ku-Klux. MUSKOGEE, Okla., September Questions as to whether they were members of the Ku-Klux Klan were directed to prospective jurymen here by counsel for a negro charged with jarceny of live stock. Three venire- man were said to have admitted mem- bership in_the klan and two were dis- missed. Judge B. B. Wheeler ruled that in the future the question would not be permitted unless so worded 4s to eliminate definite reference to the organl*flom | KU-KLUX DENOUNCED. 2 CHICAGO, September_ 28.—Resolu- tions denouncing the Ku-Klux Klan as un-American were adopted and a eommittee to co-operate with federal and other investigators of the klan was appointed at the national con- ention of Order of Alhambra, MKnights of Columbus, which closed “here last night. Officers elected were “as follows: Supreme commander, John T. Ryan of Buffalo, N. Y.; vice isupreme commander, Joseph P. Mc- Sweeny, Rochester, N. Y.; supreme iscribe, A. B. Nubaer, Albany, N. Y. *The next convention goes to Boston. PROBE OF THE KU-ELUX. .= 1t any investigation is to be made ot the Ku-Klux Klan in the District of Columbia it should be made by the TUnited States attorney, rather then /by the Senate District committee, ac- cording to_Senator King of Utah, a member of the District committee. Senator King_ said also_ that in his opinion the Ku-Klux Klan in the states should be dealt with by the states rather than by the federal gov- ‘ernment. MAIL BOX DRIVE * GIVEN BIG BOOST Carrier Yingling Leaps Into Lead by Getting 50 Prom- ises Within 24 Hours. Carrier M. Yingling of the Georg: town branch post office today leaped into the lead in the “Mail Box” week' contest, having,. seeured within the past twenty-four hours an even. fifty promises of residents to install re- ceptacles at their front doors. . Carriers of the main office, however, Jed the fleld as to districts, having brought in 143 promises as compa: with 140 by carriers of the Georgetown branch. The grand total secured dur- fng the twenty-four hours ended at noon today was 853 promises, as com- pared with 386 secured the first day. _ Other individual leaders and their day's records follow: E. A. Karweise, LChevy Chase, 49 promises; C. E. Bird, Takoma Park, 46; P. A. Mertz, Wood- ridge, 39; J. J. Foley, Connecticut ave nue, 22; D. M. Stewart, Anacostia, 1! W. T. Polk, Brightwood, 17; T. L. Baker, Georgetown, 17; A. F. Burgess, Central, 15; J. F. Clarke, 3 14; F. D. Law, Chevy Chase, 14; S. F. Patterson, Brightwood, 14; H. U. Wil- kinson, Anacostia, 13; H. A. Maxwell, Central, 11; C. W. Preston, Park road, . 71, and John Hart, Central, 10. Records of other stations follo Pennsylvania avenue station carriers, Anacostia, 48; Brightwood, 62; 45;- Connecticut H 7 64: Takoma Park, 59; U street, ’ 44, and Woodridge, 55. | red | agTeement. » Would Irnclude Tests on Bible and Shakespeare In Bar Examinations | bar s compelied to pass . fons oy the Bible and of such examinations ,as pre- requisite to the taking of the - bar examination ' proper, and recommends also that candidates be quizsed on Blackstone's Com- mrentarien. “The source of all law is real- 1y the Bible, while Shakespeare: pointedly brings out the foibl of the law,” declares Mr. Id- dings. _Blackstone’s Commen- taries, he says, should be read by every lawyer at some time during -his career, for “it must ever remaim the gremtest ex- 1 the reading and study xreat literary master- ARMS PARLEY FUND REACHES $19011 Citizens” Committee Reports Cash Received for Enter- tainment of Visitors. The fund belng raised by the citi- zens' central committee to pay for this city’s share in the welcoming and entertainment, of the international visitors who will be here during the armament conference was $19,011 at noon today. When Milton E. Ailes, chairman of the committee raising the fund, made this announcement today he said he fully expected to announce by Satur- day the subscription of the $25,000 the total amount set by the commit. tee as being necessary for the pur- pose. He explained that several classes of local business houses had delayed making their subscriptions, or else the total amount would have been raised before now. He expects, however, that theae firms will respond within the next day or so. Banks Respond Liberally. Attention was called today by Joshua Evans, jr, chairman of the subcommittee in charge of soliciting among the banks, to the fact that the latter have responded in a splendid manner. He said that of the total thus far received more than $4,000 had been subscribed by the banks and_trust companies. 7 The committee is pleased also with the generous response being made by the retail merchants of the city, who are being personally solicited by a large subcommittee headed by Charles J. Columbus, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation. The subscriptions and the amounts received by the committee since noon ! Sanitary Grocery 0 Citizens’ Bank, $25; Anacpstia Bank, E Moore's Theater Corporation, $100; J. Maury Dove Coal Company, $50; J. Ed- ward Chapman, $50; Allegheny Coal Company, $50; William King & Son, $25; Mrs. Mary K. Bayly, $10; King's Palace, $100; La Fayette Hotel, $150: Franklin Square Hotel, $100; nental Trust. $100; the Hoffman Co. Inc., $25; McKenney & Flannery, $100, and Park Savings Bank, $50. Grand total, $19.011, The Capitol, Pan-American building, Lincoln Memorial and other out- standing types of architecture in the National Capital will be brilliantly illuminated for the opening of the arms conference if present plans of the citizens’ committee can be carried out. Elaborate Illumination Scheme. Howard Reeside, chairman of the subcommittee on illumination, and W. d’Arcy Ryan, expert on electrical displays, have worked out an elabo- rate scheme for the District, but the 1imited funds available probably will force them te curtail their plans. Mr. Ryan will come to the city to- morrow from New York to reach a decision with Mr. Reéside as-to just what features will be possible with the amount of money available. One suggestion now considered is to have forty-eight different colored searchlights casting their rays into the sky with the Capitol in the fore- ground of the scene—one light for each state {n the Union. The Pan-American building, which is to be the meeting place of the diplomats, will be bathed in a har- mony of light, and the Lincoln Me- morial will be similarly treated. At a meeting in the office of Com- missioner Rudolph yesterday after- noon it was decided to stage the illumination display two nights, No- vember 11 and 12. HEAR THAT LEAGUE MAY DIVIDE SILESIA (Continued from First Page.) but with a view to alding Bolivia's economic development. The representatives of France and Great Britain were summoned by Lord Robert Cecil, representing South Africa, yesterday either to present proposals for the reduction of arma- ments, if they had any, or to cease ob- structing the projects put forward by others. The committee on disar- mament of the league of nations was discussing a resolution proposed by Lord Robert and Signor Schanzer of Italy, which read: “The assembly resolves that the temporary fixed commission be asked to make general proposals for the reduction of armamenmts, which, in order to secure precision, should be in the form of a draft, treaty or other equally definite plan to be presented to the council, if possible, before the assembly of t year.” H. A. L. Fisher, Great Britain, and H. Reynald, France, opposed this resolution, because, they sai t was impossible at the present time to en- ter into a treaty on this subject with the United States and Russia. The form of a treaty might eventually be ‘best, but it would be better, they con- tended, to postpone the resolution un. til next year; regional arrangement: would possibly be the first step, de- veloping gradually into a general Deeision on Treaties. Political treaties bearing upon in- ternational relations are the only con- ventions which must be registered with the secretariat of the league of na- tions, according to a decision sub- mitted to the assembly of the league by its constitutional committee to- day. The committee presented an i terpretative resolution to the effect that rticle XVIII, directing that international engage- ments l‘:lh_ cn ;n r-gltstemd, does not_require ng of agreement of & technical or administrative na- ture. ‘The assembly this morning discussed the report of the committee on the white slave traffic It adopted a resolution approving the conclusions of the Geneva conference, asking delegates having the power to do so the convention, and urging t treaties or to sign 'k | those not having this power to de- mand it from their governments im- mediatelye Col. Herron Will Command ' Reorganized 110th, Which Served Overseas. Overseas veterans who represented | the District of Columbia in the fleld artillery during the recent war are being sought to assist in the reorgani- zation and perpetuation of the 110th Field Artillery, 29th Division, known as the Blue and Gray Division. One hattalion of this organization is to be organized in Washington as a part of the District National Guard, under the direction of the officers who were with the outfit when tne world war broke ‘and were with it overseas. The other battalion, to be a part of the Balti- more, Md., National Guard, has negrly completed its organization. Lieut. Col. Leroy W. Herron, who commanded the 1st Battalion during the war, it was learned, is to be the colonel in command of the 110th, which will comprise both the Wash- ington and Baltimore organizations. Capt. Louis C. Vogt, also a District field artillery officer, is to be lleuten- ant colonel, and second in command. ' Activity in Reorganization. Active efforts to bring the District organization into existence now are being made. A recruiting statlon is to bo operied immediately at the District National Guard Armory, 472 L street northwest, where applications for en- 1istment will be received. In addition, a number of the “vets” are out scout- ing for their war-time comrades, and hope to enlist them. The recruiting squads at this time are merely taking signed applications, as the organiza- tion cannot be mustered until there is a minimum of fifty men ready. ‘When this number is reached they will be mustered into the guard. The officers are particularly anxious that as many as possible of the old “non-coms” and specialists be enrolled to form a nucleus for a battery. Judg- ing from the spirit being shown by the former members, it will not be long before the entire battalion will be ready for muster into the service. Lieut. Hallock P. Long will com- mand Battery A; Lieut. Mutersbaugh, Battery B, and Lieut. Dudley Browne, Battery C of the local outfit, while Maj. Hunter T. Boyd will command the Baltimore battalion. History of Local Artillery. The history of the local artillery has been an active one. It was one of the finest outfits In the local guard before the big war, and before its entrance there saw service on the Mexican border. It had been out of the federal service but a few months when, July 25, 1917, it 'was mobilized at Camp Meigs, in this city. Battery A was under the command of Capt. Vogt, and Battery B, under command of First Lieut.’later €apt Moorhead, who was relieved by Cap Bonnett. Battery A, later followed by the cavalry squadron and Battery B. left for Camp McClellan, Anniston, in September, 1917, -Battery A being the first line outfit to land at camp. There they were reorganized to form the 1st Battalion of the 110th Field Artillery, the 2nd Battalion coming from Baitimore; Batteries A and B were reunited to form Battery A, 110th, and the surplus men and the squadra were _reorganized to form Batterfes B and C, 110th. The 110th Jormed part of the 54th Brigade, Field Artillery, of the #9th (Blue and Gray) Division, commanded respec- tively by Col. Bowie, Gen. Rafferty and Gen. Morton. ' Maj. Herron was given command of the Ist Battalion and Capt. Vogt of the reunited Bat~ tery A. Ordered Overseas. In May, 1918, the regiment re- ceived orders to go overseas, and Battery A, then commanded by Capt. Runkle, embarked at Baltimore on the U. S. S. Keemun, and, after cross- ing England, landed at Cherbourg, France, on July 17, 1918. Then followed periods of _training at Voulle, Meucon, Grand, Manois, Berg- le-roi and Richecourt. At Grand they were ready for action, but rumor says that when the kaiser heard that Battéry A was ready to fire he quit cold and signed the armistice be- fore they could fire a shot. ment re-embarked at Saint Nazaire on May 11, 1919, on the U. S. S. Orizaba, and arrived at Newport News a week or so later. After delousing and a short period at Camp Meade, and a triumphal march_through Baltimore and Washington, they were mustered out on June 2, 1919. 3 MINERS ORDERED 0 RESUME WORK Vote of Convention Instructs Kansas Union Leader to Stop Strike. By the Associated Press, INDIANAPOLIS, September 28— Alexander Howat, president of the Kansas miners, was directed today by the convention 6f the United Mine ‘Workers of America to order strikers at the Dean &nd Reliance mines to re- turn to work. The convention decl- sion became a certainty before the polling of the delegates was com- plete. Unofficlal figures gave a majority against Howat when the Alabama delegates threw most of their votes to the administration recommenda- tion favoring the order for resump- tion of work. At that time about 600 more votes remained to be cast, but the margin for the order, it was said, exceeded his figure. The delegates were unaware that a final decision had been reached and made no demon- stration, the balloting continuing. Howat Refuses to Obey. Howat in a statement later indi- cated he would nvt obey the con- vention decision. He said. “The action taken by the conven- tion is not going to alter our posi- tion in the least. We are standing as we have from the beginning, and the only way we will advise the men to return to work is under the same customs and conditions that prevailed before the mines closed.” The convention's .action was an in. dorsement of the administration poli- cies of President Joha L. Lewis and other " internationak:efficers, who, in| asking fayorable: action by the con- vention, asserted that such would demonstrate that the union requires its men to fulfill their contracts. Howat and the anti-administration element had opposed the action, con- tending that the operators sought to force a change of working conditions upon the strikers. Starting with a majority of 230 votes when the balloting was re-. sumed, the administration forces ob- tained an unbeatable majority in the convention by districts Nos. 17, 18, 19 and 20 voting heavily agains! He District No. 17 comprise; tucky and Tennessee; district No. 19: is, the province of Alberta in Canada. and district No. 20 is the organized field of Alabama. MAJ. OPIE IS NAMED. RICHMOND, Va.. September 28— Gov. Westmoreland Davis tonight an: nounced that he had appointed Maj. il;n)m L. Ople, fantry inthe Virginia onal Gt to command the second regiment, mAjeh is just about completed, = “"TAX REVISION MEASURE Senator McNary Proposes Repeal of Levy on Railroad [ Tickets. Consideration of the tax revision bill was continued in the Senate today, with many uncontested amend- ments adopted. Senator McNary, republican, of Oregon offered an amendment pro. Viding for the repeal of the taxes on transportation. It is planned to have the Senate meet at 11 o'olock each day in order to expedite the passage of the tax bill. Changes to Be Offered. During the consideration of the bill n the Senate yesterday notice was given by Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking democratic mem- ber of the flnance committee, that sweeping and radical amendments would be offered by the minority. He added that if the sponsor for the manufacturers’ sales tax would accept those amendments, serious considera- tion would be given to such a sales tax as a part of the democratic scheme, provided such a levy would prove necessary in order to raise the needed revenve. Republicans Also Object. Objections to specific sections of the bill came from the republican as well as the democratic side of the chamber, and Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, a republican member of the agricultural “bloc,” proposed amendments to the income surtax provision, under which existing rates would be continued up to 50 per cent on incomes exceeding $100,000, with an alternate proposal of a 50 per cent levy on incomes of from $100,- 000 to $300,000. and a 60 per cent rate on those above $300,000. The amendments to be offered by the democrats, Senator Simmons con- tinued, would be designed to ‘“pro- duce something like uniformity of taxation between the different classes and groups of taxpayers in this coun- try, and will remedy some of the class discriminations which reek throughout the bill. He added that “the favoritism which this bill dis- plays toward the corporations of the country and against the partnerships and individuals is so great that most of the partnerships will dissolve to incorporate, and every individual in the country who can, if possible, would like convert his operations into corporate form.” I. C. C. REVEALS PLAN FOR CONSOLIDATION OF RAILROAD LINES (Continued from First Page.) and West Point, Charleston and Western rolina, Louisville and Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga and 8t. Louie; Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis: Western Railway of Ala- bam: Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac; Norfolk Southern; Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic; Winstton- Salem southbound, Florida East Coast, Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio. Georgia and Florida, Gulf, Mobile and Northern and Mississippi Central. Digest of Ripley Report. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion report, which is a digest of a re- port submitted by Prof. E. Z. Ripley of Harvard University, says the Rip- ley report recommends that the Rich- mond, Fredericksburg nad Potomac and Florida East Coast retain their present status without inclusion in any system. Inclusion of the Washington and Old Dominion railroad, which parallels the Potomac river from Winchester, Va., to Potomac yards at Alexandria, in the proposed Lackawanna-Nickel Plate system has been urgently re- commended by competent authorit the Ripley report says. New col struction of fifty miles of road paral- lel to the Potomac, would afford ac- cess for both the Baltimore and Ohio and the Western Maryland directly to Potomac yards, thus avoiding con- gestion at Washington. The concen- tration of northbound and southbound traffic at Washigton by the meeting of all lines from the north, as well as the south, renders it imperative that the tunnels, both at Washington and Baltimore, be relieved of all possible overhead business. Desirability of some such relief, the report says, made itself felt during federal ad- ministration, and was not satisfac- The regi- i torily provided by diversion of traffic to the Norfolk and Western at the Hagerstown gateway. MISSING TWO MONTHS, FOUND NEAR NORFOLK William A. Spencer Traveled in Open Boat With Daughter, Seek- ing to Regain His Health. William A. Spencer, forty vears old, graduate of Yale, former officer In the chemical warfare service and resident of this citv for a number of years, who had been missing for two months with his ten-year-old daughter. Cora, has been found near Norfolk, Va., ac- cording to reports from that city last night. He spent most of the time in an open boat in Chesapeake bay, in an en- deavor to recover his health, which had been impaired through work, and in surveying geological formations of the surrounding territory. He an- nounced his intention of writing a report on soil formations end fossil rflemalnl discovered along the Potomac ver. For several weeks his wife and four children, who had been living in Balt{- more, and ]ater came to this city for a visit at the home of Mrs. George Halsey, 615 M street northeast, had no word of Mr. Spencer's whereabouts. As a result they requested the police to institute a search for him. Mr. Spencer said that he had written his wife during the trip, using the Balti- more address, but the mail apparently was not forwarded. MULES PERISH IN FIRE. ATLANTA, September 28—Fire that swept through a portion of the stock- yards district on Marietta street here early today caused damage to half a dozen bulldings and resulted in the loss of a large number of mules. Po- lice estimated that 75 to 100 mules were burned up and the total loss was placed around $100,000. |SENATE STILL CONSIDERS |PASS 1920 RECORD IN SCHOOL ENROLLMENT Public Schools Show Total of 62, 283 Pupils Registered, the Au- thorities Report. Enrollment records in the District public schools have been shattered, as predicted. Statistics given out by school authorities today show that at the beginning of the second week of the new term 62,283 children were en- rolled in the schools, or nearly 1,300 more than the highest mark reached last year. ‘The new enrollment record, how- ever, came sooner than school of cials had expected. The highest en roliment last year, which'was 61,994, was not attained until December, the fourth month of the school year. The excess number of pypils ip the schools at the beginning of this week over the number at the same period last year is 3.340. Approximately half of the surplus enrollment is in the high schools. In the elementary schools the excess enrollment is 1,692, The number of students in the re- spective high schools follo tral, 2,972, an increase of 215 over beginning' of the second week school last year; Tech, 1,462, an crease of 379; Business, 1,258, an in- crease of 84; Eastern, 874, an in- crease of 214; Western, 863, an in- crase of 106; Armstrong, 826, in in- crease of 235, and Dunbar, 1,452, an increase of 174. The Columbla Junior High School has 615 pupils enrolled and the Shaw Junior High School, 381. The two normal schools show an in- crease of 100 over last year. —_— OFFICIALS SUPPORT PRESIDENT’S STAND ON UNEMPLOYMENT (Continued from First Page.) program will be completed earlier than was anticipated. Subcommittees are makiag a rapid stride in shaping up their reports, a majority of which probably will be completed by the end of this week. It was thought the conference would be able to proceed to the consideration of a general emergency program on a basis of a majority of the reports while await- OLICE ANSWERING LIQUOR SALE QUIZ Chicago Prosecutor Probes Charge of Deliveries in Patrol Wagon. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 28.—Question- ing of witnesses and policemen from the Grand Crossing police district was the next stép today, according to Charles F. Clyne, United States dis- trict attorney, In the investigation of allegations by Chiet of Police Charles Fitzmorris that 2,500 of Chicago's 5,000 policemen are involved in liquor law violations. The inquiry is in con- nection with reports that police were delivering liquor from this station in a patrol wagon and charging $5 extra per case for a uniformed escort, Mr. Clyne said. Mr. Clyne announced also that a communication from him to Chief Fitz- morris today would not reveal the names of any policemen involved through Investigations of federal au- thorities. The letter, he said, would deal with the situation in a general way. Suggests Intimidation. Mr. Clyne also expressed the opinion that there were spies stationed at the federal building watching the persons being questioned by federal authori- ties, and sald reports that an attempt was being made to intimidate wit- nesses was being investigated. Authorities also were investigating a theory that all the policemen in- volved in liquor law violations here were members of one big liquor ring whose operations extend over the en- tire country. Government agents point out that forged liquor permits seized in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St. Louis, Balti- more and Omaha apparently have originated from the same source and bore the name of a prohibition officer in the same forged handwriting. One of these witnesses, according to officials, explained a multiple shake- down. Members of the police force. ing the recommendations of its more technical committees, such as trans- portation. The committee on emergency meas- ures for manufacturers has completed its report, but its recommenations will not be officially disclosed until the conference reconvenes October 5. It is understood, however, that Sam- uel Gompers, a member of {his com- mittee, to have the report omit all reference was successful in an effort | organized in bands, he said, would obtain information as to whisky ship- ments from other cities into Chicago and then, in uniform, would rob the cars in freight yards under pretense of confiscating the liquor. Reselling of Seized Liquor. The whisky then, it is said, was sold at fairly cheap bootlegging prices. the cheapness making it easy to get customers to take it in case lots. 1 ‘ to reducing wages as a means of gliving relief. The principal recom- mendation in the report, it is under- stood, declares for part time employ- ment of a large number of employes instead of full time for a compara- tively few. CHILD LABOR AGGRAVATES EMPLOYMENT SITUATION Increases Competition as Youthful Workers Take Jobs at Lower Wages. In many parts of the country the unemployment situation is aggra- vated by the number of children who leave school to go to work, accord- ing to reports today to the national child labor committée. Each year, the report says, more than a miilion children in the United States leave school for this purpose. These children, the report points out, increase competition in the labor market, as they can be hired for a smaller salary than an adult and lessen the number of jobs open :to older workers. A large percentage of the children who leave school to ge to work, do not retain their first positions. They shift from one job to another, adding to the floating population of job hunters, and in- vestigation disclosed the fact that 18 per cent of the boys left their first job in less than a month, while within six months half the boys had changed jobs at least once. The average attendance of children In school in this country is only 90 days a year, the report shows, and as a result the children leaving school at the age of fourteen are found for the most part to have only the scantiest’ education. They are added to the mass of unskilled labor with- out training to help them to advance- ment into higher positions. Statl tics based on wages throughout the country show that the boy who leaves school for work at fourteen has only half the earning power at the age of twenty-five that a boy has who stays in school until he is eighteen. MORE UNEMPLOYMENT IN U. S., SAYS BRITON Minister of Health Declares Need of Reduced Production Cost in Present Situation. By the Associated Press, LONDON, Septémber 27.—Sir Alfred Mond, minister of health, addressing newspapermen today regarding un- employment, said that serious as wis the situation in Great Britain, it was even worse in the United States. Pres- ent conditions, he declared, were due to causes which governments could not control, and the British could only try to stabilize foreign exchange rates so0 as to improve trade between this and other countries. “One thing which must come about,” he asserted, “is a reduction in the cost of production, because the pres- ent high prices are checking pur- chasing.” He sald indications were, however, that purchasing was improving. He continued: “Unemployment insurance has been a big weapon in dealing with the sit- uation, and it is.hoped to extend its scope by the government advancing £20,000,000 to the insurance fund. Sug- gestions that the government itself should manufacture goods and hand them over to & disposal board for sale would prove disastrous. He concluded by saying that, while the position was serious, he was by no means despondent. When the liquor was delivered, how- ever, a policeman appeared and de- manded a substantial amount from the reciplent for protection. After the sum had heen paid, other police- men would raid the place and, after collecting another protection fee, would “confiscate” the liquor, resell it and repeat the process of graft some- times half a dozen times before turn- ing the whisky over to a favored saloonkeeper for sale by the drink at high prices. JAPAN DELEGATES OFFICIALLY NAMED (Continued from First Page.) |tocrat” He has invariably been a leader in the adoption of western cus- | toms and likes to entertain foreign- ers. PREMIER TO SPEAK. Briand Will Tell Public Position on Big Affairs. PARIS, September 28 —Premier Briand will outline the pasition of the French government relative to the conference on limitation of arma- ments and far eastern questions in a speech at St. Nasaire October 9. On that occasion he will, with various other members of the cabinet, be a guest at a midday banquet there, and he purposes to make a declaration of ministerial policy concerning all ques- tions of prime importance now before the country, which will be laid before parliament when it reassembles Octo- ber 18. ‘Among these questions are national finance, German relations and the Washington conference. It is ex- pected that the premier's utterances regarding the conference will be only incidental to a comprehensive state- ment of the government's plans. The visit of M. Briand to Washing- ton continues to be a subject of ani- mated discussion by the newspapers and the friends and opponents of the premier. Nearly every other day a report is current that M. Briand has given up the voyage across the At- lantic, but it is followed immedi- ately by .an official communication from the premier's office that his plans have not undergone a change since he accepted President Harding’s invitation to attend the meeting at the American capital. It was announced when M. Briand decided to go to Washington a month |ago that he would make the trip across the Atlantic with the French delegation on board the armored cruiser Edgar Quinet, landing at Hampton roads. He reached this de- cision, it was understood, because he did not desire to have his plans con- trolled by a definite date for sailing ‘which would be the case if he went to America on board a regular liner. He was believed also to wish to be in a position to defer his departure if hec- essary until the last hour which ‘would permit his arrival In Washing- ton November 11. Members of his staff, knowing the inadequate passenger accommodations of the cruiser, which is still outfitting at Toulon, have gently, but persist- | ently, represented the ‘inconveniences attending a trip on that ship. It is now reported that he has decided to sail on board La Savoie October 29 with his entire staff. It is generally understood that M. Briand will take with him to Wash- ington as principal delegates. Philippe Berthelot, general secretary to the foreign office, and Albert Sarraut, minister of the colonies. The fourth delegate is uncertain, as his selection depends upon whether the principal powers include among their delegates their ambassadors in Washington, in which case Ambassador Jusserand will be added to the French delega- tion. FAMOUS SEA FIGHTER SUNK BY AIR ATTACK. editor of the Staunton |- = BAT A Typhoid Fever Germs Found in Old Spring Where Veterans Met B) the Assoclated Fress. * GETTYSBURG, Pa., Septem- Ber 28 —Spangler’s spring, at which Union and Confederate soldjers drank together during = lnll in the fighting at the close of the second day of the battle of Gettysburs, y 2, 1863, may pass out of existence. Typhoid fever germs have been found in the .water, and the artment of health has condemned it. The spring is one of the his- toric spots of the famous bat- tiefield. Here soldiers of the contending mrmies met, drank filled thelr c: stopped the fighting t raged steadily throughou day. from the AW SEES $650,000 L0SS IN FARE CUT Cites Falling Off in Number of Passengers Carried at 7 Cents. The new rate of fare that became effective September 1 will result in a 1oss of $650,000 in revenue during the next year to the Washington Railway and Electric Company if operating conditions remain as at present dur- ing the eight months' this rate will be in effect, and if the existing rate should be continued. - William F. Ham, president, made this estimate today after studving the operating figures for the past three weeks. Since September 1 the Washington Railway and Electric has carried within the District 4,141,915 pay pas- sengers, as compared with 4,356,865 during the same period of last Sep- tember. This is a falling off of 214,- 650, or 4.94 per cent. 10 Per Cent Cut im Revenue. Revenue during the past three weeks amounted to §297,853.32, com- pared with $330,965.78 for the first three weeks of last September, a de- crease of $33,112.40. This reduction in revenue is equivalent to 10 per e t. If this reduction in travel continues for the eight months for which this order is effective at the same rate of reduction as in the first three weeks of September, the company will suffer a loss in revenues of approximately $650,000 per annum,” Mr. Ham said. No effort is likely to be made by the company to readjust the trainmen and shop emplo; March, when the agreement which the Capital Traction Company has with its trainmen expires. Company _officials are not prepared to say at this time what changes may be made in wage scales next spring. Capital Traction Revenue Cut. The Capital Traction Company, ac- cording to J. H. Hanna, vice, president, suffered a loss of $23,988.13 in revenue during the past three weeks, as com- pared with the same period of last year. This September the Capital Traction carried 3,975,365 passengers, while the same period of last vear showed ,073,475 passengers hauled, making & reduction this month of 98,094. Revenue collected this September amounted to $285,014.70, as compared with $309,002.83 for the same period of last year, a falling off .of $23,888.18. CHARGED WITH ROBBING GEORGIA AVENUE BANK Phillip R. Greenfleld, Arrested in Savannah, Denies Accusation. His Alleged Confession. Phillip Rudolph Greenfield, twenty years old, a native of Savannah, Ga.. but for five months prior to July 18 living at 1205 Crittenden street, where he lived with his mother, spent last night at the third precinct police sta- ijtion with two charges of robbery against him—one in the case of H. Winter Kendrick, 3325 M street, and the other in the §$960 daylight hold- up of Ernest Brown, cashier of the Georgia avenue branch of the People’s Commercial and Savings Bank, at Georgia avenue and Otis street. Continually and insistently Green- fleld denied that he is the man sought by the police. in either case, the posi- tive identification made by three per- | sons interested in the two cases only i serving to renew his denials. And his young wife, only recently recovered from an operation, who ‘accompanied him to Washington following arrest in Savannah Monday, sticks to him, de- claring to detectives her belief that he is not the man sought, despite the circumstantial web woven about his activities. The polico have learned that Green- field told a woman of this city that he was in desperate straits and needed money for medical treatment for his wife in Savannah at the time of the bank robbery. According to the police the woman to whom Greenfield is said to have made this confession is a re- spected resident of her community, and Greenfleld made her a confidant of his troubles. He is also alleged to have told her that he held up the bank. The arrest is regarded by the police as one of the most noteworthy recently achieved. Detectives Kelly, Scrivener, Walsh, Jett and Conners made the in- vestigation which resuited in the arrest of Greenfleld in Savannah. After fruitless efforts for two months to locate the man. who, in broad daylight, July 18, pointed a re- volver at the cashier of the Georgla avenue bank, and requested him to “hapd over that money and make it} snappy,” detectives suddenly came across persons who could throw light upon phases of both the Ken- drick and bank jobs. Mr. Kendrick is in the hardware business at the M street address. About a week before the bank hold-up a man walked into the store shortly before closing time and asked the vender to load it for a .32 automatic. Mr. Kendrick show- ed him one. The man examined it and asked the vendor to load it for him: Mr. Kendrick loaded it. The prospective purchaser took it, and murmuring, ‘‘Hard luck,.old fellow,” pointed it at Mr. Kendrick, warning him about giving an outcry, and dis- appeared up the street. The police uncovered information that the man who held up Mr. Kendrick and the man who held up the Georgia avenue ank, making off with $960, were the same. Yesterday Mr. Kendrick iden- tified Greenfield as his visitor of more than two months ago. And when the detectives took Greenfield into the Georgia avenue bank in the afternoon for inspection by Ernest Brown, the cashier, the latter exclaimed: “What! You_here again Following the identification, the po- lice called in a third man who shad seen the robber after the hold-up of the Georgia avenue bank. He had run out of the bank and jumped into the automobile of Paul Clemmer of 748 Harvard street, saying “This is a matter of life and death. Take me to—" Mr. Clemmer identified Green- field as the man who had hopped into the machine. Yet with these identifications made, Mrs. Anna Greenfleld maintains that she still loves her husband, and that she believes him innocent. Greenfleld, it is said, has admitted to Detective Kelly that he had several hundred dollars when he reached Savannah some time ago, but de- clared he had won it in a craps game. Asked to point out where the game was held, he was unable to do so. TFurther investigation of the case is under way. OF GUNS SATISFIES Official Information Congro- verts Published Statement, Is London Report. By the Associated Press, LONDON, September 27.—According to latest reports received by British authoritative quarters, the interallied control commission in Germany ex- presses itself as fully satisfied with the progress of the surrender and de- struction of German armaments. Published Story Controverted. “The article in Times, which limiting th an army to 100,000 men under the peace treaty, Germany was attempting to make provision for clothing, housing and equipping 800,- 000, apparently is controverted by a statement in official quarters today that “there is 1ot the slightest appre- hension of the possibility of Germany being able to organize and equip an army of sych size as to constitute any danger to the allies. “There are. of course, plenty of men,” the statement says, “but they are lacking all necessary armament and equipment.” The disarmament commission isun- derstood virtually to have completed its work of receiving and destroying arms handed over to it, and is now concentrating on the quéstion of con- trol of the various police forces. Only 102 Guas Remain. According to the figures up to the middle of September, only 102 guns were left to be destroyed, as against 32,000 already destroyed: 1,000,000 tons of loaded shells remained to be destroyed, as against 34,000,000 tons destroyed; 186 trench mortars remain- ing, as against 110,350 destroyed: 2,852 machine guns, as against 83,566 destroyed; 163,000 rifles, as against 4160000 destroyed. The figures also showed that 355,000,000 small arms and their ammunition had been de- stroved, leaving a balance of 90,000.- —_— INDICTED FOR BRINGING STOLEN GOODS INTO D. C. Railway Employes Held by Grand Jury—Thirty-One True Bills Reported. Elbert C. Lamm, a conductor, and Robert L. Payne, a baggagemaster on the Southern railway, were ac- cused in two indictments reported to- day by the grand jury to Justice Staf- ford of bringing stolen property into the District of Columbia. The men are alleged to have opened trunks be- ing to Admiral Gleaves and other engers en route from points in Virginia and to have brought the loot here. The alleged offenses were com- mitted last March. Larceny of auttomobile tires be- longing to the United States govern- ment s chargw' _in indictments against Marvin J. Rhodes and Ossie Clifton. Twenty-seven other “true bills” were reported today. Those accused and the charges against them are George Culp and Maurice Wespy, housebreaking and larceny; Arthur H. Burgess and Herman Bennett, violat- ing white slave traffic act; Rolla E. ‘Wommack and George V. Brenneman. embezzlement; William Page, Amelia Turner, William H. Delaney, Louis F. Kirby, James Travers, William Cope, Ernest Scott and Ernest Holmes, as- sault_with dangerous weapon: Har- mon Woltz, Edgar Buchner and Wal- ter Wainwright, false pretenses; Ruth Stephens, forgery; Wilbur Alexander, Maurice Wespy, = William H. Sla- den and John Beverly, grand larceny: Roland H. Hughes, receiving stolen property; Clarence E. Cassell, Wal- ter M. Mangum. Vernon J. Clarke, Mack Smith, Edward Lincoln, As- drizel Lyles, Mach Smith and Edward Lincoln, joy riding. PROVES SHE OWNS MONEY. Addie Murphy Claims Nickels and Dimes Discovered by Police. Addie Murphy, living near Brookland. yesterday appeared before Property Clerk Edwin B. Hesse of the police de- partment and proved ownership of tha $1,69 in nickels, dimes and pennies which were found in her house in Ivy City, D. C., and received the money found there. She told Mr. Hesse that she and her crippled daugiter were on a vacation out of the city when the police dis- covered the money on the premises. She said that it was her lifetime savings. G. L. MUELLER EXPIRES. Retired D. C. Confectioner Lived Here Seventy-Two Years. George J. Mueller, a retired con- fectioner, seventy-six vears old, and a resident of Washington for seventy- two years, died at an early hour this morning at his residence, 2621 13th street northwest. Mr. Mueller, who was president of the George J. Muell- er Company, Inc., had been il for & long time. He retired from active business more than fifteen years ago. His business was founded in 1846 by his father, making it one of the oldest concerns in the Natiopal Capi- |uu, Its first quarters were erected in 1851 on 6th street southwest. Mr. Mueller is survived by a daugh- ter, Mrs. Antoinette Shumate, and two sons, George J. Mueller, jr., and Carl C. Mueller. ———————— Havre De Grace Entries. First race; purse, $1,353.03; claim- ing, for two-vear-olds; five and a half furiongs — Wreckless, 114 Swift Cricket, 105; Barriskane, 108; Lady Zeus, 105; The Wag, 108;.Orris, 105; Tout D’ Suite, 1 *Al, 103; Mar- garet C, 105; *Bounce, 103; Feigned Zeal, 105; *Thriller, 100. Second race; purse, $1,355.04; claim- ing, for two-year-olds; five and a half furlongs—Selota, 114 Grace Foster, 105; Justina E, 108; Mother Carey, 105; Commander Colin, 108; Restiess, 105; South Breeze, 108; Little Ammie, 105; Dissolute, 108; *OL: piad, 103; Plow Steel, 108; *Mad Third race; purse, $1,355.04; for two- year-olds; five furlongs—Plucky, 113 Dumbfounder, 104; The Post, 113; Jug 104; Gondolier, 104; Jewel V. D. 101; Dexterious, 111 Opperman, 111; Little Blacksheep, 10 Fourth race; purse, $1,353.04 for maiden_three-year-olds and uj mile—Charles J. Craigmile, 11 Grass, 108; Stanley, 111; Lough Eagle. 111; Corax, 111; Norford's Choice, 112; Gallivant, 111. Fifth race, purse $1,544.04; for three-year-olds and up; one mile and seventy yards—Bellso 115; Ralco, 108; By Jiminy, Hobey Baker, 103. Sixth race, purse $1,353.04; claiming: for three-year-olds and up; five and a half furlongs—Arrah Go On, 112 i | ! Hasten -On, 112; The Trump, 112 Laughter, 109; Merry Feast, 112; Eter- nity, 109; Old Sinner, 112; Bright Lights, 10° Cacambo, 112; Golden Slipper, 106; Mumbo Jumbo, 1z; 10 *Trantul Seventh race, urse, $1353.04; claim- 1ds; one mile and a 113; *Explosive, 105; Bodansky, 106; Lady Stella, 110 Theodosia, 102; Blue Fiame, 108; Fan 125 sPerhaps, 105. eApprentice allowance claimed. Weather clear; track fast. ° toche, 110; *Chinnie Walsh, - -