Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1921, Page 1

|| The Assoeiated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republieation of All néws dispatches - credited to it or mot- credited in tuis B S WEATHER. Rain this afternoon; partly cloudy and cooler tonight; tomorrow, fair and cooler. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: 3 p.m. yepterday; lowest, today- i Closing New York Stocks, Page 23. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. No. 28,281 KUTZINFAREWELL EXPRESSES HOPES FORCITY'S FUTURE Advocates Building Projects, Fixed Financial Ratio and Highway Paving. ENGINEER’S SERVICE HERE WILL END ON THURSDAY Makes Record in Length of Term and Has Definite Ideas as to Plans of Development. In a farewell message to the people ©f Washington, expressed in an in- terview given The Star today, Col. Charles W. Kutz, retiring Engineer Commissioner, enumerated some of the principles and outlined some of the important improvements he hopes will characterize the District's de- Velopment in the future. The principles advocated are use of District surplus funds now on de- posit in the United States Treasury in prosecuting important construction yrojects and the maintenance of a fixed ratio between the federal and District governments in meeting the burden of municipal expense. As to needed improvements, the dommissioner puts at the top of the the urgency of completing as rap- as possible the work of paving arterial highways ,to the District New bridges, branch_ libraries, ks and connecting driveways zhts and other improvements are utioned. Would Have Greatest Capital. When Col. Kutz terminates his ad- stration as Engineer Commis- s Thursday. he will have #chieved the record of having served the District five and one-half years, or longer than any of the sixteen En- gineer Commissioners ‘who have held the post since the organic govern- ment was established in 1878. Natur- ally he goes out of office with definite ideas concerning the capital's needs and with those views there is linked a very positive desire that Washing- ton shail develop along broad, liberal lines, until its supremacy as the greatest of all national capitals shall not be questioned. He said today he had not changed the opinions which he expressed in an address delivered before the Fed- eration of Citizens' Associations at the beginning of his administration, in the latter part of 1914, when he advocated use of surplus funds in ex- pediting important public prajects and the maintenance of a definite io betwagn the national and fed- al governments in meeting the cost of maintaining the Capital. New Condult Advoeated. Tn that address the Commissioner mentioned as the District’s most im- yortant needs a new conduit and a 1w aqueduct bridge. He sald today -~ would favor surplus funds in the sury, which amount to more than < $1.000.000, being used in the rushing of work on the conduit, which he 1y should be completed in three rs. if possible. This would mean expenditure of about $3,000,000 a turally, would tend to reduce : mounts in the District budgets for «'her needed improvements unless t9e reserve fund in the Treasury is @érawn upon. Hnif-and-Half Principle. Whila Col. Kutz does not suggest at the proportional expense upon two governments should be, he sve ample evidence in the federation ldress that he considered the former half-and-half plan an equitable ar- rangement, when he said: “I feel that even now the people of the District are paying more than 50 Jer cent of the cost of upbuilding and maintaining this community. When- ever we extend any streets or avenues o1 highways of the District, the cost of acquiring the property must all be afsessed against other property in the District. When land is acquired for rks, a percentage of the cost must be assessed against property. When we pave alléys, lay curbs or sidewalks, he property owners in front of whose property. the work is done must pay 50 per cent of the cost, the Unitéd States pa. per cent, so that the people, directly or indirectly, pay 75 per cent. Asked if he would state, as a result of his experience in the commissioner- ship, whether he considered the for- mer fifty-fifty or the present sixty- forty plan the more equitable, Col. XKutz said_today he kad never pro- posed to Congress what the division of expense should be, but that a care- ful survey of all the facts in the sit- uation would enable Congre: vise a ratio that would be thought a ratio, once established, would meet changing conditions sat- isfactorily over ten-year or longer periods without requiring amend- Highest, r for the next three years, and, | at 60, at-8 a.m. PLUCKY BOY SCOUTS . SAVE RAILWAY TRAIN FROM OMAHA WRECK OMAHA, Neb., October 3.—James Caldwell, thirteen, and Clarence Swinkholm, twelve, Omaha Boy Scouts, today are heroes. By rare presence of mind and speedy application of scout rules they saved passenger. train No. 6, & through train on the Chicago, Bur- lington and Quincy between Omaha and Chicago, yesterday from what road officials said would have been a serious wreck. The scouts, who, with a party of companions, had been on an all-night hike, discovered a large tree lying directly across the rail- road track near Camp Gifford, a Scout camp six miles ‘south of Omaha. At the same time they heard the whistle of the train, which carried more than a dozen coaches, on the other side of a curve 300 yards away. Pulling young Caldwell's red sweater from his back, the scouts ran down the track waving it franti- cally. The engineer stopped the train a few yards from the tree. Special agents of the Burlington said the tree was a bee tree and that, evidently, when it had fallen across the tracks the bee hunters had fled. CHAPIN BROWN PUT OND.C. RENT BOARD His Selection as Attorney for Commission Has Approval of President Harding. CHAPIN BROWN, Chapin Brown, prominent local at- torney and general counsel for the ‘Washington Chamber of -Commarce, was today appointed attorney of the District rent commission, a position created under the recent extension of the Ball act, it was announced by A. Leftwich Sinclair, ¢hairman of the rent commission. Members of the commission were in communication this morning with | the White House, and it is under- stood that the President approved of the .selection of Mr. Brown for. this pest, Mr. Brown will receive a salary. of $5,000 per annum. Mr. Brown’s Dutles. Under the Ball act the attorney for the commission “ghall appear for and represent the commission in all ju- dicial proceedings and generally per- fors such professional duties and services as attorney and counsel to the commission as may reasonably be required of him by the commission. There_are now pending before the commission a score of petitions for return of excess rents collected by landlords, and Mr. Brown will imme- diately begin the task of taking proper court action to compel delin- quent landlords to comply with the provisions of the Ball rent act. Attorney Brown has both landlords and tenants in numer- jous cases, which have come before {the rent board and he is thoroughly familiar with every phase of the rent legislation. He twice carried cases -before the United States. Su- preme Court. involving provisions in the old Saulsbury law and in the later Ball act. When informed of his ap- pointment by a Star representative itoday Mr. Brown made it plain_ that Ihe will strive to-be fair alike to land- lord and tenant in carrying out the duties attached to the new office. | Admitted to Bar im 1877. Chapin_Brown was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia in 1877. Sifice that time he has -had a distinguished legal and public career. ment. As ‘to important public works, au- thorized or in contemplation, the Commissioner _ unqualifiedly completion of paving on arterial ighways as the most important work to be pushed at this time. Connecti- cut, Georgia, Rhode Island and Nich ols ‘avenues are mentioned specifically in this connection. Bridges Urgently Needed. Bridges belleved by the Commis- sioner to be urgently needed would replace the present Calvert, Klingle and Pennsylvania_avenue structures. Plans for a new Calvert street bridge already have been prepared and ap- proved by the Fine Arts Commis. sion under an initial appropriation provided for by Congress and it is assumed _that the forthcoming budget e “ashimgion Dlveraicy e ‘as! lon mive Bt Association. | In 1901 and 190 he held the office of president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, By appolntment of the President he became a member of the board of trustees of the- National Training School for Girls in 1892, and was clected president of the board of trustees in. 1903, resigning in 1906. Fle remained by successive appoint- ments on the board of trustees and is now president of the board. He was one of the charter members of the University Club, since 1886 a member of the Cosmos Club and is a Member of - the Columbia Historical Soclety, the City Club, Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, cltizens’ com.- mittee on national representation in (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) BEDRAGGLED MOB OF 500 JOURNEY ACROSS MEXICO SEEKING HELP ' MEXICO CITY, October 2.—The Tong journey of more than 500 men, women and children from their far- off homes in the state of Yucatan to Mexico City, where they hope to plead their case in person before Presidént Obregon, ended last night with the arrival here of this' im- poverished band. Sconomic conditions, they ex- plained. are so hard that wholesale migration to other parts of Mexico from Yucatan was deemed desir- 2ble, ana accordingly a vessel was chartered and the trip made to the yort of Vera Crus without inci- dent. Federal aid was extended to ihem there. and the entire band i started on the last stretch, which - resented many obstacles, eventu- v, reaching here, where they have been given quarters in aban- doned barracks. - L'resident Obregon is said to have (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) interested himself personally and has. ordered all. possible relief measures and a further investiga- tion of the Yucatan situation. Re- ports from thu: state of late re- flect extremely disturbed condi- :+ tions, which apparently were not | alleviated by the recent visit of i Gen. - Salvador Alvarado, former governor of the state, who was sent there by the president to institute an inquiry. Gen. Alvarado is now on his way to Mexico City with a full report, but dispatches from Merida, the state capital, -allege - that his visit merely intensified the bitterness among the Warious radi cal factions seeking-to control the Clash emong the socialists themselves and between the radi- cals and ' conservatives are fre- quently,” reported from Yucatan, sSug The Hewspapers almost. dally call attention to the extremely un- satisfactory situatiofi there. represented | WASHINGTON, D. C, MAYAIDJOBLESS | THROUGH FEDERAL HIGHWAY PROGRAN Effort Will Be Made for In- creased Appropriation for Road Work. iwoum CREATE POSITIONS FOR MANY UNEMPLOYED Other Cities Putting Into Effect Proposals of Conference to Relieve Situation. To help relieve the unemployment situation, an effort is being made to have the conferes representing the|> House and Senate on the federal aid road bill increase the proposed appro- priation to $150,000,000. Something definite regarding the probability of such an increase is expected to develop today. The legislative committee of the good roads association is in session in Washington today. Several members of the conference on the federal ald bill are in favor of the proposed increase. The bill as passed by-the House carried an appropriation of $100,000,000. The nate _cut this appropriation to $75,000,000. Prominent republican leaders as well as democratic members of the roads committee are strongly_in favor of the proposed increase. One of the most ardent advocates of the proposed in- crease is Representative Robinson of Kentucky, a republican conferee, Opposed by Dun Representative Thomas J. Dunn of New York, chairman of the House committee, who is one of the con- ferees, has always been opposed to federal aid appropriation and when the House voted $100,000.000 for con- tinuing good road building his esti- mate was that only $30,000,000 should have been allowed. Definite organization by mayors and municipal authorities of emer- gency measures for relieving the un- employment situation is the next step in the program for immediate re- lief of the unemployed, in the opin- ion of Secretary Hoover, chairman of the President's conference on un- employment. In a formal statement today the Commerce Secretary said employers and business men, relief associations, state and federal agencies ‘“cannot surround the problem systematically until. the mavors have . established strong emergency organizations with the municipalities behind them.” Mr. cofir:zr\ce is ahix (‘z“n:&-kno “what stepx: aré.belng taken:in Wfl! clties‘lnd to _have the views cials for fusther; consiructie 3 Other Cittés Act,” 7- Two cities—Boston and Cleveland— have alregdy taken steps to put into full action the community organisa- tion plan suggested to the natlonal unemployment . conference.. _, or Peters of Boston, who is & member of the conference, telegraphed Secreta: Hoover that an emergency committee is now being selected and is expectd to begin functioning immediately. Mayor Fitzgerald of Cleveland said he had called a meeting of the local committee on unemployment for Wed- nesday to act on the suggestions. of the unemployment conference for im mediate relief. He added that he wished a copy of the complete com- mittee report for presentation at the meeting. Mr. Hoover said he had been informed unofficially that au- thorities in Portland, Ore., and Mil- waukee, Wis, had proceeded along the same line. Bond Issue Comsidered. Subcommittees of the conference had under consideration today ad- visability of a federal bond isswe to create a fund for making loans to ald municipal public works in years of depression. Such a proposal has been suggested to the conference as rt of a plan for a permanent employment policy which would prepare against bad years. Loans to municipalities would be made by the federal government under the plan only upon proof of national unemployment and indus- trial depression, as shown by indus- trial and unemployment statistics and upon proof of the soundness and utility of specific public works pro- posed. The suggestion has been made {that the interest rate for loans to i municipalities should be not less than | that paid by the federal government. PRISONER WINS ELECTION Chosen Municipal Councilor of Paris—Serving Term for Mutiny. PARIS, October 3.—Andrea Marty, chief .engineer of the French torpedo boat Le Protet, who is serving a fif- teen-year prison term as leader of the Black sea mutiny in 1919, has been elected a municipal councilor of Paris. As communist candidate in the twentieth ward, a workmen’s quarter, he received a 3-to-1 vote. His election, however, is expected to be annulled on the ground that a felon is ineligible for office. ' ! QUITS: POLITICAL FIGHT. | Paseisti .Or ation, Italy, Calls Bourgeoisie Florence, Ungrateful, LONDON, October 2.—The local Fas- cisti_organization at . Florence, one of the most active in Italy, has issued a manifesto announcing its intention to qunmt:ree political struggle, according to a is taken because of “the indifference of ‘the ungrateful bour: oisie, which failed to display mourn- g _and olose shops after the recent fascisti losses at Modena.” Aoy P S Today’s News in Brief Chapin Brown appointed attorney for District rent board: - . @ Page Sinn Feiners announce De Valera will not attend London peace conference. Page 1 aking finger prints as Eastlake murder. Page 1 8. officials deny financiers will dis- cuss war debts during arms confer- ence. E .t .- Page 1 Lord Northcliffe fears flood of Asiatics in Australia. . ..~ Page 4 Gen. Pershing moves throng to tears with speech at poilu’s grave. Page § Grocer . brutally stabbed to death .in Thome. o b3 Page 17 District Court .of Appedls opens fall t . 4 - Page 17 erm. Liloyd:George spends_Sunfiay seekin; . to- reduce: umemplpyment 1 ;:hnfl. * ‘ s mofi 1 bullt on paperin Oregon et a5 rafirona Taile-to shaterintibe. Experts are.” clues_in the mce dispatch to the London|to test 1| Truax .cage: 1 William A\ CHIEF JUSTIGE TAFT SWORN INT OFFIGE Judicial Oath Given With Age- 0id Ceremony—Supreme Court Opens. Administration of the judicial oath to William Howard Taft, the new Chief Justice of the United States, marked the reconvening today of the Supreme Court for the regular fall term. - The oath was administered to Mr. Taft, who thereby became the first Chief Justice 1o have previously oc- cupied the highest executive office in the nation, by the senier sociate HING Ay 1;-‘011/ 33 Vote of Census Division Chiefs Decides Choosing of Official Appointment of an official in a gov- ernmental bureau in Washington as a | result of a vote of subofficials of the | bureau has been effected, it became! known today. So far as could be learned this is the mrst time that a| Sundsy’s MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1921-THIRTY PAGES. U.S. ENVOY PLEASES CHILE i Ambassador Collier Praised on All Sides for Sentiments. , I SANTIAGO, Chile, October 2.—Wil- liam M. Collier, the new American ambassador to Chile, will give a re- | ception: for members of the diplomatic | corps and high government officials at the American embassy tomorrow. The addresses exchanged beiween the ambassador and President Alessandri, when Mr. Collier presented his creden- tials Thursday, continue to be com- mented upon by Chilean newspapers, | all of them speaking most favorably of the impression the new diplomat made upon that occasfon. All the newspapers featured Mr. Colller's statement that North American in- vestments in Chile total $200,000,000, or a greater amount than United States financiers have invested in all the other South American states. 4 Collier's address,” declared La Naclon yesterday, “contained a comprehensive expression of the aims of the new administration of thej United States. 1In it may be found a sincere echo of sentiments held by Chileans. CALLS CONFERENGE Educational and Health Offi- cials to Consider Plans for Tubercular Pupils. Dr.'Abram Simon, president of the board of education, has called a con- ference of board members, school au- thorities and health representatives | to consider plans for-the erection of !a new tubercular school to replace| the present Hamilton Schcol. it was learned today. The conference will be héld Thursday night, at 8 o'clock. at the Franklin Schoo! | "The delay in starting work on' the three persons still in the running for ! new school, money for which was ap- the job. Those receiving the slips ropriated by Congress some time were instructed to mark the name of | 2go, has been the subject of discus- the man whom they wanted to be!sion in citizens' assoclations and in chie” clerk of the bureau. When the | the press, and it is expected that rea- slips were counted it was found that, son for the holding up of the building Mr. Hirsch was the most favored. and | program in this instance will be Al rights of tion of special paper and also the dispatches hereln_ are also reserved. SCHODLBOARDHEAD - Net Circulation, 84,2211 Net, Circulation, 88493 TWO CENTS. DENY WAR DEBTS WILL BE TAKENUP AT ARMS MEETING U. S. Officials Answer Rumor That Financiers Are to Confer on Subject. TALK OF CANCELLATION OR FUNDING UNPOPULAR h and French Delegates Are Likely to Show Interest in Sub- ject, But Without Result. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Reports and rumors keep recurring that coincident with the armament con- ference there will be a gathering of financiers of all the powers to settle tie Question of war debts. Department of State officials today pronounced these stories as without foundation so far as this government is concerned. “Everything under the sun” would be discussed if all the suggestions being made were to be acted upon, In the opinion of government officials who poir.: out that the agenda already made public indicates the scope of the conference. Uniikely (0 Meet With Faver. _There is evidence that the interea tional financiers of European countries are behind the constant suggestion o! & financlal parley. although, to be surc some American bankers are reported ¢ interested. This, however. is taken h; to mean that European financers ae jurging action through their American connections. For the fact Is _thr American banking groups as such har not asked our government to conv: a financial conference and there is litt likelihood that such a suggestion wcal meet with favor. Many reasons can be given for ke prevalence of this attitude. Fi director of a government bureau has| depended upon a voting contest to aid | him in making a selection of his staff. Arthur J. Hirsch, chief .of the vision of ‘agriculture in the census| bureau, was appointed chief clek of that bureau after the chiefs of divi- 1sions had filed a record vote with the i director of the census. He has’just as- sumed his new position. ‘There has been a warm campaign | waged in the bureau for several months, when it became known that the position, which pays $4.000 a year, was open. Several days ago paper slips were sent to the division chiefs of the. bu- | behind him and that the work could ; Emile Berliner of the Association ™ These | be carried forward without any fric-/the Prevention of Tuberculosis; .®. ) reau from the director's office. {ps_each contained the names. Justice, Josegh McKenna.. -The. 9. 0ath tm y Mr. Taft supplement. & itutionat. Onl a _duly 11 soon: atter the appoint- m'a the former Presfdeht by President Harding. The administration ot tne judicial oath, the final step in the induction of a new Chiet Justice, was attended by &l of the age-old ceremony at- |tached to the natfon’s highest tribu- flal’ The oath binds the Chief Justice “to administer justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and the rich. The induction_of the Chief Justice accomplished, James M. Beck, the new solicitor general of the United States, was presented to the court and then the various attorneys whose applications to practice before the court had been approved since the court's adjournment last Jun The Chief Justice and the associate justices at the conclusion of these ceremonies followed the custom es- tablished vears ago and went to the| White House to pay their respects to the President. Anti-Trust Cases Waliting. In addition to the half dozen anti- trust cases awaiting decision by the Supreme Court there are pending sev- eral boundary and irrigation disputes between states as well as cases be- tween states alleging trade discrimi- nations, numerous questions arising out of government operation of rail- roads during the war, a railroad mer- ger case, several cases testing the rights of organized labor d strikes, as well as its responsil for losses resulting from acts of vio- lence during strikes: a large number common carriers seek to have deter- mined their liability for injuries suf- {fered by employes, several challenges istate Commerce €Commissign in rate- i making and railroad control, the con- stitutionality of the prohibitory tax imposed by thé federal government upon child - labor, numerous issues arising out of the enforcement of na- tional prohibition and many land, patent, admiralty, bankruptcy, immi gration, Chinese exclusion and mis- cellaneons. cases. The court has under advisement and may give its opfnion at any time in the Southern Pacific. case, involv- ing control of the Central Pacific; the Coronado case, braught. by the United Mine Workers, arising out of violence during a strike in Arkansas and .in- volving - the liability of’ organized labor for losses eaused by acts of violence; the . Wisconsin _ case, lii which forty-one other states joined to test the right of the Interstate Commerce Commission to authorize interstate rallroads to raise _their rates within' a state, and the West- ern Union cage, in which the -gov- ernment lou{ht to_prevent the land- ing of a cable -at Miami. .. Other Important Cases Up, Some impartant cases are to be re- argued . before a full bench. These include the: United Shoe Machinery. case, brought under the Clayton act a contract prohibiting lessees from using other machines in ‘the manufacture of shoes; the American Column and Lumber Company, a pro- ceeding - in which the government contends monopoly and restraint of trade is obtained by .agreements under a so-called” “open competition gl the Atherton Mills case, from lorth Carolina, testing the act im- posing & prohibitory tax ' on _th products of miflls using child ‘labor: the American Steel Foundries and the the former~ from. Ilii nois: and the latter from Arizona, i which e right of labor to picket during’ a - strike is involved: Wyo- ming's effort to prevent the diversion by Colorado of water from the Lar- amie river; the Standard Fashion case, involving the question wheth- !} er_a dealer can by contract be re- quired by producers to handle their roducts exclusively, and tire Dahnke. ‘alker Milling Company ~case, in which_ state laws . requiring ‘persons and corporations engaged in business to register: are being contested. as restrictions to interstate commerce. e Bonngr, . court af itted suicfde = at ‘bein, Henry clerk: the: G | with a_reval Page17|Band.. | £3 of cases in which railroads and other | By states of the powers of the Inter: | jeeyeral months ago. - {been IN EASTLAKE GRIME {Evidence Claimed of Rela- tions of Slain Woman’s Hus- band and Miss Knox. Uy a Steff Correspandent. COLONIAL BEACH, Va.. October 3. —Two Bertillon finger print experts from Richmond, Va.. reached here today to aid the local authorities in definitely establishing the identities of the slayers of Mrs. Margaret Eastlake. Photographic records of the hatchet and the bulk of other evidence gath- ered during the last three days were made by the Bertillon men. It will ‘be difficult, it is said, for the Bertillon experts to obtain any finger print records on the hatchet, pistol and other Instruments found sround the Eastlake home, due to the fact that all @f this evidence has been handled by several hundred residents of this town. The authori- ties here took no steps to preserve any finger prints which may have been on the weapons. [} A petition demanding that Attorney General John Saunders of Virginja send the state’s best attorney here to prosecute Miss Knox and Eastlake is being circulated among the residents here today. It will be sent to Mr. Saunders tomorrow and if it fails to receive proper recognition the citi- zens say they will appeal to the fed- eral authorities in Washington. Additional Evidence Claimed. Additional evidence which the local authorities claim will indicate that Eastlake was infatuated with Miss Knox and had planned to have her establish a home near here is con- tained in a letter found today by De- tective T. K. Boulware. The com® munication, according to the officer. was written by Eastlake to Miss Knox It read: “Would you rather come to Dahl- gren to live or to Potomac Beach? You will have to come down to be near me. It I could only see you to- night, darling. Margaret is on to us and is pretty shy. Think it will soon Wwear off.” 5 The letter was signed Roger. (Potomac Beach is three miles north of here. Dahlgren is where Eastlake was employed.) 5 5 Another - communication said to have been written on February 27 to Eastiake by Miss Knox, and found by Detective Boulware, read: “Get oney and papers in the small bag that I left sander the mattress. ‘Have telegraphed the hotel.” Say Miss Knox Aided Eastlake. _ Reports _circulated by neighbors of the Eastlakes that Miss Knox had loften given Eastlake financial aid was i strengthened yesterday when the of- { ficer found in a’clump of bushes in I fhe" rear of the -Eastlake cottage .a ark blue broadcloth coat lined. with ur.. The coat is said to have belong- ed to Miss Knox. Sewed under the ining of the coat, whigch bore sev- n | T Spots of blood, was a promiasory I note for' $600, made out to Miss Knox 4 astlake. On thg back of lh? f written: “In case of. death de- this to Eastlake.” Under the coat iining also wai 'ound,’ it was said, a ‘receipt for imotor cycle and side car which ha in Eastlake's possession for {some time. The motor cycle now i rked in the sideyard of the East: e cottage and a resident of Colo- nial Beach is making an effort to get possession of. it as payment for & bill e owed him. plali-a -as & presen t 3 4 i ‘While searching the' ground around; 1 - cattage. the. fence consequently he was selectéd for the!brought out at the conference. ! position. | The fact that among those invited | Director Steuart admitted today that | to confer with the school authorities the appointment of Mr. Hirsch w.nlal! the municipal architect. Capt. A. the result of a popular vote of the|L. Harris, and various municipal and division chiefs over whom he was|Drivate health officials would tend to placed. how that the matter of a suitable “There were three candidates forlocation and of proper design for the | the position,” said Director Steuart.|institution will be taken up. In my opinion they were of about| Those who have been asked to mest equal efficiency, and it was hard to:with the board of education and tite decide. 1 realized that there was a | superintendent of schools Thursday personal side to tye men which should | night are Dr. J. A. Murply. health su- be given weight. 1, therefore, in-!pervisor of the public schools; Dr. W. strueted . the -division chiefs to vote,!C. Fowler, District health office beleving in_ that way that the ap-|Capt. Harris. W. 8. Ufford. represent pointee would have the entire officeiing the Associated Charities; Dr. tjon.” | George A. Kober of the Geargetown i R | SR “choors Dr- Hares A Omg i medical i of - the public Tuchools ney - ~Na- | tional Child Health Council: Mrs. R. Thomas West rd. of Childrens { Guardians, and Dt H.-C. Macatee. FRA DECIDES 70 AVOID PARLEY KELLER WILL HEAD cial Peace Conference. |New Commissioner ta Be PDUBLIN. October .—The sinn Fein| SWOMN in at Exercises Thursday. i jdelegation to the conference in Lon- | don, beginning October 11, which will | explore the possibilities of the Irish| (.} Charies Keller, the new Engin- err Commissioner, will succeed Col. Kutz as chairman of the Public Utili- sitvation with a view to a definite settlement, . will leave Dublin next ties Commission and also as presiding officer of the zoning commission, it Monday. October 10, it was announced | here today. {was indicated at the District build- Eamon de Valera will not be one|ing today. of the Sinn Fein delégates and will | While the laws creating these two commissions do not specify the En- e e feremndon In Sonnection With: gineer Commissioner as chairman, it 3 n& to Desmond | jq practically certain that the past Fitzgerald. the Sinn Fein minister of | I3 Practically certain that the past propaganda, who made the announce-! e “ 2 ship will be continued. ment regarding the delegation’s de-é Exercisca will | be S ene] parture. | board room_jslf the District buflding | some time Thursda which Col. { WILL SELECT DELEGATES. |Xeiler will be sworn in as cngineer | Commissioner. British Cabinet to Act When Lloyd | | The mecting aleo will be in the ature of a farcwell reception tol George Reaches London. ol. Kutz and a welcome to Col. By the Associated Press. Keller. Ly the city employes and! | heads bt departments. LONDON, October 3.—The cabinet,| The retiring Commissioner and his Successor w: guests of honor at] which is to be held this week as soon | SUTIesSOr Wil br ehetin of hopor et as Premier Lloyd George returns to | ai Wardman Park Hotel at 7 o'clock { London, is expected first to ‘select|thi= evening. Gen. 'Beach. chief of representatives Irish con- | €ngineers of the be ference. | present. ! The Commissioners today received | Incident to the conference, state-!a letter from Dr. S. M. Haddleson, 202 ments of the Siun Fein.spokesmen as | 11th astreet southiwest, praising Col or _the marked ability and un- published by the south of Ireland|irine ewort he displayed in his sery- papers indicate that a demand will|ice to the people of Washington. be made for the release of Irish|i Col. Kutz expects to remain in prisoners in Jjail and internment | Washington until October 15, when he | 0, the Army, will camps. will go to Cincinnati to take charge The feeling is reported to be grow- | of engineering projects for the Ohi ing . among southern unionists and | river reglon. ing among southern unionists and con- | entitled X’t relnruentltlon. The Times |/ says: “, least one representative | Eunx Hmwxcx ms of the south unionists ought to have | - T v DIES. |a place at the conference table, = We | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., October 3— janticipate no objection from the re- |Frank T. Hardwick, one of the most publican‘leaders, whose meetings with | prominent and Weslth}eu men of the southern unionists were a most | North Carolina, dled this morning at auspicious feature of the earl. - {his home in Dalton, Ga. “Mr. Hard- Hiations, Y DeBO- | wick was largely interested in the 2o banking and menufacturing business of North Georgia-and Chatlanooga. ULSTERITES NOT-INVITED. Officially Denied Delegates Are to Attend London Parley. By the Assoclated Press. BELFAST, October 3.—Reports that Ulster had been invited to send dele- gatés to the London conferente next week on the Irisn question, which bhave been in circulation here, were officially denied today. HAS m@n FROM DAIL. i Walsh Says Irish People Will In- 1 sist on Self-Determination. . By thie Associated Press. YONKERS, N. Y., October 3.—Frank | P. Walsh, American counsel for.the | | 1rish republic, who recently returned from Ireland, delivered at a meeting here a message from the dail elreann to the American people, in which -he | said that ":'!’le 'lfl‘:h tlmi?l; stand atlonipon the rock of self-dstermi-| JL8 goretly siipped into Paris and - The present leaders of the republic,| then motored to Le t air- he said, may be wiped from the earth, | drome to fiy to England. e peo- but others .are ready to take their |- ple there were excited over: the and- Ireland w“lll:“h':l sur- Aeri- BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. 1921, Copyright, LONDON, October 3.—“I mnever know what 1 am going to do next week; but this I do know—I shail be -back home on November 1" said ‘Charlie Chaplin- today. He had just made one of.his airplane trips to_London, to spend the week end with H. G. Wells, after a few . days' visit in Paris with Sir Philtp Sassoon, a close friend of the late King Edward™ The comedfan and the British financier became fast friends at their firat meeting. ° Charlie ha: prise on this instance, last week, when every one thought he was in. Germany, there wus a good deal of critici when our government included far eastern problems in a_discussion of armament limitation. Some member of the cabinet feared that to includ s troublesome a question as rela- tions with Japan might involve the conference in endless discussions which would only force into the background - the real object of the gzthering, namely, a reduction of armament. This viewpoint has been answered by Secretary Hughes by arranging the agenda so that discussion of armament will go on concurrentiy Wwith the tackling of Pacific prob- lems. In other words, committers will work on all parts of the agenda 2t the same time and the reporis Wwill be taken up in no set order. Might Produce Antagonisms. As for ‘imcluding financial ques- tions, the feeling fs that the agenda of the comference aiready it2s ol as much &s it ean chew” and that to lug in the intricate subject of w.ar debts might only produce antag onisms and disappointments which might affect the success of the other conferences. European nations may not as vet be convinced of it, but *he truth is our government ig not in the mood to talk cancellation of war debt or even a general funding scheme. however ~sound _economically the basis for such action might be. A glance at what is happening in Con- grees, -it Is contended, ought to satisty the European financie s President Harding's simple rego-st for power to negctiate with foretzn governments for the paymex: of principal and interest owed us is held up largely because of a suspicion that such power. If granted, might erable the executive’to cancel the Jebts through acceptance of Euro- pean securities of doubtful value. If, therefore. this power isn’t granted now, how much chance would there be to get it if the European countrie: stirred up the question of cancelia- tion of war debts? European Interest. Issues of European newspapers as well as cable reports to American newspapers Indicate a much more lively interest in the war debt in con- nection with the Washington con- ference on amrament than is wel- come here. Unquestionably the Brit- ish and French delegations will be composed of men who will be au- thorized to find out ‘in the most in- formal way what can be done about funding existing indebtedness. American officials could not decline to listen to suggestions when made jat the dinner table or in other in- formal conferences apart from the main program. Much business is transacted that way in international conferences, but, judging by the ap. pearance of things today in oficial quarters, such advances will not lead 10 anything tangible. The Europeans will be toid that cancellation s out of the question at this time, and that even the talk of ‘funding is prema- ture and will be Iinopportune until Congress grants the Treasury De- partment sufficiently broad powers to enter iInto negotiations with other governments. (Copyright, 1921.) SUPPORTS CHINESE POLICY. pan to Propose Modified Partici- pation Therein by Powers. BY JUNIUS B. WoOD By Wireless to The Star. and Chic . News. Copyri L 1921 oo _TOKIO, Japan, October 3.—Liberal (Continued on Page 2, Column 3, CHAPLIN. TAKES FLIGHT IN AIR; WILL BE HOME BY NOVEMBER 1 secretary confesses that he was frightened, forgetting for a mo- ment that Charlie is a humorist. “I insisted on seeing something of Germany,” said Chaplin, “and so we sneaked off to Berlin for four days. Fortunately to the Germans 1 am just an ordinary person with normal legs. My first ilm was ro- leased there a few weeks ago so .1 was not mobbed or kifsed, but had the opportunity which I had long wanted, that is, to walk-about unobsered and study the people. I spent much of my time on Berlin's east side and was able to talk with the working-people and especially the children.. I found that the Ger- marn peoplé are working hard in field and factory—working under bardships, it is true, but appar- making a living. 'he recéption given.me in Eu- Tope has been one of the moving experiences of my Iue.;‘:nunned entl;