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tomorrow fair. day: Highest, 67, at 5 p. lowest, 51, at 7 a.m. toda: Full report on page 16. ey " WEATHER. Fair and slightly cooler tonight; Temperature twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. to- for yesterday; " Closing New York Stocks, Page 23 . Che WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Sefar. . paper and also | | Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not ciberwise credited in this All rights of publieation of special dispatches herein are also reserved. the local news published heretn. Testerday’s Net Circulation, 85,683 No. 28,282, FIRST MOVE MADE BY COMMISSIONERS T0ASSIST JOBLESS Committee Selected to-Han- dle Unemployment Prob- i lem in the District. WILL MEET AT ONCE TO GET UNDER WAY Joint Efforts to Alleviate Situnibnj Will Be Made With Bureau Now in Operation. The Commissioners today made the first move toward carrying out the program of the national conference on unemployment to find work for the jobless men of Washington. Commissioner Rudolph announced, following a board session, that a per- nent committee would be appoint- of to handle the problem in conjunc- District employment tion with the bureau. at 1410 Pennsylvania avenue. | The committee for the present will be composed of the following: Thomas Bradley, president of the Board of Trade; Albert Schulteis, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Philip King, president of thé Mer- chants and Manufacturers' Associa- tion; Charles W. Semmes, president of the Rotary Club; Claude H. Woodward, president of the Kiwanis Club; Edward S. Brashears, president of the Civitan Club; Walter S. Ufford . Charities. A call has been sent to these men to meet in the o ce of Commissioner Rudolph at 3 o'clock tomorrow after- noon to organize and get under way. This_action by the Commissioners probably makes Washington the first city in the country to respond to the appeal issued by President Harding last night for co-operation from gov- ernors and mayors in meeting the un- employment situation. Commissioner Rudolph already has received from the unemployment.con- ference written suggestions to be used by the local unemployment com- mittee. The Commissioner said he was not at liberty to divulge the na- ture of these suggestions. In the employment bureau at 1410 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington al- ready has the nucleus for an efficient job-finding organization. This bureau, Which is operated jointly by the Com- missioners and the Department of La- bor, has found work for thousands of wea and women during the past year. There are many ways, however, in which the unemployment committee appointed today can co-operate With that bureau in seeking to prevent hardships due to unemployment dur- ing the winter months. 5720 Umemployed Here. Figures ma io- today at the office of B E. secretary of the President’s: unemployment conference, show that about September 1 there were 5,720 unemployed in the District of Columbia. The figures, furnished the conference by the United States employment service, were taken from ay rolls of firms in the District and 23 a result of a survey of unemploy- rient here. “Miscellaneous” ynemployed formed the larger part of the total, totaling 0.175 of the 5,120 unemployed. A survey of railroad repair shops Washington showed 340 former employes dropped from pay rolls and 175 dropped from industries dealing with iron and steel and their prod- ucts. Thirty had been dropped from industries dealing in food and kindred products. Secretary Hoover, permanent chair- man_of the conference, was under- stood today to be in receipt of ad- vices from several other cities in ad- dition to Boston and Cleveland, advis- ing him that theéy planned to put into immediate effect local measures de-; igned to relieve unemployment. Losses in_ earnings of workers throughout the United States during the last fiscal year due to Involuntary idleness were put at more than $6,- 500,000,000 in an estimate prepared today by economic experts of the conference. The estimate, it was ex- plained, covered the loss in wages be- cause of unemployment of all the jobless in the country from July, 1920, to August 15, 1921, and was based on an approximation of normal pay lev- els rather than on the scales at the peak of ‘high wages. Efforts of the conference, it was said, would be wurned toward a remedy for the eco- nomic loss to the country from such reductions of earning power of its workers in the future by a stabilized industrial plan. Prepgration of the conference rec- ommendations for a permanent policy to combat unemployment and revive Dbusiness and commerce would prob- ably require at least two weeks' work officials said. Some of the subcommit- tees might complete their reports be- fore the conference reconvenes nxt Monday, it was believed, but it was ex- pected that new committees would be formed for the i nvestigation of vari- ous economic problems involved in the situation and that probably an- other week would be consumed in drafting the final conference recom- mendations. In addition Yurther consideration of the emergency program may be taken | up by the conference and emergency of the Associated Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. NKNOWN HERO TO LIE || FG[S|ATIONOFD.C. ON BIER OF MARTYRS Be Reproduction When the body of the Ameflcan soldier brought back from France for ‘Wurial at Arlington cemetery Novem- ber 11 in memory of the nation’s un- known dead in the war is placed in the rotunda of the Capitol on the night of November 9 it will lie in state ‘on the same catafalque that was used for Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. An announcement issued by the War Department said that the drap- ings about the catafalque would be a careful reproduction of those used at the funerals of the three martyred Presidents. | The following designation of regu- !lar troops to form the funeral escort for the unknown dead were an- {nounced today: The Marine Band in its full strength of seventy pieces, a [Dbattallion of fleld artillery from Fort {Myer, Va.; a squadron of cavalry, {Fort Myer; a provisional regiment of infantry, composed of the 3d Batta- lion, 64th Infantry, Fort Washington, Md.; a battalion of sailors and ma- rines from Washington navy yard and Quantico, Va.; and a National Guard battalion composed of two,Ti- fle companies of the New York Na- Itional Guard and two companies of { Pennsylvania National Guard. company of _engineers from Camp Humphreys, Va., has been as- signed far guard duty at the Capitol while the body of the unknown sol- dier lies in state, and two companies of engineers will do similar_duty at Arlington cemetery. The War Department’s announce- jment did not designate the companies of New York and Pennsylvania Na- tional Guard which will form the Na- | tional Guard battalion of the military escort, that being left to the state authorities. War and Navy Department officials said today that the body of the un- known soldier would be brought direct to Washington on Admiral i Dewey’s old flagship, the Olympia, in- stead of being landed at New York, as announced in Paris. The Olympia, under the plans formulated, will en- ter Hampton roads and proceed up the Potomac, arriving at Washington about November 9. NON-COM TO PICK HERO. i i ! iSoldier From the Rhine Army Will Choose Body for Honor. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 4.—America’s “un- known soldier,” who will find hon- jored sepulchre in the national ceme- tery at Arlington, Va., will be select- ed by a non-commissioned officer from "the American forces on. the Rhine at Chalons-Sur-Marne on the morning -of - October - 24.- The. body will leave Havre late on the evening of October 25 on board the United uiser Olympi: ANINTERNAL CRISIS Drapings Around Catafalque at Capitol Wi BOTH PARTIES FACE (WILL SFEK EARLY WASHINGTON, D. C.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1921 -THIRTY-TWO n of Those Marking Death of Three Presidents. Complete arrangements have been made for the removal of the body o the unknown American to the United States, it was announced by Gen. Henry T. Allen, commander of Amer- ican forges in Germany, here today. 1At the request of the American gov- |ernment, elaborate plans formulated by the French government for re- jceiving the body in Paris have been abandoned. It will be sent direct to Havre from Chalons-Sur-Marne, and the only formal ceremonies will take place just before it is placed on board the Olympia. Minister of War Barthou, severhl | French generals, Gen. Allen and other French and American officials will go to Havre. to attend these ceremonies. Will Pin Cross on Casket. A French general, who is as yet not named, will pin the cross of the Legion of Honor to the casket. M. } Barthou informed Gen. Allen yester- day that Marshal Foch would deco- jrate the unknown soldier with the cross at Arlington cemetery on No- vember 11, when the body will be buried. Gen. Allen has ‘taken the most com- plete precaution to insure the selec- tion of a body which is impossible of identification. The bodies of four un- identified soldiers, one from each of the four prominent American ceme- teries in France, will be assembled near the railway station at Chalons- sur-Marne. They will be unidentified men who fell in the American fight- ing areas, so that it will be certain ito be an active service man who is selected. Selection of Dead. On% non-commissioned officer from each unit of the American forces in Germany will act as escort, the num- ber not exceeding twenty-four, and six American privates will’ be pall- { bearers. A non-commissioned officer selected by Gen. Allen will then be ordered to place his hand on one of the four coffins. The one chosen will] immediately be taken to Havre on a special train, accmpanied by a guard of honor, pailbearers, Gen. Allen and a delegation representing the Paris post of the American Legion. The remaining three bodies will be buried in the Romaine cemetery. Navy to Have Charge. After the ceremony at Havre, the body will be placed in the keeping of the American Navy, which will| deliver it to the American Army at New York. The date of the Olympia’s arrival at New York is uncertain, but will probably be November 4 or 5. The decision of the Washington authorities not to have any cere- mony take place at Paris was reached out of consideration for the French government. The American govern- ment took the view that it would too closely follow, Jast Sunday's cere- mony in Paris, when Gen. Pershing presented the medal of honor voted by Congress to France's unknown sol- dier, agaifi involving elaborate prepa- ratlon by-France. This porat of view | was readily accepted by the French, and it was agreed that the only cere. mony.yhoulé be-asr Hayr: | J 1 | ' MURDER HEARING | French military medal and the war [ Third Party Talked of After |Attorneys for Eastlake and Split on Treaty and Miss Knox Confer With \ Sales Tax. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Two critical situations are de- veloping, one inside the republican party and the other in the demo- cratic party, which may have a far- jreaching effect on American politics. The democrats are split over the treaty with Germany and the repub- licans are at sixes and sevens over a sales tax as opposed to the tax bill passed by the House. Several of the most influential men in the democratic party have stated privately that if the democratic sen- ators do not stand together as a unit against the German treaty they will withdraw their support from the party henceforth. The congres- sional elections are not far away. The democratic senators who are eager for party harmony see storm clouds ahead. This much is assured— if the German treaty is ratified by the aid of democratic votes it will be a long time before the sore will be healed. It will split the party wide open, and there is already talk of forming a liberal party to be coms posed of pro-league republicans and pro-league democrats. = As for the controversy inside the republican party, it is fraught with much danger, but the chances are it will not do permanent injury. The fact is the farmer-labor coalition threatens to embarrass the Harding administration more than has been apparent on the surface. -The true measures suggested. {Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) T. R. MARSHALL IS ONE WHITE HOUSE CALLER WHO HAS NO AXES TO GRIND Thomas R. Marshall, former Vice President, was one of President Harding’s callers today. When the popular Indianan entered the lobby of the executive offices, un- announced and unexpected, he was given a great reception by the at- taches and large group of news- paper men. This was Mr. Marshall's first visit to the White House since President Harding’s inauguration, and his visit was a purely personal one, -he said. He was passing through Washington and wanted to shake President Harding's hand and wish him well before leaving, is the way he expressed it. ‘When asked if he intended mak- ing Washington his future home he replied empbatically that he was not. He explained that while he admired the city and considered it one of the most beautiful in the country, he preferred mnot to live here under the present circum- stances. In this connection he said: “I have a supreme contempt, if you will pardon the expression, for the man who lies around like a dead cock in the pit waiting for the man who knocked him out to use & hygodaflnlc in injecting new life into him." The former Viee President ad- mitted that' he- was still on. the lookout for a good five-cent cigar, but he is not meeting with much success. He explained, however, that he has several scouts out on the search for him, and that he expects that between them they will some day find the desired brand. Regarding his activities of late Mr. Marshall said he managed to keep busy and well, and was hav- ing lots of fun. He said it was a case of “traveling around ex- changing old stuff for new mcney” and it was great. He said he would visit the Senate press gal- lery some time this afternoon. At the conclusion of their talk the President escorted his dis- tinguished callér to the cabinet room, where were gathered Vice President Coolidge, Secretary of War Weeks, Postmaster General Hays and Secretary of Agriculture ‘Wallace, who had arrived In ad- vance of the time set for the meet- ing. Mr. Marshall was given a warm and hearty greeting. Vice President Coolidge escorted him to the front of the executive ogetel ‘npl; posed with him for a photograph. “We had a charming . talk,” Mr, Marshall said . on leaving the President’s office. “I had nothing to ask and no ax to grind, and the conversation was naturally pleasing to us both.” Prisoners at Jail. From a Staff Correspondent of The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 4. —Request for a preliminary hearing for Miss Sarah E. Knox and Roger D. Eastlake, held for the murder of Mrs. Eastlake at Colonial Beach, probably will be made the latter part of this week by counsel for the accused cou- ple, it was intimated today by Wil- liam W. Butzner, one of their attor- neys. In asking for the preliminary | hearing it is the object of the attor- neys to force the prosecution to show what evidence it proposes to use against Eastlake and Miss Knox in trying to obtain an indictment of first- | degree murder against them when the %rm'l;: jury meets at Montross Octo- er 24. Mr. Butsner also indicated that the defense will not ask for a change of venue for the prisoners. He said he believes the sentiment against East- lake and Miss Knox tn Westmoreland county is not as strong as has been reported. Eastlake's defense, it is In- dicated, will be an alibi. Nurses to Ald Miss Knox. Whether an effort will be made to have the prisoners released on bail has not been definitely decided by the attorneys. They likely will reach a decision on this question after a conference with Donald Eastlake, the accused man's brother, who arrived here this afternoon from Phila~ delphia. Two nurses who claim they gre friemds of Miss Knox and graduated with her from Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, have noted Mr. Butzner that they are coming to Fredericksburg today to help in defending the woman. The names of the nurses, who live in Baltimore, were nat revealed. 4 Hints at Previous Marriage. Detective T. K. Boulware, leading in the investigation of the case, caused another sensation among the excited natives of Colonial Beach to- day when he announced that he has uncovered information which tends to show that Eastlake was married to Miss Sarah E. Knox in Japan. The nature of the information the officer declined to disclose, but will submit it, he says, at the trial of the ac- cused couple as evidence in the P e detective said tha e detective said that Miss Knox has revealed to him that she ::oat Eastlake while he was a youth in Japan with his father, more than twenty years ago. He asserted that she said she became attached to- Bastlake when he was a boy and treated him “as a mother does her son. It is known that Eastlake spent fourteen years of his life in the orient, but the detective's stafe- ment is the first intimation of Miss been out of Knox ever havin, e detective says United States. he has written to the Baltimore po- lice for ther information, whi he Dbeliev ‘will .prove conclusively that the couple have been married. Seeks' Further Evidence. “All 1 need is the marriage license fo prove my . statement Miss Knox and Eastlake were at one time married,” he satd. *“I do not know whether they are still legally wedded or have been separated. But I have GETS RIGHT OF WAY INHOUSE MONDAY Chairman Focht to Call Up Matters in Which City Is Interested. DISTRICT COMMITTEE . TO MEET TOMORROW Quick Work to Be Done if Car Merger Bill Is Re- drafted. District legislation will have right of way in the House on Monday, ac- cording to an announcement made on the floor of the House today by House ader Mondell. Representative Mo: dell sald that the District was e titled to its day in the legislative pr ceedinge, and that if the District com- mittee was ready they could call up whatever bills they have waiting for consideration. Chairman Focht of the House Dis- trict committee said today that he will be ready to call up several im- portant matters in which the District is vitally interested. He has called a meeting of the House District com- mittee for tomorrow, and hopes to be able to bring up the revised bill for a consolidation of the street railway companies. If the street car merger bill fs brought up in the House on Monday | auick work will have to be done. The: bill has not been redrafted as ap-| proved section by section by the com- | Mittee. Representative Zihlman of Maryland, who, as chairman of a spe- clal subcommittee on merger legis- lation, has been instructed to redraft the bill, has been unable to finish this work because he is awaiting confer- ences with Representative James P Woods of virginia, the ranking demo | rat, whose original bill for the redraried bilL | e basts JeChairman Focht hopes to have at our measures rea i e Thcke B eady to bring rst, the bill which is being re- draftéd by Representative Zihiman of Maryland to force a consolidation of the two street railway companies. Second. the so-called pawnbrokers' bill. Third, the bill to establish a model marine insurance law in the District of Columbia, which, it is hoped. will be copied by other states. Fourth, the bill which is being re- written by Representative Roy C. | Fitzgerald to establish an industrial insurance system in the District. Chairman Focht expressed a desire to co-operate with the Federation of Citizens’ Associations and with any other organization .of citizens who desire to make suggestions regarding legislation for the District. He promises that the House committee, 8s long as he (s chalrman, will lend ready ear to any plei citizens may make. Do (et the —_— ONDDY AY G WORK 10 JLESS Completion ‘within three years of the $10,000,000 conduit authorized by Congress, not only for the purpose of making Washington secure against.a water famine in the shortest time pos- | sible, but as a means of relieving local unemploypment, may be proposed to Federal Budget Director Dawes by the District unemployment commit- tee named today by the Commission- ers. Citizens who took an active part in impressing Congress with the Capi- | tal's need of a new water supply are planning to petition the commit- ted, it was learned this afternoon, to consider the conduit project as an ex- | ample of authorized public works ! which should be prosecuted at this time . for the benefit of the country’s involuntary idle. They will tell the committee that if the conduit is built In three years, as propoged in the Tyler plan, it will mean the enployment of approximate- 1y 500 men annually. It s believed generally that the Commissioners have included in the budget an item of $3,000,000, to cover the second year's work on the conduit. The District heads are said to favor utilizing the District's surplus funds in the Treasury, if necessary, in order that $3,000,000 a year may be spent for the next three years in safe- guarding Washington against the danger of a complete breakdown in its water supply system. 3 aj. M. C. Tyler, District engineer, author of the water plan authorized by Congress, is spending the initial appropriation of $200,000 in laying the foundation for wmyexpenditure of approximately $10,000,800 during the next three years. Theé engineer offi- cial believes the project should be BITTERLY SCORES TAY REVISON BL Senator Reed Declares Re- publicans Lift Burden From the Wealthy. The action of the budget bureau in cutting down congressional appro- priations for the federal departments as a part of the plan to reduce taxes was denounced in the Senate today by Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, “as an impudent assertion of the right |to set aside the action of the legis-| lative body.” “I denounce this action as illegal,’ declared Senator Reed. “I denounce it as a deflance of the power of Con- gress. 1:assert that if allowed to procced Congress has forfeited the greatest Tight of the legislative body —namely, the right to say how much shall be spent and when and where it shall be spent. “If carried to its logical conclusion, the Army could be dismissed, the Nayy . afid the- operations of the government ended. For such ac- tion impeachmenta should be had.” . Attacks Tax Bfll. Senator Reed’s attack on the budget was made in the course of a prepared address attacking the tax-revisian bill. He declared that the sponsors of the tax measure had “dropped it like an illegitimate baby on the pub- lic doorstep and run away without having the grace even to attach to !its skirt the usual legend, ‘Pleare be kind to the baby!” Referring to ~promises that the measure would be one of the utmost simplicity, Senator Reed said it was sSo simple that members of the finance committee had needed the service of five Treasury experts to “guide them along its crooked way,” and that four in the Senate so that the committee members explaining the bill would not “go astray.” Analysing the bill in detail, Senator Reed attacked the proposal to reduce the maximum income surtax rate from 65 per cent to 32 per cent, de- claring that the argument that this would keep the rich.from evading taxes through investment in tax-free securities was “a subterfuge” that would not stand the test of analysis. Could Evade Taxatiom. If the rich, he said, wanted to evade taxation they still would invest in tax -exempt securities because there ‘was no security on the market bring- ing an interést of 32 per cent. He added that it was safe to assume that the very wealthy already had absorb- ed the tax exempt securities now on the market and that therefore there was no necessity to reduce the tax rate in an effort to keep them from mak- ing additional investments in such securities. “When the people of the country, continued Senator Reed, ‘“learn what is bein g done by the silent gentlemen who sit here quietly not defending this bill and trying to pass it by a conspiracy of silence they will have something to say.” Taking ‘:xp the excess profits repeal, treated as an emergency one and hur- ried through to completion as a safety proposition. District government officials béelieve Budget Director Dawes has | profits would be given big reductions that when enator Reed said that under the com- g:mee proposal to eonfine the total corporation tax to & 15 per cent levy income _corporations making high examined the considerations which de- [in taxes, while those making profits termined Congress to tack the conduit{under 10 per cent would pay more appropriation to the Army bill as an|than at present. emergency he will be convinced | Shoud the committee plan prevail, the improvement should be provided in | the speaker said, a corporation mak- the three-year period, that reduction will Commissioners® estimate for prosecuting ' whereas sucl fiscal yur‘. required to pay $17,220. the work during the coming 50 per cent on an investment of as proposed, and | i be made in the s'x‘go,ooo woud pay only $7,200 a year, 'h corporations now are experts had to be kept continuously | PAGES. EIGHT UNITED STATES MINISTERS APPOINTED President’s Selection” Vim(nlly Completes Diplomatic Roster. Announcement of the selection of eight American ministers to Latin American and old world countries was made today at the White House, vir- tually completing the diplomatic roster of the new administration. The eight ministers whose names ere announced were: To Panama, Dr. John Glover South of Kentucky; to Nicaragua, John E. Ramer of Colorado; Ve jw to Venezuela, Willis C. Cook of South Dakota; to Guatemala, Roy Davis of Misseuri. ! To Czechoslovakia, Lewis stein iof New York; to Bulgaria, C s S. | Wilson of Maine; to Finland, rles L. Kagey of Kansas, and to Stikes Ed- | ward E. Brodle of Oregon. = At the same time the White House ! nnounced the selection of J. Morton | Howell of Dayton, Ohio, as special jdiplomatic agent and consul general; at Cairo, Egypt. Dr. South is a former president of the Kentucky state board of health, | and is now president of the Kentucky State Medical Association. For a num- ber of years he has been active in | state, civic and political circles. - Mr. er_4s_a _fermer.aecretary of oforado. - |state of CITY HEADS BUY GROUND NEXT BUCHANAN SCHOOL | Site Is for New Building—Orders for Resurfacing Streets Given. The Commissioners in board session today purchased for $3,750 ground ad-| joining the Buchanan School, E street between 13th and 14th streets south- east,' which will be part of a site for| ja new building. Additional ground will be purchased later. The city heads also ordered the re- surfacing with asphalt of-the follow- ing streets at'a total cost of $68,000: Sixth street southeast from Pennsyl- vania avenue to North Carolina ave- nue, and C street southeast from 2d to_3d streets. Northwest — Twentieth street from R to 8; New Hampshire avenue from U to V streets; F street from 19th to 21st streets; 6th street from O to P streets; east side of Connecticut ave- inue from Florida avenue to Le Roy place; S street from New Hampshire avenue to 18th street; east side of Co- lumbia road from Le Roy place to California street. Northeast—A street from 7th to 9th streets. Today’s News in Brief Holland, Belgium and Portugal in- vited to send delegates to arms cen- ference. Page 1 Non-commissioned officer to select body of “unknown dead.” Page 1 Monday is set for District day in the House. Page League assembly again blocks Argen- tine amendment to covenant. Page 1 Attorneys for Eastlake and Miss Knox to ask early hearing in mur- der case. J Page 1 Lloyd George outlines only way to make Irish peace conference suc- cess. p Page 2 Dogs in District to have their day be- ginning October 9. Page ‘Wybining friends booming Represent- ative Mondell for U. 8. s:ulpe E age 4 TWO CENTS. HOLLAND, BELGUN, PORTUGAL INVTED TOARM PARLEY ’U. S. Asks Three Nations to Participate in Conference on Far East. HOLDINGS RECOGNIZED *IN PACIFIC SITUATION ARGENTINENOTON BLOCKED INLEAGLE Assembly, Unanimously, Again Postpones Action on Covenant Amendment. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, October 4.—The assembly of the league of nations today adopt- ed, unanimously, a resolution, report- ed by its commission on amend- ments, postponing consideration of the amendment to the league cove- nant proposed last vear by Argen- tina. It provided that all sovereign states should automatically members of the league. The reso- lution, while embodying a, decision not to consider this amendment at the present, expressed sympathy with the idea inspiring it, and expressed regret that Argentina was not rep- resented in this year's assembly. ‘The withdrawal of the Argentine delegates from the assembly last {ur ‘was becauge of ‘that body’s' re. 'usa} to meet Argentina’s wishes as to the amendment of the covenant. : of the. resolution was pre- ceded by ‘a long Q¥bate Senor Blanco, of Uruguay opened the discussion. must be perfected, but that this were better done when the big countries now outside 3 As to the mentof article X, Senor Blanco said he held. the same view as did Canada, which had proposed its amendment, but he thought the time had nog yet come to take a decision re- garding it He was in entire sympathy, | he declared, with the idea of a complete league, with all ‘the states of the world become | He | said the covenant was not perfect and | gue came into it.| Negotiations in Progress to Im- prove Cable Facilities Between U. S. and Japan. Lloyd George Refers To Conference Here As Event of History By the Associated Press. INVERNESS, Scotland, Octo- ber 4—The prime minister, Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech here today concerning unemploy- ment, devinted in his introduc- tion to refer optimistically to the fortheoming conference in w ngion on limitation of armaments, declaring “it will constitute one of those out- standing events which will af- fect human history for cen- turies.” | =4 i Invitations from this government went forward today to Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal to parti- cipate in the consideration of Pacific and far eastern questions at the cou.- ing conference on these subjects and limitation of armaments. These three nations were invited by the United States to take part in this branch of the conference im recognitivn of the fact that they have special interests in the far east. The existence of that condition made it possible to single out thes: countries without discriminating in intent or effect against other Euro- pean governments or Latin Ameri- cans which are not asked to send delegates to the conference. Belgium has many important invest- ments in China and in other sections of the east. The Netherlands are in- {terested in the straits settlements iwhile Portugal is one of the ear- iliest settlers in the far east. Will Close Invitations. It is the understanding in diplo- matic circles that with the dispatch of these invitations mo other coun- | tries will expect to be invited to th | conference. This gove rnment invited three Eu ropean nations to send delegates tu the conference, in consonance with its desire to discuss in the most cor- {dial and friendly manner passible the | Pacific and far eastern situations | with those nations recognized as hav- :| ing peculiar interoMs-in their hemis- ; phere. | No date has been set for the meet- ing of the American delegation to the armament conference. All the dele- gates are in Washington except Mr. Root and s~e waiting to hear from him as to when it will be convenient {for him to attend. Negotiations are in progress for temporary arrangements to provide i the cable facilities between the United | States and Japan, on terms agreeable jto _both nations, it was indicated in iofficial quarters today. A break in Ithe cable which cannot be repaired {before mext spring renders such an {understanding necessary. as its members, but he thought that the | time for this, also, had not yet arrived. | BILLS TO SHOW REFLECTION He hoped that the date was not far dis- | tant, however, when the principle of the Argentine amendment would e fully effective by the entry of all states into the league. Blanco Expresses Regret. Regret at the absence of Argentina was expressed by Senor Blanco, but he felt himself bound to recognize that much had been done to make the league more democratic He hoped Argentina could see it that way and come back into active participation in the league's affairs. , Eight league, small states, members of the _resumed in this morning’s sesslon of the assembly their fight against the too rigid application of blockade regulations which are pre- Scribed as one of the weapons to be used by the league against a state which has violated the covenant of the organization. Greece has been especially active in her effort to bring about an amend- ment of article 16 of the covenant of the league, so that no state can in- itiate a blockade on its own account without previous notification from the council of the league that the block- ade of a covenant breaker is in order. Greek Amendment Losat. A motion introduced by Holland, providing for @ suspension of all ac- under article 16, was withdrawn. :‘l’l:: a Greek amendment to article 16, which would provide that individual states would not exercise the right of (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) LEDOUX, AT HEAD Appropriations Expected to Har- monize With Conference. Whatever deciston is reached by i the conference for limitation of arm ment with respect to a reduction in |the armies and navies of the powers | participating will find an Immediate reflection in the military and naval appropriation bills. These bills are to be considered by the Congress which convenes in regular session in December. Plans * which are being jformulated by Chaalrman Madden fo | the House appropriations committee contemplate harmonizing the apwro- ipriations for national defense with the decisions reached by the confer- ence for limitation of armaments. Recognizing the vital effect that in- ternational agreements must have | upon legislation for future prepared- ness. coupled with the desire of the public for early relief of burdensome { taxes, resnlting from excessive arma- { ment, Ck+'~ ~an Madden and his asso- |ciates on the appropriation committee | are agreed to postpone the prepara- tions of the Army and Navy appro- priation bills until the result of the disermament conference be known. The Army and Navy appropriation bills _are nsually among the first ro be drafted by the committee. The regular session of Congress, however, probgbly will see some of the other supply bills well Zinder way, If not | passed, before the appropriations for national defense are ready for recom- mendation to the House by the ap- propriations committee. OF UNEMPLOYED, ASKS AUDIENCE AT WHITE HOUSE George to make very important' _ o B e ment Siheriail " . Petition for turning over of an un- Page 4 used. bullding in Washington to be ol \ . 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Page. 9 Vietor: over Greeks increasés: pres- tige {:f Turkish. nationalists g eyes of Musselmans. 1 Nearly 3,000 Shrinérs throng theater. st Page 12 Authorities v:blmha:ldilutm':l"‘ high school act! es sl ents un cen- sure for frat afliation. Page 17 John 8. Drum tells bankers reasons 88 prosperity is assured. why business prosperi ren Reports-_indicate great - increase 4 world bread crop. Page 17 Reserve officers attack Regular Navy for “unlawtully disbanding “1;':‘.';1 North Washington Citizens’ Assocla- 3 tion condemns. Senate - resolution 2 lr‘:wldln‘ voteless D. C. delegate in &u‘un. Page 17 .| Col. Ruts; retired D. C. Engineer Com- missioner, guest at farewell dinner. ¢ Page 17 President Harding -~ is impressed by from Field Marshal Haig. 1ptter from ¥ ] 3 N Has ich.. man says ‘robbers klltl’:dnm,‘vlf. and cut off two of his toes. Page 19 Commissioners willing to grant publis hearing on wharf question. Page o 7 | saw ‘the Commissioners, the rést of the ugsed by the “O. F. U. Club” for unem- ployed men in the capital was sub- mitted to the Commissioners at a board meeting today by Urbain Le- doux, champion of the unemployed. The Commissioners took the matter under advisement, but referred Le- doux and officers of the club to Col. C: R. Forbes, director of the Veterans’ Bureau. Ledoux 1€d a ‘party of twenty-three unemployed men to the District bulld- ing today and later to the White House, where he asked. Secretary Christian for an audience on Thurs- day with the President. While Ledoux and a delegation of six officials of the “Only For Unemployed” Club jobless men athered on the steps of the District ‘u ilding and sang war- time songs. They also sang at the ‘White' House. ~Ledoux was accom- nnlfl to the commission boardroom gy the following: . James A. Tadlock, Joseph F. Shields, Joseph Chestaut, vice president of the O. F. U. Club; Victor Arnold, Kenneth Chase, F. Nelson and E. A. Smith. Ledoux presented to the Commis- sioners a petition drawn up by the at its organization meeting last y night asking for a building 1 used for housing unemployed in Washi nT. request f¢ ton. use of mo”mmun League ] Ball Park for a community sing next Sunday wi refused by the Commissioners, who were declared to have said proper authority had not been granted by Clark C. Grif- fith," president of the ball club. Conditions at the municipal lodx- ing house on 12th street were re- lated to the Commissioners by the leader of the “army of the unem- ployed.” Ledoux said the rooms were overcrowded, that sanitary conditions at the lodging hosse were bad and that instead of clos- ing at_ 10 o'clock, the lodging house should keep open all night to take care of transients who want lodging late at night. “The Jodging house is like a convent,” Ledoux said. As the “army” of unemployed marched from the District building west_on Pennsylvania avenue to the White House they attracted much attention. They marched in columns.of two, led by Ledoux and ‘Kenneth Chase of New York, who is a lieutenant of the “army.” Le. doux announced that a party of about_fifty jobless men who left New York for Washington Satur- day will arrive here tomorrow by motor truck. . It was with the purpose of presenting these men ‘to the President that Ledoux called at the White House today. Ledoux sald he expected to see Col. Forbes within a few days re- garding the turning over of an un- used building for a lodging house. He wili lead his angmented “army” tomorrow to the White House and to Congress. /