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| morrow fair. 3 p.m. yesterda today. Full report on page 25. lowest, ‘WEATHER. Fair and somewhat colder tonight; to- Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 75, at v 50, at 5 a.m. Closing New York Stocks, Page 27. Ne. 28,298, Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C e WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1921-THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. UNION CHIEFS STAND FIRM], . HEADS WILLING ON EVE OF CONFERENCE; 10 ARBITRATE RULE L C. C. ACTS ON “Can Settle, But Not Postpone, Strike.” LABOR LEADERS STILL OPTIMISTIC Hope for Agreement Unless Unexpected Occurs Today. Ty the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 20.—The pros- pective rail strike cannot be post- poned, but it can be settled. This was the opinion of the four big brother- hood chiefs and the president of the switchmen’s union after a conference this morning at which, it they had considered all possible phases of the situation as they may be pre- sented at the meeting this afternoon with the United States Railroad Labor Board. Union headquarters was optimistic, and there was a strongly evident feel- ing 1 something_unexpected occurs to disrupt the conference this afternoon. Present at the union conference were Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Trotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; heppard, president of the Order lway Conductors: W. G. Lee, hood of Rail- ter, president ad inmen; the Brotherhood of Locomotiv en and Enginemen, and T. C. Cashen, esident of the Switchmen's Union of wStandards” Mark Time. eleven “standard” unions me awaiting the outcome of meeting. While a chairmen met The marked ti the labor board few of their general to discuss strike plans, ed the hearing rooms of the board to see the Pennsylvania Tailroad cited for failure to obey the board’s_orders. The Pennsyivania, through C. B. Hiserman, general counsel, presented to the labor board, a lengthy state- ment signed by President Samuel Rea, wetting forth the road's reason for fusing to comply with the board's order to call_a new election of em- es’ commitiees. ; The board set aside a previous elec- ‘ion because the road allowed the men to vote only on individuals, while the federated shop crafts insisted the name of their lotal should appear as @ committee. [ m— Election Raixed Question. Mr. Rea's statement said that the election “raised the question wa:ther the employes’ representation plan de- veloped by the road should be Impair- ed and its usefulness largely destroy- «d by dealing with those who ad- Vocated a closed shop, the sympathetic sirike, and limitation of output in frauming rules governing operation of tie shops during federal control.” The rules formulated while the government directed the road, reduced The output of shop labor at least 55 per cent, the statement declared, Ben W. Hooper, public member of por Board, examined Mr. Hiser- reading from a typewritten list was learned, | that there would be no strike, un-; Fire- | the majority | RATE CUTS McChord Confers | With President on Problem. EARLY REDUCTION PREDICTED HERE i Grain, Hay, Feed and Lumber Expected to Get Benefit. Decisions by the Interstate Com- merce Commission in pending cases involving requested reductions in the freight rates on grain, hay and feed and on lumber were understood to be imminent today after a conference on the railroad situation in which | President Harding, Chairman McChord of the commission and Acting At- | torney General Goff participated. Whether the decisions would in- volve a reduction of rates on the commodities involved, thereby trans- lating the railroad employes wage reduction of last July into the rate fabric, was not indicated. Such a course was suggested several days iago by the public group of the Rail- 1road Labor Board. 1 General Decreases Asiked. The case involving rates on grain, hay and feed was brought before the {commission by midwestern states and agricultural organizations. who asked ,m»n(ral decreas: in commodity { throughout the western territory | complainants requested not only the lelimination of the per cent in- crease granted by the comm 1920, but consideration of the removal of r-time increases on the com- modities. There were twenty-four states and {resented. The pending case involving | lumber concerns rates on hardwood {lumber and for products through- out the producing and | territory east of Arkansas. | The record in the case was com- pleted last week. In both of the gen- ‘eral cases urgent requests for speed. action was made by the complair ants, and it was said that the de cision of the commission in the grain case was under preparation this week. The full commission parti pated in the grain hearings and dis membership, as is usual. Goft Al Conference Soon after Chairman peared at the White House, Acting Al- torney General Goff arrived, and with Mr. McChord went into conference with the President. Mediation ‘“‘through regular and con- stitututed authority” as a means of pre- venting a general railroad surike was urged upon the chiefs of the big four brotherhoods, and B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employes’ division of the ‘American Federation of Labor, in a memorial forwarded to them -tod the National Grange and the National Milk_Producers’ Federation. “We have only commendation for the admonition against all disorder and un- nterference by strikers, con- ? n the order to strike,” the me- morial said, “but we deplore the ing of such present conditions in the country we earnestly hope th mediation through regular and constituted uuthor- ity may be had to avert the same.” n in | eneral organizations rep- consuming ; cussions, instead of a section of its} McChord ap- | v by | AGAINST PARKING Co;nmissioners Take Open Stand as Complaints Con- tinue to Flood Office. PUBLIC HEARING GRANTED TO SETTLE CONTROVERSY Municipal Authorities - Ready to Make Regulations Most Bene- ficial to General Public. The Disrtict Commissioners are ready to arbitrate the new parking rule, which continued today to draw com- plaints to the District building and the trade and commercial organizations of the Capital. A public hearing on the question will be granted If a less drastic and more ractical pian for relieving traffic con- gestion can be worked out it undoubt- edly will be adopted in lieu of the amendment approved by the Commis- sioners Tuesday. These assurances were given today by Commissioner Oyster, who pointed { out that the sfole aim of the municipal authorities is to solve the parking prob- lem in a way that will be most bene- ficial to the general public. He said the date for the public hearing probably will be selected at tomorrow's board meeting. Practical Solution Seen. # ials of the Chambgr of Com- Board of Trade and Merchants Manufacturers’ Association ex gratification over the Com announcement. They be- tions will be made at the on I mere sugge hearing which will offer a practical solution of a problem génerally ad- mitted to be one of the most difficult r faced by the District official The Chumber of Commerce made the parkin| special business at a meeting of its !police and fire c ommittee Monday fternoon at 2 o'clock e Board of Trade will give spe- 1 consideration to the subject at a meeting of its executive committee. which also will meet Monday, at 1 p.m. The Merchants' and Manufacturers’ Association already has appointed a committee to register its protest with the Commissioners against the new regulation. Time for Cpnsideration. Inasmuch as the amendment does not | | become operative for thirty days, the Commissioners will have plenty of ev | has time to consider suggestions for go! erning parking and amend their action of Tuesday” if changes are thought to be advisable. It was made plain at the District { building today that the Commission- erss have no uarrel with the publie on the traffic: score. If the publie doesn’t_like what has been offered and cail suggest something better it will get it. { "On one point the Commissioners and the complainants generally are agreed that present conditions are intoler- ble und something drastic will have to be done o effect an Imporvement. The Commissioners realize that they took a drastic step when they decided to prohibit parking in front of entrances to buildings in the con- gested section. Antagonism Brings Surprise. Commissioner Oyster said today that the parking of vehicles in front | of entrances to buildings had brought matter the order of |* \ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TRAFFIC RULE TO AID BUSINESS. NOT BAN DOWNTOWN PARKING The new traffic hibiting a motorist from stopping his machine in front of the en- trance to any hotel, theater, bank, club of business establishment in the congested secliy, €xcept to take on or discharge passengers, goes into effect on the morning of November 20. The mew regulation pub- lished today as a legal notice, and thirty days must elapse under the law before it becomes operative. | Capt. Albert J. Headley, head of | the traflic bureau, declared today | regluation pro-. | that it is not the intant of the new clause in the traffic code to | abolish all parking of automo- | biles in the downtown section of the city. 1t is the purpdse of the regu- | lation, he said, to ke=p ‘he space | in front of the entrauees to all | business houses open for vehicles that are coming and going all day on business. Order nn 0ld One. @=Pip captain of trafiic SHIE"the order is in reality not a new one. He called attention to paragraph (b) of sectlon 16 of the traffic code,. which has long been in exist- | ence, and which s “A’vehiele waiting in front of an entrance to building shall promptly give way to a vehicle riving to take up or set down p: sengers or to load or unload mer- chandise.” The sole purpose of the new sec- tion, Capt. dley continued, is to carry out the above. Although officials of the District y it was not their intention to abolish parking downtown, the regulation will have that because if a motorist is standing in front of a place must give way to e arriving at that establish t he must remain in his car. Therefore, unless a motorist has to effect. a chauffeur in his car ready move it away when another ma- chine desires to stop there, he ¢ not les car at all. Does Not Apply at Night. Although the text of the new regulation makes no reference to the hours during which it is to be effective, it was explained at the District building that it will not apply. at night, in so far as it ap- nli to stopping in front of stores. Th announcement will be a source of relief to motorists, who have been wondering where they would leave their cars while at- tending theaters. Capt. Headley also made it clear today that the new clause applies only to the entrances to the places desigiated. Where large office buildings or department stores occupy an en- tire block or half of a block. the new regulation does not prohibit the leaving of a machine in front of such a building. except directly in front of th entrances. ‘The regulation provides tha police shall designate by lines or signs t part frontage of a building in which a machine cannot be left standing. HILL OR HOUGHTON BUDGET INCREASED bening St ARCHIVES BUILDING Secretary Mellon Writes i Speaker of the House Urging Action. |valuable government records will be i Presented to Congress in a letter sent o the Speaker of the House today by cretary of the Treasury Mellon. The | cretary, acting on the recommenda- {tion of James A. Wetmore {ing archiect of the Treasury, point lout the netessity for such a building t this time, parteiularly calling to |the attention of Congress that its construction will in reality - bring about a reduced outlay of government { 'mvm».\. The estimated cost of the building is §1.500,000, exciusive of ’lhv Site. ! "The site for tme proposed building {hus been selected, although money b not been provided for its purchase, un- der an authorizatior {eral: years It was the squarcs { bounded by and C, 12th and 13th { streetx northwest, intérsected by Ohio | avenue. Designs for the building have ! been prepared, but the plans have not, | becziuse these negessarily cannot be per- | fected until the site is selected and the rchitects determine the nature of the ix to hold the f the land and Support. PLANINCONGRESS Provision for the immediate con istruction of a national archives | building here for the protection of supervis- | building. | - | Member of the Associated Press || ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispat. credited to it or mot otheriire credited in 1 paper and also the local news published here All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. PLASTER FALLS, BREAKS CAPITOL CHANDELIER IN PRESIDENT’S ROOM A large section of plaster imme- diately above the huge gilt and cut glass chandelier in the Presi- dent’s room at the Capitol fell to- day and shattered a large numbcr of the klass globes on the chande- lier. Senator Pomerene of »Dhio and Senator Swanson of Virginia were in the room at the time, talking to visitors, but neither was in- jured. Had the President been usin room at the time, undoubtedly he would have been struck hy the flying pieces of plaster and glass, for they fell directly upon the place where the President sits to sign s when he comes to the Capitol at the close of a session. The chandelier, which is very large, has been in the President’s room for thirty years or more. About twelve vears ago it was regilded. Noise of the fallfng plaster ana glass was heard in the corridor outside the Senate chamber, ard sounded as if a bomb had besn ex- ploded. LEGION TO GREET - FAMOUS VISITORS Tells of Arrangements for Visit of Italian, British and Belgian Leaders. the { Visit of Gen. Armando Diaz, gen- | eralissimo of the Italian armies; Ad- { miral David Beatty, chief of the Eng- lish ‘naval forces, and Lieut. Gen. Baron Jacques of the Beigian army, as guests of the American Legion to this cily was given out today by the headquarters of the District depart- ment of the American Legion, which j urges all residents of Washington to co-operate with the State, War and Navy Departments and the American | Legion in turning out to welcome the ! famous triumvirate upon their arrival | at Union station, Sunday afternoon at | 2:30 o'clock. | “The three famous visitors will be {joined the following Friday by Mar- i Foch, recently elected member of corge Washington Post, No. 1, who is expected, according to present ar- rangements, to arrive lere at 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon. For this event, it is stated, the officers of the legion here and’ the members of | George Washington Post will out in full to attend the ceremony, during which Howard S. Fisk post commander, will pin a 1 Chonen to Greet Guestx. ! Among those who will greet the |three legion guesls on Sunday will be Departmental Commander James . Drain, Gen. Andre Brewster, rep- resenting the Army: Admiral William Coontz, representing the Navy; Rob- jert Bliss, thifd assistant secretary of !state. representing President Hard- ling, and the District Commissioners {and members of the embassies and { foreign legations. Representatives of each post in uniform will flank the line of march will be attended by foreign officials and members of their families, and ununiformed members of the various | posts will fail in behind their uni- formed comrades. The visitors will depart for their embassies, where they will stay here, in government | automobiles, and will be escorted by iroops of cavalry from Fort Myer. Members of the legion will fall in | behind, | ments, and escort them as far H H fotn First detailed information of the | \pich they believe may furnish a strong turn | tive of your country legion | Fesponxible emblem of the famous French leader. [ have in | sénding you to the same destig: of Congress sev- | of the distinguished visitors, who | according to present arrange- | e s pos- | i Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 87,339 TWO CENTS. THREATENING NOTE BELIEVED CLUE T0 HERRICK BOMBING Handwriting on Letter Simi- lar to That on Package Sent Ambassador. ALL FRANCE REGRETS HORROR OF OUTRAGE Police Think Communists Laid Plot—Other Embassies Warned. By the Associated Pre: PARIS, October 20—Retalia- tory measures in the event of the execution of the two Italians, Sacco and Vanzetti, convicted of murder in Massachusetts, are threatened against the American consulates in Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons and Marseilles, in letters received at those consulates to- day signed by communist or- ganizations. PARIS, October 20:—French experts &lamining several hundred letters sent reently to Myron T. Herrick, the Ameri- ambassador, today discovered one clue in tracing the maker of the bomb which expioded in Mr. Herrick's home here yesterday evening. The letter was addressed to the am- bassador personally and was received by him at the American embassy, October 14. It is said to have contained a threat to kill him “by scientific means,” which the writer declared he had in his_possession. These experts today believed they saw a striking similarity between the handwriting of the letter and that of the address on the box which contained the bomb. The ietter was written in French and in small, uneven letters, indicating that the author was an uneducated Frenci- man. At the top of the sheet were the words, cco and Vanzetti,” writ- ten in lurge letters. (These names evi- dently refer to Niccolo Sacco and Bar- tolomeo. Vanzetti, two Italians who were convicted of first degree murder by a Massachusetls court last summer.) ‘The letter said: s the representa ou are a party cco and Van- o the persecution of the | zetti, and you are, therefore, jointly for ; power scientific mea their execution. | of gether with your whole household The letter was signed: “A Scientific Man Who Will Work Alone Minister of War Barthou, accom- d by a number of French gen- Nled upon Mr. Herrick this ng and congratulated him in the {name of the French army for his nar- | row escape. Virtually all of the dip lomatic corps in Paris paid official calls at the embassy during the fore- { noon. The American ambassador has de- cided to rest several days at his pla in the country. Although not ill, he thought it best to abstain from official duties for a day or two to remove the possibility of reaction from his nerv- ous shock. Mr. Herrick, at the request of his staff, has decided not to use his open automobile for a week or ten daye He has promised to ride only in a closed car. Police authori plosion report th 1 bomb widely used during the war investigating_the at apparently a Brit- stions, i ! o 3 h a volume of protests to the Dis- | i 5 ! . chairman of & H - : & : | 1 sible. Parade commander will be |wa celed in the package sent to the ation No. 90, the shop st trict building that it seemed practi- | i The leiter of the etary of the | Sergt. J. J. Murphy of the Engineer it will be recalled that Mr [“on the Pennsylvania lines, & {THREE DISTRICT BILLS cllviinsyentisgibuaincan fincerestalon | [ Treasury xent to the Speuker lodiy | Corps s alet e Emiind sounced that he had ordered 2 new ED IN HOUSE the city wanted a regulation under {indicates that all government forces | | given out b; %age when it was b Vots Calkew amiouis: ik ahop INTRODUC | which the blocking, of entrances | i\ V. U. re uniting behind such a building | Nations as Friends. Opencd as being that of a bomb, and ¢mployes on the Pennsylvania lines. —_— e e Pped e e netis ollowing aa It foes clozely puthexrer| The legion 15 most deairou ! that he was formerly a soldier in the Yoth union and non-union, and that the ABE O Was ! e | & srix ot . She | Col. Drain, * o = 8 4 5 s in Franc hopmen would not strike until the| hairman Focht of the House Dis- | & Eeheral demand for relief. That it . | ficer in charge of public buildines | L0 Dl I e R e e NGO I KooT trict committee today introduced | of business naturally caused surprise President Expected to Name |$500,000 More Asked for| fon.”" 11'is Belleved, from didg | €Yer was extended in (his country todeadly package are belng cxaminid Result to Be Known November 1. in the District building | of the project with various | Visting foreign celebrities. jin the hope that it ay be pos- 5 = (hat Congress will feel com-| ‘“There is nothing as conducive to|sible to trace its origin. It was ¢ P Teshit of the mew oallot will| .One provides for making a ‘survey month,” Mr. Good said. 1f a majority |and preparation of a plan for a pro- of all shop employes vote for the!posed to connect the old| union to represent them, negotiations, lcivil war forts in the trict. This he said, would be reopened with the |bill provides for with road, and if they are cted “then |the Federal Highw: and and then only will we feel justified |with the Fine Ar ssion. It i or in exercising our constitutional right and taking advantage of the strike vote already cast. Despite the optimism in brother- Taod circles, J. M. MeGrath, vice president of the Railway Employes’ Department, American Federation of Jabor, the six federated shop crafts, declared before the labor board hear- ing in the Pennsylvania case began that a strike seemed to him to be certain. The shop erafts have voted to strike, but have not issued strike orders. Twenty-two railroads have violated labor board decisions, McGrath said. and the men are insistent on walking out. Members of Board Hopeful, Labor board members were opti- mistic over prospects of an adjust- ment of the brotherhood members’ t complaints, but no plans had been announced for discussing with rail- road executives the board's program to avert the strike Ly temporarily maintaining the present wage level and reducing freight rates. Pricr to the conference with the hrotherhoods, the board had sched- wled a hearing with Pennsylvania railroad representatives on charges of Violation of a board decision, requir- ing a new election of shop crafts rep- resentatives. ans to Ru Trains Pushed. mail Plans to operate passenger, and milk trains were being pushed by railroad executives, in event the sirike takes place, With resumption of freight traffic as fast as men can e secured. From the rankxs of men recently laid off, pensioners, loyal Veterans and others with railroad e perience, railroad officials here today declared they could recruit nearly a half million men. Roads entering New York were advertising for men o fill positions which may be va- cated and roads entering Chicago are expected to take the same course within the next few days. Between August, 1920, and June, 1921, the number of railroad em ployes decreased by 611,681, accord- ing to figures of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, and more than 60000 of these were train service men. PLANNING TO MEET STRIKE. Railroads Proceeding as if They Expected Efforts to Fail. NEW YORK, October 20.—Proceed- ing as if they expected failure of the Railroad Labor Board in its efforts to event the threatened railroad strike a conference in Chicago today with the “big five” brotherhood chiefs, members of the eastern presidents’ conference met here today to lay plans for meeting the strike on eastern and New England roads. ithough they professed to see some " asaatinued on Fage 2, Column 1) hree District bills. carries an appropr the employment of expert offi jother expen | Another | sentative Focht would author] ! chief of engineers, United & ! Army, to grant a permit for the in- | Stallation within the public grounds under his control in the District of underground ducts, condui Dle: { and pipe and the necessary instal | tion of mauholes for gas, {elephones, | telegraphs, electric and water serv- | ices. | The third bill woald amend section 196 of the District code, with refer- { ence to depuiy coroner. It provides | that the Commissioners.shall have au- tho: | thority Lo atant deputy coroner. The deputy coroner and assistant deput; ats and introduced by Repre- the coroner, while acting, would receiv ‘compensation at a rate not exceed- ing $5 a v, and each would be un- 00 bond. der § ! Today’s News in Brief | President exvected to name D. J. Hill or A. B. Houghton ambassador to j Berlin. Page 1 All France resrets outrage on Am- bassador Herrick. Increased appropriation asked Tor Dis- trict of Columbia Hospital. Page 1 District Commissioners ready to arbi- trate new parking rule. Page 1 Legion announces program for visit of foreign leaders. Page 1 Congress urged to provide archives building. Page 1 United States arms conference dele- gates to be given views of cabinet. Page 2 Thirty-third degree Masons visit Mount Vernon. Page 2 Senator Curtis to become chairman of rules committee. Page 7 Vice President Coolidge declares turn of tide in business has appeared. Page 11 ational realty leader outlines plan to relieve unemployment. Page 12 Mine congress hears plea for fair wage and cheaper coal. _ Page 13 South Washington Citizens’' Associa- tion to admit women. Page 17 Chevy Chase citizens call proposed parking rule too drastic. * Page 17 Gen. Pershing given great send-off in Paris as he starts for United States. Page 17 District of Columbia committee re- ports to House, favoring three street-closing projects. Page 17 District to pay respects to Henry B. F. Macfarland at memorial service. Page 17 Deets Pickett refutes charges against dry law. Page 19 Supt. Baliou explains changes in East- ern High School plans. Page 21 Capt. Kilpatrick arrives in ‘Washing- ton tonight. 3 1 ty to appoint a deputy coroner | Page 1| Page-301 Bankers, hotel men. store proprie- tors and representatives of other business interests in large numbers, i ated, have asked the Commis s for special reservation der which they could keep the trances to their own particular plates of business open. No special favors were shown. When the number of | complaints finally reached the point | where it was indicated business gen- | erally wanted the entrances to build- | ings protected against curb parking, | the rule of T was adopted, de- | signed to give & elief. The United States government had asked for a_special dispensation un- |der the existing regulation, it de- }veloped today. Secretary of the { Treasury Mellon requested the Com- missioners to keep the space in front of the entrance to the building at 1412-1414 Pennsylvania avenue open. This building pied by the divi- sion_of printing and stationery and the distribution oflice of the Treasury. Evidence before the Commissioners was conclusive that the present regu- lations have worked a hardship in a great many cases, and that was why it was decided to take hold of the situation with a firm_hand, Commis- sioner Oyster said. He added there was no likellhood of the existing | practice being continued. though the Commissioners will not assume an jarbitrary attitude concerning the amended regulations and will adopt some other plan if a more satisfactory one is suggested, he said. Several communications concerning the new traflic rule were received by the Commissioners today. ~Commis- | sioner Oyster sald he and his col- | lcagues would be glad to receive sug- gestions on the subject and would | give consideration to every plan pre- sented. John S. Mills of 3906 8th street northwest wrote the District heads suggesting_that, in view of the con- gested traffic_conditions, underground garages should be constructed along Pennsylvania avenue. Suggestions Made. From Prof. H. M. Paul, U. S. N,, re- tired, the Commissioners received a suggestion that parking at an angle of 45 degrees be permitted on prac- tically all streets, in lieu of parallel i parking, which, he said, takes up space unnecessarily. A protest against the “all-day park- er” was voiced by E. Joseph Aronoff of 647 E street northeast. He urged strict enforcement of the time limits on parking. President Albert Schulteis of the Chamber of Commerce, stated that numerous communications regarding the traffic Tule were received by the chamber today. Some of them were favorable to the Commissioners’ ac- tion,” he said. According to Secretary Columbus of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, practically all the com- munications received by that organi- zation are opposed to the new amend- ment. The Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Assaciation today addressed a letter to its members asking them to express heir views on the rule. “It the consensus of opinion,” states the letter, “that this regulation is in absoluge disregard of the rights, interests and everyday welfare of the public, and c!mlnlg its application would work a great hardship on busi- U. S. Ambassador in Very Short Time. | President Harding's choice American ambassador to Germany, post expected to be filled soon afte exchange of ratifications of th treaty, was understood today to ha narrowed down virtually to Dav Jayne Hill, former American ambas- sador to that country. and Repre- for a | v e | sentative Alanson B.” Houghton of Corning, N. Y. Those in touch with the question expressed belief that the post would go to the latter and would be the only important diplo- matic appointment of the present ministration accorded to the Empi: state. Dr. Hill recently visited Europe and was said to be considered seriously by President Harding for the Berlin post, largely because of his long ex- perience and unquestioned _ability. Representative Houghton has been indorsed for the post by Senators Wadsworth and Calder, republicans, New York, and Charles D. Hilles, re- publican, national, committeeman. Representative Houghton, a wealthy business man, has spent several years in Germany, ‘giving him intimate knowledge of German affairs. He 1 a Harvard graduate and took post- graduate work at universities in Ber- [ lin and Paris. . i | “COLD SNAP” COMING. Thermometer Not to Go Below 40, Weather Man Says. - Storm winds from the northwest] will _ blow up colder tonight, but weather bureau officials today did not expect the temperature to get down | quite as cold as the recent flurry. Probably the thermometer will not g0 below 40 degrees, it was stated. if it gets that low. The wind will go down by’ tomor. row morning, it was declared, and the warming-up process will begin, so that_“normaley” will be resumed by Sunday. The little “cold snap” is general throughout the country, ex- tending as far south as Florida. — EARTHQUAKE IS RECORDED. Pronounced earthquake shocks, be- ginning at 1:13 am. and continuing until 3 a.m.,, were recorded early to- day at the Georgetown University seismographical observatory. The center of the disturbance was esti- mated at about 4,400 miles from ‘Washington. ' SENATOR STERLING ILL. Senator Sterling of South Dakota became ill while in the Senate cham- ber today and was assisted from the chamber to a couch in the.Senate lobby, where he was given first-aid treatment. Senator Sterling has re- cently recovered from an 'illness which kept him from the Senate for several days. A fainting attack was the trouble “t. 13 sin Land and New Buildings at Mount Alto. For the purchase of additional and the erection of new Mount Alto, the government's tubercu- lar hospital for service men on Wiscon- avenue, an sked in a budget hospitalization mea: ure introduced y Chairman Langley of the House committee on public buildings and grounds. This bill was introduced after a final conference with Treasury officials ves- terday. It provides also for the erec- tion of a new hospital in Washington Dled war veter st in The Star. Bickering Avoided. Langley budget hospitalization ns, as previously The bill calls for a total of $16,000,000, of which $15,500,000 will be for hospitals and- extensions to be located under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury. The House committee has drafted a bill to avoid as far as possible any bick- ering on the floor of the House regard- ng the specific location of hospitals, believing that the location and erection of these much needed facilities can be expedited for the relief of the suffering’ soldiers by leaving the location within ! | the discretion of the Secretary “of the Treasury. Conferences held with Treasury of- ficials and_with the officers of the| American Legion, Chairman Langley | isaid today, showed that the $16,000,000 carried in this bill with the 18,600,000 carried in the Langley hospitalization bill last year ‘will be sutlicient to meet the needs of.all disabled soldiers re- quiring hospital care. Washington Loecation Favored. Chairman Langley said it was prac- tically assured that ome of the new hospitals will be located-in Washing- ton, pointing out that Brig. Gen. C. E. Sawyer, personal physician to Presi- dent Harding and adviser to the chief executive on all social welfare prob- lems, has been emphatic ever since he took office in advocating Washington as the ideal place for caring for the disabled soldiers. This feeling is also prevalent among the public officials concerned with relief work for serv- ice men, Representative Langley says. BRITISH DENY NAVY PLANS Report of B‘emudn and Singapore Bases Called Myth. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 20.—The reports that Great Britain was planning the establishment of naval bases in the Ber- mudas, at Singapore or elsewhere were terned “‘pure imagination” today by ‘an admiralty official, who declared he was unable to understand what Premier Hughes of Australia vas referring to in his irecent speech’on the subject. land | buildings at | at the coming regular session ngress to make immediate pro- on for such a building in the in- t of general economy and for the | protection of government records. Secreta~y Mellon recommends that the plans provide for a building with 13,000,000 cubic feet of space, so de- signed that it can be enlarged (o $,900.000 cubic feet, to take care of {the rapid expansion of the govern- ment archives. i Protection From Destruction. Such a building, it was pointed out in the letter, would provide protec- ‘government, including those of the Senute and House, protect them from deterioration ‘and destruction Ly fire. Their value will be ma- terially’ enhanced by permitling of greater accessibility, which will re- sult ip the saving of much time in their examination when it becomes necessary to do so. The economy in the construction of the building would come, it was pointed out, in relieving much space now devoted to these records in buildings all over the city. When moved to the archives building this space would be immediately released for the general office use of the gov- ernment, and in_the end would per- mit of the saving of hundreds of here for rented buildings alone. BLOODLESS REVOLUTION REPORTED JN PORTUGAL New Mijnistry Formed and in Full Control, London Hears. By the Associated Pre: ! LONDON, October 20.—After a bloodless revclution,in_Portugal, a new ministry has been formed and fs in full control at Lisbon, it is stated in_dis- patches received at the Portuguese lega- tion here today. SERIOUS RIOTS IN LISBON. By the Assoclated Press. BADAJOZ, Spain, October 20.—Se- rious disorders attended the military movement _ against the Portuguese government, which broke out in Lis. bon Wednesday, it is said, in advices received here. _The trouble beégan when the Cafe Brasiliera, a political rendezvous, was closed, citizens and the republican guards coming into collision. In the ensuing demonstra- tion there was considergble rifle and revolver firing, but the number of casualties is not known. Sailors be- came involved in the-street fighting, and went tq their vessels, seized wed- pons and fired upon a crowd, wound- ing a number of persons. Students and the police also came to blows, and many were injured. The police have placed numerous persons suspected of being involved -in the dluqrd_ez under arres.. 3 | |tion for the valuable papers of the| thousands of " dollars a year spent | | mutual friendly feeling between | tions as feach others’ nationals, | when they have figured in late his | tory ax prominently as have the three {who will stop off in Washington for {five days beginning Sund ingland and France na- e | Gen. Pershing in expression of their {regard for him and the nation which he represents. and Washingtonians should not on find pleasure in see- ing Gens. Diaz and Jacque and Ad- | miral Beatty, but at the same time | would be assisting in squaring a mute i 1eome 1 arrangements have been for the legion's guests during ty before depart- made their stay in this ing for Kansas City, Mo.. where they will attend the legion's third nation- held | al convention, which will there October 231-November sive. Program for Vi While complete details have not as yet been finished, it that the guests and those accompany- city, and visits will be made to Ar- lington, Mount Vernon and the prov- ing grounds at Aberdeen, Md" Lunch- eons &lso will be held for them by government officials, including a iluncheon at the White House. The guests will leave Washington October 30 for Kansas City, and will return here at the end of the con- vention to take part in the memorial | exercises attending Armistice day, Iwhen the body of the unknown American soldier will be buried at Arlington cemetery. Arrangements are being made with ! the police department incident to the {parades and various ceremonies. Wal- ! ter Bruce Howe, third vice command {er of the District Department, Amer! !can Legion, is chairman of the com- | mittee on arrangements. Others now co-operating are Dr. R. E. B. McKen- ney, Robert Bliss, Maj, Marlborough Churchill, Col. Conrad Bhbcock, Sergt. J. J. Murphy, Marie Covert and Com- rades Imrie and Martin. —_— LOWELL SUCCEEDS TAFT. Elected New President of League to Enforce Peace. NEW YORK, October 2‘—Tha League to Enforce Peace has elected A. Lawrence Lowell president to suc- ceed Chief Justice William H. Taft and voted to hold a national conven- tion in Washington while the arma- ment conference was in session. The Durpose of the convention, it was an- nounced; would be to emphasize the obligations of the United States in establishing world peace. George W. Wickersham was elect- ed chairman of the executive com- mittee to succeed Mr. Lowell, who | was appointed chairman of a commit- tee to draft resolutions expressing the league's appreciation of Chief Justice Taft's efforts in its behalf. {ing them will be taken through the | i is understood | i | | and have feted |ih { munist hattered by the explosion, and badly manifest deference paid to |there would appear to be little hope secially | of detecting hte criminal. Detectives at Work. The entire detective force of Paris 1) available policemen, under ihe personal direction of the prefect police. worked throughout the night in efforts to trace the makers of the bomb. No arrests had been an- nounced by the police up to noon to- but it was said a number of s were under surveillance and two clues formed the basis for further investigation. Fragments of metal of which the bomb was made and an address on the cover of the box containing it are 1 that the only tangible evidence on which the detectives can work. Bomb ex- perts in the police department are trying to identify the small fragments n efforts to tra the source of the purchase of the infernal machine Final decision regarding the com- manifestation announced for (Omorrow evening remains to be tak- en. Police officials said today that, whatever the decision, there would e sufficient forces on hand to pre- vent crowds from approaching the i a or indulging in The been directed toward a certain num- attention of the police has ber of American citizens who, al- though banished from France, are known still to be In the country. The first searches, however, it was said today, probably will be made in anar- chist and communist circles, as the crime is regarded by the police as a result of a communist campaign against the conviction for murder of Nicolo Succo and Bartolomeo Van- zetti, two Italians, by a Massachusetis court last summer. Some posters in this campaign have been traced to anarchistic origin, it was said. Package Marked “Perfume.” The bomb was in a small oblong package wrapped in plain white pa- per tied with a strong cord and marked “perfume,” and lay on 2 ta- ble in the American embassy all yes- terday morning. It was addressed personally to the American ambassa- dor, Myron T. Herrick, and had been delivered by registered post. Thinking it was a gift, the am| dor's secretary, Lawrence Norton, carried it to the ambassador's resi- dence, the former home of Prince Jacques de Broglie, at 16 Avenue de Messine. Early in the evening the ambassador’s valet, Blanchard, saw the package on a desk, and, following custom, started to open it. The re- moval of the paper revealed a small pasteboard box, such as might be used for holding soap. Almost im- mediately a spring was released and as Blanchard lifted the lid he heard a familiar.noise which brought back the days when he was a bomber in the British army. He hurled the box through the open bathroom door and ran_ from the room. The bomb ex- ploded in the doorway, two fragments hitting the valet in the back. Me was not seriously injured. The_ ambassador, his ‘daughter-in- law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick, and her seven-year-old son were just at this time ascending the stairway, pre- ratory to entering Mr. Herrick's A O ey «catinugd on Page 2, Colgmr