Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1921, Page 2

fes" = 2 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, ‘SENATE GETS PAST NETABSTALE Repubiican Compromise In- come Surtax Rates | .3+ Adopted, 54 to 13. i One of the big tax revision issues in the Senate was settled yesterday with the adoption, 54 to 13, of the re-| publican compromise income surtax| rates with the maximum at 30 per| cent. All those voting against the compromise were republicans. They were Senators Calder, ron, +:Dillingham, Edge, Farnald, Frelinghuysen, Hale, Harreld, Keyes, McLean, Moges, Smoot and Spencer. The Senate previously had \'u!elli down an amendment by Senator} Hitchcock, democrat, Nebraska, pro- posing retention of existing rates on! incomes in excess of $100,000, and another by Senator Calder, republican, Net York. to make the maximum rate 32 per cent on that part of incomes In_excess of $68,000. The vote on the Hitchcock proposal was 43 to 23, with five republicans | supporting it and four democrats voting _against_it. The republicans were Borah, Johnson. Kenyom, Follette and Norbeck, and the demo- .rats were Underwood, Ransdell, Broussard and Myers. Fifteen votes were cast for the alder amendment and 51 against it. Those voting for the proposial were republicans. ‘They were: Bursum, New Mexico: Calder, Cameron, Dil lingham, Edge, Ernst. Fernald, Fre linghuysen, Hale, Keyes, McLean, Moses, New, Page and Smoot. To Ask Another Vote. Semator La Follette, republican, Wisconsin, gave notice that he would ask for another vote on the Hitch- Came- | iin the District wiil today make an {eral District penal institutions. |will far exceed the anticipation of ias the prisonmer is at liberty the fol- low-up work starts, and the unfortu- PASTORS TO ASK FUNDS .NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE BE GIVEN PRISONERS’ AID Plea to Be Made Today for $10,000 to Help Incar- cerated. Ministers of every Episcopal church appeal to thelr congregations to aid in putting over the campaign for $10,008 by the Prisoners’ Aid Associa- tion of Trinity Community House at 3d and C streets northwest, which will be instituted tomorrow. Many contributions have already been received by the treasurer of the. fund, and several of them have come | from men who are at the present time serving sentences in th® sev- One man, writing from the District jall, inclosed $2 in his letter and ex- pressed the hope that the campaign the directors of the drive. Raymond Wolven, court and jail worker of the association, yesterday said that during the past week four men who have but recently finished serving sentences at Lorton have | been clothed and cared for at Trinity | and found positions with local busi- ness men. The actual visiting done | by staff workers of the association is probably the smallest part of the! work, as a list is kept of all men | and women incarcerated, and as soon | nate is helped to keep on his feet until some honest employment 1is found for him. During the past vear many young men between seventeen and twenty- two years old, who have fallen into the hands of haulhoriue«s o8 :ivers_ charges, have been aided by the as- soc’ation and in many instances have | LEFT TO RIGHT: been sent back to their homea, Bishop Harding, president of the association, points out, that not only the individual benefits from the work of the association, but that the com- munity at large is aided in the fact that many potential criminals are set on the paths of honesty and kept there by the efforts of the associa- tion workers. 'RENT BOARD MEMBERS ' CONFIRMED BY SENATE| Three Nominated to Succeed Them- ock amendment before the bill llIA\l-l NEAR EAST RELEF tax issue had been definitely settled 50 far as the Senate was concerned. ‘The compromise plan, however, will Public Schools to Be Receiv- | ing Stations in Drive for Orphans in Asia Minor. have to run the gantlet of House oprosition in conference and there were predictions that the maximum rate finally agreed upon in the con- ference would be around 40 per cent. After voting in the surtax rates, the Senate took up an amendment by Sen- or Gerry, democrat, Rhode Island,’ roposing normal rates of 2 per cent on + the first $5,000 of income, 4 per cent on the second $5,000, 6 per cent on the third $5,000, and the existing rate of 8 | per cent on'all over $15,000. After some . discussion the amendment went over at the request of Senator Lodge, repub- \can, Massachusetts, who said he d ! sited to obtain official figures as to how | The local Near East Rellef com- . much revenue would result from such a ; mittee, of which Dr. Harvey W.! plan. Wiley 'Is honorary chairman. Hugh! Senator Gerry has proposed that the |A. Thrift chairman, Mrs. Walter R.!| loss of revenue, which he estimated at|{Tuckerman vice chairman and John $135,000,000, could be made up through | B. Larner treasurer, yesterday issued increased corporation taxes, a levy on|the following statement: { {msoline and retention of some of the| “Boys and girls of ail the public| so-called luxury taxes proposed for re- [and parochial schools of the Capital peal. city will have given them this week Debate yesterday was enlivened by a leaflet to carry home explaining sharp clashes between Chairman Pen-|why ‘Uncle Sam' is asking all rose of the finance committee, on the | American citizens, young and old, to one hand, and Senators Reed, democrat, | help him save the starving, homeless and Gerry, on the other.|orphan boys and girls of ‘Unole Sen- {Sam's’ allies over in Asia Minor! ator Reed in opposition to reduction of |~ “Because the parents of these chil- income surtaxes, Senator Penrose said |dren were Christians or Jews, they 1hat next week ¥the senator from Mis-, have been massacred and robbed of sourt will have evening sessions atga)l they poseessed. There is mo| which to continue his performances.” paternal government to protect and feed and educate the chilren. There- | Night Seastons Needed. fore, ‘Uncle Sam’ has his agent of “The senator from Pennsylvania fs!mercy, the Near East Rellef: over| there, which has established hun- dreds of American _institutions where, under Old Glory, these orphans are safe! But there are not suffi-| cient funds to maintain these institu- | tions. Dare we pull down Old Glory | and turn the children out to wamler | and Bbtarve to death? ‘And then | because war has not ceased, andj famine and epidemic rages, there are | countless other thousands who are;| pleading for life and protection and! to whom the door is closed! > “Chiliren of Washington, will you help open the doorz? Will you earn ' some money, or deny yourself, so that | on Saturday, November 5. you can; take your gift to your school and place it_in the portholes of the .food { ship. Children of parochial schools will take their gifts Friday, Novem- | threatening us with night sessions™ replied SBenator Reed. “We care not how many night sessions he Lolds. ‘We will sit here during his night sessions while he holds a wake over 1he dismembered tax bill which ought to be dead.” Senator Reed added that the demo- crats proposed ts maeke the finance committee, “back up” on the proposi- tion “to relieve the profiteers of; $450,000,000 of taxes a year” referring 0 the excess profits taxe: 1 “If we don’t do it here” he declared| “we will back you off the boards In| the next congressional elections.” Later in the day Senator Penrose . @ccused Senator Gerry of absenting himseif from the committee room { when the tax bilk was being drawn, ode Island sena- 'WOULD TAX ALL selves—Original Term of Com- mission Expired Yesterday. The Senate, practically without de- | bate, ‘late yesterday confirmed the nominations of A. Leftwich Sinclair, | Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor and William F. Gude to be members of the Dis- trict rent commission, to succeed themselves. | Energy During A fiying start was made yesterday The nominations were sent to the| 3 Sepate yesterday by the President.|DY the citizens' assoclations of Wash- Senator Gooding of Idaho, member |Ington in their ten-day campaign to g{‘“é:"mg'i};‘w‘lh:f"m‘g’;_'e;}“em(‘:‘k enroll every man and woman In the vorably reported by the committee |C!tY- and confirmed at the executive ses-| Reports recelved at headquarters, sion late yesterday aflerhoon: eat.|Ro0m 601 District building, last night ing the rent cammission, that com-|%ere too incomplete to form an es- timate of the number who signed up |the first day. Don H. York, chair- mission would have gone out .of of- fice October 22, yesterday. But the recently enacted amendment to the Ball act extended the life of the commission for seven months. —— i announcement probably could be made early in the week of the results of the first few days. Tomorrow and Tuesday will be registration days, and the executive |committee last night made an n.?poal to the people to go to one of the registration booths that will be scat- tered all over town and register as an_organized citizen. Every police station, every fire en- gine house and scores of neighbor- hood business places will be prepared OUTSIDE PUPILS (Continued from First Page.) be saved to District taxpayers; through the operation of the measure, | justice was at stake, and the federa- tion should stand firmly on that fact. Snowden Ashford, former municipal architect and vice chalrman of thej committee, presented the report. He said that figures for 1920 showed there were 3,338 non-resident pupils in the District of whom only elghiy- one paid full tuition. He claimed a large number of puplls escaped under the provision of the existing law which permits children of persons engaged in business in the District to attend the local schools free of charge. It was contendéd by Mr. Ashford that the present Iaw prac- tically Is inoperative. 1 2,000 | Of the zpproximately 3, non- | 0 2l br e ocimated. probably nec. more | gperate in registering those of Uncie than one-third would be exempted T 0 desire to become from tuition payments nnfler mnhxim}: ::IUVG citizens of the National Capi- brought out by the committee, which | a0 the federation adopted and which will| fmfim::l :rgrllca yn:clla it tclan- '.: be sent to Congress at an early date. l&:m Ay m“p"):heyn ,:;“3. .en‘::x‘.a ‘White Men Auto Taxes, | in one of the states it will in no way i be endangered by registering in a plications. Signs will be posted out- {side of all registration stations. Practically every government em- ploye in the city will be given a pamphlet at his or her office tomor- Tow, setting forth the aims and ob- iJects of the citizens’ associations, with an invitation to register. Women in Automobiles. ‘When the thousands of federal ! workers leave the various government bulidings at lunch time and in the {evening tomorrow they will find woman registrars in automobiles out- side the exits to accept applications. The various local branches of the | man of the executive committee, said tomorrow and Tuesday to accept ap- ! H i saying that the i ) H ver 4 Every $6 will mean a! wWilllam Henry White, former 8s-{ \wjghi ; tor was present only 1 per cent of the ! : i y g { Washington citisens® assoclation. i time. Senator Gergy denied this, dvi&,",fl,“fflr'.’,‘,’: Suosen Ly !wm‘:‘::',!alslant corporation counsel of the| These associations, Mr. York ex- claring he was sent more fre- quently than the “chairman. Women of the Near East Relief|District, said he thought the bmlDh(l!nedahmfl:«:’rglu‘lnc:rlflo’onl;:fum: Senator Penrose ithen told the Sen- ate that after tomorrow night he would ask for night sessions and if necessary, would ask soon afterward that the Senate meet an hour ealfer| each day. ‘While republican leaders were re- newing thelr call to absent repub- Vican senators to return to Washing- | ships, assisted by volunteer teachers: {and others. | i “Parents are earmestly urged to| co-operate by making it possible for | this to be a real sacrificiai offering from ldren. To give the vision of mercy and patriotism to aid the unseen child of our brother in ton immediately for votes yet to come | L10° e et s unet | on tax provisions, democratic leaders | Gotober 14 childien of Philadelphia ! also sent out & call to absent demo- | hoals contributed $250,000. What cratic semators, nrging them to be in ! P 00r "children give? How many: attendance continuously on and after | Yives will they save?” 1omorrow. . | VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT. Moving Picture Theater Owner meet Tuesday at 4:156 in room 42-43,! AEs el 80,000 age Bult. et tonal Mussum. Frances | Tom Moore, moving picture theater | Densmore will lecture on “Some Re- owner, has won a verdict in a suit for ;cent Developments in the Study of CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. | The Anthropological Soclety will i 540,000 damages brought against him |Indian Music,” to be {llustrated with ©y George Wedderburn, & former ten- stereopticon. ant of e Academ: lusic bul Ing, S AE'oth and D sireets northwest, A | Richard Little will give “Rem ry in Circuit Division 1, before Jus. cences of a War Correspondent” at a | ice Stafford, decided in favor of the |luncheon tomorrow by the Penguin “lefendant. {Club, 924 17th street. Wedderburn claimed that in remod- oling the entrance to the Strand The-| The Monday Auction Club will! ater Mr. Moore had placed signs so [meet tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Wom- that they obstructed the advertising en's City Club. rl}l}‘t‘er ofirxhen{cnlnl and a number | —_— of his subtenants. The Bible study section, Takoma | Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert and |park Civic Study Club, will meet at| S elph L e Toaresented Mr. | the Park library tomorrow at 2 p.m. 3 X rke and Lawrence Hufty appeared for the | 1> L+ E- Rising, teacher. plaintift. ' Miss Emily Wayland will lecture e [nn “The. Wild Flowers of Our Coun- ! WOULD DISSOLVE FIRM. i&7.3nd,Norway: Friday at 8 p.m., in « |Hamline Methodist Church, 8th and | . 'P streets. Free. b W. Richardson Asks Release nlm,,,,_ AlTl ] n:.n-nukhu Boston. | Mass., w ecture on “home kraft’ .?Artnur of S. F. Holland. weaving, a new departure from the . Disagreement having occurred be- |stereotyped style of weaving, on tween the Joint owners, William Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in, Richardson has petitioned ' the Dis- the arts and Industries building of irict Supreme Court to dissolve theithe United States National Museum, | partnership existing _between him 9th and B streets southwest. i and Stanley F. Holland in the opera- — ' tion and conduct of the Mount Plea: The Oklahoma State Seciety will ant Flower Shop, at 1802 Adams Mill , meet at Thomson School Tuesday road northwest. jevening at 8 o'clock. All Oklahomans It 18 alleged in the petition filed by and friends are invited. Richardson that he put $2,500, besides : — a great many fixtures, into the enter- . Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt of | prise, and now Holland threatens to New York will lecture on Monday, turn him out without (lvln‘ an ac- October 24, at 8 p.m. at American | counting of the profits. When the dis- University on the subject of “Zionism agreement first came up, it was and World Polit'cs.” The lecture will stated, ?lllnd offered Richardson be held at 1901 F street. £400 for Interest n the business, | but this sum. was refused. Attorneys! The National Woman Wage Eara- Raymond Neudecker and Bertrand ers’ Association, Inc., will meet at, Emerson, Jr., appear for Richardson.the Pyhllis Wheatley Y. M. C. A. | |Tuesday evening, October 35, at 7.30 ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. {*™ | TODAY. [The Geerxetown Civic Associqtion | will meet Tuesday night at the Alex- fnev. mi‘l.l. Bumlim and John Cooper ! gnder Memorial Ban‘th( Church, N! of the Catholic University will give & gtreet between 27th and 28th streets series of Sunday lectures at K. of C. porthwest, at 8 o'clock. Garnett C.| Community House, 606 E street. This wilkerson, assistant superintendent of afternoon's subject: “Catholic Woman gehool Charles 8. &m and Mrs. Diplomatic Leaders in History.” Gabrieli Pelham will address the as- TONIGRT. sociation. George Washington Council, Ameri- = mdl.ttohnwmr sfimflmon o] TRUCK HAULS $100,000,000. e public, wi meet at 8| RICHMOND, Va., October 32.—With 318 Pennsylvenia avenue|;any policemen and detectives act- . ing guards, one large truck was The Christian Endeavor Soclety of |used to haul $100,000,000 from 1109 the New York Avenue Church will |East Main street today te the new meet in the church at 6:45. Miss bullding of the Federal Reserve Bank Anna Norris, leader. of Richmond, at Sth and Franklin £ ——— streets. George J. Seay, :ovornor of Dr.-Philip Jathson, & native Korean, | the fifth federal reserve district, and will mddress the Padraic H. Pearse (a special committes directed the re- Couneil, -American Association for |moval of the bank’s funds from its Recogult! old home to the new bullding. 7on of the Irish Republic. jdebate indicated the proposal would |effort of the Washington Railway and . céntly in & traffic accident. as a matter of principle, even though i missioners it might be poor diplomacy. He re- minded the delegates that District! automoblle owners have to pay a tax| in Maryland, notwithstanding many Maryiand children are educated in the ! and to Congress the municipal needs of the city. Moving picture theaters throughout the city will use slides on their eens all week, presenting the citi- enship appeal to their audiences. #;.;lgr;;:t at the expense of local tax- Detetton (s Patrictian: . Allan Dav rincipal of | “Registration week,” read a state- Bul:i{ongus High School, l:.nonzhl the . ment issued by the committ last committee had gone at the problem : night, “is & period of devotion to in the wrong way in considering only | ¢ 8 {88 attShdance oF nonten | COLLEGE ALUMNI MEET. e t non-resident pupils {ni0¢al schoots had produced & prob: Iulmebuum Agricultural Grad- uates Hold “World Night.” lem Of congesion in a number o schools which could be relieved if & survey were made for distributing the attendance. He voted against the re- 3 Prof. Selden M. Ely, por!Lons e who took the . Lowe and others, Local alumni of the Massachusetts federation should posllo e licy. of pian which | Agricultural College and their friends uld deny educational opportunities children in nearby communities in Maryland and Virginia. Jesse C. Suter, chairman of the com- mittee which brought in the report, also opposed the recommendation. The gathered at the Ebbitt last night to celebrate the third annual *“World Aggie Night. Forty-three people were present—the largest number of Massachusettes Aggle followers who have ever assembled In Wuhh}r.on. {The local dinner was one of forty- {five held throughout this country, { Hawail, Cuba and Porto Rico, to re- inew college memories, promote good I fellowship and discuss current activi- ties and ?nterm- of the college. The guest of honor was 8. Has- kell, '04, director of the M. A. C. ex- periment station, who represented the ml)lle:ae.' The (o!'lowtl:‘m.:t'nuu‘:n were elected to serve for the President, Dr. E. EAFHH% wol to be defeated. In putting the question, President Westlake urged the mem- bers to vote for “principle rather than oxpediency,” declaring this was the only safe and sound course the organ- ization could follow. A vote by roll call was taken and the safe margin by which the committee’s report oar- ried came as a surprise to those who had opposed the bill. Other Reports Adopted. vice president, Dr. Back, Other reports adonted by the fed- |Yice president, G 3 Camphely erction came principally from the SScretary-treagurete JO, ., ¢ Srblie” utilities “and health commit- | chragus, Wo X GOOSRCG %y gow. Peen* A recommendation from the ' [Tho%9 PR 0B in: Dr. £ er committee .that protest e |y "85, and Mrs. Allen o o Congress and the Interstate 1" gl "81: G 4 Commerce Commission against the Eawards o Dd I?h?“‘i;r A'{' a rs. [onahal 2 Snd Mrs. Knight: 8. B, H: Dr. E. A. Back, *04; J. A. H{ lop, nd Miss Hyslop; J. W. We Nng; l?s: Hfi Jlnfl Hrl.m'n.lrwkn 'S C. m 10 D 33 F- Martin, u;"xl)‘r: D 4 GolsTi0 #. W, Maran, 15; Perex 'W. 1. Goodwin, "18, Mrs. Mr. Goodwin, &r.; H. C. D. Steven Electric Company to avold juriadic- tion over its depreciation accounts by the District Public Utllities Com- mission was approved. i The health committes got through a 'ton, report favoring the paving of Geor- Brool gla avenue and the installation of the underground system on the Geor- gia avenue street car line as far north C. ‘30, and_Prof. 20, an £ '19:'G. M. W. D, Hurd, H. Beal, for- as Upshur street. It also brought out a report, which was adopted, com- mending the Commissioners in their J. efforts to besutify Washington's wa- ‘g:'sna;\;e“ er front. 5 On recommendation of the commit- Mrs. Hurd and tos on education, the federation reit. merly of the coll erated lhshnppmval o{ lthel pru:lalnx;?” P T bliel ermanent state exi = Rl PermAn e Ainsion bus| HAS SPECIAL SERVICES. stuiufnte? ‘thlI ;;:ojfithl- v:::ke‘:im::il ———— t nion, should be ! ;:‘y S oD ke Hocleties of the National Bethany Baptist Church Arranges ital. Capltal, tioms of regret over the| Serles, Bev. 5. W. Cole Preaching. donc o ey r?e'r K tlactarland. | Rev. Stockton Wharton Cole of r Commissio % were adopted, and an expression of ; Remington, Va., Is to vonduct & hfl“ sympathy was directed to be sent tolof evangelistic services at Bethany George A. Finch, a delegate to the | p,niist Church, 34 strest and Rhode federation, whose son was killed re- | RV © IRk 0y Cpeginning tonight at 7:45 o'clock. The services DEATH ENDS ELOPEMENT will be held each night exoept Satur- . ks day. . Hugh_ Stevenson, of the Father Kills Girl Aged 15 and %h;lreh -aa lr.ttni;h‘ mcm- > elongs em! Then Bhoots Himself. IBnplI:lh pro-elu;- whomh-vo' denh:;; 1 it t e rs of coun! CANTON, I, October :a.—umu,:;:"’fla:“:“:m‘%. oy e by the elopement of his fifteen-year- | that hr,‘ b”? “"dn ,h“’, ‘:I Mlfl: old daughter Rosa with Mike Mihe- |city pulpits of the denomination. lich, thirty-seven, after they had been }: now .':glii!;t ;:l:u!::;n‘lntwn Church denied & marriage license Tuesday in| A e J.ldon ::zm A{mnlta:. Peoria, Thomes Feilts, farmer, shot|where he an important m and Kkilled the girl last night and'then | 128¢ fall, preaching In the First Baps killed himself at his home, near Bry-!expected to sttend the serviees to- ant, I Miheliéh was arrested. SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE SCOTTISH JOHN H. COWLES, CHARLES E. ROSENBAUM, HORATIO C. PLUMLEY, TREVANION W. HUGO, PERRY W. WEIDNER, EDWARD C.| a3 under the DAY AND GARRETT N. MORGAN. Membership Drive of Citizens | Associations Gets Flying Start i Enrollment Campaign for District’s Nearest Substitate | for Suffrage Will Continue With Augmented Coming Week. It s a peace-time re- patriotism. ideals and turn to support of the was evidenced by our energetic ac- tivities during the war. “As a resident of the District. reg- istration week offers you the way to & voice in your own affairs, through [ membership in your neighborhood citizens' association; and through it in the Federation of Citizens' Asso- | ciations. which is the mon hpiece of | the organized citizenship of the Dis- triet. “At this time the federation is en- gaged, with every prospect of suc- cess | merger of the strect car systems. which it has been consistently advo- cating and furthering for ‘several years. It is also working for the re- | Deal of the obnoxious Borland law for the re-establishment of a fixed { policy in the fiscal relations between | the federal and District governments; for a fixed policy in school develop- | ment; additions to the park system. {and many other things looking to ! the prosperity, happiness and con- tentment of the residents of the Dis- | trict_of Columbia, as well as the | beautification of the National Capi- tal” Woman Alds Needed. Mrs. Nanette B. Paul, chairman of the woman's committee for the cam- women to report at headquarters Room 501, District building, tomorrow morning for service as registrars. These women will be sent in automo- biles to the government departments to enroll applicants. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, in charge of public buildings and grounds, yes- |terday informed Chairman York that !the registrars at the government de- | partments will be permitted to station themselves inside the entrances in levent of rain. {_ Mra. Paul last night made public the following list of women's organiza- |tions that are co-operating in the !{campaign: Federation of Women's {Clubs, Women's City Club, Twenti: Century Club, Friendship House, Coi- ilege Women's Club, Eastern Star chap- | ters, Anthony League, chapters of the D. A. R, Housekeepers' Alllance, Council of Jewish Women, Excelsior iLiterary Club, Political Study Club, i National Woman's Foundation, League | committee will be in charge of these |should be approved by the federation ' purnoge of presenting to the Com-.0f American Penwomen, W. C. i T U. {Women's Trade Unlon League, Fed- eral Employes. | *Mrs. 1. L. Lenroot; wife of the sena- | tor and president of the Congressional Club, sent to Mrs. Paul a strong in- dorsement of the movement to enroll as many women as possible In the citi- zens' assoclations. Mrs. Lenroot voiced |he bellet that there fs much for women to do in these neighborhood organizations. WOTHERSPOON FUNERAL. Services for Deceased Major Gen- eral to Be Held Tomorrow. Funeral services for Maj. Gen. Wil- llam Wallace Wotherspoon will be held tomorrow merning at 10:30 o'clock at St. John's Episcopal Church, 16th and H streets northwest. Interment will be in Arlington cemetery. Gen. Wotherspoon, a native of this city, was prominent in Army circles, erving as chief of staff and head of the rmy War College here on different occasions. pallbearers will be Chief Honorary Justice William H. Taft, Gen. T. & : Bliss, Maj. Gen. W. G. Haan, Maj. Gen. !E. F. g:enll, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, Brig. Gen. W. D. Connor, Rear Admiral : | Hugo Osterhaus and Col. Parker West. GIFT FOR MRS. HARDING Missouri Masons Present Coat Made of Ten Sealskins. Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of the President, was presented at the White House yesterday with a fur coat made of the skins of ten three- year-old seals, by a committee of |(hlrty-lhlrd-d e Mosons and offi- clals of the | sourd. | The committee which presented the ocoat to Mrs. Harding was composed of Clarence W. Condie of St. Louis, L. MoclIntyre, & member of the Grand Lodge of Missouri, and Harry lsbury of St. Louis. The committee was pr-sented to Mrs Harding by Herbert Hoover, decretary of Commerce; Senator Selden P. Spencer of Missouri and Claude H. Huston, assistant secretary of com- merce. ISEEK WAY TO END STREET SLAUGHTER (Continued from First Page, eightesn accidents a day, while last month, the daily average was sixteen. Reports of accidents since September 380, recorded in the police traffic bureau, show a total of 360. Records show the highest death.toll from accidents dur- ing the past three years has been in the months of October and November. In November, 1918, deaths from accidents OCTOBER 2, 1921—PART T RITE WILL SELECT WOMEN FOR HALL OF MEMORY {Mrs. George Barnett Chairman of N | Woman’s Foundation Re- Hi { search Committee. l Mrs. George Barnett has buen seleo- sefleta 0' w A od as chairman of the national his- r 1 Fationn Foupasion. which ,,gerys na,,e "p"::e: ‘oman’s Na U lon, w H H | will select the names of women prom- | Cha in Manner of D K !{ne;t‘ bn:‘ m-. ud. temzmx to be| 5 " ns on_ the pillars in e pro- l"g . :Wn?‘ ;:1-:“ of BOROLY. b E With Emphyes' Y H rs. ett will organize her com- mittee with o representative from| CoPSeS In business managemens each state to be appointed by the 204 Eovernmental edministration @f governors of the staten. In Washing. the Panama Canal Zone, as recss- on str mmissioners w |bo asked to selact the representatives. |!mnd€d by the speclal War Depatt- The ;omm selected for lhludh(:nor‘m"“ commission sent there to sluuy may have belonged to any period since | conditions, were in part approved and th ttlement i [Ehe pmecii “v‘:; America, but must ordered into effect yesterday by DecPe- (Jire. C. C. Calhoun, president of the |tary Weeks. ifoundation, will leave Washington on| The War Secretary ordered Gor. ia speaking tour through Kentucky | 2 e PRt me e Morrow to make changes in affairs of. :au‘llvlllm Frlnkf;‘:: and Lexington | the sone as follo uring this tour. will confer with! To charge employ {a number of heads of patriotic Or-|for quarters THht fuel wog orbo {ganizations with @ view of scourlng sorvices, lnsiead of furnishing them names for the Kentucky pillar when jirce, as at present; t, deal with the erected. jemployes, whether union or mnon- Judging from reports from Mrs.iunion, “openly through committees or Charles B. Howry, financial secretary |representatives composed of employes, of the foundation, the membership list | whether representative of labor or. is growing dally and many new mem- | ganizations or not”; to follow In the bers have been added In Washington jmatter of wages not nccessarily tho as & result of the foundation day meet- ( union rate in the United States. but ing held last week, which was organized |a rate “actually paid for similar sery- by a committee consisting of Mrs.|ices in various representative parts I airman; Mrs. Lydia |of the United States, whether it bo u 3. Draper, Mrs. Charles B. Howry, Mrs. |union or a non-union rate; to enter Oscar Underwood and Mrs. Sidney|into no agreement as to labor which Ballou. jcannot be terminated at any time Plans for the pageant which will| within thirty days. on notice by th: represent the feast of prosperity, |ROVErnor or some governmeut agency, which will be given in connection with the ball at the New Willard Hotel on | November 16, are going rapidly for- | direction of Mrs. Marie | |nonre Forrest. National groups rep- iresenting the countries sending dele- | be a to abrogate all agreements lmiting the use of tropical labor; to give e couragerient to agriculture; to ha no matters directly with the Pan: government, except those arisi from exercise of the governor's exe utive functions and to have other matters dealt with through the Stat: Department. With regard to tropical labor, the wider use of which was recommende:! by the commission, Secretary Week«~ sald he could not sanction the em pleyment of such alien labor in re spunsible positions, but believed guch workers could be used to a greate gates to the conference will [PROPOSES GIFT FLAG {fuire"or ‘s Srodiuciion BE USED AT ARLINGTON \iRTH MAY RETAIN = POST AS PREMIER {Mrs, Lehman Asks Silk Tribute to | “Boys We Left Behind Us ” principles of our government, which | in an effort to bring about a | Honor Unknown Dead. President Harding has received a {letter from Mrs. Betty Lehman, 710 Bond bullding, suggesting that the jlarge silk flag she made and presented to the War Department in 1919, as a iribute to “the boys we left behind us,” be used in connection with the ceremonies at Arlington on Armistice gz'{d to commemorate the unknown In her letter, Mrs. Lehman said that !the materials in the flag cost $300, | Which was raised by popular subscrip- Ition. It is eight by twelve feet In |size, and was made entircly by hand, of the heaviest white satin charmeus In the middle are gold-leaf letter: | “The Boys We Left Behind Us.” abov i which is a gold service star. i& long gold fringe about the 4 There is o edges. SWe stated that aside from the senti- ment ussociated with the flag, its rich beauty js suflicient to warrant its being given a place of prominence at i Arlington. “The flag was officially presented jto_the Secretary of War in March, | '1919.” Mrs. Lehman wrote. “I under- ;8tand it is now ‘somewhere’ in the | War Department. 1 am told it is ibeing cleaned and is to be put away {in_a mothproof covering to be used {for future ceremonials. At one time tit was hanging on the east side of the clock in the State, War and Navy building, and afterward it was re- moved to Camp Meigs, where persons yseeking the job of cleaning it were to make bids. This was a vear ago. !and since then I have not been told | | paign, appealed last night for young|what was done with it or where it wealth are demanding iwas hung, except ‘that it was in the | department.’ | _“The flag was made in honor of the memory of the boys who were killed jin France, end it does 'scem a shame that the sentiment surrounding it and | its beauty should be lost by having |it put in some dark closet where no ona can see and admire it. Its real {place is at Arlington, and I can think of no more fitting occasion for it to' |be used than at the coming cere- { monies for the burial of the unknown American soldier. I trust y see to it that this trophy is not lost to the public.” {FAMOUS WARRIORS [ ARRIVE HERE TODAY (Continued from First Page.) {in the province, Chancellor Wirth has | ceaselessly ~Tepeated “Undivided Silesia must remain German.” Hence | ithe loud outery of today, which the ichancellor has not attempted to stifle, because it has served to draw atten- {tion 'away from his mistakes in sign- ing the Weisbaden agreement for re- | comstruction work in France before| | he knew Silesia's fate. This Loucher- ‘Rathenau agréement binds Germany jto deliver in the next four years ma-, jterial to the value of forty billion | { paper marks for use in the devastated iregions, besides heavy cash payments. | These sums must be paid to contrac- ! tors by the German treasury, which {thus will be compelled continuously | {to increase the enormous paper money ! { inflation from which the country now |is_suffering. | { Only by increasing her exports to an | extent hitherto undreamed of can Ger- !many free berself from this distress. ! {Money depreciation facilitates exports jand therefore is so welcome to the In- | dustrials just now that a Westphalian {leader said recently: “If the mark should improve consid- erably it would be a terrible economic { catastrophe.” | To meet even half of the reparations | {expected of her Germany must €xport | {50 copiously and so cheaply as to be- {come an export plague, poisoning the | {commerce of ail industrial nations, and iher only hope today is that the coun- | tries thus threatened will demand a re- | vision of the treaty and a reduction of | the reparations to a possible figure. | i Private Enterprise Effort. The ~representatives of private; in_exchange | for thelr reserve credit, needed for' essential imports, control of the prin- | icipal state apparatu¥. They want to make private enterprises of the rail- |roads, whose deficits now make great holes in the state budget. They alsc want the municipal gas, water, eleo- | tric and tram services, and even the | post office, putting ali on the basis iof private profit. ! Possessing such power, the inter i ests could impose high rates and com- | ibat_the eigh-hour day, whose appli- | all sorts of expense and difficulties. | ; Who could resist him who rules | jover the harvest of the fields, the iwood of the forests, the coal of the learth, the iron, the textiles, chemi- cals, heat, light and all the means of | transport? ! Socialist Dream Advanced. i ibe informed. a letter to Gov. {Panama is properly held by the ra extent for low grade work. “The Panu a government shoul the Secretary said, . Morrow announcin: his decisions, “that the cznal {thorities are within their rights u der the treaty in purchasing and ing supplies * * = to the employes o1 the Canal Zone. The Panama go:- ernment should be advised that, i the opinion of the department, th- property in the cities of Colon a road and that there has been no vi lation of the treaty in connecti with the Improvements thereon.” Gov. Morrow requested time fo further study of certain recommer dations and Mr. Weeks reserved d~ cision on these. MAY SMOOTH OVER SLUR T0 THE KING Irish Peace Negotiations Are Expected to Proceed Again Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 22—With Prin Minister Lloyd George week-ending a: his country home, Chequers Court, and Michael Collins, head of the Irish delegation in London, gone to Dublin, no important developments in the Irisk negotiations are expected until the conference is resumed on Monday afternoon. That an acute crisis has been reached was admitted by both sides today, but the general opinion tonigh was that the resentment expressed by ou will cation in the railways alone causes|the Britlsh Tepresentatives toward Eamonn De Valera's message to the Pope would be emoothed over ai that the negotiations would procecd. Some_afternoon papers today an gerted that Mr. De Valera's messaz: was approved, or authorized by the Sinn Fein delegates, but independen: inquiries in Sinn Fein circles elicit no such expression, none of the ed | More swiftly than the soctalism|geiozates b g LA0E he | prophested @ thousand times before, |ooinian " on& WHIng to voice a: onic bodies of Mis- i (Continued from First Page.) {operations; officers and representa- jtives of fhe American Legion, | District Commissioners and we {local Malian societies. i The American Legion will meet at 12:20 o'clock in front of the legion's |headquarters, 1423 New York avenue, and will proceed half an hour later down Pennsylvania avenue to Union |station, where the members will take jup & line flanking the entrance. JACQUES’ SHIP DELAYED. Landing of Belgian General De- ferred by High Winds. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, October 22.—Lieut. “'Gen, Baron Jacques, commander of ! the 3rd Division of the Belgian arm: | and the third of four xr‘en worfll war figures coming to attend the ! American Legion convention, at Kan- sas City, arrived in American waters today on the steamship Lapland. { Sirong westerly winds delayed the steamship outside the harbor, and it was announced the general would 11 |not arrive at quarantine until late in the afternoon. The naval tug Vigilant, bearing r resentatives of the Army, Na ind Legion, with state and city officlals, planned to go down the bay and extend reetings. Twelve destroyers met the pland at sea. | Gen. Jaoques will depart tomorrow for Washington on a special train with Gen. Armando Dias, Italian generalis- simo, and Admiral Earl Beatty of the British navv, who_ preceded merica. Marshal Foch, the fourth of ithe quartet, left France today on the {liner Paris. { _While Gen. Jacques was getting his . first taste of American hospliality, Gen. Diag went for a tour of “little Italy” to see how his former countrymen live .in “the land of promise.” i _ Admiral Beatty, incognito, spent the : day quietly at the home of Mr. and Mrs Marshall Field, with his wife, the former .Ethel Field of Chicago, and their son, the Honorable Peter Beatty. —_— SUICIDE BY GAS. Thomas M. Williams Found Dead in Room. Thomas M. Willlams, about forty years old, & cabinet maker, commit- ted suicide in his room at 634 Massa- chusetts avenue by inhaling fillu- minating gas, his body being found late yesterday afternoon by Policeman Milstead of the sixth precinct. Two notes left by Willlams were found, one to his wife and the other to his andlady. The police were told that “illias had a shop at 602 F street and that he had roomed in the Massachusetts avenue house the past two months. A certificate of suicide was given by Coroner Nevitt. ' TRAFFIC TO BE DISCUSSED. New_ parking regulations promul- gated b)? the (,’omm ssioners -.pnd bet- p- 8l | shown in last,Sunday’s elections {during and after the war approaches (the era of private capitalism. The iproponents of the industrial and {agricultural union which 15 to hasten | !be foolish to’ allow the Silesian_ d icision to distract them. German feel ings are perhapa pained thereby, but the dec'sion revealed the seed from iwhich a new European economic svs. {tem may sprout. The political fron tler fixed is not to be the economic | one. Germany's enterprise and tech- Inical skill is to co-operate with Po-; {land’s workmen and France's capital. | {1f such eupernational commun'ties | icould be created everywhere volun-| Imruy and not by order, then could | 'Europe emerge into prosperity. i (Copyright, 1921.) i {CHARLES AT HEAD | OF ARMY MARCHES | : FOR OLD CAPITAL| (Continued from First Page.) H {cannot at the present time assume soverelgn rights In Hungary, and ! must leave Hungarian territory.”, i These advices said the Hungarian; ! government was taking the neces-| sary mesasures to enforce this stand. CHEERED UPON LANDING. Heard on Every Bide, By the Associated Press, ! VIENNA, October 2:.—Ex-Emperor| Charles’ reception at Oedenburg as| {he landed from his airplane is re- { ported to have been hearty on the: ' part of the garrison. Word had been : | received a few hours previously of ithe ex-ruler’'s coming, and as hej landed from the airplane he was greeted with cheers of “Long live the king!” Maj. O burg announced that he had be command of the troops, from whom he demanded an assurance that all his orders would be obeye« men signified their willingness to serve under him, cheering him resounding- 1y and taking the oath of allegiance to Charles, HEADS UNION BRANCH. charged with the . Dr. Daniel Folkmar of the census bur has been elected president of | th ment of Commerce branch lot {it_was announced officers elected are nt, an ‘The following we: e Dep: the Federal Employ: last night. Other Fred J. Wildman, | d Miss Rosalie Grill, elect- presi ecretary. ichael J. Racioffl, am :‘nd Miss Fannie P. Lamson. FIND ALLEGED STILL. Police of the eighth precinct went to iinto the country ed to the board of representatives:|government i | the house of Cornelius Jordan, 349 W iNational Rivers an esterday looking for Arthur Jor- | Tlster Stfll Untouched. It was stated tonight that although considerable progress was made i the i tlege events and whose strength vukaitlhe preliminary discussions regard- >t i ing the trucs,” the army, finance, ke reeognized stumbling block — Ulster — has hardly becn touched. It was understood that when the conference resumes on Monday Mr. Lioyd George will immediately ng up again the subject of Dic Valera’s message and open up the question of the position of Sinn Fein regarding alleglance to the erown. uch a move, if taken, was pointed out on the British side. put the Sinn Fein delegates in the extremely difficult position of elther repudiating Mr. de course, is not expected—or of finding a formula for defining definitely Sinn Fein's attitude toward the British crown. which it 16 recognized will be equally difficult. Hope to Solve Dilemma. Nevertheless, hope was expressed today of finding a way out of tho dilemma, and this hope appears even stronger tonight. The nn Fein delegates say it is “sixty to forty" that the conference will be con- tinued. When Michael Collins left for Dub- in he took with him, according to the Standard, “an important docu- ment, presumably for submission to navy and " Mr. de Valera, regarding which no information is yet available.” —— ECUADOR INVITES CAPITAL Ecuador, in a campaign to attract him to|Shouts of “Long Live the XKing!” | manutacturing enterprises and for- elgn capital, has passed a law ex- empting from duties and taxes all raw material and machinery brough: for that.purpose, Minister Elizalde was informed yes- terday In a message from the Ecua- doran minister of foreign relations. The message read: “Law on industrial protection ha: been passed. Therefore machinery and raw material can be brought in free of fiscal and municipal duty and capital invested here Is free from aci- :ditional taxes.” e Dalecarlia Comes Here. Rpecial Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 32.—The government hydraulic dredge Dalecarlia, in tow of the tug Castle, has for Wash- ington after being stationed here at the head of tidewater on the mp_fi. hannock river since June 1. e Castie_will return for the combina- * Union, No. 2, | tion clam shell and pile driver der- 8t which is_putting the ‘fl"xfll:hl::l t‘onche. on the work that H been under way on the upper (B panannock. D. F. Notter was the nspector in charge of the work. P FREE TOLLS FAVORED. As a result of a referendum on the 1 tolls sent out by the Rational Rive 4 Harbors Con- favored the ex 35 answers gress, 4. o o e o it B anunth e ho tod | BT from folls of all Americar totaled thirteen, a similar number oc- | ide o mas Circ 6 AMONE | gam: his son, who was wanted on & jemption from tolls . curing 1n November, 1920, Eloven deaths | {18 3UP/ects discusicd aLa 1nesling of | chatge of spesding. Arthur was not|vesssls enerecd 1, the coastwis: oSpurred 1n] October. JINIS: in® 13¢" Nortiminater = Presbyterias - &5, B, bul 2i8, KEheC W3 (%0 dve: |Lolh of all American Vessels whethe: Churh deetre s oient s | gallon still, quantity of mash and a |engaged in coastwise or forelsm trate The International Aseoeln otig o, A An address will be made by |Small quantity of the alleged finished | One :;ng;-; Lfl.e{';:":.:m e {"“‘"‘“” %A..n‘.',fl:,?.m‘:“m' 2;" Mitchell Ca‘r;ol Saloroot A peod g“' mt.““ with ’vlohtlo“ln-‘:rl vention of He congress has been post - it Fayetia follow mem ) rtan | the oot to some date tl n‘hn“t’lo roement law, Helponed from December m‘ e _.:.'?.: Wv:':“‘;f e h?‘:‘",’ :_'__‘_-____ tmfllol n‘ for his ADDeATance, anucry. to be announced Valera—which, of -