Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1921, Page 1

Member of the Associsted Press The Amocjated Press is exclusively enmtitled to the use for republication of all mews dispatches credited to it er not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. . ¥ WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; contin- ved cool; frost tonight. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 51, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 45, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 10. Closing New York Stocks, Page 31. Entered as sec No. 28312, B Cmes W nd-class matter hington, D. C. 594 0000 PARED OFFUS, ESTIMATES SINGE AUGLSTEUTS President, in Letter to House, Now Places Total at $3,940,000,000. $609,000,000 AGGREGATE REDUCTIONS FOR YEAR Executive Summarizes Supple- mental and Deficiency Esti- mates of Appropriation. Estimated expenditures of the gov- ernment for the fiscal year 1922 are now placed at $3,940,000,000, a reduc- tion of $94,000,000 from the August10 estimate of $4,034,000,000, President Harding has informed Congress in a letter to Speaker Gillett. * The new estimate was presented by the President in connection with de- ficiency estimstes of appropriations of $187,9: 74, which, Mr. Harding said, were taken into con in_arriving at the new est 1922 ‘expenditures. The President in his letter fixed the expected aggregate reduction in ex perditures for the current year at $609.000.000. »d estimate of ex- to $4,530,000.- he letter pointed out, was sub- Secretary Mellon to the s and means committee ust 4, before which, the letter d. “the results of the imposition of exccutive pressure upon the spend- ing departments, inaugurated at the meeting called by the president of the body of the business organization of the zovernment, had not been fully developed,” that estimate in itself, the 1stter added, meant “a substantial re- duction in current revenu penditures below the fiscal year 1921. The original rev penditures, amounting 000, Revised Estimate August 10. An additional rev timate W anncunced August 19, the letter This was that reduce the ordinary exy by at least $350.000,000 belo «<timates presented by the ury on August 4° This, taken with arrange- monts made as to pubiic debt expendi- ture, reduced expenditures by 000, or to a_total of $4,034,000. in fixing the * * * figure of $4,034.000 . | sionS in recent years. FOCH AND PERSHING - GUESTS OF ST. LOUIS Generalfssimo Lauds Part the City Played in the World MAKING PROGRESS War. A ST. LOUIS, Mo.. November 3 —Mar- » shal Foch. accompanied by Gen. Pershing, arrived here today from Kansas City for an all-day visit, and was given a rousing reception. The special train carrying the gen eralissimo’s party arrived at 7:45 a and an hour later the com- mander-in-chief of the allied armies alighted and commented on the beau- tiful weather and hospitality of St. Louis. The party immediately was taken to the St. Louis Club for breakfast, where Mayor Kiel extended the city's official welcome. shal Foch responded briefly in expressing appreciation of his reception and praising the part St. Louis played in the waj BALLOU MAY QuIT ' T0.GO T0 BOSTON Superintendency at $10,000 Yearly Reported Offered to School Head. The possibility of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, re- ! signing to accept the superintendeney f the public schoois of Boston, created a stir today in school circles. It is understood that Dr. Ballou is being considered by the Boston board | ofgeducation as successor to Frank V. Thompson, who died last week. |line even the framework of the pro- Figst intimation that Dr. Ballou|posal, which will be made at the ymay leave the District !Chqol S)‘!lemlaypn'pflute time and in formal manner. !was given the school boara at its Fremise. of “Publieny. imeeting yesterday afternoon in the| State Department officials reiterated | Frankiin ‘School. Board members &0- | today assurances of an adequate des parently were disturbed over thw " /i | situation, and discussed it at length |STee of publicity in connection with the conference proper. In one high behing closed doors. During the dis- jcussion Dr. Ballou, Harry O. Hine,|quarter the prediction was ventured secrelury of the board, and a clerk.!fhat the public will be agreeably sur- prised at the extent of publicity of | who takes stenographic notes of the | the conference’s work. It point- | meptings, were excused from the {board’s chambers, an incident which |ed out that this is a case where the liberal opinion of the world is need- has _not occurred at school board ses- | ed for the guidance of the men Who ! will assemble around the council board. Sat ,000 Greater. : e 1 It was stated with emphasis that sec- According to_reports from a re-|, . ; 1 b |any restlessness on the part of {liable source. Dr. Ballou did not|i;, of the public over the possibility indicate to the board that he con- ¢ ine conference workigg in the templated resigning, but in a diplo- |f the conference WorkiuE in the {matic manner Informed the members | Jark. of of ocoult, proteduve, is e that he was beini considered for the | Urely umwarranted and, nob justiied uperintendency of the Boston schools, | b¥ 1act or infention 1e was conb | Definite Plans Are Expected for Presentation to Arms - Conference. MEETINGS CONTINUE; DETAILS WITHHELD Visiting Delegations Make Calls on Secretary Hughes—Some at Other Departments. Ofticial assurance was forthcoming today from State Department sources that “gratifying progress” is belng made by the American delegation to the arms conference in the prepara- tion of a basis for limitation of naval armement to be presented to the con- ference. The American delegates were to meet at 4 o'clock this afternoon to' resume where they left off at ad- journment yesterday. It was also declared in official quar- ters today that there is no question jof the absolute definiteness of the Iplan, when it is submitted as the pro- posal of Lhis country, the proponent and host of the conference, for limi- tation of armament. The Amer:can delegates are not ready at this time to disclose the de- tails’ of the progress made or to out- s the estimated total expenditure |bointing that tie position paid ; 3¢T ed the e I ?22 the fiscal year 1922, ¢ letter con- | 310,000 car, or $4,000 more than he Ef:l;:iliir;d-::;d;;a;fxi&i Jpe(;_r;:l:;.-scur tinued. “ihe expenditu p- ng in Washington. It also ¥ and_defi ns. said that the superintendent Japanese Desire. asked for were, (made it clear that he is under con-; Indication by the Japanese dele- sideration. ' [tract to serve a term of three years.gates to the arms conference on It is possible, however, to now state |in the District, and that it is up to arrival here that tiey desired and that the expected aggregate reduc- tion in_expenditures for the fiscal year 1922 on the above basis is $1 000,000 instead of $350.000 A Addl ed 't othis the reduction of $170.0 000 provided for out of other public debt receipts, as above, makes the expected aggregate reduction in.ex- penditures for the current fiscal year $609,000,000 instead of '$520,000,000 With the expenditures under the sup- plemental and deficiency appropriation of $187,022,576.74 asked for herein, \ken into consideration, the detail of stimated expenditures for 1922, as now received from the various de- pirtments and establishments, stands Al $3,940,000,000, a reduction of $ui.- 000,060 from the August 10 estimate 34,000,000 Harding summarized the Mr, supplemental and deficiency estimates ol appropriation as follows: Legis- . lative, $167.61 State Department, $284,104; Treasury Department. $27.- the school board to decide whether | or not that contract shall be enforced. ience the question of limitation of The Boston school board, It was|armament, rather thap far east said,, oftered to consider Dr. Ballou \problems;~brought the question oY for the superintendency while he was:possibte priority to the forefront to- in that city last week attending the jday oped to discuss first at the confer- | in matters connected with the. tuneral of Mr. Thompson. Dr. Balleu was an assistant superintendent of the Boston schools before he came to Washington, and therefore Iis familiar with the administration of the schools there, Paid High Tributes. | Reports of the possible loss of Dr. Ballou caused school officials today to pay him high tribute. Several officials declared it would be a “calamity” if Dr. Ballou went to Boston. Dr..Ballou has been at the head of the lodal school system since July 1, 192 Since that time, it was pointed Washingtgn school system, and has mapped odt a_comprehensive program for the betterment of the school admin- out, he has become familiar with the | i forthcoming meeting. i The Japanese viewpoint. as in- formally expressed after the arrival !here last night of Admiral T. Kato, minister of marine, and Prince lye- sato Tokugawa, president of the house of peers, who, dehara, form the principal Japanese | |delegation, was that prior discussion iof Pacific and far eastern questions might involve ditliculties such as to delay progress of the negotiations. |""While there has been no certain in- ! dication of the attitude of the Ameri- can delegates on this point, it is un- | derstood that their breparatory con- ferences to date, Including that of yes- terday, in which Secretary Denby and the technical advisers on naval mat- largely with Ambassador Shi- | Fheni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION CHINA BIG: PROBLEM Has Long Been Ground for Dispute Common to Six Nations. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. i (In this, the fourth of a series of highly i reader a interesting articles giving the buckground of information on the coming armament conference, Mr. Lawrence ant: | lines why Chia s an interuational peoblem.) China has always been a problem common to the six great powers— Great Britain, United States, Ger- {many, Japan, Russia and France. | Time and again efforts have been ! made to float six-power loans or five- | power loans among banking groups of all the major countries in an. ef- fory to help put Chimi™on her feet. Little by world have been encroaching on her domain. Her undeveloped resources have been tempting to the alert busi- ness men of other countries. Concessions have been obtained in lall sorts of ways trom the helpless | Chinese government which in recent central governmént, but has moved along with curious indifference as local governments and provincial au- thorities have sprung up within the immense empire. Raliroads Vital Issue. _The possession of railways means a great deal to the nation which owns FOR ARMS MEETING. little the nations of thej | generations has really had no strong o« WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1921 -FORTY PAGES. AMERICAN ENVOYS | FIVE BURN TO DEATH. Mother and Four Children Fire Victims in Toledo. TOLEDO, Ohio, November 3.—A jmother and four children, three girls and a boy, were burned to death shortly after § o'clock this morning, |when fire destroyed the fruit store land apartment of Wolf Greenburg. Indiana avenue and Ewing streets. The dead are: Mrs. Greenburg, the mother; Eva, 15; Anna, 13; David, 6, and Leah, 9. SENATORS APPROVE ,Finance Committee Orders ! Favorable Report on House " “Amendment. The Senate finance committee, re- suming hearings today on tariff ques- tions, ordered a favorable report on the House resolution extending the lemergency tariff law to February 1, |or until such time as the permanent |tarift schedules are enacted into law. | The committee’s intention to hold {hearings on the permanent bill prob- ably will be changed, however, and |until Monday because of the consid- which necessitated the attendance of |the finance committee members. TARIFF EXTENSION. All rights of ‘publication of special dispatches hereln are alse reserved. DAN R. HANNA SUCCUMBS SON OF LATE SENATOR Publisher and Prominent Cleveland Business Man’ Passes Away of Heart Disease. NEW YORK, November 3.—Dan R. Hanna, son of the late Senator Mar- cus A. Hanna and proprietor of the Cleveland News, died at his home at Croton-on-the Hudson last night, ac- cording to word received by friends here today. CLEVELAND, Ohio, November 3.— Dan R. Hanna died of heart disease, ac- cording to advices received here. In addition to his newspaper inter- ests, Mr. Hanna was heavily interested in real estate, owning two of Cleve- land's largest ‘office buildings, and for i‘r‘::yoyr““ Wfs a dlex?d;(nz figure in ll.he e, coal ani - dustes lake shipping in Mr. Hanna was well known in poli- tics as a strong supporter of the late President Theodore Roosevelt. He was born December 26, 1866, i Cleveland, and_is survived by hi mother, Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna of | | Washington; by two sisters, Mrs. hledllll {McCormick of Chicago and Mrs. Harry A. Parsons of Cleveland, and by eight children. The children are Mark A. Hanna and_Carl H. Hanna of Water- town, N. ; Dan R. Hanna, jr., of Cleveland, "and Misses Elizabeth, Na- talie, Ruth, Charlotte and Mary Hanna. MINERS MARK TINE | | INPROTEST STRIKE Few Others Walk Out, But Main Body Will Await Operators’ Action. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, November 3.—Offi- clals of the United Mine Workers of America gaid today that soft coal miners taroughout the country were marking time in their “protest” strike, awaiting discontinuance by operators of | the “check off,” as directed by a fed- eral court injunction. No answer had been sent to Frank Farrington, the Ilinois union leader, who had acked for definite instructions on calling a strike, but President John L. Lewis said hs expected to make a ! reply during the day. Otfici~ls regarded their original strike | message a8 sufficiently clear, and indi- { cated that such a siatement would be included in the answer to Mr. Farri ton, who was leader of the anti-admin- | istration element at the recent miners : convention. . No question 2s to inter-| pretation «f the mescage hac arisen in; any otacr of the sixteen states to which { it was sent, according to the officials Indiana Field Tied Up. Practicaliy all the Indiana mines were osed aguin today, reports from the ccal flelds .indicating that 25,000 men ‘contiftuéd thetr- walkout in “protest to the federal court injunction. Pennsyl- vania operators in the Pittsburgh dis- SALES TAX FIGHT STARTS IN SENATE {Proponents of Levy Declare They Are Backed by Forty Votes. | The fight for the sales tax was {launched today in the Senate by Sena- tor Smoot, republican, Utah, after the jtax revision measure had been per- i fected with committee and individual amendments disposed of. Proponents of the sales levy said they went into the fight with forty voies pledged for their plan. Proposal of Plan. i The plan presented to the Senate pro- ; posed a manufacturers' and producers’ tax of 1 per cent of the sale prices of every commodity sold, leased or li- censed for consumption or uwse with- out process . of manufactura, This tax would not apply to sales, leases or licenses made during any i Philadelphian Claims ithe hearings postponed after today; jeration by the Senate of the tax bill | in which the total price for which the taxable sales, leases or licenses were madc did not cxceed $6,000, nor to| sales of refined gold or silver. The Smoot proposals would provide for a graduated corporation tax of; from 10 to 15 per cent and for repeal ' next January 1 of the existing taxes! on all transportation, including tele- phone, telegraph, cable and radio; on soft drinks, on admissions and due: the special excises or nuisance taxes, and also siamp taxes. Amendmenis Taken Up. Taking up amendments by indi- vidual senators, the Senate today ac- icepied a proposal by Senator Pittma democrat of Nevada, fixing a stamp tax of one cent for each $20 or frac- trict have giver notice that they will abolish the “ckzck off,” but reports from | other voal stgtes, received at union | headquarters heie, sald the operators! had not announced their policy. A meeting of the Indiana Bitumin- | ous Coal Operators’ Association will be held at Terre Haute tonight, at which members have announced their | course of action to be taken by the | operators as the result of the injunc- | tion would be outlined. Officers of | the association have declared, how- ever, the injunction would be obeyed, and motices of discontinuance of the check-off system have already been prepared for posting at the mines. Few Locals Follow. i Miners from only a few locals of | Yesterday's Net Civculation, 87,708 TWO CENTS. PROOF OF HANGING AMERICAN SOLDIERS OFFERED TO SENATE Watson Receives Many Com- munications From Persons Willing to Aid Probe. EXECUTION ON MEUSE WAS WITNESSED BY ONE to Have Photographs of Gallows—Session Marked With Clashes. Letters and telegrams from persons offering to submit proof of charges that American soldiers overseas were hanged without trial were presented in the Senate today by Senator Wat- son, democrat, Georgia., whose presen tation of the original charges in the Senate several days ago resulted in appointment of a special committee of investigation. One of the telegrams, Senator Wat- son said, was from a former major in thte Army and said hecould “assist in substantiating tne charges. An- other, from a resident of Philadelphia, offered to give two photographs simi- lar to that presented recently by Senator Watson as showing a gal- lows. The Philadelphian, whose name was not made public by the Georgia senator. said he saw one hanging on the Meuse, of a negro in uniform, and could supply “positive proof” of the hanging. The correspondent did not say whether the hanging was after a court-martial or not. Several Clashes. In presenting his documents ator Watson, with much show ing, clashed with several senators and was reminded by Vice President Coolidge that he should “proceed in order” and observe Senate rules. The Vice President intervened when Seu- ator Watson referred to Senator Moses, republican, New Hampshire. without use of the usual ‘the senator from New Hamp- Sen- f feel- shire. Senator Watson asked for insertion in the Congressional Record of photc graphs of alleged hangings in i American expeditionary forces, pul lished in a New Jersey newspape: and Senator Moses. chairman of t printing committee, started to say that printing rules did not perm.t publication of photographs. when he was cut off by Mr. Watson. who de- clared the objection was “cowardly The Georgia senator again attacke Scnator Wadsworth, republican. New York. who first called the Senate- attention Senator Watison's charges. ~ Witness En Route Here. “It is oniy a few hours,” said M: Watson. “since 1 was put on the raci in a most brutal, supercilious mann. r by the ex-associate of William Barnes. a_“crook.” Senator Wadsworth did not reply. Mr. Watson said that a former Georg. soldier was en route here to furni: proof of the hanging charges and that he might appoint him as his sec retary, so that he might stand by the senator's side in the chamber to aid in_proof. Senator Watson then had Senate clerks read a large number of let- ters. telegrams and newspaper clip- to | pings into the record, all reporting al- {leged cruelties to, or mistreatment of, soldiers. Says He Has Positive Proof. The Georgia senator referred to his : Alati 2014,700 - ters participated, have been tion of that amount of the value of | A i 2 i - Q08500: War Department, 2014700 istration. 1t also was said that he was | oonfined to a study of the Armament|and operates them In Chima. It in-| Demand Proteetk | capital stock, provided the entire walus |other coal mining districts of the {detkias evidences of confiemation” et D“_‘;m_mmh "' post | instrumental in getting the first large | jimitation problem. | acoeRn. b the: anines: oZottienins] armers; Demand Erotection; i the snare does not exceed $100. COUNLTY were reported as having fol-| 1 would be ked 10, A0 THICTE nr«txi} ; Labor, Increase o' $10,000 Asked The American delegation is under-| freights. British, American and Ger-|tional Grange, the only witness to be | Nacing & tax of & ;J;‘"{:“;"j;f:;f"“‘q‘g]hgaaquamrs of the union here ex. il would be glad to know they are not i s 3 o Istood to be prepuring to take the in-|man capitalists have becn content t0ipcarq today, reiterated the stand of |ur fraction of the par value of such Pect that the walkout will become | (rue- ~ X i ion, s:;,ar.- Fearing the loss of the superintend- | jtiative in the conference and to make | develop railway enterprises without as- et izati. that 1 £tock above $100. general as soon as the order discon-| He then added: . istrict _of _Columbia, $214,-[ent. the school board this year in substantial offer on behalf of this|suming to obtain political control forithe farm organizations that so long | PCOERIDYE AL (0 0o LENE (he “check-off” system is put! “I can show and I will show that Shipping Board. ~$1.316.03; | cluded in its estimates an item pro- | government looking to reduction of na- | theiF respective governments of anylae the policy of the government is | attempied to have atrached to theorey |into effect. This may not ogeur For |officers had men shot with nmo trial Arlington Memorial Bridge Commis- S. Veterans Bureau. mithsonian Institu- . ana_ U Board of and Cor. $8,000, * making a total of §187, 76.74. GILLETT RECEIVES D. C. DEFICIENCIES Deficiency estimates for the District| of Columbia totaling $261.353.20 have been sent to Speaker Gllett b; dent Harding. These include as an emergency appropriation to’be made immediately available for pro- viding municipal police protection during the conference on limitation of armaments. Of the other $214,353.20 the largest single item—3150,000—is for continu- . construction of the Galiing ial Hospital; for the m pal ludging house $33,000 is asked; for the rent commission, $25,000; for sal- ies in the su office, $4,000, and_for the payment of judgments against the District, $2.353.20. These deficiency estimates will be considered by the House appropria- tions committee when it meets Mon- day. District officials will be the first ones called before the committe viding for an increase in his pay t $10,000 a vear. Whether this item has been stricken out of the esti- mates in the slashing process they Commissioners and the budget bu- reau_was not disclosed. School board members, however, have made plans to go before the Senate and House District committees when they begin consideration of the District appro- priation bill, and urge that the salary jof ‘the school head be increased to $10,000. It was learned today that Dr. Bal- lou already had refused three offers from as many cities, paying the school superintendent $10,000 a year, believing that_there are many ad- vantages in Washington for him. However. it was said, that if the su- perintendency of the Boston schools is formally offered to him, it is likely that he will zccept it. WHEAT AT $1 A BUSHEL; IS LOWEST SINCE 1915 CHICAGO, November 3.—What long ago used to be considered normalcy was reached today on the Chicago Board of Trade—wheat at $1 a | bushel. The December delivery fell to_that price, the lowest since 1915. | “The absence of demand rather than any unusual selling pressure charac- | terized today’s market. The dollar-a- { bushel price led to. comparison with more than double that figure realized during the great war and also was | a reminder that the market for May delivery was down to §4% cents a | bushel in 1914, and to 831 cents in 1911, ' KEEPS HIS MIND ALERT AT AGE OF 85 - THROUGH REGULAR MENTAL TESTS How he keeps his mind as active and alert today as it was twenty years ago by means of regular mentality tests was related today by James Thomas Petty, one of the oldest employes of the Dis- trict government ,as he observed his eighty-fifth birthday anniver- sary at his desk in the municipal building. “Lighteen years ago, when I was auditor of the District,” sald the octogenarian, “I had to write many opinions involving points of law. At regular intervals now I test myself by writing similar reports and comparing them with the papers I prepared years ago.” After fifty-one years of service to the municipality in various ca- pacities, Mr. Petty sat at his desk in the arrears office of the col- Jector of taxes this morning work- ing away as usual. Although he was fourteen years past the retirement age when the employes’ pension law became ef- fective last vear, the Commission- ers did not ask kim to- retire, recognizing the value of his knowledge on District taxation. weing back over his career, Mr. Petty's face brightened with a smile as he rdcalled his service in the Confederate army, of which he said: “Although I fought throughout the war on the Confederate side, I am just as glad today' that the Union stood as are the boys who wore the blue.” Mr. Petty was born near Fred- ericksburg, Va., on November 3, 1836. After the war he came to Waghington and in 1870 eatered the service of the city as book- keeper for the corporation of ‘Washington, with offices in the old city hall, now the - District Su- preme Court. Mr. Petty was auditor of the District from 1888 to 1903. His next assignment was in the ca- pacity of assistant assessor. For a number of years he has been connected with the office of the collector of taxes, handling the records of the hundreds of par- cels of land on which taxes go unpaid from year to year. When he arrived at his office this morning Mr. Petty found his desk adorned with flowers pre- sented by his fellow employes. ‘The veteran Distriot official live: at 3331 O strect went through in the hands of the| val programs. ‘The State Department wil | ! this week to the delegates invited to forward formal notice of the I necessity of postponing the initial meet- jing until Saturday, November 12. The {hour for assembling will be 10:30 o'ciock in the morning, i the audi- torium of the building erccted by the Daughters of the American Revolution, near the Pan-American building, where subsequent sessicns will be held. —_— ITALIAN DELEGATES OFF TO ATTEND DIAZ DINNER | the conference |Mayor Hylan Gives Banquet in New York Tonight to Noted General. delegation to the armament. confer- ence now fn Washington, together with other members of the officia’ party. will leave tonight for New | York, where they will attend the banquet to be given tomorrow mnight Diaz. Those to make the trip are thc | Italian_ambassador, Senator Rolandi { Ricci; Senator Carlo Schanzer, presi- i dent of the Italian delegation; Sena- { tor Lulgi Albertini, the third delegate Count Pagliano, counselor to the Italian embassy in Madrid, and Lieut Giovanni_Bosio, private secretary to Senator Schapeer. They expect to return to the Na- tional Capital in a few days. During their absence activitles at the head- quarters of the delegation in thc ! Hotel Washington will be, to somc extent, suspended. Marquis Viscont’ Venosta, general secretary of the delegation will remain here in charge $30,000 IN GEMS STOLEN. . PAUL, Minn., November 3.—Dia- lfli’{dl valued at $30,000 were ob- tained today by two men who robbed the store of A. 1. Shapira & Sons, in the center of the downtown quar- ters. | Today’s News in Brief United States plan for naval armament limitation making progress. Page 1 Senator Afbertini, here for arms se: sion, is brilliant Itallan editor and statesman. Page 4 Merchants asked to pause two ntnutes in dead soldier’s honor. Page 7 Hanford MacNider new head of Amer- ican Legion. Page 17 Third cut made in price of bread in District. Page 17 Board of education approves plans for new tubercular school. Page 22 Italy willing to cut navy to mini- mum. Page 4 Citizens’ Rellef Association aids 500 families during year. Page 9 Twentleth: Century Club lauds street cleaning service in Washington. The three members of the Italian! { by Mayor Hylan in honor of Gen | Does America SANC a5 Page 15, '(Crmflgnfedg Page 10, territory in China. The much talked of province of Shantung with its im- mense territory was never ceded to Japan at the Paris peace conference, but the port which is practically the | door to Shantung province, was given | Japan. well as jurisdiction over |the railway to the interior, including la thirty-mile strip on each side of the railwey. It is true the Germans had_that very right and Japan was asking only for that which Germany had forfeited through her defeat in the war. Japan was asking for those rights as her reward for ousting the Germans from Kiachow and the far east. But that brought the rub. Would the Japanese be content to operate as the Germans had? Indeed, the Germans entered into working agreements with British and other European business men In the far east. I proposition. Would the Japanese keep it commercial or use it to pene- trate China politically and get a hold on the administrative independence of China? Anti-Jnpanese Sentiment. “The Chinese thought so. They openly said so. That's the basis for their opposition to Japan's acquisi- tion of one inch more of a foothold in China. It's a question of faith, of trust or suspicion. The Japanese pro- test that they never break thelr word; that they have only disinterested mo- tives and seek merely a place for commercial expansion” for their al- ready overpopulated country. But the Chinese will mot listen. Sharing the Chinese suspicions are practically all the British, French and American business interests in China. They-are violently anti-Japanese. They ex- pect their respective governments to use their moral and physical power to keep the Jnpanese from over- stepping the bounds of commercial necessity. They insist that the open door shall mean an open door and no discrimination. ‘Who will keep the “open door” open? Who will enforce the under- standing. The British government knows it cannot do it alone. Will the United States help? That’s why the British _are not anxious to an- nounce at this time what they will do with the Anglo-Japanese alliance. One school of thought insists that the alliance be abrogated, because of the stimulus it gives the Japanese polit- jcally and commercially, but another school of thought in the British gov- ernment wants to know first whether the moral and physical help of the United States can be counted upon if the alliance is given up. In other words, it is contended by the latter group of statesmen that the Anglo- Japanese alllance gives the British government a’ certain intimacy with Japanese government which. makes it possible to hold J. back gently, but firmly, and exercises quiet- 1y an influence which might never be publicly acknowledged or heeded if the alllance were ~broken, and if. Japafifelt that she must eventually seek the hand of reconstructed Ger- many or resuscitated Russia to assist in fulfilling her ambitions in the far east. 2 U, 8. Meve Awaited. -, Does America stand ready to enter Column 33 s It was | purely a commercial, not a political, protection, farm products must share in it. He told the committce 1k tum of the old tariff philosopuer that agricultural products are raw Iterials,” contending that they “finished where they grow. and shoutd ibe so considered by Congress in l2nis- lation.” ‘The proposed schedules of duties on have been submitted bv the group of western senators were withheld until the hearings are resumed next week, Senator Gooding. republican, Idaho, head of the group, explaining that the members of the group felt all members of the committee should be :nt when hte basic rates are taken up. ‘Would Avold Friction. In voting to report the resolution lextending the emergency law the com- Imittee, it was stated. did not consider |the McLean amendment for exchange stabilization during the executive session of the committee. Members the House resolution in its original !fight and to save possible friction be- {tween the two houses, —_— i EUGENE D. F. BRADY DEAD Practiced Law in This City for Forty-Five Years. Eugene D. F. Brady, one of the old- est members of the Washington bar, died this morning -at the home of his sister, Mrs. Thomas De Kyne, at Wil- mington, Del., where he had gone to spend the winter in the hope of re- gaining his health. Mr. Brady, who was b- In Wil- mington, wis a graduate «° George- town University, and also ¢i the first class of law. He practiced his pro- fession for forty-five years in this city, and during the last five years ‘was connected with the legal depart- ment of the Emergency Fleet Cor- i poration. He married Miss Ada Ford. daugh- ter of Gov. Ford of Ohio, and besides his sister d wife is survived by a son, Capt. Edward J. Brady, U. 8. NEW ENVOY CONSIDERED. Alanson-B. Houghton Mentioned as Ambassador to Germany. - The name of Alanson B. Houghton of Corning, N. Y., a member of the .{House from the thirty-seventh New York district, was understood to be first in the mind of President Harding as ambassador to Germmny after | conference today between the Pres! dent and Charles D. Hilles, repub- llcukl- national committeeman for New Yol;r. Hilles, who is a former repub- lican national chairman and has been consulted ‘fraquen the President in the selection of atic officlals, . is_understood. to. have * Houzhton his uncuahfied Enn li farmers “repudiate entirely the dic-! said they felt it imperative to leave i form in order to avoid a lengthy floor | B AP O { measure a_provision appropriating | $16,000,000 for use of the Veterans' {Bureau in hospitalization of former iservicc men. The proposition brought | lon a discussion of the whole range | of the veteran question, and Senator | {Ashurst finaliy withdrew the amend- {ment after being assured by Chair- iman Warren of the appropriations [committee that a deficiency appropria- | that an effort would be made to in- sclude the Veterans Bureau needs in {it. Senator Curtis, republican, of | Kansas eaid he understood the defi- i ciency measure would be brought into Congress in “a week or ten days.” Amendment Adopted. Without a record or dissenting vote Senutor Broussard, democrat, Louis- the Senate adopted an amendment by liana, 'striking out a committee amend- | ment providing that income received | {by any marital community should be included in the gross income of the spouse having the management and | Icontrol of such community property, | {and should be taxed as the income of such spouse, Senators from Louisiana and eight western states contended that this amendment would overturn laws in jtheir state which provide that the iwife shall ‘have title to one-half of the family property. They argued |also that the amendment would result | in increasing the taxes on the fam- ilies by lumping the entire income as that of a single taxpayer. Deploring the effort to put a sales tax through the Senate at' this time, Chairman Fordney of the House ways and means committee disclosed yes- terday that it was his plan to bring 1in a sales tax in connection with the : soldler bonus bill, which he said would be reported during the‘coming regu- lar _session of Congress. “We want to reserve the sales tax (Conunued on Fage 2. Column 8.) How Lloyd George Upset the House of Lords . Second ‘installment of Philip Kerr’s fas- cinating narrative NEXT SUNDAY, IN The Sunday Star several days in some of the districts, it was pointed out, as there is ex- pected to be some delay before the provisions of the injunction are put' into actual operation. Counsel for both the union and the operators “were busy today in the preparation of their appeal of the in- junction to the circuit court of ap-| peals at Chicago and are expected to | jagricultural products which were to|tion was in course of preparation and Make formal application for the ap- peal before Judge Anderson either to- | day or tomorrow. Counsel said the application was only a perfunctory proceeding. Ordered Back to Work. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, November 3.— More than a thousand coal miners at | Carlinville and Staunton, in Macoupin | county, struck today before they had ' received a telegram from state head- quarters ordering them to remain at | work. One hundred and fifty miners| also struck at Hillsboro. | Acting upon the official telegrams, | however, which arrived soon lfler,l the miners in each of these places voted to return tomorrow, according | to information received by Walter Nebit, an official of the state miners’| union here. Two other locals i southern Illinois which struck yes- terday, Mr. Nesbit said, are back at work teday. Six Working in Indiana. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., November 3.— | Reports received this morning ati headquarters of the United Mine| (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | that officers told courts-martial in | iy 1 can show and will show what to do in order that the courts-martial might keep from being shot them- selves.” Action May Be Delayed. The special committee appointed to investigate the charges made by & n- ator Watson will take no further steps in the matter, in all probability. until the Senate has adopted a reso- lution_reported favorably from the committee on ‘contingent expenses, granting the special commitiee the necessary money to conduct the in- vestigation. Senator Brandagee. chairman of the special committee, was anxious to get action on the resolution, but it was feared that if the resolution was called up it would lead to debate, and thus delay action on the untinished business, which is the tax revision bill. J whatever. ‘Watson Issues Challenge. Facing the republicans and shoving out his chin, Senator Watson sai “You make a_fight on me if you can, if vou dare. You said you'd put my read against the wall. Come on, do Senator Watson said that 2.000.0°0 privates of war were “enlisted with his side and that negroes sceing i photograph he presented would re- sent it. “Hereafter the man who impugns my honor,” said Mr. Watson in con- clusion, “will answer to me not only here, but somewhere else.” JAPANESE UNPACK TONS OF DATA FOR ARMS PARLEY AMID BUSTLE From the outside the old Blaine house, on Massachusetts avenue just off Dupont Circle, still appears to be the same venerable old man- sion that has been there for many years, but inside all is changed. The Japanese delegation to the arms conference has rented it from Henry Spencer, the present own: and a veritable beehive of industry has been set in motion. The house has been stripped completely of furnishings, and where once were -drawing rooms and dining rooms now are offices equipped as thor- oughly as any modern business establishment. ‘Except for great piles of packing cases that fill the hallways an reach to the ceiling in the lower oorridors, all is trim and business- like. These unopened boxes, just arrived from Japan by express, contain tons of data, ~statistics, official documents and legal, mili- tary and historical figures that may be needed during the parley. It would be a long way back home to send for information, and the Japaness have come prepared. .On the upper floors of this newly formed diplomatic post, are officei fitted up for the delegates to tl conference and their immedial secre! and there quiet' amd dignity reigns, but on the ground | S | flcor are the offices from where the machinery of the delegation is to be run, and a busy corps of secretaries are emgaged already in forming a smooth running organ- ization. Ali~1s hurry and bustle. American office boys jump at the sound of a bell, as all new ones do, and one whole room is filled with American stenographers banging away on a battery of typewriters. Other Americans are there, too, in the capacity of pub- licity men, secretaries, etc. One big room is set aside for the Japanese press. Here representa- tives of the Kokusal News Agency. which is the leading news associa- tion of Japan; the Tokio Maluichi Shimbun, the Kokumin Shimbun and other big newspapers are pre- paring to dispatch the news of the parley. Twenty-five or more ed- itors and special writers are to be here. Many of them arrived here yesterday and are now learning their way around. ‘This morning, with the coming of many of the officiala and corre- spondents, the big red house was swarming with the visitors, and when the last of the delegation arrives today or tomorrow traffic policemen will be needed to control the constant stream flowing back and forth to this new government of the far east set up In Wi ington.