Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1922, Page 2

- “ tonight at Wardman Park Hotel. , 2 = HENRY E. STRINGER HEAD OF CITY CLUB Becomes Next President " When Charles W. Semmes Withdraws His Name. Henry E. Stringer, manager of the Hydraulic Press Brick Company, and present chairman of the City Club's house committee, will be the next president of the City Club, as the result of the withdrawal last evening ot Charles W. Semmes from his can- didacy for the office. Mr. Semmes and Mr. Stringer both were nominated for the office, and also for the second vice presidency. Mr. Semmes, who is now first vice president of the club, has also withdrawn his candi- dacy for the second office. In announcing his withdrawal, Mr. Semmes said that in view of the fact that he had completed plans to be out of the city a large part of the summer, he felt he could, hot do tie office the Justice it deserved. “I believe 1 was one of the first men in the club to suggest Mr. Stringer for the presidency,” Mr. Semmes said. “He has given the club his best efforts as chairman of the house committee and s president he will have my heartiest support.” Mr. Semmes, who is head of the Semmes Motor Company, retires soon as president of tae Rotary Club. Mr. Stringer has been a_member of the City Club's board of governors and chairman of its house committee for the last three years. BOY LOST THREE YEARS. Richmond Lad, Taken From Home, Returns Again. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., April 18.—Edward Gammon, sixteen, taken away from here three years ago by a man named Armentrout, 15 back in his home, to the delight of his parents. The youth says that he was taken tnrough Ken- tucky, Indiana, Illinois and West Vi ginia, that he was forced to pass as the brother of the man who had taken him away. He says that Armentrout would borrow whatever money he made while working, being forced to attend school in the fall and winter. but that the man forgot to pay back the money. He says that Armentrout disappeared when told that the offi- cers were coming and that he did not etop long enough to say good-bye. MONEY FOR WALTER REED Bill Provides $134,000 for Land and Warehouses. Walter Reed Hospital recelves $134,000 for the acquiring of addi- tional land and warehouses under the bill authorizing $1,000,000 for several Army posts, passed today by the Senate and sent to the House. Also included in the appropriation Mst is $575.000 for inland warchouses, Philadelphia; Fairfield Air Stl(lod. Fairfleld, Ohio, $165,000; Edgewoor N. J., arsenal $24,000; Middletown, Pa., air station, $165,000; Pig Poin Va., ordnance reserve depot, $3,000; Richmond, Va., air depot, $275; Mor- gan ordnance depot, south Amboy, N. J.. $300, and Fitzsimons Hospital, Denver, Col.. $1.500. The additional land is to complete certain projects, for payment of awards In condemnation proceedings and save government investments on lands leased and improved during the war WORKING ON D. C. BILL. Conferees on Appropriation Meas- ure in Session Today. The conferees on the District ap- propriation bill for the fiscal year 1923 are In executive conference again today, endeavoring to reach some agreement on the wording of the first (paragraph of the bill, which covers \the fiscal relations between the fed- eral and District governments. This same paragraph was the only subject discussed at a conference yesterday afternoon. All the other matters in dispute be- “ween the House and Senate are de- pendent upon this one parasraph, so that when this is definitely ‘iritten the conferees expect to get together without much difficulty on the other items. —_— D. A. R. NOTES. Today is Michigan day at the Pow- natan. The meeting of the Michigan delegation to the D. A. R. Congress is being held there this afternoon, with Miss Alice Louise McDuffee, state re- gent, presiding. Present are Mrs L. Victor Seydel, state regent-elect; Mrs. Addison D. Kent, state vice regent-elect; Mrs. Truman H. Newberry, past vice president general; Mrs. Henry B. Joy, chairman of the Tesolutions committee of this congress: Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, coairman of the transportation committee; Mrs. Jared W. Finney, state chaplain, who is serving as platform hostess at the co gress: Mrs. Burritt Hamilton, state re- cording eecretary; Mrs. Thomas M. Mc- Farland, _state historian, and Mra Charles E. Lytle, state director. Last Sunday, Miss McDuffee was at home informaily to about one hun- dred_members of her delegation at the Powhatan from 4 to 6 o'clock. In the receiving line were Miss McDuf- fee, Mrs. Charles Townsend, wife the senior senator from Michigan Mrs. Truman H. Newberry and Mrs. L. Victor Seydel. The Michigan pagesfserving at this congress are Mrs., Frederick A. Cur- tiss of Detroit. Mrs. E. B. Sweet of Ypsilanti and Miss Alice Louise Dal- by of Mount Clemens. The pages are on tiptoe today. They are all in bustling eagerness to have plans completed for the dance They're jumping from pillar to post and chatting about it with all the joy that young girls can muster. Mrs. Harry Boyle Gauss, vice chalrman of the committee, dashed into the im- provised pressroom—which has been appropriated through the courtesy of Miss Natalie Sumner Lincoln, editor * of the magazine, who Is almost office- less as a result of the use of her of- fice for newspaper men. Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Wallace are among the guests of honor at the dance tonight at Ward- man Park Hotel, which is being given, as usual, under auspices of the Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter of the Dis- trict, D. A. R. Mrs. George Maynard Minor will make a trip to the dance as soon as the reception she is tendering to- night at the Continental Hall s con- cluded. and her staff will accompany er. Miss Virginia Price is chairman of the committee on arrangements for| h: the pages, while Mrs. Charles Halg and Mrs. Willoughby C. Chesley will be present in official capacit! at the ballroom in Wardman Park Hotel. i Prolonged applause greeted Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, chafrman of the administration building and former \ president-general of the society, when she arose today to pre- sent her report. Mrs. Guernsey is one of the most popular of the for- vier heads of the organization. Absence of Mrs. Selden P. Spencer, wife of Senator Spencer of Missourl, and chaplain-general of the society, resulted in the congress opening to- day by the recitation of ti Prayer by the delegates and alter- nates led by the presiden: fitn.rll. The Scripture and prayer called for oa the program was eliminated. a — e e _—,———_}_—.—_fl $6,200,000 HOTEL TO RISE AT ONCE (Continued from First Page.) apartment will be stories. The section of the building on the Connecticut_avenue end will be de- voted exclusively to hotel purposes. The eastern section Will be arranged in apartments of one, two, three and four rooms and bath, operated both as a hotel and apartment-hotel. The entire project will be operated a unit, with a well-known hotel execu- tive in charge. Practically all of the first and sec- ond floors and a large section of the basement will be devoted to res- taurants, corridors and public rooms. Plans for the building have been drawn by Robert F. Beresford, after consultaiton with prominent hotel architects from other cities and a study of the new hotels in eastern and mid-western cities. The site selected is the north halt of what was formerly known as Con- vent_square, where, for many yea the Visitation Convent was located. Titje to this entire square was taken several years ago by W. T. Galliher, president of the American National Bank. The south half of the square has been developed in the past two years by the Allan E. Walker Invest- ment Company, constituting probably onie of the most rapid business inva- sions in the history of the city. Corporation Being Formed. The hotel site has been parchased from Mr. Galliher and the company is now being formed to own and operate the hotel when completed. It will have a capital stock of $1,500,000 in preferred stock and 60,000 shares of common stock and will be} known as the Hotel Walker Colporauomd 3 The building will be constructed o reinforced concrete throughout. The exterlor will be of Indiana limestore, continuing upward for three stories, with a special rough-faced brick lén terracotta_trimming above. The dr- chitectural style is after the Italian rennaissance, whhdeflec:lsve treat- t of windows and courts. mel:‘heogrchlleemnl scheme as to ex- terior and interior and the design, arrangement, furnishings and decora- tions will make for one of the most attractive buildings in the city. Main entrance to the hotel will be on the Connecticut avenue !;finl. thr!lhn.::rg; d automobile en e TSagan B The apartment sec- a large entrance 0{.\ De Sales street. near 17th street. an a vehicle entrance on 17th street. . The main lobby will resemble close- 1y that of the Hotel Pen lvania in New York city. - It will have a mez- zanine gallery overlooking the lobby on all four sides. Surrounding the mezzanine will be a sgeries of com- mittee rooms, exhibit, club, library and private banquet rooms. Imposing Lobby Decoration. The lobby and mezzanine, with large stone columns, elaborate mural and ceiling decorations, special ter- razzo floors and other equipment and furnishings, are designed to present an imposing picture. A large cafe will open off the north side of the lobby. The offices will be located on t‘l’le :’outh side, with fixtures and fur- nishings appropriate. Opening on the east side of the lobby and extending through to the 17th street entrance will be a prome- nade, or “Peacock Alley,” fifteen feet wide and over 400 feet long. It will be, expensively furnished. The main dining room, several feet lower than the promenade floor, will be entered by a marble stairway, fifty-four feet wide and paralleling the promenade for a _distance of eighty feet, separated from it, how- ever, by a marble balustrade. Op- posite the main restaurant will be a lounge, thirty-eight by fifty-four feet. A feature of this room will be a large pipe organ audible the length of the promenade. Beyond the main dining room on the north side will be a palm court, forty by fifty feet, which will be used for tea: luncheons, dansants and other functions. On the south side will be a ballroom covering an aera forty-eight feet wide and 140 feet long. The ballroom will. have a balcony around the entire :room and & specially constructed terraz- zo floor, said to be an innovation in dancing surfaces. There will be an elaborate lighting system. Adjoining the ballroom will be reception rooms, retiring rooms and foyer. Main Floor Ceilings High. Commodious lobby, reception rooms and lounge will adjoin the main en- trance to the apartment hotel section. As a rule, all the public rooms on the main floor will have twenty-eight- foot ceilings. A system of ten elevators appears on the plans, together with a special dumbwaiter and service lift system. In the basement of the structure will be a large grillroom, arranged for dancing and entertainment; & room equipped as & children’s play- ground, with complete modern equip- ment and governesses; a swimming pool, gymnasium, cold storage, dry storage, service and engine rooms, barber shop and hair-dressing par- lors and other establishments. Throughout the building the walls will be soundproof, and in the assem- bly rooms the acous will be per- fected. Part of the apartments will be of the housekeeping type. Spe- cial ventilation will care for cooking odors. Iced water will flow from taps In every room and each of the apart- ments will be provided with auto- matic refrigeration. In his plans the architect has ar- ranged that all rooms are front rooms in the hotel and that in the apart- ment section are either front or out- side. Walls and ceilings will be paneled and tinted. A _number of the apartments will be completely furnished. Others will be leased unfurnished. The apart- ments will be so arranged that they may be made into large suites. Hotel service will be afforded all apart- ments. Quiet Blegance Is Aim. The interior decoration will be in keeping with the rest of the estab- lishment—nothing ornate or preten- tious, 1t Is stated, but having “quiet elegance.” The great expanse of roof space will hold tennis courts, roof gardens, practice putting greens and other un- usual attractions. Over fifty-nine long distance radio outfits will be installed, and one room will be devoted to radio entertain- ments. Mr. Walker and his assoclates be- lieve that in their enterprise they will provide Washington with a necessity. ‘The size of the undertaking has re- quired long study. Final revision of plans and minor details is now being made. It is expected that construc- tlon work will be started early in June, and it is aimed to complete the a) ment section by February 1 next and the hotel section by June 1, 1923. The construction work will be done by the_ building de{lmntn! of the Allan E. Walker Investment Com- pany. Architect Beresford will su- perintend the construction. Assisting will be F. F. Gillen, superintendent of construction under the board of public buildin, and grounds of the District for twenty-three years, who section ] as just resigned his position to ac- cept the office of general superin- tendent and engineer of comstruction with the company. Mr. Gillen super- vised the erection of Lincoln Memo- rial, the Arlington amphitheater and other government profects, it {s stated. MADE WORLD FARM ENVOY. Secretary Wallace has appointed President H. E. Van Norman of the ‘World’s Dairy Congress Association, a commissioner of agriculture, and Secretary Hughes has made Van Nor- man delegate of the United States, to the general assembly of the In- ternational Institute of ork i | | l A Mrs. VAN Novnin | of st York Saturday S Lk THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,. FURTHER SHOOTING == [NNORTH BELFAST Six Victims Sent to Hospitals Today—Seven Houses Burned Last Night. By the Associated Pres BELFAST, April 18.—Disorders con- tinued today in the Marrowbone dis- trict of North Belfast, inhabited largely by the Sin Feiners. A score of casualties from shootings was re- ported to the military, although only six cases were treated in hospitals. An armored car was used in an en- deavor to restore order. Seven houses were burned last night in Antigua street, in the old park district. The firemen were kept busy in their efforts to put out the fires. There also was considerable firing in the same area, and two men, named Fearon and Doran, were wounded. BLAMES COLLINS’ PARTY. Insurgent Leader Says Free Staters Fired First Shot. By the Amociated Pre DUBLIN, April 18.—Rory O'Connor, head of the Insurgent troops here, in an interview gave another ver- sion of the shooting that ocourred around Collins’ car. He sald the first shot was fired by some one of the Col- lins party, and that later shots were fired from armored cars at O'Connor’s office in Parnell Square. “If these procative acts continue, said O'Connor, “no one can say whi will happen. ‘“We don't go around the streets firing indiscriminately, but we know the free state troops do.” TRANSPORT IS DELAYED. . Ship Bringing U. S. Troops Held Up by Fog. PORTLAND, Me., April 18.—The transport Cantigny, with troops re- turning from Germany, was delayed in reaching port today by thick fog oft the coast. The ship w: forced to proceed slowly toward the harbo® entrance and was expected to reach her dock about noon. Besides the 3d Battalion of the 5th Infantry, which will be located here, the organizations aboard included the headquarters company of the 1lst Brigade, Ambulance ~Company 56, Hospital Company 57, Motor Transport Company 68 and Service of Supply Company 20. The passengers Included the wives of eighty-five soldiers and thirty chil- dren, two of whom were born during the voyage of ten days from Antwerp. SUGGESTS WORK AT NIGHT ON CAR TRACK REPAIRS Gen. Stephan, Head of M. and M. Association, Says Day Trafic In- terruption Might Be Avoided. Night work on street car tracks in the downtown districts of the city was suggested today by Gen. Anton Stephan, president of Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, in & let- ter to Willlam F. Ham, president of the Washington Railway and Elec- tric Company. In his letter Gen. Stephan points out that with the large volumn of travel on the streets, especially G street, where repair work on the trackage is now going on, day work seriously interferes with traffia The letter follows: “While I note with great satisfac- tion the improved trackage that your company is installing on G street in the downtown section, permit me to make a recommendation that the work be carried on outside of busi- ness hours. *“The big volume of business in the downtown section, with the incident movement of great numbers of indi- viduals and vehicles, makes it almost mandatory. “Even though the cost of the work would be more at night than in the daytime, it certainly séems as if the public interest would demand fit. ‘“Great as is the necessity for the improvements that your company and the Capital Traction have and are in- stituting in the downtown section, 1t could be best expedited by carrying on the work when the men would be free from interruptions such as is cer- tainly not the case during business hours. “Trusting that your company can find it convenient to do this and 1 believe thereby expedite the opera- tion, believe me.” WOMAN CLAIMS BABY. Says She Lost Child, Found on Dump, While Gathering Flowers. A young Wwoman appeared at the seventh precinct police station last night and made inquiries about the baby boy found on the dump near 38th street and Prospect avenue Sunday night. She gave her name as Esther Gleason, she sald she was from 18 Franklin street, Baltimore, n:fidlhll she was the mother of the child. Miss Gleason told the police she was near the dump Sunday afternoon gathering wild flowers. She said e placed the Infant on the ground and got so far away while gather- ing the flowers that she was unable to_find him. Detective Burke placed Miss Glea- son under arrest and sent her to the house of detention, where she is held pending a further investigation. OFFICIALS WILL SPEAK. Several representatives of the State and Commerce Departments will be among the speakers at the national forel trade convention in Atlantic City May 10 to 13, it was announced today. addition, C. B. Heinemann, bill of lading com- In chairman of th Tmittee of the . National Industrial Traffic League, will speak. o Cumming Story. POISON BARRAGE THINS RAT ARMY AT SCHOOL First Skirmish Won by Health De- partment in War for Extermina- tion of Rodents. The health department today won a decisive victory in its first skirmish with the rats in the Thomson School, 12th and L streets northwest. Dr. Joseph Murphy, chief medical Inspector of schools, yesterday laid down a barrage of polsoned bait in every nook and corner of the build- ing, and this morning he counted seven large gray rodents lying dead on the fleld of battle in the basement of the schoolhouse. He reported to Health Officer Fowler shortly before noon that nearly all of the bait had been eaten, which led to the supposition that more dead rats are lying concealed in or about the building. Encouraged by the early victory, Dr. Fowler sent Inspector Murphy re- inforcements in the form of fifty strong snap-traps for a second offen- sive move on the enemy tonight. Dr. Fowler and Dr. Murphy are con- fident that before the children return to school from the Easter recess the rats will have evacuated the building. The health officer said he has a large supply of rat traps on hand and will place them in any other school where any evidence of rats is found. PLOT TO SLAY LENIN. Monarchist Conspiracy Keeps Him at Home, Says Report. By the Associated Press. RIGA, April 17. — A conspiracy iamong Russian monarchists in cen- tral and eastern Europe to kill Nik- olai Lenin if he dares to step outside Russia is sald by secret service men here to have had more or less of a bearing on the fact that Lenin has not started for Genoa to attend the economic conference. According to the secret service men, the plot to assassinate Lenin is be ing strengthened from the Mediter. ranean to the Baltic seas. They de clare the plot is a well organized one, and that, notwithstanding the arrest of white Russians in Italy, Germany and elsewhere, the leaders in the con- spiracy still are at large TOM SAWYER TREASURES. Boys’ Hobby Show to Have Amas. ing Variety of Exhibits. Treasures of the Tom Sawyer type, which every boy at some period of his Hfe hordes away and guards with his life, will be on exhibition at the Dboys’ hobby show to be held in the Y. M. C. A. Thursday until Saturday night. The show is an annual event with the youngsters. Anything they may have made or collected will be exhibited and, according to the boys’ department, these objects may in- clude war souvenirs, specimens, bugs, stamps, coins, post cards, buttons, false teeth, glass eyes, woodwork, metal work, paper, cloth, string, elec- tric apparatus, airplanes, wireless, radlo, carvings and numerous other articles, the nature of which would be hard to conceive. Asfde from the regular prizes to be awarded, a silver cup will be given to the Boy Scout troop making the best exhibit. The show will be kept open each day from 10 am. to 10 p.m. POLICE POWERS ASKED. Congress Urged to Give Health Of- ficers More Authority. The Commissioners today sent to the House District committes a proposed bill to permit them to give District em- ployes, such as health department in- spectors, police authority. The corporation counsel recently ad- vised them, the Commissioners say, that they cannot make special policemen of city employes, ex where they have District property for which they are responsible. . Following that ruling, the health de- partmont inspectors ceased to exercise police authority in enforcing the health regulations, but the result has been to handicap the department. The pro- law would restore police power to these inspectors. | ‘“’W Treasury Wadsworth, se and Seeretary of Comme CANDIDATES ' FOR PRESIDENT GENERAL DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION annrs Lwie Upper, left to right: Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of Tva e Lpmer. etts R arna Peansylvania and ter all that humanity had ever gained Lowers Mrs. Willlam E. Reynolds of North Carolina and Mrs. Willlam | under righteous law. GRANT’S DAUGHTER ESCORTED BY PAGE, FOE’S DESCENDANT How history intertwines its strands in future days was aptly illustrated at yesterday's session of the D. A. R., when the Princess Cantacuzene went | to the stage to deliver her address. She was escorted to the platform by a walte-clad page bearing the name of Miss Frances Bryan. As is well known, Princess Canta- cusene is the granddaughter of Gen. U. 8. Grant, chief of the Union forces during the civil war. ‘When Grant was_prosecuting the war for the union, Raphael Semmes was captain of the Alabama, a pri- vateer which was causing great de- struction to Federal shipping. And yesterday when Grant's grand- daughter was about to deliver an address before the society it was the great-granddaughter of Capt. Raph- ael Semmes of Alabama fame who escorted her to the stage. Miss Bryan is from Memphis. Tenn., and her family name is well known in D. A. R. circles, in which Mrs. Charles B. Bryan, her grandmother, has been active for many years. HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES. First race; claiming; two-year olds; four furlongs: Bucado, 116; Zoona, 106; (a)The Muleskinner, 108: *(b) Goldmount, 107; Jean F, 104; Idolater, 112; (a)Kewpie S, 111; Beasie Leigh ton, 107; *Royal Oak, 107; *Josephine, : (b)Soviet, 112; 'Lady Boss, 109; Queen Masonia, 101; *Louise Groody, 104; *Stangelina, 100. Also eligible— Illusionist, 101; Lank, 112; Armadee, 110; *Jennie C, 96. (a)Lavin and McDanlel entry. (b)Salmon and Wilson entry. Second race, the Lansdowne steeple- four-year-olds and up; about two miles—Le Marsouin, 145; Free Last Effort, 116 Quesada, 114; South Breeze, 111; *Leghorn. 104; ¢Mabel Curtis, 101; tBrilliant Ray, 115; Cape Plllar, 114; *Excuse Me, 109; *Miss Emma G., 99; *Beverly Belle, 99; *Fly Ball, 115; *Troubler, 112; *Avispa, 107; Diversity, 98; *Justine F., 93. Also eli- gible—*African Rose, 107. Fourth race; the Aero handicap; three-year-olds and up: six furlongs tar Voter, 112; Carmandale, 108; ‘The Boy, 104; Double Cross, 90; aHil- dur, 105; Irishdream, 10 Man, 104; Missionary, 109; Broomster, 107; *Dexterous, 107. a—J. K. L. Ross entry. *Three pounds clalmed for rider. Fifth race; the Page Brook purse; four-year-olds and up; one mile and seventy yards—St. Allan, 108; Fair- way, 102; Sedgfield, 106; Our Birth- day, 10: Title, 102. Sixth ; four-year-oids and upward; one and one-sixteenth miles—e*Jacques, 111; *Merrimac, 10 *Episode, 104; *Gain De Cause, 101 *Seapirate, 111; Anniversary, 10 *Widow Bedotte, 102; Wrecker, 109; *Bister Flo, 106; *Turnabout, 101. Seventh race; claiming; three-year- olds and upward; one mile_ and seventy yards—*Spugs, 11; Mark ‘West, 106; *Exhorter, 103; *Mose, 103; Thistle Queen, 101; °*Bill Hundley, 108; Charles J. Graigmile, 106; *Ail- liro, 103; Explosive, 101; *Encrinite, 101; *Jack Reeves, 106; Prunes, 106; *Horeb, 101; George Duncan, 101; Bar- riskane, 87. Also eligible, Lady Zeus, 85; *H. C. Basch, 101; Phalaris, 106; *Car, 101; Diadi, 108. *Apprentice allowance ‘Weather cloudy, track good. PROTEST TO MR. HUGHES. Central American Unionists Oppose Recognition of Orellana. |8tate, 140; Tell Me, 135; (a)Butcher Boy, 142; Perkiomen, 137; (b)Grena~ dier, 130; (a)Red Start, 137; St. Paul, 138; (b)Lucky Find, 130. (a)Harrison entry. (b)Zollicoffer and Quincey Sta- ble entry. Third race, claiming; three-year- 1ds; five and one-half furlongs— NEW YORK, April 18.—The Central American unionist committee of New York today announced it had lodged a protest with Secretary of State Hughes over the recognition by the United States of the government of President Orellan: of Guatemala. ‘The committee declares that the rec- ognition, coming while many men are (still in prison for political reasons, favors revolutions, as “any general may be sure of recognition from the United States.” Representatives of Latin American countries in Washington were asked claimed. not to recognize Orellana. ® MMISSION. Pat Fears for Mike As Irish Attempt To Murder Brother By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 18~The Chi- \cngo . Tribune today printed ‘what it termed a “frue marra- tive of Mike nnd Pat.” It dealt with the anxiety with which Pat read cable messages from Irelnnd yesterday regarding at- tempts to assassinate Mike. Pat is Sergt. Patrick J. Col- lins of the Southern Chicago police station and Mike is his brother, Michael Collins, head of the Irish provisional govern- The sergeant eame to Ameri- ca in 1901. “Six years ago he said he paid Mike’s passage to America, but the mow famous Irish politician backed when he had gotten as far as the dock. HISSING TONGUES DANGER TO ALLIES, SAYS D. A. R. LEADER (Continued from First Page.) prevailed over the hideous mockery of materialistic kulture. If we forget the issues of the war these men will have died in vain. The unknown boy whose earthly body lles here today will have made a useless sacrifice; the mothers of all the boys of all the al- lies, both known and unknown, who made the supreme sacrifice, will have given them up in vain. Such would be the useless cost of our forgetfulness. Germany's crime egainst the world in 1914 'was a crime against God and man. It stag- gered civilization; It seemed to shat- f peace and prosperity and liberty Insensate, and mad for conquest and inordinate power, Germany blazed her path of blood and ruin through martyred France and Belgium. The demon of aggressive warfare was In pomses- sion of the soul of the nation. Liberty d peace would vanish from the earth were she victorious. And so our boys followed the flag to France and fought to save liberty and peace from the demons of war. “Can we ever forget this? Nation's Life at Stake. “The life of our nation was at stake; no ocean could be a barrier against such a conflict. . “The ideals of America for which our ancestors fought in ‘76 were cast into the balance of 1914. Would they be found wanting with none to de- fend them? The allied flags an- swered, ‘No.” 'an we ever forget this? 'We are here today to offer our vows of remembrance and gratitude and loyalty. “We live in a world rescued from the beast of war and greed and con- quest. “We owe it to all whom the un- known soldier typifies to ses to fit that never again shall the beast be let loose upon the world. “‘If ye break faith with us who dle we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields.’ “YWe shall not break faith. America shall keep the faith so long as a wayside cross remains standing in England and the fields of crosses gleam white in France. “We have fought side by side with the freedom-loving nations of the earth. We shall hold to them in peace, that the fruits of victory may be secure and ‘peace on earth, good- will toward men’ may come nearer than a far-off vision.” $183,450 Loan Urged. The congress was urged today by Mrs. George Thacher Guernse: chairman of the administration build- ing and former president general of the society, to empower the national board of management to negotiate a loan of $185,450 needed to complete (the new administration building. The administration building, now under construction, is expected to be com- pleted and occupied within the next year. Mi Guernsey sald that $187,061.34 already had been spent on the build- ing. It is about seventy-five feet west of the Memorial Continental Hall, has a frontage of 110 feet, with depth of 100 feet, and was planned a b the exterior sign, well executed in white limestone in harmony with, out properly sub- ordinated to Memorial Continental . Rotumda te Be Feature. Mrs. Guernsey emphasized that one of the features of the new building would be the central rotunda on the surrounded by w accessible to the several office rooms and well lighted by & skylight in the central light court of the second story. There will be four large mar- ble columns LZI the rotunda. “The work the bullding has pro- gressed rapidly and most satisfac- torily,” said Mrs. Guernsey's report. “It I8 of interest to know that a builder of wide experience and high standing in one of the largest cities of the country, after going over the building, said that it was splendidly made, both in material and work- manship.” Patriotic Report Made. Reports on the progress of the cam- | paign for the preservation of historic spots, including a report on the ac- quisition of Yorktown as a national patriotic shrine, were made by Mra. James T. Morris, chairman of the committee for this purpose. She appealed to the delegates and visitors to beseech their congressmen for action on the bill providing for the acquisition of Yorktown, declar- ing that the bill would first come up for discussion in the House, and that this was the strategic point for sup- port of the bill. —_— CHURCH FOR DANIELS PARK. A church building for people of the Baptist faith between Hyattsville and Laurel, on the electric railroad, is about to be developed by the build- ing operation at Daniels Park, Mad. A site has been secured at the in- tersection of the electric railroad and county road and 4th and C streets Rev. John E. Gore will be instruc- tor, and for a time will be secretary and treasurer. mgress to refund or eonvert oblixations of f¢ held the m:m‘imao‘hmfl%uz,&v rece Hosver, Seeretary Melloa is chairman of the commission. The picture was lishing the federal reserve system and Mr. Reed saying that he did, democratic Missour! politics are stirring. It is a 'WILSON LETTER ROUSES SUPPORTERS St. Louisan Repeats He Saw “Warm Thanks” For Aid on Reserve Biil, After Denial Starts Controversy. Declaring he had been “Per- somally imsulted” by former Pre or Reed, demo- crat, Missouri, in a formal state- today asserted Mr. Wilson's ry was shown to be “sadly deficient” by posed passage of the federal reserve act. “Those who knew the amiabl and polite Wilson of 1913, Senator Reed’s statement sald, “will hard- 1y eredit him with haviag per- sonally insulted a senator repre- senting a great state, however humble that senator may be, ‘Those a son was at that m time.” By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aprli 18.—Followin; the publication of a ‘“deadly parailel” i in which former President Woodrow | ‘Wilson and Senator James A. Reed Missourt are at odds, Mr. Wilson saying he did not thank the senator for his help in estab- of controversy similar_to that_of three years ago, when Senator Selden P. Spencer of Missouri and President Wil- son were disputing a feature of the Versallles treaty. Lee Meriwether, a lawyer, supporting Senator Reed for renomination, re- peated today that he had seen a letter written by Mr. Wilson thanking Reed. The Globe-Democrat, republican organ, published the formef President's let- ter with that of Mr. Reed, the former, ;hted Washington, April 15, 1922, follow- ng: “I note in your issue of April 12 that one Lee Meriwether is quoted as saying that he had seen a letter from me to Senator Reed ‘warmly thanking him for the great service the senator rendered in perfecting and passing the federsl reserve bill” 1 have no recollection of ever having written any such letter. Says Reed Was Foe. “On_the contrary, I clearly remember that Mr. Reed, as a member of the committee on banking and currency, in- terposed every possible objection to the completion and adoption of the bill. His objections, indeed, were so many, So varied and so inconsistent with one bout them in conversation. spoken of reading a_certain p: a well known novel, I told him that his course in the committee reminded me of the conduct of the hero in that parody, who, when rejected by the heroine, rushed from the house, mounted several horses and off in every direction. “Statements such as the one quotdd from Mr. Meriwether appear to be intended to create the impression that Mr. Reed and I have held the same principles and advocated the same policies, and that he is entitled to and may be assumed to have my in- dorsement as a candidate for re- election to the Senate. This is far from being the case. To those who have closely observed Mr. Reed's ca- reer in Washington he has shown himself incapable of sustained al- legiance to any person or any cause.! He has repeatedly forfeited any claim to my confidence that he may ever have been supposed to have, and 1 shall never willingly consent to any turther assoclation with him. “I_beg that you will do me_ the courtesy to publish this letter. Very truly yours, WOODROW WILSON." Facsimile of Letter. Senator Reed sald: “I did. have a difference with the President, entirely good-natured, over the federal reserve bank bill. The Kernel of that controversy was that the President insisted that the bill, which had originated in and been passed by the House, should be re- ported out of the Senate committee and passed very speedily without giving an opportunity for hearings. 1 insisted that hearings should granted and they were granted. As a result of the hearings, the bill was amended hundreds of times. “It was after these hearings and with reference to them that the President wrote me the following letter.” Senator Reed here produced a_printed circular, ending with a photographic copy of the President's letter, which rea “The White House. “Washington, Oct. 23, 1913 “My Dear Senator:, I hesitate to ask you to break in upon what must be one of the busiest weeks you have had by requesting you to come to the White House in order that I may say what is perfectly possible for me to say in a letter. I want to thank you very warmly and sincerely for your statement made through a New York newspaper. I have felt all along the sincere honesty and independence of judgment you were exercising in this whole matter and you may be sure that there has never been in my mind any criticism except an occasional difference of judgment. I think that things are now shaping themselves admirably, and I am quite willing 1o admit that the processes upon whicn you have insisted have contributed 1 that result. I feel that 1 can count on you from this time out to play a leading part in bringing this whole matter to a satisfactory issue and 1 want you to know what satisfaction it gives me to feel that I can do this “Cordially and faithfully yours. “WOODROW WILSON “P. 8—Pray call upon me at an time that you would llke to confer about any feature of the matter. o, W Declares He Saw Letter. Meriwether's statement follows: “When the league of nations fight was on in 1919, and while there was much criticism of Senator Reed in public prints because of his opposi- tion to the league pact, I asked Sen- ator Reed what he had to say in reply to the charge that he was always knocking the President. “‘The senator mentioned several im- portant measures in which he had co-operated with the President, one of the measures being the federa! reserve act. He called his secretary, Don Hunt, and told him to ‘show Meriwether those letters.’ “In substantiation of Senator Reed's claim that he had received the ap- probation of the President for his work on the federal reserve bill, Hunt produced from the senator’s files first a letter from Secretary of the Treas- ury McAdoo {n which McAdoo very warmly commended and thanked Senator Reed for his work he had done in perfecting the federal re- serve bill. Hunt then produced an- other letter of the same general pur- port written on White House stationery and signed by Woodrow Wilson.” JAPAN PARTLY BLAMED FOR BREAKING UP PARLEY CHARGES RAIL CHIEFS PUSH OPEN-SHOP MOVE Conference Relating to Question of | Labor Economist Tells Senate Com- Evacuating Siberia Is Dis- cussed in Tokio. By the Associated Press. mittee of Weakening Influences. The Association of Railway Execu- TOKIO, April 18.—While holding|ives was charged with backing an the Siberian Chita government chie@y | open shop, anti-unlon movement by responsible for bresking up the Dairen conference, the Japanese lan- guage newspapers today declare Ja- pan is not without blame. The Jiji Shimpo says the Japanese government blundered in failing to draw a clear line between the con- ference and evacuation of Siber:! suggesting by her proposals concern- ing commercial intercourse that she was claiming compensation for with- drawal of her military forces. The newspaper advises that evacuation be carried out regardless of the failure of the conference. Japanese government officials to- day gave assurances that the troops to be sent to Siberia, as was an- nounced yesterday, were not rein- forcements, but would simply consti- tute a relief force. SAY FAMINE IS LESSENED. Reports to Secretary Hoover From Relief Agents in Russia. Preliminary reports to Secretary Hoover indicate that the backbone of the famine in the Volga valley in Aussia has been broken, he an- nounced today. Former Gov. Goodrich of Indiana is expected to reach Washington to- morrow to report to Hoover on famine conditions in Russia. Gov. Goodrich, Mr. Hoover sald, is com- ing direct from the heart of the famine district and will bring first hand news of the situation in Rus- sia. Mr. Hoover denied reports that Gov. Goodrich was bringing with him a | to the American government. He Gov. Goodrich did not represent the United States government in Russia, but was in_that country as a repr sentative of the American Relief A minis tration. BANK MESSENGER ROBBED. KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 18.—Two negroes with revolvers singled out a bank messenger on a crowded street car. here today, forced him to get off and enter an automobile and robbed him of $11,000, of which $4,000 was in cash. Your Books proposal from the soviet government; . Jett Lauck, economist, represent- ing railroad labor organizations, in testimony today before the Senate in- terstate commerce committee. Mr. Lauck declared that Vice Presi- dent Atterbury of the Pennsylvania railroad fostered and was leading. as the chairman of the rallway execu- tives’ labor committee, the fight against unionism. “It is designed to weaken the older raflroad labor organizations” said Mr. Lauck, “and to break up the new labor organizations which grew up under the favoring auspices of federal control of the railroad: The witness asserted the anti-union policy caused Carl Gray, president of the Unfon Pacific railroad, to resign as chairman of the executives' labor committee and to be succeeded by Mr. Atterbury after the association had repudiated a recommendation made by a majority of the executives' labor committee and opposed only by Mr. At- terbury favoring establishment of a national board of labor adjustment. The executives, Mr. Lauck said, now stand committed to Mr. Atterbury's policy of opposing & national board of adjustment and standing only for state or single railroad bowrds. RENEW QUEST FOR JURYMEN. LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 18.— The process of obtaining a jury for the second trial of Arthur C. Burch for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, now =o slow that the public is dis- playing little interest in this stage of the case, was scheduled be re- sumed today. Attorneys said they hoped to complete the jury this week. WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN. NORFOLK, Va., April 18—A wom- an was killed, her husbangd seriously injured and a boy badly hurt when an electric train on the Norfolk- Southern hit an automobile at & grade crossing near London bridge, Princess Anne county, this morning. The doad woman was Mrs. G. C. Sorey of London Bridge. The in- jured: G. C. Sorey, member of a prominent Princess Anne family, and Robert Johnston, adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Sorey. Are Dollars A Dollar Bill Has No Value Unless It Is Kept in Circulation Your Books Are Wasted Value When They Lie Unused on a Dusty Shelf Hundreds of Washington people are anxious to buy and enjoy the books, encyclopedia and classical sets which you are not using. Advertise the books which you wish to sell or buy in the “Book Exchange” column to be run every Saturday and Sunday in The Star’s classified section. ’ 4 OF REED