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. ended at 2 p.m. today: 2 p.m. today; lowes today. Full report on page 7. ty-four hours Highest, 83, at , 61, at 5:30 a.m. No. 28,501 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 ‘Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. g WASHINGTON T eHinn WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. - D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922_FORTY PAGES. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use Tor republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or Dot otherwise credited in this Daper and also the local news published Bereis. dispatches e | Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 91,964 All rights of publication of special berein are also reserved. I TWO CENTS. ENGRAVING BUREAU PROBE VINDICATES | . VAST WAR AID PLEDGED BOLSHEVIKI BY BERLIN uipment for 180 Infantry Regiments, Artil- FORMER OFFICIALS | 7ers: Ncat Suppties and Airplancs Listed in Document Revealed by Paris Paper. Report Denies AFraudulent Duplic‘ation of Bonds and Certificates. JRREGULARITIES FOUND TO BE FEW AND SLIGHT No More Group Dismissals Pro- posed—Plant Now Work- ing Smoothly. The report of the special Treasury committee which made 2n investiga- tion and inventory of the bureau of enzraving and printing, to be present- to Secretary Mellon today, dis- s “no serious irregularities,” it was said today at the Treasury. The report in substance 13 consid- ~ered a wholesale denial of charges of wicespread circulation of fraudulent duplicated liberty bonds, and also & ~vindication of former officials, clear- ine them of any aspersions of dishon- est alleged to have resulted in con- neetion with the sudden dismissal of former Director Wilmeth and ap- 1 tment of Louis A. Hill and his st el It was learned in official circles thdt the report shows at the bureau for the past four or five years, a dis- crepancy of about fifty sheets in all of the departments. This is consid- ercd by authorities a remarkable ,wing, especially in view of the ,rmous amount’ of paper handled the big government plant in 1nirning out the stamps, paper money, bonds and various certificates re- quired during the high-pressure days of war and post-war days. Report to Mellon Soon. 2 report was to be submitted to atary Mellon this afternoon, cr, it case of late delays, . tomorrow morning, by Deputy Assistant Treas- vrer N. Theodore Tate, chairman of the Treasury committee. The other niembers ‘of the committee represent- el the internal revenue bureau, Fed- eral Reserve Board, controller of the currency and bureau of engraving and printing. Agents of the Department of Jus- tics who were loaned for the purpose of assisting in the inventory are still working at_the bureau of engraving on some further reports, it was learned. 7] considered to be an absolute cle: o ible Would ‘be- Permeteed: /. The inventory just coneladed 18 ROt| He pointed out that arrangements an By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 11.—The newspaper L'Eclalr today printed the text of a military convention said to have been signed by representatives of the Rus- slan soviet army and the German general staft in Berlin on April 3, by the principal clause of which the Germans agree to furnish the red army with the arms and materlal neqgggary to equip 180 regiments of infantry and sufficient heavy fleld artillery for 20 infantry divisions. The German general staff, accord- ing to the convention, pledges to re- organize the Russian Baltic and Black sea fleets and to supply at the earliest possible date 500 new air- planes, together with a supply of gpfl-rfl parts, and 150 field wireless out- ts. Instructions Provided. The Germans would train 60 Rus- sian instructors in the latest discov- eries and Inventions of chemical war- fare and send technical experts to Russia to speed up the existing mu- “OPEN DIPLOMACY” AT PARLEY URGED Chile and Peru Envoys to Be Spurred On by Mr. Hughes to End Long Dispute. A request for “open diplomacy” at the Tacha-Africa conference, begins Monday, was made to Secre- tary Hughes today by nition plants and open new fac- tories. b The red army staf! zuarantees the es- tablishment in Russia of three German plants, one for the manufacture of air- planes, one for poison gas and one for arms, ‘on condition that the Russian army can use the output when needed. German speclalists would be admitted to “the new arms factory in Afghanistan.” .Armies for\Frontler. The text printed by L’'Eclajr also says the Russians would promise to maintain not less than eighteen Infantry and eight cavalry .divisions on the western Russlan frontier. The Ted staff further would agree to increase the capaclty of the Alexandrovsk and Nikolaievsk rail- roads. Finally, the convention says, the two staffs will prepare a joint plan of opera- tions for Russia’s access to the Baltic sea, and the contracting parties bind themselves to keep the convention secret. The documént is signed, according to the newspaper, by Novitzki Stefanas, Maj.. Gen. von Seecht, Vice Admiral Behncke, Lieut. Scharf and Maj. Petter. BRITISH ADMIRAL DUE HERE MAY 2 Sir William Pakenham Com- ing on Flagship—To Re- main to June 6. Admiral Sir William Pakenham, com- which | mander-in-chfef of the British naval forces on the north Atlantic station, is James W.|about to pay a visit to Washington and Brown of New York, publisher of the | has given notice thfough the British Editor and Publisher, and Dr. Virgilio | émbassy that he expects to arrive at Beteta of Guatemala, acting as a com- mittee of the World Press Congress. They asked that representatives of the press be admitted to the meetings and that as full publicity as possible be given the negotlations.’ ‘Wide Publicity Sought. Mr. Hughes is understood to have replied that, although the conference management would be left to the Chilean and Peruvian governments, the State Department wag satisfled that as great a degree of publicity as already had been made for admission Bill of health for the institution, it |pf press representatives to the open- was said in certain quarters today, as | tlie report does disclose some.discrep- | ancies, the nature of which are not Ynown. Such mistakes might be charged, it wa¥ gaid, to errors of me- <hanical equipment.’ though no com- plete explanation on this score was uitempted. Decision to make the “inventory”! @t the bureau of engraving and print- | fng was made shortly after the ap- peintment of Director Hill, who also insisted that a_count be made hefore he would “sign up” for re- sponsibility over the great plles of millions of dollars’ worth of govern- paper. For the first time in the history of the plant all departments | handling paper were shut down for a wreek while the count was made. Em- | ves were placed on furlough, or anual leave, and the plant reopened on the Monday morning of the next week. | Atmosphere Again Calm. The situation at the bureau itself, ~chich has been supersensitive since | the dismissal of former Director Avilmeth, has_calmed down to some | extent, so that Director Hill has been | able to go ahead with the regular mctivity of the plant, although the gmminence of a few additional dis- snissals, in accordance with a Treas- ury Department order of last March, 4= still a somewhat disturbing factor. There will be no further group dis- yiissals at the bureau, Director Hill Jas announced, and the additional persons who will have to be dropped $n order to bring the personnel down to “present needs” will be let out a Zew at a time. Although 1t was mnot revealed to- «day whether there is in the com- mittee report on the bureau any #pecific mention of the former ad- ministration of the bureau under James L. Wilmeth, it was made clear Tnat the supstance of the findings arill serve greatly to back up re- peated statements of not only Treas- ey officials, but the President him- peif, that there was in the dismissal 3ot the slightest intention to reflect ;Jvon the integrity or honesty of any D érson dismissed. When the entire report from the ¥reasury committee will be .made public was not known at the Treas- ury this morning, but it has been wtated that something in detail will be announced from the report, prob- ably within a few days. NEBRASKA TORNADO HIDES TRACE OF FARMER HOME Damaged Wires Prevent Full Re- port of Twister—Building { Hurled Into River. B¢ the Associated Press. OMAHA, Neb., May 11.—With all wire communication between Omaha pnd Lexington, Neb., interrupted, de- 1ails of the tornado that struck near that village early last night and caused damage in other parts of Daw- gon county were still meager early today. Reports from several sources received last night before telephone #nd telegraph wires went down said no trace had been found of the farm home of Ben Berman, near Lexing- ton. The fate of Berman, his wife and three children could not be as- certained. ’ / Calls for doctors from points fif- teen miles from Lexington {ndicated the path of the twister, but details of thie number Injured were lacking. “Warren Miller, river bridge south of Lexington, was reported hurt while in & small build- ing that was hurled into the river, Mre, A. Neilson and baby were re- orted injured when the Neilson iome, fifteen miles north of Lexing- n, was blown twenty rods from its updation, a workman on the|. fug session Monday, which is the only meeting of the conference which is to be held under auspices of this government After the initial ses- slon, all arrangements are to be handled by the Chilean and Peruvian delegations, In co-operation with the Pan-American Union. Detailed plans for Monday’s open sesslon were made today, arrange- ments being completed to install about 350 seats for spectators in the big assembly room of the Pan-Ameri- can building, where the delegates are to meet... Nearly a third of these seats are to be reserved for the press. and the remainder will be distributed in diplomatic and official circles. Mr. Hughes Prepares Speech. Secretary Hughes already has be- | gun work on the address he will de- liver at the opening of the con-. flerence. He 1is understood to be avoiding any discussion of the merits of the Tacna-Arica con- troversy, conflning his remarks to expressing gratitude at the presence of the delegations here and voicing the hope of the President and the American people that a satisfactory solution of the long-continued dis- pute will be found. After their conference with Secre- tary Hughes, Mr. Brown and Dr. Be- teta called on Senor Mathieu, the Chilean ambassador, and Senor Pezet, the Peruvian ambassador, and are understood to have been assured by them that every opportunity would be given for publicity of the negotia- tions. It was suggested, but without final decision, that an official state- ment be issued jointly by the two delegations after their meeting each day. The World Press Congress repre- sentatives are understood, during their conversations with the Secre- tary and with the two ambassadors, to have given assurances that the newspapers of the world were anx- fous to ald In every possible way in making the conference a Success. AMERICAN CONSUL DIES. LONDON, May 11.—Announcement was made today of the death yester- day of Willlam Wefley Masterson, American consul at Plymouth, follow- ing.an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Masterson was born in Carroll- ton, Ky., In 1861. Soon after his grad- uatign from the _ Cincinnati School he was appolnted consul at Aden, Arabia, from which post he re- signed in 1886. He returned to his native town to re-enter the practice of law, and for some time also edited a newspaper. In 1908 he returned to Aden ag American consul, and in 1906 was_transferred to Batum and later to Harput. In 1914 he was again transferred to Durban, where he re- mained until November, 1920, when he was given the post at Plymouth. CHILD CRUSADERS MEET REAL FOE | the Washington navy yard on his flag- ship, Raleigh, May 29. He will stay in the capital until June 6, and will be the recipient of much hospitality, both officlal’ and personal, which will be returned in kind by r ceptions on the flagship. The admiral will be accompanied by his personal staff,. his secretary, Paymaster Com- mander Cecil A. Ward, C. M. B, and his flag lleatenun!, L. C. A. Curzon- Howe, and by Capt. Arthur Brom- ley, commanding the Raleigh. ‘The entry of the Raleigh {nmthQ lo- ? ed. w! est vessel that ever attempted the pas- sage of the channel, besides drawing full twenty feet of water. She is the latest type of naval light fast cruiser, being 600 feet long over all; displacing: 9,750 tons, carrying seven-inch guns in| her main battery and belng rated at thirty-cne knots speed. MRS. STILLMAN FACES QUESTIONING TODAY Banker’s Attorneys to Quiz Wife and Baby Guy's Nurse—Son to Testify, Also. By the Associated Press, / POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, May 11.— Mrs. Anne U. Stillman was under- stood to have been called for cross- examination today at the trial of the divorce suit brought against her by James A. St{liman, New York banker. Yesterday she denfed she had ever had improper relations with Fred Beauvals, the Indian gulde alleged by Mr. Stillman to be the father of little Guy Stillman. Ida M. Oliver, Guy’'s nurse, also was scheduled for quizzing by the banker's attorneys. Then the defense planned to have James (“Bud”) Stillman, the bankers oldest son, testify. The boy, it was sald, would contradict stories that his mother had misconducted herself with Beauvais in the Canadian woods at various times since 1916. “Bud” ac- companied Mrs. Stillman on several of her excursions to Canada. HOLD ALL IN FRAUD CASE. | - Fifth of Promoters in' Yonkers Gold Mine Surrenders. NEW YORK, May 11.—Vassily Padishuk, the fifth promoter of a mythical ten-billion-dollar gold mine in Yonkers, N Y., indicted for al- leged swindling of hlndreds of Rus- sians throughout the country who invested about $300,000 in its stock at a dollar a share, surrendered at the district attorney’s office. .Four other indicted promoters, among them Dr, Jacob Conner, who, the autHoriti say, was United States consul general at Petrograd Law | from 1907 to 1913, were arrested in Yonkers Tuesday night. Dr. Conner was_held in $10,000 bail by Judge Charles C. Nott in general sessions, and the other four in $2,600 bail. 1t was said at the district attor- ney's office that an assay of the ore exploited by the defendants showed about one-hundredth of an ounce of gold to a ton of earth, which would be about 20 cents worth of gold in a ton., The promoters advertised wide- ly, it was charged, that the mine yielded from $20 to $600 2 ton. AS MUMPS INVADE THEIR CAMP Gloom descended today over the headquarters, at 938 New York avenue, of the children who came to Washington on a crusade to obtain th% release from prison of their -fathers, whe were Jafled during the war, Mumps, that aflment of child- hood which affects nearly every boy and girl at some time, has broken out in the crusade camp. The health department learned yesterday that one of the children is In & local hospital with the dis- eage. Mrs. Katherine R. O'Hare, one ot the leaders of the juvenile expedition, called at the health ofoe today. -aud ¥ | officer sal l that in Buffalo the crusaders came els‘l‘n more of the little ones are sick. 2 Health Officer Fowler has dis- patched Bis assistant, Dr. Cum- mings, to the house to find out if those eight children also.have the m; umps. If it develops that they all have the mumps and cannot be cared for properly at the New York avenue residence, Dr. Fowler said he would arrange to Bave all of them sent to & hospital. From his Interview. with. Mrs. O'Hare, Dr. Cummings was led to believe the children contracted the mumps before they arrived in ‘Washington. The assistant health 4’ Mrs. O'Hare told him in contact with a girl who had it _othe RUSSIANS, INREPLY, FAIL TO MEET ALL TERMS OF ALLIES| Preamble Scores U. S. for Inaugurating Policy of Excluding Soviet. JAPAN AND FRANCE JOIN FORCES ON RUSS ISSUE Determined Not to» Prolong Nego- tiations—Note Suggests a New Commission. By the Associated Press. GENOA, May 11.—Runssia’s reply to the allied memorandum made public this evening declares the financial differences between the powers and Russia rgquire deeper study, and it suggests the appoint- mixed eommittee of ex- perts by the economic conference to comsider these questions, The reply rejects the mixed tribunal system proposed by /the allies for settling the elaims of forelgmers. This system, it says, in irreconcilable with the com- munistie system. The reply main- tains that the preferential rights Russia proposes to grant former proprietors will make it possible for them to participate in Russian Teconstruction without the mixed tribunals. By the Assoctated Press. GENOA, May 11.—Foreign Minister Tohitcherin of soviet Russia person- ally handed the Russian reply to the allled memorandum today to Forelgn Minister Schanzer of Italy in the lat- ter's room at the Palazzo Reale. The only other person present was Fran- cesco Giannini, the Italian financial expert. A friendly conversation of forty- five nrinutes followed, in which M. Tehitcherin stressed the fact that the answer had been prepared under direct Instructions from Moscow. M. Tchitcherin repeited assurances of his good will and his desire to co- operate with the other delegations. After the Russian forelgn minister had left Signor Schanzer read the note, which consists of fifteen pages. First Part Argumentative. . The first part of the note s argu- ~the sécond hatf wai Fted to Ve constructive, making eading with financial ques- 5, The note, it was stated, suggests Wflfl}#egt of a new special sommisalorf Uy the conference %o con- tinue the negotiations after the close of the Genoa meeting. Japan, it was stated today, has joined forces with France in her de- termination not to indulge in pro- tracted negotiations with the Rus- vians. This, it is explained, was thiefly the outgrowth of Japan's ex- perience during months of fruitless pourparlers with representatives of the far eastern republic of Siberla at Dalren, which finally collapsed be- cause, the Japanese say, of. the con- | stantly shifting nature of the con- ditions brought forward by the Chita government as bases for a general commercial treaty and possible rec- ognition. Opposes Direct Loan. It was stated on authority today that Japan has no intention of grant- ing a direct governmental loan to the soviet government. A commar- cial credit of 6,000,000 yen, given as a subsidy to a Russo-Japanesc de- velopment company, already Las been I practically exhausted, and further credits would need the authorization of the Japanese dlet. If an arrangement i{s made with Russla, Japan feels that further as- sistance for Russian reconstruction can only be accorded in co-uperation with interests in the United States, it was authoritatively declared. Japan believes the two countries should work together across Stheria, it wae stated, more particularly in the resto- ration of the railroads and in keep- ing with the spirit underlying the four-power Pacific -pact. Strongly Stigmatizes Obstinacy. Extradts from the text of the preamble to the Russian reply, which became available today, show that it strongly stigmatizes the obstinacy of certain powers in excluding Russla from international political and eco- nomic life and refusing her equality of treatment with the only object it is alleged, the satisfaction of their financial claims. “When one conslders,” says the text, “what this attitude has cost the world, the United States, which inaug- urated it, and Russia, which has suffered its tragic consequences in the past flve years, it is difficult to believe that only the interests of the Russian bondhoiders and former pre prietors of natlonalized properties are being considered. The incidents of the last few days, especially in connection with the restituion of pri- vate property, clearly show that po- litical considerations have been grafted upon a purely material ques- tio: ‘British quarters quoted Prime Min- ister Lloyd George as declaring this forenoon that he had not the least idea regarding the’trend of the essen- tial portions of the Russian docu- ment. - - . Obliged.to Alter Reply. The opinfon was expressed, in -these quarters _that Foreign ' Minister Chi- cherin, who was thought to be anxious to bridge the gulf between the soviet and the powers, had been obliged to alter the reply from instructions from Mos- cow. - The Germans apd the Austrians, are becoming incre: ly anxious to know what the Russlans have decided. The s apparently realize the jousness to Germany of a breakdown e terenco. In. its: possible. results on the business protflem. The developments of the morning strengthened the earlier impression that German reparations ¢o France might play & dominating role in the settlement of Russian questions. i 3 France Wants First Place. Tt part of the whole question,” . tesman today. * . ing wants a restol construction of Russia or Germany.’ The Russian delegation late this foremoon, was Still drafting the re- Piy, §. M. Tchitcherin and his assoel- tes *being .closeted in their apart- ments in & Genoa hotel, where they denied" admission to all callers and po . the . announcement that the reply had not yet gone to the confer- ence and:would not be ready until late this noon. . S Sk GOLDSTEIN AGTION LIEFTOG.0.P. -Cadses Hope Incident Will Be Forgotten. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Genulne relfet is felt by republican withdrawal of the to cause embarrassment to the admin- tstration and the party. Their hope now Is that the incident, being closed, will s0on be forgotten, in the tenden- cy of the American public, to Trom qetd 1¥stics to 1ive onen: It 1s not thoughy that President way impaired, as the politiclans are disposed to place responsibility upon those who made the recommendation. . Caused President Trouble. Missour! patronage, it is recalled, has caused the President trouble ever since he came into office, and the par- ty managers, it is said, will keep a watchful eye hereafter on recommen- that state. With the democrats and the old question of “What's the mat- Harding's prestige has been in any.| dations to the appointing power from | GOV. COOPER SELECTED. South Carolina Executive to Fill Farm Loan Board Post. It was announced at the White House today that President Harding would send to the Senate this after- noon the nomination of Robert A. Cooper of South Carolina to fill the sas @ o < C Withdrawal of 'Nomination |vacancy on the Federal Farm Lbven Board caused by the recent resigna- tion of A. F. Lever of North Caro- lina. Gov. Cooper was in conference with the President yesterday after- noon, in company with Senator Dial of South Carolina. Gov. Cooper will be succeeded &s leaders and party managers over the|Governor of South Carolina by Lieut. nomination of [ Gov. Harvey. Goldstein to be Internal revenue col-|crag, and in selecting him the White lector in Missouri, as its pendency|House announced that he was a “real was creating a situation recognized |dirt farmer” and highly proficient in as rapidly growing serious and likely | financial and business matters Gov. Cooper is a demo- BLOC STARTS NEW FARM GREDIT MOVE Senator Capper Presides at First Meeting Since Resig- nation of Kenyon. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The farm bloc in the United States republicans both in rows out there, |Senate, after a period of comparative qulet, has come back to life. The ter with Kansas?" may have to be |first meeting of the group since the carried over the state line and pro- resignation of Senator Kenyvon has bounded as “What's the matter with |Just been held under the chairman- Missour! anyhow > In republican managerial. circles there is discerned a stiffening of ag- gressiveness as result of recent po- litical incidents. The national com- mittee and the senatorial campaign committee are both on thelr toes and planning a campaign for this fall on the basis of the highest efficiency at- tainable. It is reallzed By republicans that they have in thelr democratic oppo- nents foemen worthy of their steel. ship of Senator Capper of Kansas. Insisting that their purposes twere non-partisan and solely to benefit the agricultural Interests of the country, twelve republicans and eleven demo- crats attended the meeting and en- deavored to reach an agreement on a bill which would reorganize the farm Conditions may be sald to |credit machinery of the nation. ! warrant 1t The group decided upon the ap- pointment of a committee of seven to examine the half dozen bills now The democratic management is alert|pending in Congress with a view to and aggressive to a degree, losing no opportunity to turn to advantage every opening which afford. Expense Pledge Expected. It is expected that the decision of Attorney General Daugherty in the |conservatives matter of campaign expenditure pub- licity, to which attention will be called anew, will be followed by a demand that candidates for the Sen- ete shall pledge themselves to make & public accounting of their expenses, even though not required by the law to do so. The Supreme Court's deci- sion as to the constitutional power the reepublicans | Promise. working out a satisfactory com- Practically every farm in- terest was represented at the meet- ing. There were representatives of the Natlonal Grange, the Farmers' Bu- reau, the Farmers' National Councll, and radicals alike. Eugene Meyer, jr., managing director of the War Finance Corporation, took a prominent part in the discussion. New Credit Plan Favored. The move is fraught with great significance. Senator Capper told this correspondent today that a com- mittee of the American Bankers' As- soclation favored the plan of a new of Congress to enact legislation nec- | credit system 'for the farmer and essarily limits the range of remedial | stockman and that President Hard- legislative action, but it is pointed out that there is no limitation upon the voluntary response to sentiment favoring not only publicity in expendi- tures, but keéeping them down to a|enable the farmer to market low aggregate as well. Thoughtful conditions _ throughout ing was favorably disposed to the idea. 3 - Briefly the aim of all the bills is to his crops without depending upon the observers of political | middleman and without permitting the . country | the speculators and other intervening bring reports to Washington that there | interests to take advantage of the is no doubt that the voters are at this | farmers’ Immediate need for credit to time watchin, 'with ever-increasing attention. Tendency to Independence. There is pronounced fluidity of party gmlr credit obligations. sentiment, it s declared, with a grow: ing tendency toward independency of party ties and exaggeration of the per- sonal equation. This is, in part, ac- politics and Congress |pay his ninety-day obligations. The desire of the farm bloc is.to estab- lish in America a credit system, with six months or more as the length of ‘The War inance Corporation has been per- forming in the last two years many of the functions which it would be expected that the new farm credit system would embrace. Mr. Meyer in -his report. to the President Tre- counted for by the lack of sharply de-|cently recommended the discontinu- fined issues as between the two parties.|ance of the “War Finance Corpora- It is also, in greater degree, at- tributed to the presence of women in the electorate, to whom is ascribed a tendency to go to the morals of politi- cal questions and issues with woman’s instinct and intuition. The hard-boiled politicians expect to see the. women turn out in next fail's Senate and House elections, as well in the state campalgns, in numbers possibly exceed- ing their participation in any previous election. 5 And the hard-boiled old boys admit they do not know ezactly how to lo- cate them either. It's a sad world, all topsy-turvy, in politics, they declare. PLANT 40,000,000 TREES.| CINCINNATI, May 11.—W. B. Gree- ley, chief forester at Washington, told lumbermen ,ntenmnf. th meeting of the Appalachian logging congress last night that approxi- mately 40,000,000 trees were ' being planted annuaily in the United States under the reforestation program of the government. “The timber is farther from the and- (ni?t‘rlt! are inor 5 said. “T! [ " eno soft. to last ‘foi to ;n} s Tww‘ hard ‘8 years ane “to last twenty tion, upon the substitution of a plan (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) DISTRICT DAYLIGHT BILL CONSIDERED House Subcommittee to Draft Measure Unifying Changes in Clocks. The House District committee today instructed a subcommittee of three members, consisting of Representatives Millspaugh of Missouri, Sproul of Illi- nois and O'Brien of New Jersey, to draft a joint resolution which would legalize daylight saving in the District in con- formity with President Harding's rec- ommendation. The desirability of day- light saving also will be considered. | This action was taken after Henry {H. McKee, president of the National Capital Bank and of the District of Columbia Clearing House Association, had explained the confusion which will result here with the government de- partments_and some business houses observing daylight saving without any change of the clock. Conferences between bankers and business men have shown that many bankers belleve that the hankers and brokers could not legally observe day- |light saving as recommended by the | President without legislative action 'authorizing the changing of the hands of the clock. Would Try Change. Several members of the committee declared emphatically their opposition to daylight sn\'h:lg, but their willing- ness that this legislation should be tried out in conformity with the Presi- dent’s recommendation, especially as a reHef to the bankers, Representative Wheeler of 1llinois, declared that the committee should censure the District Commissioners for authorizing daylight saving with- out authority through the District committee. The Washington city post office will “stand pat,” continuing its pres- ent schedules, according to decision reached today by Postmaster M. O. Chance and his supervisory officials. Owing to the early hours carriers now have to report, and to Intricate schedules involving many facturs of mail collections, delivery and hand- ling, it was decided to mak no chauge wha'tever for the present. Buildings Open Late. Many of the branch stations are lc- cated in bulldings not under’govern- ment control, and which wil not spen an hour earlier each day. Carrlers already report at 6 a.m. each morning, with the exception of Mondays and days, after holidays, when .they re- port at 5:30 am. Unless railroads completely change their schedules, it would be impos- sible for carriers leaving the post office an hour earller to dellver the important New York mall on the first delivery. This mail is believed to be the very matter of business men and others want. After thorough and careful con- sideration, it was unanimousiv agrecd to let post office hours and schedules remain as they are. If tnere is any public demand for a changes after- ward, another conference will be called, Postmaster Chance said. |U.S. WORKERS TO RUN | SOVIET TEXTILE PLANTS CHICAGO, May 11.—Operation of all soviet clothing and textile fac- tories in Russia will be turned over to an American workers’ society, to be known as the American-Russian Trade Industrial Workers' Assocla- tion, with a capitalization of not less than a million dollars, it was an- nounced today at the biennial con- vention of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America. 70,000.METER ZEPPELIN FOR U. S., COUNCIL’S AWARD FROM GERMANY By the Associated Press. VERSAILLES, May 11.—Germany ~will manutacture a Zeppelin of 70,- 000 meters’ capacity ‘o replace the one allotted to the United States by the Versalllés ‘reaty, but de- stroyed in Germany,” under the award of the smbassadors’ council, which allows America 3,000,000 spring | gold marks in reparation. 'The am- bassadors’ award 'was authorized by the 'interallfed war . council, which still has its seat here, con- trolling all military questions re- lating to former enemy states, and . tting farther and| operating under the chalrmanship ‘.lnuu of peopl of Mar Foch. cil at first thought a ship of 30,000 cubic meters capacity should be sufficient, as that was the size fixed by the council for commer- clal Zeppelins. The cost of such a_craft would have been 760,000 ‘# marks. e Navy Department at Wash- ington found this suggestion in- adequate, and the war council in- creased the size to 70,000 meters, which will cost $750,000, making [ allowance for exchange. The r- man government will, it is Dde- lieved, be able to deliver the air- ship within nine months. ©One ‘of the conditions is that a German crew shall take the Zep- pelin to the United Sta though several American cers will probably accompany the crew Fho Gormmens Wi b mefM.d‘ o o e e ;30 mcorporate thel: latest features in the new shin. 40 UNION CHIEFS JALED IN CHICAGD WAR ON GUNMEN Full-Page Ads in Papers Urge Citizens to Rid City of Menace. DEATH OF 2 POLICEMEN LAID TO LABOR BOSSES Murphy, Shea and Mader Deny Connection With Murders; Two Buildings Bombed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 11.—Declaring by the police that “Chicago is in a state of warfare,” Judge Kinkham Seanlon todny re- fimed to imsue writs of habeas corpus releasing Cornelius Shea and John Lafferty, labor leaders, arrested in commection with the killing of two policemen yesteréay morning during a series of labor bombings. He told the police these two men could ba held at least until’ Satarday. CHICAGO, May 11.—The detective bureau and city jails were crowded today with 400 labor leaders and others held in connection with the~ murders of two policemen here early vésterday and the bombing of two buildings, which police attributed to labor disorders. Two men have been pointed out as resembling men in the automobile from which shots which killed Terance Lyons, acting lleuten- ant, were fired. Rewards totaling $20,000 have been offered for the ar- rest of the slayers. All law enforcement organizations in the city are united in what police term “a fighting to the finish with organized labor.” More than 100 labor leaders, including “Big"” Tim Murphy, Cornelius Shea and Fred Mader, pres ident of the Building Trades Council. are among those under arrest. Raids on labor headquarters brought in labor bosses by the score yesterday. The two partly identified as tb slayers are, police say, Isadore Braverman, twenty-eight, and Max Glass, thirty-three. Famlly Advances Alibi. Braverman is said to have fired the shots from an automoblle when Lieut. Lyons was killed and he was pointed out by James A. McClellan and Fred- erick Blank, patrolmen, who were iu the car with Lyons when he was shot to death, and when Albert Mocller, patrolman, was seriously Injured. The identification is not positive, a; Braverman's family has advanced an alibi for him. Glass, who is a member of ths glaziers' union, was arrested In 2 raid on union headquarters and point- ed out by a man who said he was an eve-witness, as the slayer of Thomad Clarke, thirty, patrolman, who was or guard at a building which previously had been attacked. James Lafferty, a third suspect, who has been at liberty under heavy bond in connection with & mail robbery, was partly identified by Policeman Blank as the third man who rode in the death car. Charles C. Fitzmorrfs. chlef of police, said hie believes the men wer: only hirelings of the “higher-up” forces in organized labor circles putting into action a conspiracy to overthrow the citizens' committee and the Landis wage award, a decision handed down by K. M. Landis, former federal judge, then acting as arbiter which was intended to_settle labor disputes between members of the Building Trades Council and the labor unions. The citizens’ committee was formed to aid in enforcing this de- cision. Chief Accepts Challenge. “The slaughter of two policemen is the finevitable result of the tactics employed by Fred Mader, Tim Murphy. Cornellus Shea and other hoodlums and ex-convicts who have gone about posing as labor leaders”” Chief Fitz- morris said. “Now that they want war the police department will give it to' them. I have instructed officers to round up all of these hoodlums and place them under lock and key. “I think this is all a mistake,” Fred Mader, president of the Bulldin: Trades Council, said. “I've been try- ing to play clean. We regret the death of the policémen as much as the officers, and when the results of the investigation are sifted I belfeve they will find that other than labor men were to blame for the crime.” “It's just another bungrap like the rest they have handed me,” Tim Mur- phy said. “I'm no copper killer. I mever slugged a copper in my life. ‘The only thing I ever had to do with them was to buy one a drink. Fitzmorris has insulted me. I don’t know anything about this at all. He's just taking fits dislike for me out on my friends. and I suppose it's the sweatbox for us for a while.” Habeas Writs Forestalled. Murphy s being held ‘tncommuni- cado at an outlying station. Eftorts to obtain the release of Shea, Murphy and Mader on writs of habeas corpus were forestalled when Judge Kickham Scanlon and Judge Joseph Davis postponed decisfon un til today. The slayers’ automobile was found riddled with bullets, and pools of blood led police to belfeve that one gunman had been wounded. ‘Women were not immune from the police dragnet, and Evaline Flood, sald to be secretary to Murphy. is being held for questioning, with l'eisnl‘othar women connected with labor organizations. Citisens’ Committee Active. The citizens’ committee to en- force. the Landis building trades wages awards today carried full page advertisements in every Chicago pa- per calling on -Chicagoans to unite and rid the city of “gunmen labor leaders” The advertisements said that the committes had been warned F. Mader, 'head of the building by trads jons, that a campaign of Vielence would result if the Landis awards were enforced. 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