Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Mostly cloudy tonight and tomor- row; probably showers; little change in_temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today—Highest, 88, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 60, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing Stocks and Bonds, Pages 30-31 Entered as second-class matter post office Wrshington, D. C. No. 28,502, ch WASHINGTON, D.” C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1922—FORTY-TWO PAGES. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news @ispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local mews published hersin. All rights of publication of specisl i ispatches berein are also reserved. | ol Yesterday's Net Circulation, 90,941 * TWO CENTS. COLAPSE OFGENDN e NEARNGASFRENGH 225 SURNRUSSRERLY Up of Thirty-Five Brick Plants in New York. ( ! Member of Delegation Says Parley Will Adjourn With- out an Agreement. By the Assoclated Press, HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., May 12— Twenty state troopers were ordered | into Haverstraw today to guard the town against threatened outbreaks of | 1,000 negroes who are on strike in, the, thirty-five brick plants here. It| is expected more troopers will arrive from Albany and Troy this afternoon. The first of the troopers, all mount- ed, arrived during the forenoon and patrolled the streets, keeping the striking negroes moving. In the business section of the town a dead- line for all except those on business | was drawn and special guards were | placed at the brickyards. FATE OF CONFERENCE RESTS WITH POINCARE Facing Failure, Lloyd George, Pressing Barthou to Leaye Door Open for Discussion. By the Associated Press. GENOA, May 12.—Forelgn Min- ister Schanzer of Italy, addressing the entire body of mewnpaper rep- resentatives in_attendance upon the economic conference later this afternoon, expressed the opinion that the Russian reply would not prevent the continuation of the «onference. | Ry the Assoclated Press. GENOA, May 12.—France will never agree to the project for a mixed com- mission sitting indefinitely, while the conference is going on, to study Rus- | sian affairs, according to a statement | ued by the French delegation this noon. A leading member of the delegation | predicted that chnference would soon «djourn after, perhaps, suggesting the appointment of an International com- 1mittee to examine the Russian question ~with the Russians having a place on the committee, which might report to some Juter conference. The French spokesman dxpressed the | libpe that the United States would be | represented on such a committee as sug- | gested. i Fate Rests With Parls. i The fate of the conference may be | séttled today in Paris, in the opinion of | inany of the delegates, and the decision | of Premier Poincare on the Russian re- ply to the allled memorandum was | awaited here with anxiety. | Prime Minister Lloyd George of/ Great Britain and Signor Schanzer, | Ttallan foreign minister, have used/ ull their influence with the chief of | 1he French delegation, M. Barthou, to impress upon him that the Russian wnote, although not as favorable as was hoped, still leaves the door open | for discussion and perhaps for general | agreement. They ur, 'PARGEL POST RATE | Office Department were outlined to | along, the line have changed, it is INCREASE PLANNED Postmaster General Tells In- | terstate Body Means of Cutting Deficit. Steps leading up to parcel post rate changes to curtail the $100,000,000 deficit sustained, annually by the Post | the Interstate Commerce Commission | today by Postmaster General Hubert Work. ! While no definite decision has been made, pending investigation of par- | cel post rates, it is likely that ulti-| mately rites of fourth-class mall! matter may be increased perhaps 1] cent a package, adding $20,000,000 & year to postal revenues. ] Postmaster General Work told the | commission that the jofficial weigh-in of 1917 showed that fourth-class mat- ter was 4.79 per cent of the total - AMERICAN SCHOOL Geographic Society Selects parcel post has so greatly added to | Village as Site for A. E. F. fourth-class matter that it “is ap-!| proximately §0 per cent of the welght | Memorial. of the entire mails.” The Natlonal Geographic Society Other Rates Changed. t Rates per unit of service for rail- | Will erect at Cantigny, France, & road transportation and salaries all | SChoolhouse as a memorial to the | American soldlers who wrote that General | tiny village into the history of their country as the scene where A. E. F. | troops first fought as a unit. CANTIGNY TOGET pointed out. Postmaster Work continued: A5 the revenues received from par- b ] cel post matter are produced by rates| This action, taken by the society’s fixed by the act of 1912, then esti- board of trustees at its meeting on materd to be little more than suf- Wednesday, was announced today by ficlent to cover the cost of performing | Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the the service, It is obvious that the rev- | National Geographlc Soclety. The enues now received on such matter selection of the town as a fitting must be far below the actual and ap- | place for such a memorfal was de- portioned cost for that service under ' termined by the recommendation of conditions now existing.” Gen. Pershing. the METEOR SHAKES HOUSES By the Associated Press. | teor which created great excitemen: through southside Virginia night struck the earth twelve mile: northwest of Blackstone, in Notto way county,-120 miles west of Nor- folk. | The bolide, tvhich oak tre some distance from any house. Several trees were buried and it left a hole with an area of something like 600 square feet. There was a when the object, which apparently weighed as much as twenty tons, the earth. The quiet countrysi i ed, and in Blackstone itself was little disturbance. { was plainly visible for miles around. | Several trees were set on fire, bu outside of NORFOLK, Va., May 12.—The me- | Norfolk and_at Lawrenceville, [ mi t | appeared to be|? , hit |diameter of the full moon—much like - de in | tho old-fashioned street arc light. Nottoway was not seriously disturb-!carried a tail of orange brilllancy there | with a sharp blue flame fading out ! When the meteor struck the earth apparently. was about ten or t a sheet of flames was sent up which | dlameters of the bod: and about as broad as the| INFALLINSOUTH VIRGINIA | The bolide was plainly visidble fro;r.; 1 iles west of the city on the South- ern railway, windows were rattled last |and houses shaken. Hundreds of per-!garding giving the rent bill privi-| sons hurried from their beds in the littie county scat town of Brunswick county, and negroes were badly frightened. At Petersburg the shock was fully a; Blackstone, forty miles away and to composed of metal, fell in a grove of | 1y, eastward, it was felt scarcely at all. The general impression that the bolide struck northwest of Lawrence- ville, but perhaps fifty miles away. Those in Norfolk who saw the terrific dentonation | meteor say It can best be described as appearing to be nearly half the It the extreme end. The tail in length ve vely of-the heavenly igitor, body itself. It fell diagonally from there was l&ue damage to the grove | zenith—at an agle of about 45 de- grees, and made its downward course s distinct as at Lawrencevilie, but at | o T Estimate to Be Made. | The Post Office Department is pro-| ceding in conjunction with the joint | commission on postal savings, to se- | L3 this opinion in his di premier. Foreign Minister Benes of Csecho- slovakia, speaking _in the name! of the little entente, expressed the opinion today that the conference “would be useless to name such a _ « fortnight more. snust be adjourned within & few days, accepting the French proposal to ap- point an international committee of experts, on which Russia would not e represented, to consider financial problems. This must be done, he said, in such a way as to avoid resentment, in order not to embitter the European situation. Britain Proposes Truce. Great Britain has proposed a truce in eastern Europe, on the basis of the de facto frontiers, pending the con- clusions of a commission of inquiry! 10 be appointed, it was announced this afternoon. A spokesman for the Italian dele- zation said Italy was favorable to ihe appointment of a mixed commis- sion of experts, but considered it 1 commission unless the Russians were represented on_ it. Meanwhile, ac- cording to the Italian viewpoint, the conference should continue its dis- cussion on clause II of the allied inemorandum (regarding the Russian claims for damage) and also on the ! \won-aggression pact. *"The _British announced that they agreed with the Italians in favor of ihe appointment of a.mixed commis- sion by the conference to study Rus- | n credits, debts and the treatment foreign private property in Rus- s as suggested by the Russian re- Iy, but would not consent to such an arrangement unless a general non- aggression truce was agreed to & tween Russia and the other European countries to insure that the work of the commission wopuld not be hin- dered by the danggk of further ag- gression. Sees Two More Weel Sir Edward Grigg of the British delegation said it was impossible to predict whether the commission would meet at Genoa or elsewhere, but he | expressed the opinion that the con- ferénce here would continue at least = A statement of the British view on the Russian reply to the aliled smemorandum, this afternoon, terms the document “very stupid from the viewpolnt of Russian Interests,” but says Great Britain is “not prepared to adopt the view that Europe is to Dhe denied peace or the Russian people further considered in their misery simply becanse of a stupid argument. | “As far as Russia is concerned, continues the statemens;, “help will undoubtedly be delayed and rendered more difficult, but that is an affair of the Russian government. We are quite | prepared to go into the suggestion that the questions of credits, debts and private property be referred to 2 mixed commission which will study them in detail and eventually report, although this means that Russia will have to wait some time longer for credits. = Basis for Negotiations. “Regarding the other aspect of the Russian document, namely, the peace of Europe, this affords a satisfactory basis of further negotiations. To break on this document would mean that the states bordering on Russia might be exposed to the dangers of war, and peace be fundamentally dis- turbed.” & it is believed that, if left to them- seives, the majority of the powers wiil faver continuance of the dis- cussion, but if France withdraws fromn the conference certain of the | other powers will follow her. The number of such nations might be enough to make impossible hope of agreement with the soviet, even if cure the necessary data ahd to make | During the war members of National Geographic Soclety con- tributed $20,000 to be expended tmi the establishment and equipment o | wards at American Military Hospital,| No. 1, at Neuilly, France. When thé armistice was signed only $10,000 of this fund had been expended. e immediate vicinity of | the hole left. : in a comparatively leisurely fashion. Scientific ‘éxperts from Richmond |The speed of the meteor was about will visit the scene this afternoon to | that, it seemed, of a Roman candie make an analysis of the material of |ball, and much the same in appear- which thie meteor was made. 'ance. an estimate, based on existing condl-) Of this fund had been expended .4 : o y con: tions, as to the revenue derived from | cararully the most Atting and use- thre several classes of mail matter, ful expenditure of the remaining the cost of carrylng and handling | $10000 of the fund, and after con- | sultation with Gen. Pershing, it was them and the galn or loss per pound.| getormined to build a memorial respectively. .| schoolhouse for the children of the “When these results are known it devastated town of Cantigny. will be the duty of the Postmaster! Down Six Counter Attacks. General to present them to the In-; At Cantigny the 1st American Di- terstate Commerce Commission, so | vision first went over the top and be- far as parcel post matter is con- gan to share in Foch's sturdy resist- cerned, with appropriate recommend- | ance whiclr held the Germans back, ations for changes in rates of post- | then defeated them, and won the war. age thereon, as contemplated by the It will be recalled that the German act of 1912 and the amendatory act” general staff had ordered that the Postmaster General Work concluded. | heart be taken out of the Americans at any cost when they first showed jup as a unit along the fighting front. ——— | Therefore, when orders came for the Americans to iron out the salient at Cantigny what might have been a Deputies Capture Band on skirmish turned into a terrific strug- gle, during which the Germans rallied Way to Attack An- other. - thousands of men and threw 19,000 shells into the town. Even after the Americans took the town they had to | hold it agalnst six counter-attacks by the exasperated Germans. PITTSBURGH, May 12—The Peter- English Version of Feat. man mine in Penn township, near| The London Times' “History of the here, was blown up early today by a| War” has this to say of the Ameri- heavy &harge of dynamite which |C313 at Cantlgny: “The 1st Division, fresh from the threw stones ®o far that a farm-|Toul training sector, had rylieved the house almost a quarter of a mile|45th French African Division from away was damaged. Sheriff Robert,North of Mesnil St. Georges to just W, IWoodside, with a big fores of | NOTth of Cantigny in that sector, fac- of the engagement at Cantigny, called | it “a brilliant action” and said that “it demonstrated our fighting quali- ties under extreme battle conditions.” The French communique gave high | praise to American courage, valor and | soldierly qualities. The German war - | ofice merely referred to the Amer- | icans as “the enemy." Gen. Pershing, in his official report eputies, left Plttsburgh shortly after | ing Montdidier and south of Amiens, 9 am. for the mine, where, it was reported, a body of coal strike sym- pathizers had collected. Ten minutes after the deputies left Pittsburgh Peterman saidsover the telephone from his home in Oakmont, Pa., that the men who had attacked | his place, were hastening in automo- | biles to the mino of Joseph Schenck, | half a mile away. One of the auto- moblies contalned dynamite, Peter- man said, and members of the crowd said they were going to “ge | Schenck mine.” “These men sre mug| about something,” added Mr. Peter- | man, “and 1 am afraid there will be more trouble. They parked their cars in front of my house and I| heard them talking about what they were going to do." eterman said that the me gone to his mine shortly before a'i?,‘?‘ break, and planting a heavy charge | of dynamite in the mouth of the drift completely “destroyed it. They then disappeared, only to gather again, he sald. No one was hurt by the ex- plosion. Sheriff Woodside refused all infor- mation_concerning the explosion, The Peterman mine ordinarily ‘em- | ployes twenty-five miners, but has| been closed since the strike was called. Deputy sheriffs were hurried to the scene and made arrests near the Schenck property, some of the prison- ers being brought to Pitisburgh in their own automobiles. It 'is the first disorder in Allegheny county, which, the ¢ authorities said, was traceable to the coal strike. —_— BIG DROP IN CLOTHING. CHICAGO, May 12.—Retall clothing prices h: dropped 42 per cent since Str. Lloyd George is willing' to eon. | July, 1930, and a further decline is ex- 'ty‘l’:‘:eln‘t.i:r °g;‘§€,",f§‘°’ wl’(hq‘;u( an‘;& pected, according to the national in- ency {s improbab] however, considering the storm of :,n:;:l:l .I::!:;.:: .th:a:lr:hl'::fid:: where the undulating country, broken here and there with sparse woods, af- forded the opportunity for a fierce de- fense after the open Vastness of the Somme valley. They had, after the Amients drive, settled down into the game of exchanging shells acrogs the green and stood up to a daily bombard- ment of every kind of cannon. At last, the chance, welcome after much sitting in_trenches. Cantigny, small but proud, on its green eminhence, overlooking with a mouth of fire the whole countryside, was to be taken. Never did men rise so eagerly out of trenches to go forward than those Americans. Through gas, through a cloud of machine-gun bullets, follow- ing close behind their barrage, they steadlly ascended the slope§s of the village and sheltered themselves in the ccmetgry when the village was theirs. Cantigny was a small, isolat- ed action, with little immediate sig- nificance. But the village was the first ever captured by American troops in Europe, and the lesson' that the Germans learned was the first they had received from the youth of America.” Cantigny sets on a bill near Mont- didler, and is twetty miles southeast of Amiens. Even before the Ameri- cans took it the village had been dev- astated during a heroic French resist- ance. Daylight Saving The Evening Star will be is- sued. each week day, commencing Monday, May 15, to conform as nearly as practicable to the day- light-saving plan. S Advertisements under the. classifications of Wanted Help, Wanted Situations and Wanted Rooms ‘can be received until 9:30 am,_for that day’s issue; Lost and Found and Death Notices up LS. TRODPSRUSHED TOCHNA WARPT i Hundred Sent to Tongshan as Battle Looms Between * Wu and Chang. By the Associated Press, PEKING, May 12.—One hundred American soldiers have been dispatch- ed to Tongshan, a few miles northeast of Tientsin, to maintain communica- tlon and protect foreigners in the vicinity of the Kaiping coal mines. A train flying allied flags left Tien- tsin for Chinwangtao, on the coast of the Guly of Chi-li, but was unable to proceed on account of the congestion of Chinese forces. | The troops of Gen. Wu Pei-fu who defeated tne Manchurian forces of Gen. Chang Tso-lin last week are now intrenched at Tongshan. Gen. Chang Las his headquarters at Lwan- chow, between Tongshan and Chin- wangtao, Wwith 45,000 Manchurian troops. The opinion of military attaches here is divided as to whether the Manchurian Jeader Intends additional aggression against his victorious ad- versary or whether he is merely striv- ing to carry out an orderly retreat for the moral effect that might be produced when his troops arrive at Mukden. i YOKIO, May 12.—The former Chi- nese prémier, Liang Shih-Yi, recently reported to have arrived in Japan, is understood to be planning to join Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, who is with his forces north of Tientsin. Dispatches from China say Chang s maneuvering for a decisive action against Wu Pel-fu's forces along the Luan river. GANDHI’S SON ARRESTED - WITH TWO ASSOCIATES President of All-India Congress Committee and Another Radical Put in Prison. By the Associated Press, - BOMBAY, May 12.—Dewadas Gandhi, son of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the non- co-operationist leader now serving a prison sentence, has been arrested at Allahabad, it was learned here today. Pundit Ramadhan}, president of the All-India_ congress ocommittee, -and Hardoi Chotelal Lashiram, secretary of the indore congress committee, also were arrested. WRECKS SCHOOL BOARD. Row Over Principal’s High Skirts Results in Resignations. SANTA ROSA, Calif, May 12.—A con- troversy over whether Mrs. E. Thorn- berry Close, principal of the.Rincon Valley School, should resign because she powders her nvse and wears her skirts eight inches from the floor has resulted in the resignation of two of the three members of the - ONWEEK-END TRIP PRESIDENT S OFF i‘Hardings to Be Guests of Senator Edge at Sea View Golf Club. WILMINGTON, Del, May 12— President Harding reached Wil- mington this naftermoon in time to take the 3 oclock boat across the Delaware river for Pennsgrove, J. The appearance of a circus d practically denuded the gtreets of people and there were few to observe the President’s progress through the city. . President and Mrs. Harding and a party of friends left here early to- day for New Jersey to be the week end guests of Senator Edge of that state at the Sea View Golf Club, a few miles from Atlantic City. The trip was made by automobiles, and the destination was expected to be reached this afternoon in time for the President to go on the links for a round of golf Mr. Harding plans to get as much exercise as possible and, as the trip is for recreation, he will accept no other invitations, it was said. . In the party were Speaker and Mrs. Gillett, Senator and Mrs. Freyling- huysen of New Jersey, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. McLean of Washington, Senator Phipps of Colorado, Brig. Gen. Dawes, Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the President’ personal physician; Secretary Chris- tian and R. A. Zachary, secretary to Senator Edge. Newspaper men and secret service operatives accompa- nied the President. Secretary and Mrs. Weeks, who will also be members of the party, made the trip by train, while Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty. who is in New York, is expected to join the guests to- night. The return to Washingten probably will be made Sunday afternoon SUBSTITUTE BONUS BILL INTRODUCED IN SENATE A substitute soldiers’ bonus bill, un- der which veterans would receive 50 per cent cash payments, was introduced today by Senator Bursum, republican, New Mexico, and referred to the Senate flnance témmittee. = The ince due the veterans would be covered by cer- tificates of indebtedness payable Sep- tember 30, 1927, and drawing interest at the rate of 3% per cent from next October 1. Aside from the and certificats option, veterans woul be permitted to select vocational training, farm or home aid, or land purchase aid. Under the land purchase plafi veterans could make homestead. entries upon any pub- lic lands, paying $1.25 per acre by means of the certificates of_ indebted- ness. If the land cost less than the face value of the certificate the differ- ence would be paid in cash. Veterans entitled to only $50 would be paid in full. Payment would be at :ho Tate 01!’!51 1. d-’.y for domestio e and or forelgn service, the mx’mnm-. tively, in the 3 e House The bill would provide that the RENT COMMISSION DOOM 1S SEEN IN. HOUSE BLOCKADE No Opportunity of Action Likely Before May 22, When Law Expires. | LAPSE WQULD TEST HOUSING SITUATION Representative Millspaugh Says Evictions Would Result in Tighter Curb. The District Rent Commission in all probability will die May Although the House District com- mittee, after extended hearings, has reported a redrafted bill which would extend the life of the commission for two years, which bill contains a retro- actlve feature designed to covér any lapse between the death of the pres- enterent law and the date when the !new law would go_into effect, legis- Ilative leaders in the House have ruled | that there will be no opportunity to get this bill up for consideration be- fore May 22, when the present law | expires. | Had Representative Reed of West | virginia made a report yestefday on the new rent bill, there would have | been time to have gotten it on the| unanimous consent _calendar, With! prospect that recognition might have been secured on Monday next. The, rules of the House require that any bill must be on the unanimous con- sent calendar three days, not includ- ing Sunday, before it can be called up. House leaders have frankly told the | members of a special subcommittes {appointed to confer with them re-| { ileged status on the House program | that there will be no opportunity for! its consideration before the next Dis- | trict day, May 22, the date on which jlhu present law-expires. Time All Taken Up. | Chairman Campbell of the rules; | committee told this special subcom- | | mittee that rules have been author- {ized which will take up all of the time of the House for the next twou) weeks. . House Leader Mondell told the sub- committee that he would not object | to recognition for passage of the bill | under suspension of the rules, but | Speaker Gillett has said positively | that he will not give recognition to | jcall up this legislation. Although | Speaker Gillett is out of the city for |a few days and may still be absent {on Monday, there remains no chance of getting recognition, becausa Act- ing Speaker Walsh has stated that he will not recognize any one who has not already secured permlission from the Speaker. The attitude -of House Leader Mon- dell and other prominent members of the House is that by-allowing the pres- ent rent commission to die, with a re- sultant lapse-before a new rent law | goes into effect, an -opportunity will be |afforded to ses how the District rent board will deal with the situation. If | a favorable situation Is shown—that s, {if there is not any noticeable raising of | “re'nu or eviction of tenants, the House | |leaders might be willing to let well | |enough alone and consider the rent| emergency passed. Might Be More Drastiz. If, however, the real estate men and landlords take advantage of the lapse | between the expiration of the present law and enactment of any new law | which may be passed, they will find | those Who opposed the rent legislation jat this time throwing their support in i favor of an even more drastic law. This was assured today by Representative i Millspaugh of Missouri, who led the op- | position to the bill under consideration for extending the life of the rent com- i mission. Mr. Millspaugh said: “In the event the Ball rent act ex- pires before the passage of the pend- ing bill to extend it, or in the event of the failure of its passage, I desire! { to impress upon the realtors and land- | lords the importance of exerclsing | good judgment in the conduct of; their business. I urge that they must| refrain from arbitrary ircreases in rentals and unwarranted evictions. “The public will watch with interest | their actions, and if advantage is| taken of the situation, it will cause the speedy re-enactment of the act and its rigid enforcement. “The war closed almost four years {ago, and all special legislation caused b; he war should be repealed as, speedily as conditions will warrant,{ 80 that business may resume its| normal conditions. ' “I am of the opinion that realtors | and landlords are entitled to a test; of the effect the absence of the Ball ! rent act will have, and am firm in the belief that with a proper appre- | ciation of the conditions by realtors| and landlords the situation will} rapidly adjust itself to the satisfac- tion of all interests concerned. “My opposition to the re-enactment of the act is prompted solely in the interests of all parties. It is my be- lief that the Ball rent act works a hardship upon the tenant and that as soon as normal conditions are re- storéd the tenant will receive the, rellet to which he is clearly en- titled.” After examining the amendments to the rent extension act proposed by the House District committee, Senator Ball, chairman of the Sen- ate District committee, said yester- day that the bill appeared to be a good one. He indicated that the Sen- ! ate probably would concur in the! proposed amendments unless the bill | should be further and materially| changed in the House. Senator Ball said that he thought in some respects the House commit- tee had improved on the Senate bill. He said that he believes the Senate should concur in the amendment, and | that the Senate would do so. i jassistant secretary or the acting sec- WANT NEW ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR| House Members See Need of $5,000 Man Because of Im- migration Law. HOPE FOR HEARING A new assistant secretary of labor, | at a salary of $5,000, is favored in a | report ordered today by the House| labor committee. This legislation l!; FOR DISTRICT UPON it TAKPLANREVIVED ative Zfhlman points out that e ‘ Senate c'rcles Thlnk CItIZenS p ¢ immi | ey i i sasimon ai s voat | M2y Have Chance to Air Views. of entry may appeal to the Secretary | of Labor, through the commissioner ! general of immigration, and it is pro=| vided that the Secretary of Labor, the retary must personall; cide each case. | The number of warrants of arrests | and decisions of appeals on warrant | cases, decisions of appeals from the ports of entry and from Chinese ex- | clusion cases and other items arising | PHIPPS MAKES REPLY TO FLOOD OF INQUIRIES y review and de- | from the bureau of immigration and coming to the office of the Secretary for signature approximate 300 each day, which manifestly requires the ex- el ve time of at least one of the offieials, Representative Zihlman says. The report says there should bhe an assistant secretary to do this work, as the authority cannot be delegated to clerks. - It isedesired by the department that this proposed new assistant sec- retary be delegated to this work. The Zihlman report emphasizes that the bureau of immigration is but one of a number of functions of the Depart- ment of Labor. If the department is to exercise its other functions, an additional secretary must be fur- nished. DAYLIGHT-SAVING THREATENS TIE-UP, Confusion Seen for Monday, Chiefly in Movement of Street Cars. Complications are beginning to :(hov.' up in the daylight saving plans in the District of Columbia as the time nears for putting the early-to- work and early-to-quit hours into ef- fect. First, and of leading Importance, is the problem faced by the street rail- way companies due to the fact, an- nounced today, that the government printing office and bureau of engrav ing and printing will not change their hours, and the fact that the War De- partment, by the daylight-saving or- der of Secretary Weeks, abolishes the “staggered hours” plan which has been in effect for o long time. It is possible now for the railway Insists New Proposal Has Not Been { Understood and Will Not In- | crease Taxes. | Hearlugs on the new tax plan fou the District of Columbia worked oui by the conferees on the District ap- propriation bill today loomed up &< a probability. In certain influential Senate circles the report was spread that the citizens of the District un- doubtedly would be given a hearlng before the Senate was called upon to act on the tax plan. | Senator Phipps of Colorado, charge of the District bill, has accom | panied the President on his week end trip to New Jersey. Nothing is likei: {to be done with the District bill in his absence, it was said today. Phipps Explains Attitude. Before leaving here, Senator Phipp sent a letter explaining his attitude upon the District tax rider and taxa- | tion 1n the District in general to al | the organizations and individuals who have written to him or to the Senat: | protesting against the tax rider, and lasking for hearings on the matter | He insists that the new plan has not { been eufliclently well understdod; it will not result in increasing ta: |tion, and that conferees had "before { them all the facts with regard to the fiscal relations of the District and the federal government and that he: |ings were not considered necessar: | “An effort probably will be made to {have ineluded in the tax rider ou the District bill when it comes be- {fore the Senate the proposed chang: {in the law relating to the payment o taxes on real property, so that onc | haif of the tax shall become due No vember 1, and one-half May 1. Als tan effort may be made to place upo: the rider the conmcurrent resolut adopted recently by the Sens |viding for a joint congres | vestigation of the existing {revenues of the District. { 1 in surplu | Purpose Cash Basis of Payment. | The purpose of the change in w companies to move the large forces date of payment of taxes is to put from thé two big print shops of the | the District on a cash-paying basix government early in the morning and | 8nd the same purpose is contained get the cars back to their starting |in the concurrent resolution regard- points before the large volume be- |jng the surplus. If these amend &ins to move. Beginning Monday, it T e Thecessars Tor She raiiway | ments are adopted, it s pointed out company to move them all about the | the provision in the rider which callx jtee appojnted to look into the mat- {tions closely Monday ‘morning and same time. i There came from Congress today the definite information that there | will not be a daylight-saving law, | despite the plea of the banks. It was pointed out that the banks can change their hours by action of the board of directors, The subcommit- ter has 'been formally The bankers, however, requested | legislation to remove all doubt of the legality of changing hours. | The recorder of deeds cannot| change his hours, except by specific authorization by law, he announced today. He cannot legally receive papers before 9 o'clock in the morning, and he must keep open until 4 o'clock | each day. Therefore, if the office opened early it could not close an| hour earlier at the other end of the | day. | discharged. Jammed Cars Feared. | Officials of the Washington Railway and Electric Company pointed out to- | day that with the printers, engravers and clerks all going to work at ap- proximately the same time the street | cars will become jammed, especially downtown, where different lines con- | verge on one or two streets. The operating heads of the street | car companies will observe condi- | make adjustments in the schedules throughout next week until the best possible arrangement has been per- fected. Street car men_ pointed out today| that it is impossible for them to fig- ure out in_ advance what situation| will exist Monday morning and .they will have to rely on guesswork until the new hours have been in effect a few days. In explaining why the government printing office will continue ¢a the old schedule of § to 4:30, Public Printer Carter said it would cost the government about $50,000 during the summer months. The requires that employes be paid 20 per cent more for work done prior | {10 8 a.m., and by opening the offices at 7 o'clock all day workers wouid have to be pald one hour of night wages. Congress Action Lacking. Another reason for not making the change was that Con&res! did- not change its hours, and{f the printing office should change it would hamper the publication of the Congressional Record. The bureau of printing and engrav- ing already starts work at 8 a.m., and another change was considered un- necessary. Orders issued by Secretary Weeks fixing the hours in the War Depart- ment and its branches from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. makes the new hours apply (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) T The radio in that service, vision. Radio : From its beginning to the present, with explanations of all .its ssecrets which ‘have been unearthed by research in the operation of the GREATEST RADIO SYSTEM OF THE WORLD—that of THE NAVY—will be discussed in a series of articles in Star COMMANDER STANFORD C. HOOPER, U. S. Navy," For the past seven years in charge of all the The articles will begin as head of the radio ; of Commerce, law, he said.| for incfeased tafation in the Listriet during the next flve years, o as to build up a surplus to put the District on a cash-payng basis might well I eliminated. Senator Thipps’ letter, which was sent to the Board of Trade, Chamber Federation of Citizens Associations, the legislative commit tee of the allied trade organization burean of engraving and printing and others. follows: “Referring_to your recent com- munication, in which you take ex- ception to the terms of amendment No. 1 to the District of Columbia & propriation bill for the fiscal ye: 1923, I desire to make reply not oni regarding the points to which you call attention, but also to questions which have been raised in resolu- tions adopted by several civic or- ganizations. In Possession of Facts. In view of the fact that the mat ter of the fiscal relations as between the federal government and the Dis- trict of Columbia have been under discussion for many years past, not only on the floors of the House anc the Senate and before congressional committees, but in the public press as well, it was the belief of the con- ferees that they were in possession ¢ information regard- ing the matters in dispute, and that it was unnecessary to call in repre sentatives. of citizens' organizations %o obtain their views, which had often been presented to committ and in the press. They did, hows keep in touch with the Commissio ers of the District and from time time obtained facts and figures from the records of the District auditor's ce. oM fore than one measure rolating to the division of expenditures as be- tween the United States and the Dis- trict, notably the Mapes bill and the Jones bille, have been considered in Congress during the past three years without definite result. “The attitude of the House in its insistence upon a 60-40 division of expenditures has prevailed since 1920 and was again written in the bill for the coming vear; whereas, the Iatest legislative action of the gena on that subject was embodied 'in its adoption of the Jones bill, providing as a permanent policy the payment of all the expenses of the District out of the Treasury and that the taxes in the District should be fair and rea- sonable, but in no case at a less rate than $1.75 per hundred on real estato and tangible personal property, and Tot more than that, unless further legislation should =0 provide. This was properly written into the pres- ent bill as an amendment before it was reported out by the Senate com- mittee on agpropriations. ‘When the 'bill went to conference the House was contending for a 60-40 basis for the coming vear only, and the Senate for a 1% per cent tax con- tribution as a permanent feature. Al most daily meetings of the conferees were held during five or six weeks following the date the bill was sent to conference, each side arguing the contention of its respective chamber. The representatives of the Senate strongly insisted upon a permanent basis, with a view to stopping the yearly controversles over appropria- tion bills and to prevent the inser- tion in appropriation bills for 1924 ! and later years without previous leg- islative action conditions that would entail’ upon the citizens of the Dis- trict even higher proportionate pay- ments than those now in force and effect. 5 Details Caused Contention. “In order to establish the 60-40 di- vision on a permanent basis, it was found necessary to provide for the proper handling of certaln details which had been causing contention schpol board of trustees. and. which the House thought justi- to 12 o’clock noon. All other ad-~. ~ bonus. be_financed by the refunded rrotnt‘nch an indication of the col- apse of the entente might raise in| . . Next Sunday Zingland. Novemberf, 1921, and rtisi t b ived at Th e principal was asked to resign, | foreign debt, authority beinE pro- March, 1933, the average cost of clotn. | Vertising must be received at The H t, P , act that the B ol the toxt of | ing decreased 5 per 4o, (he repore | Star Office’ the day befor® inser- B emes in Aakin, he Dol Masr ues boreeit iry AUSATAL age 2, Column says tion is desired. : tained her, 27 £562 u bonds asfniz 5