Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1922, Page 2

BRITISH SOLDIER SLAIN N DUBLIN Another Shot Down by Civil- ians When Coming Out - of City Post Office. BORDER TERROR SPREADS | Protestants and Cathol‘ics Flee to: Safety—Irish Elections Dil cussed in London. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, May 27.—A British soldier was shot and killed and another was sareusly wounded by two clvillans today as the soldlers were leaving the post office on the college green. The soldiers haul entered the post office, leaving their automoblle at the curb. When they came out they were seized by the two assailauts from behind. The soldlers tried to free themselves, whereupon the as- sailants fired four shots. One of the bullets entered the post office and wounded a woman and child. It was stated that the soldiers had cashed a check at a bank nearl:‘)' n:- : . rob- B s L ved G Wave been the motive for the attack. One Victim Shot Eleven Times. James Greer, a former sergeant in twe Royal Irish constabulary, was taken from his house in Cootehall County Roscommon, early today and shot dead in the road. His son, who was a demobiiized black and tan,| was mortally wounde | The attack on yung Greer took place in the house. he having refused to leave it. He received eleven wounds. Will Hold Courts Bullding. There is no intention on the part of the republican forces to evacuate the Fohr Courts building, which was occupied some time ago, it was sald today at the republican general headquarters here. The armed guards are being with- drawn from the Kildare Street Club and from Orange Hall. in Rutland} square, and these buildings will be! used to house refugees. 1t is ex- pected that the Masonic headquar- ters, also recently seized, wilk be turned back to its owners Monday BORDER TENSION TIGHTENS. Catholics and Protestants Flee to Safer Territory. ted Press. By the Assoc! BELF' May fled man was wounded this after- noon in the Falls district. A pede trian who went to his assistance w shot through the head The Louth-Armagh border line the and farming operations are practical- 1y at a standstill. There are large concentrations on both sides of the border. and while Catholic families are crossing into County Louth, Protestants _are entering northern territory. Vans carrying provisions from Free State territory are being refused permission to enter Ulster. PROCEED WITH GREAT CARE. —An_unidenti- is ene of much military activity Four Stenographers Take Down Talk on Irish Elections. Ry the Associated Press. LONDON, May 27.—A majority of those who signed the Irish peace treaty met again around the table in the prime minister'’s official residence in Downing street tonight to consider the present position of the Irish toward that agreement. The Britsh representatives were Premier Lloyd George, Austen Chamberlain, Lord Birkenhead. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Winaton pencer Churchhill and Sir Hamar eenwood. The Irish_ representatives { were Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Eamon J. Duggan, William T. Cosgrove. Diarmuid O'Hegarty, secretary of the dail eireann, and Hugh Kennedy, legal | adviser of tne provisional government. Only a few curious persons gathered in the street. and no public interest was displayed. The conferencae wae held at 6 o'clock in the evening and lasted for an hour and a half, when it was ad- jJourned until Monday morning. Irish Elections Chief Tople. A brief official statement was issued, which merely said that the business considered had to do with arrangemenis for the general election in south Ircland in_June. After tne mesting the 1 delegates went quickly to their hotel they informed the reporters that it had been agreed to give no iuformatica to the press. It appearad evident that the con- ferees were taking no chances of any misunderstanding over the pro- cecdings, as four stenographers were present. ' It is believed Mr. Churchill will make a statement in the house of commons on Monday on the Irish situation. The prime minister left to- night to spend Sunday in the country. In a statement this evening dealing with the Irish negotiations the Press Association says they proceeded Smoothly, The British representa- tives had developed no absolute dis- agreement with the views put for- word by the Irish leaders; that Col- lins and Criffith had proved their loyalty to the treaty, although they had to make minor concessions to De Valera. —_— NEGRO LABORERS OUSTED. Mountaineers Halt Road Work by Forcing Colored Men to Quit. RALEIGH, N. C.. May 27.—Work on a road being constructed in Mitchell county, in the mountains of North Car- olina _was suspended last week when armed citizens forced a crew of n laborers to leave the county, according to a story published in the News and Observer this morning. =—There are scarcely any negroes in Mitchell county, according to the newspaper, and their presence there is objected to by some of the white citizens. | and adopted. To Have a Hand in Revision of War Laws SIR RENNELL RODD, Who will be the chief Kngliah rep- rementative om the commisaion that| All nations who | conference will Sir Rennell has had n long career as diplomat in many of the European court MAY ABANDON DAYLIGHT- SAVING IF SUPPORTERS ADMIT FAILURE (Continued from First Page.) It was that the way to save an hour of daylight, If any one wanted to save it, was to get up an hour earlier by voluntary action. Then the or- ganizations went to him with the sug- gestion for opening the departmental day an hour earlier. The proponents were confident, it is said, that the scheme could be co-ordinated and that 1l District activities would fall into line, As explained in high administration quarters, the suggestion was laid be- fore the heads of departments in binet meeting and action was prac- tically left to their judgment. Appar- ently those officials proceeded upon the assumption that the whole Dis- trict would fall into line, and they recommended the issuance of the or- der. Night Shortened One Hour. But theory proved to be one thing and practice another, it has been in- dicated by many expressions of opin- fon sent to The Star. The controlling factor, of course, was oversight of the fact that the clock was not put ahead an hour and the population of the National Capital and the inhabitants of suburbs whose avocatious are in the city found that one hour was added to the day and cut off from the night's rest, with resultant distuvb- ance and upheaval of homelv, but highly important domestic conditions. The poll taken by The Star makes clear how the big proportion of peo- ple feel about it. The sentiment as shown upon the returns is almost ten to one against the plan. It is safe to say that nothing in recent years has so upset the routine of pusiness, home and avocation as this setting ahead the hour for reporting for work In the departments without mak- ing provision for early retiring. Congress retused to conform to the plan and also flatly declined to put the clock ahead by law. Citizens Demand Repeal. The Star's returns show an over- whelming vote againat even advanc- ing the clock and vehemently volce demand for return to normal. The assurance which comes from authoritative sources that President Harding has no objection, in event the heads of departments so decide, to their returning to the old hours, would seem to put it up squarely to the civic organizations whizn brougit about the change to back-track, and to the acquiescence of the department heads in such a suggestion for going back to normal. In any event, it was said yester- day in high quarters, the public schools when they reopen next Sep- tember will not be subject to the present plan, as the abolishment of it will be made effective the first Sunday in September, instead of Oc- tober. President Harding, it is stated by those close to him, realizes the ill effects upon the chiidren and the teachers. Opposition Still Growins. A large number of votes against the present plan of daylight-saving came into The Star office last night, and the result is published in the tabulation in this edition. The vote was lighter last night than at any time since the poll was inaugurated, due probably to the fact that only a few hours in- tervened between the publication of the last result and the time of the tabulation of last night's returns. However, {t 18 expected that Monday and Tuesday will show a large last- minute vote on the various angles of the proposition. The poll will end at 4 o'clock Tues- day afternoon, and no votes will be counted which arrive at The Star this coupon. The name garded as confidential. Do you favor the présent arra Have you any suggestions for meeting the situation?. Name...ocoaes Address.. DAYLIGHT-SAVING To determine the sentiment in Washington on the Daylight-Saving Qu and send the coupon immediately to ; DAYLIGHT-SAVING EDITOR, The Star, Are you in favor of setting the clocks ahead one hour?... estion, The Star prints of the voter will be re- Indicate your preference ‘Washington, D. C. ngement?.. Employed in government or private business? ‘Which guverément department or bureau?....... serasieesaimiaepenies ! the district IOWA BROTHERS TAKE HIGHEST WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS HONORS Special Dispateh to The Star, ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 27—t h‘;'. been determined officlally that Jerauld L. Olmstead of Des Moines, Tow: Wil lead the graduating class this year at the Naval Acad- emy, and word has also reached here that his brother will be the leading, student this year of the graduates of the Military Acad- emy. Whilé Instances of brothers being at the two service schools at the same time are frequent, there has been no Instance of both having high rank the same year. On one occasion an honor man at West Point had a brother who graduated among the lowest at Annapolis, A very high honor has been cou- ferred upon four members of the present graduating class at the Naval Academy, they having re- celved n lettpr from Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilison in which they are designated ns standing out among thelr classmates as par- ticularly fitted to be officers of the Navy., They are Francis H. Whit- aker and Charles H. Steele of Texas, Alden R. Sanborn of fowa and William B. Ault of Oregon.’ The letter will become part of the service records of the reciplents. 000 WONEN GIEN POSTHMSTERSHPS 7,088 Appointees by Presi- dent Harding Also Include 900 Veterans. More than 1,000 women and nearly 900 former service men have been appointed postmasters of presidential offices under the présent administra- tion, according to a report which it was said yesterday had just been submitted to President Harding by Acting Postmaster General Bartlett. Never before in the history of the postal system, it was oxplained, had such a large number of women been appointed to such offices. From last March 4 to May 20 this year 7,088 postmasters of presidential offices have been named by the Presi- dent, according to records of the Post Office Department. There were 781 former soldiers who failed of appointment after securing places on eligible lists, the report indicated, showing that on many of the eligible lists there were two or three vel- erans. “The President has always been in- terested in seeing that the women of the country were given every con- sideration In connection with the work of the postal system.” Mr. Bart- lett said, “and the reports concern- ing their work have been most satis- factory, a condition which highly pleased Mr. Harding.” GIRL “BOOTLEGGER" FINED. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 27.—Miss Sarah Levyl, sixteen Yyears old. the youngest person ever brought before court hers on a liquor charge, and who admitted she had saved $1,500 while supporting several brothers and sisters from the profits of the moonshine business, was fined $100 and received a suspended reformatory sentence today. The court ruled that she must move her present home. office after that hour. The last cou- pon will be printed tomorrow after- noon. However, Separate .coupons which The Star has had printed will be avallable at the business office of the paper until 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. All fn Favor, Stand Up! The suggestion has come to The Star in a number of letters that a large number of people who are in favor of the present system are not voting, seemingly resting assured that it {s here and that there will be no change. It Is urged that if there are any people who are in favor of the present system and who have not voted they should Tegister thelr votes immediately, 80 that it can be finally determined what the wishes of the majority of the people are. “Through talking with many resi- dents on the subject,” wrote Harry T. Peters, “I have become convinced that those who are satisfled, with a very few exceptions, are not voting at all, while those who do not like the daylight-saving idea are all too anxious to do what they can to have it abollshed. “My suggestion is that you, through KALORAMA PEOPLE. PROTEST TAX PLAN Citizens” Association Peti- tions Congress for Hearing . on Fiscal Relations. CITES REPORT ON VALUES Joint Committee in 1915 Found As- sessments in District Faire and Equitable. President A. Coulter Welis and Secretary Edward R. Walton, ir., of the Kalorama Citizens’ Association late yesterday afternoon presented to both houses of Congress a petition requesting that a hearing be accorded to the citizens of the District “before action Is taken on the conference re- port on the District appropriation bill, or on the amendment of the Senate on sald bill, revolutionizing the fiscal relations between the fed- eral government and the District. The citizens of the District should have a hearing upon the matter upon the following ground, according to the petition, which was authorized by the assoclation at & recent meeting: “While thiey have no vote and there- fore no potent voice in their own af- fairs, yet, in a spirit of fair play and in conformity with the traditions of Anglo-Saxon governmemt, they have at least the right to be heard before there s Imposed upon them, suddonly and without notice, a com- plete change in their system of taxa- tion which may lead "ultimately, if it s not designed presently, to oner- ous and unbearable burdens,” says the petition. No U “It has not been shown that prop- erty generally in the District ls un- derassessed or not adequately taxed; indeed, the last cxpression on this subject, emanating from Congress it- self is’ found jn the report of the joint committee of Congress, appointed in the Sixth-Fourth Congress (1915), which after an exhaustive Investiga- tion reported: ‘We find from the evi- dence of fair-minded men, residents of Washington, familiar with real estate values in general, that the present assessment for taxation is fair and reasonable. * * * That, taken as a whole, the assessments made against all classes of property in the differ- ent locations in the city are equit- able. * * * The committee be- lieves that, independently of the question of what should be the proper subjects of taxation in the District of Columbia, the payment of taxes on real estate from the assessments as ther are now constituted is a fair and reascnable resnonse in such taxa- tion for municipal benefits recelved by the citigens of the District of Columbia.® Citizens Not to Blame. “Whatever inequalities mav be al- loged to exist as between the federal government and the District of Co- lumbia under the present arrange- ment, the citizens of Washington are in no wise to blame, as their affairs| are completely in the hands of Con- gress, and they should not be penal- ized if Congress has made a’ mistake in the past : “Owing to conditions growing out of the war, thousands of people of humble means have been compelled to purchase houses on the installment plan, and the proposed increase in the assessment and in the burden of tax- ation will work a great hardship on thousands of them, upon many of whom, indeed, quite generally throughout the city, a strong feel- ing of resentment and dissatisfac- tion has been provoked at the con- templated action. “If it is desired to place the Dis; trict_on a cash basis (and it is nol the fault of the citizens of the Dis- trict that it is not on a cash basis) the object can be accomplished - by giving the District credit for accu- mulated rict tax money now in the federal Treasury (upon which no in- terest has been paid) and by provid- ing for the payment of taxes in in- stallments earlier in the year than at present. “It is unjust to deprive the Dis- trict_in part of eources of revenue which in every city in America are devoted exclusively to municipal pur- poses, such as receipts from licenses, fines, permits and so forth, and to cover a portion of such receipts in the general fund of the Treasury. “The present tax on intangibles (which is largely a conscience tax and therefore inequitable) s believed to compare favorably in revenue de- rived, and in the rigor of its terms with similar taxes in most of the States, and o increase {s justifiable. Pay Share of Federal Taxes. “Your petitioners request the Con- gress to bear in mind that the citi- zens of the District contribute their full share of national taxation, the amount paid by them exceeding the amounts paid by & number of the states, and that, while the citizens of the stateg contribute a few cents per capita to the maintenance and upbuilding of the nation's capital, the citizens of the District contribute probably as much per capita to fed- eral works and improvements carried on in the respective states, such as good roads, agricultural colleges and the columns of your paper, endeavor to make those who are too satisfied to express themselves, realize that by not voting they are likely to lose the many advantages enjoyed through the application of the daylight-saving plan.” Labor Representatives Silemt. Representatives of the trade or- ganizations who conferred with the President and Secretary of Com- merce Hoover, when the decision was reached to start work an hour earlier wece not prepared last night to d:s- cuss the question of whether they would take any steps to ask the ‘White House to revert to normal working hours. E. C. Graham, one of the commit- teemen who attended the White House oonference, said last night he be- lleved daylight-saving would be more effective if the clocks could be turn- ed forward an hbur. Mr. Graham would not make a statement, how- ever, on the advisability of abandon- ing the present scheme of starting work an hour gooner. Charles. J. Columbus, secrstary to the Merchanta' and Manufacturers' Association, who also accompanied the delegation, said his organiza- tion has not acted on the daylight- saving question since the p nt scheme went into effect. - PHONE MEN TO QUIT DAYLIGHT PLAN—CALL TOO EARLY AT HOMES “We haven't finished breakfast yet. yoy'll have to come bacl 1ater.” 80 many installation men of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Company have been greet- ed with that salutation since day- light-saving became effective that, beginning tomorrow, they will re- turn o their old hours. A. E. Berry, president of the company, said last night the re- turn to old hours will not affect operators for the present. The hours of the girls, he sald, must be regulated to meet the flow of trafiic. ‘Thus far, he sall Au_u has not been much " the mornini extension work, public buildings, rivers and harbors, etc. “When the federal District was created the property holders therein donated half of .their property to the federal government, while the federal government has donated mil- lions upon millions of dollars’ to various states on their admission into the Union in the form of public lands and otherwise. —_— AMERICA SHOULD KEEP TROOPS ON THE RHINE, DECLARES GEN. HARBORD By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 27.—Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, deputy chief of staff, U. B. A., has just returned to Paris after a tour of inspection of the American troops on the Rhine. Gen. Harbord today saild he was strongly convinced that a small detachment of American soldiers and a staff of officers should main at Coblenz indefinitely, b cause of the tremendous moral good which the presence of the American forces had accomplished and would continue to exercise in the future. He would not say whether his impressions would be embodied In recommendations to the State Department at Washing- ton, but he declared that he had not come to France “to wind up the American watch on the Rhine.” It was impossible for any one living in_the United States, Gen. Harbord sald, to realize how much good the American troops have accomplished and how much trou- ble they probably have prevented, without actually viewin, the situation. The order for the de- parture of the troops, however, had not yet been changed, and all the American forces were due to be out of Germany by July 1, with the exception of & small clean-up de- tachment Wwhich would remain until September. Noted English Society Beauty Coming to U. S. MRS, WALTER BURNS. Unltke most other abrond, Mra. Burns does shed light on problems troubling the world, but on a visit. She fs of Amer- fean extraction, being the daughter of Mrs, Cavendish Bentinck, formerly Eltasbeth Livinuaton, and the nicce of M ARBITRATIONPLAN TOENDTACNA ROW Delegates Come to Under- standing on Definite Basis . of Negotiations. By the Assoclated Press. A definite basls of negotiation, un- derstood to contemplate a resort to arbitration, at last has been formu- lated by the Chilean-Peruvian con- ference. As now under discussion the arbitration proposal Is safd to center upon a settlement of the long standing controversy over Aarticle 3 of the treaty of Amcon, without prejudice to other differences which kave come to the surface during the conference conversations. Prospects that the two delegations would come togcther on such a propo- sition appeared to be brightening last ght after the formal conference Ees- sions had been resumed in a short but interesting meeting. No dele- gate would go into detafls, but the vptimistic tehdency of official opinien ! was apparent on all sides. Nature Not Settied. One question understood to be still undecided is whether the arbitration shall be a juridical or a political one. The Peruvians are understood to have taken the position that only of jurists, acting on purely juridi considerations should b intrustes with the decfsion. The Chilean atti- tude has not been publicly defined Should a political arbitration be determined upon, it i expected gen- orally that the United States would be the arbitrating power. A jurid- fcal a.bitration probably wouid be accomplished by a mixed commission, on which places might be given to jurists from soveral American re- publics. Formmal Announcemen Announcement that “definite fo 1a were under discussion w made formally in a joint communique issued by the two delegations after a half hour sesgion yesterday. The state- ment did not describe the “formulas in detail, but it gave promise that they would be officially revealed in the near future. A record of the proceedings of all previous secret sessions, it was an- nounced, =oon would be made public, After the meeting had concluded and the official announcement had been is- sued the Peruvian and Chilean pieni- potentiaries again went into consuita- tion to determine upon the exact form of the conference récord as it is to be made public. They were closeted for more than an hour with even the dele- 2 gation secretaries absent from the ‘oom. Colncidently cable disnatenes were forwarded to both Santiago and Lima, reporting the latest phases the situation, RN TYPOGRAPHICAL RACE FAVORS McPARLAND New York Man Leads Barrett of Chicago by 6,142 Votes for Presidency. By the Ansoclated Pross. DETROIT, May 27.—On the face of returns from 131 citles in the country, largely situatod east of the Miasis- sippl river, John McParland of New York, president of the International Typographical Union, was leading W. W. Barrett 5t Chicago by 6,142 votes for the office of president, it was an- nounced today by Charles P. Howard of Detrolt, chairman of the union's campaign committee. The figures have been recetved from local unions tHat conducted an international election Wednesday. All other members of the unfon's “progressive” ticket were leading op- ponents on tho face of the returns, that approximate 60 per cent of the total estimated vote cast. Practically all the more important cities of the country have been heard from except those in the far west. The vote today stood as follows: President, McParland, 19,442; Bar- rett, 13,300, 4 First vice presiden: ard, Detroit. 18,573; Norfolk, 18,§40. Becond vice president, W. R. Trotter, , Charles P. How- D. L Campbell, Vancouver, 17,750; J. Hoban, Cleve. land, 14,385, Bacretary-treasurer, W. E. Towne, Duluth, 6. neapolis, 15,137. RELIEF WORKERS BARRED. Americans Facing Search by Reds at Batum Return. By the Associated Pross. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 27.—Four Americans, including Messrs. Her- bert, Adams and Gibbons, Who are American Rellef workers, have re- turned here from Batum after a clash with the bolshevik port offi- cials. Mr. Gibbona left Constantinople a week ago, planning a month’s tour of Georgla and Armenia. Although the trip was undertaken with the permission of the trans- caucasian soviet government, he, re- ceived a cool reception at Batum, where he was refused. admittance without a detailed search of his bag- gage and person, which he declined to permit. LINCOLN PALLBEARER DIES. = John W. Hays, Min- ONEIDA, N. Y. May 27.—Benof ‘Wood, last surviving wmember - of President Lincoln's pailbearers, died here today. K v s THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 28, 1922 PART 1 BLAIR-DOVER ROW HELD FAR-REACHING Secretary Mellon’s Efforts to Work Out Own Ideas Coming to Front. Factions in the internal revenue controversy over the removal of A. D. Sumner of Iowa and Maj. C. C. Childs of Ohio from thelr posts in the bureau tock a.breathing spell yesterday and there-were Indicatfons that the incident was rapldly drawing to a close. - Investigation of the accounts unit of the bureau by spectal intelligence section continued, but officials declined to comment oh the progress made. Friends of Assistant Secretary Dover insisted that efforts were being made to prevent the removal of his ap- polntees by Commissioner Blair, whil: at the Treasury there were hints of possible further action along such lines. Developments in_the Blair-Dover in- cident are regarded by high officials as significant of more thun a disagreement over the polictes controlling the admin- istration of the internal revenue bureau. See Mellon Working Out Plans. Recent changes in the bureau per- sonnel are viewed in high official quar- ters as signs of the hand of Secretary Mellon at work to put into effect his own ideas of efficiency in the opera- tion of the fuuctions of the Treasury Department based on his long experi- ence as a banker and business man. Mr. Mellon was represented as belng desirous that the Treasury should give the country the most efféctive mervice and to this end he was proceeding to organize its forces to meet his views of government administration. Changes made necessary by Mr. Mellon’s policy, It was said, sometimes had affected 'individuals themscives not in opposition to the Secretary’s ideas, but through force of circum- stances unable to carry out his wishes in administration. WIill Disregard Criticiam. While Mr. Mellon himseif has con- sistently rcfralned from expressing his stand on the question of the or- ganization and functioning of the de- partment, close advisers maintain that the Secretary will administer the affairs of the Treasury according to his views unswerved by criticism as he was accustomed to guide private business enterprise before entering the cabinet. High Treasury officials last night gxpressed regrot that the jmpression as gone forth of a controversy be- tween Assistant Secretary Dover and Revenue Commissioner Blair, with Mr. Blair. They contended there had been no personal disagreement and that changes meade in the bureau were part of carefully considered plans of reorganization worked out by the tax simplification board. HOPE TO DISPSE OF DISTRCT BL { Final Action May Come This Week. Final disaosition of the District s propriation bill and new taxation rider ix hoped for during the coming week, it was said last night. A number of conferences between members of the committee on con- ference representatives of the ci of the District and other senators who have taken an interest in the matter have gone far téward bringing about an agreement on the taxation provision of the bill which will expedite action on it The Senate. it is expected, will be asked to concur in the Ho action, adopting the rider with certain amendé ments which will be offered in the Senate. These amendments, it is understood, will be acceptable to the House. sem nnual yments of taxes on real | broperty in the District, which will do {away with the necessiiy of tie Dis- | trict raisinz a larze fund to keep on hand constantly to meet payments for the District government, as provided in the rider as it came from the House. 19 HLLED, 200 WSS N AMUNTION BLAST Explosion in Austrian Plant Is Laid to Use of Unskilled Workmen. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, May —Two hundred persons are missing and between 100 and 200 are in the hospitals as a re- sult of the explosion of an ammuni- tion factory at Blumau, near Vienna, Thursday, according to reliable re- ports. The official statement gives only nineteen dead, but access to the scene of the disaster is denied, and details are refused. Property damage is sald to amount to more than $1,000.000, Information has also been received here that high explosives were being manufactured by unskilled hands for the first time, and to this the disaster is attributed. NEGRO HAS MOB ENJOINED Sues White Men for $50,000 and Gets Restraining Order. WINDER, Ga., May 27.—Action for $60,000 damages and a petition for fnjunction to restrain certain white men of Barrow county from molest- ing him further was filed in superior court here this afternoon by Andrew McClusky, negro farmer, reputed to own 300 acres of land. The petition stated that a mob visited his home upon a recent night and fired into it, wounding him and terrifying his family. Judge Blanton Fortson of the Ath- ens circuit of the superior court this afternoon signed the temporary re- straining order. NEGRO MASS MEETING. The final Bunday mass meeting of the District of Columbia Branch of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People, in con- nection with the association’s mem- bership drive, will be held at the John Wesley A.-M. E. Zion Church, 14th and Corco)ilnkllreeln. this aft- ernoon at 8 o'clock. Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard Uni- versity and former Senator Moses Clapp of Minnesota will speak. rther meetings after the final Sunday mass meeting are announced, as follows: Monday, Union Wesley Church, 234 near L streets, at which of. Georme wl'l ICook :nd Pro;. N. l’. herieas will speak, 3 M. E. Church, fl& ::‘ c Mr. Melion brought in on the side of | Conferences Expedite Work.l zens One of them wiil provide for | ‘Financial Ills of Europe To Be Cured by Bankers SIR ROBERT KINDERSLEY, One of the governors of the Bank of Engiand, who represents Great Brit. ain at the conference of international bankers now being held fn Paris. His was one of the four tentative planw presented which may solve the inter- nationnl loan problem, with particu- Inr reference to Germany. In the meantime the bankers plan an ex- ve study of GGermany’s economic n speedy cure of Eu- rope’s financial flis is expected. ANNUAL LUMP SUM FOR . C. FAVORED Commissioners Say Congress Too Busy to Itemize Funds. 1f the House District committee calls the Commissioners into confer- ence on the suggestion to broaden the powers of the clity fathers there are two important suggestions which may come up for discussion One is the desirability of Congress making an annual lump sum appropri- ation for street improvements. leav- ing the Commissioners to determine ares should be paved other is the advisability of Con- making lump sum appropri. for clerical hire and allowing Commissioners to decide how v« s of each class should which thorough T {Tior [the | be employed. High District officlals polnted out last night that if the thought to vest more authority in the Commissioners was prompted by a desire to relieve Corgress of the burden of passing on too many details of city administra- tion the adoption of these two sug gestions would certainly simplify the Job of those senators and representa- tives who deal with local affairs. Rule on Street Paving. In the matter of resurfacing and pairing existing pavements Con- ! es8 now leaves the selection of the reets to be tre d to the Com jmissioners. In laying the original surface on mew strects, however, the appropriations committees of = the {House and Scnate now pass on each {item. vear when the Dist ict bill of preparation membe in p the House and Senate t devote | veral days to a tour of the 1o} ew the new highways which the | ty heads seck to have paved | Authorities at the District building | | point out that there is little difference | | betwe the pa g of a new street and the laying of a new surface on an old ! | street.” They feel that if ! % < wants {to reduce the volum trict legis- i | h must be put through the be an al mill, to start. Number of Clerks. The city heads have auth this would loy laborers and mecha. lump sum approp: ;all government the exact :s. typists or other emy enumerated every ation bill. official expressed the cpin- I!Oll last night that the § eads, in the linterest of efficiency, should have thority to regulate the e heip for all municipal agencies, just {they now do in the engineering depart- ment. The rapidly increasing volume of na- tional legislation to be dealt with by Congrese. is leaving the House and Sen- ate with much less tme to devote Lo purely iocal questions, which arc only of indirect concern to the national leg- jslators, District officials say. o TR GERMANY TO REST HER CASE ON LOAN rom e number of oves to be | ear in the | i i { (Continued from First Page.) that the United States, as the power which would put the loan into ef-1 fect, forgets that she would be sympathetically affected through a complete collapse of Germany, inas- much as the United States could not for a long time sell products and foodstufts which otherwise could be expected. These industrialists sug- gest that slow improvement in depre- clated values from the inside by sac- rifices in prevailing profits would be the better course, and that this would be In the interest of the whole people economically. BIDDERS GET REPLY ON MUSCLE SHOALS House Committee Issues Counter Proposal Based on Ford Offer. DETAILS NOT DISCLOSED Plan May Cut Out Gorgas Plant. Also Require $10,000,000 Capi- tal and 40,000-Ton Output. By the Associated Press, Bidders competing for a by private enterprize of t H lop he govers- ment's $106,000,000 war-ir a projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala, were given their answers yesterday by tie House military committee n of a counter proposal frame ha committeemen None of the offers submitte bidders and forwarded to by Secretary Weeks for fins cisions was found acceptabie made by Henry Ford came winning the award, in tha made the basis upon which 1 mittee built its reply The committee a was explained, which decisions subject any person or a b will To<u mmittee’s tives of th, Frederick early next wes accept the propos he would con Detroit befor 1 plan worked out would be accepted spite the elimina Ala. ste, plant ties to be dispose hoals Doubt Ford' Others, the Acceptance. denced in this 1c tention of Mr. Mas Mr. Ford th to be accepted in part” Attenti h represe reas e xche P n Kas plant ar be disposed projects Care was exercised by n keep the in secre it 1t t the plan wa Ford modificd iffered only in the lan by the con mittee, repiacir n 1 that whick c to insert c nt with in that plant, r tal of $1 eratin developing pulsory the ished “con: basis of 4 the amine the compa vent the sale of for exceeding 8 per producti. The posal period for the W projects not pur the Detroit manufacty unchanged in the commi it derstood. as we 5- visions relating to the al phases of the proposed transaction Weekn Against 100-Year Leawe In this connection, that Secre Weeks' com- mendation to Co n when he transmitted the Ford offer there, was in opposition to the year | He also testified bef the committee that. in hix op would be ur to chan government's po of res leases on public and properties to_fifty year: The Secretary - Thurs- day before the s feult commitlee to testify the prodp posals pending before that body for consideration and to the Senate with regard to Muscle Is. The Ford offer will be discussed at that meeting and, it is exps th ted Secretary will reit IS ment on 100-year lease ate h MISS MUNSON POISONED. Model At- tempts Suicide, May Die. E, Once Famous Artists’ SYRAC N. Audrey Munson, twenty-eight old, once famous artists’ model, tempted suicide tonight &t her home Mexico, where she was born. swallowed powerful drug and her condition is r ported as critical. Early tonight she told her mother, ¥ M in a northern New York villige, a he HOPE IN PARIS FADES. Believed Allies or France Alone Must Act Against Germany. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 27.—The hope of a settlement of the reparations crisis without the necessity of action by the allles together or by France sep- arately ralsed by the auspicious opening of the bankers' conferences diminished today on receipt of news from Berlin Indicating that, although a German cabinet crisis has been avolded, agreement is not complete on the understanding between Fi- nance Minister Hermes and the reparattons commission. The optimism of the past few days is not shared in official circles, where the impression still prevafls that the Germans will do only what is neces- sary and prolong the negotiations. The climax will come only after the deliberations of the reparations com- mission, which, in case of final de- fault by Germany, will probably re- quire a_fortnight or longer, until just about the time of Premier Poincare's visit to London for the Verdun com: memoration. This trip was arranged some time ago, without reference to politics, but it is regarded as unlikely that the French premier will return from Lon- doh without seeing Mr. Lloyd George and exchanging views on the situa- tion. Diplomatic negotiations between the allies, whether opened in this way or otherwise, would take several ‘weeks, 5o that action, if any, probably wonld be deferred until some time in with whom she lived, that she had de- termined to end her life. Mrs. Mun- son was unable to calm her daughter and ran from the house to obtain as: sistance from neighbors. When shd returned her daughter had swallowed the poison. Miss Munson’s attempt to end her life followed the receipt of a tele- gram this afternoon. Recently she had announced her intention to wedy a resident of Ann Arbor. Mich. Miss Munson first attracted publie notice when she posed for theynude photographs ‘displayed at the Pan- ama-Pacific exposition. She posed for sculptors for several vears and then entered the movies. A few months ago Miss Munson at- tained newspaper notice :by prom- ising to marry the world’s “perfect man.” PAPAL RAP FOR MANDATE. Vatican Protests British Plan for Zionist Palestine. GENEVA, May 27.—Cardinal Gas- parri, papal secretary of state, has addressed & note on behalf of the Vatican to the league of na- tlons, says the Exchange Tele- graph, protesting In strong terms against the British mandate for Palestine. The protest. says the news agency, 1s on the ground that the mandate threatens religious equal- ity. The creation of a Jewish na- tional home in Palestine, it is ar- cued, gives the adherents of Zivg= ism a privileged position 3 o/