Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1922, Page 2

2 * SAYS AE HEARD ‘THREAT BY PETRS New Jersey Ex-Soldier Sure Man He Met Was Ward’s Victim. ‘_PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 1— Guy A. Phillips, world war veteran, Yeiterated here today that he saw Clarence Peters, slain by Walter 'S. iWard, in Philadelphla at noon on {May 15 and at 8:30 am. May 16. iPeters’ body was found near New .Rochelle. N. Y., on May 16. Phillips i1s sure it was Peters, as the latter {showed him discharge papers from ithe Navy on which was the name Clarence Peters. He sald he wrote ia letter to Mrs. Waiter S. Ward last {Fgiday, but has not received a reply. : Phillips 1s a resident of Reading, {Pa., where he is employed in the {afternoons_as an electrician. He fcomes to Philadelphia every morn- jing to attend the Philadelphia School lof Wireless. He saw service in {France, where he was gassed. i Talk of Girl and Gun. It was while on his way to a railroad istation on May 15, he said, he fell in ‘with Peters, who accosted him because ihe wore a service button. Phillips ‘sald Peters walked with him to the sta- ition and they sat in the waiting room. ‘Peters appeared to be nervous. ; “The young man said he was in jtrouble with a married man and girl,” isaid Phillips. “This man, he said, had 'a pretty wife and was trying to win ifrom him his girl. He showed me & fun he carried in his inside pocket. It ‘was a Smith & Wesson. Then he said man was in the city looking for him. ondling the revolver, he said it would thelp him to get the man who was try- img to get him. Later he asked me Where he could get a train for Eliza- beth, N. Y. I told him to go to the in- Prmation window, which he did. 7hen he returned he said nothing more ®bout the train, and we bid each other Food-bye." Seen Next Morning. = Phillips then related he saw the an next morning at the entrance to the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. He Wore a brown suit and a gray cap. Peters spoke to him, he added, and €gain showed him the pistol and said 1 get him unless he gets me firs = Phillips said he left him and saw Peters walk to meet a very well- dressed young man who came across the street. They talked for a few .cgnds and then started for an auto- obile. The man he talked to, Phillips said, as about nineteen or twenty years qflarge; of slender build and had dark )ody carried to where it was found. THINK “ROSS” MYTH. Detectives Find no Trace of Black- mailer in Ward Case. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 1.— The entrance of one group of detec- tives, brought into the Ward-Peters killing case by District Attorney Weeks to investigate every angle of the mysterious blackmail and shoot- Ing affair, and the exit of another §roup that now declare their faflure € find “Ross,” mentioned by Ward & blackmaller-in-chief, convinces them that “Ross” is a pure myth marked the sixteenth day since the ex-sallor was found shot to death on the Kensico reservoir road. The search of the Ward home was declared to have failed to disclose any evidence of a gun fight thers, and New Rochelle policemen stated no shots were heard in the neighbor- hood of the Ward home. Westchester county officials are to begin another Beparate examination today of all Neéw Rochelle police on duty in or near the Ward home on May 16, the day of the shooting, according to the ory told by the son of the million- alre baker. AT HAS “FACTS” ON WARD. @Girl in Hollywood, Who Sued Him Once, Willing to Talk. Ry the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif, June 1.— Miss Martha Kendall, who once filed & suit charging criminal conspiracy against Walter S. Ward, under bond at White Plains, N. Y., following his confession that he killed Clarence Peters for alleged attempted black- mail, has been located in the Holly- wood district by the Los Angeles Times. The police at Pittsburgh, Pa., are -#2id to have urged the White Plaina :@uthorities to hunt for Miss Kendall In the hope she could aid them in the Ppresent case. . Miss Kendall, & modiste, sald she Bad not seen Ward for several years ®ince shortly afte; “her out of court on her $10,000 suit for damages against his son. She as- gerted the younger Ward had broken into her apartment and attempt kldxnlp her. prests -+~ can throw light upon the mystery, al . the Times quoted erlyl 1 know a few things that ose interested in prosecuting Mr. Ward would like to know. I'll tell all I know if they ask me—not till the; - She sald she om}curred in the opin- ion of a woman friend in New York X8 expri d In a letter received to- She quoted this friend, whose & declined to give, as having e woman and you'll find the “ONE DEAD IN BIG BLAZE. Loss by Washington Forest Blaze > More Than $1,000,000. -SEATTLE, Wash., June 1.—One person was known to be dead, an- other believed to have perished, scores homeless and vast areas of timber- 14nd in western Washington and Ore- ¥on were blasing or smoldering wastes today as a result of forest &nd brush fires which late yesterday #ot beyond control. {‘Damage in Washington was B tated at from $1,000,000 to u.oao‘.::'o. At least twenty-five homes in and Jear Cedar Falls have been razed by . Logging camps at Stillwater d Selleck had been burned and the ywns of Palmer, North Bend, Forbes Kanaskat were threatened. “A_sawmlill, a schoolhouse and sev- efal farm houses were in ashes near Corbett, Ore., and many .persons were ing. At Egypt. a schoolhouse was | ed. Four hundred men #;nun‘ the flames ,}nu mné v": o thousand acreés had been burned \b‘ur. % “DRY”.NAVY IN BAY. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., June 1.— i R R H x {Be formee subchaaer Mehallator 4 s ) eommand of hibition sleuths Hair. > When Phillips was reminded that Peters’ body was found on the 16th, Be expressed the opinion he might have been killed near here and his Supreme ow | tower against Nathantel charges picked crew of fAttorneys Raymond board the craft. [James A. 'ON WAR DEBT COMING Negotiations With Other Debtor Nations Soon to Be Dis- cussed. The French government has been informed that the American govern- ment will recelve a special mission of French financial experts to dis- cuss that nation’s war debt, it was stated today. No definite date for the discussion has been set. The commission, it was learned, is ready to treat with a French mi whenever it reaches this country and another meeting will be held shortly, when, it was indicated, negotiations with several of the debtor nations would be under discussion. It was definitely stated, that so far there has been -no direct reply from Great Britain, the largest for- eign debter, to the commission's an- nouncement of its readiness to dis- cuss funding arrangements. AR ASE BRANCH FINDS QUARTERS Department of Justice Sec- tion to Be Located in Old Land Office Building. That section of the Department of Justice which is prosecuting war frauds is to be housed In the old land office bullding at 7th and F streets, just ag soon as certain of- ficers of the civil service can vacate, which will be tomorrow or the next day. The public buildings commission in making this transfer %as taken very advantagedus move, because the fourth district office of the civil service and the retirement section are to be transferred to the Archie Butt building on New York avenue, immediately in the rear of the main Civil Service Commission bullding. The result will be to put all activi- ties of the civil service in one com- pact location, which will afford a greater measure of economy as well as efficiency. Where to locate the District Rent Commission is a problem that is now perplexing the public buildings com- mission. —Additional hearing rooms have to be provided. The Rent Co: temporarily in the Hooe building, F street, but will at a reasonably early date be moved into one of the temporary buildings. —_——— SENATE BONUS BILL SATISFIES LEGION (Continued from First Page.) o S question is whether Mr. Harding, who knows what support the measure has, will risk a conspicuous turn-down by the Senate or whether he will prefer to wait until the measure comes to him and express himself expliecitly in a veto message in which he can put all his arguments and depend upon the effect of the communication to pr:vent Congress trom overriding the veto. The danger in such a course from the viewpoint of those who want to see the measure fail of passage is that on the first vote probably enough senators will become committed a: firmatively reversal on a later vote. All Indications now point to the passage of the measure, despite the efforts made by interpreters of recent elections to persuade members of Congress that the bonus is unpopular and a vote against it will help them next autumn as much as it will hurt. Reporting the bill out of the finance committee is a step forward in the slow but steady march of the bonus through both houses of Congress. (Copyright, 1922.) FINANCE PLAN NOT READY. Report Expected on Bonus by End of Week. The finance committee report on the amended House soldiers’ bonus biil 11 was in the makine *cda- - Chairman McCumber hoped to report it and the bill to the sendic Liav.w the end of the week. Then the me: ure will t. ts pl. n the calendar to be called up after-agreement has been reached.among senators for its consideration. Chairman McCumber is expected to these points in his repert to the Senate: That the loan feature enabling vet- erans to ‘obtain funds immediately had been retained. That a veteran could make appli- cation for compensation without any limitation as to time. ‘That a veteran defaulting in re- payment of & loan to the government could redeem his certificate at any time before its maturity, That all changes made In the House bill were agreeable to representati of the vaterans' organizations. That the pmfoted legislation would ons - for the veterans f years. expected to-con- estimate of the cost £ t! onus, figured now at bet: $4,000,000,000 ana $5,000,000,000. OPERATOR DEFIES HAYS ° IN VINTONDALE CASE Tells Lawyer to.Go as Far as He Likes in Pressing Charge of False Arrest. By the Associated Press. sl o NEW YORK. June 1.—C. W. Schwerin, presidept of the Vinton Colliery Compa: of Vintondale, has defled New York attorneys to “go as far as they llke” in pushine ckarges that they were victims of battery and false He alleged o sembly at Vintondale. He denled most of the charges made by Attorney Arthur Garfield Hays, representing thé union, who with two "‘d. several newspaper men, returned ves- terday after their “experiment” Vintondale. “My best advice y tree) rats “If he feels that ever, and he and in. 2t Bhebemyer want to take it to the supreme court, we'l] | Rabbl Simon, and the obse go there with them. tever means FRENCH SPECIAL MISSION mission will probably have to stay in the Jewish fi & the District - Collector’s Office Has 7,000 Letters Still to Be Opened. ‘The people of the District paild $10,000,000 in taxes of various forms into the collector's office at the Mu- nicipal bullding during the month ended yesterday, Collector Chatham M. Towe! stimated today. . ‘The long line of rsons. who swarmed the office all day yesterday made last-minute payments amount- ing to $1,497,000, . The collections for the month of May make a total of more than | $15,000,000 of all classes of revenue taken in by the colléctor during the present fiscal year, $16,000,000 n 1931. During the fiscal year ended July 1, 1921, the people of the Dietrict paid about $16,000,000 in taxes and license fees of various kinds. With another month of the present flacal year remaining, Mr. Towers expects to collect somewhat more for ' the twelve months than he did a year ago. Although elated over the large col- lection during May, Mr. Towers has one source of worry this mormng. In his vault he has approximately 7,000 unopened letters containi checks suprly of postage stamps the 7,000 who mailed in their bills will expect the receipt by return mall. Of course, a certaln percentage of the envelopes probably contain return postage. but how many will not be known until this small mountain of mall has been opened. May Have to Awalt July 1. If the collector is unable to find an appropriation from which to buy more stamps, he may have to walt until July 1, when the new appropria- tion bill becomes a law, to réturn re- ceipts. A penalty of 1 per cent will be charged on all real estate and per- sonal tax bills paid durirg the month of June. Taxpayers are urged to pay this month, for an additional 1 per cent wjll be added for each month the bills ramain unpaid, Scores of persons who were still standing In line when the tax office closed yesterday evening dropgad their bills and money in a large box that had been placed at the door of the tax office. SEES §10,000.000 SAVINGS IN YARDS Competitive Bids for Gov- ernment Work Urged by Consulting Engineer. Savings of $100,000,000 annually to American taxpayers were held out as an inducement for the government to place ell possible equipment, repair and supply work in its own shops in navy yards and arsenals, instead of placing contracts with private firms in a plan submitted to the House naval affairs subcommittee today by O. 8. Beyer, consulting éngineer for to make impossible a |the International Association of Ma- chinists, during the hearings on the Howe bill which seeks to call all such work to government shops. Mr. Beyer took the stand today and submitted, in behalf ident W llam H. Johnston ofiithe machinis an $6,000-word report 6f a study into the possibilities of use of the navy yards and arsenals for work now being handled by private concerns for government departments. Competitive Bids. ecific proposal was lic plants bid agai private plants for the orde: thus giving taxpay- ers the benefit of the lowest possible price. Another end will be aoccom- plished through this project, he point- ed out, since this plan will give the civilian employes at navy yards a chance for steady .em- ployment if they make their perform- ance go efficient that the public plants underbid the private ones. He quoted {$100,000,000 as the probable saving under such a plan. Interdepartmental co-operation and interplant rivalry will be encouraged and the efficiency of the plants %om for pemce-time and war-time use will be greatly increased thereby, stated. That greater efficiency of la- bor will “almost automatically” re- sult from adoption of the plan, Mr. Bayer said, is held to~ doubt. Lighte: His t pub- Taxzpayers' Load. < “‘The plan will greutly lighten the axpayers’ burden for such prepared- ness for-war as COpgress may pro- vide,” he said, speaking as a consult- ing éngineer for the machinists. “At the same time that the cost of the preparedness is made less its value will be made greater. This greater value will flow from better organi- zation, higher, efficiency of labor and administratiol and maintenance of plants in better condition. Further- more, the danger of war will be de less by the elimination of pri- kta profit from the manufacture of munitions of war."”. Not only along lines for war muni- tions, however, do & machinists wish the plants to be used. Govern- ment departments may obtain there the supplies of paint, rope, electrical equipment, furniture, motor truc! ad machin ing machin cutlery, , harness and a thousand other case things, it was maintained. SHABOUTH SERVICE SET. Will Be Held at 8th Street Temple Tonight. Shabouth seérvices will be held in the Eighth Street Temple tonight at 7:16 and will be followed by con- firmation exercises tomortow morn- ing at 9:30. These services are the nn annual celebration of the ly sum- mer thanksgiving, fol wlnf the feast of the passover, which is held in_the early spring. The feast of the passover marks pl.ntlng‘tlmo. and the Shabouth im when the first. fruits begin to ripen, and as i customary on this occasion aith, children reaching of thirteen are taught some ilities of that Hays delfb- | of the moré serious responsib declared ‘h'.rl life. . BServices will open tonight with a lecture on the Ten Commandments by ance of the occasion Will conclude with & re- we adopt to lumndmnmu out of | ception by the parents of the gon- Vintondale are taken to protect non-union men in our mln’c:.a and t:: believe the laws uphold us in the use of our own police. to be company police, whom De_arrested men, Hays asserted, were on $300 1 B 2 bail each_turaished by the-ustios o 3 —_— Limited - divoros = with alimony i3 -asked In a suit fiied | District Court by o.o'ueu;‘:n High- D. htower o ‘were at-- Jo “‘(‘: numnn't-o v on married . . ohildren. . tember 7, O’'Shea appear for the wife, \ Neudecker and at Rauscher’s SBaturday even- firmants ing at 7 o'clock. The trial Of the elght men, silsrsa go,m CARDS SENT OUT, :: Highty thousand cards were sent ¢ | FAMOUS:- PASSAMAQUODD ' - COUNTRY-WIDE TOUR. from Pleasant Point, their reservation in Maine, and west how they compare with the Siou: Indians, in bis full regimentals, Soplel Mitehell, tl Y INDIANS LEAVE FOR how the people of the , Blackfeet and other tribes out there. ig chief of the Passamaquoddy LLOYD GEORGE PUTS OFF TRIP AS IRISH BATTLE ON BORDER (Continued from First Page.) ALLIED APPROVAL OF GERMAN REPLY BRINGS LOAN NEAR _(Continued from First Page.) improvement upon the ‘existing state of affairs. “Mr. Churchill and his colleagues have been too often led astray by overconfldence in Irish affairs. Great Britain is in the presence of one of the gravest crisis in her history. She is faced with an anarchic movement similar in some o! its features to that which submerged the Russian empire.” The Daily Mail says: “The country was looking anxiously for definite assurances that Collins stands by the that there will be real free- dom at the election, and that the tucks on Ulster shall cease or be suppressed with the whole strength of the British government.” The Daily Chronicle says: “Nothing in the speech was better than the concluding passage, wherein Mr. Churchill Insisted upon thc wisdom of carrying out the traty on the Brit- ! ish sice most carefully. Bays the Dally News: “It would be the climax of absurdity to permit Ireland to relapse into anarchy or be plunged into the horrors of invasion simply becar de Valera refuses to conform wi reconquered, and that a kind of peace could be restored after a sufficient number of its youth were tered, its ges burned, destroyed and this country once more held up to the world as the true in- heritor of the Prussian tradition. But the Englishmen who wish this are very few.' The Westminster Gazette denounces. as “objectionable, unneces: and dangerous,” Secretary Churcl s sug- gestion that Ireland may Dbe reoccu- pled. MURDER AGAIN RAMPANT. Eleven More Deaths in Belfast. Fierce Fighting Outside. & By the Associated Press. BELFAST, June 1.—Grosvenor road was the scene of intense firing today. In the Falls road, adjoining, there was considerable shooting in the earlier hours. Four wounded persons were taken to hospitals from thls area. Special Constable Roulston, whose shooting precipitated last night's troubles, died of his wounds, and this, with the death of another wounded person, brought the total of the fa- talities from yesterday's shootings to- eleven. ‘- A blind man and his landlady were shot as they stood at the door of their home. A -hi was afire nearby at the time, and the water from the hose flowing down the street washed over the bodies. which were not moved for an hour and a half. In another district a mob swarmed around a butcher's shop and shot dead Mrs. Mclliroy and her daughter. Truce at One Point. It was officially announced' today that in the course of searches made in the Falls area of Belfast last even- ing the police arrested two person in responsible positions who were found in possession of documents which were being investigated. The result, it was added, might be disclosuras of a startling nature. 8 Advices from the Strabane front this morning pictured the situation at this border point as considerably easier. It was declared a truce on tne Strabane-Lifford frontier agreed upon at 10 o'clock last night, had been honorably observed, with communica- tion. by road. between Lifford and Strabane re-established and traffic al- lowed to flow to and from Free State territory.” The Ulster special consta- evacuated Rough Island on . having. found it unten- able. The military have replaced the s clal constabulary on the - Tyron Donegal border at Castlederg and other points. Over Thirty Houses Burned. More than thirty houses wers burned In Milfield and. Paters Hill area of Belfast yesterday. Only the skeleton” walls of thirteen hou: in Boyd strest remain. All the fourteen housés on Peters place were de- stroyed, while dwellings on Califor- nia_street and Woodford street were damaged by fire.and looted. o Today a public house in Peters Hill was burned. Heavy firing occurred near the Stanhope street area, after which the police made extensive raids, for arms. The barracks of the special consta- bl at ,Cro glen and Jackeon House, t¥o miles inside the Louth- Armagh border, were attacked today by parties of armed msn. Heavy rifi firing ensued for a half hour, after gt sty ssatine sy il 2 : out. !%0%:!{!» destroyer Warwick to- 'day. held ‘up & steamer from- Moville d_put polic Mnaznqm d ut police on AL oy Soars 'i'ufi ‘passe s but made no % * ACCIDENT TO BE PROBED. 'NEWPORT NEWS, Va, June 1— T reot Langley Field authorities have .or- u&“tr%::&l“r“’ ‘; wri?.' resi- | dered board oll h;uuln‘ to make dents to Inform on tl oom] 1 13 thy - it any corrections of address, Sl acsiaant i Fichmiond. yesters printed in the - Are ‘which resuited in the death of e daids may be. flad tn anag|Lie0t WHIAM 4 Eydnor A5 E‘J tor boi St B . e g % it -'m‘m rvice Yo | LADY DU OROS WINS DIVORCE T oAty & divores. trom. ot f.‘ fl':lur‘u Cros, M..P., on the grounds P S luct. an - decree of réstitution ° definite is known by outsiders of the “Interesting” project sald to have been brought to Paris by J. P. Mor- gan. The probabilities are, however, thgt the conditions under which the bankers might find a loan possible are about as follows: Stabilization of the German mark by stopping G n inflation and in- sisting on the neing of the Ger- man budget. A moratorium for Germany corre- sponding to the sizé of the loan and pending the establishment of a new scale of payments a few years hence. Fixing the size of the loan at a figure Germany can pay without re- sorting to fresh inflation. Would Modify Treaty. Priority in the payment of the loan over future reparations payments and a corresponding modification of the treaty of Versailles. Assurances that so long as Ger- many meets the conditions of the loan and proves reasonable in future reparations payments there will be no outside military or political inter- ference with German productivity. Accordance to Germany of a fair share of the proceeds of the loan s0 that productivity shall not be limited unnecessarily by lack of raw stuffs. Guaranties based first on the re- turns from the German customs, rail- ways, mines and forests, and corre- sponding modification of the treaty of ersailles, and, second ,the possible underwriting of the bonds by France and Britain. Present indications, as the writer has said, are that France is ready to listen to some such proposals. REPLY WINS APPROVAL. Germany Granted Provisional Moratorium for 1922. PARIS, June 1.—The commission last night fully approved the German reply and definitely decided to grant Ger- many a provisional moratorium for the year 1922, The decision was unanimous, the French delegate joining in it. The action taken by the German government to put its finances on a sound basis and eliminate as much as possible the wholesale printiug of money paper constitutes “a serious effort t0 meet the commission’s re- Quirements,” the decision says. Re- gret is expressed, however, that Ger- many did not begin at an earlier dute steps In this direction. Negotiations Unfinished. In its letter to Chancellor Wirth the commission states that in view of the importance of an immediate decision upon the question of poust- ponement of payments, the commis. sion felt justified in taking prompt action, notwithstanding the fact that on several points Germany's answer requires further elucidation. The commission informs the Ger- man chancellor that th will be dealt with in it is indicated that these matters are of minor importance and will have no effect on the present decision. In making the decision to grant partial postponément of payments in 1922, beginning June 1, the commission 'he commission recalls that ti Fo-t(ponlmont now confirmed remains lable to be cancelled at any time in accordance with its previous de- cislon it the commission is subse- quently satisfied that Germany has ;uled to carry out the conditions laid lown," The commissfon further re right to can€el pe any time 1t beco: the progress made in the settlement of matters still outstanding, or fail- ing to carry through the arrange- ment in regard to the floating debt specified in the chancellor's letter of ay 28, or, bécause of inability to obtain the assistance of a foreign loan, Germany does not make alter- ative arrangements satisfactory to the commission for dealing with the budget déficit and the floating debt. KU KLUX BLAME DENIED. Professor’s . Besignation at North Carclina College Not So Charged. GREENSBORO, N. C., June 1.—The Teceipt recently of a letter demanding the resignation of Dr. E. C. Lindeman, protessor ot sociology and economics ‘at_the North Carolina State College for Women, had “nothing whatever to rei do with. Prof. Lindeman's ation or its acceptance” by the board of ai- rectors, it was made plain in a tormal statement issued today. Dr. Lindéman tendered his resigna- tion onh April 4, but it was not acted upon until last night. Previously, PRrestdent Foust had received a letter, signed “Ku .Klux Klan," demandin the resignation, but Col. f Simmons ot Atlanta, imperial wizard of the kian, ‘denied that his organi- sation had anything to do with the letter. . T e col atement read: “Inssmuch as the question has been ratsed’as tlo“ :lnlhhc:d or notl-nmmu. cret organization anything to do with bis resignation, the bo.r:‘l ey _GREEK:COMMANDER QUITS. - reparations | J. to its ultimatum |® 82 Lowest Card Today in Second Half at Colum- bia Club. High scores continued to be the rule rather than the exception in the second half of the qualifying round in the Columbia Country Club’s spring golt tournament today. of 8 Other scores turned in up to noon follow. Orme, Columbia, 89. R. E. Chapin, Columbia, 88. Sherman Phillips, Bannockburn, $9. Hugh McKenzie, Columbia, 89. Roger Coombs, Kirkside, 90. Thomas Elliott, Baltimore, 90. A. H. Sisson, Baltimore, 91. E. Lodge Hill, Columbia, 93. W. J. McNally, Columbia, 94. . C. B. Asher, Columbia, 95. R. R. Emmett, Baltimore, 97. G. D. Kirkpatrick, Washington, 97. L. B. Platt, Washington, 99. W. A. McGuire, Columbia, 100. H. A. Fowler, Columbia, 10: Conditions today were very similar to those of yesterday, the putting greens being unusually keen and the course a whole quite fast. Tuckerman Leads. Although he found ample trouble on two occasions, Walter R. Tucker- man, star golfer of the Chevy Chase Club, led a field of nearly one hun- dred players in the first half of the aulmylnt round of the Columbia ountry Club's spring tournament yuurfln{. turning in a card of 81, one stroke in front of G. H. Chasmar, chairman of the ns committee of the club. A strol behind Chasmar southpaw golfer of Chevy Chase, while Donald “’o‘q- ward of Columbia was next with B4. These were the only players to break 85 over th during the first day’s play in the medal round. S eral of the by of the local players and practically all the out-of-town entrants are scheduled to start today. Keen greens and fast ays ran the score u: to high figu: yester- day, and although n rlz one hundred ers started, only fifty-eight cards were turned in. The greens were fast and true, but it was practically impossible to pitch to them and hold the ball unless the golfer had the cut-shot of a Hutchison. Conditions today, unless rain fell, were expected to be similar, although, on account of the class of the field starting today, llt was. cfip;ceud a score of 85 Br be;- er woul nece; to get in the first flight. At Exeellent Game Played. Tuckerman played splendid golf to secure his score of 81—far better golf than the » indicated. His tee shot at the seventh hole went out of bounds and he took a 6 to the hole. At the eleventh, he got into severe trouble from the tee, met further trouble nearer the hole. and was finally down in eight shots. A 6 on the seventeenth did not help his card. With the exception of these three holes, the former District champion played fine golf. Visiting golfers will be the guests of the Columbia Country Club t night at a dinner at the clubhousé, to which all entrants in the tourney are invited. The entertainment com- mittee, headed by Herbert T. Shan- non, promises some novel features, and inssmuch as speeches are barred, a good time Is anticipated. Scores Turned I ev- erman, Chéry Chase, 81; G. 85; Bumuel Daisell, ‘Woodward, Ool.. : d. 88: Clark ©. Grimtn, Col., 86: J. Col.. 86: Hogh H. Saum, Col S Giman.” Guivy, Chkec 8 Sobs €. Devia 7 :‘;‘: R. )i«g:h;.-.l;:.‘-a.h 3 e, 91 . “Har D. DY’ rew, Chevy Chl:.- Ban 91: E. H. Rasn. Doyle, Ba George T. Perkius, Col., s . P Bann.. 93 Reeve Lewi Chery ‘Chase, 93; . K Proon, P roard, Col., 94:. 94: C. A. Biater, Col. English, " : KB Ritchie, Col 98; iman Hendrick. Col., 98; 9: J. B, Bana. , 100; Charles Selden, Moil, Col.,_101; Her- ., 101; L.'S. Ftasts, : &, Kaitmen, Chevy Chase: 105 nd R. MacKensle, Col, 105; G. C: Edler, Wash., 105; Major H. Robb, Basn., 107. RETIREMENT LAW REVISION ARGUED Representative Fairfield in Plea for Bill Before Committee. Representative Fairfield of Indiana appeared before the House rules com- mittee today seeking privileged con- sideration in the House of his bill to amend the retirement act so as to take care of the veteran employes caught in an emergency arising out of summary dismissal from the ice, due to & reduction of force. ‘The committee postponed action, but assured Mr. Fairfield that they would give consideration to his argu- ments a little later when they had more time to study conditions. =i Provisiens of Bill In brie?, Mr. Fairfield’s bill provides that a man in the service for fifteen when he reaches the it dropped through no rve an annuity when he reaches the re- tirement age, which in the case of hanics sixty-five and other t ment 3ge. The Mr involved is very small, Representative irfield _ explal from 300 500 e Laaiy ave: yesrn® some ~ - 'le ‘were within a few months of the retirement age. . . ‘Would Uade Injustice. The general retirement act, Repre- mtnfv'o rulrfl:}il emphasized, con- 200, | measures that have been referred to y = % test against these or any further at ton umm:"upon the part of the head of Donaid committee, -2 committze that h: lwork&d faitnfully in the considera- BORIS INITIATES = - ““WORK ERA FOR RULERS BY DIGGING IN GARDEN By theAseociated Presi. SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 1—King Boris of Bulgaria has become his “own gardener. He may ba seen any day at the palace grounds, spade in hand and dressed in an old Mnen duster, digging potatoes or planting cabbage and turnips. He believes the time has when kings must be something than mere con- stitutional figureheads. “In our country,” he said, one must work. Our policy is “every on productivity. Even my _ sistes (Princess Eudoxia and Princess Nadejda) are doing their share. Yor u will find them in the kitchen doing some useful household tasks. Kings, as well a» countries, have their days of ty, and 1t is only through labor that we can regain our nor- mal level.” STERLING ASSAILS BROWN PLAN FOR RECLASSIFICATION (Continued from First Page.) chief of the United States bureau of efficiency becomes apparent. He has devised a three-cup game of “now you see it, ad now you don't,” whereby, while we are all talking about rewarding the eflclent government employes according to his efficiency, Mr. Brown gets our eye on an efficiency rating, and ends us up with the average employe of the lower ranks at or below the mid. dle of his grade regardless of the efficiency of the average employe. We are mesmerized for a moment ir a sort of haze of quantity, quality, percentages and standards, and we come to at the end, when Mr. Brown's “Q. E. D.” rouses us to the fact that he has safely kept the average lllil;y from rising regardless of the ef- ficlency of the employes. Provide Elastic Standard. “The trick is done by havi standard for measuring the q of work done by employes, working in groups of five or more of one grade uns:r a single supervisor, made cut the ntity t rubber or any other sufiiciantly 2lnnc material so that it will stretch. If the employes begin to et 30 efficient that there is some dan of the average salary for the roup getting above the middla rate ’nr the average, all you have to do is to stretch the standard and they are safely back where they started. Now and then one peculiarly efficient may be permifted to reach the upper rates, but it will be at the expense of others in the group, who will fall a corre- sponding distance below the average. “Figures, percentages, averages, in the hands o?lo experienced efficiency expert the chief of the United States bureau of efficiency, hlrnllh{ of course, the necessary elastic medium for a standard. In his book of rules for the system in paragraph 30 he provides for an appropriate test 1o determine that the standard has been stretched to just the proper length so that the average quantity rating for the group will not exceed 100 per cent. The quality rating cannot excecd .lofl per cent and therefore the prodict of the two cannot give an efficiency rat- ing over a 100 and a nunfi of 100 puts the employes at the middle sal- ary fo: the grade. Ethics Different From Brown's. “Some of us seem to belong to a school of thought or of ethics very different from the oneTo! w';l:::.:!a" wn is an exponent. To us - Errg is melhlgs fixed and uniform and not something which wit} vary from department to department, from bureau to bureau, f"rom office 10 office and from time to time. To_us the ideals of equal pay for | equal work, payment on the basis of efficiency, and justice alike to the government and to the employes are something more than pleasant phirases. Mr. President, I am unable to sit quietly by while a echeme is established without conlul!lnx Con- gress which privides for classification by analogy, allocation by adjustment, and efficiency measurement by a vari- le instead of a standard. “As chairman of the civil service tion of the various reclassification t; that has been in closé touch with {he civil service committee of the House and its chairm: 3 bach; that has given attention to the work and the report of the joint re- classification commission; that has consulted well recognized experts in reclassification and personnel prob- lems, and having no other interest than the good of the service at heart, and feeling, I think, the full weight of my responsibility in this most im- portant matter, 1 most earnestly pro- the bureau of efficiency to carry out a scheme which I believe is bound to prove unsatisfactory to the govern- ment, the heads of départments, and unjust to employes—and s0_proving, it will be detrimental to thé public welfare.” At the conclusion of his speech Sen- ator Sterling introduced a resolution thorising the civil service commit- tee “to investigate and report upon the activities, methods &nd procedure of the United States bureau of efl- ciency in devising and installing a system of classification of position: salary standardizations and efficienc: i ratings in the federal service and | upon the acitvities of the bureau, its chief or any o sistants in o] posing pending legislation on the: subjects.” The resolution went over under the for consideration on another ru! day, —_— FRENCH TO PROSECUTE PRESS FOR CRANE REPORT Authorities in Syria, Continue to Issue Denials Regarding Sen- tence on American. CAIRO, Egypt, June 1.—The French authorities in Syria, it is learned here, in reiterating denials of the re- ort that Charles R. Crane of Chicago 4 béen Mentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment by _the military at Damascus, declared that any news- paper within the French jurisdiction which published the report of the al- leged sentencé would be prosecuted. In some quarters here, however, the xpréssed that publication of permitted in order upon the Syrians the mag- mitude of France's military strength in Syris. On this assumption Amer- 8 in Cairo h expressed resent- {:::1 at what 4ppeared to them to have been a schems to juggle with an rican’s name In_the orient, par- a:‘n"nly in Syris, in order to frighten the Syrian insurgents, saud their un- derstanding is that the matter is not closed. WILL-RETIRE RAIL BONDS. New York Gentral’s Move Evidence of Easler Money Rates. Evidence of ‘easier money rates ‘were further sesn.today in an appli- L Interstats .Commerce uuo-h:&‘m‘.’ the.New York Central road for issuance of $25,000,000 in 6 per vent bonds, from the sale o which it will pay off ahead of ma- turity an fssue of 7 per. cent bonds of lar. ot ad’s statément sald that 1ts. l&m 4ssue of ten-ysar 7 per ‘cent bonds now outstanding could be redeemed &t 105 on any interest date and that-the payment 6t the prémium and ‘the replacement of the 7 per cent issue with the § per cént issus would result .in decreased annual capital i3 - MAY KAME WONAN ONNEN RENT BODY President Expected to An- "nounce Appointments This Week. Bellef that President Harding has about completeq a list of nominees for the new Rent Commission was expressed today by persons who have beern. to the White House recently in connection with the proposed ap- pointments. The Impression was gaired that announcement of the five names selected would be forthcom- ing before the end of this week. It is generally expected in authori- tative quarters that the list of pros- pective nominees presented to President yesterday by Senator Bal author of the rent act, and Edward F. CoMaday, republican national committeeman for the District of Co- lumbia, has receivéd favorable con- sideration at the White House. Much credit is given by those in touch with administrative circles to the report that Oliver Metzerott, local lawer and former republican state senator in Maryland; Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, prominent woman lawyer, and Thomas E. Peeney, secre- tary to Senator Ball, stand good chances of being among the nomi- nees. There are several other men and women whose friends believe may Le selected to serve on the new rent board, among them James Coleman. representing local labor organiza- tions; Mrs. Ashley Gould, widow of the late justice; Henry A. Baker, at- torney, of this city and a voter in West Virginia, who is said to be backed by the entire West Virginia delegation in Congress, and Thomas L. Jones, colored lawyer. There is little doubt in the minds of persons who have been following the rent situation here that Gude, present rent commiselor not fail of nomination for r ment but for his recent announcement of his desire to withdraw from the commission because of the pressure of private business. Some consider it possible that the President may renom- fnate him anyway, for complimentary reasons. Much speculation is rife re- garding the likelihood of A. Leftwich Sinclair and Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor being also reappointed. CONCESSIONS BY SOVIET FORESEEN AT THE HAGUZ Belief Held Rights to Exploit Nat- ural Resources Will Be Offered to Obtain Credit. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 1.—Leonid Krassin and Maxim Litvinoff will probably be the chief Russian -delegates to The Hague conference, with a third soviet plenipotentiary representing Georgia, which, with Azerhaijan, is the great oil center «f southwestern Russia. This shows the importance the bolsheviki will attach to concessions, chiefly oil, in their efforts at The Hague to obtain direct credits in ex- change for the privilege of exploiting the rich natural resources of the country they control. Both Georgia and Azerbaijan vainly protested at the Genoa conference against the military occupation of their republics by the soviet srmies, and issued a warning that any con- cessions made by the soviets would never be recognized by the “true governments” of those countries, which have already been recognized by -the European powers as inde- pendent states. THREE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TO END TERMS Wide Interest in Vacancies to Be Filled Late in Present Month. \ With the terms of three members of the board of education to expire June 30, school officials are manifesting considerable interest over their prob- able successors. Those whose serv- ices on the board will be terminated are Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, acting president; Danlel J. Callahan and Dr. J. Hayden Johnson. Mr. Callahan's term has been brief, he being appointed several months ago to fill out the unexpired tenure of ‘Daniel A. Edwards, who resigned School officials believe he will be re- appointed Dr. Johnson is one of the veteran membeérs of the board from the point of seérvice, and is now rounding out Xth yéar as a member of that v. Mrs. Hodgkins' service on the board also h been comparatively short, as she was appointed to fill the unexpired term of - Mrs. Margarita Spaulding Gerry. Due to the fact that the annual re- organization meeting of the school board will be July 1, when officers for the ensuing vear will be elected, it is believed that the justices of the District Supreme Court will soon take action to NIl the vacancies to be created by the expiration of the terms of the three members. As only a month intervenes before the reorganization meeting. it is con- sidered unlikely that the board will elect a_president to serve for that time. filled since Mr. Edwards’ resignation, Mrs. Hodgkins, the vice presideént, acting in that office. e — HOOVER’S PLAN FAILS Independents in New York Want Hands-Of Policy Maintained by Government. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 1.—Independent coal qperators in New York, partic- ularly theowners of non-union mines, showed little enthusiasm for the Hoover plan to supress profiteering during the strike by mutual agree- ment to keep down prices. The tenor of their comment was that tl “hands oft” policy adopted by the administration early in the strike, when it refused to warn the public of the impending shortage. should now be maintained. Producers foresaw the present state of the m-rket‘t-lm months ago and sought to av t, coal officials 4 <l . The com pany display ais- ted ¢ larger consumers early in April, warning them to miain- tain their reserves at current prices and avert a panicky market when the strike ennung.fl and.the nation's re- es were de; "R'. an inducément m bitumin- $2.15 and $2.28 per as said, Today red for at $4 to jcted that soft eokl'prices 'o.:la continue to soar, and that the public would suffer severely next win- ter unless the administration took im- was offered at ton Bt the mine, it the same coal 1s ¢ ton. remarkabie, tonsidering what s lo* her there is to assemble.. The presidency has been un- * TO ENTHUSE OPERATORS s to end wage differences. « E ;