Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1922, Page 1

Member of the Associated Press The Associnted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches WEATHER. Generally falr and continued warm tonight and tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hou eredited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and lso the local news published herein. Highest, 8 - | posing camps. ended at 2 pm. today: at 3 p.m. yesterday; lo a.m. today. Full report on page 4. west, 71, at b Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 28,528. 0. PARALYSIS OF 0. S RAILROADS JULY 1 NOW A POSSIBILITY Strike Ballots Go to Em- ployes Affected by Big Wage Reductions. MAY TAKE THIRTY DAYS TO DETERMINE RESULT Proposed Schedule Does Not Per- mit Living Wage, B. M. Jewell Declares. By the Associated Press. ' CINCNINNATI, Ohio, June 7—A triple-barreled strike ballot, call- ing for a vote of the 400,000 rail- way shopmen of the country om three separate questions, was or- dered by the executive council of the six shop crafts unioms here today. Instructions were aent by B. M. Jewell, he: of the shop unions, to headquarters in Chi- ecago to expedite the printing and distribution of the ballots with all poasible speed. CHICAGO, June 7.—Strike ballots Feturnable June 30 went out today to raflway employes affected by wage reductions ordered by the United States Raflroad Labor Board. The vote will be taken by individ- val unfons whose 1,200,000 members are eaffected in orders either issued or pending. Paralysis of the nation's gnl]roads July 1 loomed as a possibility as a result of the reductions which have already slashed $110,000,000 from the wages of workers. The wage cut i effective July 1. Meanwhile the board Is preparing | to hear disputes this month between shop crafts emploves and some of the railroads over alleged unauthor- ized wage reductions and piecework. B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employes' department of the Amer- jcan Federation of Labor, who ls: Jeading the fight against the board's orders, was informed that the first of the hearings will be held tomorrow. Twenty-one railroads are cited for alleged unauthorized wage reductions for_the hearing. The Raiiroad Labor Board last night sent a communication to B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employes’ | department of the American Feden\»; tion of Labor, asserting that the board is in a position to handle expedi- usly disputes Retween the shop crafts and carriers involving alleged unauthorized wage reductions, plece- work disputes and the contracting out of shop work by railroads. The communication was in reply to a request of Mr. Jewell on Jume 1| when he appeared before the board nd cited a number of carriers which | 3 ] ‘he sald were violating the of the transportation act, and asked the board to assume jurisdiction and restore the status quo prior to hear- ings on pending decisions. JOINT ACTION UNPLEDGED. Ry the Associated Pres CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 7.—Labor Jeaders nere expressed the opinion | that it would take at least thirty days to spread and canvass the strike vote uthorized yesterday by eleven rail- toad brotherhoods and organizations. Approximately 1,200,000 workers are | sftected. The meeting of union heads at which it was decided to authorize the | strike vote was presided over by B.| NM. Jewell, president of the railway | epartment, American Federation of | hor. Others present were: W. H. hnson, machin A. Franklin, | hoilermaker nes, sheet metal gmeyer, black electric: car_men Grable, 1, n. naintes y J. Manion, telegraphers; Timoth v, station ary firemen, and D. . signal- men. In a formal statement it was made plain that no agreement was reached that concerted action would be taken. This was impossible, it was explain- | «d, because the several executives had | not been advised by their member- xhip whether or not they would be| authorized to call a strike Mr. Jewell, in a statement, declared tiie wages of the seven larger groups of rail workers, under the new rafl- road Labor Board orders, “do not permit of a living wage and are wholly at varlance with the ‘saving’ ge championed by Secretary of Labor“Davis and President Harding.” CHINESE ON VERGE OF NEW CMIL WAR Ry the Assoclated Press. PEKING, June 7.—Developments of 1he last twenty-four hours indicated early today that China, which a few days ago seemed on the verge of a unified government, located here, was in grave danger of a worse split than ever, with the north and south drift- ing only toward civil war. Wu Pei-Fu's plan for Li Yuan-Hung to resume the presidency of a cen- tralized government in Peking was feared to have shattered itself against a rock of opposition in the form of Sun Yat Sen, who, according to ad- Vices received here yesterday, de- clared he would refuse to relinquish the presidency of his South China re- public at Canton. Want Li Reinstated. ‘Wu had won the support of about 200 members of the old national par- Jiament, now assembled at Tientsin, and they had urged ex-President LI 1o take back the executive office, from which he was ousted by the militar- ists in 1917. LI however, withheld his accéptance pending certain condi- tions, one of which was the diss jution of the South China republic. Thus everything depended on ‘Li Yuan-Hung. If he accepted, there seemed no obstacle in the way of the scheme Gen. Wu and his supporters suggested after he had conquered «<hang Tso-Lin In battle and driven him back into Manchuria. 8ince the resignation of Hsu Shih- Chang as president, the Peking gov- ernment—the only government which has been recognized by the foreign ywers—has been in the hands of a citizens’ committee. Tn the last ten days Wu has said sthat unless Sun resigned the Chihll gorces of Wu would invade the South «China territory. n.‘oru yesterday also stated that $Sun had persuaded many members of the old parliamenf—still in Canton— to rally around his standard. This, sccording to Canton advices, was en- Jareing dnilv the scope of the op- | provided in the Anglo-Irish treaty, | 1ater | the polls, which had lately been al- Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. U. S. TO PROBE SEIZURE OF SHIP BY ENGLAND Irish Cargo May 17 Contained “Lard” That Was in Reality ‘War Munitions, Claim. British seizure of the U. S. Ship- ping Board ship Seattle Spirit for transporting munitions to Ireland will be investigated immediately by the Shipping Board officials, accord- ing to an annbuncement made to- day by Chalrman Lasker. It was learned by Chairman Lasker today that the shippers were the Manhattan Oleo Agency, and that the shipment was made through the Barr, Shipping Company, brokers. The ‘goods were billed as forty bar- rels of lard and were shipped to the order of the shippers, the shipment going forward to Ireland on the Seattle Spirit May 17. The “lard,” proved to be munitions, according to reports. Chairman Lasker is awaiting an additional re- port from Moore & McCormack, the agents of the Shipping Board who handled the transaction, and as soon as thelr report is recelved, all the documents in the case wil] be turned over to the Department of Justice, he said. IRISH CONSTITUTION DRAFT IS REVISED Oath of Allegiance and Stay- ing in Empire Are Among Vital Provisions. By the Assoctated Press. LONDON, June 7.—The revised draft of the Irish constitution brought to London today by Arthur Griffith, president of dall eireann, provides among qther things, says the Evening News, “that Ireland shall remain within the empire In the ‘same way as a dominion.” “Decisions of the privy council,” says the newspaper, “shall be final in | all constitutional matters concerning the free state, subject to certain conditions. Assent of the crown must be obtained to all legislation in the free state. The oath of allegiance, shall be observed.” The News says it Is lnderstood that there has been also some mod- ifications in the earlier provisions in the draft giving the free state wider control over foreign affairs than the imperial government was prepared to congede. These discussions are being resum- ed today the News asserts, in a dis- tinctly more promising atmosphere. Arthur Griffith, president of the dall eiroann, ~accompanied by Kevin O'Higgins and Hugh Kennedy, ar- rived from Dublin this morning for a resumption of their negotiations with the British cabinet, and Prime Minister Lloyd George left Criccieth, Wales, for London Envoys See Churchill. Mr. Grifith and his colleagues met Winston Churchill, secretary for *he colonies, during the morning and con- ferred for two hours with him. Mr. Griffith declined to make any state- | ment regarding this conference, but | sald another meeting would be held | in the day and probably a further conference tomorrow. Meanwhile yesterday's ncminations for the Irish elections on June 16 are attracting attention. The fact that the nominations indicate there will be contests in twenty of the twenty- seven group constituencies is regard- ed here as reviving the hope for an unfettered expression of opinion at most abandoned. The appeal by Michael Collins, head of the provisional Irish Free State government, for an investigation of the occupation of Pettigoe by British troops is understood to be under con- sideration by Mr. Churchill. After WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1922—THIRTY-TWO U. . TAKES HAND, BUT FAILS T0 END COAL MINE STRIKE Hoover Tells Senate He and Davis Made Suggestions Without Avail. PRICE CONFERENCE HELD WITHOUT FORCE OF LAW Walsh and Borah Plan to Bring Up Price Question—Want Data on Anthracite. Secretary Hoover in & report sent to the Senate today. disclosed that he and Secretary Davis had sought to present recently suggestions which it had been hoped would lead to a settlement of the existing coal strike, but so far the efforts had been with- out result. The Commerce Secretary’s state- ment, which was the first disclosure that the government had sought to intervene In the struggle between the United Mine Workers and oper- ators of union fields, was contained in a response to the resolution by Senator Walsh, democrat, Massachu- setts, adopted by the Senate several days ago, calling for information re: garding the coal situation. Referring to the conferences he re- cently has held with the operators, which resulted in an agreement to maintain certaln price levels, Secre- tary Hoover sald the government “had no legal authority to intervene” in such matters as prices and the agreements had “no force of law,” but it was hoped that they would be observed. Mr. Hoover sald that such intervention was resorted to when prices began to rise after the strike began last April 1. Citing that the price of bituminous coal rose to $12 a ton in 1920, Mr. Hoover said: “I am in hopes that the actions taken may save the public from a recurrence of such profiteering as developed In that panic period.” Statistics asked by the Walsh reso- lution on consumption and production of bituminous coal were furnished by Secretary Hoover, who said the ccnsumption between April 1 and Jine 4 was estimated at 65,000,000 tons. On June 4, the lotter stated, it was estimated that there was on hand a supply of 32,000,000 tons, with possibly 10,000,000 tons more in transit. Estimates of production since the strike began, Mr. Hoover said, came from the railways:; the government being without more definite informa- tion of its own. Coincident with receipt by the Senate of Secretary Hoover's report, a movement was gotten under way by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, chairman of the Senate labor coms ittee, and Senator Walsh, for bring- ing the coal-price situation before the Senate. They planned to inquire into complaints of the National Re- tail Coal Dealers’ Association that undue prices had been demanded by operators. A committee investigation was under _consideration, according to Senator Walsh, who also planned to introduce another resolution to call upon Secretary Hoover for sim- ilar information regarding the an- thracite situation as that secured on the bituminous. MINERS REJECT OFFER. Anthracite Operators’ Plan Voted Down—Counter Proposal Ordered. By the Assoclated Press. HAZLETON, Pa., une 7.—Members of the anthracite miners’ general scale committee at their meeting yesterday unanimously voted rejection of the ar- further consideration by the other British signatories to the Anglo-Irish treaty the appeal will be submitted to the full cabinet. QUIET ON BORDER LINE. Some Refugees Return to Belleek. Belfast House Bombed. By the Assoclated Press. BELFAST, June 7.—Nearly all the noncombatants have left the Belleek district in northwestern Fermanagh, and the cattle are wandering aimlessly over the countryside. Only Irish re- publican army patrols from the fort are seen moving about. Entrance to the village of Pettigoe, ten miles to the northeast, has been prohibited except to those having per- mits. Residents who fled during the fighting between the British and Sinn (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) bitration offer as submitted last week by the operators of the hard coal fleld. Continuance of the wage negotiations however, was provided for in action of the committee in directing a sub- committee to draft & counter proposal to that of the operators’. This counter proposal will be sumitted to the gen- eral scale committee for approval at another meeting here today Vice President Philip J Murray, in a statement after the meeting an- nounced this course on the part of the committee He also stated that the details of the proposal the miners will submit at a meeting of the oper- ators and miners in New York next week would be kept secret until pre- sented ‘There will, however, be a statement at the conclusion of the session which will outline the miners’ stand, Murray said Keen interest marked the progress{ of the meeting, which was held in the auditorium of the St. Gabriel’s School building. MOTHERS PLAN FLAPPER FASHION IN WARFARE ON VAMPISHNESS BY JANE COMPTO) Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, June 7.—Brooklyn mothers who recently established a code of rules for the conduct of thelr flapper daughters now are. planning a fashion show for flappers, because they belleve that clothes have their effect both on manners and morals. Frocks that are smart, but very simple, will teach the young lady that she can look pretty without looking vampish, and that the less she strives to look like a heartbredk- er the more likely she will be to de- velop into one. The simple, refined young girl, not above being polite to her elders and rendering them 6bedience upon_oc- casion, is the ideal of this new Par- ents' League, in contrast with the fiippant young thing who “knows it all” and will not llsten to advice from any one. It is less than a fortnight since the Parents’ League decided to take the flapper in ‘hand, and already hun- dreds of letters from all parts of the country have poured in upon Mrs. F. O. Affeld, president of the organiza- tion. The letters glow with appro- bation, and In their cordiality as well as in their number they hint that the flapper is the greatest problem be- fore the United States today. Not the tariff, not the bonus, mot the Volstead act, but the young girl of the middle ‘teens. Similar Leagues Promised. As a result of the inspiration of Brooklyn mothers, who have definite- ly put their foot down on the youngsters' policy of 4 a.m. parties and other indiscretions, a score or more of officlals of women's clubs scattered from Maine to Californis have written to Mrs. Affeld of their intention to start similar leagues. It needed but the indignatiol of a group. / . - | ! of mothers who were tired of watch- ing the unseemly antics of their young to touch sparks to the powder. The result of the spark bids fair to be one magnificent maternal explo- sion from coast to tcoast of such pro- portions and such emphasis that it will make every rouged knee pale and every bobbed head ring. Brooklyn, in short, is determined to ‘rim:lke the flapper as extinct as the odo. ‘Whether Brooklyn will succeed, even with the enthusiastic co-opera- tion which is springing up daily, is still a matter of argument between the mother who forbids her daughter to go motoring unchaperoned and the daughter who smiles and disobeys. The Brooklyn Parents’ League, at any rate, has definite ideas and a definite policy, and it has, moreover, every intention of fighting the thing to the finish—win flapper, win mother. Meant te Keep Secreey. “We had intended to keep our anti- flapper program a little secret among ourselves,” admitted Mrs. Affeld to- day. “But somehow the news of our purpose leaked out and we have been both gratified and astonished at the response from out-of-town. Evident- ly we started no@athlns that other parents have been 'wishing somebody would start. ' It makes us hopeful of success.” To all of which Mrs. George S. g;nk, vice president of the leaghe, 5: “It 1sn’t so easy to bring up chil- dren so that they will be sweet and unsophisticated. It especially easy in a big city. And it is far less easy now that flapperism has been rampant for two or three seasons. That is why one mother alone is able to do so little in checking manners or fashions which' shie belleves to -be harmful for her .daughters. A lone A\ A\ .\\\\\\\\ News Note: Ambassador Harvey Decides to Abandon -“Knickies” for Formal Functions in London. IPRESIDENT MAY VETO BONUS BILL Present Plan “Said to Be Viewed by Him as Not for Country’s Interest. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. President Harding, according to credible information, s likely to veto the soldiers’ bonus bill to him in any of the forms now under consideration. House and Senate re- publicans appear to be intent upon sending a bill to him and putting him to the test as to the exercise of the veto prerogative. This condition of affairs s the sub- ject of animadveraion by the Presi- dent's friends in Congress, who are digposed to'the View that the Presi- dent is being put in a position in a way which is not quite fair to him. ‘The contentlon of the congressmen is said to be In effect that “The Presi- dent has two more years in which to counteract criticism from the ex- service men for a possible veto while we are facing them at the polls next November. We must save our bacon, and now 18 the appointed time to do 1t Coercion Not Considered. The President s understood by his friends to be Impervious to palitical considerations in connection with this legislation. He is said to hold that in any of the forms now pre- sented, the legislation would not be for the best interests of the whole country. It it is asked why the President does not then use his pre- sumed influence to head off the legis- lation, the President’s friends reply that he declared at the outset of his administration he would not seek to dictate to Congress. There is a difference, it is contended, between coercion of Congress during the pendency of legislation and its sub- sequent veto. The latter is a power vested in the chief executive by the Constitution of the United States and can not be classed as dictation. It is also pointed out that, in re- sponse to a legitimate inquiry, the President has indicated In a letter, over his own signature, his opinion of some features of the legislation and the effect thereof. It is not to be understood that the President has in any way threatened a veto, since| that would be ipdirect dictation. The President’'s position, as an- alyzed by his friends in Congress, is dignified and consistent. He will not seek to sway Congress in the exer- cise of the constitutional functions of the legislative branch, not even to the extent of indicating intention to use the veto and, in an entirely legit: imate way, has allowed his view: upon the subject to be known. ent Bonus Insistence. Some of the President's friends are resentful of the course which they attribute to the republicans, who are pushing the bonus legislation, alleg- ing it to be pclitical selfishness. They console themselves'in the thought, however, that even if the President is forced to the alternative of a veto and should adopt it, there might be compensation to’ him in the approval of an important section of the public. Recent primaries in widely separ. ated sections of the country have not, it is contended, served to indi- cate unanimous support of the sol- dier bonus. It may take a country- wide election to finally bring out the full extent of the publie feeling on the subject. There' are many re- publicans in both House and Senate who entertain misgivings as to the bonus legislation meeting the ap- proval of the majority. ’s News in Brief. Today’s News in Brief. 0Old guard silent over Towa dafpe:".a 1 La llette criticises U. S. ses‘:xlp?:me COI’;I?Q ‘decision in Coronado case. Page 2 anizations support Commis- T foners” plea for high-water pres- sure in business sections. Page 2 lumbia Helghts citizens ask school Coourds 'aid in obtaining_ play- ground: Page tor at Florida polls. Trammell victo: Page isn’t | Commissioner Wales outlines civil Al service tests aimed to roduce greater efficiency. age E big Russian land grant. Italians given big derant 1s U. 8. business man. Hoover extols Page 5 mother is nothing against flapper- | Seek mon-military premier lnPJ.-‘pellni dom. But 136 mothers and will work wonde: together can -pTeren girls a e rded eona e IR iIf it comes; Foeni WITH SUNDAY _YORNING EDITION PRINCETON TO BESTOW DOCTOR’S DEGREE UPON PRESIDENT HARDING President Harding will leave Washington tomorrow morning for Raritan, N. J., the home of Sena- tor Frelinghuysen, and on Friday will attend two ceremonies at Princeton, N. J., one of whici wil} be the unveiling of the Princeton battle monument, and the oth=c the commencement exercises at Prince- ton University. The President will be granted a doctor’s degree by the university, and Is expected to make two ad- dresses, one at the monument and the other in the university chapal. He will spend tomorrow night at the home of Senator Frelinghuy- sen. He will return to Wasaing- ton Friday morning. The monument is erected in com- memoration of the battle of Princeton’ in_which George Wash- ington, after crossing the Dela- surprised the British and Hessian forces In a successful tion early in the revolutionary war. OLD GUARD SILENT OVER WA RESULT G. 0. P. Organizatiorn Man Trails Behind Two Progressives. KEYSTONE SMITH BROOKHART, who, mccording to iatest reports, leads the field in the primary race for the Senate from Iowa. Brookhart is supposedly Judge William S. Kenyon's favorite in the race. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, lowa, June 7.—Non- committal acceptance at Washington by Senators Cummins and-Rawson of Iowa of the news of the Smith W. Brookhart landslide for United States senator aroused speculation in old guard circles here todiy as to how Brookhart would fit into the repub- lican party machinery. Returns from 2,235 Iowa precincts out of 2,348 for the republican- sera- torial nomination emphasized the progressive. victory giving Brookhart 411 per cent of the vote cast, and sent Clifford Thorne, another pro- gressive, into second place above Charles E. Pickett, the old guard re- publican candidate. The tally now gives: RBrookhart, 129,428; Thorne, 50,696; Pickets, 49,839; Francls, 3 024; Sweet, 33,962, and Stanley, 12,641. The fact that Cummins defeated Brookhart for senator two years ago after a campaign in which the latter attacked Cummins’ raliroad legisla- | tion record will not tend to bring harmony into the Iowa senatorial delegation, politicians pointed out. Despite refusal by many old guard republicans to acdept Brookhart's de- cisive victory over such stand-pat wheelhorses as Pickett as an old guard reversal, a silence reigned to- day concerning the plans of the re- publican organization for the ensuing campaign against Clyde L. Herring, the democratic nominee. Senator Rawson, who was. considered a com- 'promise possibility in the event the nomination-had gone to the state “ntion fn sl head of the state seBlion. g q Star. AGES. CAPPERS SCHOOL REPORTAPPROVED Joint Congressional Commit- tee Favors Independ- ent Plan. The tentative report drawn by Sen- ator Capper, chairman of a joint con- gressional committee on public schools in the Distriot, was generally approved by the joint committee at| a meeting last night in the Senate District committee office. The details of this report were recently published. It lays great stress upon the advis- ability of having the board of educa- tion control independently all ac- tivities relating ‘to the schools, . in- cluding financial matters. The re- port also deals at considerable length with the needs of additional school buildings and with need of changes in administration through the ap- pointment of additional assistant superintendents. The joint committee, it was learned | today, desires to have inserted in the report some recommendations regard- ing the development of vocational education. It will ask Dr. Thomas W. Finnegan, public school commissioner of Pennsylvania, to come here again and aid in drafting that part of the report. Members of the jolnt committee have been Impressed with a sug- gestion from the Secretary of Agri- culture, looking to the establishment jof an agricultural high school on the | outskirts of Washington, and some- thing in regard to this may also be placed in the final report. Another meeting of the joint com- mittee will be called soon, and after Dr. Finnegan has been heard. the re- port will be put into final form for submission to the District committees of both houses and ultimately to the House and Senate. | —_— SECRETARY FOR TRADES. Should Be Taught All Children, Mr. Davis Tells Railway Men. A trade ‘should be taught every child, 8o tha't it will be able to earn a living, Secretary of Labor Davis told members of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Rallway Workers last night at th Typographical Temple. o In discussing wages and hours of | labor, Secretary Davis said he was opposed to a “living wage” because such 1s insufficient, but favored a “saving wage,” whereby a man would be paid enough to enable him to care for his children properly and to lay some aside to care for emergencies. He also declared himself as an advocate of the eight-hour day as a maximum, declaring that this perfod was long enough for any one to work, He predicted the end of the twelve- hour day in the steel indu: near future. —_— POSTAL REVENUES GAIN. Increase Indicates Picking Up in Business. Businegs is seen picking u postal officials, as the relgult p‘“b:’ 10.18 per ceng increase in postal busi- ness at the fifty largest post offices of the country during May, as com- pared with May, 1921. Total revenues ;clsli l;lle past month were $22,316,- The Washington city post office stood sixteenth in the list, with a business of $317,799.51 during the May just passed, or a 6.50 psr cent increase over M; 1921, stry in thei SEX POLITICS HELD PERIL TO GOOD | GOVERNMENT, SAYS SENATOR WILLIS By the Assqriated Press, OXFORD, Ohio, June 7.—Ameri- can women should co-operate with ‘men in their political activities and “not descend to the untenable position that with suffrage now “extended to them political action hereafter should be based on sex alighment,” Senator Frank B. Wil- 1is of Ohio, declared here today, in & commencement address, at Wes ern College. By the latter course, he said, they would “wesaken tI cause of good government and a mit as false the chief argument on which they relled to win, their - “Lat ‘women and good men wor}: e ther Sematar . Willis *rgu(lg and strengthen B TG T {it has existed in the United States AN rights dispatches of publication of speetal berein are also reserved. * ALiIMONY FOR HUSBAND IMPOSSIBLE, DECLARES STATE SUPREME COURT By the Associated Pres OLYMPIA, Wash.,, June 7.—Le- gally, alimony for a husband is an unheard of thing, according to the ‘Wastington supreme court. The wife cannot be held liable for “temporary auit money,” “temporary attorneys’ fees” and “temporary maintenance,” as hus- bands can when conditions are re- versed, said the court. The supreme court even went to the length of declaring that under common law no husband has a zight to alimony. The court yesterday upset and set aside the decision of Superior Agnes Jacobsen liable for tem- porary suit money, temporary at- torneys’ fees and temporary main- tenance for her husband, Jacobsen. LA FOLLETTE HITS USSUPREMECOURT Criticises Decision in Coro- nada Case as Ominous for Union Labor. Declaring that the Supreme Court dectsion in the Coronadc case was the “most ominous in what it foreshadows for the future of union labor in this| country,” Senator La Follette, re-| publican, Wisconsin, today issued a! statement in which he criticised the | court. The opinion, he stated, was| “significant because of what the court | says on questions not involved in the case rather than because of anything | that is actually decided.” Six-Line Decision Noted. | i After reviewing the conditions| which led up to and prevailed during the strike in the Arkansas coal mines in 1914, upon which the case was based, the Wisconsin senator declared “a six-line decision was all that was required to dispose of the case on its merits, for the Supreme Court was | eluctantly obliged to admit the fact | s I have stated,” the reference being | to his assertion that “there is not and never was any case against the de- | fendants in the federal court.” The Supreme Court, however, Sena- tor La Follette stated, “went out, of its way through twenty-nine pages to be- rate the defendants and to characterize them as outlaws and murderers, and | the Chief Justice wound up his opinion by saying: ‘The circumstances are such as to awake a regret that in our view of the federal jurisdiction we affirm the jodgment.’” o The court also went out of its way, the senator said, “to change the law as John since the beginning of the government, that unincorporated associations, such | as are involved here, could not be sued as an entity.” Reviewing what it | stated was the authority of the court upon which it based that finding, Sena- tor La Foliette charged -that “Chief Justice Taft neglected to state that as the result of the Taff-Valie case, the | British parliament passed a statute | which cut up that decision, root and | branch, and made it impossible for an English court to ever render a similar . “No doubt our*Supreme Court feels secure behind the bulwark of a written | Constitution, the meaning of which | that court has arrogated to itself the function of finally determining,” the senator concluded. { BANKERS' POWERS | INLOAN ENLARGED Allied Commission Votes 3 to 1, Inviting Suggestions Re- garding Plan for Germany. By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 7.—The allied repara- tions commission, according to the semi-official Temps, voted three to one today to enlarge the powers of | the bankers who are considering a| loan for Germany, authorizing them | to make any suggestions they wish tional loan. 'Louis Dubois, the French member of the commission, adds the newspaper, cast the only negative vote. The utmost secrecy surrounded the decision, all the members refusing to discuss the question. The committee of bankers, which planned to meet late this afternoon, was expected simply to receive the reparation com- mission’s reply and adjourn until to- morrow to give it time to consider the reply. Louis Dubois, French member of the | reparations commisslon, conferred | with President Millerand today after | a short talk with Premier ®Poincare before the session of the commission. This was regarded in official circles as significant of the gravity of the situation from the French viewpoint, GOODRICH IN MOSCOW. MOSCOW, June 7.—James T. Good- rich, former Governor of Indiana, and Mrs. Goodrich have arrived in Mos- cow. Mr. Goodrich will remain here a month and return to the United States, while Mrs. Goodrich will pro- ceed to Japal and give new vision to the political parties now extant. If it is found that the old pnlitical fabrics are weakened and outgrown beyond rebuilding and repair (a condition which, in my judgment, will not be found to exist), then let new political organizations be formed by good women and good men, co- operating for the advancement of the common welfare; but let no such new organizations be based on the idea of se; Because women, the speaker said, Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 88,136 TWO CENTS. JONES BILL GOES 10 HOUSE WHEN FOCHT SAYS S0 Chairman Campbell of Rules Committee Disclaims Responsibility. REPORT DOESN’T CARRY ANY PRIVILEGED STATUS Conference on District Fiscal Meas- ure to Be Held Tomorrow. When the Jones resolution-prov. Ing for an investigation of the fiscal affairs of the District government by a joint congmessional committee shall be considered in the House depends entirely upon Chairman Focht of the House District committee. This Statement was made today by Chair- man Campbell of the rules commit- tees, which has favorably reported the Jones resolution. Chairman Campbell explained that the report of the rules committee dees not carry any privileged status; that this measure goes on the cal- endar and is for consideration either under unanimous consent or on some day devoted to District legislation Committee to Confer. The House District committee is to confer tomorrow regarding when the Jones' resolutior. will be called up in the House. Some members are in favor of instructing Chairman Focht to endeavor to pass this resolution at once under a unanimous consent re- quest. The District committee is particu- larly anxious to have this fiscal in- vestigation started as soon as posei- ble because they have learned that the conferees on the District appro. priation bill are waiting such action before reaching an agreement on the first section of the bill, as amended by the House. i Relates to Su This section relates directly to the proposed accumulation of a surplus fund sufficient to pay the expenses of the District for one year in ad- vance. The reason behind the pro- posed Invesiigation of the fiscal af- fairs of the District is the claim by the District government tha¥ there is & balance of 35,000,000 to-the credit of the District in the federal Treas- ury. Today was the regular District committee meeting, but the meeting was postponed until tomorrow, owing to the absence of Chairman Focht from the city. TEST MRS. WARD'S RELUGTANT STORY District Attorney’s Det-ec- tives Investigate Details in Slaying Case. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. June Detectives for District Attorney Weeks were busy today investigating the statements made before the grana jury yesterday by Mrs. Beryl Ward, wife of Walter S. Ward, confessed slayer of Clarence Peters. She was a reluctant witness. Not until aftei she had been brought before Supreme Court Justice Morschauser, in cham bers, did the young woman reveal even a little of what passed in he home on the evening before and the morning of the shooting. Mrs. Ward finally fixed the arrival home of her husband on the morning of the shooting at about 4:30. This is & point in Ward's favor, as he said the fight, which resulted in_the death of Peters, started on the Ken- sico reservoir road about 3:55, and that he went home immediately after’ lin proposing a plan for an interna- | the battle. Both the maid and the nurse in the ‘Ward home also gave the time of Ward's arrival there as 4:30 am. Through the bank books and checks of Ward, Mr. Weeks hopes to trace the payment Ward says he made of $30,000 to blackmalilers before they demanded the additional 75,000, which resulted in the death battle with Peters. Mr. Weeks refused to say it George 8. Ward, father of young Ward would be called tomorrow, when the grand jury reconvenes. Counsel for James J. Cunningham whose story of a battle in the Ward home and the death of Peters and the wounding of another man there caused his arrest as a material wit- ness, has not been able to raise the $5,000 bail fixed for his release. Cunningham seems to desire to re- tain his cell in the jail here, since it reported that he had been ened in motes sent him after BECOMES EARL OF YPRES. King Bestows Unusual Homor on Field Marshal French. LONDON., June 7.—Field Marshal Viscount French henceforth will be known as the Earl of Ypres, dropping the name French. He has been given the hereditary title by King George. While it is not uncommon for naval and military commanders to associ- ate scenes of victories with peerages conferred upon_ them. in the in- stance of Earl Roberts of Kandahar, it is unusuzl for a British peer to take the name of a foreign place as a2 title. PEGGIE BEAL BETTER. * KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 7.— Peggy Marie Beal, who shot and kill- ed Frank Warren Anderson, depart- will be guided “more largely than men voters by considerations of humanity, morality end right,” they must be on thelr guard slclopl pleas from those decelve—new political fads, isms gnd catch phrases and false lssues framed up in attrac- tive form to deceive new voisrs” s ment store welfare director, last Sat- urday, was reported early today te, be recovering steadily from her selfs/ inflicted wound. She continued te withhold personal information. Ne: had been filed against herl