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NEARING RIO JANEIRO. |UNVEILING OF Flyers Portuguese Transatlantic Continue Southward. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, June 15. —The Portuguese transatlantic avia- tors, Capts. Sacadura and Coutinho, continued their southwar¢ flight in Brazil toward this city today. They left Porto Seguro at 7:50 am. with the intention of making Victoria, 260 miles northeast of Rlo de Janeiro, their next stopping place. U.S. MAY BAR ALL SHIPS WITH LIQUOR Congress Action Possible in View of Quarrel Involving Merchant Marine. E. A F. L KILLS NEW LABOR UNION PLAN Fails Even to Debate Pro- i posed Radical Change in [ Form of Organization. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, June 15.—Without op- position or debate, the American Fed- eration of Labor convention here to- day killed a resolution proposing a radical change in the form of the or- ganized labor movement in the United States by amalgamation of all gle organizations, each covering an industry. The resolution was introduced by E. H. Fitzgerald and others representing the railway clerks. Basix c¢ Adverse Report. In reporting the resolution adversely unions into BY DAVID LAWRENC from the organization committee Sara | Congress may prohibit all ships, Conboy of the United Textile Work- | whether they fly the flag of foreign ers said the departments of the fed- | countries or the United States, from » created along industrial | entering any port of this country if Hquor is carried aboard, sealed or » City today asked t'at it be {‘otherwise as the seat for the 1923, con- This is likely to be the upshot of it being the first ity 10 ¢he quarrel which has arisen over e o "hF wage comtracts was | the practice of the United States condemn y the eonvention unani- |Shipping Board in permitting the mously ng the committee sale of intoxicants outside the three- Camhel A C e e P mile limit in order to meet the com- broken and canceled workipk petition of foreign ships engaged In mer during the last yeal e o e e AL {he pledge of1aBOT | e - shipping Board insists that g no law or constitution: pro- abor's Pledge Kept. » ion which prevents an American’| in the past.” the P “It ha kept ship from selling liquor after the report ¢ aued with reference tolyhree-mile limit has been passed. In- labor's pledse, “and it will be kept d of arguing the legality or il- the future. It is not fair, hov ality of the practice which alone pledge t tain things and | could be determined -finally by a Su- | Photograph made at Fort McHenry the emplc to du as hefpreme Court decision, members of Cc ngress have been introducing bills nts are to he entered | to provide that the proposed ship into it must be with the distinct un-, subsidy shall not apply to any ships y derstandiug that they are to be|sclling liquor at sea \onestly observed anc ¢ ad- = R e LGRS Perils Merchant Marine "The conver \<o pledged con-| Such a proposal, it is declured by tinued efforts avor of the passage | Shipping Board officials, would be s brevent unemploy. | Euicidal to the American merchant ment by cor ional Appropriaiions | marine, and that no amount of sub- for public works. Another resolution | 3id¥ would enable American ships to was adopted pledging labor to an | cOmpete under those circumstances “intensive or ization to combat the | 28ainst foreign vessels. In order to - ‘open shop y on a profitable trade and to e get @ well balanced merchant marine, _—————— . useful in war as well as peace, large Wu Forces Chase Chang in mittedly will get most of the passen- By the Associated Press. ACCUSE OFFICERS | ’.'.’,;.;fi’i'{.\‘p" f.r’l':1{".53’.,'-;3.’.“_”".","1-311 y : OF FAILURE TO ACT BT carriers, e cinial | North, While Sun Gains 'lramr annually to keep them woing. IN RIOT ON BOATiif.xi"'::f"lasz, B enfee il ouioncs Southern Ground. e, according to official esti- KING, June 16—Peking today P ¥ 5 ed on actual experlence. [ o . o3 o 0rq from the fighting areas | ued from First Page. discriminate against American a2 F% ships ‘while & ftti 1 = in both north and south to see what that the fight reached its| St touching Americhn ports (o open |REW turn would be taken by difficult: ensity their bars at sea is regarded in Con- | circumstances surrounding the new Hud: the upprr decks were most | ETess and elsewhere as inequitalle |administration of Li Yuan-hung of the the women on the boat. The bat- 514, 2015 WO [0 PTENERT [0 NOL) In the north, Chang Tso-lin, whose | on the lower decks. just ican territory if they have liquor |&spi ns for an independent Man- Alexandria contingent started d. This might tend to help |churia, with himself as its lord, have to disembark. It was then that young |:\mer an \i':x:ezs[:n some exteat lnit . ume armed attacks | :Cormick received his fatal wound. He | \antape would Work 1 the dirtetion the central China forces under, hed to the Alexandria Generallof British vessels, for they would|Gen. Wu Pei-fu, is reported defeated where he died five minutes ;]“sv their after touching Hali- lagain. But Chang himself has shown rival. Dr. S, B. Moores, an Alex- | (8% transport all their llquor tolg;ch wiles, and his troops have shown | hysi pronounced him et o cam ahoara o’k 150 great a readiness to return to bat- | had stabbed the boy comply with the suggested port res. | te after smashing defeats, that very through the neart. iaitan But in crder toF make a|substantial evide will be required Although 2 riot call was se fast trip across, many vessels under |10 induce belief that he is definitel the Alexandria police foreign fags would hesitate to make|and finally disposed of. Chang last and eight policemen re > Ko + > make ) was reported hard pressed by Wu's! s 5 a stop at Canadian ports because of & were not allowed by ship's officers to |, JOB B | SRACCET, BOFLS b {forces near Shanhaikwas. . it was declared, at Alex- j1o€ Lme that would be lost In the | “What is developing in the south, - N e heen out voyage. where, at last report, the forces of Dr. | Alexandria an here is no | Would Equalize Competition. Sun Yat-Sen, head of the Canton gov- 3 according to the| In the transatlantic trade, there- |ernment, were driving northward at the assailant of jfore, shipping officials think such a|a great rate, s obscure. Wealthy proposal would enable American ves- | Chinese were said to be fleeing from was taken to|sels to compete on more or less equal | Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi prov-j king establish- | terms with foreign ships. In the Pa- |ince, in fear of a succ sful thrust by xandria, and Patrick Me- | cific, however, the fear is that Amer- | Dr. Sun's troops against that to ! father of the boy, arrived | ica’s merchant marine would suffer.| An Ar dispatch tells of efforts’ t during the early hours this| Vancouver, British Columbia, is not{Sun is making to affect a reconcilia- morning. ’f;\r from Seattle, for instance, and [tion with Chen Chiung Ming, power- it the American tourist would be tempt- | ful eneral, who recently ecame bbbt el ed to tuke his boat at Vancouver in- | estraned ffom him and i3 credited Jurisdiction of the riot and assaults|gieaqd of a United States port. The |now with caring less for Sun’s suc- was u questign that was raised today. | Japanese passenger vessels would | cess than for peace in China. So far It was learned that If the fatal stab- | continue, of course to carry liquor | no word as to the success of these ef- ek = aboard, and the American ships might | forts has come. L ARl e, steumer | fos hulh of thelr bassenser trade. | Niexandria city and Arlington county | When the matter comes up in Con- WU FORCES UNBEATEN. authorities would have charge of|8ress, therefore, Pacific coast mem- Eew e Jeual rocecdings. If. however. the|Ders who are at present active fn| o ... ST Ll ant boat was en route from Marshall Hall | r¥ing to_get a ship subsidy bill eliable observers of tI when the affray took place it would :‘hl"f,'\m‘:l ;\r {aggxtmr::;lnv:s csn!hrokr‘n- fighting along the gulf of Liaotung Ve to be determined whether thejed by a practic which has | g hi i - DY 0 e e e & "or Wiuginia| LiEtlo. foj doiwiih thasmerital of fpros| Sod o ChLTItope Fof Gond W e ““A™line from Jones Point|hibition. Senator Jones of Washing- |Pel-fu have never suffered defeat in Jiakonally across the Potomac in a | ton. one of the prohibition leaders in ftheir drive against the Fengtien moriheasterly direction designates theCongress. will have to decide a tic-|army of ‘Gen. Chang Tso-lin, the limit of jurisdiction of the Washing- | klish point. A ian ohieftain. The Ghibl inc ton and the state authorities. From | The truth is that many of the|yaders. however, are reported held on s it is not be- | spokesmen for the prohibition move-; ment concede that the Shipping Board has the law on its side in the present mony of passenge d that the tragedy w District limitations. their right wing. The attacks ordered by Gen. s enacted Wu L i have been conducted w ina- Y hder the direction of Coroner T.|controversy .and that an AmerlcanIt\ii:“"t::&"p:;:‘;%“l‘ n:v‘n::hdtll-.:ngrm- M. Jones of Alexandria, the coroner's|ship outside the three-mile limit is|lapy fire has been poorly dirccted. jury will view the body of young|not subject to the enforcement of the | “The plight of the wounded is de- McCormack this afternoon. The jury includes Fred N. Baker, J. Fred Bir- rell, Harry W. Wade, Carroll Wolf, Wwilliam H. Thomas and Thomas A. Chauncery, After viewing the oody the coroner is expected to turn it over to the parents. Served in Coast Guard. Arrangements for burial of young McCormack _have not yet been com- pleted. He attended Gonzaga Gram- sar School and the Hayes School at th and K streéts northeast. About Two years ago he enlisted in the coast guard, and served for one vear in that organization in Alaskan terri- tory. J prohibition laws or any other statutes | coribed as terrible. Ofjihe United States except those|ments are inadequate. The wounded, treatment of crews and other matters | &t times, 't;ff“'i’“::;“’:u’l:"“*d into open icars in & sun. D oy s oy atatute: “Confirmation has been received here Many Decisions on Point. of the mpturr of .{;tp: nese spl;‘?,;'\;,};a This is a moot point and there|Were arrested as they were &t = have been a String of decisions on it |ing to escape toward ahnn\xax)jwnn, in the courts for the last century. |and were handed over to the Japa- The Shipping Board points out that nesescommandant at Chin\\l{m‘:fiuo, a it an American ship is American ter-{treaty port on the gult. = réin- ritory it would he . imimune from |forcemenis have been rushed to the seizure during war when the United | front, with the hope ‘of capturing States is neutral and that nobody | Shanhiakwan in two or three days. could be taken off an American ship Fhifod scates in ‘the famous contro- | ROCK CREEK MADE FOUL BY DRAINAGE FROM CHEVY CHASE Medical arrange- versy with Great Britain duming the civil war asserted the right to search a British ship and remove passengers. If the ship were on American territory it would be an attack against the sovereignty of the United States. During the recent war American ves- sels outside the three-mile limit were subject to capture and diversion from their courses and the American gov- ernment never contended that an American ship was American terri- tory. But Congress will not wait for a de- cision on these points. It has the power to refuse funds to American ships which carry liquor. Such a pro- hibition is regarded as constitutional. So the fight will be waged on that phase of the question, and unless the defenders of the present practice suc- ceed in convincing Congress that seri- ous damage would be done the mer- chant marine by attemp®ng to extend prohibition to the seas, some provisions ‘will surely be written into law forbid- ding any vessels, American or foreign, from touching American ports if liquor is carried. The difficulty will be in en- forcing the provision with respect to foreign ships, because search will be necessary when foreign ships arrive, and there would be nothing to prevent a foreign vessel from receiving & sup- ply of liquor from a tug outside the three-mile limit, said tug being of col- lier size perhaps, and being stocked Bermuda or some other nearby foreign port and its voyages timed so as to meet the foreign vessels after they léave American ports. (Copyright, 1 KING DECORATES TENOR. ROME, June 16.—Benfamino Gigli, tenor ef the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, has been decorated by King Victor Emmanuel with the Order of Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy. e — Harper Snapp, a memb:r of the entertainment committee for the :lumni association, and Elmer P. Fardell, 2 member of the faculty at Tech High School, and chairman of the excursion committee, were two of those who went to the officers aboard the Charles Macalester reguesting them to stop the rioting. Snapp id today that the officers and crew kept away from the fight and lent virtually no aid in quelling the disturbance. Snapp also charged that there was general sale of liquor aboard the boat and on the grounds at Marshall Hall. He told a reporter of The Star that he saw liquor sold in the presence of officers of the boat. Snapp. declared that e went to the pilot house and asked for the captaln. He said he was told that the captain_“was busy and couldn’t see him.” Then he asked the man in the pilot house to see that the fight- ng was stopped. He also said re was_busy” and coujdn't leave the wheel to take care of‘the passengers. Appealed to Part Owner. He also declared that he went to Fred Mergens, jr., supposed to be a part owner of the boat, who told him thgt he had no control over the officers, although he was “Sorry” that trouble was taking place. L. -F. Hess, captain of Company M of the Tech cadets, the medical unit of the corps, attended to Ernest Jo- seph Watson, who was injured during the fight. He said today that he found Watson in the men’s washroom of the boat, with blood covering the floor. ot “There was no first aid equipment at hand,” he declered. “All that I could find was half a bandage, and 1 used that. with a number of hand- kerchiefs in an effort to stop the flow of blood and swab out the wounds.” Watson was taken to Emergency Hospital as‘soon as the boat docked in Washington. He is in a serious condition there today. Take Blame From Studenmts. ‘When the boat docked here Head- quarters Detectives Springman and Darnell were at the pier to meet it, Chauffeurs Robey and Hichols, with police from the fourth and harbor precinots, aided in taking the injured persons to the hospital. Inspector Clifford Grant, in charge of detectives, today interviewed per- sons who were on the excursion. He rece{ved a description of a man who madé loud requests for some one to hand him & “knife” and who said pré- Z3g (Continued from First Page.) Chase, while effective when first erected and put into use. now is be- coming overtaxed, due to the increase in the population there, it is said, and {it"is probably necessary many times to dump the raw sewage because the plant is not large enough to take care of it when there is a great volume. There are only two ways of taking care of thé matter: One is for the construction of a disposal plant large enough to take care of the increase in sewage, due to the building up of the community, end the other is to connect the Maryland sewage sys- tems, with the District systems. Lack of Funds Handicap. This latter cannot be done at this time for the reason that Congres: has not provided the funds with which to construct the additional two miles of this sewer in the District to a point at the District line where it would intercept the Maryland sewers. While Maryland still has about two miles to build, it is pointed out fur- ther, there is authority to issue bonds for its construction. A Conditions in Rock creek are like- ly to become materially " worse as summer arrives due to the lessening of the floy of water. ‘While the wa- ters now: even during the heavy rains, show contamination almost to the point of saturation, the fecal matter, by volume, will be much greater with a lessening of the flow, for the sewage shows no decrease in volume. In fact, it is belleved that with the increase in population in those sections it will greatly in- crease. Warning to Park Bathers. There is no disposition on the part of the Army officers at this time to prohibit swimming in the pools of the park. However, they have re- stricted them to the two swimming holes between- the chlorinization rtation above the second . ford and the first of the District storm sewers whieh dump into the creek, which is just below ti;“ so-called Shady Swimaiing le, which ia.the. povular id the park, viously that he was a prisefighter. Police are now seeking this man, Le- lieving him to be responsible faor some of the assaults, {f' not for the fatal stabbing of MeCormack. A thorough investigation of the riot is being made by public school officials, headed by Supt. Frank W. Ballou. After a conference with Principal Daniel of Tech and mem- bers of the faculty of the institution who were on the steamer at the time the superintendent said he is con- vinced that the Tecly students were not responsible for 'the affalr and topk” Bo active part’in’it. A L said FRANCIS SCOTT KEY MEMORIAL DELAYED WHEN THE PRESIDENT STOPS TO GREET- WORLD WAR WOUNDED Hospital unveiling of the monument erected to the memory of the author of the nation 'TEXT OF AMENDMENTS TO D. C. FISCAL BILL AMENDMENT NO. 1 Following is the text of the two amendments to “amendment number lone” adopted yesterday by the Senate when it approved the conference re- port on the District appropriation bill: Inquiry Into the Surplus. “A jolnt committee of three sen- ators, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three -presentatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of | Representatives, is hereby created i authorized and directed to i n and determine what, if ! indebtedness there may be to the United States from owing | the District of Columbia, or what, | if any, indebtedness there may be | owing to the District of Columbla | from the United States, growing out of transactions or relations | existing between them since the | passage of the organic act of 1878; and that said committee in | reaching a conclusion shall con- | sider not only legal but equitable | claims and obligations, and shall report its conclusions and recom- mendations to each house of Con- s on or before the first Mon- i «in January. 1 and that committee is authorized to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, and to employ such stenographic, cierical and expert assistance as may be nec { sary, and to pay for the same upon { vouchers signed by the chairman, ! one-half out of the contingent |' fund of the Senate and ome-half out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives; and that said committee is authorized and directed to avail itself of the services of the bureau of eff- ciency, and such expert and legal help of the Treasury Department New legislation by Congress to pro- vide automatically for the rempval of the inefficient among the civil service employes of the government is being urged upon members from all parts of the couritry, and especially upon the membership of the committees on re- form in the civil service by the Na- tional Civil Service Reform League, of which Willlam Dudley Foulke is acting president. The provisions suggested to strength- en the existing powers of the appoints ing officers to remove or suspend subordinates are: Rules shall be made by the United States Civil Seryvice Commission for | establishing standards of efficfency in the public service uniform for each class of employes; for ascertaining and recording periodically ciency of individual employes and of groups of employes: for service recorda and rating to be used in determinin the promotion, demotion or removal of employes. The commission may likewise pro- vide for such efficiency tests, investi- gations and examinations, periodical or otherwise, as may promote the good of the service, and for the suspension, demotion or removal from the service of any employe who fails to pass satis- factorily such tests, investigations and examinations or who fails to reach the standard of efficiency provided by the commissfon. Grounds for Suspensionm, Employes may also be suspended, demoted or removed for any cause which will promote the efficiency of the service upon written specifications filed by the appointing authority, head of department or any citizen, with & board of hearings and adjustments appointed by the Civil Service Com: mission; such board shall give no- i | tice of such specifications to the person| | whose removal is sought, who shall have the opportunity to be heard, and the hearings, investigation and deter- mination of said board shall be made within thirty days after the flling of such _specifications, and the findings and decisions of such board, when a; proved by the commission, shall” be final, unless overruled by the Presi- dent, and shall not be subject to re- vision by any court. ! The council of the league contends that if this power is given to the, Civil Service Commission in addition to the present right of the appointing power to remove absolutely any subs ordinate after giving reasons and notice there will not be left y ground whatever for the claim so often made that the civil service sys- tem prevents or obstructs the dis- charge of the inefficient. On the con- trary it will provide for such dl: charges far more effectively than if they were left solely in the hands of the appointing authority. The { of réverting to the monstrous abuses of the spoils system In order to r fove the ineficient is thus deprived of the very smallest ground of sup- port. Misapprehension See In seeking this new legislation from Congress the reform league says that it is evident that not only the gen- eral public, but also many of those who are conducting the affairs of the government, are under grave misap- prehension as to the operations of the present civil service law. They ir- sist first that it unduly restricts the selection of proper employes by thas responsible for the operations of the government, and second that it fu nishes no means of getting rid of the idle and ineficient, but actually pre- yents executive officials from dige: subordinates.. chargiog undesizable. e showing the President and Mrs. Harding shaking hands with the heroes prior to hin participation in the ‘DEMAND CIVIL SERVICE LAW FOR REMOVING INEFFICIENT the ef- [ L KATO URGES ARMS CUT, - ALSO NEW PEACE ERA STARTED AT U. S. PARLEY By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 15.—Admiral Tomo- saburo Kato, Japan's new pre- mier, today pledged the faith of Japan to co-operate with the other world powers for a further reduc- tion of armaments, and the main- tenance of the new era of peace which he sald had been ushered in by the Washington conferences. AMERICA MENACED BY POLITICAL TREND, MR. WEEKS ASSERTS (Continued from First Page.) rect solution from the standpoint of the nation: but such a procedure is not possible in the case of one one- thousandth part of the questions pressing for solution every year. “Another and more df-ect introduc- tion of a complete demacratic gov- ernment is the submission of legisla. tion to the individual citizen through the referendum. Another example is the recently adopted initiative. The truth Is that the people are too busy, the guestions are too difficult and per- plexing, and the task too involved to enable them to p: intelligent]y on such matters. Quotes Ex-President Wilwon. “I need hardly say more on this subject than to quote from a valuable book on ‘Constitutional Government in the United States,’ written by for- mer President Wilson, in says: ‘A government must have or it cannot act inorganically by it can no more make law through ita voters than it can make law through {ts newsps.pers.’ “We have recently passed through a great war and are experiencing the reconstruction period following it. In the midst of comparative plenty. in the midst of reasonable and increas- ing prosperity, we witness an even greater volume of unrest than even ordinarily obtains. anthem, LARGE U, S. FLEET 10 BRAZIL URGED Stevens Fears Japan and England’s Showing at { Exposition. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 15.—The United | States must send “an imposing fleet | to Brazil for the Brazillan centen- {‘m:u exposition at all costs,” William | G. Stevens, president of the Ameri- | can Chamber of Commerce in Brazil present. There is an almost univ sal condemnation of Congress at this time, and, while I think there are rea hy Congress may be c I am sure that much of the c Jaid at its door is unjustified. “But in any case in the puplic mind the legislative branch of our national government probably never has been at lower ebb than it is today. It has | almost become a_habit to say di aging things about Congre: ticism and of the District of Columbia as it may-deem practicable 80 to do. “Beginning with July . and annually thereafter, one-half of the tax levied upon taxable real prop- erty in the District of Columbia shall become due and payable on the 1st day of November of each year and the other half of such tax ghall become Aue and payable on the 18t day of May of eich yea and if one-half of such tax shali not be paid before the Ist day of December of each year, said in- stallment shall thereupon be in arrears and delinquent; and there shall then be added. to be collect- ed with such tax, a penalty of 1 per centum upon the amount there- of, and a like penalty on the 1st day of each succeeding month until wise and necessary, and ! ersal demand which are there is an almost univ that the President take control and lead in legislative matters. It would require too much time for me to un- | of legislation in Congress, but in my judgment much of the dissatisfaction is not based so much on legislation as it is due to the present state of is taxation and resultant appropri tions. payment of sald installment and !and a delegate representing America penalty; an said instaliment et uestion of Tax Reduction. B P he aid hotors the"{it | to the exposition, declared when he e |arrived here on the Pan-American | from South America today. With | him came Col. David Collier, commis- | sioner gen of the United States | to_the exposition. | “We are making this special trip Washington,” said Mr. Stevens, because of the report that America i might not be able to send a first-line Bfter the Woard of personal fax |lest because of the scarcity of fuel appeals, consisting of the assessor | W¢ are ready to ask for a special as chairman ex officio, together .‘apprupnnhnn because we. believe e e o hoire b ihe | that a little thiug like. the lack of Ta '3f permonal tax anpraisers, |fuel inthis nation would be little DoaTd ol pemenalitAx avpralesrs | Short of tragic to our South American sonal tax appeals, which shall con- | "*I41OnS. e Mondas it Tena | “England, France and Jépan have e o et 1 heasion antll |eiEnified their desire to send a real 1 fleot to Rio de Janeiro for the expos the second Monday In February of 1yjon ‘and it is certain that England day of June of exch year, together with the one-half of said original tax due on the 1st day of May, a like penalty beginning with the 1st day of June shall then be added on said last one-half of such tax: and the whole together shall constitute the delinquent tax, to be dealt with and collected in the manner now provided by law; and that here- In some respects it has failed to do 50, not because a large number of re- publican senators and representatives did not wish to carry out t pledges of their party, but because of a cor bination of a part of the majority de: voted to a special interest with the minority in Congress and an insistence on their part that income taxes,.gen- erally speaking, should not be reduced. | Then, there i the constitutional amendment relating to prohibition. ‘Whatever may be the individual views | of citizens on prohibition, there is no question about the disquietude result- ing from the adoption of this amend- ment and the laws for_its enforce- | ment. Taxation and prohibition have | affected the individual packetbook of | each year for the hearing of ap- | Dpeals from A‘;“.smen“‘;n"""rmn':‘ will present a fleet of the very highest | the voter and his personal rights and | Droperty; and the same members |30Tl. If America sends down a sec- | privileges, as he views them, and the | Droperty; and the same members lond-class fleet, our relations with Bra- fon and review of real |#lWill suffer. eAmTents." outh Americans, particularly Bra- feel that the sisterhood of Ameri- n republics is at stake. They feel that if the United States does not send an_imposing fleet out of a desire to honor Brazil, the sisterhood of repub- lics will then be only a mame | Mr. Stevens sald that the exposition is now 90 per cent finished and that {every department would be ready for the opening on September 7. HIGH SENIORS MUST QUIT FRATERNITIES Ballou Gives Students Until June 30 to Resign From Bodies. . Senior students in the Washington high schools.who are permitted to retain membership in ‘fraternities or ororities during the current scholas- Men who are idle and i clent, as{ tic year, were notified today by Supt. well a8 those who offend, can 41Ways | Frank W, i r e Qiamissed by the apesintime pas | Frank W. Ballou to submit their er absolutely and without 3ppeal to|Tesignations from such organizations fto school officials by June 30. The me(c‘::ru, the only limitation being at they ‘must not be dismissed on < account of thelr religious or political | L1 °f the board of educatlon de opinions or affilintions or for refusal|PAFing other studerits for afiliating olitical contributions or do.|with any secret school society was put into effect last Qctober 1, to make” political work;but only for such rea- Under the ruling of the achool board, after June 30, no high school sons 'as Will pramote the efficiency of: the service, and that each man shall | student will be allowed-to jain.any ef the disapproved organizations. with- have notice in writing of the reasons, for his dismissal and of any charges out forfeiting ithefr right to particl- pate in any school activity. preferred against him and shall have reasonable time to answer in writing with supporting afdavits, though o examination of witnesses nor trial is required, and there is nothing to in- Letter to Prineipais. terfere with his final removal ¢n the In a letter to-the pgincipals of the discretion pf the appointing officer. | high schools, Supt. Batlou said: In the meantime, if necessary, he can| ‘The rules of the board of eduea- be suspended from his place at once | tion relating to membership in as; until the final determination of the |clations, organizations, clubs, frater- nities and sorarities have exempted pupils in our high schools who were members of the senior class_during the school year 1921-1922. Your at- case. The statement of reasons by the appoinsing officer cannot success- tention is called to the fact thmt such exception will not be exteriged to any. fully be refuted. Now there is no serious hardship in pupile-beyond June 30, 1932, and {hat the rules governing membership’ on these restrictions. It is a matter of common fairness that the man be in- the part -of high school’ puplls as passed by the board of education on formed why he is required to go, and pshould have a chance to reply in June' 1,.1921, will apply to all pupils after that-date. * ke writing. It is said that it is some- Resignations ed, times hard to formulate a charge, but if he is lazy or incompetent and does “During the tfl“?l year 1921-1922 the superintend®nt; ,;“}r accepted s #ro natural result is criticism and dissatis- | faction with government. I do not| comment on the uitimate wisdom of the prohibition amendment, but it is indicative of one very palpable fact An abrupt change in @ matter affecting 50 many citizens cannot be made with, out creating violent opposition and re- sulting in much criticism of the gov- | ernment. LIQUOR SALE BAN ON AMERICAN SHIPS ASKED IN CONGRESS (Continued from First Page.) In replying to the objection that] the civil service law prevents per- sonal choice by the head of any office unless the person he wishes to a point stands among the highest thiee eligibles, the spokesman for the league, says that the inevitable ui- ternative s that the appeintments become party or personal spojls. The complaint is also made that. many of those in the classified civil service, feeling secure of their tenure, lack energy and industry, and that sometimes they. are disloyal and kin-’ dle discontent. among their fellow employes that their work is small in quantify amd not well done and, that the service will not compare in] efficlemcy with that of private organi- | zations'engaged in similar business See Truth in Complaints. ‘The Reform League admits thaty ere is & great deal of truth in these but says ¥Why should the clyll, sepvice faw be held responsi- ble?"” They argue as follow; would await court action or a new Justice Department interpretation of the law before deciding ypion its poli- cy_in the situation, > The position of the Treasury with respect to the sale of liquor on boar Shipping Board vessels, high offioials explained, was somewhat delicate in view of the fact that the Shipping Board was a government agency directly under the President. Nat- urally, officials asserted, one govern- ment agency could not exercise the same degree of survelllance' upon another branch of the government as it_could upon private individuals, Nothing inconsistent was seen ap the Treasury in the apparent decision to await further interpretation of the prohibition laws in their application to American ships at sea, despite the Justice Department’s opinion to the contrary already on record. The position of Mr. Haynes that the prohibition unit could not interpret but only administer the laws was reiterated at the Treasury today, and high officials declared that no action would be taken pending final settle- ment of the legal question involved: Prohibition officials expressed the view that. the recent decision of the Supreme Court holdipg illegal in transit shipments of liquor from one foreign country so another by way of the United States would be subject to congideration in reaching a final con- clusjon upon the gales of liquors on flilg‘bolrd questions. After a conference with Attorney General Daugherty late yesterday, in which the matter of liguor sales at sea was said to have been discussed only.. incidentally, Chairman Lasker said he would not ask the Depart- ment.of Justice for a new opinion on the. question, being entirely satisfied with that rendered by Gen. Counset Schlesinger of the Shipping Board, upon which, he informed Mr. Busch in their correspondence, the board had taken its stand in the matter. not get done the amount of work an energetic- man could do that;can be shown by the products of His work; or if he stirs up trouble that can be easily specified. Even if the law re- Hisup quiring reasons were to be repealed, | Fesignations fram o unap: conditions would not be substantially | Praved organizatfons. in %rder that changed. - An effective remedy muyst |5ald pupils may.qualify for participa- De fonnd. elsewhere. s 13* tion in school actirtt Your atten- tion is invited to ‘theé policy of this office that no resignations from un- lppl':‘;'edb orgl?lnnzgtlon;lhgllla be cept y _the > superintendent .of schools’after Juse 3 .1ll§.,-;wn! yhi please advise the pupiis of your school of this fact in order that pupils in your school, who are now members of unapproved organizations, may submit thelr resigyations, before June 30, 19232, if they desire to comply with the rules of the board of education forbidding membership on the part of pupils in unapproved organizations. “Pleage make*it clear to your pu. pil§ that any pupil who continues his membership in an unapproved organ- igation after June: 30, 1932, will be subject to the penalties establishcd in the rules“of the bokrd of educa- tion throughout the remainder of hi or her befiod. of membarsih:in o clear to your school. * Please make it pupils, also, that the tfi\;lnwent expecte pupils-to otiserve .‘(v pledge any. not, to become a memben ganization, gssociatipn, BN o matority vlffugl " fying. you. of their intention to LT —_— CITY HAS SPECIAL CALL. The call of the city was explained yesterday to the Optimist Club at the regular meeting in the Arlington Ho- tel by Dr. D. R. Covell, pastor of Trinity Church, 3d and C streets. Dr. Covell pointed out that the city, like the desert, the mountains and the sea, had a call and fascina- tion peculiarly its own, even though the person hearing the call knew no one in the crowds-hurrying about him {n the packed streets. He elaborated on the life of na- ture, but declared that the call of humanity in the city rose higher than ail -those - ‘inanimate, things ‘which exerted such an influence on those _subject to the charms of the water, the sand and the crags of mountains. Arrangements were announced for an outing to_the Almas clubhouse on West river, Md., for next Wednes- day, when salt water fishing and bathing snd other items will be fea- 'AIR COOLED 1814 which he | It must have a law-making | This is evidenced | particularly in the criticism of public | officials of the immediate pust and | ference table remained all that - | required, ticized | credit is given for leglslative actions | dertake a discussion of the condition | the public mind. One reagon for this, “In its platform of 1920 the domi- | nant party promised to reduce taxation. | . Main'6789 HLEANDPERU TURN TO HUGHES By the Asshiated Press. The way at last was opened today for the United Btates to extend a helping hand to Chile and Peru in their effort . here tq solve the riddle of Tacna-Arica. After exactly one month of futile en- deavor to find a ground for compromise, the delegates of the two South American ‘nulmns to the Washington conference turned their attention to Becretary Hughes in the hope that he tould sug- gest & basis of arbitration acceptable to both. Altheugh no officlal ‘unnouncement was made, 4he Secretury was understood to be entirely willing to undertake the task Binge the conference began on May 15 he has kept himself well informed of the elements of negotiation which finully wedged tne delegations. into the resent dewdlock, and to have refrained Tom_offering help to the negotiators only "bécause no favorable opportunity hitherto had presented itself. The opportunity came today through the decision of the Chileans tq re- quest the ambassador of their coun- try ‘here to call on Mr. Hughes and lay the siuatjon before him. - Am- bassador Mathiew's visit was expected to. take place before the day was over. and since Peru already had made similar overtures, some move by the Secretary was losked for simost m- mediately. The role of Secretary Hughes is not to be that of a formal mediator, since mediation has not been requested by | either side. To have accepted s formul a means of intervention, it has been felt, might have led to an im- pression ju Sourh America that undue nfluence was bemng exerted by th government of the United States. Mr. Hugbes is expected 1o act rather in an individual capacity, and to put his personal abilities us a conciliator at | the impartial command of the two delegations - { Although apparently contronted with i@ barrier which they couid not over- | come unuided, the real difficulty be- { tween the Chilean and the Peruvian | group appeared today 1o xome observ-~ lers tobe largely a yuestion of phrase- {ology. The turning of a phrase which would weid into one the two arbiira- tion formulas ‘wo determinedly advo- cated from opposite sides of the con- was 10 these observers said, crown the conference with success. End to Conference Seen. On questions of principle, it was pointed out, hoth sides had saken po sitions o near together that to bridge {the intervening spave would appea {at first glance to be a simple task Chile wants in arbitrate the method of- interpreting the Tacna-Arica pleb iscite clause of the Ancon treaty Peru proposes to arbitrate whether the correct interpretation of tha clause is that a plebiscite now shoul: Ibe held. As frequently eventu | diplomatic discussions, however, long quest for the magic phrase to embody both of these ideas apparent ly has led into so many byways tha the delegates merely have found themselves going about in a circle. Coming into the discussions with I\vision unclouded by the verbal bewil derments of past phases of the con ference. Secretary Hughes generally is expected to have a suggertion ready for the consideration of both ides without delay. A few days more. today in many quar- would be ensugh to finally to an {it was pred ters, probably jbring the conferenc jend DURBIN INDICTED ON TWO CHARGES Andrew T. Durbin. son of the dem ocratic state chairman of Ohio, was indicted today by the grand jury om two charges of false pretenses. Dur- bin is in jail. He is charged with passing a check for at the Ra- leigh Hotel, March 10, 1921, drawn on the Contipentsl Trust Company of -w York. There is no such insti- tution. The other charge relates to he passing of a worthless check on Frank B. Lord at the Press Club De- cember last for $15. When Durbin was arrested he had just had an interview with Senator Watson of Georgia, and the latter in the Senate accused the Departent »{ Justice with “framing’ young Surbin because he had given Sen tor Watson information concerning Attorney General Daugherty Murder In the second degree ix charged in an indictment reported against George R. Liggins, colored in conection with the death of Maude Prince. The tragedy ocourred May * last at 479 L street southwest. Others Indicated. and the charges against them are: _Arthur Jackson Wesley, rape; Lottie Johnson. Smnlr( Hobby, housebreaking and larcen liam R. Dobyns. Elijah Thompso: carnal knowledge; Emory C. Butler William L. Mavritte and Rodger L. Jenes and John R Gray, robbe: Charles W. Ashton and Allen Leroy Marshall, joy riding; Macon 1) Campbell, Clinton Crawford, Wil- George E. Hoard and Percy Perry non-suppor Who takes Your Money to ‘ the Bank? SOMEONE is saving money you waste. the Someone is getting ric as a result of your spend ing. Someone is taking a part of your earnings to the bank aund depositing it to their credit. Why don't vou change the order of - things —open a savings account and ke your money to the bank for your own aoccount? THREE PER CENT ON BAVINO® Federal National Bank Jehn Poole, President Cor. of Fourteenth & G Streets © §1.9% F.0.B, Factory