Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1922, Page 1

*WEATHER. Thunderstorms this afternoon and continued warm tonight; Tomorrow fair, with somewhat lower temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours today—Highest, lowest, 71, at Full report on page 7. ended at 2 p.m. at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; 5:15 a.m. today. tonight. 89, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 11 98,538, 0. ROW FOLLOWS CUT OF §27.000,000BY RAIL WAGE BOARD Minority Members Denounc- | ed for Criticism and “Ad- vising Strike.” TINY SEEDS OF STRIFE SOWN “AS IN RUSSIA” Decision Affects 325,000 Clerks, Signal Men and Stationary Firemen. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June 17.—Majority mem- bers of the United S Railroad Labor Board, who vesterday ordered another $27,000.000 slash from wages of the nation's rallway workers, to- day replied to criticisms of minority Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. TWO MASKED BANDITS LOOT TRAIN AND FLEE IN WAITING AUTO By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 17.— The Fairmont express on the Pitts- burgh and Lake Erle railroad was held up near Webster, Pa., about twenty-five miles from here, at 10:40 o'clock this morning by two masked men, who robbed the bag- gage car and escaped. The ex- press, known as train No. 55 from Falrmont, W. Va., to Pittsburgh, left Brownsville, Pa., at 9:40. It is believed the bandits boarded the train at that point. They entered the buggage car as the train neared Webster, and after binding and gagging Azel Hicks, expre: messenger, and M. Amber, b: gagem (1. they looted a safe At Webster the bandits did_not wait for the train to stop. They Jumped at a street crossing where an automobile, containing two men,” was awaiting. As the rob- machine the bers entered the driver started away in the direce tion of Pittsburgh. SHIP SUBSIDY BILL I | i AFTER CONFERENCE embers, with the charge that the dissenting members presented “in- | cendiary arguments in a strained and exaggerated effort to inflame the em- ployes to strike against the decisions of the board.” “The minority, constituting two ot | | Campbell Optimistic Over Re- sult of Talk With the three labor members, were ac- . cused of sowing some of the tiny President. #eeds that have been germinated and Dlossomed into anarc ¥ Confidence that steps could be taken Yesterday's decision, s | wages of 325,000 railw | nal men and stationary firemen. brought total reductions effective July 1 under the board's orders to $13 000,000, Approximately 1,200,000 raii- : employes are affected by the or- c Accompanying vesterday’s order to meet the requests Harding for prompt House « eration of the ship sub which has been threatened definite delay, were expressed Chairman Campbell of the rules committee after a visit today to the White House. by House a@h PASSAGE EXPECTED ) £ enin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1922—-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. HAGLE HOPES FANG ON POINGARE T 70 LLOYD GEORGE |All Eyes Turned on London, | Where Premiers Are Try- ing to Agree. ISMALLER POWERS MAKE | THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN Force Conference to Form Sub- committees of Thirteen Instead of Eleven Members. SCOTT MOWRE Star and Chicago Dally News. ¢ ght, 192 THE HAGUE, June 17.—All eyes are turned toward London. It is gen- erally recognized that Premier Poin- | care’s visit to the British capital will | be of more importance to the success of the conference at The Hague than BY PAUL By Cable to The { anything which can be accomplished | | herg n the meantime. Indeed. the| | question of Franco-British relations | dominates the whole problem of Euro- pean reconstruction. Until France and of President ! carrying reductions ranging from to 6 cents an hour, was a lengthy | Chairman Campbell, who was sent! supporting opinion from the mem-|to the White House by the House| ‘ ¥ s €brs representing the railroads and meet- | oo Iebresenting the railroads aid | ryjeg una steering committees [ view, were dismayed at Liovd George's | by the labor members condemning the | iNg in joint session, said he explained | Startling imprudences. The Germans order. | e T e e e xplained | and Russlans were left with the im- | to Mr. g “the difficulties which | pression that Great Britain was un- Controversy Undeaivea: are being cncountered.” but after |able to help them very much. The g ’ hearing the President's views had ex- | littie entente was conxoiidated, despite In their prompt rejoinder today the & | Briush opposition, and the British pressed the hope that “with some d lay the matter can be straightened | members of the board concurring in | OUt Satisfactorily.” He declined to] this decision to follow the minority | *4¥ ']“'E"’"' the" delay: would ‘be ima- i a teria into a partisan co chic : D B ARAgt controversy which | R bican members of the House vartakes more of the characteristics |rules committee were called into 4| »f impassioned advocacy than of caim |Joint session with the steering com- mittee to discuss the legislative pro- | |gram with respect to consideration | majority members said, in part: “It is not incumbent upon the six [ i | open. Britain come to terms with one another little be accomplished at The Hague or anywhere else. Genon Strained Relation, can Following the Washington confer- ence Prime Minister Lloyd George and “Premier Poincaire made a sincere ef- fort in this direction on the basis of | mutual compromise. Genoa, however, strained this new relation to the ut- most and left the whole problem wide Internationally Britain lost and France gained at Genoa. The neutrals, which originally supported the British prime minister’s attack on the leagu of nations and on Eduard Benes, pre- mier_of Czechoslovakia, who Is recos. nized everywhere as one of the lead ing statesmen of Lurope, tended to un- dermine Lloyd George's prestige. Bided Time Carefully. The French position was correspond- ingly strengthened. France disap- RISH GANGS SLAY WOMAN AND 4 MEN Cardinal Logue Again’Held Up by Ulster Con- i stabulary. | B¥ the Associated Press. BELFAST. June 17.—Four men and ne woman were shot dead and two men were wounded today in the vi- cinity of Bess Brook. known as Coun- y Armagh’'s model village. The houses of three loyalists were burned. The affair is thought to have been in reprisal for the shooting of two men on Wednesday, one of whom lived in I THOUGHT: IT was Too S GOOD To 3 _ BETRY! ELUSIVE “CHAIN BANDIT”| IS SHOT AND CAPTURED Had Slipped Out of Number of Traps in Three Different AGREEMENT BRINGS HOPE IN MEXICO Sfar. Member of The Associated Press is escl the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or Al rights the Associated Press ely entitled to Dot ofherwise credited ia this vaper and also the local news published bereln. of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Grcnl;fion, 87,166 TWO CENTS. DISCUSS WAR SEIZURES. Coneider Return. of Sequestered | German Property. Formulation of the administration’s policy with reference to the Teturn to owners of sequestered German prop- erty seized by the alien property cus- todian during the war was discussed at a conference at the White House today between President Harding, Secretary Hughes. Attorney General Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, allen property custodian. The discussion was understood to kave centered largely around how best to return the property, having in mind the protection of the poorer classes in Germany, whose property was sequestered, and determination of the value of such property with reference to its immediate return. MARINES T0 MAKE CAPITAL WARLIE East Coast Forces From| Quantico to Invade City Monday on Trip. { Washington will be invaded Mon- | day by ome of the largest military forces that hus entered the city since the victory parade of the world war, | when the east coast expeditionary force of the United States Marine CANTON CAPTURED AS PRESIDENT SUN FLEES T0 GUNBOAT Bodyguard Battles Chen’s Forces to Last for South China Palace. SUDDEN VICTORY MAY HASTEN PEACE EFFORTS Friendly Factions Eliminate Last Obstacles—Fugitive Army in Plight. Br the Associated Press, PEKING, June 17.—While the troops of Gen. Chen Chiung-Min had cap- tured the city of Canton, capital of | the South China Republic, the body- ruard of President Sun Yat-sen still fought from the presidential palace, according to a dispatch from Canton filed at 4 o'clock yesterday after- ncon. Sun supposed to have escaped to Whampoa on a gunboat. The two greatest obstacles to the reunion of China, namely, Dr. Sun was Corps, from Quntico, under Brig. Gen. | 1&t-Sen and Gen. Chang Tso-lin, ap- Smedley D. Butler, will arrive and|Parently are now eliminated, and the pitch camp in East Potomac Park.|PTOSPect for bringing the whole re- adjacent to the railroad tracks. IPuth under one government seems The troops will be reviewed by |PTihter today than at any time since President Harding from a point on | (he establishment of the south China the east side of the White House "€Sime at Canton in 1915. distorts upon the sentiments of the majerity. misquotes their languag #nd reflects upon their desire and disposition to do justice, we will re train from comment. We prefer to believe that these improprieties crept into that part of the document which was drafted by the employes in the headquarters of the railwiy depart- ment of the American Federation of Labor, and that they were overiook- ed by the dissenting members. * * * “There i3 one feature of the di senting argument, however, which is| 0 unususl that it should not bé pass- ed over without notice, and that is the portion wherein the two dissent- ing members advise the employes to sirike against the decision of the board. * * * “It is something new for labor members of the board to issue in- cendiary arguments to employes in tavor of striking against a decision of the board. The giving of advice of this kind has heretofore been left to outsiders, who were not under the official obligations imposed by the transportation act, the main purpose of which is to prevent railway strikes and protect the public from their far as the dissenting opinion | ot the ident Harding, ship subsidy bill. Almost immediately after the meet ing began, Chalrman Campbell left, explaining that he was going to the Bess Brook. It is believed that two gangs par- ticipated In the massacre. The firing i pointed its enemies by refusing to bolt Genoa after the treaty of Rapallo. 1t| bided its time carefully and made a | States. 1 By the Associated Press. Y] | casPER, wyo. June 1.—rreaStep Toward Recognition | Brown, Omaha ‘“chain bandit,” who has slipped out of a dozen traps set Seen in Understanding for him in three states, was shot and captured last night in the country | on Finances. north of Medicine Bow, Wyo., accord. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ing to advices reaching the sheriff's| office here today. | Agreement between representatives * The message contained no details, | of the Mexican government and the but said that Brown had been taken bankers' committee representing the to Medicine Bow. | investment interests of the United | tries is the most important step in i Mexican-American relations in twelve {years. It cannot but have far-reach- ing affect on the whole Meixcan sit- uation. Not since the days of Diaz, when the Madero uprising first tore asun- t White House to confer with Presi- | nt Hard but wtihout indicating Whether he was to convey a message | ploo o, from the leaders as to the belated | DFitain's discomfiture question as to advisability of action | Skillfully forced a new declaration of or_the measure at this time. | policy from®the United States in a The bill was reported to the House | sense favorable to France and hostile yesterday by the merchant marine |to Britain. All this, together with the committee, which refected the Bank- :Obvious failure of his pet scheme of head amendment providing that no 2 Pan-European conference. rankled government aid should go to sl in Lloyd George's Gaelic soul. on which liquor was sold. There wils < no action on the Edmonds proposal| ) roPored Italo-Britixk Pact. for imposition of $10,000 fines on all| The British, spurred on by Italy, ::logs].m.:ge:‘cmyo‘:-fl}n::lfin."w:lch began to talk vaguely of breaking i arting or o 3 pa e Bl | with France altogether. Italy, ani- Defeated by the committee, Mr. Mated by the flerce jealousy of France Bankhead announced he would de-!with which it repays the quite un- final stand with Belgium on the ques. tion to private property in Russia, to rfis::;lea vote on his amendment in the ! justified contempt of France for Italy. The prohibition question Fad | OPenly aspired to take the place hith- wrapped itself so closely about the.erto held by France in British combi- bill that many lenders admittedly M. Foincare | nd explosions were plainly heard in Newry. Those killed were a man and his couple, who were slain together. and !a young man. A man and his son also girl were injured by bomb splinters { when the homes of two of the.victims were destroyed. Others Narrowly En Members of another household nar- e. | { | were set on fire. Attempts were made | to burn several other homes and one iat Cloughrea, near Bess Brook. was | attacked with rifies and bombs. Bess { Brook is near the free state border. n. shot through the head: an aged | were wounded, and another b0y @nd a | rowly escaped when the premises! were in doubt as to how it might stand up in the House. Injection of | the ship liquor issue into the fight, | Posed an Italo-British pact. |nations. A Franco-British pact nevery Tpe attacks, the Central News cor- {had been signed, but the Itallans pro- | regpondent says, were made by armed | bands of Sinn Felners and the victims were Protestants. 2 The aged couple lived alone in a cot- Having tried and failed to disin- tegrate the little entente in a sense ! D.C. WATER CONDUIT i Eight Miles of Concrete Con- struction Specified in Engi- neer Officer’s Proposal. Bidx for Washington's new water conduit are being advertised broad- cast today by Maj. M. C. Tyler. engi- neer officer, in charge of the aqueduct. The bids call for the construction! of eight miles of concrete conduit from a point below Great Falls to the, Dalecarlia reservoir, above George-; town. When this work is completed ! late in the summer of 1924 there will | remain only about a mile of conduit] to be built. In order to speed up the project | | : \directing the course of many gov- der the threads of Mexican finance and started an era of financial chaos, has there been- such optimism as to- day. For Mexico's decision to pay her back debts and resume interest payments is something which gives more evidence of the stability of the Obregon government than a score of protestations on the subject of capac- ity to govern and earn recognition. Step Toward Recog: Whether it is true or not that the financial interests have in the last twelve years been influential in ernments which have become es- tranged from Mexico, the truth is that the settlement arrived at by Finance Minister De La Huerta and Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Co., as the representative of the international bankers who hold will have the | according to b : dire effects. | « g republicans opposing “One of the passages referred to is| SCLOMN 4t this time, invited defeat of | the bill. as follows: i “‘The transportation act aimed to | substitute for the strike such just| When the bill formally was present- | and ~reasonable wages as would|ed to the House by Chairman Greene | render resort to a strike unnecessary. | of the merchant marine committee, If this tribunal created to determine;democratic members were given until | such wages admits that under exist-| Thursday to file a minority report.!| ing circumstances it cannot fulfill this | Representative Hardy, Texas, ranking | See Delay for Bi i | hostile to France, Carlo Schanzer, the | tage. Italian forelgn minister, is alleged to have proposed secretly to Great Brit- ain, Greece and Spain to form a Med- treaties to a state of complete naval inferiority, both in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and would threat- function, obviously the must use such power as they have to Influence the labor market, which |the republican committee: is henceforth to be the determining Was interpreted as meaning th: factor in their wages.’ “That is to say, if the board makes such admission, the employes must strike. Sees Strike Advised. “The dissenting members proceed to remove the ‘I’ and to assert that the board has made the admission which renders a strike necessary. * * ¢ “Not only do the minority step down from the judicial position which they occupy to advise a strike, but they obviously distort and mis- construe the language of the ma- jority in order to provide the condi- tion which they pronounce a justi- fication. “This is not the only place in the dissenting opinion where the sugges- on s made to the employes to strike. As a matter of fact, the en- tire dissenting opinion constitutes = strained and exaggerated effort to inflame the employes by the belief that they have been grossly outraged by this decision. * 8 “A fair statement of the facts will convince any disinterestad man that no injustice has been done to these | employes by the present decision, and that the decrease in their wages is conservative and iIs based upon the law and the evidence.” Declaring that the minority sav- agely attacked statements from former decisions by the board, in_ which “relevant circumstances, referred to in the transportation act, were considered In wage increases, the majority members asserted that “it would appear that the ‘relevant circumstances’ wers ‘> be considered by the present dis: ating members in relation only to wage increase, but not decreases.” & The statement then went into the controversy over theoretical liv- ing standards and the minority charges that the year 1917 was an unfair year to adopt as a basis or a starting point in the consideration of wages of railway labor. “The dissenters are well aware that the wage reports of this board have begun with the year 1917 and both of them have twice concurred in this arrangement,” the statement con- tinued. Consideration Given 1915. “Statistics from the bureau of labor and the Interstate Commerce Com- mission on living costs and standings in 1915, & year which the dissenters »aid was a fair basis, were quoted the majority members, who. after a lengthy presentation, sald the stand- ard of living for clerks under the rates prescribed by the decision is 12.1 per cent above 1915. : “Jt certainly affords grounds for satisfaction and encouragement rather than for inflammatory appeals for strikes,” the statement said. Recognition of budgets proposed by “(Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) Quoted | 15t appoint Louise F. Donny, colored, [ i | | | employes | democrat of the committee, explained that this time limit was agreeable to men, which at the measure is not likely to be called up next week. The committee vote on reporting the bill was 9 to 4, ave and democrats nay, (Londnued on I’age except Rep Column 5.) TEACHER OBTAINS ORDER IN COURT School Board and Officials Must Show Why She Was Not Appointed. Justice Stafford of the Distriet Su- preme Court today issued a rule in mandamus against the members of | Frank W.| the, board of education, Ballou, superintendent of schools, and Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant superintendent of colored schools, to show cause June 23 why they should to the position of probationary teach- er at Armstrong -Manual Training School. Through Attorneys James S. Easby- Smith and David A. Pine the plaintift asks the court to compel the board of education to promote a teacher from class six, group A, eligible un- der the law, and the rules of the board, to the position made vacant by leave of absence without pay granted to Otella Cromwell, a teacher of clas: six, group B, and to appoint the plain. to the position made vacant by such promotion. She says she was named a tempo rary teacher October, 1921, and has been teaching at the Armstrong School in the place of Otelia Crom: well. February 1 last, she serts, jher name became first on the list eligible for appointment, but the place has not been given to her. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, she tells the court, was interviewed by one of her counsel and not only refused to make the appointment, but threatened that if she persisted in asserting what she regarded as her rights before the school board and the courts Ballou would, “upon the appointment being made dismiss and discharge relator forthwith on the ground of incompetency and ineffi- clency.” She denies that her record will show any lack .of cqmpetency or efficiency, and states she has re- celved no criticism of her work dur- ing the past year, o s republicans voting | | en France's vital communications with the North African colonies. None of | these maneuvers has come to a defi- | nite conclusion, but neither have they entirely ceaged. { Bankers'| Meeting Next Chapter. | The next chapter of the story is’the | bankers' meeting in Paris. Great | Britain’s aim here was to regain with | American_opinion_the ground 1 (Continued on Page 2, Column t at ) TARFF SOETRAC FORBONUS DENED i Senate G. 0. P. Chiefs As- sure President His Plan Will Prevail. President Harding was assured by Senate republican leaders, who called today at the White House, that the {tariff bill would be held before the | Senate until passed. | Senator Watson, republican, Indi- ana, one of the leaders who saw the { President, said he told Mr. Harding that it had been definitely determined that the republican Senate confer- ence, called for Monday, would Vote to continue with the tariff bill and against laying aside the measure to take up bonus legislation. A compromise plan acceptable to the great majority will be submitted to the | republican conference on Monday, it is aid. The lariff bill will be allowed,to { hold the right of way until disposed of, with assurances that the soldiers’ bonus bill will be given consideration later. Democratic senators, however, were !reported to be planning a move of their own by offering a motion to give the bonus measure precedence. Senator Lodge had a large part in the proposed compromise. _American Leglon representatives, it was stated, also were consulted and gave their lp%rnvll to the arrangement. 'he harmony move among the republicans did not reach full force until after informal canvasses of the republican membership had dis: closed that a large m%oruy ‘were pre: ared to stand with President Hard- ng in pressing the tariff bill to a conclusion - before proceeding with the bonus measure. Senator McCumbe: orted the proposal that the bonus ill be brought up now, stated that he would accept a conference vote on Monday pledgin the republican gnrty to give priority to the bonus ill after disposal of the tariff meas- ure. who has_sup- The raiders burst in the door. {ordered the two out of bed and shot {them as they stood side by side. | A platoon of special constables was | iterranean naval pact, which would | ambushcd yesterday at Forkhill, on | reduce France under the Washington | the Armagh-Louth border, near Bess Brook. One was killed and another | wounded. | Report Election Disorders. East Mayo election area. It was stated | that documents and voting papers were seized and burned in several districts and many agents of independent candi- dates kidnaped. Replying to a protest, Arthur Griffith dispatched a message to the independent candidates, saylng that the pact which provided for free elections had been | broken. The matter would be Investi- | gated and it such conduct was persist- ed in the election would be invalidated. In some cases threats were sent by post to unionist voters warning them to_remain at home. Sixteen trains at the Burnfoot rallroad depot in East Donegal were raided yes- terday and a large quantity of goods was removed as part of the Derry boy- cott policy. Cardinal Logue Searched. and his coadjutor, Archbishop O'Don- nell, again were held up by members of the Ulster constabulary last night. when their automobile was stopped { near Newry by a patrol of “B" spe- | clals. The constables at first demanded the chauffeur’s license, which he pro- duced, at the same time informing them of the identity of his passen- gers. The leader of the constables then ordered the prelates to alight and submit to search, to which ihey consented, although again giving their names. A number of bags in the car were searched and documents carried by the prelates were scrutinized, after which the party was allowed to pro- !ceed. This is the third occasion re- | cently on which Cardinal Logue has been held up by constables. Winston Churchill, British colonial secretary, following the second hold- up of Cardinal Logue, expressed re- gret in the house of commons over the incident. He declared Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, had told him it was. far from the wishes of want of consideration should have been shown to any high dignitary of the Roman Catholic Churcl Mr. Churchill also declared that ‘“those concerned” had been officially . re- buked. ) FIGHT ON INCENDIARISM. Ulster to Place Death Penalty on Persons Setting Fires. By the Associated Press. ‘ LONDON, June 17.—The_ campaign of incendiarism in Beifast has become so alarming, says the Morning Post's correspondent, that when the Ulster parliament reassembles on Tuesday the northern government s likely to (Continued on Page 2. Column 3,) 35 | Mexican obligations, Maj. Tyler has decided to let three|cfrect of ranging the bankers on the separate contracts, involving $2.900,- | side of the Obregon government in 2 it will be | its bid for recognition. 0000 thetawork onjtiie conduitie 12|, The crux of the situation. of course. |going on at three points simul-}ys"4n Washington, for until the Unit- taneously. ied States government makes up its May Bid on All Three. | mind to recognize the Obregon ad- Contractors may bid on all three or | ments of {ministration the rest of the govern- the world will withhold Many cases of interference with of- | ficlals were reported from the Sligo and | Cardinal Logue, primate of Ireland.| the northern government that any! any one of the sections of conduit.| Officials who prepared the plans and specifications believe they are reason- able and are hopeful that the pro- posals received will be within the tunds available. The new appropriation bill. which | is expected to become a law before! July 1, makes $1,500,000 immediately | available for the water project and; authorizes the Secretary of War to enter into contracts for an additional $1,450.000, to be appropriated later. Construction firms have until July 17 to submit bids. On that date the! bids will be opened and contracts| should be awarded within a few weeks. This would indicate that! work on the long-sought additional water supply line should be under way some time in August. Cost of Entire Project. The entire project for enlarging! the supply of water calls for an ex-! penditure of $8,735,000. Maj. Tyler pointed out today, however, that the present inadequaté supply will be in- creased as soon as the conduit from Great Falls to Georgetown is com- pleted. The remainder of the project calls| for 2 new and modern filtration plant neat the District line, a pumping sta tion at that point and two new dis- tribution reservoirs in the northwest end of the city. b Just how long it wlll take to carry out the entire scheme depends upon how fast Congress makes subsequent appropriations. ‘According to Maj. Tyler, comple- tion of the new conduit will make it possible to greatly increase the sup- ply of water dally available in the Dalecarlia reservoir at the IMstrict line, into which both conduits will empty. Even the completion of the new conduit, however, will‘not reduce the strain on the Lydecker tunnel, through which all of the city's water is now transmitted from Georgetown to the lone fliteration plant at 1st and Bryant street: Water Consumpti _The daily consumption of water has Increased to such a point since the war that.it has not been possible for several years to close the Lydecker tunnel long enough to inspect it and make repairs. If this tunnel should be closed the reserve in the McMillan Park reservoir would be used up, | officials say, before the tunnel could be dewatered, repaired and refilled. ‘Water department officials again emphasized the fact today that the beginning of work on the new con- duit does not warrant the residents of Washington in letting up in their campaign for the conservation of ‘water darnig”the ensulng three sum- mers. i 1 | land titles prior to 1917. lit seeks. action. Similarly, the extension of recognition by the United States will mean _instantly the recognition by the whole world. Land Titles Obstacle. Mexico's readiness to put ner finan- cial house in order will rat 1y rake it difficult for the American government to delay recognition un- duly, for, after all, the normal re- quirements are a capacity to govern and maintain order and a willingness to satisty international obligations. cre remains only one obstacle to recognition. 1t is the ambiguity of the Mcxican constitution on the sub- ject of land titles cranted Lefore the constitution was adopted. Mexico has insisted that the supreme court in- terpretations make it clear that the constitution does not affect contracts The Ameri- can government is not satisfied with the assurances given, and wants an explicit statement to that effect to be embodied in a treaty. This the Mexicans have, for one reason or other—mostly national pride—dc:lined to do. But i* is pointed out that the agreement on financial questions reached in New York involves ques- tions on which Mexicans are ‘ar more sensitive than the making of a for- mal treaty. Moral Support Aim The main object of recognition is to get the moral support of a govern- | ment in a country where loans may be sought. If the agreement reached in New York is the forerunner—as it inevitably must be—of the extension to Mexico of financial aid, the ques- tion of recognition will become aca- demic. There is, on the other hand, little chance that Mexico will be given a loan until the United States government obtains the assurances For American bankers have promised the Department of State that no loans would be floated for the benefit of foreign countries until the government at Washington had an opportunity of interposing an objec- tion. It seems certain that, while the bankers are glad to have had the op- porturity to clear up past indebted- ness, they will not immediately leap into the realm of larger financial transactions for the future unless they know the United States govern- ment intends to throw the full weight of its influence to the support of the Obregon government, whose life will be short lived without financial aid as well as recognition. The general opinion here is that Mexico is determined to straighten out all her external relations, polit- ical, financial and economic, and that the agreement in New York is the precursor of consent to a treaty of amity, which will mean automatic re- cognition, of the Obregon govern- ment. > . (Copyright, 1922.) Monday evening, and will leave town | for Gettysburg before the city is| awake Tuesday morning to re-enact| that famous battle on its anniversary | July 3 | The city will begin martial appearance a fore noon Mond: to assume a few hours be- for when the infantry, 3,500 strong, will disembark from a number of barges at Water street doc whence they will proceed to the camp. Leave Quantico at Dawn. The train, which includes the motor- ized field artillery of the corps, equip- | ment, tanks and tractors, will leave Quantico about daybreak Monday and will make a quick run over the road to the camp, and by the time the infan- try arrives the camp kitchens will be in full blast. There will be about 250 motor vehicles in the march, fifty of which have just arrived at Quan- | tico from the lLase at Philadelphia, having come down over the road. Citizens will be given full oppor-: tunity to witness this expeditionary force, the first to answer a call re- | quiring the atiention of the American | Victor for Peace Pl Gen. Chen is understood to favo- the plans of Provisional President Li Yuan-hung and Gen. Wu Pei-fu [for assembling a constitutional all- | China parliament here. Chen, one of {the most powerful of the southern military men, joined thirteen pro- { vincial milltary governors late last {month in indorsing Gen. Wu's call for {the assembling of the parliament. {Only a few days ago Dr. Sun offered him the command of all the southern armies for his support against the | Peking government, but the offer was ! rejected. As the result of Chen's coup at | Canton, Dr. Sun’s principal army is in | & precarious position. These forces are facing 12,000 of Wu's troops at Nanchang, in Kiangsi province, while | the hostiie army of Gen. Chen oc- cupies their base at Canton Gen. Chang Conciliatory. Gen. Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian leader, i8 in a conciliatory mood as a result of his recent defeat by Wu's Chihli army on the Chihli-Manchurian military in a forelgn country. The|iront. The opposing commanders on fiea-dm‘:)"f“;lher column ‘will reach the | that front are reported to have eviewing stan 5 P e a it tav e e and fen; ’E?;‘;‘!ho-rdvd a British warship at Chin- o'clock, and it will take approx-|WEnEtao to arrange an armistice. imately two hours for the force to; The situation In Manchuria has pass {been further complicated apparently To Parade at Ellipse. Foliowing the rev: the w troops will proceed to the Ellipse. where (hcmi will be a parade. The line of march for the review | has not been completed. Following, this parade the troops will return to camp for the night, and will break camp early Tuesday, proceeding | through Potomac Park to Virginia| avenue, just west of 17th street,| thence to 21st street, north to Massa- ' chusetts avenue, west to Wisconsin avenue and out the Rockville pike. They will camp Tuesday night near | Rockville. STREET EXTENSION HEARINGS PUT OFF Fourteenth Street Issue In- definitely Postponed by House Commiittee. The promised hearings on the pro- posed extension of 14th street through the Walter Reed Hospital grounds, to give the disabled soldiers better transportation facilities and to open up a big territory for new residences in Maryland adjacent to the District, have been indefinitely postponed by the House military af- fairs committee. Representative Fred N. Maryland, who has been working for more than a year to get this legisla- tion through, is considerably put out because of this change in attitude of the military affairs committee, which several weeks ago promised him im- mediate hearings. Acting Chairman McKenzie of the military affairs com- mittee has told Representative Zihl- Zihlman of man that when he brought this mat- ( ter up at the last meeting of the committee their attitude was to post- pone any consideralon of the 14th street project, which carries the sup- port of the Secretary of War, until after the contemplated congressional recess. Representative Zihlman, who is being pushed hard, especially by resi- dents of Montgomery county and by citizens' associations in the District, | is particularly anxious to have the hearings held at this session Congress to facilitate action by the House upon this big development proposition. He is pressing early hearings. He had a conference today with Col. Brook Lee of Mont- gomery county, Md., representing a large number of residents in that section of the state, who are inter- ested in the plans for opening up a new entrance to the National Capli- tal. They say that this legislation also will result in a relief of the housing_ situation, because people are ready to build more than 1,000 houses in that section just as soon as legislation gives assurance easy access to Washington. AVEZZANA COMING BACK. Milan Dispatch Says Italian Ex- Ambassador to Succeed Ricci. LONDON, June 17.—A Milan i patch to the Times says it is confirm- ed that Baron Romano Avezzano, for- mer Itallan ambassador to the United States, will return to that pust, suc- eeeding Vittorio Roland Ricel. t of | the & House military affairs committee for | of|c. R by the proclamation through an as- mbly of self-government for each of the three Manchurian provinces Dispatches sald the assembly had ap- pointed Chang Tso-Lin commander- in-chief. It was represented as the purpose of the assembly to give Ma: churian provinces separate admini tration, but to consider them still a part of China. SEEK MANCHURIA TERMS. Chi-Li and Fengtien Commanders Meet on British Warship. | TIENTSIN, China, June 17.—Com- | manders of the opposing Chi-Li and | Fengtien armies on the south Manchu- | rian front have gone aboard a British warship at Chinwangtao to discuss final terms of an armistice, according to re- | ports received here from Paotingtu. | 1t is believed here that the negotia- itions at Chinwangtao for a truce will | be successful and that the fighting on | the Chihli-Manchuria border between | the forces of Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso | Lin will be brought to a close. | “Following the flerce three-day battle on the Shanhaikwan sector, there has been a lull, during which Gen. Wu rushed heavy reinforcements to his line there. With' these fresh troops in posi- tion, his heavy artillery reopened fire Thursday - against Chang's forces in what is expected to be the final salvos of this phase of the civil war, if the Chinwangtao discussions bear fruit. —_— EXPELLED STUDENT SUES Bryn Mawr and College President | Named as Defendants. | - PHILADELPHIA, June 17.—Two | Jamage suits, one against the trus- tees of Bryn Mawr College and Miss Carey Thomas, its former president, and the other against Miss Thomas | as an individual, were instituted in | federal court yesterday by counsel | for Miss Margery Barker of Michiga . Ind., who was expelled from the college in March of last year. No papers others than a formal sum- | | 1 | | | | mons against the defendants were filed. 3 Miss Barker, who was a sophomora at Bryn Mawr, was expelled follow, ing the alleged disappearance of a number of articles from the dormi- tories. | GETS TWO SENTENCES. Man Wed Seven Times to Serve for Bigamy and Perjury. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 17.— John L. St. Clair was sentenced to serve five years in Sing Sing prison for bigamy and two to four years for perjury by Supreme Court Justice { Tompkins here yesterday afternoon {He will serve the perjury sentence first. St. Clair admitted to the court that he had been married seven time !1n response to questions he sald th Ihe was temperate in everything but { matrimony. TWO GET DEATH THREAT. JACKSON, Miss., June 17.—Mayor Walter A. Scott of Jackson and Dr. tringily, bacteriologist of the Mississippi board of health, announc- ed yesterday that they had been threatened with death by unidentified persons as a result of a campaign Deing conducted by city officlaly against the sale of impure milk in Jackson. CORDELL HULL'S NIECE DIES. STAUNTON, Va., June 17.—Misg Marjorle Witz, seventeen years ol niece of Cordell Hull, chairman the democratic national committee, died at her home here yesterday. 3