Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight: tomorrow partly cloudy. probably local thundershow- ers; not much change in temperature. ‘Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. t 2 p.m. today; lowest, 71, at Full report on page 7. hest, 94, a.m. today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 2 Entered as secord-class matter - post office Washington, D. C. NEW RAIL PEACE PLANI(0AL MEN EVADE No. 28,563. LAUNCHED BY HOOPER; U. S. MAY USE TROOPS Labor Board Leader Acts After Meeting Shop Craft Chiefs. PRESIDENT’S ACTION BRINGS PARLEYS More Troops Sought as Disorders Break Out in Many Sections. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, July 12—No definite Teply to the shopmen’s strike set- tlement proposals was given Chair- man Hooper of the Raflroad Labor Board by representatives of the rallway executives at a noonday conference today. The executives sald they would motify Mr. Hooper of their answer “Iater.” Chairman Hooper said his chief purpose in meeting with the ex- ecutives was to arrange = con- ference between them B. M. Jewell, leader of the triking shop- men, he indicated that the a titude of the executives wi appointing. CHICAGO, July 12.—A program forf rolution of the railroad shopmen’s strike was drawn up today by Chair- Ben W. Hooper of the United States Railroad Labor Board after conferences with leaders of the shop- men and was submitted to represen- tatives of the railway executives from four sections of the country at noon today. Chairman Hooper's program, which i= d to represent the minimum ac- ceptable to the striking shopmen, is to be carried again to the shopmen's leaders later today, with the com- ments and counter proposals of the executives When Chairman Hooper left the La- hor Board office for the meeting with the four executives he said he was confident some plan of settlement could be reached quickly. He said he expected to call President Harding on the telephone with a report on the success of his conference with the railway presidents. The conference of Chairman Hooper and the railway executives is said to be the direct result of a ten-minute telephone conversation late last night between President Harding and W. L. McMenimen. labor Railroad Labor Board. of the executives to receive the shop- men’s proposals through Chairman | Hooper is understood to have .been communicated to Mf. McMenimen by the President. | President Takes Hand. President Harding's intervention in .the strike through his proclamation calling for protection of transporta- tion and the mails was accepted as bearing much significance and ex- pectant eyes were turned toward Washington and the Labor Board in anticipation of further developments. Fresh disorders at scattered points, while troops patrolled former trouble centers: arrangemeénts for a confer- ence today by the “big four” train service brotherhoods, and an an- nouncement by B. M. Jewell, head of the striking shop crafts, that confer- es were planned with representa- of twenty-one northwestern T were among other important developments in the rail strike today. Six Injunctions Granted. Additional injunctions restraining atrikers from interfering with rail- way operations were granted to sev- eral roads. New app for troops were made o € promise | Force, if -Required, toBack President’s Proclamation. ARMY READY TO ACT UPON ANY ORDERS | Work Confident That Mails Will Be Moved Without Halts. | The government stood ready today to back by force of arms, if neces- sary, President Harding's proclama- tion, issued yesterday, directing “all persons to refrain from all inter- ference with lawful ‘efforts to maintain interstate transportation and the carry- ing of the United States mails.” Indications came from several quar- ters that should the proclamation be not heeded, strong action was con- | templatea. 1t was understood at the | War Department that the military arm of the government was in readi- ness to carry out promptly any in- structions which might be issued by the President to support the policy declared in his proclamation. So far as known, no such instructions have as yet come from the White House but it was known that such precau tionary measures as Army corps area commanders might deem advisable to | take within their districts would be ! decided upon in view of the general { terms of the proclamation. All Army commanders are being furnished with copies of the .President's proclama- tion. | President's Action a Warning. i The presidentfal proclamation, | issued late last night after the Pres- ident and his cabinet advisers had !industrial stat® of the nation, was generally interpreted today as a warning to both the striking shop- {men and the railroads that the mails | must move and interstate commerce | be maintained. Such an interpreta- Ition had as its basis the proclama- i tion of somewhat similar nature is- sued by the President last August { when the mine war was in progress in_the West Virginia coal flelds. The President, in his West Vir- ginia proclamation, it was recalled, | called on all persons engaged in un- | lawful and insurrectionary proceed- ings in the coal flelds to disperse and retire peacefully by a certain date. When_the proclamation was digre- ed Mr. ing @ent troops §ngo the disturbed regions and placed ‘the Want Washingten Approved. It is evident that Army official not anticipate as to the employment troops under the President's proc- lamation entirely to the regiomal commander. While particular emer- gencies might conceivably arise | where the protection of - life and property and the security of the { mails and interstate commerce might require such prompt action by the | tederal authorities in any locality as | would make it impossible to com--| municate with Washington and re- | ceive instructions, in the general | course it is to be expected that the { federal troops would be employed { only on specific approval from Wash- ington. With the Army posts now | ! closely linked up in the Army radio | i telegraph system and with all the other means of communication that are available there does not appear fo be much necessity, it is felt at! the War Department, for any com- mander to-act without first consult- ing with the proper authorities here. Postmaster - General Work said - to- day he was of the opinion that the presidential proclamation would have determining weight with the thinkin, | (Continucd on Page (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) - Hundreds of Trucks to Carry Mail, If Needed, Postal Officials Say ~ Plans to utilize hundreds of sur- plus automobile trucks to carry mail between cities in sections where strikers put the regular mail trains out of business were worked out to- day by officials of the Post Office Department. Decision to use the mail trucks, in- cluding surplus War Department vehicles, came after a conference be- tween Postmaster General Work and H. H. Billany, fourth assistant post- master generl, in charge of the motor vehicle service of the depart- ment. A survey of surplus postal trucks shows that there are about fifty such large trucks available,at St. Louis, approximately 200 at Indianapolis, and about fifty it Omaga. Most of these trucks can be placed in the con- templated service at once, if neces- sary. s Many Trucks at Army Posts. In addition, there are 700 surplus War Department trucks at Fort Benjamin Harrison, on the outskirts of Indianapolis, which probably can be utilized in n emergency. Con- ferences are being held with War Department officials to secure the use of these trucks if the necessity should arise. . Use of the motor trucks to carry the United States mails, including first- class and registered mail, would con- stitute a_ decidedly new step in the history of the postal service, although the trucks are being used largely now for parcel post delivery on certain restricted routes some few hundred miles in length. About 1,000 surgius trucks are now available in the pestal service for the contemplated use, which would in- Yolve the transportation of all the mails for perhaps thousands of miles in the vehicles. Trucks ‘Ready When Needed. Assistant Postmaster General Bil- Jany said today that no decision as to the places between which the trucks will first be used has been made, and that, in fact, there does not appear today to be any particular place where they. could be used, but . that the department is getting ready s &nd will be all prepared to place the trucks in service as soon as needed. | It was positively stated at the Post Office Department today that the de- | partment does not contemplate a re- | turn at this time to the use of the marines to guard the mail train; A telegram today from Supt."Cisler | of the railway mail service at St. Louis, generally, showed somewhat better conditions in this much-di turbed area. He stated that the Mis- sourl Pacific railway had revoked its order to withdraw trains, and service was “as usual” today. H The Katy, he wired, is unable to| operate trains from Hannihal to New Franklin. “We have arranged for I special service to immediate points,” | he said. He added that there has been trouble at both Hanibal .and New Franklin, and troops are on duty at New Franklin, where a company, of- ficer was driven out yesterday. | Coal Shortage Cripples Service. The Wabash railroad, Supt. Cisler {said, ‘will take off a number of-im- portant trains today in Missouri, -1]- linois and Michigan on account of the coal shortage. The Frisco reported all trains running. Supt. Cisler said | there had been no reports of inter- i ference with mails. i The general situation was viewed with some rellef by postal officials today, who, nevertheless, stand fully prepared now . to “shoot” the motor trucks fnto the service, if necessary. The ‘motor vehicle service of -th Post Office Department owns .op erates about 4,000 trucks thr:un:h:z't t‘he ;‘:’ou:ltry. Most of these are en- n “carrving parcel . Tween citles on reguiar a.u'i"‘i%n'.’e”- ules, doing, an cspecially heavy busi- s time of thd s farmers are sending thelr Drogucis u; Rcuy t:uyem and when ' sum; visitors at resorts use the make purchases in the cities =" b Equipment in Fine Shape. A number of:the trucks owned .by :spent the day studying the troubled } their products.| v i WASHINGTON, D. C., HARDING ARBITRAL LA 5 CHAGE Both -Sides Delay Action to Study Public Opinion, U. S. Officials’ Assert. WONDER IF SENTIMENT WILL ALLOW REJECTION Anthracite Operators May Reply | Tonight—U. S. Hints at More Than Persuasion. Officials of the United Mine Werkers of America, after a con- ference today with Secretary of Labor Davis, were understood to have decided to seek a conference with President Harding, at which requeat will.be made that the ex- ecutive modify his coal strike wet- tlement plan se as to guarantee that any decision made by the pro- posed arbitration commission shall be binding on all operators in the country. High government officials declared today that in their ' opinion 'both the United Mine Workers' officials and spokesmen for the bitiminous operators were delaying and evading ction on President Harding's plan for arbitration of the coal strike in an effort to ascertain whether pub- lic opinion will permit a rejection of the settlement proposal. These officials declared that In the meantime a serious situation in the matter of the public coal supply was likely to develop. This is particu- larly true, it was added, because of the derangemeat of the railroads serving mnon-unifon coal mining ter- ritory where output is continuing, and officials said they saw some in- dication that special efforts were be- ing made by the striking railroad workers to tie-up strategic outlets from the non-union mining territory south of the Ohio river. Public Opinion Oniy Club. Only the force of public opinion is at present available to back up the President’s offer and administration advisers are inclined to believe that public pressure is necessary to-secure action. Ceh s L b 3 areaz under martial law. Officials de- The committee of the .n/(h_!"clfe clined to say whether such steps lay | operators in Washington, “howevsr, tmmed: ,bapind the railroad !y ceisimciin e ¢ Tt strike jamation, -but. neverthe- Tyt less, it was being pointed tbo as- a |mi . P oo srecedent. swer would bé in the hands of the! President hy tonight and. that it would be a definite response to. the suggestion for arbitration. As individuals among the bitumi- nous operators and the miners' ufion uxlchl- Hive expressed their views to government officials and to_the pre: it has been clear that the President’s arbitration proposal has indyced much dissatisfaction within the in- dustry. Although the union officials disclaimed personal responsibility for the miners’ responsé by calling in the general policy committee of their or- ganization to vote upon the Presi- dent's offer. officials are well satis- fled that John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, and the district presidents assembled here, could have made a recommendation immediately and that because of their influential position their recommen- dation would _have practically amounted to a decision. Reasons for Delay. The government. considers that a favorable response to the President's offer was withheld largely because the union is inclined to demand that arbitration shall apply to the opera- tions all over the country in the bituminous area, The government does not consider that it would guar- antee arbitration would ‘be accepted by every mine operator of the 6,000 concerned, although it would be sure that most of the operations in recog- nized union territory would hayve their working conditions and wages sub- mitted to the rule of the federal tribunal. On the operators’ side it is known that the President's proposal to rein- state the war-time wage rate in case arbitration was accepted has induced ; sharpest hostility. Many operators ! are unwilling to consider payment of the scales which existed up to March 31 for even thirty days in view of the fact that non-union operation, in- volving as many as 200.000 men, has continued all during 1921 and ever! since the strike at levels far below the scale which the President has now tendered the union men. Operators Seek Comeessions. A strong endeavor has been directed on the part of the operators to secure at least some concession in the Presi- dent's offer before making acceptance or refusal known. . - The indications were today that a failure to secure action on the Presi- dent’s proposal would be followed by a new government move probably in the . direction of exerting. stronger authority than that of persuasian and suggestion, but'the government' of- ficlals responsible are _reluctant -to even consider the course mentioned until a showdown has been forced on the President’s offer. g Several inconclusive sessions of the bituminous gperators now here resulted in an adjournment of further meetings yesterday until Sunday, after A. Ogle, chairman of the -operators’ and president of the National Coal As- soclation, and. a delegated .committee of the operators had conferred with Presi- dent Harding on various phases of his | arbitration proposal by t ‘up.in the operators’. conference. Later Mr. Ogle s3id: the operators felt they must give the proposal further con- sideration and would have to take time Lfor that. The union officials today were still awaiting the meeting of full t the - Uni . Mine | lating tions that delay might that quarter also. . the motor vehicle service were secured | by the Post Office Department from the War Department at the close of the world war. The trucks are large, powerful affairs, capable of making good speed over almost any sort of road. Officials said that in the e use of the trucks to tnn-vpznr: flfi: {é * FEARS' FUEL FAMINE. ‘in ST. PAUL. Ming., July 13—Gov. Preus left last night ‘(log 'Ilh"l"— e 4 # over long distances bet: running time woll'l.d b.'r::::‘u Sames what, as the tru o T Tiane oa Tucks Wil Eot ¥e Whle mail express trains. u‘u'. RN of free 1 on Dul th ocoal ~on luf -and rior docks ¢ a | trast f ey 7 \ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1922—THIRTY PAGES. -+ To THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ORDER ABOVE OBSTRUCTION LAWABOVE INTEREST ~IHE TRAINS MUST MOVE. DEMDCRATS FIAT AMID SEREN .07 OF ENPRE STATE Woman Voters Add to Seri- ousness of Party Row by Rival Activities. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. NEW YORK, July 12.—Vivid con- is presented in conditions in the republican and democratic parties in this state. On one hand stands the republican party, united and har- monious, withoyt a cloud on the politi- cal sky the size of a man’s'hand. ‘On the other is the democratic party drawing dangeroysly near an open | 4 the nomination of & cangi-. Eu':!gny’arfibr and over the candi- dacy of William Randolph Hearst. Yesterday's dispatch related how' the anti-Hearst forces, which is to say the supporters of former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, took the initiative and forced fighting at the conference | of up-state leaders at Syracuse. The Hearst supporters have now come back with retaliatory measures e\'sn: more bitter _than those adopted at Syracuse and couched in more aggres- sive and biting terms. To add to the seriousness of af- fairs, the democratic woman voters are taking sides in the controversy and forming rival organizations. It goes without saying that participa- tion of the women in the scrap will enliven it a hundred per cent. Ex- perience has shown that when the women. take a hand they mean bus ness, being unused to the men's way of putting up a lot of bluft and blus- ter, only as a gesture, and then fall- ing upon each other's necks in ap- parent reconciliation. Hylan Speech Adds Fuel. More fuel was added yesterday to the flames started in the Syracuse meeting, when Mayor Hylan of this city, the most conspicuous official supporting Mr. Hearst, addressed an organization created .to counteract an anti-Hearst organization of democratic women set up a few weeks ago. Mayor Hylan paid his respects to the opposing group by classing them as “a few misguided women who are being used by the interests to rob the public and split the democratic party.” He de- clared that the ‘“corporation press” and the “interests” were bent upon the same objective and charged that the republican governor of the state was a reactionary and also aflll!l!edl with the interests. Then an attack was leveled at Al- fred E. Smith, so thinly veiled as to be unmistakable as to. whom was meant. It was insinuated. that he, is “in secret sympathy with corporate interests that have controlled the government of the state to serve their own ends.” It is said by democrats here that when the upstate democrats read this iassault upon Smith they “will -see red”_and that the upstate fight on Mr. Hearst will be -redoubled. S0, altogether, things look very squally for democratic harmony be- fore the nominatiom-and doubtfal for democratic unity at the polls. The way affairs are drifting now, which- ever of these two candidates is nomi- nated, he will have been so villified by the other group of democrats as to seemingly make him an undesirable citizen to vote for at the polls. Sineere Vote.an Issue. .That might not be 50 serious among the men. The hardboiled voters who take such’things as all in the day's work and on election day say “for- get 1t” and vote the ticket the boss points out, but what about these seri- ous minded new voters who, are un: used to persifiage ‘and think that when @ spade -is called a spade- it must, indeed, be a spade, and very blackfone at that. Before leaving the democratic angle, here is a sidelight which has national bearing: The other day a couple of democratic national - committeemen from other states came on to. New York and made some tentative: In- qlnlrltl by way of “feeling out” sen- timent for Henry Ford, for the presi- dential nomination in 1924. I am" told ‘they .did not find the fishing of women which was; AIRPLANE FLIGHT FAD LATEST AMONG SOCIETY WOMEN OF NEW YORK By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 12.—An ais- plane flight from Newport, R. I, to New York by Mrs. J. Norman de R. Whitehouse vesterday at a speed of more than 100 miles an hour re- vealed today that wealthy New Yorkers have taken a fancy to fiying. Mrs. Whitehouse, accompanied by her husband and Bertram de N. Cruger, made the flight in Vincent Astor’s hydromonoplane. It took one hour and twenty minutes to cover the 125 miles from Newport harbor to Port Washington on Long Island. Vincent Astor and Harold S. Vanderbilt and other society amateurs harbor their craft there. Vanderbilt frequently flies to Southampton to play golf. He flew to the Poughkeepsie regatta and returned home in time for sup- per. He also flew to New York to witness the final Yale-Harvard /] NEW MERCER BILL {King to Introduce Street Car Measure Soon — Ball Doubts Early' Action. Senator King of Utah is preparing a new street rallway merger bill, i which, it is expected, he will intro- | duce within a few days. The bill will authorize the absorp- tion of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, together with the Potomac Electric Power Company, by the Capital Traction Company. It will authorize the Capital Traction Company to purchase and hold stock of other corporations, which it can- not do under the existing law. General Plan of Bill. In a general way the bill will pro- vide for the issue of preferred stock \by the Capital Traction Company, paying § per cent, which may be ex- changed for the 5 per cent preferred stock of the W. R. and E. Co. The Capital Traction Co., will be per- mitted to use the surplus funds toj purchase common stock in the W. R.! and E. It is the opinion of Senator | King that in this’ way. she Capital { Traction Company can- readily be- come possessed of the control of the other traction compamy here and its subsidiaries. 3 Senator King is impatient over the delay in bringing about a merger. of {the street car companies, which he regards as the only solution of the | traction situation here. Two_ bills ! have been. reported by -the Senate | District committee, authorizing the I merger of the street car companies, {and are now on the Senate calendar, {but neither. of them has been acted upon by the Senate. | Senator -Ball, chairman of the Dis- { trict committee, said today that so { far the proposal of the new merger ! bill had not come .to his committee. i He said that of course he was in | favor of bringing about a merger of | the 'street, car companies here, but ithat it did not ldok, in view of the! | Jegisiative jam in the Senate, as | though it would be possible to obtain I H ) ! merger " legislation at the: present { session of Congress. - - - FLYER REACHES ZITA. NDON, July 13.—A Cairo dis- pn.ltgn to the Times reports.that Maj. W: J. Blake has alighted at Zita, to the.south of Amman, Palestine, in n‘:cua‘.ttemnl to fly around the world. Today’s News in Brief. Striking clerk killed at Crew: \;:.,I t. Page 2 jident warns administrative offi- P:::-.e:ovemmont expenses must be left within federal income. Page 3 Irish republic in Cork Fumored, hut rep'oxftl;g not confirmed. Page le:Peru parley nearing agreement CI;;: arhltr:non of Tml-A.rl;:‘c.lh; pute. ite G. 0. P. poll® inaicates el SOt thip subsidy bl ez 5 Eastern strikers will stay oul They were answered something like _mourns passing of peace- e e e £ Lo (e 2 Darrel? ‘Thats all you will et out o J. Gould marries “actress In of Ut—aven if you ket that, because| Parls. . - “'! > se. Don't t, expected soon on_plan for eante to - Yo > ask ¢ { CoDtrac D. C, :a man with ideas about :'u-gzlor .“m'n.hm of:potintion ""ml"lc 16 ent paper %mey for pub! purposes —such sl enry Ford ad- vances.” It is-added that the visiting compittecmen we.s uite. do: U5 deir reception. | i cust streams. . L United States to withdraw milftary force from Santo Domingo -when rjoi ,-’of’ n;am-g; approye. i HAGUE SESSIONS BROKEN UP BY CLASH WITH RUSS Conference Collapse Believ- ed Consequence of Private Property Dispute. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, July 12.—The morn- ing session of the conference on Russian _affairs, which was devoted to the consideration of the private property question, broke up amid considerable confusion, many of the delegates decjaring the.Russian re- plies meant that the collapse of The Hégue conference was inevitable. No decisian as to this, howexe: 16ken, up to three o'clot nogn. A meeting of the commission on debts was arranged for later in the afterneon. Sir Philip Lloyd Greame, president of the commission on property, which was the body sitting. announced &t one o'dlock that further discussion seemgd useless and brought the con- ference to a sudden close, after two hours of debate in which Sir Phillp and other of the non-Russian dele- gates persistently tried to get Maxim Litvinoff and his. associates of the Russian delegation to answer ques- tions regarded as essential. Property Restoration. These related to the plans for the restoration of foreign property con- fiscated by the soviet regime and the probable time that would be required to rebuild Russia. Just as at the Genoa conference, the chief bone of contention was the foreign property that had been na- tionalized in Russia, &nd. it did not appear that the Russlans and non- Russians were any nearer an agree- ment at The Hague than at Genoa on that problem, which wrecked the Genoa conference. Maxim Litvinoft said on leaving the conference chamber t! further meetings were unlikely, as the non- Russians insisted upon the Russians n;;}(ln‘ promises which were impos- e. sl M. Litvinoff added that the peace pact would hold for ene month after the last meeting. Would Thrash Old Straw. M. Litvinoff declared that Sir Philip Lloyd Greame, M. Alphand of France and other non-Russian representatives bad insisted upon beginning work just where the Genoa conference began, and had made progress impossible by thrashirg over old straw and demand- ing replies from the Russians which they could not possibly make until the other powers told them that would be done financially by those powers toward Russian restoration. “We can’t say how long it will take to restore Russia until we know what our resorces will be,” Litvinoff insisted. BELGIAN-GERMAN WAR - FINANCE PARLEY ENDS Berlin. Propossl Bejected and Brussels Will Liquidate Se- questered Property. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, July 12.—Negotiations which have heen in progress here between- representatives of the Bel- glan and Grman governments for re- ‘demption of 6,000,000,00@ marks which Germany circulated in Belgium dur- ing the war were broken off today because the Germar proposals were inadequate, according to the Belgian ‘view, to meet the requirements. The Belgian government has decid- ed to lg'nc,ufl immediately with liquidation = of oq?ut,nd German property in order to raise a fund l?r redemption of the marks in ques- tion. +| .GIVEN MILITARY HONORS. Brig. Gen. Steiner in Charge of Alabama and Florida Troops. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Secretary of. War Weeks yesterday approved .the' appointment of Bri ‘Gen. Robert K. Stainer of Mont- Soarwa of troops in Alsbama d o ps in Ala an Florida, and extended federal recog- nition to him the same time, it ‘was-anpounced here.. S of the Alabama Nationdl Guard, of of the Alal Mational Gi , 'served ; during . the world war rigagicr gen fali_in .cha rigaud ol Tht $2d DivEsl b7 Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to | the use for republication of al credited to it or not otherwise credited in thiy paper and also the local vews published herein. news dispatches | | e e | ¢ Ail rights dispatches 4 of publication of spec herein are also rescrred. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 85,287 * $1,500,000 HOSPITALS, PLAN FOR TUBERCULAR EX-SERVICE PATIENTS Decisfon to erect a 500-hed $1,500,000 hospital for tubercular former service patients at Tupper Lake, N. Y., instead M: the proposed 250-bed institution at Liberty, N: Y., was announgced today by Acting Director Rogers ofthe Veterans' Bureau. Mr. Rogers also announced th. Veterans® Buresu I8 fo make avail able to the Treasury $750,000 to enable it to increase the capacity of the hospital to be erected at Chelsea, {Jo. ‘;iioh’l'n!:e Tre;lury from 250 beds s, making th. 2 th,e.;e $1,600,000. e oty ese projects, Mr. Rogers said, will Bive the New York district facilities for caring for 1,000 tubercular for- mer-service patients. Decislon to abandon the proposed site at Liberty, N. Y., Mr. Rogers stated, was made upon recommendation of the General Hospitalization Board which found that the land there was unsuitable and selected instead 150 acres at Tup- per Lake to be donated by the cham- ber of commerce of that town. Sur- vey of the land at Tupper Lake, he added, s already under way and bids for the construction of the new insti- tution will be called for shortly. —_— MORATORIUM PLEA 10 COME UP TODAY, i Reparations Commission Urged to Waive 32,000,000 Gold Marks Payment. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 12—The German re- quest for a moratorium on repara- tions payments for the remainder o the present year will be considered |bY the allied reparations commission | at a special meeting this afternoon. | It was presented formally to the com- mission by the German representa- tives. It stated that the 32,000,000 gold marks due on Saturday were 1available if the commission insisted {upon this payment, but recommended that it also be waived. The German request did not specify | an extension of the moratorium | ilhrou‘houl the next two years, as| |had been forecast in some quarters, !but urged the commission to con- | |sider Germany's condition and make | | public, as soon as possible, a com- { plete plan for her relief. The commission has instructed the {allied committee on guarantees to| hasten its report, either sending i {from Berlin as soon as possible or ireturning to submit its findings to | the commission here. i The commission decided yesterday to ir:ll_eye the German financial crisis to ithe extént of reducing the monthly {installment of 50,000.000 gold marks | due nex: Saturday on the schedule ot ipayment, to 32,000.000 gold marks. tniahy had announcea i‘r willing- ness to pay the whole amount, but {the commission ruled that in view of {the crisis the smaller figure was all that would be required. 18,000,000 Marks Credits. Credit to the amount of 18,000,000 gold marks was given Germany on her reparation account for deliveries of dyestuffs made during the last few {months to the Textile Alliance ot! America for all the allies and also for deliveries of coal which had been ! made to Luxemburg at the request of | the allied governments. These cred- its were due Germany for some time, | and the officials thought that this time was opportune to allow them, in view of the German difficulties. Members of the reparations commis- sion spent all day discussing the Ger- man crisis.- Dr. Fischer and Herr Schroeder conferred with the mem- bers this morning and had another talk with M. Dubois, president of the commission, in the course of wWh-h | the German representatives reiterated their country’s inability to meet cash payments after July. MAL R, A, WHEELER, NEW D.C. ENGINEER | - Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, who was awarded a dis- tinguished service medal for his serv- ices in the world war, has been select- ed as the successor of Maj. Carey E. Brown, Corps of Engineers, as an; assistant to the Engineer Commi: sioner of the District. Maj. Wheeler is sthtioned at Camp | Benning, Ga., and will assume his new ¢ dutles in this city as soon as the necessary = arrangements for the transfer can be effected. He was born in Illinois July 31, 1885, and was graduated from the United, Statesi Military Academy in June, 1911, near | the head of his class. He graduated | from the United States Engineer School “in 1913. During the world war he held the | rank of colonel in the National Army { and served in France with engineer troops. It is expected that the orders assigning him to duty with the Dis- trict government will be issued in a few days. H The orders in the case of Maj.| Brown were issued it the War De- | partment today. They relieve mm; from his present assignment and duties in this city, “effective at such time as will enable him to comply ! with this order, and will proceed at: the proper time to Camp A. A. Hum- | phreys, Va., and report in person not later than September 1. 1922, to the commanding officer for assignment to duty in connection with the Engineer School.> { Rigid limitation of the produc- tion of poison gas for Army pur- poses to “the amount necessary for the research and development of gas defense appliances,” is pre- scribed in a general order publish- ed today at the War Department, which brings the Army gas war- fare activities into line with the 1letter and spirit of the restrictions imposed in treaties framed by the ‘Washington arms limitation con- ference. “Ini order that the United States may carry out the provision con- 1 ‘article 3of the' tremey iz { “The White House, TWO CENTS. DAYLGHT SAVNG DEAD ANDBURED AFTER THS YEAR President Tells Federal Em- ployes It Will Be Put Aside in August. DISAPPROVES OF PLAN FOR A REFERENDUM Letter Says Department Heads Have Had Option of Readopt- ing Old Order. Daylight-saving under the present plan for Washington will continue until the latter part of August, there will be no authorized vote on the subject among federal employes, and after this year—so far as the present administration 18 concerned—saving daylight in Washington is dead and buried. This was made known in a letter today from President Harding to George A. Warren, chairman of the committee representing Federal Em- ployes’ Union No. 2, which recently petitioned the President to authorize a vote on the subject of daylight- saving among the government em- ployes in Washington. The text of the President's reply follows: Washington “My dear Mr. Warren: 1 have 3 letter of June 27, in which you invit my approval of a ballot among the federal employes relative to the so- called daylight-saving plan w. now in operation in the Distri Ballot Plan Disfavored. . “I do not look with favor upon the inauguration of the ballot pla; ticularly on a matter which is a closed se. The chief executive had no preference about a daylight-saving plan. Indeed. my own preference was thal of retaining the regular order. he modified arrangement was very much sought. and there was informal anction given to it by a very large number of federal employes and by the heads of the departments. The executive branch of the government was committed to the plan. and there will be no general order changing it until the latier part of August. Then it will be put aside not only for this ear but for all time so far as this dministratipn is concerned. It is not possibie for me to be varying orders to department heads, in accordance with the emphasis with which one {division of employes expresses its preference r against the judgment of another. ‘{ have long since said to heads of departments that if in their judgment the earliar working hour is proving of disadvantage to the gov- ernment, or of seripus inconvenience to employes, they &re to be free in change the hours without referring the matter to me. “Very truly yours, “WARREN G. HARDING. Up at Next Meeting. President Harding’s letter will be placed before the next meeting of the employes’ representatives. Mr. Warren said today that while he was not au- thorized to make a statement for the committee of which he is chairman, that the committee had wished that te government officers and erhployes might have had an opportunity to express themselves on the much de- bated question of daylight-saving. He presumes, however. he said, that the President’s response to the union's request reflected his best convictions as to his duty in the matter. The President's letter apparently brings to an end efforts to end day- light-saving here, which began the day it was put into effect. A stale- ment from the White House yester- day. which was reiterated in the President’s letter today, to the effect that if the heads of departments found the early working hours a disadvan- tage to the government they were free to change the hours without re- ferring the matter to the chief execu- tive, probably will result® in no in- dividual action by cabinetsmembers. When this subject was brought up before, an informal survey conducted by The Star showed there was no sentiment on the part of department heads to change the present working hours, as there was no “disadvantage to the government” resulling. WHITE MADE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF LABOR IPreunt Chairman of Board of Review Promoted to Newly Created Position. Robe Carl White of Muncie, Ind. at present chairman of the board of review of the Department of Labor, was today named by President Hard- ing as assistant secretary of the De- partment of Labor. This position recently was created by an act of Congress, and Mr. White will have exclusive charge immigration matters. Mr. White h been identified with the Labor 1 Ipnu-nem since January 1. GAINS SENSE OF SMELL. Remarkable Nasal Operation Per- " formed on 7-Year-Old Girl. LOS ANGELES, July 12.—A sense of smell was given 10 a Seven-year old girl born with a defective nos by an operation befare the conven- tion of the American Osteopathic Society of ophthalmology and oto- larynology yesterday. Dr. N J. Rudd of Los Angeles performed the operation. ARMY ORDERS LIMIT POISON GAS OUTPUT AS REQUIRED IN TREATY |_ | | relation to the use of submarines and noxious gases in warfare” the order directed that the limitations set up by the order be carried out 25 to “the procurement, design. re- search. development and supply in chemical warfare materials,” In addition to restri the chemical warfare service:ta de- velopment of purely defensive de- vices against poison gas, the or- der directs that “thé filling of all projectiles and _containers with poisonous gas will be discontinued, except for the limited number needed in perfecting gas defense appliances. The order. issued by direction of Secretary Weeks, Is signed by Gen. 2ing as chiet- of s 7, P