Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1922, Page 1

e . E:uou. today sought to arrange . [Efforts to End Rail Strike to Be . dmmediately on a mission which he Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tonight. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at noon today: Highest, 92, at 2:30 p.m. yesterday; 5:45 a.m. today. Full repoft on page 2. lowest, 73, at ik b _ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 11 ah N —— i No. 28,601 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. CONGRESS TACKLES PRESIDENT'S PLEA 10 STEM STRIKES Speedy Action Expected on ! Request Made for New ; Legislation. BILLS BEING DRAFTED FOR COAL COMMISSION Minor Proposals of Mr. Harding to Be Considered First—Others Face Indefinite Delay. By the Associated Press. Republican leaders Congress in goday proceeded with plans for action Illinois Central, 2t Paducah, Ky., on some of the legislation asked | ahead of a coal train. Two passenger #oon Ty ’ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Sfar. B WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1922_TWENTY-TWO PAGES. DYNAMITE AND VIOLENCE KEEP RAIL STRIKE ALIVE Outbursts Occur at Scattered Points From Atlantic to Pacific—Blast Tears Up Track Before Coal Train. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 19.—With rail- road peace apparently hanging in the balance until next Wednesday, when spokesmen for the railroads and striking shopmen are due to meet agaln, dynamite and violence Kept the strike from lagging. Outbursts occurred at scattered points from the Atlantic to the Pa- cificc. Bombs were thrown into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe yards at Albuquerque, N. M., and a heavy blast rocked the trestle of a Chesa- peake and Ohio railroad britdge near Huntington, W. Va., early today. Ac- cording to ‘early reports neither ex- plosion caused much damage. Passenger Trains Escape. Dynamite tore up the track of the just resterday by President Harding in his | trains and a freight had passed a ddress om the coal strikes. 3 The President’s minor proposals, it wvas said, would be taken up first, #vith prospects of indefinite delay on Ahe part of the- major proposals. nator Kellogg, republican, Mln; eeting of the Senate foreign rela- fions committee next Monday to con- ider his bill giving federal protection :o and federal court jurisdiction over gilens, which legislation was urged Nigorously by the President. The executive's recommendations Jor a fact-finding commission to in- Nestigate the coal industry will be taken up soon, Chairman Borah of the Benate labor committee said, but prob- mbly not until after Senate disposal of the soldiers’ bonus bill, which is to be taken up next week, with a hard fight promised it. Senator Borah roday received the letter of Secretary Hoover of the Department of Com- inerce recommending legislation Bgainst coal profiteering. There were indications, however, that the recommendations for a federal coal purchasing and selling corporation or for legal authority to control coal prices and distribution would be con- sidered soon, in the Sendte, although House leaders were prepared to take up these subjects. Semators Comsider Bills. Several senators were reported’ to be considering bills to meet the President's coal legislation requests, @nd Chairman Cummins of the Senate interstate commerce committee has Deen drafting a bill to amend the transportation act to make the Ralil- yoad Labor Board's decisions enforce- sble. The latter legislation, it was said generally, probably would await the next session of Congress, except possibly for committee action in the meantime. President Harding during the morn- $ng called Senator Borah on the tele- phone and, Mr. Borah said, gave his Reneralapprovat to the senator’s, bill 10 establish a coal investigating Tom- mission, 2 bill pending before the Jabor committee. The President asked Senator Borah to confer with him on details of the bill, the executive in- dicating that he might desire a change In the measure’s provisions for @ commission of three members. LULLIN N. Y. CONFERENCE. Continued Next Week. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 19.—New York, for the last two days the scene of conferences between brotherhood Jeaders and railroad executives, called in an effort to end the nation-wide strike of shoperafts, today experi- enced a lull in negotiations. Rail chiefs were preparing for a general meeting of the Association of Railway Executives here early next Week, at which will be considered a proposition for ending the walkout proferred yesterday by the running trades, acting as mediators, to a-com- mittee representing the carriers. Labor leaders, who had massed in this city during the parley, also were holding themselves in readiness to re- celve the answer of the employers at @nother meeting of the mediators and executives set for next Wednesday. ‘The . proposal under consideration by the roads was not officially defined at the end of yesterday's parley. In some quarters it was said to provide for immediate restoration of strikers With seniority rights unimpaired. In other quarters it was said to provide for return of the strikers as rapidly as they could be absorbed, with their Feniority unitimately to be settled | with satisfaction to all. In either case, it was said, new recruits were %o be retained, as extra men would be required in the shops at the end f the strike to repair bad order cars. Alfred P. Thom, vice president and Keneral counsel for the Association of Raflway Executives, announced his intention of going to Washington declined to discuss: T. De Witt Cuyler, head of the as- #ociation, returned to his headquar- ters in Philadelphia. Other members of the executives’ committee which participated in this week’'s confer- énces were again in their offices awalting the arrival of western chiefs flor the next seszion of the associa- tlon. Warren S. Stone, president of the and railroad | short time before and the ex: Lnorthwest, as owner. plosion burst behind a bridge crew. The on- coming coal train was flagged in time to prevent a wreck. Illinpis Central detectives expressed the belief the dynamite was placed on the tracks in an attempt to wreck the bridge train on its way to make repairs. All available United States deputy marshals in the district were rushed to Shawnee, Okla, early today to guard against violence in the shops of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa- cific. A strong guard was thrown around the shops. Marshal Alva Mc- Donald ordered protection for the shops after thirty shots had been fired into the shops where workmen were employed. Governor Promises Ald. Gov. Morrison of North Carolina, who declined early appeals to send troops to the shop of the Southern railway .at_Spencer, N. C. assured President Fairfax Harrison of the road that the state would protect the company's property and rights. His investigators, the governor said, convinced him that improved condi- tions appeared to make the use of troops unnecessary, but he promised to act promptly if the situation grew worse. Transportation difficulties due to unauthorized strikes of train crews continued to clear away rapidly as the trainmen returned to their jobs in most places where walkouts oc- curred. New complications on the Missouri Pacific arose when 90 per cent of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks em- ployed on the road voted in favor of a strike. The result of the vote SEIZE D. C. YACHT, $100,000 LIQUOR Three Automobiles and Fif- teen Prisoners Bagged at New Rochelle, N. Y. LOADED OFF NEW YORK Alleged Owner of The Bat Believ- ed in New York—Seldom Comes to Washington. By the Associated Press. NEW ‘ROCHELLE, N. Y., August19. —Liquor valued at $100,000, a motor- driven yacht, three automobiles and fifteen prisoners were bagged early today in a raid by the local police on a coal company's docks. The police swooped down on the dock as the crew of the yacht, the Bat, was unloading its cargo. Fifteen men tried to get away, but for an hour the police combed the various coal pockets on the pier, finally get- ting all of them except the captain. Three of the men, who, the police say, were leaders among the crew, said they were James Murphy of Larch- mont, Willlam Baldwin, a Darien, Conn., inventor, and John Johnson of Philadelphia. They said the yacht's home port was Washington, D. C, and that she had been loaded with liquor from a two-masted schooner off Mon- tauk Point. The police could mnot learn who owns the Bat or the three trucks which they say were backed up on the dock. Official records here show a yacht ull:l the Bat is registered with the name of 8 W. Ferguson, 1708 I street The vada!el = escribed as being a converted sub- e s0ld by the United States gov- ernment- after the war, and turned into & pleasure yacht. She is 104 feet long and she is licensed to carry a crew of three men. She is a gasoline- PBrotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. was making ready to return to Wash- ngton_with Bert M. Jewell, head the shopcrafts’ organizations,. an other labor leaders. Of the .sixteen representatives of running and stationary trades who were summoned to New York during the deliberations, several announced they would remain here pending next weel’s developments. CHARGED WITH HOLD-UP. Buspect Identified as Robber by Al- leged Woman Witness. BALTIMORE, Md., August 19.—John ). Smith of this city was declared by B witness today to be the man who :het and killed William B. Norris in daylight robbery at Madison street pnd Park avenue yesterday, and pacaped with three or four compan- fons in an automobile with the pay tchel of the Hick, Tase & Norris ‘ompany, amounting -to over $7,200. Mary Garet, a negro woman, .who told the police she was within twen- ty-five feet of Norris when the shoot- ln‘ and robbery occurred,”and plain- y saw the mah who did the shoot- ng, declared that Smith was the man, Smith is one of six men under ar. Fest as suspects in the case. e —_— _SENATE EX-OFFICER DEAD. ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 18.—Charles P. Hij s, former sergeant-at-arms in .the United States Senate, Is dead at his home here after an of ngine-driven ship. = I‘n‘q\llrlel at 1708 I'street today dis- closed that Mr. Ferguson is believed now to be in New York state. A servant said that he very seldom came to Washington. Mrs. Ferguson was sald to be om & two-week traveling tour about the country. No one at the premises could say where to find Mr. Ferguson today, as it was claimed s address was unknown here. A _relative who lived nearby, how- ever, when told of the seizure of the Bat éxpressed much surprise and con- ] cern. She also was unable to give Mr. Ferguson's whereabouts. Mr. Ferguson was recently voted into membership at the Capitol Yacht but none of the, members of Club, the club questioned knew him per- sonally. An attendant at the club said . Ferguson had never been there, to hig knowledge, since he was elected. A'member of the club who Kropoufl him for membership said | e formerly was in_thetaxicab busi- ness here, but had been in Washing- ton very little during theé last year. MAN AND WIFE DIE IN FIRE. RICHMOND, Va., August 19.— Hackett Farmer and his wife, both thirty years old and recently mar- ried, were burned to death in their beds when the home of the father, ‘W. M. Farmer, of Gjesterfield coun- ty, caught fire this morning at 2 6'clock and burned to the ground. weeks, He Wwas sixty-four|Aca was sent to international -headqual ters of the clerk’'s union at Ch cinnati. . It was sald thatino walk- out was contemplated until further attempts at settlement of contro- versies were made. Working con- ditions and wage cuts of 3 and cents an hour ordered by the United States Railroad Labor “Board were cited as the clerk's grievances. Demand Guards Leave. Removal of armed guards em- ployed by the Great Northern rail- way at Havre, Mont, was de- manded by local officials of the “big four” train service brotherhoods. The demands followed the killing of a Great Northern brakeman by a guard Thursday night. Steps were taken in various parts of the country toward prosecution of strikers arrested in connection with disorders and violations of in- junctions restraining them from in- terfering with railroad operations. At Pratt, Kans, a warrant was issued for Thomas P. Hylan, gen- eral chairman of the Rock Island carmen. The warrant charges viola- tion of the industrial court law. Hylan in a speech was quoted as referring to the court as a ‘“joke.’”| Blast Rocks Trestle. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., August 19.— A heavy blast this morning rocked a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad trestle near the city limits. Railroad officials announced that a passenger train due soon after the explosion was heard was stopped. There were no details of the damage to the bridge. WILL GUARD SOUTHERN. Nineteen Men Given Special Duty in Alexandria. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., August 19— Nineteen special officers were sworn in last night by the board of police commissioners at the request of the Southern Railway Company at a spe- cial meeting of the board of commis- sioners, held in the office of Mayor J. M. Duncan. These officers will do guard duty at the company’s yards, ard not only guard the company’'s property, but also the new employes, who are be- ing taken on to fill the places of the strikers. Already more than fiity men, it is stated, have been placed by the company to take the places of the strikers. g The work of filling their places, it is stated, will be continued until the vacancies are completely filled. TROOPS TO TYPIFY STUDENT TRAINING President Harding May Ad- dress Camp Meade Soldiers Here Monday Morning. PLANS NEAR COMPLETION Secretary Weeks Praises The Star for Definying Expenses of Men l Here for Event. Tl Arrangements for the parade and review of 1,000 officers and men of the student military training camp at Camp Meade, Md., to be held in Washington at 11 o'clock Monday morning, were practically completed today. It has not been definitely de- cided, however, whether President Harding ‘will address the students, although it- was hoped that both the President and Secretary of War Weeks would deliver short speeches. Col. Robert C. Davis, acting adju- tant general, today notified Brig. Gen, Bandholz, commanding the district of Washington, to make all necessary arrangements for the parade and re- View. Col. Davis' instructions say that the exact place and nature of the parade before the President is still dependent upon his wishes. Sec- retary Weeks will request the Presi- dent that the review be held on the grass elipse south of the White House, the President and other mem- bers reviewing it standing on the edge of the elipse. Considerable standing space will be reserved in the rear of the Rresi- dent's position for the other dis- tinguished guests The men will march past the reviewing gallery and will be formed into a square for the expected address by the Presi- dent. Event Here Important. War Department officidls were said today to hold the opinion that the coming to Washington of the men from Camp Meade is of far more than local importance. Based on this opinion, it was regarded likely that the President and Secretary Weeks speaking through the contingent from Camp Meade would express the gratitude of the nation for the END OF HARD GOAL TROUBLE DELAYED BY TERM DISPUTE Conference of Operators and Miners Adjourns Without Decision on Contract. WILL MEET AGAIN MONDAY TO SETTLE DIFFICULTIES Conciliators Suggested as Final Arbiters in Matter—Conferees Are Silent. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August-19.—The Joint conference of anthracite coal cperators and union officials ad- Jjourned about 11:30 o'clock until Monday afternoon without having reached an agreement. A brief state- ment was issued by James A. Gor- man, secretary of the eonference, to the effedt that the terms of a pos- sible contract had been discussed, but containing no information as to Wwhat progress toward a settlement of the strike in the hard coal fields had been made. Mr. Gorman’'s statement read: “The conference of anthracite op- erators and mine workers met thpfl :'nflrnlnx at 10 o'clock and continued ts efforts to reach an agreement in the anthracite field. The time of the conference was consumed in a dllscusslon of the terms of a pos- sible contract. The conference will reconvene Monday at 4 p.m.” Three Umpires Suggested. One of the pro) unofficlally ropocien ™ would submit to the Tas to refer the wage nthracite conciliation c - :ll(e);l, which, for tyenty years, hflul:f::!_ tled minor disputes in the hard coal reglons, The commission, whose embership comprises the three dis- :‘r ‘cl. presidents of the anthracite he ds, three operators and an umplire, has never passed on wage questions. e operators’ proposal, It was stated, would provide for three umpires, in- stead of one, the other two to be ap- pointed by the president judge of the L"S‘:a’uesl‘.]t)e! ‘clrcun court. . Warriner, presiden the Lehigh Coal and Navigation com. pany and spokesman for the opera- tors, would neither affirm nor deny whether such a proposition would be Which, it was the operators union officials, controversy to iself-sacrifices of the 28,000 men who have attended military training camps this year. Secretary Weeks took oc- casfon_today to praise The Evening Star Company for agreeing to pay the transportation charges of the students. He said: \ “This parade has been made possible by The Evening Star Company in do- nating $500 to defray the transporta- tion expenses from Camp Meade, Md., to Washington &nd return, and through the courtesy of the Washing- ton, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric railway in greatly reducing its rates. 1 belleve such action truly reflects the publicgpirited and generous interest taken bY the entire nation in the wel- fare of its young manhood.” kS Chance to See Resulfs. Secretary Weeks gdded that the ap- pearance of the students will furnish 2 splendid opportunity for.all to see what has been accomplished in this brief period of time from a military standpoint, and the best possible proot of the wisdom of appropriating funds for the annual students’ encampment, The' entire cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, many members of the Senate, and House and tically all high ranking officials of the War and Navy departments will witness the review. Followl the review, student-soldiers will march north on ‘West Executive avenue, east on Pe; | sylvania avenue to East ive enue, and south of the Treasu: 18ylvanis :v.-;u.’gmmuw - an e to an alarm esrly today an submitted. Nef submitted. Neither would any of his Both Mr. Warriner and John Lewis, president of the United Mi:; Workers and head of the miners delegation, have taken the stand that no information be given out concern- 7 “gz:.gflgtnxnolons in advance of , One wa: e o oaoh, ona a3 or the other, ¥ OHIOCOML OUTPUT SHOWSHURE GAN State Fuel Chief Expects Normal Production Will Soon Be.Attained. o Coal production in Ohio is expected to be normal by Monday, the central fuel distribution committee was -ad- vised today by George T. Boor, chair- man of the Ohio state fuel commis- sion.. The Ohio commissioner de- clared that by the beginning of the week Ohio would be producing about 5,000 carloads of coal a day. The Ohio fuel official offered to the federal organization the fullest co- operation in the utilization of con- siderable quantities of Ohio coal for great lakes and interstate movement, but declared that the needs of south. ern Ohio, normally supplied by West Virginia and Kentucky coal, would have to be considered in allocating Ohio production to federal distribu- tion. New coal production in Ol sylvania and northesn Weor '8';,‘2,'.‘."; officials said, would cause some change in the federal committee's program of devoting all the coal pro- duced in certain districts of Kéh- tucky and West Virginia three days 2 week to the needs of the northwest. Modification of this program to in- clude some of the new production under considerati the committee. SR co-operative arrangement wif Pennsylvania fuel commission J&u}"nf ed to meet the price situation in that state has been effected, it was said at the committee headquarters. - The Pennsylvania organization, officials ex- plained, is to appoint seven representa. tives, one for each of the Pennsylyania bituminous districts, and the Interstate Commerce Commission will appoint these representatives as its agents for the transter of orders between producers and consumers. more urgent coal needs of. - ber of Canadian railroads have been presented to the federal fuel committee, which has been asked for a consider- able tonnage for both lake and rail movement. Coal for these Canadian railroads has -in_the past_largely been supplied from Ohio and Pennsylvania, and in the bellef of the committee the new production in_Ohio, some Canadian railroads own their:own mines, will relieve the Canadian situa- tion materially. THREE HOUSES BURNED _ WHEN FIREMEN STRIKE Volunteer Company Quits- Because Games of Chance Are Banned at Fair. MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa., August 19. —With members of the Mount Pleas- Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it cr not otherwire credited 11 this paper and also the local news published herein, Al rights of publication of special dispatchies hereln ace also reserved. Net Circulation, 83,693 TWO CENTS. BORAH DECLINES 10 BACK TARIFF Calls Giving President Right to Change Duties Un- constitutional. LENROOT’S VIEW DIFFERS “Saving Feature,” He Says, in De- fending Bill—Sterling Drops Dry Amendment. Attacking the provisions of the tarift bill proposing broad authority for the President to increase or de- crease duties, Senator Borah, repub- lican, Tdaho, declared toddy fi tHe Senate that he could not give his support to the measure on the final vote late today unless these pro- visions were eliminated. He sail he could not arrive at the concluaion that they were constitutional. Senator Lenroot, republican, Wis- consin, who has opposed many rates in the administration measure, ex- pressed an opposite view, stating that if- the provisions for presidential powers were not in the measure it would be “difficult” for him to vote for it. He added that these provisions constituted one of the “saving features.” Hopes for Rate Reductions. The , Wisconsin senator said there were many “excessive” rates in the bill, but that he would vote for it in the hope that reductions would be made in the conference committee. “If they are not cut” he added, “then I shall exercise the liberty and gerl;lguflve of voting against the bill nally.” 3 Senator Sterling, republican, South Dakota, announced today in the Sen- ate that he would not press his amendment to the tariff bill propos- ing that the prohibition enforcement law be e effective within eighteen miles of the American coast, fifteen miles beyond the international limit. Senator Sterling said-'the State Department was negotiating with the British government looking to “an agreement under which Great Britain would not object to’ the search of her veseels for the purpose of ascer- taining whether they carried oon- traband liquor on board within a reasonable distance beyond the three- mile limit. Adjourns at 11110 P.M. The Senate sat until 11:10 o'clock last night, putting the finishing touches on the tariff bill. It was hoped at one time that it would be possible to conclude work on the measure before the Senate recessed yesterday, but too many amendments Wwere pending. E A feature of the debate yesterday was a renewal of the attack upon the dye stuffs rates adopted by the SG":'G T&“":;yi. ‘The Senate, how- ever, reaffirm 8 earlier actis a vote of 39 to 31. Toni, ‘When this section was reached Senator Moses, republican, New Hampshire, who had reserved a sepa- rate vote on it, announced that in view of the overwhelming vote, 38 to 23, by which the Senate had first approved the fincreased duties, he would not press his motion for a reconsideration. Immediately Sena- tor Smoot of Utah, ranking republi- can on the finance committee, was on his feet, pleading that the Senate rescing its action. ‘Worse Than Embargo, He Says. “This is an embargo, a thousand times over and worse than an em- bargo,” said he.” “Dyes and coal-tar chemicals not made in this country will have to pay a rate of duty so high that it is a crime. 'No human being can defend these rates before the American people.” Chairman McCumber of the finance committee remarked that the in- creased duties constituted a ‘com- plete embargo” and that it was for :":l! reason that he had voted for em. The republican - agricultural - tarift bloc finally won its fight to require soap manufacturers'to pay duty on vegetable oils imported for use in mlAn‘\Lhcturlnsh 808D, & r two hours fight, the Senat by‘voteo!lfihtb“.wla ant volunteer fire department on|h strike, Burgess Willlam Overhold and twenty-two business! men respondéd hours fought a blase which de':z::y" urs - ‘whicl a barn ::: two small frame Imnd.ln{-. The burgess said he believed the ‘fire ince! firemen Soveral days ago The suthositios S A ey being conducted oluntegra; . wmm.’nuwamu "he duty .of one-nalf oF. Bounied b7, 2 "the Senate’ W e |LAKE FISH, COOKED | BY VOLCANIC GAS, TOTAL THOUSANDS By the Associated Press. NAPLES, August 19.—Thousands of | dead eels, gray mullets, sea bass and other fish have come to the surface the last few days on Lake Lucrin, near the north shore of the Gulf of Naples, from which it is separated only by a narrow sand spit. Fishermen in the vicinity were delighted, especially as the fish appeared to be already/ cooked. Their pleasure was short lived, for the authorities prohibited collection of the fish, fearing that they had been poisoned by an eruption of gases. It was these gases, the authorities ex- plain, which evidently coming from the bottom of the lake made the water bubble and boil, thus killing and in a way cooking the fish. Lucrin is a small lake said to/ have been formed by a volcanic phenom- enon in prehistoric times. It was well known in the time of Cicero and Horace, as they extolled its oysters and ‘mussels. e, —— 1 resurfaced with asphalt immediately, | : - F. S. Besson, acting Engineer LA L - Commissioner, announced today. SNARE THOUSANDS Washington Newsstands and Cigar Stores Great Ad- vertising Mediums. DOWNTOWN SIGNS ABOUND | “I-Told-You-So” Dope on Previous- | Day Winners Booms “Sucker- | Biting” Industry. It's as easy to buy horse-racing tips in Washington today as it is to collect a crowd by scattering half dollars in the streets. The extent of the tipster business now being con- ducted openly from large downmwn! newsstands and corner cigar stores points plainly to the extent of busi- ness done by bookmakers here. ‘Where thousands of dollars are spent for tips, thousands must be played in the books the races. One sup- ports the other. And these little brothers of the bookies believe it pays to advertise. = So firm is their belief, that they plaster signe up all over their places of business. Big paper signs they are, with red ink and blue ink, point- ing out how the winners turned out for several days, how they gave the winners and the original telegrams ‘which brought the tips to 00t the ‘works on Queen of the Mire. Maybe it'’s because they have elas- tic memories—but there do not ap- pear to be any losers, which have been tipped—to look at the signs. Winners are all over the place. They have no compunction at all in telling how they advised a play which would have netted big change and, the more one looks at the signg the more oné believes that their motto is: “It pays to advertise—winners.” I every one could believe them, there’d be a steady stream lined up in front; of the local bookies’ establishments. Stroll Dowa Suckers’ Avenue. Let's take a stroll in the down- | town gection and see how Washing- tonians of today are living up to the late Mr. Barnum’s few choice words regarding “suckers.” Here's a clgar store. Well, nothing" much doing. = Let's invest 10. cents and see what we can get. There's the Daily Sporting News with almost a score of selections. Grab it. Run- ning down the list—for Windsor— the handicapper picks. out Doubtful in the third, Fin in the fourth and Carmandale in the fifth. Another handicapper in the same column picks; Doubtful, John Finn and Estero, in the same. res| ive races. Remem- ber that, while we walk on. r!h hee! Look at that bunch of tips on the side of that stand. We'll only take one of many. Let's get a good one. “Give us that Kentucky Boy's wire,” say we. “One doflar.” < Over goes the dollar. tip ‘must amount to something. The in- the first one. . Yes. Easy to get that good rmation. Tear open’ the envelope and. see what's inside? Same Dope Again. This My, .. Only two tips? And we ipai@’ a dollar for that one where we Mmlxz‘hm than 2 dozen a ‘minute 3:‘ the small sum of 10 t's -this? The icked ORDER REPAVING ONGEORGIA AVENUE Authorities to Resurface With Asphalt Between Fair- mont and Kenyon Streets. |WORK TO BE DONE NOW | Officials Discuss Conditions on Suburban Highways, Which Ne- cessitate “Patchwork.” A part of Georgla avenue from Fairmont to Kenyon streets, is to be This stretch of roadway is now paved with granite blocks, and the asphalt will be laid over them, the blocks being made to serve as a base. The work will cost approximately $4,500. The proposed treatment of that sector of Georgia avenue is similar to the job now being done on 6th street southwest, where asphalt is being applied to granite block. Regarded as Satisfactory. Maj. Besson said that the portion of 6th street where the asphaltic covering has been applied to granite blocks looks as gbod as a regular asphalt street. Officials of the engineer department, discussing the general condition of suburbun highways in Washington, comparcd them to wearing apparel. “If a man's pocketbook makes it necessary for him to keep patching his old suit he can't expect to l.oi as good as his neighbor who can afford to buy a new suit occasion- ally,” said one highway official. “If the funds for road maintenance are so limited as to permit only patch- ing, the roads cannot be mads serve as new surfaces.” “Patching™ to Continue. The roadways of the National Capi- tal will continue to “wear patches” next year, judging from the way in which the Commissioners are being rejuired to cut their estimates. PRIVATE MAIL BOX 1S AID T0 CARRIER Apartment dwellers may get real mail delivery at last. First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett said today that if everybody in Washington would install mail boxes at front doors, or cut slots in doors, he “thought the department would be able to deliver mail to eath indtvidual apartment as a result of the time saved by carriers. This is one of the first develop- ments from the “No box-no mail” o der issued by Gov. Bartlett yesterday. in which postmasters were instructed to deliver no mail to new dwellings ‘without boxes. At present the Washington city post office does not accord individual delivery to those who live in apart- ments, carriers merely placing letters in the mail boxes in the first floor entrance hall. Postmaster Chance, for several years, has been trving to induce the Post Office Department to grant him additional carriers, So that delivery of mail may be made to each apart- ment, from floor to floor. The speeding up of the mails, which would accrue if every householder in ‘Washington, in old or new houses, had a mail box at his front door, would enable the department, Gov. Bartlett believes, to afford the 'door- to-door delivery of mail in apart- ments, without any additional cost to the postal <ervice, perhaps. Installation of boxes at all front doors, or slots cut in the doors, so that mailmen may drop letters into the housé, would be of great benefit to the householders, Gov. Bartlett pointed out today. One of the biggest gains to the home, he said, in addition to the early de- livery which everybody would get each day, would lie in the service which~ the postmen would render households in maillng letters. Just put your letters to be mailed in your home mailbox, it was pointed out, and the carrier, on his trips. mould collect the mail from the boxes as he delivered. Thus, were an én- tire city completely equipped with home mail boxes, street mail boxes t become unNnecessary. m"l"hhe best opinion at the Post Office Department today was that the order of *no box—no mail” is entirely legal, the department not being under coi ulsion. to_deliver mail except when Rs rules and regulations are complied the | o] BIGGERD.C.BUDEET NEEDED FOR PLANS BY BOARDOF TRADE Larger School System, More Water Conduits and Bridge- Are Urged. s REPRESENTATION IS AGAIN IN NEW PROGRAM District Citizens Should Have Vote, Bulletin Says—Other Re- forms Urged. Pledging itself to “insist that the federal legislature amply and gener- ously provide for improvement and maintenance” of the National Capi- | tal, the Board of Trade, in a bulletin issued today, pointed to past achieve- lmenls and outlined a future pro- gram of endeavor in behalf of na- tional representation for the District public schools, water supply, blue - sky legislation, police betterment and other needs designed to make Wash- ington the foremost capital of the world. p Recdunting that_the board was o7- ganized in 1889 in view of Washi ion’s unique position as a_municipa without a representative in Con- gress and with cognizance of the need for some proper body to make known the city’s wants, the bulletin announces the board’s intention of working ufitiringly for important im- provements and_changes decmed sential by its officers. Outline of Program. Briefly, the goals to be sought by the board until obtained, include: An amendment to the Constitution which would provide for representa- ! tion for the District of Columbia in both houses of Congress and in the electorul college, and would cause_the citizens of the District to have also the status of citizens of a state, for the purpose of suing and being sued in the United States courts. Increased facilities for the public | schools, particularly additional new | buildings of a permanent type, and | proper adjustment of salaries for of- ficials and employes of the educa- tional system. Additional water conduits to pro- vide increased water ,supply and a hign seUre sVStom for Lie DUSiness section of the city | Passage of a blue-sky law, which witi vr veni the of worthless | securities in the District. Increase in the potice force to offer better protection for residents: érec- {tion of a central police station, and {replacement of worn-out motorized | equipment by high-speed apparatus. A new bridge to replace the old Chain bridge across the Potemac. A board of accountancy for the Dis- { trict. A new building to house the office {of the recorder of deeds. Beautification of the harbor front opposite Potomac Park. Development of plans for a me- morial bridge across the Georgetown channel, connecting the Lincoin Me- morial with Arlington, Va. Enactment of legislation for the ac- quisition of civil war forts encirclng the city and of the Piney Branch parkway extension, the Klingle ford parkway and the Patterson tract. Construction of sewage purification works at Shepherds, on the Potomac river. Record In reply to the query. Board of Trade done?” the statement cites the following important meas- ures as having becn brought about by its influence: Aoblition of grade Crossings; mew | post office building. a municipal build- | ing. location of government buildings south of Pennsylvania avenue, streel extension, reclamation of the Ana- | costia flats, improvement of the river and harbor front, underground sys- tem of wires throughout the city water filtration system, sewage-dii posal system, the new Georgetown bridge, the Connecticut Avenue bridge, development and _extension of the park system, guiding and aiding the preparation and enactment of a code of laws for the District, an authen- tic history of the District, civil serv- ice law in the District. the new High- way bridge, an adequate smoke law. increased water supply, public con venlence stations, municipal bathing beach and_pools, additional public school buildings, two-platoon system for the fire department, a traffic courts a zoning law, maintenance of fiscal relations of the District to the fed- eral government, establishment of municipal. playgrounds, compulsory” education law, creation of the Juveniie Court, municipal tuberculosis hospital, ! marine insurance law. new Union st { tion, a board of charities, a camp site for automobile tour:sts and proper med- ical inspection of schools. Campaign for Vote. With regard to its campaign for na- tional representation, the bulletin asks: “How many people throughout the great United States of America are aware of the fact that the residents of Washington, the capital of the na- tion, are deprived-of the rights of real American citizenship—the right to be Trepresented in the halls of Congress, the electoral college and the federal courts? “In no -other city or state in the whole Union does this same condition exist.” The amendment sought makes no new state, it is emphasized. “Instead of taking any power from Congress, it adds to the list a specific new power. It does not reduce in any wiy the control of the nation's city by Congress or the pation. Its effect is merely to make the District a part of the nation politically and to give to the people the possibility of future ‘American representation in the Con- gress which is to continue to exercise over the capital exclusive legislative control. All that Is asked is that the Constitution empower Congress to de- clare that residents of the District of Columbia are on the same foating as citizens of the states in relatio® ofily to Congress, the electoral college and the federal courts. - “Who is there in all the world who does not think that the 437,571 Amer- jcans at the seat of government of the United States are not entitled to representation in the legislature which alone makes laws for them, taxes them, and may send every man of them to war? Who eontends that these Americans are not as intelligent, as patriotic, as public spirited as the same number of Americans anywhere else in_the United States? “We believe this is the psychological moment, when the”relations of capital ' and nation, both financlally and po- 1itical, ere under earnest, thoughtful, intelligent consideration, tp provide for Americanizing the Amer (Continued on 2, Column 1) | of Achievement. “What has the