Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1922, Page 2

BUDGET CUT HALTS NEW SCHOOL PLANS Pr;oiects Reported Abandon- ed Because of Big Reduc- tions in Estimates. EXPECT BIGGER SLASHES Shortage of Teachers and Over- crowding of Buildings Fore- cast by Officials. Every new building project provided for'in the original public school esti- mates for the next fiscal yvear has been eliminated during the cutting process the school pudget is now un- dergoing, it was learned today from an authoritative source. Items for additional teachers, to- gether with those for the replacement of badly worn furniture and increased supplies, also have been slashed from the estimates When tae work of trimming the budget is completed there will be nothing left but the items for teachers’ salarics and for the maintenance of the school system. In other words, the original esti- mates of the board of education are being cut from about $8.500.000 to $5.500,000—$1,740,000 less than Con- | gress granted the District schools for the current fiscal year. 4 further re- duction in the estimates is expected when the school budget reaches Con- gress, as this procedure hus been customary. Building Plans Abandoned. Exclusive of the buflding program. the appropriation for the hools for the current flacal vear totals $5.304.- 000. The appropriation for new build- ings was $2.036.000 The drastic cut ordered in the esti- mates has disheartened school offi- cials, who pointed out that the origi- nal budget for the next fiscal year. as it went to the Commissioners, carried only absolutely essential items. It also was emphasized that the restric- tion of the building projects will{ wreck the carefully planned program of Supt. Frank W. Ballou to relieve the overcrowding In the schicols by setting aside approximately $2,000.600 a vear for a period of five vears or longer for new school buildings. Not enly will the cut in the budget | preclude a continuation of the school | building program. but it will prevent school officials from replacing class- roem furniture which has become al most useless from forty and fifty vears of service. Another serlous effect of the re-| duced budget will be a shortage of ! teachers. No additional teachers can | be appointed on the appropriation to | be allowed in the slashed estimates. | It was pointed out that between 150 nd 200 additional teachers are ve- quired every year to meet the normal | increase in the school enrollment, and next year this number probably will be larger on account of the opening of the two new junior high schools. Congention Expected. Cutting of the building program | from the budget kills the hopes of the | school officials for relieving the seri- | ously congested conditions in the | high schools. The construction pre gram for the next fiscal year was de signed primarily to provide additional accommodations for the high school students, although there were several items of rellef for the graded schools. The hardest blow from the budget cut will affect McKinley and Arm- strong Manual Training schools There were items in the original bud- get for a site for a new building for McKinley and an addition to Arm- strong, but both have been eliminat- ed, it was said. School officials recalled that some members of Congress for several vears have promised that the over- crowding in the schools would be re- | lieved and that the Washington school systtm would be made a model for | the nation. i _— ALIENATION SUIT FILED AGAINST D. C. HOTEL MAN Elmer Thorne Asks $100,000 Dam- age of Ben Schwartz for Alleged Theft of Wife's Love. Ben Schwartz. proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, at 920 F street north- west, is named defendant in a suit to re- | cover $100.000 damages for alleged | allenation of affection. filed today in the District Supreme Court by Elmer C. Thorne, who claims to have lost the affection, comfort and society of his wife, Marie F. Thorne, because of the attentions al- leged to have heen showered upon her by the defendant. Mr. Thorne charges that here, in Atlantic City and elsewhere Mr. Schwartz carried on secret communi- cation with Mrs. Thorne and by that means destroyed her love for her husband and humiliated him before his neighbors. Attorney W. W. Ste- vens appears for the husband. SIBERIAN REDS ACTIVE. Withdrawal of Japs Delayed by Several Outbreaks. By the Associated Press. VLADIVOSTOK, July 25 (Mail).— Departure of the Japanese troops 1s the main item of interest in political circles here. One faction is doing all it can to postpone evacuation and un- til such time as the political situation is more quiet. The reds are getting more active. On July 22 they bombarded the town of Nikolsk at 3 am. It {s now re- ported that the bombardment was for the purpose of destroying a troop train of Cossacks. The partisans at Olga attacked th, “white" datachment stationed theré, but were driven back. SHANZER AND SEIPEL TO MAKE NO AGREEMENT Meeting Today at Verona Only of Informative Character, News Agency Says. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, August 36.—The meeting to- today at Verona between foreign min- ister Schanzer of Italy and Chancellor Seipel of Austria, which was arranged at the latter's urgent request to con- | sider measures for Austria’s rellef, will be merely of an informative char- . acter, according to the semi-official Stef- fani News Agency. It is poirted out that no agreements can be entered into in & case of this kind by tha foreign minister without the consent of the remainder of the Itallan cabine Bignor Schanzer joined Chancellor 1 at Bolsano yesterday, and pro- /with him to Verona. Senator nf, secretary general of the Ttalisn foreign office, and Herr Kwiat- kowski, Austrian minister to Italy, also will participate in the conversa- tions. NAVY DELAYS DISCHARGES. To permit of the more gradual dis- dharge of employes of the navy yard st Charieston. 8. C.. the closing of‘ that yard, set for September 1, h postponed until November 1. sation was based on informatjon werious unemployment situfa- X S ety come Worse e of the workmen of the yard, | Guatemalan constitution, The suit was| ! b, ) Of New Orleans, tive of an athletically lous fami winner of the southern women's tennis ehamplonship, at the recent tournament at the New Bilt- more Forest Country Club, Biltmore, ORELLANA DEPOSED BY REVOLUTIONSTS President of Guatemala, In- augurated in March, Flees Country Following Crisis. resenta- By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, August 24.—The unionists in Guatemala have over- thrown the government of President Orellana and the president is fleeing the country. says a dispatch printed by El Universal Grafico from its cor- respondent at Tapachala, Chiapas, quoting advices received from Guate- mala City The dispatch adds that Julio Er- nesto Zelaya has been named provi- sional president. Reports of Unrest. Recent dispatches have indicated considerable unrest in ' Guatemala. Advices received in Washington Au- gust 23 were to the effect that the constitutfonal guarantees were sus- pended last Monday and martial law eclared in certain parts of the coun- try. It was added that the situation was sald to be under the control of the government, The declaration of martial law fol- lowed a revolutionary outbreak in a number of small towns, during which | {there were several assassinations. I'resident Jose Maria Oreilana was !made provisional president of Guate- mala in December, 1921, and was| chosen president of ‘the republic early in the present year. He was in- augurated March 19 last. Vice President Under Herrera. The fact that julio Ernesto Zelava has been named provisional pre dent of Guatemala attains some sig- nificance here, when It is recalled that he served as first vice president | under the Herrera government, which was overthrown by the followers of Orellana last winter. Under the Senor Ze- laya would have become president upon Herrera's resignation. Orel- lana, however, was proclaimed presi- | dent. The fact that Zelaya has been proclaimed president would indicate the return to power of the unionists, many of whose leaders are now po- Hitical exiles. GEORGETOWN STUDENTS ARE DINED IN MEXICO American Chamber of Commerce Is Host to Visitors From States. Special Correspondence of The Star. MEXICO CITY. Mexico, August 16. —The forty-six students of the Georgetown University School of For- eign Service, Washington. D. C, were guests at a dinner given in their hon- or by the American Chamber of Com- merce of Mexico last night. Besides President J H. Jacobs and other officials of the chamber, George T. Summerlin. American charge d'at. faires, and Consul General Lawson were ‘present. Gen. Francisco Fig- ueros, subsecretary of public instrus. tion, and Dr. Manuel Barranco of the department of education represented Mexican educational circles, Senor Palavicini, proprietor of Excelsior was the press representative. 2 Addresses were made by Dr. Roy S. MacElwee. dean of the Washing. ton school and in charge of the par. ty. and by prominent members of the chamber of commerce. Edwin Schoen. rich, one of the students, made a brisf speech, etting forth the benefits de. rived ‘trom educational trips such as the students are now on, and . W Liuecker. another student, gave a ghort talk on the advantages accru: Seor, the Mexlcan trip " °0¥S from Dr. E. A. Ross of Wisconsin and Dr. the Wharton f the University o BT Cnlllng: 0: School of Finance, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, were amon; other American guests at the dlnner‘ As the time draws nearer for the students to return to Washington they are taking advantage of every spare moment to make sightseeing ;;::;iderl\\t foe!::'edonyl &0 they visited n [e:ec_ B s castle at Chapul- ccording to present pi. dents can finish their ‘n,:o.u,:: university here and their study of Mextcan conditions leave for the U, S Sy nited State, get away on t. rive in Wash! ber 18. the stu- e at the! general in time s Should they be .;1:0;.1: hat date, they will ar- Ington about Septem- FATHER KILLS MOTHER WITH BABE IN ARMS Four Other Children See Tragedy ‘After Quarrel Over Leav- ing City. By the Aseociated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., August 25.—Five small children today mourned the death of their mother, Mrs. Martha J. Hembree, shot to death last night by her husband, Albert. A sixth chilg, too small to realize what happened, a babe of one year. was found by po- licemen lying in the slain woman arms. Four of the children witnessed the shooting, they told the police. A quarre] over the father's desire to move from the city to get work was brought to an abrupt end, they said, when he suddenly seised his revolv, and fired two shots at their mother, ‘who was reclining with the baby. WILL-QUIT U. S. ARMY. Alleged to Have ' Swindled Many in Transactions in Market. 4 BAITED BY. WINNINGS Speculators Declared to Be Per- mitted to Win on First Invest- ment as Inducement. Ry the Assoclated Press. DENVER, Col, August 5.—Folice and Colorado state rangers early to- day completed the round-up and ar- rests of thirty-three person$ alleged to have conducted confidence opera- tions in Colorado, Florida and Cuba to play the market on grains, oll stocks and stocks and bonds, being permitted to win their initial specu- lations and then being defrauded out of heavier amounts subsequently. Probed for Year. The raid followed Investigations of more than a year, in which author- ities in other cities aided, Denver police stated. Lou Blonger, seventy-three, of Den- ver, was sahl by Attorney Vanaise to have been the “president” of the al- laged bogus stock exchange oper- ators. Phil Vancise, district attorney, an- nounced information that led to the arrest of the gang was supplied by J. Frank Norfleet of Hale Center, Tex., | who had been picked as a victi Norfleet, according to Vancise, is the man who unmasked the operations of the notorfous southwest “Joe Furey" band of confidence men. Charge of Conspliracy. Under a technical charge of con- spiracy to defraud. the prisoners, ranging in ages from twenty to sev- enty-three vears, are accused by the authorities of having fleeced persons throughout the United States of sums aggregating $1.500.000. The officers in their raid seized $10.000 in cash, weap- | ons of all kinds, telegraph apparatus and the paraphernalia of a stock ex- change. Victims are said to have been solic- ited in Colorado, Florida and Cuba. “They picked the wrong bird for a plucking when they picked Nor- fleet,” declared. Vancise. “They tried to work a $50.0000 swindle on the man who caught Joe Furey.” DEPARTMENT RESCINDS ORDER FOR DEPORTATION Assistant Secretary of Labor Ruls Viscountess Berangere and Maid May Remain in U. 8. Overruling a decree of fmmigration authorities at Ellis Island, Assistant Secretary of Labor White yesterday ordered that Viscountess Berangere de Bec Delievre of Paris, her maid, Rene Bastide, and the latters child be permitted to remain in this coun- try. They were ordered deported on arrival in New York several days ago. The Frenchwoman, who testified b fore an immigration board in New York that she expected a divorce from her husband in Paris shortly, denied, according to word received in Wash- ington, that she had any idea of mar- rying Robert Grant, a professional golf player of Ardmore, Pa. as had been testified by the latter. The viscountess, who is nineteen vears old and whose father is said to be a wealthy railroad magnate of France, came to the United States, she sald, to visit Miss Alice Reynoids of Brookline, Mass. and Miss Re nolds testified, it was said, that she had Invited the young woman to visit | her. Grant, in appearing before the | j immigration board, said he was intro- duced to the viscountess at Monte Carlo about a year ago. and it was his understanding she was to marry him immediately upon securing a divorce, and that her presence in this country was to fulflll that agreement. In_view of the conflict of evidence the New York authorities ruled that the viscountess should be deported. but subsequent developments attest- ing to her wealth and social position were Bsuch, it was explained, that there appéared no reason for deporta- tion on the ground that she might possibly become a public charge. U. S. 1919 COAL OUTPUT OVER 500,000,000 TONS Census Bureau Estimates Value at $1,510,081,707—Pennsylvania Holds Production Lead. Coal mines of the nation produced 548,596,000 tons of coal in 1919, valued at $1,5610,061,707, the census bureau announced today, as a result of the 1919 ocensus of mines and quarries. The geological survey estimated pro- duction that year at 553,891,000 téns with a value of $1,525,199,416. Bituminous coal constituted by far the major part of the coal mined, to- taling 460,426,000 tons, valued at 1$1,145,977,665, while anthraocite to- talled 88.170,000 tons valued at $364,- 084,142. Pennsylvania ranked as the great- est coal producing state in 1919, with a total production of 150,030,000 tons, with West Virginia ranking next with 77,617,000 tons. There were 739,019 persons engaged in the ceal mining industry in 1919, the bureau reported, of whom 614,629 were miners work- ing below ground. The Industry in 1919 had a upltl]ln"t;n oflli,lll.- ,332. The aerage number of wage- O Tamployed by all coal ‘mints was 693,641, of which produecing bi- tumino! coal enterprises reported . »the savages what 1America’s most fertile and prosperous | wetgnt th STAR, Mrs. Cathérine Anna Minnich, who first saw the light of day in the Indian-infested wilderness of Ohlo, served later as a nurse in the civil war and was personally inted with President Lincoln, will§ cele- brate her 100th birthday tomorrow as a resident of the Nationgl Lutheran Home here. ®After Mrs. Minnich had told how she expected to spend the day quietly among her friends at the home, she was asked to what particular thing she attributed her longevity. A faint smile appeared as she answered, quietly: “The good Lord allowed me to Itve this long becas He wished it When He wants me He will take New Philadelphia {s now the name of the cly In which Mrs. Minnich was born, but then ‘it was merely an outpost on the ragged edges of civili- zation, striving bravely to win from is now one of regions. She had two brothers and two sisters. “My early. life T spent on a farm," she sald, and smiled again as she continued. ot one equipped with electric lights, but dim candles or smoky ofl lampa." Blind and partly deaf. Mrs. Minnich found talking quite difficult: and she could not go into details of her serv- dce as a nurse during the great con- fiict” between the north and south. Nor could she speak at length on her triendship for President Lincoln; she remembered once having a long con- versation with him, all alone. but saw nothing very unusual in that “be- cause every one knew Ab: Despite her physical impairments, Mrs. Minnich {8 bright mentally, and is regarded by those in charge of the National Lutheran Home as one of the most contented Inmates. At meals. all of which are served in her room, she insista upon doing for herself. declaring that when she needs assistance she will ask for it. WASHINGTON D. C. Woman, 100 Tomorrow, * Had Long Chat”With Lincoln D. C, | | i MRS. CATHRINE ANNA MINNICH, despite the fact that she cannot see the preacher, and can seldom hear anything he says. “But 1 enjoy it mentally, because I know what is going on,” Mrs. Minnich explained. rs. Minnish entered the home in 1901, and, until the past year saw her infirmities grow worse, she took an ac- tive part in the life of the home ac- tivitles. Other residents there are Miss Mary Stiffler, a niece, living in New Philadelphia, Ohio, is the only Sunday she goes to church mervice,known living relative of Mra. Minnich DIRTY,BEDRAGGLED PAPERMONE BETTER THAN HOARDED GOL Are vou hoarding away a ten or plece is 516 grains, which scales down [to meet the necds of the people. twenty dollar gold plece or so? Be careful. For that bright promising piece of golden metal may not be worth as much as a dirty old bedraggled plece of paper money. Because the United States Treasury accepts gold coins only on thelr weight value, as many persons have learned to _their sorrow. Within a week a business man who had occasion to change several hundred dollars at the Treasury had to pay $1.50 difference owing to the wearing away of the gold pleces. Siiver. nickel and copper coins pass for face value so long as recognizable, but gold is worth only its weight, ac- | cording to authorities in the office of the director of the mint. There are graduated scales for de- | termining the legal weight of a gold coin, which provide for abrasion. For instance, a twenty-dollar gold plece that has been in circulation fifteen years will pass for its face value at a much lower A new coin. The stand- ard weight of a new twenty-dollar gold RAIL PARLEY FAILS, EXECUTIVES BREAK WITH MEDIATORS by the Railroad Labor Board. The executives' statement follow: “Following the general meeting of the Assoctation of Rallway Executives held in New York the day before yes. terday, August 23, a group of railroad presidents representing fifty-two com- panies, With an aggregate of $5.000 miles of lines, continued its conference with the leaders of the five train and enginemen brotherhoods who had been acting as mediators for a further dis- cussion of the shopcraft strike. Con- ferences between a small committee rep- resenting these railroads and the brotherhood chiefs were held at the Yale Club, New York city, Wednesday evening, during a large part of Thurs- day and this forenoon “These railway executives, mindful of the increasing demand for trans- portation incident to the season of the yvear, and anxious on that account to do everything that might be poesible and practicable to bring about a set- tlement of the existing controversy, were hopeful that a further discus- sion might dsvelop some plan or method for settlement which would not require the sacrifice of prinei- ples deemed fundamental by either par to the controversy. “Having in mind the normal re quirements of the carriers for men in the shopcrafts at this season of the year. together with the increased re- quirements resulting from a reduced working forcé for nearly two months, these companies. while unwilling to agree to any program or method of adjustment which affects the rights or privileges of employes of the shop- crafts who did not take part in the strike or those who had been em- ployed since July 1, were willing to pledge themselves to find employment tor all of the striking employes not guilty of proven acts of violence. at their usual class of work, at a rate of pay fixed by the United States Rall Labor Board and at the same terminal point. “With this important phase of the controversy disposed of, there remain- ed only the problem of reaching an understanding concerning the future relations between the railroad em- ployes themselves and between the employes who had been on strike and their employing companies. Disclaim Taking Advan: “The reilroads disclaim any desire to take advantage of the situation to privileges whish the striking em- ployes-had earned by virtue of their term of service with the compantes, and the roads at that conference 546,798; anthracite enterprises, 14 372, and non-prodycing enterprise: 471 The President has accepted the resig- |' nation of 'Wg‘:mm Nicholas, a to lake effect September 1. Offirn- PAw Onte; the “Rod® (! of the C. M. e aA TAKING THE HURDLES AT CAMP MEADE. reed to take back all employes with cch privileges unimpaired. These the years, with allowance for abrasion until’ the “legal limit of tolerance” is reached at 513.42 grains, which Is the least weight which will be accepted for twenty doilars, no matter how long the coin has been circulating. The allow- ance for abrasion in the tab'es of the mint, for a double eagle 18 .086 grains a year. Only double eagles are now being coined, but in addition to these, there are in circulation also ten doi- lar, five dollar and two-and-a-half dollar pleces. Banks throughout the country now weighing the gold pieces they re- ceive, for they found out to their lose that they cannot turn into the Treasury coins under welght without paying the amount under weight. Hundreds of dollars were lost by the banks before they discovered their mistake. But | each bank, it was said, never made tne | same mistake twice. | The practice of weighing coins spread thoroughly over the country when the federal reserve system was inangurated, and the federal reserve banks began sending reserves to the Treasury. The introduction of clean paper money through these banks also supplanted gold. do this, because such action on their part would not in any way affect or prejudice the rights or privileges of others who did not participate in the strike. “The rallway executives also agreed that if, after the men returned to work, there remained any unsettled dispute growing out of the situation which the companies and the repre- entatives of the employes were un- ble to settle in direct conference. such matters should be referred for final determination to a commission of ten members to be made up of the chief exccutives of the five train and engine men's brotherhood who were acting as mediators and the five rail- road executives experienced in mat- ters such as would naturally come before a committee of that kind “The rallway presidents also pro- posed that If an agreement could be reached along lines substantially as indicated above, they would endea- vor to carry out the agreement in & spirit of conciliation and sincere pur- | pose to effect a general settlement| of all matters in controversy result ing_from the strike. “The railway executives were cer- tain that, while making substantial concessions to the men on strike. such a settlement as proposed would in no way sacrifice the right or privileges of the loyal men now em- ployed by the companies represented. “The committee of mediators work- { ed helpfully with the carrlers in an effort to bring about an acceptable adjustment. The railway executives who took part in the conferences sin- cerely regret that the representatives of striking employes. although def ! nitely assured the substance of al that they asked for. were unwilling to agree to a settlement, except un- der conditions which the railway executives were unwilling and unable to accept. “It {s difficult to imagine any fairer basis of compromise than the one de- veloped at yesterday's conference and agreed to by the carriers represented. ) It eust be agsumed therefore, that the present controversy can not be set- tled by that metho The executives' statement issued by Daniel Willard, head of the Baltimore and Ohio, added that the rights of loyal employes would be protected. A statement issued at labor head- quarters said that, while not ques- tioning the integrity of the executives in making their latest proposal, the unfons could not accept it. The shoperaft leaders, in their reply to the executives, said that to accept the proposition of the minority of railroads would destroy the effective- ness of the strike and that they would consider it a desertion of the other men. In making public the shopcrafts' re- ply to the executives, Bert M. Jewell, curtail the pension rights or other [spokesman for the strikers, Issued a! yyly 31, 1918, in favor of certain em- short ‘statement, in which he said: “We do not blame the more reason- able executives who have evidently yielded to pressure. We belleve the next few weeks will enable them to bring home to their hard-shell colleagues the railroad companies felt at liberty to|rafiroad situation in its grim reality.” .| bring home to their hard-shelled col- Mr. Jewell's statement follows: “The conference has shown that the oup of roads which has been con- ferring will at prosent make no con- cessions. They stand firm on_the po- sition of the Association of Railway Executives, which refuses seniority right. This refusal of seniority rights to union men, it is now clear, is not for the purpose of keeping promises to strike-breakers, but solely for the of disciplining their men for ogal.and justified strike. “This 18 a position with which the| men cannot compromise. To go back under such terms would. mean defeat, whep, as & matter of fact, we are vic. | torious. The breakdown of equipment and the shortage of cars and -locems- tives is now shown by government statistics. It will be obvious to-every shipper and farmer during the next few weeks. We shall be content to 1€t the tondition of equipment prove that the railroads cannot operate with unskilled strikebreskers.and to bring the executives to a more reasonghle frame of mind. “iVe do not’ blame the more reassn- able executives who have evidently ylelde P! We Dbelieve the next few weeks will enable them to leagues the entire rafiread situation ip ita ium reslity. Wa.can.and we will fight for our minimum terms und for & nationwide settlement as long as managements can and will. “In behalf of the public’s interest we hs:- 9Rhnrod to PD"flil'mluNon ‘overything ' but our existence. Now that we are compelied to fight our bring with it victory en for which the strike was < FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1922. planning to give her a little birthday |, amendment to the coul wo °d | fght ensued and the irregulars set|service employes here was 117.760, as Darty, and those In charge of the in- | g2 emment 1q the coal commission | g8 o°a motor car while the wound- compared with 500,000 outside ‘the stitution are co-operating enthusi- | utional emergency and authorizing |ed Cregan was still in it. The driver District, making a total of 917760, astically the President. if he deems it mecens [of the car, who was taken prisoner.|aporoximately, in the entire country, Northcliffe’s Brother Is B7 PER CENT MORE WORK DUE TOWAR Civil Service Statistics Show This Caused Hiring of 30,538 U. S. Workers. L. MINE CONTRO URGED BY SEMATOR Cummins Has Bill Giving Chief Executive Power to Seize Properties. Legislation authorizing the Presi dent to take over the anthracite coal mines and produce cqal needed by the American people Is & possibility. Sen- ator Cummins of lowa, chairman of the interstate commerce committee, indicated today. He sald further that he had already prepared a bill giving the President the power to take over and operate the coal mines, but that he would not introduce it unless the lABMlSTICE DAY PEAK | Federal Employes Here at That: ] Time 117,760—917,760 in Entire Country. More than 87 per cent of the in= situation should demand it. crease in civil service personnel in “I hope that it will not be neces- the District from June 30, 1316 to{) gasy COFoNeri i saTaSeNiat yriCim. June 30, 1922.-was wholly or prin- Thisiebnator has)callea a meeting ol cipally the result of the war, accord= the Interstate commerce committee ing to statistics made public today® for tomorrow to consider the bill by the Civil Service Commission which he introduced yesterday to TORD IR OTHE WIS E: The § year curb profiteering in coal. It is not ex- (Sir Cecil Harmsworth), 5 inceass for i the Elx-yexr pes pected, however, that the bill intro- ointed trustee pro|riod was 30,538, 26,710 in the depart= duced by Senator Walsh of Massachu- setts, authorizing the President to take over the coal mines, will be given consideration at tomorrow's meeting of the committee. The Senate today took up for con- sideration the bill to create a federal coal commission to investigate and report upon the coal industry. Sena- tor Borah, chairman of the committee on education and labor, reported the bill to the Senate from his committee. The House bill was stricken out and the Borah bill substituted for it by the committee. Senator Edge of New Jersey offered tempore over the vast interest Y |ments and offices where war work l-l:‘lll:-l:l';"ll:.'::":-:‘:':‘ et | Was heaviest, leaving 3.528, or less likely muccessor fim captaining ‘the | than 13 per cent, as changes partiv aigantic enterprises left by the late|the resuil of the war or not at all Jjournalist. or slightly affected by the war. These statistics, the first of theirn DE VALERA RENEWS kind compiled, show that civil serv= District of Columbia on June 30, The number on June 30, 19 HIigh Point November 18, 1911. The high point was November 11, ice employes numbered 39442 in the as 69580, REBEL HOSTILITIES 1918, when the tota! number of eivil (Continued from First Page.) Today there are 560.863 civil servica employes in the entire country. Tha entire increase in tha number of em- § ployes in the federal executive eivil service, hoth in the District and out+ side, for the six-year period was 122, £06. The increase in the departmentd and offices in which changes wers wholly or principally the resuit o ) managed to escape and returned and rescued his commanding officer from the burning car. Cregan, however, died on the roadside. CURLEY CONDEMNS SLAYING. sary, for such perfods of time as he may consider necessary, to acquire by condemnation or otherwise any or ail of the coal mines in the United States and to operate mines and distribute the coal therefrom Senator Edge, addressing the Senate, declared he helieved the conditions confronting the country demanded prompt and drastic action. He =aid that he was In favor of the coal com- mission belng created. but that it was necessary now to have coal produced Archbishop, Now in Ireland, Gives American View. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, August 25.—Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, inter- viewed at Athlone, his native town, today, said: “Feeling that I can give expression to the sentiments of millions of Americans, 1 _have no hesitation in the war was 99,421, or more than 50 per cent of the total increase. Three Groups of Departmen The commission’s statistics present three groups of departments: Grougy 1, changes wholly or principally the result of the war; group 2, changes partially the resuit of the war. and group 3. changes not at all or slightly affected by the war. In group 1 the commission places the State, Treasury, War, Navy and, Labor departments, Shipping Boardy| Raliroad Administration. alien prop- erty custodian, office of the superina| tendent State, War and Navy bulld-j ing, Veterans' Bureau, Ralirrad La-, hor Board and Civil Service Commis= sion. In group 2 are placed the Justices and Commerce departments. the gov- ernment printing office and the gen= eral accounting office. In group 3 the commission places the Interior, Agriculture and Post Of= fice departments; Smithsonfan Insti- tution, bureau of efficiency, federal trade commission. tariff commission, employes’ compensation commission, federal board for vocational educa. tion, Panama canal commission, Inter- state Commerce Commission Some Not Charged to War. FILES SEPARATE ANSWER TO MANDAMUS DEMAND waying that the action of the repub- meets with n Commissioner nothing but con- Rudolph Absent from Ireland’s friends in When Board Responded in Suit of Insurance Head for Reinstatement. Cuno H. Rudolph, president of the licans demnati Americ HIGHWAY PATROLS TRIED OUT IN D. C. ued from First Page.) { board of District Commissioners, today filed his separate answer to the manda- proceedings brought some weeks mus ago by Dr. Lewls Griffith, to compel his reinstatement as insurance commission- er. Mr. Rudolph was on vacation last month when the two other Commission ers responded to a rule issued again: them by Justice Hitz. The answer is {dentical with that of bis colleagues, and denies that the re- | moval of Dr. Grifith was the result of political pressure from the Whie House or elsewhere. Mr. Rudolph declares | that, with the other Commissioners, he was convinced that a change should be made in the office because of the new legislation widening the scope of its business. In asking that the hearing on the peti- tion go over until October, when As- sistant _ Corporation Counsel Ringold Hart was ready to proceed last month, | former Commissioner W. G n | the: Gardiner, counsel for Dr. Griffith, in- | sisted on an answer from Mr. Rudolph explaining to the court that he ex- (Conti _from First omplete resurfacing, 34,303 “Georgia avenue—Military District line, $4 | Nivlor road southeast—Resurfacing from Good Hope to District line, $10,- 882, road System Is Effective. Approximately $60.060 more of the suburban road _appropriation was spent all over the District patching | «poubtless part of the increase in bad holes that are discovered every !some of the departments and offices ¢ on the hundreds of miles of sub- | ncluded in group 1 cannot be charge ban_surfaces. {to the war.” officials stated. discuss-§ Engineer department officlals admit in."ine "ompilation. that the atrol system of keepin, 'On the other hand. much of the constant watch on suburban roads is(ipcrease in the departments and of- a most effectual method of keeping |fices included in group 2. and a small = highways in first-class condition | part of the increase in some of the the time. departments and offices included in T 3 group 3. are chargeable to the war. wher “Therefore, it s a safe statement) pected the president of the board would | CORtinuo that of the entire increase for the six not join in some of the statements made | e UEOE anien sach: Iyears of 122806, approximately 100,- in the answer of the other twa_Com- |as they are In rutal areas like the {goo are directly chargeable to the missloners. Hearing on the mandamus | Maryland state roads o i is scheduled for October 6. Tnder the present appropriation the {ONE DEAD, THREE HURT; suburban road branch of the engineer CASH BONUS OPPOSED, | ivurbas wiad a1t ol i % $200,000 STORM LOSS Louisville Man Killed by Steeple The suburban road area is divided into four sections, with a foreman and a John T. Nolan, commander of the ‘When Wind Hits City and Sweeps Indiana. in each section. National Disabled Soldiers’ League, By the Associated Press. ui however, that in & city | the flow of traffic is heavy and | the patrolmen could not} ed to four or five miles each, | F e Mhese foremen depend upon the police- has advised all disabled veterans to men on _their beats for information as to the locations of all bad ruts that wire their congressional representa- |Should be fixed h morning the tives to oppose passage of the cash| bonus bill now in the Senate, on the foreman goes to the station houses in his territory and obtains from the desk | ground that adoption of such a meas. | & re would endanger continuation of |t ergeant a list of the holes reported he previous day by the officers. These cavities in the roads are at- | proper hospitalization, voca NSVILLE, & ey training and pcompenssnnn ‘r?r“t’,:’,",:' tended to the same day the reports are| LOUISVILLE. Ky.. August One Nolan declared he would challenge |received from the police. person dead, three seriously injured The value of the French road patrol land a property loss variously esti- system lies in the fact that the work- & e 4 g i maen constantly on each highway catch | MAted from $150.000 to $250,000 was the toll of & terrific windstorm which the holes when they are small, and re- pair them before serious damage is!swept a part of Louisville and Jef- the strength of other soldier organ- izations by seeking to amend the bill g0 that, should it be passed, dis- abled men Who desire cash payments | in place of present methods will re- ceive tham, including those who are|done fersonville, Ind., early today, follow- not now. receiving any financial as- ing a rain and electrical disturbance. c injuries were George Massey, sixty years old, w: rated as less than 10 per cent. WOULD HAVE U. S. HELP !hunedsbenemh) the wreckage when his home in Louisville was struck by the steeple blown from an ad- REHABILITATE CHINA Sun Yat-Sen Suggests America Take Over Debts on Refund- ing Basis. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI August 25.—Sun Yat- Sen, former president of China and later of South China, who has been leading conferences hers on plans to reunify the country, has outlined a plan fo rehabilitats China’s finances by having America take over China’s debts to European colntries on a re- funding basis, as part pavment on European debts to the United States. CREW TRIES TO SINK SHIP. Lower Compartments of Steamer Philadelphia Flooded. NAPLES, August 25.—An emergency crew of pumpers was working ener- getically today to prevent the sink- ing of the steamship Philadelphia, whose lower compartments were found flooded late last night. During the night the steamer, which was seized by the police this week in connection with a controversy over LANSBURGH GETS POST. ! Heads Almas Temple Committee to Entertain Shriners. Tllustrious Potentate Leonard P. Steuart has appointed Past Poten- tate “Call Me Henry" Lansburgh chairman of the hospitality commit- tee of the Almas Temple 1923 Shrine committee for the entertainment of the nobility of North America at the session of the Imperial Council to be held here next June. This is one of the most important committees connected with the forth- coming convention: and requires a great deal of attention. It will be part of Noble Lansburgh's duty, through his committee, to welcome the visiting nobles on their arrival. and detail members of his committee as constant attendants upon the differ- ent bands and patrols to and from their headquarters. LABOR AWARD APPROVED. Favorable report was made by the House claims committee yesterday en a bill to provide for carrying out the award of the War Labor Board of joining church. He was rescued by neighbors, but died from his injuries. Wind Wrecks Bulldings. In Jeffersonviile, where the full force of the wind was felt, two butld- ings of the American Car and Foundry Company were wrecked. steeples and roofs were torn from two churches and scores of homes were damaged, Practically every street was blocked at some point by fallen trees and tele- phone and electric light poles. Telewd phone and electric service was para- lyzed by reason of broken wires. In Jeffersonville a woman was badly injured when hurt by cuts from falling glas: a man was seriously buried under falling plaster. Indiana Crop Damage. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. August 25.— Wind and heavy rain storms, which were general throughout Indiana early today, caused some damage to crops and to property, according to reports received by the United States weather bureau. Telephone and telegraph compani also had reports of damage to their wires southeast of here. The weath= er bureau reports showed a rainfall ot .39 inches during the night and 1.1 inches since 7 a.m. today. FIRE ENGINES CRASH. RICHMOND, Va., August 25.—Five firemen were injured, one of them se. riously, when two high-powered motq engines, speeding in response to.an alarm, over the city's rain-swepg streets, crashed head-on here last night. < ireman Early Tyre, twenty-three, is in a local hospital, suffering from internal injuries and shock. The ap- paratus, valued at more than $20,000, was wrecked. The blaze to which it was responding was trivial. ORDERED HERE FOR DUTY. . Lieut. Col. Gouvernor V. Packer, judge advocate, at San Francisco, h been ordered to this city for duly at the War Department. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. St. Martin’s carnival will open at 8 o'clock tomorrow at 116 T strest northeast. Orphans of St. Vincent's Orphanage will be special guests for the day. A chicken supper will served after 3 o’clock. South Dakota Seclety wiil have & picnic tomorrow afternoon at 16th street reservoir grounds. Rev. Luke G. Reynolds will the Alice R. Lee Missionary Circle of Third Baptist Church Sunday at 4 p.m,. Ladies’ Auxiliary to National Capia, tal Post, Veterans of Foreign Warsy will meet tomorrow, § pm., at Pythe| ployes of the Bethlehem Steel Com- pany amounting to about $1,500,000. unpaid bills, and seventy-six mem- ENSIGN LEAVES U. S. NAVY. |bers of whose crew ware arrested on Wednesday, began to list to the left R WhIttaRer, attiched 15 the receies |and an inspection showed that some recelv- | 0 the water cocks had been left open. I ok crveot at ones, "M 3" | The authorities expressed the beliet that the cocks were left open by GIVEN SEA NAVAL DUTY. / members of the crew before being taken ashore. e Commander Willlam Seamen, Naval Medical Corps, at the marine station, Quantico, Va.. has been assigned to 4,165 IN SHOP FORCES. duty on the U. 8. S. Chewink. Southern Railway President Says SON’S WAR RECORD Recruiting Has Been Rapid. WINS H’s MOTHER Fairfax Harrison, president of the ENTRANCE INTO U. S. Southern railway system in a state- ment last night, said that the shop and roundhouse forces of the system Acting on a plea made by Wil- have been increased to 36 per cent of itam ¥. Franklin, commander of | normal since the company began re- Vincent Costello Post of Wash- | cruiting August 15 and now has 4,165 ington, Secretary of Labor Davis | shopmen at work. “There seems to has ordered the mother of Louis be no lack of candidates able to pass Ontwules, a Washington veteran the tests,” he added. Mr. Harrison's of the world war, paroled in her son's charge and allowed to enter the United States, Mrs. Catsules statement - follow: “Since we began recruiting on Au- and her sixteen-year-old daugh ter are allowed to remain in t gust 15, the Southern railway sys- tem has every day added to tha skele- ton force it had in its shops and roundhouses and mow has all told 4,165 shopmen at work. This is 36 or cent of a normal force, but, what & more important, there are now at work 20 per cent of & mormal rogter of skilled craftsmen. All new men are rigidly examined for mechanical ability before they are employed, but there seems to be no lack of cand dates able to pass the tests, esecial since the failure of the last negotia- tlon for settlement of the strike. Mors new men will be added every other i ¢ review here. Do ‘aon. in Those care the lnced, ahortly e ias “United States emterea | |