Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1922, Page 1

Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this WEATHER. Partly clondy tonight and tomor- row; cooler tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p. t 5:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. oday: Highest, 36, at 2:45 p.m. yesterday; lowes 66, at Enntered as secol post office Wasl No. 28,628. nd-class matter hington, D. C. 200 NASSACRED * BYTURKSH ARNY: SHYRNA AFLANE * Hundreds of Bodies Reported Lying in Streets of Loot- [) ed Town. ALLIES ACT TO PREVENT | ’ ¥ BY CONSTANTINE BROW ble to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyri SMYRNA, September 14 (delayed). —A crime which will brand the Turks forever was committed Wednesday, By € |when the Turkish soldiery, after fin- ishing their looting and pillaging, Turks Kill W omen and Babes As Flames Consume Smyrna | American Sailors Tell of Looting and| Pillaging After Kemalist Forces Enter ‘Asia Minor Seaport. started Nureddin Pasha, the Turkish commander, sald to the writer: “You must realize that things have changed and that the times when victorious Turks used to massacre and destroy everything are past. j The only plausible explanation of the burning of a city of more than 300,000 inhabitants may be found in RAL PEAGE TS NAG I REFUSAL 0F I SYSTENS Separate Agreement Pro- gram Fails to Appeal to Some Roads. OTHERS ARRANGE paper and also the local news published hereis. An ‘ghts of publication of special ispatches herein are aiso reserved. Yesterday's P Net TWO CENTS. $050000.C. ESTMATESROTD BUDGET BUREAL |Supplemental List of $6,- 000,000 Requested by Commissioners. | | | | | $1,200,000 PAVING RED CONSTANTINOPLE ATTACK | ¢1". Your on fire: smyrna. ta now | Lot 1o ot "1 the Chrlotiane. in. the TO RESTORE MEN UCED TO $50,000 e e almost completely destroyed. Not a empire. and the only way of doing Y. Americgn Officials Rescued; Naturalized U. S. Citizens 14| | single important establishment is left and the total loss is estimated at more than $1,000,000,000. There is Indisputable evidence that s0 was to destroy their homes and compel them to leave the country forever. When the commander of the city was approached and asked for assistance in bringing food for the Conferences Continue, as 50 Lines Are Said to Have Ac- 1923 Demands Held Within $24.- 500,000 Limitation, a>" i s | | refugees ne sald: reil Reported Missing. the crime was planned and executed | “Don’t mention food. This will not > cepted Terms. Required bt o Iby the Turkish authorities. Ameri- | help, The only way af assisting thest | e can sailors guarding the various |people is to bring ships and take them : St S Pr the Associated Press. buildings into which the refugees away l{rorn hr!re. e By the Associnted Prews. m"l':"““:":;: “f,;vlmi:;s:;‘n;nm l-;: Massacres of far-reaching propor- {had crowded saw with their own Little asaisiancelican. NEW YORK, September 15.—The i y s fortunate refugees even if 5 i : = tions are reported to have occurred |S5GS TUKIsh officers spreating frce | N aporis arrive In town. The most| etire New York Central rallroad |bureau of the budget estimates at Smyrna, attending the terrible con- flagration which has just swept over the eity. The first reports came from Greek sources and estimated the victims as high s 1000 to 2,000. Later reports from British eyewitnesses and from | Americans arriving at Greek ports | tended to confirm the massacres and gave harrowing accounts of the ex- tent of the devastation wrought. An English agency dispatch declar- ed the British admiral had warned tne Turks at Smyrna that if the mas- sacres continue the Turkish quarter would be bombarded. v A correspondent of Reuter's arriv- ing at Malta said hundreds of bodies of the victims were Iying in the streets of Smyrna when he left and | and setting fire to houses, after which they locked the doors and left. At the American Collegiate Insti- tute. where 1,500 Armenian refugees were gathered, the American guard saw the Turks killing women and bhbies. An American sallor leaving the Institute was fired at by the Turk- ish soldlers who had been sent the day before by the Turkish authori ties to protect the lives of the Ar- menians. Fire Envelops Town. The conflagration started in the Armenian quarter, where the houses were sprayed with kerosene by Turk- ish soldiers. Half-maddened, the people rushed to the water front, hop- ing to get on board the foreign war- ships. The whole town, except the Turkish quarter. is burning. Crimi- optimistic reliet workers hope to save 50,000, but are afrald that more than 200.000 will die. more than 400,000 people in Smyrna. Twenty thousand have been taken aboard various commercial vessels and warships which are standing by and about 120.000 are making their way toward the hills, where they will probably be’ exterminated by bands of Turkish irregula American Losses Heavy. The others are mainly children and women unable to face the hardships and dangers of a long foot journey over the Inhospitable mountains of Asia Minor. They arg herded on the water front looking for help which cannot be given. The losses sustained by Americans At present there are | | western, syntem today aigned greement with its conductors and traimmen covering working conditions, wages and rules for one year, beginning September 30. CHICAGO, September 15.—Refusal by a number of the country’s biggest rail- wily systems to enter into the Warfleld- Willard-Jewell plan for ending the shop- men’s strike on the basis of separate and individual agreements developed an element of considerable uncertainty to- day over the scope and cffectiveness of the peace program. While some of the larger systems had flatly rejected the plan, others, how- ever, notably the Chicago and North- Chicago, Milwaukee and St. END OF THE STRAW HAT Handling of Radio Service Ends Cable- Telegraph War SEASON. PRESIDENT TAKE |amounting to approximately $30.500.- | 000 for the fiscal vear beginning next | July. The regular estimates will be con- | fined to the limit of $24,500,000 stipu- | 1ated by Director of the Budget Lord. | but they will be accompanied by sup- | plemental requests aggregating 36.- 1 000.000. i It had been generally expected that | the supplemental items would not | amount to much more than $3,000,000. When the Commissioners met yester- | afternoon for a final survey of | their figures, they found that even | the urgently needed municipal im- provements eliminated from the regu- lar budget could not be met with less that the pillaging and killings were | are heav: ‘Tobacco worth more than | Paul, had virtually completed arrange- | than $6,000.000. continuing. e Greeks were not|Dals have already appeared on the|§i 000,000 and other American prop- | il BE BEASY omplered = blameless, he declared, as they had Mr@dem. :nd"arphshooll:: or clubblng{ erty valaxrd at $500,000 have been com- eir fotes 5 b.‘ = s 0";‘4 ;” Only $30,000 New Paving. aroused the Turks by setting fire to | to_death all whom they suspect of | pletely destroyed. er jol under terms of the It was reliably 1 d today th: villages during the retreut of the | DoSSessing mogey or other valuables.| The American theater, where the |separate settiement plan. , . s y learne oday that s s e s B Miihoriche’ are” Resiating h6 | colony Eahered, was destroved ol | e eulement pl .| Business of All Interests Spurred by New fnKesttnghtine, (e restlir ek The invasion of the British consu- | 88ngs of murderers. nesday night. and nothing is left of it.| ° o xRrogrees fiw il mates to get within the $24.500,000 Jate at Smyrna by the Turks and the murder of an official there also were | reported. A Greek semiofficial dispatch from Athens quoted an American investl- | Bator as estimating the number of | victims up to the time of the fire in | Smyrna aC 1000, 1oe property loss| trom the conflagration is estimated | in_the Greek quarters at $75.000,000. Mcanwhile the various European The destruction of this flourishing town is a crime made more monstrous by the assurances given by the au- thorities that normal conditions would be re-established in forty-eight hours. They were clever enough to act in such a way as to lead every- body to belleve that the promise would be kept. Twenty-four hours before the fire The American flag, however, is still fiying from the staff, having been |saved by an extraordinary chance though the whole building was re- duced to cinders. All the consulates. including the American, were burned. Most of the Americans in Smyrna left Wednesday on board the United States destroyer Simpson, bound for Athens. several roads in an effort by shop craft officials to effect additional scttlements. Address Unwilling Roads. Strike leaders were said to be ad- dreesing communications to some of the unwilling roads asking them to recon- sider their rejections. j Among the larger systems said to BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘The great cable and telegraph war is ended. And with it comes the col- Arrangements in Historic Controversy. at Barbados with the British-owned company’s cable from Brazil. The per- mit was granted as soon as the Bra- zillan government canceled the mo- Finds Steps for Greater Government Efficiency Fac- ing Less Opposition. limit. the Commissioners have left only $50,000 for new street paving. It has been estimated by engineer de- partment officials that $80,000 is re- quired to pave a mile of roadway of the width of the main arteries. This means that practically no new paving ‘will be done during the fiscal year be- chancelleties are consgidering meas- ! have closed the door against the set- | 1 £ the efforts to prevent |Dnopoly possessed by the British com- ALSO MEETS CABINET ginning next July unless the budget ures to deal with the political devel- tlement plan today were: Pennsyl. | 3P3¢ also of the effor A = I*pany. so that now the All-America bureau and Congress allow the sup- opments (2t the Turkish victory, ;:-\ \‘,;m., ums.,., hp.cm% Norfolk and | radio from h:‘omlnl a vltla u‘mwet £ c.,hhle Company can h;nd{cgl.e:u.::a Dlomental Entimntes; cluding e calling of a peace con- estern, Southern 'acific. Chicago | tor to the cable in transatlantic com- | where along the coast o s . - . The original estimates prepared .a Turks will be given a joint allied| Northern: Chicago, Burlington and | 52&es between the United States and | pas had to stretch a separate cable ful as Mrs. Harding Con- new paving. and, it is ‘undersicod warning to respect the neutrality of | Constantinople _district in the not march upon that the meantime, and TERMS WITH 0. 3. I | PLEADLEGAL A Quincy: Missouri, Kaneas and Texas, and subsidiary lines. Other roads still outside the agree- | many foreign countries are inevitable. The story of the fight, -which in- from Argentina to two separate points in Brazil, because the landing of cables from one Brazilian port to another was tinues to Improve. ! practically of that amount h; bloen asked for in the supplemental ! list. ven $1,200,000 would not pave all city or invade Thrace. ! ment today, included: Central of | YOIved the Wilson and Harding ad-|exclusively the privilege of the British y { Georgia; ware, Lackawan 'd | miniatrations, as well as the govern- | compan: the new streets that have dwellin Civil Students Missing. 3 8. an R ization of the government|on bath sides and the main arter! o By the Associated Press. . Seven: T - Iinolereuie ments of Bouth American countries, 1s Momopolier Remounced. deparenints 50 a3 to sstablish a|uch as Connecticut and Georgia ave: * " LONDON, september 15—From 1000(Rgady fo Enter Any Pre-|Declare. Incorperation -im- Frisco: Wabaab; ~Santa Fe; Chicago "v.‘-“;'“‘ T embracing ul .one] -Second;-the All:America Cible Com- | greater efficiéncy by checking over- byes Shode St aribl s to 2,000 Christians fiad been mihsacred Great Western, and numherous others. | tIme the use of the DTnite ©®{ pany renounced its monopolies on the | 1gpping and by co-ordinating the va- | District officials say there are a: in Smyrna by the Turks before the Asia Minor seaport recently avacuated by the Greek army was swept by fire, it is charged in semi-officfal and other liminary Negotiations, " Says Tohitcherin. possible Without Passage of Enabling Law. Aceept Proposal. About fifty roads were generally understood to have accepted the set- Navy to prevent e landing of a cable at Miamf, Fla.: the insistent ut- titude of the United States government west coast ' of South America, g0 the Western Union and its British ally in the cable business now can encircle rious activities of the government was the first business taken up by Prenident Harding when he appeared least twenty-five miles of streets io urgent need of paving, which would require about $2,000,000. The Commis- sioners and District Budget Officer Greek messages from Athens received that the All-America Cable Com-|{go,; America. All monopolies are His L desic T i Th tive office | Daniel J. Donovan are framing a here_today. tlement proposals, with the Balti- e y *¢fgt his desk In the executive office 3 “Among the Turkish outrages was the more and Ohlo; Chesapeake and Ohlo: | Doy, b, American concern, should| given up by everybody concerned. This|yogay for the first time since Mrs. | SITONE letter of transmittal to go carrying off of many pupils of the| American Girls’ College, it Is believed. | The Greek belief is that the fire was | set by the Turks to eonceal the traces | of thelr alleged misdeeds. i A considerable share of the property loss from the fire, the total of which DEMAND FOR EQUALITY |FAVOR FEDERAL CONTROL Moscow Note Believed Reply on |Statement Says Associations Want New York Central lines; Southern: Seaboard air line; Chicago and North- western and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, among the larger systems in tHe agreement. not be injured by the monopoly po: sessed Ly a British cable company in Brasil, and, finally, the making of an exclusive agreement between the ’os- tal Telegraph Company wherchy the American Radio Corporation is at last assured of thousands of telagraph action was the result of the influence of the Department of State. Third. The desire of the All-America Cable Company for a collecting agency has been realized, After years of negotiation. during which it seemed Harding’s illness reached serious pro- portions. For more than half an hour he dis- cussed the reorganization plan with Walter F. Brown. chairman of the with the estimates to the Treasury Department. Commissioner Rudolph stated this morning he did not believe jthe Commissioners would make pub- lic the letter at this time. i Reasons Against Reduction. Ay : sogi islati - 1 1 ag if the Western Union would make |joint congressional committee on re-| It is understood, however, that this present exchange rate for the French iry. , | presidefit of the Milwaukee, ex-|radio transmission. e essentials p? i he dratfiag ot ihe pisafobrins b ) A icbacies Saabnbe th : franc),” fell upon American firms. Inquiry. Under Controller’s Office. Dremsed the hope that many of their | in the war just brought t, am end |to South America originating in this)the & e plan to bring about | clear a c r the reason Massacre Follows Fire. | A message from Greek semi-official By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Incorporation of the so-called 3 and shopmen would be back on their jobs today over the entire systems. The Northwestern employes. about 12,000 are these: First, the Western Union Telegraph Company has been granted a perma- country through an American instead of a British concern. the Postal Tele- graph Company has been prevailed upon to act as the American collect- reorganization. The President isknown to have stated to his caller that dur- ing the months the temtative plan why the budget of the National Capi- tal should not be arbitrarily cut down as are the expense accounts of the t H September 15.—A note shopmen, and the Chicago, Milwaukee | nent license for the landing of its e : Mu;"h S e et which is considered a reply to the un- feu centihome]loan sesoctations in Andpsn Paul, about 15,300. cable at Miami. Fla.. which connects (Continued on Page 9, Column 2. has reposed on his desk for his final | federal bureaus. B AT lane: (rumtwoxthg Y percialibe i =2 the District of Columbia. as ordered | " pyjjest and fairest consideration” approval he has many times given it | The Commissioners, it is said, will longing {0 the forelgn colonies at | CTiCial inauiry of the United States|py the controller of the currency,| by the United States Labor Board of study and has lost none of his orig- | tell the budget director that at the Smyrna and notably Americans arriv- ing here on the destroyer Simpson, which also brought United«States Con- as to whether an American technical commission would be welcome in Rus- sia states that soviet Russia “is ready “apparently is impossible,” Webster Ballinger, attorney for several of the institutions, declared today. any issues on which the strike was based was promised by Ben W. Hooper, chairman of the board, who asserted SEEK TOAVERT . DISTRICT SCHOOL inal interest in the proposition. Early Accord Predicted. present rate of appropriations Wasn- | ington is slipping back instead of go- {ing forward in meeting even the bare sul General Horton, relate terrifyin Laws | the sattlement plan was in strict con- . needs of its people for sanitation and Retalln s puratie e 18 wlerTIYINE | to enter officlal preliminary negotia- |which would make incorporation prac- | formity with the transportation act. On numerous occasions he has gone | ¢;neqre, 3 Smyrna following the big fire which | tions for the re-establishment of offi- | ticable and which would result in Speed Up on Injunction. over certain details of the plan with| The letter will lay emphasis upon reduced the Armenian, Greek and |cial relations with an American dele- & individual members of his cabinet who | the faql that the expenses of the fed- Furopean sections of the town tq ashes. “‘According to the general gonvic tion the fire was started by the Turks to efface the traces of their massa- | gation appointed for this purpose.” The note, which was sent by For- eign Minister Tchitcherin to Berlin | government supervision of the con- cerns are desired by them, he said. “It is true, as stated in Thursday's Star,” Mr. Ballinger added, “that the Meanwhile Attorney General Daugh- erty’s staff of lawyers in the injunc- tion proceedings before Judge Wil- SURPRISE STRIKE BL APPROVED had made known their” objection to certain features calling for drastic changes in portions of their respec- eral departments come entirely out of the United States Treasury, whereas only 40 per cent of the Disirict: bud get is chargeable to Uncle Sam's H cres and other crimes. Miks MIlls, | gor gelivery to American Ambassador kerson speeded up efforts to complete tive departments. According to chair- | Pocketbook. tr f the American girls' col- controller of the currency addressed a . = : | Nor is the 60 per cent of the ap- Toge, declares “she saw an ‘officer or | HOughton, suggests that the i e T Sl anin- | e el T O, executive | PENNSYIVANia System Clerks |House Subcommittee to Re-|man mrown the President today|popriacion bill ail that the taxpas non-commissioned officet of the Turk- ish regular army enter a house carrying several cans of petrol. Soon after he came out the house burst into flames. “Fire appeared immediately in other sections of the town even near the Turkish quarter of Basma Khane. This was the first day after the Turkish occupation. “A southeasterly wind drove the flames west, the Turkish quarter thus escaping untouched. liminary negotiations might be held in the United States. In Russia or in some other country to be determined later. Russia Anxious for Move. “The soviet government,” the note states, “is particularly interested in any move which might soon bring the re-establishment of economic re- lations between Russia and America, corporated home loan associations operating in the District of Columbia directing thém to incorporate or re- move from the District. “The object and purpose of this or- der was to give the controller's of, fice complete supervision and control over the business conducted by these associations.. Under existing law the controller’s office has the power to exact reports from the trustees of these unincorporated associations council of the American Federation of Labor, at Atlantic City, N. J. launched plans for demanding the impeachment of Attorney General Daugherty and Judge Wilkerson be- cause of the injunction proceedings. No objection will be placed in the way of shopmen returning to work on the railroads parties to the settia- ment plan, B. M. Jewell, head of the rallway employes' department of the American Federation of Labor, satd Confer With Labor Department. A hurried conference between of- ficials of the Department of Labor and the general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks, port Compulsory Measure. Approval was given today by a subcommittee of the House commit- tee on District of Columbia affairs strongly intimated that the objections which arose at first are gradually dis- appearing and that it is only a ques- tion of a short time befere there will be complete accord regarding the plan. It will then be returned to the joint committee to put in the form of a i1l to be presented to Congress for action during the short session in De- cember. Chairman Brown today reiterated | the statement made by him when he{ to the compulsory school attendance last conferred with the President re- | ors of Washington contribute toward the maintenance of their city. The Commissioners. it is reported. will further call attention to the fact that half of the cost of every street paving job s paid by the property cwners benefited: that taxpayers pay $2 per front foot for water mains laid and $1.50 per foot for sewers 12id to supply service to their housen It has been estimated that 57 per cent of the amount spent In giving Touseholders water and sewer con- Refugees in College. it belng undarstood that such rela. | Showing the condition of their busi-| (Continued on Page 7, Column &) | Frelght Handlers and Ticket Sellers|law for children in the District of |garding (he reorganization plan, thatjncctions I8 repaid in speclal assess- “Besides the pupils, about 1,300 | tions will be based op equality and i | "% 2nd to examine their books and was held today at the Labor Depart.|Columbia. The subcommittee will re- 5 3 refugees had been taken into the records. L} port the bill tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock Meets His Cabjnet. { More Needed for Sewers. (Continued on Page 9, Column 4.) ment in an effort to avert a strike —_— college. which was near the place Authority I & = z to the full District committee, and it ¢ i i 1 cts here the fire started The fafe" ot e 4 ity Is Lacking. among such employes on the entire |2 (1¢ [UF BIRTC SO T T:ocx_z;'r‘u‘;de_m zn'nleln at his desk | The (‘ommuuonarlna oo arh Eape t many of the girl pupils is unknown 1 ‘He has not authority to supervise | Pennsylvania railroad system. at 10: oday and following a care- | ed 1o impress upon the budget bureau and ft is alleged they have been car- ~land control the business. This author- Grievances against the Pennasylvania |the measure considered then and re- | ful survey of the routine business|the fact that the sewer department ried off by the Turks. “When the Simpson left the flames | had reached the quays and were men- | acing the foreign consulates. “Prior to the fire there were mas- sacres, which continued through the night in the midst of the flames. It is impossible to estimate the number of killed. Dr. Post, an American, who, with members of the American Relief TOMEE GERMANS Guarantee to Be Considered in ity, as I understand, the controller de- sires, and every association doing busi- ness in the District of Columbla—cer- tainly all my clients—desire that he should have complete authority to su- pervise and control their business. “These oncerns are in the same po- AT CUMBERLAND. MD- W;ntem Maryland Railway Span Damaged as Strike system were said to have been exs plained by unlon officers to Acting Secretary of Labor Henning and Hugh L., Kerwin, chief of the bureau of conciliation. Strike Move Surprise. The inclination of the clerks’ union ported to the House, with a view to getting passage early next week. Th bill already has passed the Sen- ate, but the subcommittee has writ- ten in certain amendments which will necessitate a conference if the House acts on the measure. The amendments are principally changes in phrase- ology, although one gives the court " (Continued on Page 2, Column_ i S R s FORD DECISION TO SHUT 1y must be given larger appropriations if the health of the people is to be safeguarded and their property pro- tected from storm-water damage. 1t was reported that the regular estimates 1include nothing for ex- tending trunk water mains, despite the fact that all expenses of the sition today that the banks and buildin ke at Water department come out of water s de an inv¢ igation g toward a strike at once came as a|p authority to suspend sentence e i aias s ety St Chidii Ove Piomsatito and loan associations were in years ago. Confinues. surprise to government officials Who | oy pisee an provation apy ome. con. : rents. It is further pointed oyt that ber of victima up to the time of the, e In order to safeguard the public and to had_just completed strenuous dutieslyicied for violations of the proposed LR mothing iaiiofbe wained bf} poxt: . fire amounted to 1,000. (Other esti-| : give staniiity Calibe matis = n ; law. ¥ ¢ . " ; tes from Athens run as high Belgium. utlons, 1t was rallroad shopcrafts. grievances against |'*%5. pBallou. superintendent of the Since surplus water rents go into a Tovey *a Targe wamber of Christians o T found necessary to bring them under | BPecial Dispatch to The Star. the big rail systems. Do e ooia Cama “Juage | All Plants Close Tomorrow Unless Specia tund to the credit of the water are believed to have perished in the flames. Losses Are Enormous. “The/ foreign trade suffered en- ormous losses, especially branches or agencies of the big American tobacco houses, such as the Gary Tobacco Company and the Standard Commer- cial Trading Company of New York, nearly all of whose stocks were destroyed. The total material losses are set at one billion franc “Great quantities of provisions were destroyed, creating a food shoi Several French and British establis! ments, the French Coll of St. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 15.—The German reparations crisis shifted to London today on the recelpt of news from Berlin that Bank of England official would confer with President Rudolph Havenstein, president of the reichs- bank. Some plan for the partial guarantee of German treasury notes, the payment of which is now due Bel- glum, will be proposed. Sir John Bradbury, the British Joseph and other French schools and the American Y. M. C. A. were destroyed. The outlying Greek and Armenian_villages and the suburbs of Burja and Burnabat, where Eu- ropeans réside, were burned.” KEMAL NEAR PORTE CITY. LONDON, September 15.—Mustapha [ months from date. Kemal Pasha has resolved to march | ¢his proposal, would be guar his army on Constantinople’ unless| oyment. at the end of six mounth: the powers hand over the city to the|gnq this would meet the French in- accordin, sources,” member of the reparations commis- slon is going to London tonight and y participate in the meeting. Herr enstein is expected in London to- suggestion which is under con- sideration by the Bank of England, f-‘o reports from German s that the latter bank accept the German notes dated eighteen Belgium, under -sed state and federal inspection, supervisi and control. o “There is no law applicable t, District® of 'Columbia under which these assoclations could be fincorpo- rated. The code of law for tha Dis- trict of Columbia provides for the in- corporation of particular kinds of so- cleties and business. Chapter 18 deals with ° incorporations. _ There is no “building and loan” association law applicable to the District of Columbia. Subchapter 7 of chapter 18 of the Dis. trict code provides for the incorpora- tion of building and homestead associa- 8. . Imposstble to Obey. ‘Companies incorporated under this section have been and are now doing,| @ general building and loan associa- tion business. The unincorporated home loan associations are not build- ing and loan associations. Therefor the Controller requested the unincor- porated home loan assoclations to do apparently an impossible thing. “The entire situation has been . rcad, about ten miles south of the brid CUMBERLAND, Md., September 15. —An attempt was made early this morning to blow up the Western Maryland Railway bridge over the Potomac river here, connecting Wal- ton tunnel with South Cumberland. There is evidence that twenty sticks of dynamite were used, the detona- tion arousing the entire South End. ‘Window glass was broken in a number of residence: = The charge was set off at the west end of the bridge, on the West Virginia side near the tun: ‘The bridge seat and the abutment were cracked, and a girder was sheered off. The actual damage is about §1,000. It was Teported to the authorities| that seventy-six sticks of high pow- ered dynamite had been stolen from the quarry of the Cumberland Cement The general chairfian announced on going into the conference that an important meeting of the officials of the eastern division of the brotherhood would be held in New ark, N. J.. tonight to determine defi- nitely If & strike call should go owt immediately. Grievanees Gome Over. The conference between . govern- ment officials and labor heads at the Department of Lablir was for the purpose of going over in detail the grievances of the union: Katherine Sellers of the Juvenile Court were called into conference and went over the bill with the subcom- mittee, which is composed of Repre- sentative Millspaugh of Missourl, chairman, and Representatives Zihl- The principal point of objec- tion the bill on the part of the member's of the subcommittee was | that clause giving the officers and in- spectors charged with the duty of enforcing the law the right to enter homes and business places in the course of their investigations. Dr. Henning hoped, he . to induce the general chairman to defer a strike call, but as the conference continued little progreas apparently ‘was made in' this direction, according to those in close touch with the con- ferees. —_— Ccmpany, on the Western Maryland Rallroad detectives, in connection with state and county authorities, are working on the case and claim to have a clu $150,000 LIQUOR HAUL. Dry Navy Captures’ Two Schoon Near New York Harbor. ers. 1 By the Associated Press. Ballou explaincd to the committee that this particular clause does not give any more authority than is given the inspectors under the present child labor law, Denles Invasion of Homes. He assured the committee "that there was no intent to include a pro- vision giving any one any authority to enter a private home without a search warrant. He pointed out that the inspectors merely went doors of homes and sought entry on to the, Manufacaurer Alters His Plans Suddenly. of Maryland and Blanton of | By the Associated Prens. DETROIT, September 15.—In re- sponse to questions cencerning con- flicting rumors with regard to the closing of the Ford motor plants here tomorrow, E. G. Liebold, personal secretary of Henry Ford, today is- sued the following statement: “Mr. Ford's statement of several weeks ago that all plants would close Sen- tember 16 still stands, 1 believe. has made no statement to the con- trary, and if ‘he has any new plans he sprely will Issue a new state- ment.” Asked concerning reports that 9.000 men were dismissed last night. the secretary declared he had no knowl- edge of such an action. i he 70.000 employes of the company in the Detroit district went to work He ; department. It is felt at the District building that while there were good reasons ifor holding down District expendi- tures during the war period. those | reasons should not prevail so long {after the cessation of hostilities. The point which the Commissioners want to impress firmly upon the bud- get officlals is that Washington is enjoying an unusually rapid growth in population and building., and that i the streets, sidewalks, sewers, schools jand lights to go with this develop- | ment cannot be obtained if the annual estimates ave to be curtailed beneath { the bare needs of the community. , Tt is understood. the letter of t i mittal will inform the budget bu: that the regular budget of $24,50! 1000, plus the $6.000,000 of supplemen- {tal items. is the ‘minimum amount that should be allowed the District for next year. |SOLD DRINK TO SOLDIERS oblenz Barkeeper Violated U. 8. =~ brought to the attention of the con- i Fixed-Hour Rule. Turks, according to a statement he | igstence on the strict ‘observance of |45 ot o SOn. The Western Maryland shopmen 5 4 knoeki today hoplng a last-minute sta made to the Daily Mail correspondent | the terms of the compromise. obration “pand,1s now under con- | siyike has been on since March 35| NEW YORK, Ssptember 15—-The,ringing the bell or knocking at the | [o0d¥ JOPME 0 3"W/culd keep them | BERLIN, September 16.—A Coblens at Smyrna. He also reiterated that Officially, Ger y has until mid- his peace terms were based on the | night tenight to ‘aeposit the gold, but tions _have.requested the controller's and it was announced yesterday that the settlement of the strike on fifty- dry navy today captured two aleged: rum-running schooners with cargoes door. ‘The subcommittee put in an amend- on the job. e Mr. Liebold said this morning there | aigpatch says the American military fMce to assist them in securing leg- | | there has fined the owner of u national pact. ince her refusal is already known | e8- | two railroads wquid not affect the ment. restricting the number of em- h in the coal situation |€OUrt 4 The Turkish nationalist army is{omicially, 1t is unlikely that there |l218tion by Congress that will give | Western Maryiand, which weuld not|worth ahout $150.000 and $40.000 12 [Dloyes under the act to twenty-one. | so- tar aa” the Férd company was |Coblens public drinking house 20,000 now within thinty-five miles of Con- | wil] be any last minute change. Bel- | i 2" o0, (0T hdn‘:"m u" COn- | b a p.rg“v.; the” Willard plan. The selfl aboard, aear lelehlr“e' to New | A5 it came from the Senate there was | concerned. but intimated Mr. Ford marks, the manager 10,000 marks and e ervoss toacien sad the e e o trans| the controller's offise” desires. The | 1oss' since. Soergeme. the. sitikel ALEN: | taumch. whish sank mhile 1t was Do | " Ther gpures of the disousston on | TUEUS,MAKe & statcment laier 1n the L:n e Grtak o Amsticen. Seidsors formul € = pwn n on | .day that would gufet rumors regard- |alc with - i be s party Dot ANCEME snoomer )] o = | {ng closing of fis piants. . nootm‘mtnl'\nn,t’ o = b