Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow: colder tonight, with freezing temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2°p.m. today: Highest, 55, at 1:10 am. today; lowest, 41, at 7:30 a.m. today. | | Full report on page 10. No. 28,697. post_office OF FRANCE LASHES BACK AT SENATORIAL CRITICS Hitehcock Dared to Go to Paris and Investigate “Mili- ! tarist” Record. SAYS BORAH IS WRONG ON CAUSES OF WAR Clemenceau Denies Black Troops Remain on German Territory. By the Asseciated Press. BOSTON, November 24.—The Tiger ®f France lashed back at his Senate critics today in his first American in- terview, granted to the Associated Press, replying particularly to the SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Entered as s»cond-class natter Washington, D. C. Effendi Invested With Power of By the Associated Press. CONSTANTINOPLE, November 24. —Abdul Medjid Effendi, newly elected caliph, was formally in- vested with power today. The ceremony took place in the Topca- Pou Palace. EXEGUTE CHILDERS AS DUBLIN ECHOES WITH SHARP FIRING Free State_ Carries Out Sen- tence When Effort for Stay Fails. . By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, November 24— Erskine Childers, chief lieutenant of Eamonn Caliph by Turks| TWASHINGTON, D. C. LAUSHNNE ASPELT ISABRUPTLY UPSET BYLS DRUSS Plans of France and England! | to Offer Italy Advantages Blocked. !TWO ‘OUTSIDERS’ THERE | TO PROTECT INTERESTS} ! i Turks Tear Off Mask and Demand] Soviets Be Received—Moscow | Firm on Dardanelles. BY A. R. DECKER 50 Daily News. | LAUSANNE, November 24.—The as- | ipect of the Lausanne conference has | | changed abruptly It was thought criticlsms of Senators Hitchcock and)de Valera, was executed here at 7| tD4t France and Great Britain, in full ‘Borah. “Senator Hitchcock calls me a mill- zarist,” Clemenceau, French war pre-| mier, sald. “Well I am glad to tell Mr. Hitchcock he is in the Senate, ow- | ing to the vote, for only a few more days. When he is free, I dare him to &0 to France and learn the facts.” Answering Senator Hitchcock's de- mand that he explain why France in- sisted on using black troops in her army of occupation, the Tiger de- clared that Hitchcock had been mis- led by German propaganda, and that today there was not a single black eoldier on German territory. To Senator Borah's recent assertion that Clemenceau was primarily re- sponsible for conditions hecause of his great influence in the drafting of the Versailles treaty, the #ged statesman declared his situation was_“particularly distressing,” since in France he should be most bitterly <criticized “for having asked from the wermans less than L ought to.” To Make Himself Clea: When he was told that some of the senators at Washington had said they were not able to understand clearly irom his speeches just what he wanted of America, the Tiger said with a gleam in his eyes he thought they will know after his address this aft- ¢rnoon in Tremont Temple—the sec- ond formal speech of his American tour. menceau received his interview- in his room at the home of F. L. tigginson, jr.. where he is staying s in th He wore his usual utaw suit and his gray uil- Cap was perched on his bald head. Seating himself in a huge chair he said “Now_ DUL 4Dy Qu like, and 1 will answer them.”™~ The interviewers went at ence to the subject of the Washington criti- cisms. Clemenceau smiled and shrugged. 1 had made It a cuss with official people in America,” ie said. “But 1 have said I will an- swer all. so I must answer.” oint hot to dis- is in Kurope | o'clock this morning for having had an automatic pistol In his possession, it is announced in an official bulletin given out by the national army. | _The brief army report states that | Childers was trled by a military court | at Portobello barracks, Dublin, No- | vember 17, charged with being in pos- { session, without proper authority, of | {an automatic pistol when apprehended | by national forces November 10, at ! Aunamoe House, County Wicklow. | The accused, the report adds, was | found guilty and sentenced to’ death and the finding and sentence being { duly confirmed. | No Casualties Reported. The concerted muchine gun and rifle tiring in several districts of the city | last night, believed to have been staged as a demonstration against the | expected execution of | Childers, exceeded in intensity and | duration all of Dublins previous cx- | periences of this nature. Thus far, | however, no casualties have been re- | portea. _Bullets began to fly soon after 9 o'clock and the din lasted until after ,midnight. The firing was not con- {fined to any one district, but range over the centdr of the city, and thu: i had the effect of terrifying the maxi- imum ‘number of people, for the Beight of its intensity coincided with the outpouring of theater crowds. | Many of these people fled back to |the theaters for shelter and the main | streets were speedily emptied of pe- | destrians. The tramcars continued to operate, however, but bullets cut the overhead wires on some lines and th | passengers were forced to make their ay home as best they could. Machine Guns Used. | The main feature of the putburst | was the frequent employment of ma- {chine guns stationed on houetops. | The points attacked were mainly pro- !tection posts occupied by national acy ord, could offer Italy advantages, | such as spheres of influence in Asia| Minor and continued possession of the | Aegean islands. The three powers| could then control the conference liberations, dictate terms and dis- pose of the other powers by the| assic means of subcommissions. But ) the unexpected has happened. Two! i powerful outsiders, the United States | land Russia, are present i Ordered to Protect Interents. _When the United es and Rus- sia were invited the European pow- ers with general interests were not accord and harmony seemed hope- of attainment. The presence of outsiders is embarrassing be- se both have parallel x ing interests and have orders to protect them. The Turks are rel two ving so much on iR n support th: they have 11 aside their * passive oriental im nd_demanded that the Rus- be received on the basis of uality with the other delegates.| The Turks also showed an intransi- | nt attitude regtrding the discus- ion of fronties and they will show ! | £reater resistance to the questions nfi | zones of influence when the army. free- dom of the straits, railroads, indemni-"| ties. capitulations and possession of.! islands come up for final settlement. | Russinns Taking Active Part. n The Russ representative, chislav Vorowsky. preceding M. Te cherin and M. Rakovsky. is already taking an active part in the delibera- | tions of the groups outside the con- | ference. Vorowsky, an old friend of | Lenin and of Polish descent, is chief | of the soviet commercial commission in Rome. The first act of Vorowsky | {in Lausanne was to confer with Ismet Pasha, apparently informing him of | i the full program arranged by the | Russizms to‘encourage the Purks to | energetic resistance. Speaking to the correspondent, M. { Vorowsky said: ¢ “The powers have created a solid ' i front against the Turks and Russians. | i We will oppose it with a solid front. | { Turkey assures the Russians that the | idemands of the threevear-old pact| FRIDAY, NO 2\ Y2 MARYLAND SWEPT | | | BY 3 FOREST FIRES Families Flee Unchecked | Flames in Mountains Near Hagerstown. HIGH GALE FANS BLAZE! { Towson, Near Baltimore, Scene of ! Another Conflagration—Many Acres Damaged in Virginia. Special Dispatch to The Star HAGERSTOWN, Md.. Noverber 24.— Maryland is being swept by three for- est fires. two of which have gotten HEPAy - beyond -oontrol-und. fanned. by a forty-mile gale, threaten the destruction of many miles of wood- land and property. Families are flee- | ing the onrushing flames and many | firefighters have narrowly escaped ! death in a futile attempt to check lhe“' { s VEMBER Croker, Jr., Says ‘Will’ of Father ‘The Foening Star. 24,7 1922—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. FOES “FALL BACK" WasNeverMade |\ S{/BS|DY FIGHT By the Assaciated Press. DUBLIN, November 24—Attor- neys for Richard Croker, jr.. today initiated in the probate court here a suit to have condemned the alleg- ed last will of Richard Croker, sr., dated October 12, 1919, under which Mrs. Bula Edmondson Crok- er, widow of the former Tammany chieftain, claims to be his sole legatee. Mr. Croker claims that his father died intest nd asks that letters of administration be granted to him as the son and one of the next of kin of the » Today's proceedings were for the purpose of getling permission m the probate court for Charles Chaytor, attorney for Richard roker,” jr. to make an affidavit ing the latter's signature on a writ of summons in the intended action. It was pointed out that Mr. Crok- er was a resident of the United States and that if the paper had 10 he sent there for vefification it ‘would cause great delay. The court granted-the application. SCHOOL WILL OPEN House Debate Reveals “Pro- . gressives” of Both Parties as “Reactionaries.” HAVOC SEEN IN POLICY 'Plnying Into Hanas of Other Na- | tions by Opposition to Ship Bill. i BY N. 0. MESSENGER. | As the debate bn the merchant ma- rine bill progresses in the House it suggest of a constructive nature, but are falling back upon a policy of con- tinued government operation, of stag- jration in the Saragossa pea, which now grips the nation’s fleet, and drift- {ing. if there be any current in that “From Press to Home Within the Hour” | The Star’s cafrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is d:livered to Washington homes as fast jbecomes apparent that opponents of ,flm measure have no alternative to! as the papers | 1 { | are printed. Yesterday’s |Gov. Gen. Wood Delays T aking Up Duties of U. of P. By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, November 24.— Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood will not be able to take up his new duties as povost of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania until the latter part of February, and pos- sibly not until considerably later in the spring, according to th> bes. available information here. RADIO WILL SOUND VOICE OF CONGRESS 0 ENTIRE NATION Schools and People in Homes May “Listen in” on Debates. BY WILL P KENNEDY. " Congress is going to be brought to every schoolhouse and home in the count so that those who cannot make the trip to their National Capital to sit in the galleries and listen to the debate }on important national issues can “listen in” by radio-telephon The necessary machinery and instru ments are installed in the Capitol, and | just as soon as adjustments can be made the House will be all ready to broadcast to the country. During the recent election recess of Congress permission was granted by Elliott Woods, architect of the Capitol, to the Western Iiiectric Company to in- stall rimental purposes, their system. such as wi President Harding's voice 000 persons gathered in when he delivered r dress. The sagne Sys- tem cnabled 100,000 persons fo hear President Hardi oration over the rown foldier in Arling- ton national « 1t was generall metery a year ago. ;l)od)‘ of the uni thought about the Capitol that the sole purpose of in- s ng this system was to make speeches in the House more easily audible. The real reason is disclosed in arrangements now being made by | Architect Woods to make the radio broadeasting possible. If everything works out as is expected, equipment | eventually I be put into the office | of every member of Congress so that he can talk at will to the people of his home district. Care—extreme re—is being taken jthac_this unprecedented work of bringing Congress close to the people in their homes and to children in the schools shall not be marred ol thwarted by partisan politice. It probable that a special program will ibe arranged In conference between { republican and democratic leaders for |a “formal opening™ of this new sy {tem, when Bpeakers of national pop | tlarity. both republicans and demo: crats,” will have time allocated to | them for addressing the whole people {of the country on some non-_olitical or at least non-partisan subject. Quiet Line to Air Station. Net Circulation, 91,696 TWO CENTS. 20000000 WAR / FRAUD 1S CHARGED T0CAMPBUILDERS Government Names Con- tractors in Four Suits to Recover Money. WASTEFULNESS CHARGED IN BILLS OF COMPLAINT. Defendants Accused of Taking Ad- ! vantage of Government in i War Stress. | = { By the Associuted Press, Legal action to recover more than $20,000,000, alleged to have been ob- tained fraudulently from the govern ment in the construction of four Army cantonments during the war, was in- stituted today by Attorney General Daugherty as the first formal step in a far-reaching prosecution of those |Who held contracts for the building {of war camps. | The four suits begun today were filed | simultanco in United States district | courts our states, and involve charges of i cction with the con- struction of Camp Upton, Y., Camp Jac > herman, Ohio. | and n: an. Other civi actions and possibly criminal prosecu- tions are to follaw, it was said at the Department of Justice, involving a total of ‘more than $75,000.000 and reaching into virtually every part of the country. In each of the four c the suit was filed against the “prime con- tractor” responsible for construction f the camp. The four defendant con- erns and the amount the government jseeks to reeover from each are the { Thompson-Starrett Company. builders {of Camp Upton. $6.000.000; the Hard- |away Contracting Compan. of Camp Jackson, $6.500,00 ley & Sows. builders of (: man, $5.000.000, and the George A. Fuller Company. builders: of Camp Funsten, $4.900.000. More Suits Likely. The Camp Upton suit was filed at the Attorner General's direction at { Brooklyn. N\ Y.: the (amp Jackson suit at Columbia, S. .; the Camp Sherman suit at Columbus, Ohio, and the Camp Funston suit at Topeka. { Kan. It was indicated that similar actions would be brought at these places later against minor contract- ing firms who helped in the construc tion of the four camps. and that | should any criminal action be sought the cvidence would be placed before the special war frauds grand jury now in session in the District of C lumbia. The bills of complaint, drawn up at the Department of Justice as a result of more than a year of investigation, are virtually identical in the four uits filed today and allege that the defendant contractors and their gents were guilty of fraud. gross negiigence, inefficiency and waste in their relations with the government at a time when government officials were unable, because of the stress of | war, to fully inspect the work of con- struction. At such a time, the complaints de- builders A. Bent- mp Sher- . o v ok ‘hi flagration. i dea i | troops guarding threatened premises, Will not be excecded, while Russia re- | conl ead eddy, to further financial los ad to tell Mr. Hitchcock, as he 3 e 5 : i i ancial loss e nate onlv for & fow days | both public and private. e el tions At deaves] 1,000 Acres Burned Over. 1 and ultimate destruction of American | owing to the vote,” he began, refer-| Practically every one of these posts|or modify them. Regarding the tri-| Two of the largest forest fires in theg | shipping. i Architect Woods made arrange- defendants betraved the e i . r m ; ! ments with the Chesapeake and Po aced Ly the government in 1 be excused if { dare him to go to | the fights grew 1o the proportions of } 1Y (e AUETITans It eastern Kurkey. | ;o4 tains out from this town. In the | fentatives who pride themselves upon | gy for a quiet line from the § Eeomcr i st F e tnbn Kok Wy Capitol | ot {to the naval air station. over which they received. The result, it % charged, was ..ot only a loss of a it he ‘finds any one in | Pitched battles, striking terror into | being * - ; rikin ! progressives” g the civilians cowering in their homes jom fndjthem ) Liurope, and 1 However, in principle Russia opposes | Black Rock district, ten miles east ¢ country or elsewhere who says | | concessions, and we will combat with have been a militarist, then I'll own it have suffered¢ much from 1871 to 1917 for not being a militarist. 1 turned militarist when the war broke out—before, 1 had been a militarist to the extent of extending the length of milltary service in France. “But that wasn't too bad, Jowed us to oppose the German front until England and America appeared.” No Black Troops in Area. Asked to answer Hitchcock’s ques- tion about hlack troops, the Tiger said “Bon” and waded in. “In the first place there are no black troops of occupation in ‘th area of occupation of the enemy. 1 the second place, 1 have seen black American_troops at the front, and Ihey stood the fire with bravery, too. Ot course, this has nothing to do with the question of whether we arc militarists or hot. It is an attempt of German propa; nda to oppose France and America and obscure what is really the great question. “The Germans and all of our foes had been killing enough of our white nen and 100,000 black men fell gal lantly fighting on ‘the frontiers of liberty,’ as ex-President Wilson called ihem. We are not going to deny them a place in history. “Now those black soldiers are al- ways more or less occupying towns in France, and always got along per: fectly with the white French people. Even, 1 should say. their discipline is stricter than any white troops. ropaganda which 1 suppose inspired ir, Hitchcock's sayings, and I can Plainly say they are 50 many lies. “The day before I left Paris I heard that these stories would be employed to prove we were a militaristic peo ple. So 1 asked the official people to ! give me plain information. “The answer was that there had heen only one established case of Senegalese having mistreated a Ger: man woman. He was cashiered and rentenced by a miiitary tribunal.” Relief for White Troops. The Teason black troops were sent into the cccupation zone at first, Cle- menceau said, was to provide a few months of home leave for the white |jng of November 10 4t the home of a | and the problem of the straits has been T | relative, Robert Barton, situated in gimer‘ed into the general conference. troops “that had stood the fire fo; vears until America could come, a were rather exhausted.” “We couldn’t foresee.” he said, “that 1t would be more objectionable to the Germans than to the French, in whoSe towns they had been garrisoned. When we learned that it was they re withdrawn. “The German objection was more of a surprise, because they employed black troops, and bring them to the front it w. cause no means of bringing them ould be found. They did find means to invade Belgian Kongo with blacks.” Then the Tiger came to Senator Bo- h's statement that he (Clemenceau) s responsible for most of Europe's nd o woes, because of the treaty of Ver- | sailles. Declaring that the criticism wag ex- actly the opposite in his own country, where he was assailed for not de- manding enough, he continued: Let those who say I asked too much go to Europe—let them bring their German friends, and let uveset- tle it there where it can be seen. “Moreover, if too much was asked at Versailles, which I do not believe, yet 57 per cent of it has been taken wer.” N inding the interview, Clemehceau o—I have séen papers of German ! if zhey did not | be-'; |or other places of refuge. { Last Effort Fails. | The fate of ‘Childers has been han ing in the balance for several days, | while court actions were being fought | out over his military trial, but, with it it al-| the adverse finding by the master of | ke the rolls yesterday, on application for a stay of judgment, the feeling | that seemed to prevail in Dublin last i evening was that the next thing heard {of Childers would be the news of his i execution. | While the method of execution was i not officially described, it is believed it was by shooting. Opposed Free State. Childers was an ardent proponent of fan Irish republic and strongly op- | Posed ratification of the treaty set- | ting up the Irish Free State, on the | ground that it meant “absorption of |Ireland in the British empire.’ He i was defeated last June in the clec- { tions for the south Irish parliament, { receiving fewer votes than any other candidate in the whole election. Early in the next month he was re- | {ported to be organizing a band of | insurgents in the Dublin hills and later n the summer commanded the band of irregulars who cut the cable in Val- L entia harbor. Childers was educated at Trinity i College, Cambridge. He served in the European war as a lieutenant com { mander of the royal navy voluntee | reserve between January und May 11916, and_won the distinguished sierv: ce cross for his service with the anti- ubmarine forces. Author of Many " Cnilders was the author of several 00KkS. Among them were “The Framework of Home Rule,” volume " of the “Times’ History of tfe South | African War,” “In the Ranks of C. 1. v.” and “German Influence on Bri- {tish Cavalry.” Childers was captured on the morn- lumes. iwooded and picturesque section o | Wicklow. ! "Two columns of national troops | surrounded the Barton house at dawn. One of the soldiers rapped on the door nd was answered by a maid. The ervant was thrust aside and a de- {tachment of the expedition entered the house. Childers was found in an upstairs ! bedroom. He attempted to draw a pistol. but was overpowered. He was | taken to Wicklow jail and later to | Portobeilo bartacks, Dublin. Robert Barton, one of the signa- | torles of the Anglo-Irish treaty, later | turned against it. ENGLAND IS SURPRISED. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 24.—Annéunce- ment of the execution in Dublin of Erskine -Childers, leading lieutenant’ of ‘Eamonn De Valera, was received here shortly after noon today. It came as |a surprise ‘to England, where it was be- ut without my assent and out of my |lieved the Free State authorities would i hesitate to impose this penalty. The tion removes the most im- ared his reception’ in America liad been “greater than I was entitled expect 1 was received as a friend, as a “(Conunued on Page Z, Coldmn 5.) | ~ with having’ had strong influence, portant ‘figure in the republican move- ment jn Ireland next to Mr. De Valera, with ‘whom Childers., a man of strong personality, is generally credited h {all our forces all concessions of po- {litical origin or.aim. 4 Opposes Zones of I | “We cannot admit zones of influ- | nce nor extensive concessions tend- | ng to make Turkey a colony. W {wish a strong and independent Tur- We will not oppose concessions {not injuring Turkey’s independence, ifor in Russia we have more oil than | we can exploit. We insist that east-| |ern Turkey shall be kept free from | foreign railroad concessions, Russia desires that zone to be free from for- | | eign influence, for the railroads have a political character. The Russian eruroswnla ive at Angora has made | i this objection already. Naturally we; do not mean to close Turkey and Rus- !sia to cconomic action. | Liverty of Dardanelles Vital. | | (p.Tne liberty of the Dardanelles and | the Bosporus is vital to Russia for | the export of grain and ofl. We can- ! {not let the key to southern Russia| ibe in the hands of an adversary. We | {are interested in all the Turkish| questions, including that of frontier. {1f Turkey gives way we will protest. {We are not considering any imm \diate belligerent move. That may | come ten yvears later’, perha Mistake Not to Invite Russia. i “Russia was not invited to the peace ! conference. This was a mistake, for {it is impossible to make a lasting | ipeace without Russia. We dc not| know when the freedom of ‘he straits | will be discussed. Russia is interested 1in the Balkans, for the allisd Balkan! bloc is directed half against Turkey | and half against us.” SECOND PARLEY GIVEN UP. i i | Problem of Straits Merged Into| Lausanne Conference. i | By the Associated Press. i { 'LAUSANNE, November. 24.—The: iplan to hold two distinct conferences | n the near eastern question, one for re-establishing peace between Turkey and Greece, and between the allies and | Turks, and the second to fix the status jof the straits of the Dardanelles has !been abantioned, it was stated today, Two Treaties Expected. | Two treaties will probably grow out | f the Lausanne near east conference, ' if it has a successful outcome. One| | will be a treaty between Turkey and | Greece settling their boundaries and ! adjusting the problems which have arisen directly out of their conflict at arms; the other will probably be the | revamped and revised treaty of-Sevres, | designed to put Turkey. at peace with all the allied powers which were at arms against Turkey in the great war. The latter treaty will doubtless con- | tain provisions, for the regulation of the Turkish straits, and it is likely | that the Russians will participate in | framing it. ‘Western Boundary Issue. A subcommission under the pres: dency of Gen. Weygand of France is struggling with the question of ‘Turkey’s western boundary, the full commission on territorial and military Questions having found it advisable to turn the matter over to experts for a report. Joseph C. Grew, the Amer- ican minister to Switzerland, and F. Lammont Pelin of the Paris embassy are the American members of this subcommission. g The Maritiza river is, roughly, the western boundary of Turkey which the three great powers and their as- sociates apparently favor, and there i« much technical diseussion going on Sl e ALCBGLGd UG 2 e | which many homes are located, cov- | but it was believed by the fire fight- been laid waste, with more than 500 { fierfighters having made little prog- | Tess in stopping the flames. | The Black Rock resort hotel is re- | ported saved through backfiring. | Wide Area Threatened. i Rickert mountain, twelve miles to the northwest, is the scene of the other fire. A stretch of forest, in ering an area of from fifteen to twenty miles, will be entirely con- sumed unless the high winds die down and the several hundred fire fighters are greatly augmented. The third fire was reported to be burning near Towson, Baltimore county. Rail Bridge in Danger. BALTIMORE, Md., November 24 (by the Associated Press).—Fire which broke out about midnight in the woods mear Towson, Baltimore coun- ty, was still burning this morning, ers that danger to dwellings and other property had passed. The flames, which wWere running through the woods bordering the Maryland and Pennsylvania railroad, had burned back between two and three miles from the tracks and for a time endangered big wooden tresfles of the road and a large number of cottages. Virginia Forests Burn. WINCHESTER, Va., November 24 (Special).—Scores of volunteers and others have been working since Wednesday night in efforts to check progress of a forest fire that broke out on the eastern slopes of Great North mountain, fifteen miles west of here, and reports reaching town to- day indicated the fire was almost un- der control. 4 This was accomplished by digging trenches around the area over which the fire was spreading. The fire was reported to have done some damage on lands of Dr. Walter D, Myers, the Albert Keckley estate, Isaac B. Frye and Guy Frye, or an area of more than 1,000 acres. The Keckley timber, was the worst dam- aged. / 'Hali of Bill Due Now, Collector . Tells Taxpayers “If your tax bill for the current Vear is $50 you must pay $25 this month and the same amount next May—not $20 now and $30 in Cy;fllectur of Taxes: Towers' is- sued this 8. O. 8. to taxpayers %o- day in the hope of stopping the wflow of checks by mail for more or less than half- of the full amount. Mr. Towers is returning all such checks, because the law states that he must collect half of the bill in November. The law does not pre- vent a taxpayer from paying thé bill in full at this time, . but the genbyt heeaptinne S RS T xoe | l o {from here, 1000 acres already nave| Academic and Trade Sub- jects to Be Taught to Girls Held There. An experimental academic and con- i structive occupational school will be opened early next week in the house of detention by school authorities at | the request of Lieut. Mina C. Van Winkle, chief of the woman's bureau of the police department, it was learned today. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, it was said, has formally approved the opening of such a school in the house of de- tention, feeling that the school offi- cials are responsible for the education of the score or more young girls who are inmates there from time to time. The teacher for the school Will be furnished by the board of education, while the Tequisite supplies will be provided by the women's bureau of the police department, according to present arrangements. The school, however, will be upder the direct su- pervision of the school authorities. It is planned to open the school as soon as a teacher fittingly qualified to instruct the class can be appointed. It was indicated at the administration headquarters of the school system, at the Franklin School, today that the teacher probably will be named to- morrow or Monday. The house of detention school will be placed in the category of a spe- clal school and put under the super- vision of Walter B. Patterson, direc- tor of special schools. It will be con- ducted five days a week in a special room set aside for the purpose in the house of detention from 10 o'clock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon. It Fi requenfly Happens that the local merchants carry more of their “store news” in The Star than in all other papers combined. This is because they get better re- sults from The Star than * they do from all others’com- bined. ; ) Yest: y’s Advertising Display Stape 4 2d paper. 3d-paper...:.. ©...14346 4th paper 5 Sth paper....... Total, 4 combined Star’s; excess, 1],537 The latest newspaper cen- sus shows that the circulation of The Star, daily and Sun- day, in the Homes of Wash- ington is-practically double that of its nearest cotempo- 5 gelves, it is contended, in the incon sistent role of veriest reactionaries. Also, it is pointedly said of them, in ffect, they are playing into the hands ie jof Japan and Great Britain and other | | nations to whose i s commercial inter- i ests it is of vital ¢ the S 4 importance that t ;bnl!ed States should be driven fro};l(; lhepseah:anes of the world. resident Harding in_his addr, to Congress last Tuerday tonenen jupon this branch of the subject and ;lald: "l‘huuv it is seemly to s: it, | because it must be said, the ma c | nations of the world are in ('ompll‘ms j &ccord with the opposition here to the ,pendmg measure. They have a per- fect right to such an attitude. we look from their viewpoints w, understand. But I w American viewpoint. the viewpoint from which American carriers at sea, the de- pendence of American commerce, and American vessels for American reli- ance in the event of war.” “Fail tu Meet Challenge.” Representative Greene of Massa- e can h to stress the Ours should be fail to meet the chailenge of the IPresldent, and acknowledge that they cannot meet it. of the life of the American merchant marine,” he said, “they have nothing to give this House but pleas: long since exploded, empty epithets and profitless vituperation. They have nothing to suggest but a weak, fatu- jous continuation of the do-nothing {policy that has wrecked our merchant marine in the past and would ruin it for the future. I do not accuse those who signed the hostile report of any deliberate purpose to strike down their country on the seas, but I do declare that the direct sole bene- ficlaries of the course they would have Congress follow would be the ship owners and governments of for- eign nations, our rivals in trade and possible enemies'in war.” He went on to say that “‘what Eu- rope on the east and Japan on the west dread, as their public men and journals have been openly admitting, is the adoption by our national law- makers of the forward-looking, con- structive recommendations of Presi- dent Harding. What these foreign interests desire is the defeat of those lor that same do-nothing policy which in the past has given foreign inter- ests a monopoly of nine-tenths of our overseas ‘ carrying trade and would most certainly give them a monopoly again. . » “No Middle Gro “The issue presented in' this bill is therefore squarely one between Amer- ican and foreign nations. There is no middle ground, no possible compro- mise.” 3 > shows the advocates of thebill pre- senting ' 1ogic, facts, figures and ap- peals to good business judgment in supporting the proposed legislation, while the opposition. appears Trely upon allegations of benefit to *‘special interest: voicing of the fear that “somebody” is going to “get some- thing” out of it at the expense of the people, all of which may be said to have been anticipated and met in the President’s address. He has shown that the taxpayers will eventually be relieved by the Jegislation of a loss they are other- wise bound to’ suffer, and that the en- tire nation will be benefited in a ma. terfal sense and. the national safet conserved. 3 “On this critical issue | recommendations and the continuance | The trend of the debate thus far | the voice from Congress can be car- jried for broadcasting. Mr. Woods {himself has an air station on the | | Capitol grounds, which was used by the Navy Department during the war | for int¢rnational communication, but { this station is too powerful for use ! when it is proposed that the people jof the country generally will “listen !in.” The naval air station has been | selected because its equipment is the |same as that installed in the Capitol. jand the originating station and the broadcasting station can work in clos: armony. | The technical men in charge of the . amplifying system in the Capitol say { that their transmitter and the ‘When | paratus installed in the Capitol base- | " ment carries through three stages that are necessary for broadcasting. [ All that is needed for actual broad- one sees! casting is to carry the voice by tele- | | phone to an established broadcasting i station. When this line has been | quieted, all that is necessary is for {a member of the House to stand | where his voice will hit into a micro- | phone. . There are now fi microphones on the floor, one at the clerk and three on the speaking desks in the pit used by members. It is proposed also to put microphones on the tables in front of the republican and democratic leaders. “For amplifying the voice there is a cluster of ten large horns above the Speaker's desk and other horns have Dbeen placed in the press gallery, in the rules committee and in the clerk’s office. ‘This entire equipment requires the services of two 'men—one at the switchboard in the House gallery, and ' ment properly tuned up. When broadcasting of the proceed- iings of Congress becomes an actual- {ity, here is what will probably hap- pen: President Harding. in addressing the new session of Congress in De- jcember, or in sending a promised mes- ! 'sage on farm credits, can speak at { the same time to all the people of the country who may gather at radio re- their own homes. It the President is sick or too closely tied down with the press of other bustness to come to Congress, he will be enabled to speak from his | sick bed or while sitiing at his own desk, and Congress can get the full force of his message, with his own inflection and emphasis, such as can- not be had when the message is read by a clerk. At the same time, the Another Possibility. Again, it will be possible, by putting up horns in the corridors or even out- side the Capitol building, to make the President's voice or that of any other speaker audible tc throngs un- able to secure seats in the galleries of the legislative chambers. In this way, when the President addresses a joint session of the House and Sen- ate, by use of these amplifiers, his address can be duplicated in the Sen- ate chamber, audible to people in the Senate galleries, just the same as if they were sitting in the House gal- leries. ‘All this will probably mean that in the near future radio receiving sety will be placed in most of the schools throughout the land, so that the youth of the nation will be kept bet- ter informed and in closer touch witn the government, what it means and how it functions. ‘Commander Hooper of the naval air station today told Eliot Woods that he would be glad to co-operate to the full- 1 for broadcasting Uz:(‘ m‘:clced- 3 the Capif ve of these| one to keep the apparatus in the base- | ceiving stations, whether public or in}| people of the country can “listen in.” |. larie percentage of the funds invest- ed by the government its Army . but also an embarrassment and delay in the nation’s plans for prosecuting the war. In the case of Cump Jackson. the sum fixed by the government investi- gators as recoverable and named in the suit against the Hardaway Company is more than half the total cost of the camp. while in the other three cases the amounts asked for are close to 4 per cent of the whole construct { outlay. Camp_Jackson cost the gov nt §12.710.720, Camp | $15,370.820; Camp Shermar 620, and Camp Funston, $11.715.520. In their inv ations Attorney Gen eral Daugherty and his assistants, working in every part of the United States, already have examined into | more than 15000 of the 150,000 war construction contracts to which the government was a party, and it was evident at the department today that the four suitx already filed were re- garded as only a beginning of what promises 1o be the most far-flung legal | prosecution ever instituted by the fed- eral government. { The compiaint in the Camp Sherman chusetts in his speech in the House| Speaker's desk, ome for the reading | case, differing only in minor respects yesterday charged that the opponents | | from those filed in the other three suits, charges that the Bentley company mis- represented to the government its pre- | vious experience in construction work {-and that despite the unusual trust im- posed by the government during- the { emergency the company “did knowing ! recklessly, illegally and fraudulently v late and abuse such confidence and trust | and breach of said contract. { Tt is charged, further, that the gov- ernment eventually was compelled to | employ another concern to complete { the work of construction, so that the Bentley company “not only caused great damage and loss to the plaintiff through its said wasteful, ineffizient and fraudulent acts and conduct. but in addition thereto greatly delayed and embarrassed the plaintiff in | = {ing preparation for the war into |whlch it had entered.” ¥ Charges in Complaint. The specifications included these charges against the company: That it stopped construction work without having properly completed it, causing great loss. That it “sold to and purchased and resold to plaintiff at a profit to de- fendant large quantities of mate- rial.” . That it presented for payment “jl- legal and unwarranted clatms and vouchers.” That it “ordered and permitted large amounts of useless and unnecessary work.” . That it employed workmen “with- out reference to skill, experience or ather capacity in the various build- ing crafts. That it permitted “continual loafing, misdirection of effort and sabotage on the part of workmen.” That it “ordered and procured ex- cessive quantities of materials of all kinds without reference to the quality or the need therefor.” That it let subcontracts for portions of the work that it was bourd under the contract to perform itself. That it “wrongfully and fraudulent- 1y employed” accounting and purchas- ing forces in duplication of work being done by the government. That it had no adequate salvage sys- tem, “but, on the contrary, deliber- ately and intentionally catsed or per- mitted great quantities of useful and valuable materigls to be destroyed.” That “in many instances trucks were rated beyond their actual capac- ity so that it might collect in excess for rentals.” > “The plaintiff avers,” adds the biil, “that all.of the acts herein complain- ed of were done with the connivance knowledge. conzent and procurcment #of bz defendant” W