Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1922, Page 2

2 * VOTE TO CONTINUE COMMUNITY SINGS Music Association Unani- mous in Defying Min- isterial Protests. SCENE OF BATTLE SHIFTS ! Next Fight Comes Before Board of Education When Commit- tee Revorts. - 1 Ministerial protests against the Sun»l day night communi ings in the Central Hich School auditorium were music the community association yesterday afternoon in the form of a una: us vota to continue answered the concerts n. which | was taken at a meeting In the City | Club, the music organization opened| the long impending battle betweer the factions opposing a the Sabbath co vals avtor tion school b K uphold ng the Other members ¢ rc osmaster: President | mm & tnn)l'i ae. ion go on | ation o1 Donovan and the ! “have no| the n‘on-i stronger ! cder said | rential he believed st Lounds in concerts He . vy be made of ¢ hes to determine if | - community sines | have det from Sunday night church at s wre well founded. Radio Sets Blamed. ©. Chan the chu prot » fact that S Salbath a the d that the varions the char: <ociation the cor Ies Cooper, s A and ¢ the our ee pl the protests. They | 1o hour of the con- | Shfe it the) altac | the concerts. or! the face of the! TURKS REFRACTORY OVER ALLY PLAN TO the full extent of its power will find & mean -+ away at oence the causes <t of human life | and huma Wants i i | i iish dele- ational embly will cordance with that erance stice and concession | which avd tae whole | righteously re- | Qu e, but [ do urge, on behalf of the pe le of the that misl co ‘erence never leave Lausanne hout providing some means for D_manent joint labors to find a ref- | uge for th: rotected Lordes and | create, #if « territorial refuge populations if it be | determ they require separa- tion from other nationalities, re- | ligions or races. bove ai should secure hy ures of h trong guara attend the conti ent situation of are vexed by fea “Because it that the misfo from her terri ber -of refusees have an onference e in 1 eir pres- re populatiol ns which n her tervitory | of war fell and | the greatest num- | . Turkey may in these humani- | ons greater than that of | Owe Turkey Co-Operation. l “It is unthinkable th the aspira- | tions of Turkey for independence and | progress should not rely, in part, upon | a generous policy of vontribution to the safety and relie from tuffering | of the tun Safety and relief from mankind is one principal concerns of vernments. “The comfort, safety and settlement | of hundreds of thousands of human beings, most of them non-beiligerents, | many them women and children, many dislodged from their homes by the disturbances in the near east, is a matter which has for ihe people of the United States vital interest. As an evidence of U interest, our na- tionals have spent freely in that quarter of the world with which this conference is dealing, in medical at- tention, in serv nf our naval forces, in feeding starving people and in other formns of relief, large sums of money. We have put nearly seventy- five millions of dollars into this work through one committee alone.” Ismet promised to give a detailed reply to the allied petition, presented by Lord Curzon, that Turkey find a place of refuge for the minority popu- lation Russians Still Protesting. Bolshevik Russia is keeping up the same pace in the way of protects at Lausanne as she set at Genoa. The Russian _experts yesterday walked | ceremonio! out” of the meeting which was discussing the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, as a protest against the alleged exclusion of the Russians from important periods of the straits negotiations. Later the Russian dele- gation officially notified the three presidents of the conference of Rus- sia’s unalterable determination to abandon none of her rights in the ne- gotlations over the straits which di- rectly aifect her vital interests. Progress. however, is being made by the experts representing Turkey and the allies in arranging the con- ditions under which the Bosporus and the straits of Dardanelles are to be used by merchantmen and ships of war. e soviet delegation, following {esterday's meeting of the experts, issued a statement declaring they deemed the preccedure contrary to the rules of the conference and in violation of the conditions under which they were invited to Lausanne. The stateme sald the Russian experts, had desired the opportunity to discuss the question of the demilitarization of the straits, but! that the allies told them this question | exolusively concerned the entente powers and Turkey. The Russians insist that these two questions are inseparably linked and should be considered together. Furthermore, they protest that modifi- catlions have been introduced into the project “for @t'nfi the straits regime without previously consulting them. iof organizaiton sho1'd | e ; Mr. Gompers had published the Wick KING-MEN NOT HELD. Report on Coal Hearing Explained to Avoid Misinterpretation. In The Star's report of the coal hearing yesterday it was stated that “two of the indicted men, both con. nected with the William L. King Cos pany, appeared at the heacing today In order to make plain what might be misinterpreted, it is stated that no member of the Willlam L. King Company was indicted by the grand jury. nor was the company mentioned in the indictment when returned. SEE EXTRA SESSION AS SENATE FIGHTS Political Row Over Ship and Farm Credit Bills May Bring Call. PRESIDENT WANTS ACTION Favors Passage of Merchant Ma- rine Measure Promptly, With Time Left for Farm Credit. Party and factional politics are threatened in the Senate In connec- tlon with the farm credit and the n extent, which, if persisted in, contains potentialities of an extraordinary session of the new Congress soon after March 4. The democrats are waging a straight varty fight to embarrass the repub- can majority and the administration. They are classed as being within their-political rights in this course. A faction of republicans and near- republicans is playing an adroit game to embarrass the administration, it charged. to inc the streng'h the progressive bloc and ag- randize its prestige in the country. Il Favor Credit to Farmer. Everybody is ostensibly in favor of xtending credit aid to the farmers in conformity with the administration’'s rolicy. but there are wide divisions of orinion as to the extent to which it shall be granted. The democrats as. sert that the propositions in the sever: s pendins do_not mive the far They afe also in fav eneral reor: £ niin and the extent of the sum to be allotted Tt is known that there are tes to put the farm all head of the ship subsia re cailed upon. That s it is said. exten bl “e s meantime the merchant marine bili w'll be languishing and probabiy will perish with the session, if the obstruction continues for even only a few weeks. President Wants Action. President Harding's feeling over this situation Is known. He does not regurd it seemly that the chief execu- tive should interfere with the legis- lative procedure in Congress, but he does feel that the proponents of the merchant marine bill have a right to a day in court and to secure an ex- pression of the will of Congress as to the bill. He does not think that Conzress. upon it¢ adjournmen ould leave this leg'slation unacte son and the handling and disposi- on of the great flect in a state of ~haos. His personal choice is understood to be consideration of the merchant marine bill first. with promp pes n of leaving adequate time for action upon the farm credit bill. GOMPERS ADMITS A. F. L. AIDS FIGHT UPON DAUGHERTY age. and that as a man and a citizen I; 1 protested against ft.” Mr. Howland wanted to know w ersham report in the American Fed- erationist. the official meriean Federat 0 expuse a man who had guilty of so great a wrong.” When counsel for Mr. Daugherty | Rerted that if asked if Mr. tive in the proaccution of the Me- amara cases the witness replied in the affirmative. Mr. Gompers ex- plained that he had been Interested in the defense of the McNamaras be- cause he believed them innocent. What did you believe after they con- fessed? asked Mr. Howland. “When they confessed I believed them then, t00.” was the reply. The labor leader denied that he had sug- gested {o President Harding that Mr. Daugherty ought not to be appointed Attorney General. Explains Jones Pardon. George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft, who lowed Mr. Gompers, denied that politics had entered into the pardon- ing of Willard N. Jones, convicted in the Oregon land fraud cases. Some members of the committee had sug- gested that the pardon was granted siX or seven years after conviction in the Jower court and at the time of the Taft-Roosevelt political fight. The former Attorney General sald he ‘“rejected” “any suggestion that President Taft was moved by political considerations. As to his own recommendation that Jones be pardoned, the witness said it was based solelv on the official re- ports In the case alleging improper ‘tivities by Mr. Burns in connection with the drawing of the trial jury. Wrote to Daugherty. Mr. Wickersham sald he had per- sonally examined the reports, as he had found it difficult to believe that there had been such a condition as was charged. He testified that he had held up his report to President Taft for several days, hoping to hear from Mr. Burns and to submit the re- port to him. Mr. Burns did call at the department one day in his ab- sence, he said, but did not return. Replying to questions, Mr. Wicker- sham sald that when information came to him that Mr. Daugherty in- tended to appoint Mr. Burns to a place in_ the Justice Department he had written the Attorney General sug- gesting that he examine the files in the Jones case before making the ap- pointment. He never received an acknowledgment of the letter, he sald. In response to an inquiry by Repre- sentative Goodykoontz, "republican, West Virginia, Mr. Wickersham said that perhaps he had indorsed A. Bruce Blelaskl, formep-chlet of the fnvesti- -ation bureau, for the place to §it. Burns was named. e Ralston Wants Rights. Notice was served on the commit- tee at the opening of the hearing to- day by Mr. Ralston, counsel for Rep- resentative Keller, that he would in- sist on his “rights” before the com. mittee, even if he had to carry his fight to the House of Representatives. Mr. Ralston’s announcement came |manent photographs were secure: after it had been decided to keep out |a Fr‘.nchnmu ‘nrn?ned Niepce. of the record certain- newspaper ar- ticles relating to W. J. Burns, chief of the bureau of investization cf the dis- | i i | | i i { organ of the:sidered as a threat to the committee. | n_of Labor. and | When he labor leader replied that it wasier Mr. Yates declared he considered heen j It was a threar. Burns had not been ! he for one would refuse to hear Mr. i | i i building last night. { cla fone of the Columbus ship: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1922 PLANT TREES FROM ENGLAND AT GEORGE WASHINGTON SHRINE Mixs Amelia Campbell, national chairman of the women's committee of Sulgrave Institute of America, placing the first shovelful of carth on one of the trees planted at Mount Vernon yesterday. The two trees planted were PLAN STATUE HERE 2=, SENATE REBUFFS | PRIVTERS PROTEST “I cannot find words,” he began, “to| Over the protest of plate printers. Colored People Would HONOF | ;. 457 "o, orde" b SFRIA R | the Sennte semteraay porecs b s L welcome. s v = Member of Race With Co- ' Had Planned Long Speech. ;‘:1;:‘1’:1: :mrx. nn::»‘;l-’gfl::“”‘ur:f-mu lumbus’ Party. il “I had made up my mind about a!the Secretary of the Treasury to dis- | week ago to make here tonight a|charge 215 plat printers at the bureas 1ong and elaborate speech to prove & (of engraving and printing and in- great many things that need not be|stall power presses. proved and to tell you many things| The Senate made a change in the which you know as well as I do. But|House bill as regards the printers {Miss Anne Morgan (chairman of the | however, by adopting an amendment committee) was good enough to let|by Senator Lenroot, republican, Wis- me know that I had better not speak, | consin, which would “authorize,” but {and I agreed with her opinion. not “direct,” the Secretary to make thc CLEMENCEAU SAILS; SAYS HE'LL RETURN, BUT ONLY AS GHOST (Continued from Firat Page.) and several times during his briet ASKS U. S. FOR $25,030 $250,000 Would Be Raised Public- ly for Memorial at 10th and ot ) | “Why 1d [ sncak? 1 have got a | change. U Streets. !sore throat, 1 am tired, 1 am old and | The appropriation bill carried ap- === |1 want very much to go to bed proximately $115.000.000. Committes }._“But alt this will not prevent me'amenam nis inciuding one providing Plans for raising funds for a pro- | from saying once more what I OuBNL| for an under secretars of the Treas. posed statue at 10th and U streets |0 8a%. I came to this country 10| urs 'at $5.500 a year. were 4d0pted. P 5 ¢“laccomplish a duty which nobody i s 5 northwest in honor of Pletro .\ln.lzo.,. ked me to accomplish, and l(Oml" Protest to President. negro explorer, were discussed at a|people even dfd not seem to like thei The plate printers vesterday car- meeting of the Pietro Alonzo Associa- ld'u that I w golng lnhdo ;ny d.ul)‘.i Pl!ld“]‘h rh\ n .llll)' l}{h Pr’.\‘x;;n’[r Hp“:‘;‘l‘::i i the T ot | came to appeal to the merican | a - Vhite ouse i ion in the Loardroom of the District|miya, and the answer came from |against any leglalation which would deprive plate printers and their as- sistants of their positions. 5 A delegation from the p'ate printe union, accompanied by their counsel Thomas P. Litt'epage and Edward F. v, local attorneys, spent about a hour with President Harding presenting their arguments against the installaiion American hearts. Pays Tribute to Americans. bill has been introduced in Con- | sress providing for the creation of a | commission to prepare plans and erect Ay dear friends, I have seen your the statue, which will be the first me- | S¢ldiers in this bloody, cruel war. morial of its kind to the colored race |l aM & Witness for them if they need |an¥." I know from the firat moment in the National Capital. y of power presses at the bureau. The bill provides for the appropria- | When the enemy saw them, they did} rojlowing the White House conference l!:Jh }l?l' $25 I|V l;) defray the expenses i not want to go on with war very i Fresident Harding WR:, Hflll;’ to take the of the commission, but the $250,000 3 ¢ position that he desired to have no part fixed as the limit of cott of the statue TUCP 10N€er. You have done splendid | F0% O (00 oVoray” betwecn the plats i% L0 be raised by voluntary contribu- WOTK. as great. I should say greiter|printers und Congress. The President, tions. {than could be expected from your|it was said, desired to make no state- Francls Wells, president of the asso- | sons and brothers and husbands: but!ment on the situation. on. told the gathering last night | there remains a duty during peace,| In the delegation at the White House the organization would not go:and the greatest part of it was beau- |were Frank J. Coleman, Thomas Mec- hat from Goor to dusr i quest of the funds. | tifully "accomplished by the ladies | Quade, Andrew Fallon, James Windsor. 2 | that ave beside me, who with — Proposes National Drive. :uunemmy. with kind hearts toward _J. Franklin Wiison. secretary, out- | those who had suffered so mucn. aia| ), C. PISTOL TOTING lined 4 plan for the designation of jmore than they’ could have been ex- | 4 women in practically all of { peceed 1o do. of the Union 1o help raise |’ When the Americans came they | BILL IS REPORTED de bresdent Wells siaied that an | ralscd amony 4 Kreat hopes. We had | e cffort alko would be made to have been promised the end of the war, | . o siate logislatures make appropriations | pity, generosity, all {he sreat dreams| __ (Continued from First Page.) 4 8 g hat man has been promenading. with Dr. F. W. Smith of the public school | himself andcr the stars. Those dreams {he LAl as introduced injhave never been realized. We were nd Daniel Murray, histor- | told they were going to be and w e an account of the life of {all believed it, and the soldiers aho _who is described as havinsall believed it and it was as nothing nicd Christopher Columbus {for them to give their lives to ob- delivered on the day of the applica- | tion for the purchase. Provision iy made for a careful and accurate rec- ord of all sales. If any person pur- chasing a pistol or revolver within the District giv false information, s first and second voyages of [tain such a very high aim, the aim|he shall be punished/ by Imprison- 3 £ that every great nation had always|ment for not less than two or more The bill pending in Congress states|tried to get, but never could. than five years. The Senate District committee re- ‘pn‘rlpd favorably also a bill to give b 3 & _{police patrol drivers the status of tevemeyioa leftt after having disin-} e uiar policemen. Senator Ball an- | Tom the execution|jounced that he and Senator Stanley . of the treaty. I know the feeling|had agreed upon the provisions of a Where the statue is to be|was all right. I do not suspect for a|bill to regulate the practice of op- moment that thera was in American | (OMSUY, i the District, which was referred to them as a subcommittee, == | heads anything than this—that they | with authority to report to the Sen- had accomplished their duty and: ate, and that he would report the could leave the right to other times.| bill to the Senate. “They thought. secing the soldlers coming home, ‘We are through. The Baa)Tax L. trouble is you were not through. At least we were not. ~ We were It and it n struggled and suffered, and we were Mr. Ralston enterad a disclaim- | SUUEELED and suftered. and we were i spend money for reparation that Ger- | {many ought to have paid, but which i nobcdy has found ways to oblige her * | that Alonzo was the pilot of the Nina, Says France Is Left to Pay. William Mc: a guest of the a and de- livered an address on his recollections of the neighborhood of 10th and U streets, erected. Depurtment of Justice, until mem- bers of the committee could have op- poriunity to examine them. Representative Ya republican, illi- nois, asked as to be con { bill suthorizing the incorporation of the Washington Rapid Transit Com- pany and a bill imposing taxes upon bus lines in the District to a sub- committes on public utilities, with in- structions to hold hearings on those measures. Senator Ball announced that he had been informed by the commissioner of insurance of ths District that he would have a Lill establishing an in- surance code for the District ready for submission on Friday. U. S. HOLDS ALLIED DEBT IS SEPARATE FROM REPARATION (Continued from First Page.) Representative Gra- Pennsylvania, as- threat was intended ham, republican, “But, as far as I am concerned, I suffered very much more when I heard that we were charged with be-: ing militarists and imperialists in| America, and that made me jump from my very pleasant seat on the ocean and come to America to ask you what was the matter. Believes U. 8. Attitude Changed. “What the matter was, I know it now. The matter was that you were not well informed. The matter was that you did not know what was our condition. The matter was that you thought France was militaristic and imperialistic, -when Germany was militaristic and imperfalistic. And the fact was that as soon as you understood it I heard but one cry— ‘Vivi la France! “1 was especlally moved when this cry came from young and old ladies. It is ladles who cried most ‘Vive la France” and, whether they had blond, black or gray halr, I was more and more moved by this feeling and by this cry. For this I want to thank you. “In France we are almost at.the eve of the greatest difficulties we have encountered since the end of the war. We have been quarreling too often with England, and this might have been avoided if America had been there. “We do not.ask for anything. We want to do our duty ourselves. When you came with your soldiers you ac- complished the greatest, the first part of your duty. Up to United States to Judge. “You have been good towards our widows, towards our children, Ralston further. Dausherty Defended Burns. The fncident was closed. and the hearing procecded with a suggestion by Representative Foster. republican, Oho, that the committee get along with its work. The newspaper articles in dispute were sent to President Harding last October by A. P. Macauly, an Amerl can citizen living In Toronto, Canada, along with a letter protesting agalnst the appointment of Mr. Burns by Mr. Daugherty. The letter was referred to the Attornev General, who replied to Mr. Macauly that he had before him the information sent the Presi- dent before Mr. Burns was appointed, that he had known Mr. Burns for many, many years, and was ‘quite sure he will render me and the ad- ministration faithful and efficient service.” Decide Not to Call Taft. Decision not to call Chlef Justice Taft as a witness in the impeachment proceedings was reached by the judi- ciary committee yesterday, although the committee admitted In’ testimony a letter from the Chief Justice de- nouncing the activities of Willlam J. Burns, chief of the bureau of inves- tigation of the Department of Jus- tice, in fraud cases. Justice Taft's presence was re- quested by Jackson H. Ralston, coun- sel for Representative Oscar E. Kell- er, who brought the impeachment proceedings. He wanted Mr. Taft to testify in confirmation of a’ letter which Mr. Taft wrote in 1912, while President, to the then Attorney Gen- eral Wickersham, and which was read into the record during the day. ‘The committee held that confirmation would be unnecessary. This letter, and one written to Mr. Taft by Mr. Wickersham, constituted the principal evidence submitted. They both dealt with a pardon for Willard N. Jones, convicted in Ore- gon in 1907 of alleged land frauds, and referred to alleged activities of ‘William J. Burns, appointed last year by Mr. Daugherty as chief of the bu- reau of investigation of the Depart- ment of Justice, in connection with the drawing of the jury in the Jones case. The_ purpose of their introduction into the record, Mr. Ralston explain- ed, was to support the charge in the impeachment specifications that Mr. Daugherty had appointed to positio: «“of great Importance and large finan- cial and moral responsibility” men who “are untrustworthy. corrupt and dangerous to the liberties of the people of the United States.” in the light of undisputed facts con- cerning France’s capacity to pay her debts to America. « Sixth, it must be understood clearly that the United States is absolutely convinced that the dismemberment of Germany because of non-payment of theoretical sums to France would be looked upon with disfavor in Amer- ica and as the certain breeder of an- other great war in FEurope. Every influence of the United States gov- ernment will be cxerted to prevent such a turn of affairs as might bring about a dismemberment of Germany. Reparations Too High. The public may read between the lines of the foregoing that the United States government still holds to the view expressed by American com- missioners at the Paris peace confer- ence, namely, that the sums France is | figuring on are altogether too high land can never be psid by Germany. towards our fatherless orphans, and, Instead of offering to remit certain for this we thank you. And in doing this you certainly have done more than’ a great many nations would have done for themselves. “If you think that you are not quite at the end of your duty then it is for you to judge. I have no advice to give you. I simply say thi; In 1776, when you wanted to liberate yourselves, you called for European philosophies and you called for men, and with the French ideas of the eighteenth century you made up that wonderful Declaration of Inde- |influence and aid to help eass the eco. pendence, which was more than a|nomic burdens which naw enmesh book, for it was an act. European states. 3 “1f you think that now this great The idea of & flve or 8ix power pact motion for liberation has carried|to guarantee the peace of Europe is France and a part of Europe through!a necessary corollary to any readjust wars for independence, and If you,ment of the whole European situation, think that you can do something for and the President of the United States them, as has been done for you, my | will in due course suggest such a sol friends, it is for you to judge. tion and possibly agree to submit that a much more logical method of ap- proach would be to get an agreement on what Germany can really pay. America_doesn’t need to be repre- sented on the reparations commission to help determine such a set of facts. The data are available already. All that is needed 18 the expression of an opinion on the part of the United Btates in com- formity with the experts of the allied powers 8s to what Germany can pay. Once that is out of the way, America will view the European situation in a new light and will extend every proper About 100 years ago the first per- by end by this simple word, which | kind of & pact to the American Scnate In 1839|1 have repeated very often, and |if it is evident that by a treaty some of he .entered partnership - Da- | which I want you to ponder. A na-|the present causes of instability can be ieTaberes ta | tlon canmot by great” one dsy and small another.” guerre, whose dame 1§’ removed. daguerreotypes. {Copyright, 1922.) 4 The committee decided to refer a| French debts, the belief prevails that COAL BANRELAYED AS PRIGES DECLI Bituminous Situation Much m-‘ | i proved, Says Engineer Com- missioner. The soft coal situation has im- proved to such an extent in Wash- Ington that the Utilities Commis has practically dropped supervision over this type of fuel. Engineer Commissioner Keller stated today that the dealers have been released unined tie hooks of & number of the arger dealers and has found that they are not making more than a| asonable profit. H The inquiry which the commission has made into the accounts of deal- | s done with the co-operation of | al men and the commission has | daily reports on deliveries of bitu-, mious coal. ! minous coal has dropped approxi- mately 50 cents per ton. apartment houses or other concerns probably get 4 more favorable price. that the commission already has ex- coufidential. More Anthracite Shipment. in the past ten days, coal men sald this fuel goes out of the yards on In this same connection it was’ A man in close touch with the local price per ton for small orders of soft Discussing ‘ the coal situation, En- While shipments of anthracite to delivery wagons as fast as it arrives. from the requirement of submitting learned that the retail price of bitu-: coal situation stated that the average coal Is now $10. He explained that, using large quantities of bituminous gineer Commissioner Keller declared ‘reated information thus obtained as Washington have increased somewhat An official of one of the largest dumps in the city stated today that the present cold wave should impress upon all householders the necessity ‘or buying at least a smail quantit of coke or other anthracite substi- tute: This official said that there still ap- pears to be an unwillingness on the part of many consumers to try by product coke, although coke now com- ng into Washington is of a high- grade for household use. It is expected that with the cessa- tion on anthracite shipmen's to tne ake regions this month the dalive of hard coal to Washington Even if this occurr. in- how- officials of the Utilities Com- crease. 1, ever, misaion believe it will be necessary for householders to take part of their | winter requirements in the form of some substitute. District coal dealers, subpoenaed by the federal fact-iinding coal commis- sfon Monday to give reasons for t recent rise in prices of anthracte coal, will resume their testimony be- next Saturday fore the commission morning. % The commission today communi- cated with District Attorney Peyton Gordon regarding the propriety of the men indicted last year by a grand jury appearing before the commission in oral testimony during the course of the hearings on local coal prices. Mr. Gordon's reply to the commission to be given late today, and untll it is given none of the in dicted men will be asked to testify before the coal commission Qualification of Testimony. A member of the commission puint- ed out today that the giving of sworn testimony before the federal fact-fiinding body might technically invalidate the indictment against the man giving the testimony. As the in- dictments were returned prior to the calling of the present hearin expression from the district at:orn regarding appearance of the indictsd men is desired by the coal commission | betore they are called upon to testily | regarding prices of anthracits coal in the District. x At the conclusion of the hearings it is_not probable that the commission will fissue any recommendations to | the public regarding the proper price { to be paid for coal in the District of § Columbia, Powers of the commission. | is expected according to George Otis Smith. aj i member, are not arbitrary in an sense. The commission's duties ar concerned with finding out the facts! in the coal industry, and it feels that{ {the publicity gained by holding a series of hearings will do more good | than any recommendation it may ‘s-! sue. In the meantime. however. the | commission agrees with the federal | fuel distributor that use of substi-| tutes for anthracite may be found | necessary among local householders | this winter, and will be found cbeaper in_price. The commission was represented as holding the view. also, that the hearings on the local coal price matter would | have a wider scope in interesting re- | itail dealers in other citles, wh might { conceivably be called before the com- mission to testity similarly. WILSON AND COLBY LAW FIRM T0 BE DISSOLVED Former President Will Tarn Atten- | tion to Subjects That Have | Long Invited Him. i : i { { i | | | NEW YORK, December 13.—Baln-: bridge Colby, Secretary of State In: President Wilson's cabinet, has an-! nounced that his law partnership | with the former President would terminate December 31 at the ex-| piration of _their co-partnership agreement. The announcement was; made from the local offices of Wii-! son & Colby. Beyond saying that the férmer President “is turning his energlell once more to subjects which ha\‘!l long invited -him,” Mr. Colby made no statement as to Mr. Wilsen's ph_ns] for the future. | Tt was announced that Mr. Colby | would continue the practice of law | in this oity. 1 i YIELDS TO LURE OF POLITICS. ! i i I { When he left the White House, in far worse physical condition than he is today, it was Mr. Wilson's inten- 'tion to remain apart from politica. {But as the recent campalgn drew near he ylelded to the suggestions | iof thoss close about him and took isome part by way of writing letters, which were introduced into the cam- | paign in various states. At the same | . time Mr. Wilson renewed his activity in international affairs, and began keeping himself closely advised on developments in Europe. Varlous conjectures are advanced in political circles as to how prominent a part of Mr. Wilson may take .in the campaign of 1924. His intentlons un- doubtedly are known only to him- self, although it 18 known that he Is being urged to take & prominent part, -and that his more favorable Physical ocondition is belng urged upon - him a8 one reason why he should. The fact that Mr. Wilson has been doing a little better than holding his own physically, however, has led to exaggerated reports that he has been walking about the streets of Washington unassisted, and that his disability has almost entirely dis- appeared. Although it can be stated that the former President’s physical condition 18 better now than it was the day he left the White House, he still finds it mecessary to place a limitation the time he devotes to callers :mnutnr wrif and devotes the greater part of his time to rest and recreation. iat Iaw, photographed on S. S. Mnajes- iwould go slmost directly to Pal OPINION WITHHELD isafd he ! that R eturns From Europe To Winter at Palm Beach! 1 MRS. IDA M. FRENCH, won a $5.000.000 su tic, arriving at New York yesterdny. Mrs. French told reporters that i i Beach and later return to Europe. | NEW BID COMES WITHIN JUNIR HIGH ALLOWANCE Michael Serretto Ready to Build | New Schools for $592,000. May Get Contract. ! i { | The Commissioners probably will be | able to award a contract within a few days for the erection of the Macfar- land and Langley junior high schools on the basis of the new bids received | { yesterday. Michael Serretto, who has done other construction work for the District, submitted a bid of $592,000 for both high schools, substantially ' under the £600,000 appropriation made available by Congress. ¥ two other bids were received terday, as follows: M. A. Long of timore, $679,149, and Geurge E. Wrne of this city, $604,600. number of alter: if decided upon, would change | the total figures submitted by | junior hizh schools. The fir: opened reveral weeks ago, were all of the appropriation, and it necessary for Comm Keller 10 eliminate the assembly h from the plans for both building: asking for new bids. Whil they disliked having to drop this essential feature, the city he: felt that the need for new school buildings is so urgent that they should be erected in zccordance with the funds available The Macfarland will be on Towa avenue between Al on and Upshur streets and the Langley will face on T street northeast between Lincoln road and 2d street. i { | i | i i 3 i | i INPACKER MERGER President, Mr. Daugherty and Mr. Wallace Find No Reason for Action. { i President Harding and his advisers jsubmit that the farmers are f uphailding of an American merch marine, and the plan embodied SEEKS TOPACIFY SHIPBILL'S FOES Senator Jones Makes Bid for Support of Measure’s Opponents. SAYS FARMER WANTS IT Declares Communications Reach Him Indicating Labor Ap- proves Act. An appeal for removal of sect feeling against the adn.inistratio shipplng bill and for support of th measure by organized labs by Senator Jones of Wa charge of the measur his statement in support of th in the Senate tod “There are indications that the ship- ping bill is being treated as a section- al matter,” said Senator Jones. "It is said the farmers-are against m wh e is v en devised Tie A id rat thaz wo il bor ha The lezisl, ticular benefit to the America.” t efore us Is of par- laboring man of Bl Is Taken Up. The shipping bill was taken up the Sen bom after t e met today. While discussicn of the meas- ure continued he fioor confer ences were advocates of rurai « on the matter of ig bill in faver partmen: appTopria Jones of W measure. 3 enator Jones urzed the Ser measure on ed no more argar bill aside th the whole i Appeal to Business Senwe. been Ao b continued. * tigs measure e the interest of a ships special privilege, bu 1k has scarcely ever bee re be fore Congress more to the benefit of the people of the country and to the an this Lill. We who suppor: lation appeal 1o th s the country and 1o those pa- triots who belleve in an adequate na- tional 4 The c mittee decribed i “more of an infant indu than other,” and invoked the doctrine protection for i g : Earlier in the day, in reply to a question from Senator Harrison as 1. [ whether 1t was planned to keep shipping bill before the Senate to clus‘on of the proposed farm credits legislation. Senator Jones sald ths he had no disposition whatever to dr lay the enactment into law of a farm credits bill. H id that he would ask to have the ipping bill Jaid aside temporarily if a farm credits bill, upon which there was unanim- ity among the senators, should be re- ported out. Push Farm Credits BiL The announcement by Senator Joncs of his willingne: 1o lay aside tem porarily the si ing bill was pre {ceded by a series of confe: be tween democratic and repub! an o ponents of the ship measure, durite Wwhich the Strong.r advecates of farr relief legisiation in both partics - have Gecided that there is no obliga- | on on the part of the adminisira- on to act on the application of Armour & Co. to buy the assets of Morris & Co. another of the Chi- cago hig five packers. The decision, in which Attornexr General Daugherty and Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agri- culture concurred, was communicated Ito the Senate late vesterday by Sec- retary Wallace, in response 10 a reso- Jution of inquiry The Secretary. had been studying the probable effects upon competition 1f the so-callel Armour-Morris merger should become effective. and added “as yet no occ on seems to which requires formal have aris action.™ Action Later if Needed. An opinion by Attorney General Daugherty, also nemitted to the Sen- ate, held that Secretary Waliace had power under the packer-control act to investigate violations of the law should there be any in the proposed purchase of the Morris assets by Armour & Co. % Referring to a conference on Novem- ber 27 between himself, the President and the Attornex General, Secretary Wallace said: See No Reason to Acting. “There was animity of agreement that there was no obligation upon either of us to indorse or acquiesce in the action proposed (of the Armour and Morris concerns) or to express an opinion concerning it. “On the coutrars each was firmly of the opinion that none of us would or could be expected to approve in advance a transaction of this kind. “The real question under discussion was whether the proposed purchase and | sale might in and of ftself be a viola- tion of the law or whether it was nll such a nature as to warrant action by any of us in advance of its consumma- | tion.” i —_— | T0 | The Navy Department proposes to | close down the torpedo plant at Alex- andria, Va., when the 400 torpedoes, now under oconstruction, are finished at the end of the present fiscal year, June 30, next. This Is shown in the hearings on the naval appropriation | bill reported out today. A statement | to that effect was made by Admiral McVey, chief of the bureau of Drd-I nance, which asks an appropriation of '$50,000 for storage of torpedoes | at Alexandria. | | i | the Chicago H | shipping bill received i i tention vesterday. enlisted in support of u pr that a motion be made as so rural credit bill was repor commiitee to take up the fa ure and to displace the mer:h: rine legislation. Senator Fletc Florida, ranking democrat on commerce committee, leader of th farm bloc. and Senators La Fellette of Wisconsin and Brookhart of low, republicun members of the new P gressive blog, conducted these c gt ences and announced they had f elght senators. or considerabl than a majority, 10 support th: Hearings Enlivened. Late in the day tie hearings b the agricultural committee were livened by charges by former Repre sentative Kelley of South Dakota t rd of Trude had c tributed §100,000 toward t zation of the American Fu; Federation, one of the 1 various farmers asso witness accused J. R dent, and Gray Silver, leg; resentative of the federa representing the farmers’ to the organization. Rural credits legisiation also was taken up again &t a meeting of the 2nate farm bloc las: night. Members of the bloc have been try on a definite measure, but icaders in- dicated that owing to differences of opinion the bloc would not ord in support of any one bill Although farm credils legisiat was being pushed to the front. 5 hare of at- Senator Simmons, democrat, North Carolina, while de- livering a speech in behalf of a “real farm credits bill,” paused to attack tha ship measure, and after doing so of fered as amendments the soldier bonus bill. vetoed at the last regula® sesslon of Congress by Presidery Harding, and also his own farm credits bill. belongin s CONFER ON PITNEY. Chief Justice Taft and Attornes General Daugherty conferred with President Harding today regarding the expected resignation of Associate Justice Pitney of the Supreme Couri, whose retirement has been authoriged by Congress because of 1l health. It was indicated that the resigna- tion would be In the President’'s hands within a few davs, and that a suc- cessor to Justice Pitney would ba nominated by the President without delay. GARDINER SPRINTS AFTER MAN HE DISCOVERS IN HIS OFFI’E Former District Commissioner W., Gwynn Gardiner combined his sleuth- i ing ability with his sprinting prowess i yesterday afternoon and saved his law office In the Woodward bullding from : ing burglarized. D ey Garainer was in deep con- | versation with a client when he dis- | terned @ negro slip quietly into his | office. Minutes passed. The intruder Was not heard or seen. Mr. Gardiner ner's instinct whispered to him to | Investigate. He tiptoed from his of- | fice into an adjoining reception hall | and discovered the negro near a safe. | The former Commissioner placed | the man under arrest and marched him quietly to the elevator landing on the eleventh floor, on which his office s located. Breaking Mr. Gar- diner’s hold, the prisoner made & | P dash for freedom. Down eleven flights of stairs, two and three steps at a time, the negro hurried, with the law yer hot on his heels. On the ground floor the intruder's flight was stopped by persons in the lobby and he was again turned over to Mr. Gardiner. who, in turn, placed him in the hands of Detective Wilson of the first pre cinct for investigation. The prisoner gave the name of Ed- ward Harrls, who, according to the police blotter, i at 1703 10th street. He denled having taken any thing from the lawyer's office. An in- vestigation showed that Mr. Gardi- ner's stenographer's purse had beei removed from her desk and dropped on the library floor. A kodak was found on the negro, wi po! say he admitted taking from another office bullding several days ago.