Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1923, Page 2

o *% 2 (VL SERVIE RULE " AD TOVETERAS President’s Order Guarantees Advantages Not Assured Heretofore. i 1 President Harding’s recent execu- tive order enlarging the preference rules regarding the rating and ap- pointing of veterans of the world war to governmental positions wader the civil service, is an advantage to the veteran rather than a detriment, as has been charged by officers of the Amerfcan Legion, according to ad- ministration officials In answer to criticism on of American Legion officier ninstration official tod taking to explain the most recent order, said that the latter not only gives the veteran an ad- vantage in the matte markings but that the order gr simplifies the act of Congress providing civil service preference to vetera and that the order also goes far in pro- tecting the veteran from any arbi- trary action on the part of officers of the government in making ap- pointments. Many Veterans Named. the part an ad- L unde Executive's atly The administration has gone far out of its way to show preference to the veterans of the and to assist them in obtaining federal positio it was pointed out, and this may be substantiated somewhat by the fuct that last year out of 62,683 original eppointmen the classified 18,760 veterans were appointed. In explaining further, it was stated today that the act of Congress ex- tendnig the preferences to of the war was merely a declaration that the latter should be preferred and left the preference actually to the mind and conseience of appoint- ing officers. He explained that the act did not give any vested or ex- clusive right to any particular office or_position and also that appointing officers had the privilege of regard- ing or disregarding this right with- out accountability. Choice Not *The Attorney General! this officer went on to say, “has held that appoint- ing officers are to be the judges of the qualifications of the persons whom they appoint, and the question wheth~ er the veteran meets the requirements of the position therefore, one for the appointing officer to decide. f the appointing officer decides the veteran lacks the capacity necessary und selects one of the other eligibles, his decision Is not reviewable. All the Civil Service Commission can do in such a case is 1o return the name of the veteran to the eligible register for further certification. President Sought to Ald. “The Attorney General has also held, with reference to the statute,” this officer continued, that a prefer- ence is given, but not with prejudice to the public service, and that it,is one which follows fitness for place. He has also held that the matter of making proper rules under the pref- erence statute is left to administra- tive officers who may adopt those now in force or promulgate new ones as they may deem proper. “The President, accordingly, under- took in his order to systematize and regulate the preference in order that full justice might be done to the veteran, and that he would be as- war service Reviewable, sured of his rights under the statute. | Without the order the veteran would be left to such consideration as the appointing officer chose to give. Veteran Given Advantage. he order gives the veteran ad- vantages which never before have been given. Heretofore appointing officers might pass over the name of a veteran and select a non-veteran with the same no one could question his action. The President now declares that, if he does so, the appointing officer must place his reasons for passing over the veteran in the records of the department. So, also, in making re- ductions of force. It also rested with the appointing officer to drop vet- erans while retaining non-veterans. “President Harding has sought to remedy this by requiring that when reductions of force became necessary, a veteran shall be retained if his record is good. Many Other Advantages. ther advantages that the veteran has, are that his age shall not be & bar In any examination, that he shall be released from any physical re- quirements, that the apportionment of appointments among the states required by law shall not apply in his case and that he shall have five years in which to be reinstated in- stead of one year as to others. The elvil service examinations are also | reopened to him when he has lost! opportunity for examination by being in the military service or by con. finement in a hospital or undergoing vocational training. “The veteran has five points added to his rating, or, if disabled, ten points. “There are. very substantial and | far-reaching advantages and illu- strated the liberality which has been uniformly accorded to the veterans in the examinations of the Civil Serv- ice Commission and give concrete ef- fect to the legislative intention.” TWO HURT WHEN AUTO CRASHES INTO TROLLEY Driver of Machine Escapes Injury in Accident—Wounded Taken to Hospital. Two persons were painfully injured and a third narrowly escaped late last night when an automobile owned and operated by Emmet E. Green of 1115 B street southeast, collided with a Washington Railway and Electric Company street car at the intersec- tion of 11th and C streets northeast. The injured are Mr. Charles Kraus of 1519 V street south- east, who were with M. Green at the time of the accident. Mrs. Kraus sustained a fractured nose and severe contusions about the face, while her husband was badly” cut and bruised about the face and head. Green miraculously escaped any injury Wwhatever. According to the police, the street car was proceeding east out C street, while Mr. Green was driving his car out 11th street. Neither of the men in charge of either vehicle saw the other approaching until too late to avoid the accident, and, it is said, the automobile piled into the side of the heavy trolley head-on, throwing its occupants violantly against the wind- shield. Mr. and Mrs. Kraus were taken to the Casualty Hospital in the auto- mobile of a man who had stopped to render what assistance he could. After recelving first aid treatment both were sent home, and it is sald their injuries, though painful, were not serious. —_— A newspaper intended to advance the pelitical and other interests of the women of Spain has made its sppearance in Madrid. veterans | or lower rating and| and Mrs. | PLAN FOR REVOLT BARED AT TRIAL (Continued from First Page.) forces the proletariat to resort to mil- itant methods—mass action i to direct collision with the bourgeols |state: Mass action culminates {armed insurrection and civil w “The communist party will educ: and organize the working masses * * * “mass strike and mass demor Istrations, and will lead them in these struggles. * * * It is through such i struggles that the working masses jure prepared for the final con power. This can be nothing else but direct struggle between the armed forces of the capitalist state on the one hand and the armed foree of the tariat revolution on the other. te or The communist party will keep in foreground the idea of violent lution for the destruction of the (pitalist state and the establish- of the dictatorship o . = communist not armed Herrin, ., liets—not s session for o praise and a o featured of the trial The state, with the of its star witness, Francis Morrow, who as “K-97," a Department of Justice t, attended the communist conven 1+ in the hills near here last Aug as a delegate, put into the record a niass of speeches and writings of com- munists in t untry Frank I' Walsh, chief counsel Foster, fought the introduction every piece of evidence, but time and azain his objections were overruled by Judse Charles White. Morrow's testimon Linner workings of the convention last ur He testified Foster present from Friday, August 15 to Sunday. August 20, leaving S morning, u few minutes two other federal agents, Ja nd Idward Sha hout the grounds, Fuster served on governing body of that he Lozovksky sen the Rtuss ers, presented reports and pecches, and that Foster tended at other sessions Morrow identificd a report scuted to the convention ership conditions in trict—Ch where cording ence. ofhisial ¢ arty. Part of the report was in code and he produced what he safd was the secret code of the communist party of America and translated the coded parts The secret code was nothing more nor_less than a blank application for a United States domestic money or- der—such as can be picked up from the counter in any post office in the country. A paragraph on the back. headed “Fees for money orders drawn on domestic form” furnished the code. Decodes Message. tor delved into the the um, the nunist gatherir nt when ow, rep de- at- Loy showins the fIf Foster, wus a paid 8-1: 7 Morrow line down, first fraction, meant the seventh letter to the right. code, he spelled out the words “Labor Herald,” the name of a communi paper of Chicago, of which Foster the editor. 0. L. Smith, assistant attorney gen- eral of Michigan, read to the jury an article by Robert Minor, a New York cartoonist, who is a member of the central executive committee of the communist party, praising the Herrin mob and advising communists ta “come out of our haze of dream clouds” and get “on a working basis with those workers who don't tal about ‘armed mass action’ but take their guns and close down a mine and paralyze the state chinery by military action.” Another article from the communist which was read to the jury despite Mr. Walsh's_objections, was written by “Roger Ganley,” the party alias, Morrow testified,” of Thomas O'Fla- herty of Chicago who also is await- ing trial here. O'Flaherty is asso- ofated with Foster in the publica- tion of the Labor Herald Believe in Class War. | “Communists are not pacifists.” | O'Flaherty wrote. “They oppose the pacifism which meekly submits the wiill of the masters of society They are militants. They believe in war—the class war. They oppose the militarism of capitalism which pits workers against workers in fratricidal strife, but they say that the capitalist governments can only be overthrown by the same kind of armed force that s now used by the ruling class to keep the working class in subjection. They belleve establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat by force and maintaining it by force during the transition period from capitalism to socialism.” NAVY DATA BRITAIN GAVE U. S. SEEN AS REPLY TO COMMONS (Continued from First Page.) sixth m stated at hearings before Congress that the elevation of the turret guns on the British capital <hins had been and was being increased. statement,” the acting secretary vesterday, believed to be thoroughly the department.” Mr. Roosevelt, in reply to questions as to the source of the department’s information, would only say that no officer could be held culpable be- cause of an erroneous report in this connection. A canvass of naval of- ficors who were on duty with the British navy during the war re- sulted In the unanimous declaration that high British officers were them- selves authority for the statement that the elevation of their ~upital ship turret guns had been increNsed from 24,000 to 30,000 yards. Further evidence, they said, was given by an annual British naval publication which has enjoyed practically official status for decades. In the last three issues it has listed the British main fleet as having a uniform turret ele- vation of 30,000 vards as contrasted with the 24,000-yard range for which they were originally constructed. When consideration of the proposed appropriation of $6.500,000 to “mod- ernize” the American battle fleet was being given by the Senate and House naval committees, Acting Secretary Roosevelt made before these bodles the statements which he corrected yesterday. At the time the appropriation was asked. it was argued that the work Way necessary to bring the American Navy up to a parity with that of the British, which, it was said, had been strengthened by post-treaty work. Now that the appropriation has been obtained, there was no indication of the Mwey Department's plans with regard to expenditure of the $6,500,- said beyond the statement that details of the modernization program had not been determined. The program of the Navy Depart- ment, which ultimately would cost about $30,000,000, was attacked in Congress at the time of the hearings on the ground that it violated the spirlt, if not the letter, of the arms conference treaty, and strenuous ef- forts were made to amend it 8o as to such interpretation by foreign gov- ornments of the American action. Tt was Insisted that there was noth- ing in the conference agreement to prevent Great Britain from improv- ihg the ships she kept under the scrapping program, and that, there- fore, it was the duty of this govern- ment to keep pace. Japan also was credited with mod- ernization work by Navy officials, and naval experts still insist that in their original status the British main tur- Tet guns outranged those of Ameri- can ships. They believed that the British disclaimer of recent improve- ments did not remove necessity for bringing American vessels to a higher efficiency. Whether the Navy Department now will_modify its program is a matter of speculation, and with Secretary Denby in Panama and the President in Florida, Assistant Secretary Roos velt is not expected to announce any policy at the present time. leading | in! was | Sun- ! the i testified, | Deciphering the | to | in | “This | ‘was based on information | reliable by | 000 for thirteen American battleships, | guard against the possibility of any | T [GEN. WASHINGTON'S STATUE REMOVED iBronze Memorial Separated’ | From Base After Nearly a Week’s Effort. The statue of Gen. George Washing- ton finally was removed today from its granite pedestal in W nkton Circle, and is now being crated fully for shipment to Brooklyn where the hundred per forations in the bronze caused by the clements will be plugied For nearly a week the have s ing and chiseling noan effort to release the ton and af If of bronze art work from its po- . but it was not until after a ady yie burne way freed from its ba By meuns of derricks and block and tackle the statue was carefully lowered to log rollers and then placed | upon a horse-drawn truck and taken to the stable of & moving contractor At Z6th and D strects northwest to be crated. Probably by tomorrow or next it will be placed in position on a g on its journey shop. Mo or more contractors been e b sit w noon from two the statue day st fire that se. re than half a were intere statue was and then swu Prominent hundr ators trom it ! its base who wit- | interesting h sparrows ame hese nessed this unusual and manuever were two Bngl who were perched on tree limb d and who. according to putractor’s men, had more ual <t, inasmue were look n at the pa: of their home r some time they had made their home in @ nest built 1 the hollow of the horse's head - to which was by means ing considered likely that the will be in the Brooklyn shop for st three months, statue at i CHANCE RESIGNS AS POSTMASTER TO GO IN BUSINESS t I’age. ar they totaled $7,509,781, an $4 Money orders id here increased from $4.247.674.10 $16,068,850.50, an increase of $11,- {$21,216.40, partly to be explained by the war risk insurance. In the time since Mr. Chance has been postmaster the population served by the local office has increased {rumi 00 persons to 477000, and the | square miles served from sixty-nine | to eighty. When he assumed the of- fice of <hington eity postmaster the of livered by automoblles 401,000 post packages. Last y 1.169.496. The num- {ber of automobile trucks used by the |office has increased from 9 to 146 ‘(rucks. | to Called One of Two Best. Perhaps no man in the civil service | can be said to have a wider acquaint- | jance with its ins and outs than Mr. !Chance, who entered it as an ussist- |ant messenger, and worked his way up to chief clerk of the Post Office Department and then to postmaster of the National Capital, In which posi- tions he was called “one of the two | best postmasters in the “nited States,” the other having been Post- master Purdy of Milwaukee, who' re- signed last yea Postmaster Chance, who has been responsible for several novations in the post offices of the country, no. tably the use of rest bars for dis- tributors, was born at Salem, 1L, July 26, 1869. He was appointed as ant mesesnger in the FPost Of- fic Department by First Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson De- cember 10, 18588, taking the civil service examination in 1889, when he was appointed a clerk. He was pro- moted from time to time in all the {clerkship grades, and in July, 1899, was made chief clerk to Fourth As sistant Postmaster General Bristow under the McKinley administration. Secretary to Root. In 1900 Mr, i Chance was appointed private secretary to Secretary Root lof the War Department. On March 4. 1904, he was made superintendent of post office supplies, and later chief clerk of the department under Post- master General Payne. He was made auditor for the Post Office Department in 1908. In 1911 he was appointed by President Taft as secretary to the President's com- mission on economy and efficiency. He was appointed as a member of the commission July 1, 1912. Named by W Mr. Chance was made chief clerk of the Post Office Department by Post- master General Burleson March 10, 1913. He was appointed postmaster at | Washington by President Wilson, September 1, 1915, and reappointed postmasteh here January 23, 1920. When the present administration came into power, there was much talk of a change in postmasters here, but the successive Postmasters Gen- eral made it plain that no change was contemplated until Mr. Chance's com- mission expired, in 1924. Postmaster Chance was active in the affairs of the National Postmasters’ Association. During the war he was chairman of local draft board, No. 3, and had the distinction of inducting | the first man in the country to be a member of the national Army. He was Harry Chapman Gilbert of this city. As chairman of the draft board, ! Postmaster Chance was the first in ! the country to complete the registra- {tion of the twenty-one-year-old men. Member of Many Groups. Mr. Chance was married to Miss Euterpe Fitzgerrell of Mount Vernon, T, in 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Chance have one son, Gordon M. F. Chance of this city. He is a member of Temple- Noyes Lodge, No. 32, F. A. A. M., and of the City Club, Cosmos Club, Na- tional Press Club, Loyal Legion, the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade. Hé is a director in the Y. M. C. A. and a vestryman in the Church of the Epiphany. —_— SPECIAL NEEDS IN SCHOOL Ballou Discusses Interests of Forward Pupils. Superintendent of Schools Ballou explained the need of schools for the forward child as well as the back- ward child at a meeting last night of the Carbery Parent-Teacher Assocla- tion. He said that the former type of school should provide instruction for the child who can make elght grades in seven years, Doi that the present system of grades is unsatisfactory. A report was submitted by Mrs. John W. Davis, secretary of the as- sociation. Mrs. A. K. Wine, presi- dent, was indorsed for re-election as secretary of the Federation of Women's Clubs. * A gchro‘rlm was given by Americanization 0ol puplis. Germs carried on the feet of birds and by currents of air are said to spread outbreaks of “foot and mouth’ disease among cattle, | | i | Supt. istreet northwest, {invited | Lorleberg, a local | phrase HE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 2 B WASHINGTON AT LAST OFF HIS PEDESTAL. = { Statue of George Washington, which stubbornly rexiated the efforts of workmen to remove it for finally ylelded MOTET SOGIETY'S CONCERT PROGRAM When the opening notes of * Magnum Mysterium.” by Vittoria, fall | on the ears of the large audience which is expected to assemble in pntinental Memorial Hall tomorrow night, the first concert of the season and in several years, glven by the Motet Choral Society of Washington, will have been inaugurated. In the audience will be seventy-five former service men from Walter Reed Hos- pital and a number of patients of the National Blind Library at 1800 D both groups being guests. Appearing with the Motet Choral Society will be Richard “cellist Entire Receipts to Charity. As in the past, the proceeds of this entertainment will be devoted to worthy cau The be turned over entirely to the Foun- dlings’ Home and the Summer Camp for Babies. The director, Otto T. Simon; the soloist, singers and offi- cers of the organization have voiun- teered their services, 8o that tne chil- dren may receive the larger benefit. Tickets may be procured from G. R. Conybeare, 1844 Mintwood Dlace, chairman of arrangements; from any member of the Motet Choral Society or at E. F. Droop & Sons Company, 13th and G streets norihwest. In view of the regulations of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution no tickets are permitted to be sold at the door of Continental Memorial Hall and will have to be purchased in advance from the foregoing persons. Concerts given during the past twelve years the society has been in existence have stamped the organiza- tion, artistically. as standing for a school of subjective choral singing. evolving through definite te and voice adjus ments to the polished and t the repressive and beautiful element of tone. Program in Fall The program will include: “Bene- dictus, Qui Venit” (Liszt), “Sonata in A Major” (Boccherinl), by Mr. Lorle- berg; _ “O _ What ovely ' Magic Hath Been Here" and “On Himalay"” (Bantock). “The Tyger” (Bantock), Star ‘That Bringest Home the Bee' (S. Coleridge-Taylor), “To the Even- ing Star” (Bantock), cello solos, “Al- bumblatt” (Henriques), “Canto Am. roso” (Sammartini-Elman) and “Sal- terello” (Linder), by Mr. Lorleberg, and “Joshua” (Moussorgsky). Mrs. Walter Nash and Mrs. William H. von Bayer will accompany the chorus and the ‘cellist at the piano. Six Boy Scouts will act-as usher: OTHERS SEE END OF MILK DISPUTE, Amicable adjustment of the dispute between the District Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associa- tions and Superintendent of Schools Ballou over the control of the surplus revenues from the milk luncheons scrved In the schools was predicted by Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, president of the Mothers' Congress, at a meeting yesterday afternoon in the New Ebbitt Hotel. Mrs. Rafter announced that she would appoint a committee to con- fer with Dr. Ballou in an effort to make a satisfactory settlement of the controversy. It was pointed out by Mrs.' Rafter that Dr, Ballou several months ago arbitrarily took control of the excess milk luncheon fund of the various parent-teacher organizations and in- dicated his intention of directing the expenditure of this money. The par- ent-teacher organizations in the past, Mrs, Rafter said, used this money to purchase equipment for playgrounds and other school purposes nd spent none of it unwisely. Seek National Office. The motherd initlated a movement to have the president of the District Congress of Mothers elected to the second vice presidency of the national congress at the forthcoming conven- tion in Louisville, Ky., on April 23. ‘Mra. Rafter is historian of the na- tional body, but the District organi- zation, it was said, feels that it should be repfesented among the ten receipts are to | nique | Py todny. It will be went to New York ‘NATION-WIDE PLOT ‘ TO BLACKMAIL SEEN | (Continued from First Page.) ! attention to the fact that rich women, | as well as rich men, have been vic times of blackmail on a larg: scal |here. Many times, the police them- selves say, the victims afe wholly in- Inocent of wrong doing, but the trap| has been so carcfully arranged that! they are compelled 16 pay | A concrete instance which came to | the attention of private detectives| | now working on the Keenan case was | cited today. The woman in this in- | stance. of moderate wealth, but of recognized social and even better of- | I prominence, dropped in with a ! mpanion one afternoon to a tea- | dance in a fashionable restaurant. In; a few minutes the assistant manager, | who had often d the woman and | {her husband, c to her table and offered to introduce two young men Who were good dancers. ~ Supposing the youths were attached to the! restaurant as official dancers, the women accepted their attentions and danced with them. | Drinks Were Served. Her only misstep was that she' allowed drinks to be served to her- self and friend. This was, of course, a violation of the law, as she well knew. Whether some drug was slip- | ped into the drinks or not, it is cer- tatn two drinks affected them far! more than usual. They were suffi-| ciently off their guard that when | one of the youths admired the ring their hostess was wearing she was indiscreet enough to remove it and allow him to examine it. Then he | refused to return it until the woman would consent to allow him to ac- | company her home or make an en-| gagement to meet him the next day. | The afternoon was wearing away and the woman had a jealous husband.| The assistant manager had disap- | peared. She could call the police, but it would mean a serious scandal. | So she agreed to meet the vouth | the next day in the hotel lobby. She kept the appointment, with her two taking | women friends. The ! ! youth and his male accomplice met | them and sald he would return the | Iring when she paid back 3500 she | {had borrowed from him the previous, fafternoon. It was vain to protest she ihad borrowed no money. To refuse payment meant explanations to her Ruiband, the police, and to permit the public statement that she had been so befuddled she had handed a ring to a stranger. Raging, but helpless, the woman paid the money. Blackmailing Fine Art. Blackmailing, it is admitted, has become so fine an art in New York that Its representatives frequent many of the best hotels. The detec- tives are kept on the jump eliminat- | ing these undesirables whose ap- pearance always is that of men and women of culture and refinement. A favorite game of this class is to {lure “prosperous appearing individ- uals, men and women, into bridge games. The victims win at the start. There is an adjournment to another rendezvous and then the victims are trimmed. Card debts and dice losses | mount up. Drink flows. The victim usually is fotunate when the gang is content to stack the cards or load the dice without trylng the pressure | {of a scandalous and compromising situation as a means of extorting more money. The gang works on information sent from other cities concerning victims. | It is this that often makes it easy | to land victims and to trim them for large amounts. With such methods in vogue it is not to be wondered at if one of the tools, perhaps unknowing- 1y, as_her relatives insist, may have been Dorothy Keenan, But the widespread publicity in this |case may prove the downfall of the itrade. There is growing indignation iIn the city over the revelations in ithis case and a demand is being | voiced that the police take steps to tamp out blackmail and to either send ‘the leaders of the profession to Jall or run them out of town. Be- | cause of this some of the figures that have been most prominent in the after-midnight life of the city al- ready have disappeared. (Copsright, 1928.) —_——————— vice presidents on the national board. A card party will be given in the near future to raise funds to send Mrs. Rafter, Mrs. I. Z. Blackburn, Mrs. Willlam_Byler and Mrs. J. N. Saun- ders and five delegates to the nation- al_convention. Stereoptican slides showing the { thorougk:! ern i Merrick. head of the New | forcement | ters | will remain under the present divi- effect of the parent-teacher associa- tions on the schools and the homes of the children were one of the features of the meeting. The pic- tures were explained by Mrs. Willlam Wolff Smith and the officers of the individual assocliations concerned. i} several days, for repairs. Rich Indian Tribe To Cut Oil Melon At Public Auction= The Osage Indians, believed to be the richest people in the world on a per capita basls, are to cut another oil melon on April . The Interfor Department an- nounced today that oil and min- eral rights upon about 34,000 acres of land belonging to the Osages will Le s0ld at public auc- tion on that date at Pawhuska. Okla, and the 200 members of the tribe will receive not only a divi- #ion of the cash obtained, but also from ome-fifth to one-sixth of all the ofl produced on the property. A similar sale in 1922 brought 7,000,000. HEALY T0 INSPECT GOTHAN CARAGES With Washington about to authorize basement garages under office build ings, Building_Inspector John Healy has gone to New York to find out how they are regulated in the metro- polis. Inspector Healy is especlally de- sirous of ascertalning what the New York requirements are as to ventil tion for these subterranean parking rooms. Plans aiready stallation of a on file for the in- 200-car garage under a downtown office building. Maj. Ray- mond Wheeler, agsistant engineer commissioner, pointed out today that ventilation is an important factor be- cause of the carbon monoxide gas emitted by gasoline engines indoors. It I8 expected that detailed rules for the erection of underground gara will be incorporated in the new b ing code, now in process of revision. Maj. Wheeler has re d doze valuable suggestions from and architects who have been an opportunity to study the tentative draft of the new code. These suggestions e being clas: fled and will be submitted for dis- cussion at a public_hearing in the board room of the District Building early in May. The exact date of the hear will be announced by neer Commissioner Keller upon turn to the city from California. Garages under office bulldings would greatly relieve automobile parking congestion on the streets and might be the opening wedge that would lead to the construction of parking spaces under the streets, it is pointed out HUGHES OUTLINES ATTITUDE OF U. S. ary SHAKE-UP FORECAST AMONG DRY AGENTS Intensive Enforcement of! Prohibition Law Planned for Three States. A shake-up among prol ition agents in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, to be followed by an intensive enforcement campaign in those states, was forecast today at prohibition headquarters here. The area, which officials regard the “wettes in the country, is to be worked over., it was said, and agents who have indicated “lack of zeal” are scheduled for transfers and some for dismissals. The plans of Commissioner Havnes, it was added, aimed to re all oppor- tunities for political influence from the work of enforcement. as pove Hnynes to Take Up Charges Mr. Haynes is going to Philadel-! phia Monday to inaugurate the new enforcement plan, approved vesterday by Commissioner Blair of the inter- nal revenue service, concentrating prohibition agents of New York, east- Pennsylvania and New Jerse under two directos, with headquar- He will hold a conference with R. Q. York en- brigade; Frederick Z.| Hazeltine, the Philadelphia headquar- chief, and minor prohibition | agents. It 'is proposed to make ar- rangements for carrying out the con- centration plan by which the state| prohibition directors will have only executive work with the enforcement duties under the direction of Mer- rick and Hazeltine. Assigned to Lead Work. Mr. Merrick will have charge of all prohibition agents and enforcement work in New York and northern New Jersey, while Mr. Hazelton will be chief over the campaign In south- ern New Jersey and eastern Pennsyl- vania. The work in western Pennsyl- sional chief at Pittsburgh. The new clean-up drive is to be outlined at the Ihiladelphia confer- ence, officials said. Much is expected, they added, from Mr. Hazelton, who was an active campaigner again bootleger: on the Pacific Brought east a month ag been waiting for the approval, given yesterday, by Commission Blair, to the new concentration plan. FORMER PUPILS PAY TRIBUTE TO TEACHERS Miss Mary E. Given, Principal, and Miss A. L. Hendry of E. V. Brown School Honored. | Tribute was paid to Miss Mary Ella Given, principal of the Elizabeth | B. Brown School, in Chevy Chase, since its foundation, at exercises last night in commemoration of the twen- ty-fifth anniversary of the school. Former pupils and teachers of the school who attended also honored Miss A. L. Hendry, who has been con- nected with the scheol for more than twenty-four years, and to J. M. King, janitor of the school since its open- ing. A platinum wrist watch was pre- sented to Principal Given. Miss Hendry was the recipient of a platinum bar pin, while Janitor King’s wealth was enlarged with twenty-five silver dol- lars, The school was presented with a framed picture of Everett Gottlieb and John Saxon, the two gold star boys of the school in the world war. ‘Among_those who recalled the his- tory of the school were Lee D. Lati- mer, Judge William H. De Lacy, Ed- ward F. Colladay, Dr, Truman Abbe, ! Laura C. | was izens as Bishop Nuelson of the Metho. {ters at New York and Philadelphia. | Gty Ebiscopal Chur {terms at any place.” TOWARD SOVIETS A ¥ Page) ognition of obligations and a sound basis of international intercourse.” Michigan Woman at Head. The delegation, probably forty or fifty in number, was headed by Mrs. William A. Atkinson of Michigan and Miss Amy Woods of Massachusetts, who attended the Genoa conference. The membership of the group was brought together, it was explained, by the women's committee for recog- nition of Russiz, which is affillated with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. According to petitions and docu- ments left by the delegation for the Secretary of State, it was shown that the foliowing women of the District of Columbia are members of the executive committee of the Women's Committee for Recognition of Rus- sia: Mrs. Gilson Gardner, Mts. Paul Hanna, Miss Mabel Urie, Mrs. George T. O'Dell, dith Goode, Mrs. Mrs. Abby Scott Baker., Mrs. Florence Voeckel, Mrs. Lynn Haines, Mrs " Gaffe, Mrs. Charles Edward Russell, Mrs. Edward C. King, Mrs. Anna Zon and Miss Adelaide’ Borah. Reason for Urging Recognition. In a document setting forth rea- sons why this country should official- ly recognize Russia which was placed in the Secretary’s hands it stated among other things that there has been ample demonstration by the Russian government that it is ready and capable of protecting the life of its own citizens and of for-| eigners who are either living in or| visiting Russia. Americans in Russia during the past year report that life is as safe there as elsewhere. Among these are two such prominent citi-| s of | builders | given | WIRELESS RIGHTS - CAUSE OF TANGLE § U. S. and Japan Exchange Notes Over Radio Conces- sions in China. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILL. Behind the diplomatic scenes in \\'In!lhin}:!mv. Tokio and Peking a dra- matic duel is being fought over rad.o rights in China. The ited St and Japan are at loggerheads over concessions involving not only wir less communications throughou | China, but also between As! | North America. The United State demanding that China recognize 14 valldity of rights conferred upon tt Federal Telegraph Company of Ca fornia, while Japan insist by the of Tokio. scucs United States ancient far easter owned by Bri nationais are als > modern « " upor 1d immen momer pute are betw main 1 the pan. telegrs and Danish stake, as well orth by ny open door ivocated n by the pring ugh naciously mal Concession Granted. Some time in 1918 China g ieral Co { president, R. P. sion for wireless China. The co provided for tl receiving and transmi across the thr essfon partic - erection the ns and the the o to esta e Wi become inde Japanes: them her Bi | Soon after th was bestowed represented that it was the own prior rights, which would be violated if the American Company was ai lowed to carry out its program. Then began an endless era of diplomat seesawing between Pekin, Tok and Washingt which | progr but has now or less of a deadloc of the Federal Company has been in China for the month: tempting, with the aid of the A can legation, to i1 the government to authorize cc operatio ) date, pre: cause they fear to offend the anese government, which is strongly sypporting the Mitsui tentions, th Chine: authori have remained in the fence Federal engineers are on the gr with materials and fully perfe }plans, but still lack permission i proceed. Diplomatic dispatches mean- | time are piling up in Peking, Wask ington and Tokio. Hughes for “Open Door.” On the eve of the Washin armament and far-eastern c in 1921, Secretary Hughes notified the Chinese minister to the LU d States of “this government's con tinuance in its whole-hearted prin- ciple of the open door, which it ha traditionally regarded as fundamens tal, both to the interests of China and itself and to the common interests of all powers in China and indispen- sable to the free and peaceful de- velopment of their commerce on the Pacific ocean.” This manifesto by Mr. Hughes was directly called forth by Japan's protest against the Fed- era)l concession. The Secretary of State continued “The government of the United States never has associated ftself with any arrangement which sought to estab- lish any special rights in China, which would abridge the rights of the sub- jects or citizens of other friendly states; and I am happy to assure vou that it is the purpose of this gov. ernment neither to participate f nor to acquiesce In, any arrangi ment which might purport to estabd lish in favor of foreign interests a superiority of rights with respect to commercial and economic develop- ment in designated regions of the territories of China, or which might seek to create any such monopoly or preference as would exclude other nationals from undertaking any legit- imate trade or industry or from par- ticipating with the Chinese govern- ment in any category of public enter- prise” Contention of United States. The TUnited States contends that the Federal concession comprehends | r oo reack Mr. Schweri Jay Episcopal Church, and ex-Gov. It was also set forth in this docu- ment that since 1921 there has been new economic policies adopted and that much legislation has been passed in Russia for the protection of life «nd freedom of the individual that private property is protected ard that the sanctity of contract and the rights of free labor have been guar- anteed. Claims Made in Document. Among the claims made in the document were: “There is a growing mass of available evidence as to the competency of the Russian go ernment to discharge its interna- tional cbligations. The published re- ports of the work of the American Relief administration in Russia in- dicate that the soviet government is fulfilling its contract with this or- ganization, During the past year several American corporations concluded con- tracts with the Soviet government. According to press reports these cor- porations are working in harmon: with the Soviet government. “It also has been stated by Ameri can officials that among reasons for non-recognition was the fact that the Soviet government had requisitioned property of Americans in Russia and does not recognize the debt incurred by the provisional Russtan govern- ment. This debt is $187,000,000. “The offers made by the soviet gov- ernment to the powers at Genoa and The Hague demonstrate that it is ready to negotiate the question of compensation for losses suffered in Russia by foreigners and that of the Russian debts, provided some means are found to make it possible for them to pay. “During the course of the year an effort was made by the United States government to send a commission of investigation to Russia. This effort failed, according to press reports, be- cause the Russian government in- sisted on reciprocity. It offered to meet American delegates on equal | “open-d no American wireless monopoly in or from China. It especially points out that there is nothing in_ the American _grant which interferes with any Japanese wireless activities within_China or radio cs ections from China to Japan. There is a point involved as to whether s principle rightfully plies to public utilities. For example, some authorities say there would be no equity in China’s granting a rail- way con sjon through a certain district to nationals of one power, and then turning around, on the “open-dvor” theory, and giving na- tionals of another power rights 'to parallel the line in question. Great Britain and Denmark get into the present controversy through old ca- ble and d-telegraph rights held, respectively, by the FEastern Tele- graph Company of London and the Great Northern Telegraph Company of Copenhagen. The French have a great wireless station at Saigon, in Tndo-China. The Japanese foreign minister informed the parliament at Tokio a few days ago that the Mitsuf concession would continue to be ad-, vocated. The Federal Company of California, on whose behalf the United States is battling diplomatically at Peking, is the pioneer in overland radio V- It recently jwned forces, for its r eastern business, with the Radio Corporation of America, forming for the purpose the “Radio Corporation of Delaware Hiram W. Johnson, jr.. son of Senator Johnson, is the eneral counsel of the Federal Com- pany, it is said. (Copyright. 1823.) LIMITED DIVORCE ASKED. Francis M. Shumaker, an employe of the Ingerior Department, was sued today in the District Supreme Court by his wife, Elizabeth F. Shumaker, for a limited divorce and alimony. They were marrfed February 1 1922, and separated last month. De- sertfon and non-support are alleged Attorneys Thomas O. King and Bruce L. Castell appear for the wife. t You'll skip nothing of Robert Simpsgn and Eugene Stevens. Miss Portia Oberly, who established the school's first kindergarten, spoke. Solos were sung by Mrs. O. B. Swett. Mrs. George W. Stone was in charge of the arrangements and H. E. Bittinger presided. —_— It sometimes happens that when an actor finds things coming his way he tries to dodge them. ‘finals are featured, as wel tomorrow. For Sale by You’ll Be Thoroughly Posted if You Read the 5:30 Edition of The Star affairs of the world—and what is reported i~ any edition of The Star is always authentic. Besides the news—the stock market and sports newsdealers throughout the city importance in the current I as the court program for Newsboys and