Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1923, Page 12

12 * PROTEST ACANST URK GRANTFUTLE £ éhester Says He Will Ignore British and French Appeal ;' to Lausanne Diplomats. :The British and the French may Protest against the railroad, oil and Tinerals concession by the Angora gavernment of Turkey to Rear Ad- miral Colby M. Chester, confirming a nt made by the Sultan Abdul mid regime fifteen years ago, un- 1 they are blue the face and will not do them one particle of bod. They may demand that the ausanne or any subsequent confer- énces re: ize their rival clalms, st as they did at the Genoa con- rence in 1922 or the earlier Lau- conference, but it® will not any. is the view of the Chester in- are preparing to develop stons and of the United ‘nt_of State, which gbictently since 1909 has been su; w3 Titis riguts of these Ameri- in s on 1s just this—that the . French #nd Germans ap- proved the Chester project in 1811, and their approval is on record in the State Departmrent. Furthermore, the nternational tribunal can do nothin: about sct this matter, becaus the United States has no ripresen tives in the Lausanne confaren merely have “observers” that 10 one “steps on our toes. While the British and French and others were wrangling over these Yaluable concessions in diplomatic in- ternational conferences, the Chester futerests went out and got their orig- $nal concessions ratified by the only Power with authority to give rights on the crown lands—the Turkish par- Mament. * The Soing to s any other -conference. Who own this territor; settled It, and the Chester conces- slonaires are going to go right ahead with their development work, just as they pledged to the Turks that they would do. The United States government can- Tot settle the miatter, in view of the British and French protest, because this country is not in diplomatic communication with Turkey, and 8o cnnot get offictal news. This gov- ernment broke off diplomatic rela- tons with Turkey and has not recog- nized the new Turkish government. So the American government has nothing at all to do with the Chester ooncession, except to Support the American As an Am, Luausanne conference le the is not ntroversy, nor The Turks have already : n’ citizen, Admiral Chester has the right to &o to the United States and demand protection ©f his rights as an American citizen —vand that's just where this govern- ment st being fully informed of those rights at all stages of the nego- titions lasting from 1908. ‘ No Danger of W 't going to bring on any s¢ no one in Europe wants War, and Great Britain would not go to war for this oil—well, because there are other interests she hates more than she does the American in- terests Two points are to be borne in mind: 3") Cn antedates the alm that Great Britain has set up ! Of her “rights” in the Mesopotamian ofl fields and the American conces- sfon. under a recognized principle of | ifiternational law, has not been abro- gated by war, although war may have caused a complete overturn of existing governments. Kemal Pasha ahd his government, therefore, not @l recosnize the 'valldity of the iester project as a matter of law, but be ise of thelr confidence in the #ood faith of the Amerlcan govern- ment and America generally and suspicion of European govern- ! ments are eager to place Americanl capital in a position where develop- | ment work can begin miral Chester today sald that he whatever over the ( French protests, “bhecause ked,” because he has the Eovernment's authorization d has the American people behind | m. with the United States govern- ment ready to protect his rights as &N American citizen. Press reports. reaching this count he said, re- flect the British propaganda, which has for years been endeavoring to block his concessfon. 1 When this question was brought up ! in_ the Genoa conference in March, | 1822, Admiral Chester went over, but | had the though ‘What's the use. They will wrangle over something | they know nothing about,” so he went | to Turkey instead and clinched his ! concession. He got the oil while the others were wrangling. Admiral Chester explains that in 1911 when the Chester project went hefore the Turkish parifament it was ! approved by the French government, which approval is on file in the State | Department here, so they knew offi- olally all about the Chester project. In 1921 Franklin Boullion, the French ambassador to Turkey, made & treaty With the Angora government absorb- iRy practically all_of the economic resources of Asia Minor. which had ! been granted by the Turkish govern- ment to the Chester syndicate in 1911 and which grant the French govern-! ment had approved officially. | 4The French ambassador at Con- | stantinople complimented the Amer- igan ambassador, John Ridgley Car- ter. in 1911 upon his diplomatic suc- céss ‘When the Boullion treaty went to Kemal Pasha he tore it in two and told Franklin Boullion to go and try again, but that he couldn't have those ec¢onomic resources in Anatolia. Franklin Boullion then made a seg- opd treaty with Turkey, giving fo the Angora government a vast amount of purported clatmed French terri- tory and with no economle resources. Ancluded. | England Out of It. { Franklin Boullion, finding that the French were barred out of the in- dgstries of Anatolia, came to the Chester syndicate and asked their co- operation so that the French could | gét some interest in these through | the Americans, which is the only way : they could get any part of the trade ifterests, as is the case with all; tHose countries now, as the Turks 1 trust only Americans, who do n®t want to grab territory and have no political ambitions in European affairs whatever. Gngland has nothing at all to do th_this Mosul ofl field, included in the Chester concession. England made iffa part of her mandate through the teaty of Genoa, but that has been sérapped—France tore it up and) Torkey never signed it and never 1. So England has no claim there. ave Great Britain and France any ®ood reason to kick now against vtntfl they approved away back in 18117 ‘onstantinople is the diplomatic Monte Carlo of the world, with the ¥puropean nations playing around that | t&ble for the last century, trying to settle the near east by winning its righes over that table. he Lausanne conference cannot séetle the near east, Admiral Chester péints out. The Turks are settling it mselves. Kemal Pasha is the only n who can settle it, and he is doing T \Garland’s $800,000 Is Aid to U. S. Radicals, Says Gompers Labor Chief Scores Organization Hand- ling Fund, and Draws Warm Denial From Eccentric Millionaire. Revolutionary and pacifist organi- zations are getting the benefits of the $800,000 fortune which Charles Garland of Boston refused as an in- heritance from his father, now in the hands of the American Fund for Pub- lc Service, Inc., of New York, it was charged in a statement by President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor last night. Investigatiohi of the organization and the connections of its trustees, Mr. Gompers said, had served to link it with “perhaps fifty or more of the leading pacifist, pro-boleshvist and parlor pink organizations,” and tp “reveal to some slight extent the ramification of revolutionary propa- ganda and influence in the United State $100,000 Loancd. The Assoclated Press last night carried a dispatch from New York stating that the American Fund for Public Service, Inc., in answer to the Gompers attack, had made public i report of the board stating that more than fund had been given outright and $100,000 loaned to radical and labor orgunizations in the first six months of operation. Norman M. Thomas, chairman, and Roger Baldwin, secretary, {ssued the report. The New York statement added that a varlety of “ploneering enter- prises” in labor and radical move- {ments appear as beneficiaries in the list of gifts and loans made to 49 out of 167 organizations applying to the fund for aid. These revclations are regarded here as some of the most outstanding re- cent developments in movements to- {ward radical objectives. Gompers_stated that because the Workers' Educatipn Burcau, one of the child organizations of the A. F. of L, is not definitely “committed to & radical program.” the American Fund for Public Service, Inc., has refuses to include this bureau among benefici- arfes. The bureau had made a re- quest for a one-hundred-thousand- dollar endowment fund. Gompers made public a letter from the fund organization refusing the request in issuing the statement. Mr. Gompers added, In the statement, that the re- quest’ had been made as a “test’ to determine to what purpose the Gar- land inheritance was being put Gompers Makes Changes. By stating in its letter that it would support only such labor educational movements as fit workers “for carry- ing on the struggle for the emancipa- tion of their class in every sphere, the fund corporation, Mr. Gompers charged, had “disclosed itself in its true garb as a proponent of revolu- tionary effort.” The _Gompers' statement that Roger Baldwin, Robert Morss Lovett, Scott Nearing, Willlam Z. Foster, Sidney Hillman and others of the directors of the Garland fund had been more or less constantly asso- ciated with radieal labor and other organizations which the American Federation of Labor considered as “subversive of the best interests of American citizenship and the princi- ples upon which the American re- public and the American Federation of Labor are founded.” “It should not be necessary here to declare with emphasis.” Mr. Gompers declared | added, “that no organization In which the American Federation of Labor is officially interested _could accept money from any such source. The federation, by vote of its conventions and by the convictions of its mem- bership, is unalterable in its support of democracy and in its hostility to every subversive movement, whether the movement be ‘red.’ revolutionary, pacifist or autocratic and reactionary. The statement itself announced that the American Federation of Labor re- gards the disclosures as “most im- portant evidence of the revolutionary character of certain organized efforts which seek to pose before the public as thoroughly American and non- revolutlonary The total estate left to vouns tiar- land by his millionaire father, ac- ! cording to the statement, was report- ed to have been approximately one million dollars. Then the statement prefaces its charges by the following summary: “Upon the advice of a number of persons, Charles Garland endowed a COALRATECURBED BY .. COMMISIN Utilities Body Reports Prices Kept From Rising Unduly During Winter. The Public Utllities Commission “was successful in preventing the imposition of unduly high prices for coal” during the past winter, except in a few cases, Walter C. Allen, sec- retary to the commission, stated to- day in a report filed with Commis- sioner Rudolph. “The efforts of the commission,” he said, “were directed toward price con- trol 'as well as to the equitable dis- tribution of the available coal, and, while it was acting in an entirely voluntary capacity and without any authority of law to enforce its regu- lations, it was successful in prevent- ing the imposition of unduly high prices for coal, except in one or two cases, where, contrary to the sug- gestions promulgated by the federal fuel distributor, dealers purchased coal from independent mines at prices not fixed by agreement with the Pennsylvania fuel commission.” During the winter the commission collected data on the coal deliveries to 58,339 indlvidual consumers. The report shows that the cost of regulating the coal business by the commission, was $10,365.52. This ex- pense was met by the collection of a tax of $2 per carload of fuel arriving in the city. This tax. amounted to $12,060.41. ‘The balance in this fund has been turned over to Maj. Daniel J. Dono- van, District auditor. Mr. Allen told the Commissioners that only two small coal dealers fail- it{in fine shape, Admiral Chester be- ligves, and that Turkey will settle the péace of the world. When the con- febences of the international tribune are over, he advised, take the Turkish pgct published at the Modena confer- effce in October, 1922, and you will fifd that what the Turks demanded d what they got are almost identi- They haven't given in one par- he Lausanne conference dccording to Admiral ester's notion. e quotes Lord Curzon as admitting t the British have no control over Mosul district, but saying that 600 ards inhabiting that district want & become annexed to the kingdom of 1}1(. Imet Pasha sald.in reply that ifsthe Kurds want to join themselves th the kingdom: of Trak they will by allowed to do so, but that they st say so by plébicite. Curson desn’t dare to submit that té a vote, because the Kurds have attacked the itish!in Mosul four times since the deng. contesence took place, £ <l t rd Ci tl ed to co-operate with the commission in regulating the distribution of fuel during the emergency. DEBT BOARD TO MEET. Secretary’ Mellon today called a meeting of the American debt com- misslon fog Monday morning’at 9:30 o'clock, n it 1s expected numer- ous matters may be taken up. The moeting was understood to have been called in order t6 accommodate the members of the commission, particu- larly Senator Smoot, who plans to leave Wnlhln!ton shortly for a con- siderable absénce. ‘The final signature of the British- American debt agreement has not yet been accomplished, it was learned to- day at the Treasury, although Treas- ury officials feel confident that the stir in the house of commons which has threatened the Bonar Law mini; try will have no efféct on the debt of directors, ! .000 of the | §5 | | | ! foundation, popularly known as the Garland foundation, but in reality in- corporated as the American Fund for Publio Service, Inc. ecause the name accepted ap- peared not at all to indicate the real purpose of the organization, a test was made in order the authoritative and final proof might be had as to the purpose to which the enormous fund bequeathed to Garland was put. Would Give All Away. “Mr. Garland himself said at the time the money was left to him, that he proposed ta give away the entire amount. It {s apparent that he had at best only a loose idea of how to proceed about glving away the money, but he was not long left without advie The New York Associated Press dis- patch, outlining the answer of the American Fund for Public Service, Inc., to the dispatch, announced that in all there were 320 appeals for aid mado to the fund directors, of which 114 were refused, as well as 143 re- quests for personal aid or for money to invest in inventions or profit- making enterprises. The dispatch continues as follows Outright gifts were made as fol- ws: Rand School of Soclal Science, ew York, for teachers salaries, 00; United Mine Workers, District 0. 2, Cresson, Pu., for relief of des- titue’ families on strike, § tional Assoclation for the Advance- ment of Colored People, New York, for the federal anti-lynching bill cam. palgn, $3,365.50: League for Industrial Democracy, New York, $6,400: Fed- erated Press, Chicago, for develo ment of a weekly economic news service. $1.820: Workers' Health Bureau, New York, $1,500 Among 'the larger loans were: United Mine Workers, District No. 2, $25.000, which was repaid; Brookwood Labor Colleg Katonah. . Y., $5.000; New York Cal $10,00 Minnesota Daily Star, bonds purchased. $25,000; Oklahoma ' Leader, bonds and mort- gage purchased, $17.000; Labor De- fense Council, h go, for the de- 1 e of the Michigan Criminal sy dicalist cases, $10,000; Labor Bureau, Inc. New York, for working capltal, $7.000. Money to Promote Progre: “The board agreed to handle this fund ulong lines quite different from those which characterize other such public funds.” the report stated. “In the first place they had no interest in conserving the principal or in bufld- ing up a great fund with all its at- tendant dangers of becoming dle- tatorial on the power of its money. Agreement was reached to make no distinction between income or princi- I pal, but to give or loan such amounts ©of money as seemed best to promote progress in the movements which most interested the board. “In the second place it was agreed not to build up any established fn- terest in the administration of the fund by salaried officers. All work of administration is done by the vol- unteeer efforts of members of the board.” The funa would be used primarily, it was announced, for enterprise: coming within two flelds of activity; ‘producers’ movements, as expressed in the work of organized labor and farmers, and in work directly in their interest; the protection of minori- ties.” “FALSE,” SAYS GARLAND. Special Dispatch to The Star. NORTH CARVER, Mass., April 13. —"False, absolutely false,” indig- nantly declared Charles Garland this morning when shown a copy of the press dispatches containing the clarge of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, | that the $800,000 fortune of the ec- centrlc young Boston millionaire is being used to “bring together an in- terlocking network of pacifist and revolutionary organizers of more or less extreme character.” Much has been sald about the for- | tune I inherited and saw fit to use toward the benefit of my fellow man. My attitude was misunderstood from the first and false, absurd stories have been circulated and published. “Often have I made my position relative to the fund and the purpose for which it was to be used perfectly clear.” he continued. “1 feel that the organization admin- istering the gift has and will use It not only in accordance with my wishes, ‘but wisely and above all, within the law. More than $25,000 of the fund has been given outright where it was the most needed, re- gardless of creed or color. Salaries of Teachers. Some has been given for teachers’ salaries, rellef of destitute families, the anti-lynching campalign, the ad vancement of colored citizens a workers' health bureau and economic news services “Further than this I am not exact- ly familiar with the details, although I know some $100,000 has been loaned to labor organizations. “Personally I believe that Mr. Gom- pers has misinterpreted Mr. Baldwin's communication, which refused to grant an endowment to the workers' education bureau, and is unnecessar- ily alarmed. “True,” he smiles, “I may have had only a loose idea of how to proceed about giving the money away—but it ‘was my money, not Mr. Gompers. Garland, who is still living his peculiar iife with the two young women who renounced family and | home to be with the man whose ideals they actually worship, declared that the American Fund for Public Serv- ice, ~through Mr. Baldwin, would probably reply to Mr. Gompers in de- tail. arland's recent act in leaving his wealthy soclety wife and children for the love of Lilllan Conrad, his “soul mate,” with whom he lived here until police interfered, and who is now an art student at Philadelphia, created a sensation. His wife and children are now touring Burope. A statement made public today by the United Mine Workers of America declared that those who now are in control of the Garland fund are “making a desperate but vain at- tempt to control and dictate the pol- icies of the coal miners' union. “This is the same aggregation,” the statement said, “that formulated and prepared the so-called plan for na- tionalization of coal mines which was made public at a recent meeting of radicals in New York. It will be ri membered that that plan for nation- alization was given to the public at that time with a false Impression that it was the plan of the United Mine Workers of America. The plan was repudiated by the union when it was made public. Union Did Not Approve. In the reply of the managers of the Garland fund we find it stated that $2,000 of that fund was sent to dis- trict 2 of the United Mine Workers at Cresson, Pa., for rellef of miners on strike, and that $25,000 was lent to the United Mine Workers. None of this money was sent or lent to district 2 with the knowledge or approval of thé international union. “It is worthy of note in this con- nection that the president of district 2 is John Brophy, who is clogely as- soclated with the group of New York radicals. nflcommumnl and other reds have given and are still giving the United Mine Workers of America more trouble in Mr. Brophy's district than in any other part of the country. They are conducting am active cam- paign for the purpose of gaining con- trol of the union. Beetings are belng held continuously. W. Z. Foster has been one of the leading speakers at these meetings. ‘The -United Mine Workers of America ia not a red organization. It is genuinely American in its prin- ciples, purposes and policies. It is unfortunate that the good name of the United Mine Workers should be assoclated in manner with -the of any of these madical or groupa” « Tokio Will Give Artistic Lantern To Potomac Park The olty of Toklo is preparing a reproduction of an old Japanese lantern and tablet, to be placed among the cherry trees here in Potomac Park, as a gift from the Japanese people to the American people. Some time ago the plans for 2 monument the citizens of Toklo In- tended offering this city was sub- mitted to the Fino Arts Commis- sion, the final authority on placing additions to Washington's monu- mental improvements, but the com- mission was forced to request some alterations in the proposed gift. 1t developed that the idea was sug- gosted by a former Japanese resi- dent of ‘the United States, who, upon returning to his native coun- try, thought it would be a splen- did thing to present a monument to the American people. Now, it was learned today, the leading artists and designers of Japan are at work preparing the old lantern and tablet, which even- tually will find its place among the cherry blossoms. Just when elther it or the plans will be delivered to the Fine Arts Commission is un- known, but it is assured the date is not too far distant. WANT CONPROMISE ONCOSTARIAPLAN U. S. Delegates Willing to Ad- mit All to Pan-American Union Board. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, April 13.—The Latin American delegates to the Pan- American conference understand that the United States is ready to accept a compromise on the Costa Rican plan for the organization of a i’au-Ameri- can Unlon in such a way that mem- bership on the governing board of the union will not depend on whether a Latin American country is accredited diplomatically to Washington. Some of the delegates xay they hear that the United States will propose retaining the requirement that the board shall be composed of diplomats accredited to Washington, but that in cases where a country is not accred ited it may appoint direct one of its nationals to the Pan-American Union, It is said to be the the how- ever, that the Costa Rican idea of per- mitting the nations the alternative of either " accrediting their diplomatic representatives to the union or a di- rect private representative would re- sult in a mixed representation which nould destroy the effectiveness of the union. Instructions From Washington. the delegates following a report that Henry P. Fletcher, head of the Amer- ican delegation, had received instruc- tions from Washington as to what course to pursue. Mr. Fletcher and Dr. L S. Rowe, director of the Pan- American Unlon, refused to discuss the situation. A number of the dele- gations, including Argentina and Uruguay, are said to favor in prin- ciple the Costa Rican plan. To permit of the opportunity for preliminary conversations on the question, in which Dr. Rowe and Mr. of the political committee, which was indefinitely postponed. i Red Cross Indorsed. A plenary session of the conference indorsed the Pan-American Red Cross convention, a project of the League of Red Cross Socleties of Geneva, which Mr. Fletcher urged in a resolution. It also approved the yeport of the commerce committes, recommending ratification of the pan-American postal convention of Buenos Alres, 11921, Panama abstained from voting lon the question on the ground that bee |cause of her geographical position she | was unable to approve of one articlo in _the convention. The proposed new pan-American convention, offered by the Unlited States for the protection of trade marks has encountered so much op- position In the commerce committee, chiefly from Argentina, that it seems likely it will be referred back to the Inter-American high commission for further study. ARMS CUT TO FAIL. Proposal in Fair Way to Be “Hurdled” Through Report. BY CLAUDE 0. PIKE. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1923. SANTIAGO, April 13.—The proposal relative to the reduction of arms, which has been giving the delegates uneasiness since the inception of the pan-American conference, is believed to be in a fair way to be “hurdled” through the armament committee re- port. This virtually disposes of the question at this meeting without tak- ing any definite action. The report made by Senor Huneeus of Chile, acting chairman, is full of generalities and recommendations which are generally accepted as rep- resenting the views of all concerned and as the best way of letting the matter go over to the mext conference on account of the apparent inability of the A. B. C. nations to agree. A member_of the committee announced before Wednesday's session that the report had the approval of all the members of the committee, but after- ward it was asserted that the Ar- gentine delegation had not been con- sulted. This lends color to the report that Chile and Brazil are working together. The activities of the socialists in the Argentine congress are expected to prevent the increase of armaments and expenditures, possibly cutting down the army and navy budgets. This is belleved by some observers here to be the cause of the Argen- tina delegation’s effort to block the report. SAYS BALLOU QuUIT SOCIETY AT ONCE Allen R. Harrison, president of the Natlonal Literary Society, Inc., in a communication to The Star calls at- tention to the fact that Dr. Frank Ballou, superintendent of schools, re- signed from the society a trus March 28, this year, but the fact w not published untii April 11. “And this leaves a false impression,” adds M _nl;lurison "‘f tae le lehr. e space.of time,” he continues, “would indicate that Dr. Ballou had nt all this time lnvflllls‘lllnl this soclety and finally resigned. But his tentative acceptance was dated March 26 and hie resignation March 28. It was accepted last Saturday night and he was promptly notified.” The letter relates to an_article headlined: “Dr. Ballou Quits Literary Society. In conclusion President Harrison de- siared that neither Dr. Ballou nor any sther of the investigators of the so- clety hu__ “ever really investigated These reports became current among | Fletcher will participate, the meeting | to have been held tomorrow, has been | HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923 AUTO RECIPROCITY |DECLARES EINSTEIN FAVORED BY LABOR Asked by Cumberland Con- vention During Washington Session of Shriners. Bpecial Dispateh to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., April 13— Before finally adjourning this morn- ing the Maryland State and District of Columbla Federation of Labor unanimously passed a motion offered by E. C. Scott of Alexandria, Va. representing the stenographers local of Washington, favoring automobile reciprocity during June while the Shriners are in session in Washing- ton. The newly elected officers were in- |atatica by B, W Payne of the Federal Employes Union, Washington. The concluding business was largely of a routine nature. Many of the dele- gates last night took part in a big parade of miners at Lonaconing in which about 1,000 were in line. They were Jed by a boy of thres years dressed in a miners khaki sult, car- rying a small placard wh “A little child shall lead them. the parade there were speeche a banquet and dance Act on Sympathy Resolution. The resolution extending sympathy to the Western Maryland railway shopmen, who have been on strike for more than a year, and asking that patronage be withheld from the 10ad, referred back to the committee yesterday for reconstruction, o that it could not be construed as foster- ing a secondary boycott, which is illegal, was reported back, with the recommendation that it be referrd to the incoming executive board, with power to act, after investiguting its legal status . The recommendation was adopted, but objection was drawn from Caleb Adams, Washington, one of its au- thors, and delegate o the next meet- ing of the American Federation, who 1d the convention would be leaving Cumberland without giving the strike at least its moral indorsement. Chalir- man E. D. Bleretz of the resolution committe then called attention to the legal advice which had been glven the convention in an address a short time before by John M. Henry, for- mer assistant United States district attorney, Pittsburgh, that labor can only hope to obtain its goal by working within the law. Mr. Henry is attorney for the miners’ union. The resolution calling for the dis- continuance of the Non-Political League was reported amended where- by the state executive board will function in all matters political with- out reference to the American Fed- eration of Labor the body of final resort, as called for in the resoluiton. This resolution was {n- troduced because of trades bodles taking sides for candidates, as was the case in the last congressional election In the sixth Maryland dis- trict, when Frank W. Mish, democrat, was Indorsed by the Alleany Trades Council, while Representative Fred- erick N. Zihlman was backed by a number of unions. A resolution offered by Frank J. Drum, president of the siate federa- tion, commending Gov. Ritchie for his refusal to accede to the suggestion of President Harding that the Na- tioval Guard be called out to protect miners who would work “open shop,” was adopted. It was ordered that Gov. Ritchie be sent a copy of the resolution. A resolution of thanks was voted the Plate Printers Unfon of Washington for engraving the resolution of thanks to Archbishop Curley, passed by the Baltimore Fed- eration of Labor, for his interest and that of the Catholic Church in labor. Officers Elected. Hagerstown was selected as_ the meeting place over Washington by & large majority. The following offi- cers were clected: President, Francis J. Drum, Cumberland; first vice president, C. C. Coulter, 'Washington; second vice president, Miss Gertrude ally, Washington; _third vi dent, N. A. James, Washington i fourth vice president, J. H. Elliott, Baltimore; fifth vice president, R. H. Burdette, Washington; sixth vice | president, G. A. Ott, Baltimore; sev- enth vice president, W. S. Allamong, Cumberland; _secretary, Henry ! Broening, Baltimore; treasurer, J. E. | Toone, Washington; organizer, Clin- {ton Hancock, Baltimore; delegate to ithe American federation convention, i | Caleb Adams, Washington. The propositions to endorse a third party movement and to form one big union by amalgamating all the unlons in respective Industries into single organizations, each of which shall cover an_industry, were over- whelmingly defeated. The committee report of non-con- currence on_the resolution signed by Charles G. Kemper of the Baltimore federation and twenty-one others, saying “that the time has come for working people of the industry and the farm, who form the vast majority of the population to organize them- selves into & labor party, which will contest all elections in the interest of ‘American liberty,” was adopted by an almost unanimous vote. The convention adopted the resolu- tion calling for the manufacture and sale of beer of “reasonable alcoholic content” with no apparent opposition. T e OpPas ton That Satisty. Such a wealth of Style, Comfort and Value are to be found only in Newarks at the popular price of FiveDollars—and for choice you have over 40 of the season’s most striking and exclusive styles. Ask Fer Ne. 7761 Sunset Browa. Pinked Edges: Oak Sole: Rubber Heels. — $5 ‘S0 othar wenderiel stye, $3.50 to $5 Newark SHOKE STORES CO. 913 Pa. Ave. n.w.; Open Bat, Nights 1116 7th St. N.W.—Open Nights 711 H 8t N.E—Open Nights Aulcvu‘:tl&-;gu.l‘w - THEORY UNTENABLE By the Associated Press. VALLEJO, Cal., April 13—Capt. T. J. J. See, U. 8. N, astronomer at the Mare Island navy yard here, in a statement denouncing Prof. Albert Einstein, the Swiss sclentist, as an imitator’ and spreader of untenable theories, expresees regret at the ac- tion of Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of Lick Observatory, in announcing Wednesday that he had confirmed the Einstein theory of relativity in so far as is concerned the bending of stur rays. Development of the photographs Runnin’ Wild No One Loves You Agli Don’t Think You'll Be 'Way Down Yonder in Dearest—Fox Trot Falling—Fox Trot Sunny Jim—Fox Trot L’Africana=O Paradiso Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2, Part I (L) Starlight Bay—Fox Trot Think of Me—Fox Trot or Shimmy One-Step taken in Australia during a tota eclipse of the sun by the expedition which Dr. Campbell headed does not, in the opinion of Capt. See. form & | basis for recognizing Einstein's rela- | tivity. { Calls It “Discredited Dectrine.” “I value highly the work of the Lick Observatory,” sald Capt. See yesterday, “but I regret to see it issue Btatements to the press which lend support to the discredited doctrine of relativity, than which a greater plece of humbuggery has not appeared in asserted that the Einstein | | theory “cannot be confirmed. A fun- | | damental postulate of Einsteinism, he oxplained, “is that etlier does not | exist and that gravity s not a far { but a property of space. These crazy | vagaries scarccly require mention. | beyond the remark that such a di cussion is a disgrace to our age. To it any wonder that the Paris Academy of Sclence, October | came out with conspicuous p | New Victor Records | Special Issue Red Seal (Oh, Paradise!) 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