Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Falr tonight; tomorrow {ncreasing cloudiness, probably showers tomor- Tow Afternoon or night, little change in temperature, ‘Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 74, at noon today; lowest, 56, ltzB 30 a.m, to- day. Full report on page Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 @ £ No. 28,873. * CHNESEOFFGALS READY TOABANDON * HOPEFORCAPTIVES Reports Inaicate Bandits’ Terms for Release Are Held Too Extravagant. SOLDIERS MAY DESERT TO RANKS OF OUTLAWS Entered as sec Unpaid Troops, Jealous of Position Brigands Hold, Turn on General. BY the Asxoclated Prems. PEKING, May 19.—Telegrams to the Chinese from Tsa Chwang, near which fifteen foreign captives are held by the mountain outlaws of Shantung, indicate that the government repre- sentatives are on the point of aban- doning negotiations for the release of the prisoners because of the bandits’ extravagant demand. The latest such terms were that troops be withdrawn from the entire province of Shantung, the bandits to constitute the provincial military force. It is intimated that Wu Yu-Lin, minister of communications, who has been in charge of the governmental parleys, will be recalled to Peking OUTLAWS COERCE TROOPS. Gen. Hofung-Yu's Soldiers Ready to Join Bandits in Hills. By the Associated Prass, SHANGHAIL May 19.—Gen. Hofung- Yu, commander of the Chinese gov- ernment troops surrounding the mountain retreats of the Shantung bandity, no longer is the dreaded foe of the outlaws, but through the present situajion has “lost his face” and is menaced by a revolt of his 10,000 or 15,000 soldters, according to a private report unpublished in China, but received from an authoritative source. Gen. Ho's grip is said weakened largely because the troops he dommands have not been paid for eighteen months, and are envious of the bandits’ prestige. Fathers Lenfers and Buis, the Cath- olic priests who have been on relief missions to the bandit stronghold, are quoted as saying that Gen. Ho, seeking to pacify hix subordinates at. a recent parley. was defied and threat- ened and finally forced to withdraw. American, Britivh nad French com- | mercial bodles jn Shanghai are pre- paring for a mass meeting to give articulate expression to their anxfety over the foreign captives held at Paotsuku mountain, 3 CAPTIVE SEES “DOOM."” Letter Urging Governments to Act Tells of Pitiable Plight. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI May 19.—Unless the foreign powers unite in forcing the Chinese government to realize that the Suchow bandits are ready to for- feit their own lives and those of their captives in their determination to have their demands met “we are doomed,” was the word received here last night from Leon Friedman, one of the Americans held in the Paot- zuku stronghold of the brigands. Friedman's letter, which painted a pitiful picture of the captives' condi- tion, has stirred public feeling in Shanghai. The China Press, an Amer- ican newspaper, backed by a number of prominent Americans, has called a | mass meeting for Sunday for the pur- | pose of making urgent representa- | tions to Washington. The meeting,: it Is expected, will point out the ne- | cessity of the powers guaranteeing | that the promises made by the Peking government to the brigands will be‘ kept. Foreigners Alarmed. Foreigners in China are becoming increasingly alarmed -for the safety of the prisoners held at Paotzuku, and the situation is almost the sole topic of conversation in all foreign circles. Following is Friedman’s letter: “We have no bedding nor cooking utensils and are compelled to sleep on the ground. Conditions really are terrible. “Some of the captives purposely sent out reassuring letters during the first few days of their detention, hoping in this way to calm the fears of thelr friends and relatives. These caused the public to think that our release was only a matter of course. “This is a grave mistake. The bandits hold the upper hand. They are absolutely determined to force compli- ance with their demands for the with- drawal of the troops and reinstatement of themselves in the army, and they are prepared to forfelt our lives and thelr own in the attempt. “Unless the Peking government is forced to release these by the foreign powers we surely are doomed. “I strongly urge our friends and the public to call mass meetings and do everything to impress on the foreigm | nations the desperate nature of our predicament. “Consider us as pleading for our hese Chinese officials at Peking will not do anything unless forced by pressure from America and England to meet the handits’ terms. - “I recommende the sepding of urgent cables to Washington and London, * backed up by the entire foreign com- munity of China. *“This is not only my personal opin- fom, it is the unanimous bellef and hope of all the captive: 15 BAGS OF MAIL GONE WHEN LINER IS DOCKED Some Containing Registered lull‘ Among Missing When Minne- kahda Reaches England. By the Associated Pres: PLYMOUTH, England, May 19.— A robbery among the malls brought from New York on the liner Minne- kahda was reported when the steam- er arrived here today. It was stated that fifteen mail bags were missing, sncluding some containing registered ‘» Jetters. post office \Washington, to have| ond-class matter D. C. Scintillating Finish By the Associated Press. ST. ANDREWS, May 19.— The American amateur golf team retained possession of the Walker cup by de- feating the British team in the two- day tournament ending today, six matches to five, with one halved. The cup was won only on the thirty-fifth green of the twelfth match. when Dr. O. F. Willing of Portland, Ore., playing W. A. Murray of the British team, sank a three- yard putt to win his match by and one. The Americans, after winning only one of the four two-ball foursomes played yesterday, came through in the individual matches today with five victories to the Britishers' two. One match, that between Ouimet and Wethered, resulted in a tie, the play- ers being all square at the thirty- sixth hole. S. Davison Herron of Chicago came EMBASSY INMEXICO HEAVILY GUARDED Obregon Considers Bomb At- tack Effort to Hinder U. S. Negotiators. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY. May 19.—President | Ovregon said today that he consider- |ed yesterday's bombing. which damag- |ed the office of a Mexican attorney in the building that houses the United States consulate general, was an effort to hinder the government in |its recognition negotiations with the lL‘nHed States. | “What could it be but a profound ;dlaplexnuru?" he said. “I believe it {concerns a maneuvre against the government to hinder us in reaching |a good understanding with the United ,Slnles." ! No Clue Found. | After twenty-four hours of in- | vestigation the municipal police and federal secret service agents early |today had found no clue warranting an arrest in connection with the ex- plosion. El Universal publishes a report of the inquiries purporting to prove that the bombing had no political signifi- cance, but was rather the work of enemies incurred by Attorney Castillo while he was intimately associated with Esteban Cantu, Governor of | Lower California. Warren and Payne Threatened. Newspapermen learned from Gil- berto Valenzuela, undersecretary of the interior, that Charles B. Warren !and John Barton Payne, the American I members of the mixed recognition commission, received anonymous warnings soon after their arrival on May 11, that they must leave Mexico within ’ seventy-two hours. Traffic past the Escandon Palace, in which the delegates are staying, was pro- hibited last night and a heavy force of police maintained a watch outside | the bullding. The guard of police and secret service men around the American em- | bassy, consulate and the building in 1 which the conference sesslons are be- {Ing held, has been greatly increased. ! It became known today that on Thursday night the police discovered several men in the act of climbing the Washington monument in Denmark plaza. The officers, who pursued the {men without success, expressed the opinlon that the band planned 'to ! throw the statue from its pedestal. This incident was cited as confirm- Ing the newspaper theory that yes- | terday’s exploslon, like that which oc- | curred on May 4, on the American em- | bassy property, was part of a con- i spiracy by enemies of the Obregon ! administration, in the hope of inter- fering with the work of the recogni- tion conference. |ONLY FEW AMERICANS | STAY IN VLADIVOSTOK U. S. and British Consulate Staffs Leave Without Incidents—Jap- anese Officials Remain. By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, May 19.—Departure for {Tokio of the American and British | consular staffs of Vladivostok, occa- | sloned by the refusal of the govern- jments to comply with requirements lof the Moscow soviet, was without | incident. The consuls, applying for | and receiving visas on their passports, closed their consulates and brought away all documents. S. Pinkney Tuck, American consul at Viadivostok, reached Tokio with Millard L. Thomas, vice consul, and | Maj. Phillip R. Faymonville, military attache at Chita. Only a few Americans remain in Viadivostok. They include the widow of Vice Consul Frederick S. Pray, who died recently. The Standard Oil Com- pany’s representative in staying and will be rejoined shortly by his family. Foreigners are nwi molested as long as they refrain from interfering in politics, but they are heavily taxed. The Japanese consulate at Vladi- vostok {s being kept open temporarily in the hope that arrangements to con- tinue Japanese representation there may arise out of the negotiations now oing on between Viscount Goto and Adolph Joffe, soviet representative. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, 8. C., May 19.—Circuit Judge Mendel L. Smith of Camden, here today, counted himself aw one of the luckiest men in the country. ‘The judge was scheduled to be commencement speaker at the Cleve- land School, eight miles from Cam- den, Thursday night. Two hours be- ¢ fore time to'leave for the school he U. S. Stars Beat British ' Golfers After Game F ight Impossible Enables Americans 2 Retain Cup. ESCAPED KNICKERBOCKER DEATH NOW SAVED FROM SCHOOL FIRE WASHINGTON, D. C. After Task Seemed within an Inch of sinking a putt on the thirty-sixth green to square his match with John Wilson, but by his fallure lost the hole and the match, the cleventh to be finlshed. Th placed the burden of the struggle to retain the cup solely on the shoul- ders of Dr. Willing, whose failure to be selected for foursome competi- tion yesterlay caused comment. The Oregonian. continuing the steady play which has marked his perform- ances on the British courses, was oqual to the task. The courageous and. successful struggle of the invaders under the odds imposed by the results of yes- terday's foursome play, brought spon- taneous tribute from ‘the gallery of many thousands which turned out for the matches. Ouimet sank a clever three-yard putt around a quarter stymie to win the thirty-sixth hole and square his match with” Wethered. The Englishman holed his chip ap- proach shot on the fourteenth, thus re- storing his lead of two holes, which | Ouimet had cut down by his b | " (Continucd on I'nge 2, Colu STATE T0EXTEND FIRE VIGTIN AID lDeath List in South Carolina School Disaster Fixed at Seventy-Five. | By the Associated Pres CAMDEN, 8. C., May 19.—The death list in the Cleveland Schoolhouse fire of Thursday night today was defi- nitely fixed at 75. Tom B. Humphries :of Camden died of injuries in a hos- pital here during the night. Approximately sixty bodies of un- {1dentified deud late yesterday were burled in the Beulah churchyard with- in a few hundred yards of the scene of the fire, and today most of the identified dead will be interred. The body of J. J. Johnson, jr.. son of Rev. J. J. Johnson of Camden, will ba taken i to Louisville, Ky. Two other funerals were held In the same churchyard |after the unidentified had been buried. | Confusion Over Number. Confusion over the exact number of dead occurred yesterday through the condition of the bodles of the dead, it was stated here today. The committee In charge of the burial of the unidentified dead announced that | sixty-two bodles had been burled in the one big grave, including several that had been identified. The under- takers sald they could state pomi- tively that more than fifty bodles |were in the grave, with possibly | otters. i The committeo announcement | statod that sixteen women, forty-one | children and seventeen men were known to have perished. making the death list. up to the fime of the Humphries death. seventy-four. | The funeral of the unidentified ! yesterday, just as the sun_was sat- ting, was an impressive affair. Six | ministers, including Bishop K. C., Finley of the Episcopal diocese of | upper South Carolina. participated in | the ceremony. Gov. Thomas G. Mc- Leod spoke briefly. Reliet for Survivors. With the dead accounted for and | most of them burled, thoughts today turned to the relief of the survivors. Gov. McLeod last night {ssued a proclamation to the people of the state asking that financlal aid be extended. Offers of aid from throughout the nation yesterday were declined by Mavor Carrison of Camden, who headed the committee in charge of this work. The Amer- ican Red Cross has notified officials | that funds In any amount needed are available. A total of $1,249 was raised locally yesterday and several | newspapers throughout the state are raising funds in addition to the fund being raised as a result of the gov- ernor’s proclamation. \ | The Cleveland schoolhouse, located | in the sparsely settled rural com- munity, was one of the best school buildings in Kershaw county, gccord- ing to a statement made_last night by Alan B. Murchison, county superin- tendent of education. He said that it was to have been abandoned after | Thursday night in favor of a modern ! constructed high school. Cleveland | was the superintendent’s home dis- | trict, and he said that many of his own relatives perished in the blaze. Other Schooln Dangerous. The superintendent said that 6,000 | out of the 10,000 children in - the | county attend just such schools, and | that it he could hzlp it there never| would be another opportunity for | such an oecurrence. “I will never permit, i I can prevent it. the hold- ing of ‘another such gathering in any of the schoolhouses—and the Cleve- land School was above the average— | until adequate fire protection has been provided,” the superintendent said. “Three-fifths of the school children of the county are exposcd to like dangers, and It will be my purpose, as speedily as possible, to remove or lessen so far as possible these dangers. Not another school- house will be built with my approval that does not embody all modern im- Pprovements.” Tales of Herolsm. Tales of herolsm and personal ex- perience Were slow in coming out of | ‘the situation created yesterday by the fire. Virtually every person who was in the building when an ofl lamp | over the stage fell and started the | blaze, was more or less injured. With (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Ed ! was suddenly called to Union, S. C., on business. He obtained a substi- tute speaker and as a result escaped the fire in which scores perished. { fired wildly in all directions, | the shots hitting nearby houses, w joccupled by Magruder, { The Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SATURDAY, FRENGHT0 SEND 15000 ADDTONAL TROOPS 0 RUAR Newspaper Asserts More Complete Exploitation of Territory Will Begin. TWO GERMANS WOUNDED IN “ORGY OF SHOOTING” Dispatches to Berlin Tell of Firing in Mannheim—One Killed in Essen Riots. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, May 19.—The army of oc- cupation in the Ruhr is to be rein- forced by another fifteen or twenty thousand men, says Le Matin. It has been decided, the newspaper asserts, to proceed to a still more complete exploitation of the occupled territory and consequently the railroads must be closely guarded to prevent the es- cape of coke and coal. Le Matin adds that at a moment when fresh conversations may be openéd among the allles it is more necessary than ever to be able to demonstrate the solidity, productivity and durability of the French occupa- tion. SHOOTING IN MANNHEIM. 150 Shots Fired by Sentinals—Twu Germans Wounded. BERLIN, May 19.—Special dis- patches to the Berlin newspapers re- port “an orgy of street shooting” by the French in Mannheim last night, in which as many as 150 shots were fired and at least two Germans seriously wounded. The Germans say the French patrol on Friedrichs bridge <ome of ile a street car filled with passengers was directly fired upon. The cause of the outhurst ig not given Other dispatches report the fatal wounding yesterday in Mannheim of Karl Traub, a policeman. The story told by the Germans is that the French had advised the German au- thorities that one of the French rail- way station patrols was being pelted with_stones by children, whereupon | the Germans. nosted a poiice guard at | the station, with Traub as one of its | members. Shortly afterward he is sald to have been arrested, the charge not being stated. While being taken away he broke loose from his captors and jumped onto & river barge and then dived into the water. The French are declared to have fired on him whfle | he was attempting to swim off and later took him from the water suf- fering from wounds which proved atal. RED KILLED IN CLASH. Ten Communists and Nine Police- men Wounded in Essen Disorder. ESSEN, May 19.—A communist was killed, ten communists were wounded | and .nine policemen were hurt today in the latest clash between groups of commupnists seeking to force strikes| fn the' mines, and the police who are | resisting their efforts to take control. | The fight occurred at the Ministerium mine, near here, the police beating off an atatck by the communists, who were armed with pick handles and similar weapons. Other collisions occurred at several other mines, where the communists! had zone to urge miners to strike for higher wage: WARDNANLEASES CONN.AVE BLOCK Secures Section Between K| and L for 99 Years—Big_ Store Rumored. Harry Wardman has leased from Edward P. Schwartz, Inc., through ‘Weaver Brothers, the entire west side | of Connecticut avenue between K and L streets, with the exception of the Rauscher property and property now grocer, for ninety-nine vears at an aggregate rent of $2,781,000. . With the exception of government leases this constitutes one of the larg- est, If not the largest, transaction of | the kind in the history of Washington real estate. ‘While long-term leases such as this have been on record in the past in the District, they are more or less of infrequent occurrence. Judge James S. Harlan drew the lease, representing the owners, while Judge Daniel Thew Wright repre- sented Mr. Wardman in the transac- tion. The purpose for which this prop- erty I3 to be utilized has not been announced. Recently, however, a well known realtor, speaking before a group of bankers, visualized the future Washington as having a large department store near this territory. In his talk he spoke of the develop- ment of the city toward the north and west and declared that no stretch of imagination was needed to see a large department store raising its outline on the landscape. At any rate, those interested in Washington realty are now awaiting the definite announcement of the use to which this property is to be put. average annual rental will amount to somewhat more than $28,090. —_— REBELS DEFEATED. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 19.— Last year Judge Smith was in Washington when the Knickerbocker Theater collapsed, with a death list of ninety-eight. He had tickets for the Knickerbocker show, but unex- pected business prevented his at- tending. Advices from Rivera confirm previous reports of the defcat of the Brasilian revolutionaries .near Bage. Many of the rebels who crossed the Uruguyan frontier were disarmed by the au- thorities of this nation. 7 > MAY 19, N 1923 —-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. BUILDING- %L[VELAHD Sc. 4“THE DOORS STATEDRY LAWS MAYBEG.0.PAM Mr. Harding’s Attitude on New York Issue Indicates New Trend of Party. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Will President Harding a campalgn of persuasion in Mas- sachusetts and Maryland to bring about the passage of state laws that the federal prohibition act may be concurrently enforced by those states? The President's unprecedented step in joining the movement to have Gov. Al Smith veto the bill passed by the New York state legislature repealing the state enforcement act on pho- hibitlon has raised the question of what aid the federal executive might glve toward solving the situation in the two other states where no as- sistance s be'ng glven in the en- forcement of the eighteenth amend- ment. undertake Two States Wet. The impression conveyed by Mr. Harding in his letter made public this weck Is that New York state {s com- mitting a sin of gross magnitude in deserting the states which are pledged to support the Volstead act by specific state and local law was the first time an expression had come from the chlef executive which could be construed as the exertion of federal Influence in getting state laws passed or strengthening existing statutes. Neither Massachusetts nor Maryland have ever gone o far as to put Into effect any enforcement leg- islation—in fact, in the electlon last fall the people of Massachusctts re- fused by majority vote to sanction such a measure. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, republican leader of the Sen- ate, was on the “wet” side, but no criticism of his course came from the White House—in fact, the Wash- ington administration sent speakers to Massachusetts to help Mr. Lodge win. Despite the referendum last fall, the legislature of Massachusetts passed a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale { of intoxicants, except as it might be sanctioned by legal permit of the fed- | eral government, but this law is being held in abeyance and can be kept from ever being enforced simply by means | jof another referendum, “which the “wets” are already planning for next fall, so Massachusetts is without an effective enforcement act at present. Maryland Doubtful. Maryland, of course, is more of a democratic state than is Massachu- setts, but it is near enough to the Na- tional Capital for the federal govern- ment to be aware of the effects of a situation in which no state enforce- ment act helps the federal government. Still no word has been said to Mary- | 1and about passing an enforcement law by the President. Indeed, the Governor of Maryland did not respond enthu- sfastically at all to the request made by Mr. Marding for his co-operation at the time the 1irst conference of go ernors was called to help enforce pr hibition, and, so far as known, no re buke went forth trom the federal gov- ernment. . Feared to Interfere. Until this week it had been sup- posed that the reason for this hands- off policy was the traditional caution about interfering in the sovereign rights of states. Only when the letter from Mr. Harding about New York state's threatened withdrawal of co- operation became public did it become apparent that the chief execytive might go further than he has in the past. This has led to the bellef that Mr. Harding has committed himself B0 strongly to the issue of strong en- forcement laws in the states that he may feel justified in using the moral force of his position in the hope of making the American Union 100 per cent dry, legislatively speaking. Local political situations may interfere, but before the 1924 republican national convention platform is written the party leaders will be:asked to put in the na- tlonal platform an appeal to the repub- Hean party throughout the nation to urge the enforcement by the states of prohibition concurrently with the fed- eral government, as provided for in the elghteenth amendment. What the voters of Massachusetts and Maryland may say about it is, of course, another mat- ter, but the direction of executive effort Just now appears to be to make the en- forcement of prohibition by the states a uniform objective. Before the Presi dent goes to Alaska he will express his views in person to the conference of governors all states, 5 (@opyright, 1928.) /A I} g i iy ! 7 |Austro-German | Union Is Sure to Come,Says Envoy By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT - ON - MAIN, Ger- many, May 19.--Participating to- day in the observance of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first German parliament, Prof. Ludo Hartmann, Austrian ambas- sador to Germany, declared yes- terday that the Austrians “are hard and fast in their yearning for a union of Austria with Ger- many.” and he believed this would be effected eventuall “The revolution of 1418, he said, to bring us as its fruit the unity and co-ordination of German middle Europe into vne state.” LAN GROSSTOWN BUS IN S0UTH D. C. "Permission to Unite South- east and Southwest. Application for a cross-totwn bus |line to form a direct connection be- tween the southeast and southwest sections of the city was filed with the Public day by the Capital Traction Company. The Capital Traction Company also applled to Col. C. O, Sherrill, super- Intendent of public buildings and grounds, today for authority to run busses to the new Rock Creek golf course, which opens next Friday. These busses would run in conjunc- titon with the busses of the company on 16th and Kennedy street. Urged by Citizens. Although the Capital Traction Company has an indirect interest in the Woodley road bus line of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, this is the second move of that company toward trackless transportation. The citizens' associations of the | southeast and southwest communities have been endeavoring for a number of years to get a cross-town service south of Pennsylvania avenue. But because of the prohibitive cost of un- derground rall construction the Utili- ties Commission has not ordered any track extensions in recent years. It was estimated today that a car line over the same route would cost in_ the nelghborhood of whereas a_bus service can be cstab- lished for $15.000 or $20,000. John H. Hanna, vice president and general manager of the Capital Trac- tlon Company, stated today that the company realizes.the need for service between the navy yard and the south ; west, and, in view of the cost of lay- ing rails, decided to offer the public a bus line. Proposed Route. ‘The proposed route is as follows: From 8th and M streets southeast, along M street, Delaware avenue, O street and' Water street to the inter- section of Water and P streets south- west. Eastbound, the busses would go by way of P street, Delaware avenue and M street. This route would link together the two street car lines of the company on 8th street southeast and Water street southwest. Street car tokens would be good on the busses and two-cent transfers would be sold to the street car at elther end of the bus_route. The azeneral impression prevailed “From Press to Home Within the Hour”’ The 3Star’s carrier systern covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed, Capital Traction Co. Seeks| Utilitles Commission to- | $400,000, { Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,240 /Y PRESDENTTHANKS “TROUBLE NAKER gWrites Senator Harrison of Gratitude for Article Con- cerning His Father. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, democrat, “chief party trouble-maker so called by President has been thanked by the President in a letter for the kindly things which Senator Harrison said about Mrs. Harding and the Chief Executive and the President's father, | Dr. George Harding, in a newspaper article discussing the ending of the bitterness between the north and the south. Calls Article Generous. The President, in his letter to Sene ator Harrison, said: { "I have just been reading the ar- ticle which you contributed to the New Orleans Item of May 5. in which you make very pleasing reference to the participation of my father in the Confederate reunion in New Orleans. I am writing to thank you for the | kindly things vou have sald concern- ing him and his visit, and the courteous Ire(ersn(‘e you have made to the pres- ent occupants of the White House. “In your capacity of chief party trouble-maker in the Senate you have | sald some things which have made me lay my newspaper down and turn to !a fresh pipe of tobacco for consola- tion. This very generous and con- siderate article has antidoted all the things that have gone before. You will be interested to know that my father was very greatly pleased by the article, and that he had the time of his life in meeting the Confederate veterans of New Orleans. “The visit of my father was a very simple thing to do, but if it has con- tributed in any way to the concord | of union and the completeness of re- union I am glad that he made the § trip.” Referred to Visit. The article written by Senator Har- rison referred particularly to the visit of Dr. George Harding to the Con- federate Veterans' reunion in New Or- leans as an incident that will be a powerful factor in cementing the bonds between the mnorth and the south. Senator Harrison wrote: “The human, big-hearted, broad- minded father of a distinguished and thoroughly human son, by his at- tendance upon the reunion of the sur- vivors of the ‘lost cause’ and the wholehearted, unrestrained manner in which he entered into the spirit of the occasion, left, I dare say, a splen- did taste in the mouths of every vis- itor to New Orleans during the re- union and made a most pleasing im- pression on the country as a whole. His hosts and fellow visitors could not, of course, embrace his politics, but’ they could and did take him, the rugged American and honored sire of a worthy son, into their hearts for all time. I venture the thought that if the dear old doctor tarried in those parts long enough his politics would courge. * * * Touched by Cordiality. Commenting upon the reception of 200 veterans of the Confederacy by the President and Mrs. Harding as another epoch-making incident, Sena- tor Harrison said: “They will never forget, nor will I, the cordiality and sincerity of the President's greeting as he shook hands with each of them. They will not forget the warmth of his ex- pression, the way he joked with them #nd his posing to be photographed with them. His greeting and con- sideration touched their hearts, as (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., May 19.—An au- tomobile was dellberately driven off the high Elkton bridge last night, the driver, known as Shiffiett, hoping to escape from Deputy Sheriff Lucas, who sat by his side. The machine crashed through the railing at high speed, plunged down- ward thirty feet, carrying the two men into the stream below. Shifflet, with his back broken, lay helplessly drowning. Lucas, his leg broken, saw the plight of his prisoner. The dep- uty sheriff crawled through the water, shouldered Shifflett's unconscious body and struggled, inch by inch, to the | ¢ (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) RUNS CAR OFF BRIDGE TO ESCAPE OFFICER WHO LATER SAVES HIM bank, where the officer rolled over exhausted and writhing in pain. Passirg motorists were attracted to the two by the smashed bridge railing. The men were taken to the Harrisonburg Hospital, where Shif- flett is in a dying condition. The deputy sheriff halted Shifflet as he was entering Rockingh county with a cargo of liquor, After placing Shifett under arrest Lucas entered the car and told his prisonor to drive to Harrisonburg. _After traveling teveral miles, the Elkton bridge came into sight down a stecp #rade. “Without a word Shiffiett in- creased his speed, shot down onto tne bridge and threw his stcering wheel to the right in his desperate chance to esct.pe. become diluted —for the better, of] TWO CENTS. BUDGET REFORM SEEN AS IMPETUS TOLUMP SUMPAY Classification Developments May Hasten Abolition of Statutory Provisions. TENDENCY TOWARD PLAN SEEN IN RECENT YEARS Success of Reclassifying Board in Its First Work Will Influence the Proposition, View Held. Reform accomplished in the budg- etary system of the government, with developments in the classification ot federal employes, will lead within a few years, according to some ad- ministration thought, to lump sum appropriations by Congress for the entire personnel pay, with elimina- Ition of statutory provisions. This was the attitude today in cer- tain circles here, which have been giving close thought to the trend of the past few years, wherein have been evolved the bureau of the budget, the general accounting office, at both ends of Uncle Sam's money bag, and the personnel classification board. ‘Would Relieve Congress. Could Congress be relleved of the enormous detall involved in person- nel pay in the varfous appropriation bills, it would have vastly more tima to devote to large problems of pub- lic Interest, it is pointed out, whils the subject of personnel pay can be glven more complete, and extended consideration through machine which has already been set up, and 18 now under trial. Vigorous objection is sure to be ralsed on Capitol Hili to any move to do away with statutory salaries, and there are those champions of the statutory provision, who would fight for extension of that system throughout all branches of the fed- eral pay. First Year to Tell. In the trend toward lump sum ap- propriations, it was pointed out today, Congress will probably impose cer- tain restrictions, and, in fact, this coming session in all probability, it is said, will hardly go the whole way toward the lump sum. Estimates ot the departments, as based upon the salaries determined by department heads under the Personnel Classifica- tion Board, will no doubt be severely scanned for the first year they are in_effect. . The success of the system this first year, it is expected, will have heavy influence on the trend toward lump sum_appropriations, and department officers today were giving most seri- ous study to the ways and means of reclassifying all salaries in the Dis- trict, which is to be accomplished. and returns made to the Personnel Classification Board by June 1. Might Allow for Emergencies. The first step Congress is expected to make, according to some predic- tions here today, will be seriously to g0 over the estimates as presented in December by the President and final- 1y decide on & larger number of lump sum appropriations than at present provided, with the restrictions, how- ever, that certain bureaus be given a lump sum, confining the maximum numbers to be compensated to the figures of the estimate, with the pro- vision that there may be shifts made in emergencies with the approval of a high officlal of the executive depart- ment—probably the President. The President. in turn, might delegate the budget officer to hear such emergency cases. There might be a disposition on the part of Congress, it was point- ed out, to set a maximum figure for the first tén high officials of a bureau, leaving the estimates to control the rest. The trend awav from a mass of statutory detail. it was pointed out, most specifically began in 1913, when President_Taft proposed the budget system. Since then the budget and acconnting act, passed in surprising snced by Congress, revolutionized the executive business of the gov- croment, while on Canitol Hill the consoligation of appropriation com- mittees into one each for the Sen- ate and House simplified the legls- lative branch. In fact. it is not bevond the bounds of posaibilities, according to some close students of the situation. that the movernment may he able so to simplify :ts business through sharp eatimates as to bring all appropria- tions for salarica within one appro- priation hill. with proviso that the executives could not go bevond their ostimates, except under certain spec- ified procedure. Already lump-sum appropriations are provided for some, including the | Panama canal, the fleld services, the | postal services, the Veterans' Bureau, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and internal rever.ue bureau. The system of appropriations in the British gov- ernment, it was pointed out, follows the plan of lump sums contingent on the estimates. This development necessarily de- pends, it fo belleved, upon the auto- matic’ and honest operation of the tudgetary and classification ma- chinery of the government. Funston, Jr., and Aguinaldo’sSonto Enter West Point Memories of ‘the Philippine insur- rection which followed the establish- ment of American control over those islands after the Spanish war are revived by two appointments just made to the United States Military Academy. One of the young men who has qualified as a cadet s Frederick Funston, jr. son of the late Gen. Frederick Funston, who gained dis- tinction as the captor of Aguinaldo, the leader of the insurrection, under dramatic circumstances. ) ‘The other successful candidate for ! appointment to the academy is Emelio Aguinaldo, jr., the son of the Filipino leader. .Thelr meeting at West Point as members of the same cless is ex- pected to excite considerable com- ment.... .. ... e