Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1923, Page 1

’ WEATHER. } Fair tonight From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes and tomorrow; cooler twenty-four hou: Highest, 77, lowest, 60, at Temperature for A ut > pm. today: 30 p.m, yesterday; p.m. vesterday tonight Full report on page 5. bloxina N.‘_ Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 No. 28,875. s sec Washington, ond-class matter n. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. BALDWIN BACKED FOR PREMIERSHIP VACATED BY LAW Conservatives Divide 3stween | Chancellor ang Curzon, But Labor Opposes Earl. BALFOUR AND DERBY ARE ALSO MENTIONED' King Delays Naming of Successor of Prime Minister Forced Out by Health. ByAhe Associated Press LONDON, May 21.—Great Britain bids fair to remain without a premier through today at least King George, who fs In Aldershot, had up to this afternoon asked no one to accept the premiership in succession to Andrew Bonar Law, who resigned yesterday, so far as known to the public. The king, it is said, has no present intention of in curtalling his visit to Aldershot, which | 1s expected to last most of the week. Meanwhile the two most promising prospects for head of the zovernment, Earl Curzon and Stanley Baldwin, chance!lor of the exchequer, are in the country fo rthe Whitsun holidays, and plan to remain away until Wednes Tt was reported today that there was | no improvement in Bonar Law's health, He was attended today by his physi- cians, Operate on Law. The physicians of the retired Brit- ish prime minister this afternoon fseued the following statement: “Mr. Bonar Law had ation on the throat today. Otherwise his condition is unchanged.” “A serious difference of exists in the conservative party regard to a successor to M Law.” says the Central News this afternoon. “There has been a rapid testing of opinion during the day o this point by the officials of the c servative organization and very great differences of view have been re- vealed amongst the rank and file. The supporters of Stanley Baldwin and Lord Curzon are numerically fairly equally divided. and ak there appears to be smali hope of a compromise there is a growing volume of opinion in_ favor of asking lLord Balfour again to lead the party unless an agreement can be reached Imme- diately. 5 A party mecting at the Carlton Club will be sulamoned within a day or two." Lord Derby is also spoken of as a possibility to succeed Mr. Law. < The Daily Herald, labor's news- paper, says Curzon's appointment would be a disaster for Great Britain and for Europe. Favor Curzon. opinion Some Lord Curzon's supposed aloofness | and seputed sttitude of wnbehsing ‘ Russian soviet representative in Lon- | superiority are alluded to by many |4,, j5 unoficially understood to have | writers who, however, do not think he should necessarily be barred from | Two or three newspapers, | the post. indced, assert that the popular im- pression of Curzon is far from being correct and that' he is actually & modest man of very human person- ality who would like to unbend but who does not possess the facuity for | doing so. With Lord Curzon as premier, Mr. | Baldwin, it is assumed, would be- come leader in the house of commons. His present reputation rests largely upon such recent events as his debt mission to the United States, his suc cessful budget and his generalship in the house of commons since Mr. Bonar Law's absence Conservative Wants Baldwin, The aristocratic and ultra-conserva- tive Morning Post, ignoring Curzon's lofty lineage and connections, calls emphatically for Mr. Baldwin's ap-!er since 1920 statec exactly winat the | merce of Shanghai has pointment The parliamentary correspondent of the Times says he can state thoritatively that Mr. Bonar Law s taroat complaint not malignant and that there IS every reason to hope that his health will in time be restored. It is also understood that Le will retain his seat ©i_commons. The Morning Post says it i3 im- PoItant at iue Present crisis that tue new premier be a commn None of the peers the situation, the Post asserts, au- | the house ! mentioned as a possible | : prime minister meets the nexds of | sia foels there Is nothing for Krassin | Likely Successor Of Premier Law 1 u slight nher-. with | A, BONAK LAW, RUSSIA TO STAND ON BRITISH POLICY Will Nat Yield Position in Dis- pute Over Situation, Is Attitude. | | ? By the Associated Press MOSCOW, May 21.—Leonid Krassin, | been instructed to inform the Brit- ish foreign office that Russia cannot i yield in principle from its recent note {replying to the British ultimatum | The instructions, it is said, {as the result of a soviet government | conference last night. While willing to nake som: tem- porary arrangement regarding | #sbing rights of the Britisa trawl- | ers off the Murman coast such as lim- iting the territorial zone and adjust- " |ing other secondary points p=nding | &ttorney | general negotiation, Russia still in- | sists that the differences between the {twe countries can only he adjusted i by a conference, particularly on cast- {ern questions. It is pointed out that | England, despite numerous requests | from the soviet governmant, has nev- | British policy and intersats in Persia |and other eastern lands actualiy are. Conference Waged. Only a conference could reveal this, it is contended, and mutual conces- | sions at such a conference might rec- oncile the differences. If Lord Curzon, the British foreign | secretary, again declines a confer- | ence, the understanding is that Rus- the | 0., ACTION VITAL 10 SAVE CAPTIVES | OF CHINESE BANDITS Observers in China Regard| Prisoners as Doomed if Action Is Delayed. HOSTAGES REMOVED TO LAIR ATOP MOUNTAIN Speedy Foreign Intervention Re- garded as Vital by Those Facing Death. B the Assoclated Press Further negotiations between the | Citinese government authorities and | the bandit leaders in Shantung “are | futile” unless rep- | resentation on the govern- ment delegation, in of American observers, reported to- {day to the State Department The dispatches suggested that Roy Anderson, an America ,'dence and intimate ussoc the bandits and governm: {in China, might be chosen to nego | tlate with the brigands and provided | with “plenipotentiary powers.” Other- | wise, a State Department summary | j of the situation said, “the only hope | of early relief of the prisoners is by | {direct foreign negotiation i This statement | there is foreign Chinese the opinion | of long resi- tion with | it officials was issued by the | department The Department of State has re- !Col\'ed information from the legation Peking to the effect that Consul {Davis and Maj. Philoon have reported |under date of May 20, that the dele- | gation which went to negotiate with - | the bandits returned to Linchen | early on the morning of the 30th, ac- | companied by Mrs. Verea, a Mexican. | |\4hu has been sent to Shanghal Bandits “According delegation, sen ired Upon. to the the Yang I-Teh repre- tative acted as chief spokesman 1 Fearing treachery. the proffered com- | missions were refused by the bandits The soldiers fired on the bandits, kill- ing one and wounding several others “Mrs. Verea states that Messrs, Allen, Solomon and Powell, on the |night of May 19, were taken to the {top of Paotzeku and the others are | to be taken there on May 20th | “Davis and Philoon report thut they | believe further negotiations with- |holding _foreign representation are ifulll& Mr. Roy Anderson is willing {to negotiate with the bandits provided ‘!hal he is given plenipotentiary | report of | | h this | | | | powers by the Chinese government. ' | Otherwise, the only hope of early re. {lease of ‘the prisoners is by direct | forelgn negotiations. H | PRISONERS DESPAIR. ! i Foreign Negotiations Only Hope Left, They View. | By the Associated Press i | SHANGHAIL May 21.——Dr. H. Mar- tens, a physician, returning from a re- | lief ‘mission to the Shantung moun- tain. where fourteen prisoners are ere 8ent|held by“bandits, reported today that; by | the consensus of opi the | | captives was that for. interven- |tion was the only possible means of | effecting their release. The bandits, said Dr. Martens, ut- | terly discradit and disirust Chinese | officials and are eager to deal with tereigners Chevalier of i tives. wrote, on amon <n 1 Musso. wealthy ltalian znghai, one Hf the ¢ ying that the nan still were surrounded by troops {urged direct negotiations betwes foreign officials and the bandits, e | cluding Chinese from the parleys. * | Immediate steps should be taken, he added, “otherwise we will be killed !My state of health is very bad. 1 |await death calmly.” | The American Chamber Com- | telegraphed jthe American legation in Peking urg- | |ing “direct foreign negotiations and | asking measures to effect the immedi- |ate release of the hostages, with the employment of foreign troops if nec- essary. Senora Ancira Verea, released yes- terday by the bandits, who still hold i her husband. Manuel A. Verea, a| | Mexican citizen. has arrived here dis- | traught and unnerved and is under | medical care. ! BANDITS FIRED UPON. | any | changed since that classification was ! made, and department heads are spe- | clally U. S, BUREAUS RUSH CLASSIFING TASK Boards Set Up to Hasten Work for Final Report June 1. Heavy responsibility rests upon government depastments in reclas- sifying their employes before sub-| mitting a report to the personnel classification board, it developed to- ¢ day. as all departments plunged deeper into the of setting up classification boards of thelr own or| of detailing responsibie officials to rush through the work by June 1. The erroneous impression seems to persist in certain quarters that ail departmental officials had to do was to transcribe the results of the bu- | reau of efficiency ratings on to the new forms. This, it was officially pointed out, is not the whole job by means, as conditions have task ordered to classify their em- ployes under the grades provided by law, using “as far as practicable” the old classification Varied Methods Used. | Various methods are to be employed the different departments, it be- today, in making this classification. In general it is un- derstood smail boards representing the bureaus within departments are to be set up. In some cases a more responsible official has been charged with the responsibility of crganizing the work, while in others plans were under way today for considering boards running from three to eight members The personnel will expect the reports submitted by department heads on June 1 to con- | form as closely as possible to the classification order in the act. The | section in_ the act requiring depart-| ment heads to shoulder the respon-| ity was pointed to today as high- significant. It reads as follows: “That after consultation with the board, and in accordance with a uni- form procedure prescribed by it the head of each department shall allo- cate_all_positions in his department | in the District of Columbia to their| appropriate grades in the compensa- | tion schedules and shall fix the rate of compensation- of each employve thereunder, In_accordance with the rules prescribed in section six herein. Such allocations shall be Peviewed and | be revised by the board and| shall become final upon their ap-| proval by said board: Whenever an| came known | { i | i \ | classification board | | 1y i | i “BLUE MONDAY.” ;Sick Woman Sees Mother, 82, Locked All Day in Folding Bed, Special Dispateh 1o The Star McMECHEN, W, Va. May 21.— Imprisoned in her Invalid chair by paralysi Miss Eva Noble saw her eighty-two-)ear-old mother caught in a folding bed and sat for a whol~ «" 4y, unable even to scream for » ). watching her dangle. Hours .ater a neighbor. attracted by pitiful groans, found both women unconscious. Mrs. Margaret Noble, the moth- er. has been nursing her daugh- ter for years. While she was arranging the covers of her bed yesterday morning the mechanism suddenly snapped and closed the siructure over the upper part of the 42000 MINERS OUT INGERMAN FIELDS Communist Fight for Wage Boast Stops Mines in Dortmund District. By the Associated Pr ESSEN. May 21.—Seven coal mines in the Dortmund district have been | compelled to shut down because of the communist agitation for higher wages, It is estimated that 32,000 i miners are striking, and that 10,000 others are Dbelng prevented from working as a consequence of trouble. Two of the mines affected are Stinnes properties, one is a Prus- sian state mine and the remainder belong to small companies. At a meeting of 6,000 communists in Dortmund last evening, speakers de- clared the communist organization | was prepared to fight to a finish in| the struggle for increased wages. They declared that although the Ger- | man government and the German in- dustrialists were spending money like water in_passive resistance to the French, they had refused the men's demands for increased wages to meet | ¥he recent rapid rise in food prices. Have Food Supply. It was said that communists had on hand 100,000 pounds of breadstuffs for distribution among the commuyist strikers and that Moscow had prom- i the | WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923—-THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. | body and shoulders, raising her from the floor. The aged woman's efforts to open the bed again were in vain. Seated in her invalid chair, the agonized daughter could not move arm or leg to help her parent. Nelther could she speak above a whisper. For hours she watched her mother's efforts to extri- cate herself become weaker and | Y weaker. Then the form became 1imp and finally still. Completely overcome, the daughter herself fainted Although unconsclous, Mrs. Noble was groaning from pain when the nelghbor rushed into the house and extricated her. Both women were rushed to the hospital at Glendale, W. Va. They had re- gained consciousness today, but both were declared to be in a serious condition RULING ONINCOME TAX IS RESCINDED Treasury Revokes Decision| Which Exempted Corpora- tions Certain Dividends. The Treasury today revoked its de- lcision of two weeks ago declaring exempt from income taxation cor- | poration dividends distributed out of I profits or earnings accrued prior to March 1, 1913. The ruling, officials said, would have resulted in the re- {funding of many million dollars in Reason Not Asalgned. o reason was given for the rgm scinding of the previous action, although at the office of Solieitor Hartson of the revenue bureau, it was Indicated that some explanation might be made later. There were reports that the orig- inal decision amending the revenue regulations had resulted from a rul- ing on one particular case and that a review of that case had convinced revenue officlals that no general ap- plication of the determination should have been made. Effect of the Rexi The amended regulation, now re- voked, would have made it possible for many large corporations to pre- H 1 s fast as t he papers are printed. S.turfiyfl“NeFClrcui-tlov;. Sunday’s Circulation, 0518 43 98,205 o THREE PERSONS MISSING FOLLOWING CLOUDBURST Six Inches of Rain Falls in Forty- Five Minutes at Sayre, Okla. Damage, $60,000. Ey the Assirlated Preas. SAYRE, Okla, May 2L.—Three per- sons are missing after a cloudburst which precipitated six inches of rain in forty-five minutes last night. Short creek left its banks and spread into a stream five blocks wide through the middle of the city. Nearly 300 farm laborers, oil field workers and their families were res- cued frpm the tops of their tents, houses and trees. The water began receding at mid- night after causing damage hera cs:i- mated at $60,000. The railway sta- tion at Doxey, four miles east of Sayre, early today stood in water sev- en feet deep. Hailstones larger than walnnts fell immediately preceding the rain and added to the confusion. POLICE MAY CLOSE 17 AVENUE BLOCKS Propose to Bar Traffic From Peace Monument to 17th Street Shrine Week. Police officials are considering the advisability of closing Pennsylvania avenue to vehicular traffic between Peace monument and 17th street dur- ing the week of June 4 to 9, when the Shrine convention crowd will be at its height, it was learned today. This step is being given serious thought, it is understood, because of the 1imited amount of sidewalk space left available for the pedestrians who will throng along that thoroughfare by the thousands. Of course, if such an order is de- cided upon, the police would arrange to admit to the Avenue all vehicles having essential business with estab- lishments there and divert general traffic to other east and west streets. May Forbid Turm. Under such an arrangement vehicles could cross the Avenue going north or south at all Intersections, but would not be permitted to make right or left turns This question of diverting non-es- sentlal traffic from Pennsylvania ave- nue during the week of the conven- tion will be gone over carefully from every standpoint at a final confc: ence of police officials at headquars ters Wednesday afternoon, During the past few days the traf- fic bureau has placed ropes and stanchions on the Avenug for pedes- trians at. those points where the grandstands have taken up the side- walk space. but police officials fear that when the big crowd arrives this arrangement will not satisfactorily provide for thé great mass of people that will be constantly surging up and down the Avenue. Increase Trafc Force. The approach of the convention pe rind w8s heralded today by the de ta.ling of fifty picked patrolmen from various precincts to augment the traffic force in the downtown section. On Friday of this week the special traffic rules for the convention be- come effective, the most important of which is the prohibition an auto- mobile parking within the fallowing area: of 6th street and Missouri avenue northwest, thence north along the east building line of 6th street to the northwest, thence west along north building line of I street to the northeast corner of 7th and I streets northwest: thence along the east building line of 7th street to the northeast corner of 7th and New York avenue northwest; thence west along the north building line of Mt. of 9th and Massachusetts awenue northwest; thence south to the north- west_corner _of northwest; along the north building line of K_street to the northeast corner of 20th and K streets north- west; thence south along the west building line of 20th street to ths nothwest corner of 20th and B streets northwes the north building line of B street to the northeast corner of 15th and B streets northwest: thence along the south building line of B street |to the southwest corner of 6th and | B streets northwest; thence south to Missour! avenue to place of begin. ning.” Will Leave Cars. “Beginning at the northeast corner | northeast corner of 6th and I streets | the | Vernon place to the northwest corner | Sth and K_streets | ; thence east along | .TWO CENTS. DAY RESIGNS TASK OF UMPIRING VAST U. 5. WAR CLAIMS Collection of $1,479,064,313 Asked by Americans Is Staggering Duty. —_— OBLIGATION RECOGNIZED BY GERMAN DELEGATES Both Sides Enter Negotiations With Friendly Spirit; Parker May Umpire William R. Day, former associate justice of the Supreme Court, today presented to President Harding hi resignation as umpire of the mixed claims commission. Mr. Day explained to the Pres that his desire to resign was due recognition of the enormous amount of work facing the commi ims amounting to $1,479,064,000 to be settled, and to his belief that a younger and stronger man should be in charge of the work of adjusting claims on which the American and German commissioners are unable to agree. The resignation fective immediately. A former Secretary of State and for twenty years a justice of the highest court, Mr. Day was regarded by both American and German statesmen as a particularly fortunate selection for the post from whicn he now is re tiring. His appointment was by mu- tual agreement of the two govern- ments, and the necessity of select- ing a new umpire is expected to de- lay somewhat the work of adjust ment on which the claims commis- slon already has entered. Texan May Be Named. dent ion with becomes In some quarters it was suggested today that Edwin B. Parker of Texas the American member of the com mission, might be chosen umpire be cause of his familiarity with the steps already taken toward settle- ment of the war claims. Justice Day had passed the retire- ment age before he resigned the supreme bench last October, and he has been recefving retired pay ax well as a‘salary as umpire. He is seventy-four vearg old. He said to- day that he expected to spend the Test of his life in retirement at his home in Ohio. The agreement with Germany for settlement of the war claims, signed in Berlin last August, provides that the commission umpire shall be chosen “by the two governments by agreement” and shali have a voice in the proceedings only when the American and German members are unable to agree. At the time the agreement was under negotiation. however, Justice Day was agreed upon for the place, with the result that the German government for- mally expressed desire that the President of the United States desig nate the umpire. The appointment followed immediately. America has filed war claims against Germany of $1.479,064.313.92, before the mixed claims commission, the As- Isociated Press revealed today, in mak- ing public a report to the State De- | partment by Rebert C. Morris. agent | for the United States before the com- | mission. The largest claimant is the United States government itself, presenting {a bill for $366,113,000, while the small- | est claim iy for $1, filed by Emery Roberts, for loss of property while a German prisoner of war. WIth this stupendous bill present- {ed to the German government through | the commission, however. a consider- able number of other claims awalt settlement through diplomatic chan- nels. 12,416 Claims Filed. The 12416 claims filed with the | commission comprise the wast buik pending against Germany, but do not linclude many filed after the time | 1imit, April 10 last, as fixed by the commission. These are regarded as beyond the commission’s purview be- ayse of their tardiness, and are to be adjusted by the State Department with the German foreign office With the Lusitania claims, totaling $22,606,000, heading the commis docket, the Associated Press states hearings already have been begun by the mixed claims commission, on whigh Edwin B. Parker is the Ameri- can "commissioner and Dr. Wilhelm fon's |to do but liquidate the aftairs of the igo]dier’s Action Draws Sharp Note | beiating position or & position here: | sent claims for tax refunds which Beaverbrook for Baldwin, The Daily Express. owned by Lord Beaverbrook, an intimate asvociate of the retiring prime minister, empha- sizes the importance of Mr. Bald- win to the ministry. “His assistance,” says the Express, is absplutely esvential to the forma- tion of a government. Failing Mr. Baldwin, Lord Curzon could not pos- sibly form a ministry Lord Beaverbrouk's known intimacy with the conservative leaders su gests that thiv statement crystalliz purty opinion. Une of the advantages the new prime minister will have over his predecessors is that any appoint- ments he makes in the ministry will not involve, as heretofore, any bye- elections. This is becauve of the pro- visions of a recent act which made the re-election of appointees unnec essary within nine months of the last dissolution of parliament. Law Resigned Last Night. Mr. Law sent his resignation to the Xing last night. He was unable to present it personally. Thus ended his brief but eventful administration. The crisis comes upon the govern- ment in the midst of a holiday, when pariiament is dispersed and few mem- bers of the government are in Lon- don. Three days ago, when the result of Mr. Bonar Law's consultation with physicians in Paris became known, this end was foreseen, but the coun- iry was not prepared for it and will await developments with anxiety and regrets over the untimely dropping of a trusted pilot. Leaves Without Enemies, cs One consolation It is generally con- ceded Mr. Bonar Law will have is that he has no enemies and that no one will withhold from him sympathy. He accepted his high office with re- luctance; he leaves it amidst un- felgned regrets on the part of both supporters and opponents. Mr. Bonar Law's resignatfon wa: (Contnued on Fage 2, Column 1) j Russian trade delegation in London. | | It the trade delegation is moved | trom London it may go to Copen | hagen when the Russo-Danish agree- | ment is ratified. While a break with England is still {considered by Russian business in- terests as involving serious possibili- | ties, neverthless they are not hope- less. They point to Germany, the Scandinavian states and Japan as still | offering a market for exports. The most_serious temporary question, it {is felt, would be to provide a substi- {tute for the financial base, which ! hitherto has been London. | The state Lank Is deciining to as great an extent as possible to cash of the issue with Great Britain. Mean- while foreign currency transactions jare officlally frowned upon and no official quotations are being issued for dollars, pounds sterling or the like. ATTEMPT TO BLAST |WOMAN’S HOME FAILS !Man Seen to Pla.ee Explosive Which Partially Destroys H_ngentown House. pecial Dispateh to The Sta: HAGERSTOWN, M May 21.—An attempt to blow up the home of Mrs. Lillian Stotler, in the western section of the city, was made early today by an unidentified man. Shortly after 3 o'clock a man was seen to enter the alley in the rear of the house. He carried two receptacles which were believed to have been powder. Climb- ing the porch in the rear of the house, he placed a can of explosives in the chimney. A moment later a deafening explosion demolished the chimney and a section of the roof. The man was seen by residents who remained up because of illness at their hom: - foreign checks pending a settlement | | From Diplomatic Corps. By the Associated Press. PEKING, May 21—Reports that troops were firing on the Shantung bandits were received today by the diplomatic corps, which immediately drafted a new note to the foreign office asking the Chinese government how it reconciled its promises to pro- cure the release of the foreign cap- tives and the events transpiring since that assurance. As parliament has not acted ratification of the presidential pointment of Dr. Wellington Koo as forelgn minister, the foreign office still s officially without a head. The diplomatic corps heard recital of Marcel O. Berube, Frenchman of Shanghai, whom the bandits released so that he could present their ultimatum to the gov- ernment. MAY STARVE BANDITS. on ap- the a Advance of Troops Forces Brigands to Retreat in Hills. By the Associated Press TIENTSIN, May 21.—Intermittent firing between soldiers and the Paotzuku mountain bandits was re- ported on the return here today of Gen. Ting’s mission. which went to the bandits’ stronghold to obtain the release of the foreigners held cap- tive. The word brought backe by mission was not reassuring. Ting sald two brigades of troops gtill encircled Paotzuku from the east. The bandits had no option but to move their prisoners to the summit of,the mountain, vhich, befng unscalable for 200 feet, is considered impres- nable. The only object of military maneuvers against this fortress would be to starve out the bandits. Provisions are being sent to the captives by armed parties, to insure that no dissenting Chinese troops will refuso to allow supplics to pass through their, cordons. Senora Verd#, the Mexican woman who finally consented to leave her husband, g captive, reached the relief camp. yeaBirdy after a trip of ter- rible hardships.” She left with the Ting (Conunued oy Fage 2, Column 4.) the Gen. | after created by law Ehall not fairly | | end reasonably be allocable to one | of the grades of the several services | described in the compensation sched- ules, the board shall adopt for such position the range of -compensation prescribed for a grade or a class thereof, comparable therewith as to qualifications and duties.” Work Moves Fast. The District of Columbia work on | classification was sail today to be at least two weeks in advance of the classification of the fleld service. Th's was not only due to the distance | of the fleld service, it was said, but was a fact largely because a schedule of grades and classes is provided for the Dstrict of Columbla in the act itself. For the fleld service, it was explained, the classification board yet has to prepare a schedule of positions, grades and salaries. HARDING ANNOUNCES DATE IN CALIFORNIA; President to Speak at Mass Meet- ing in San Francisco August 2. President Harding plans to make his first address after his visit to Alaska at Beattle, expects to reach San Francisco August 2, and mak one speech there, and contemplate: stopping in Yosemite National Park en route from San Francisco to Los ed upon today Angeles. These plans were lgre at conferences held by the Pres!dent with Frank B. Loomis of S8an Fran- cisco, former assistant secretary of state and now an official of the Standard Oil Company of California, and with former Representative Wil- liam E. Humphrey of Washington. The San Francisco address will be at mass meeting sponsored by the civic organizations of the city in the sudi- torium in which the democratic na- tional convention met in 1920. ised further help as needed. On Mos- cow initiative, it was declared, two shiploads of food had already been sent to the Ruhr from Petrograd by way of Bremen. In face of the growing agitation in | the Bochum and Dortmund districts the trades unions have issued an ap- peal to their members that they dis- regard the communists, efforts to create trouble, urging the members to remain calm and not participate in the strikes. The communist mem- bers declare all the strikers are not of the communist persuasion and pre- dict that the strike will eventually tie up all the mines in these two di tricts, which contain 200,000 miners. In neutral quarters this commun- istic agitation is regarded as likely to become a serious threat to the region. Week-End Visitors to Soviet Russia. They have been numerous and they have written voluminous ly of their hurried surface in- spections of that great and dls- tracted country. Careful students of sovietdom are few. The most thorough and best informed of these is F. A. Mackenzle, long staff co respondent of The Star and Chi- cago Daily News In Moscow. Mr. Mackenzie's dispatches and other corresponden: lished in this newspaper, to- gether with his two widely read volumes on the land of the so- viets, prove his primacy in that fleld. Tomorrow The Star begins the publication of & les of articles by him tting forth without prejudice present con- ditions in Russla as he has seen them. Read these articles and learn +the facts! they have been forced to pay since the income tax law became effejive. It would have applied largely to cor- porations which drew income accrued by their subsidiaries prior to March 1, 1913, and which tacy in turn had distributed to stockholders of the parent corporation. WIFE OF EX-KAISER AGAIN WITH HIM AT DOORN Couple Photographed as They Walked Through the Village Together. DOORN, May 21.—Princess Hermine, wife of former Emperior William, re- turned Saturday evening with her chil- dren from her Silesian sojourn. Her- mine and Wilhelm walked through the village yesterday. They were photo- graphed In the course of their outing. TECHNICAL WORKERS WANTED FOR POSITIONS Federal Employment Office ports Positions Open. Electrical and mechanical engineers and draftsmen are needed in numbers by the District branch of the United States employment service at 1410 Penn- sylvania avenue. Thirty-five technical men were placed in jobs last Saturday, the largest placement of this type of ‘workers_in the history of the office. The District . employment office has openings fof &1l -kinds of workers, ex- cept general olerical employes, Miss Katherine Smith, director, eald today. Bollermakers and car repairmen, machinists, monotype and linotyps machine operators, mechanics and tool- makers are needed in large numbers. The office Is beginning to feel the cali for extra help during the Shrine con- vention, Restaut ts _and hotels are Re- Within allowed to stop only long enough to take on or let off passengers or freight. Scores of motorists are planning to leave their machines at home. This rule will remain in effect until June 10. A score of one-way streets also will be in effect beginning Friday and Inspector Headley has a force of men out today erecting more than a thou- sand signs, denoting the directions in which trafic must move on those streets. GIRL FOUND DEAD HANGING FROM BED Miss Julia Fuller Takes Life at Gallinger Hospital Today. With a sheet drawn tightly around her throat, Miss Julia Fuller, nineteen years old, of 1010 H street northwest was found dead, hang- ing from her bed, at the Gallinger Hospital today. According to the police, Miss Fuller was taken to the hospital several days ago for mental observation. A nurse entering the ward this morn- ing, found the body on the floor be- side the cot. Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate of suicide. —_—— ASKS SUGAR HEARING. The government today asked the Supreme Court to set for hearing, at ap early date, its appeal from the riling of the federal district court at New York city, denying it an in- Junction to restrain dealings In sugar soeking scores of dighwashers to do “thelr part in serving the thousands who wil] come to. Washington. futures upon the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, The court took the motion under consideration. that area machines will be | | Klesselbach the German commissioner with an umpire to be named. The corgmission plans frequent sittings. the procedure being for presentation by Mr. Morris, American agent. of the facts and the law in oral arguments and prepared briefs. Opportunity for reply is given Karl von Lewinski German agent, to controvert facts and law points. Decisions of the commission will be announced, it was stated, but under its rules the reasons for findings need not be given. The umpire will func- tion decisively only upon disagree- ment as to liability or amount of damages between the American and German commissioners. Procedure of the commission is based upon that of former mixed claims commissions. The commis sfon is partly legal and partly diplo- matic in its functioning, and its hear- ings and procedure are in sessions closed to the public and even to claimants or their counsel, Mr. Mor- ris and his staff representing not only this government, but its citizens, Addresses made by members of the commission when it was organized last October, the text of which was included- In the reports made public today, indicate a spirit of friendliness and co-operation between the Amer- jcan and German representatives. Justice Day, who resigned as umpire today, said the officials of both coun- tries were “actuated by the same pur- pose, to accomplish just resuits, cred- itable and honorable alike to both the great governments represented.” Commissioner Parker sald the com- mission’'s boundaries were clearl marked and expressed belief that “our task will be speedily in accord.” while Commissioner Kiesselbach said his hope was for accomplishment of the work “in an amicable and gener- ous manner and in a spirit of mutual understanding and accommodation.” Fair Play Asked. The American agent, Mr. Morris, spoke for “a spirit of falr play and good feeling” without slighting the | smallest of American claims, adding Germany Admits Debt. “It 18 our contention that in the war Germany committed certain acts upon American citizens which cail (Continued-on Page 2, Coumn N