Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. 3 ir Sunday; Monday partly cloudy, becoming unsettled by Monday night. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 10 p.m. last night—Highest, 82, at 4 p. at’ 6 am. yesterday. Full report on page 23. yesterday; lowest, 68, No. PINCHOT PRONISES * EVERY EFFORT 0. END MINE DISPUTE Governor’s Plans for Parley Not Yet Complete, Makes Study of Situation. 961.—No. 28,971. AIR OF OPTIMISM FELT AS CONFERENCE NEARS To Seek Common Ground Upon Which Disputants May Meet for Settlement. | By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa. August Gov. Pinchot, assured of -the ac- ceptance of invitations which he sent | today to representatives of the United Mine Workers and anthracite operators for a conference here Mon- day In an effort to settle differences and avert a suspension of operation September 1, continued tonight his study of the situation in the hope of finding a basls of agreement. Although Mr. Pinchot said his plans still were indefinite, he e pressed his intentlon of “going through with this until the last cat 18 skinned.” The governor devoted the day to conferences with men in touch with conditions, beginning with Secretary Joseph J. Walsh of the state depart- ment of mines, a forming mining in- spector. He expressed his desire of obtaining all the information pos- aible and announced tonight that the TUnited States coal commission had promised the assistance of H. G. Tryon, a wage statistics expert. Plans Indefinite. The form which the meetings next week will take has not been de- termined, the governor sald. The first session, called for noon Monday. will be held at the state capitol and It was indfcated it probably will be an open meeting of both the opera- tors’ and miners’ representatives who have taken part in the negotiations and to whom invitations were sent. Replies from two of the operators— 8. D. Warriner, chalrman of the policy committee, and W. J. Richards— ceached the governor within a few hours and press dispatches reporting the acceptance of -John L, Lewls, oresident of the United Mine Work- ers, gave him assurance the meeting would be held. The governor late today announced the appointment of Chairmen Willlam D. B. Alney of the Pennsylvanla Public Service Commission as the state's representative at the meeting | talled by Federal Fuel Distributor | Wadlelgh, to be held in New York Tuesday, to discuss plans for dis- tribution of coal substitutes in case | of a suspension of operations. Declines to Discuss Planm Gov. Pinchot tonight, however, had | put aside so far as possible the con- sideration of eventualities after Sep- tember 1 and devoted himself solely to his work as mediator, which he was designated by President Coolldge after @ conference yesterday with the Presi- dent and Chairman Hammond of the coal commission. Tonight he declined to go iInto any plans or suggestions which he may have as to fuel distribu- | tion in event of a suspension and | which he may transmit through Mr. | Alney to the distribution conference Tuesday. Although the governor maintained | silence as to his own feelings, an air | of optimism was evident among state officlals in touch with conditions. Be- lieve was expressed that at the open- ing meeting here Monday noon, Mr. Pinchot would outline any plans he may have in mind. After the opening meeting he is ex- pected to hold informal discusslons ! with the two groups separately to de- termine whether any common grounds exists upon which an understanding can be reached. If any is found it will form the basis on which a resumption of negotiations between miners and operators will be sought. READY FOR CONFERENCE. Miners and Operators to Meet in Harrisburg Monday. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., August 2 Miners' union officials and mine operators representatives accepted today the request of the Governor of Pennsylvania for a conference at Harrisburg on Monday in an endeavor to exhaust every means of preventing a suspension of mining next week. At the same time, the union machinery was steadily at work upon its object of making the shut-down effective and John L. Lewls, president of the United Mine Workers, took occasion to repeat in emphatic words the undon ultimatum that no arbitration offers now would serve to avert the con- sequences of a fallure of the em- ployers in the industry to grant wage increases and.other demands. Though the union leaders would | mect with Gov. Pinchot, Mr. Lewls sald, their attitude would be un- changed. For the operators it was said their answer to the governor's request was “cordial” and practically all of the members of the policy committee that has conducted negotiations over the wage contract left town carly, In order to reach Harrisburg before the Monday session, Suspension Ordered. Mr. Lewls gave out two documents which fully illustrated the union posi- tion. One was a copy of the order to suspend mining. “Our entire membership in districts one, seven and nine (anthracite re- gion). is advised that no wage col (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) | ministration Entered as socond-clasz mattor post office Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. C, PLANES PROVE CAPACITY- TQ PROTECT SEABOARD Flight of Bombardment Group to Maine Designed to Show Coast Safe. From Enemy Attacks. Aerial protection for the Atlantic coast from Chesapeake bay to Canada or from Hampton roads to Florida can be afforded by the second bom- bardment group at Langley Field, Hampton. Va., according to a practical demonstration carried out from Mon- day to Friday by the Army air service'’s only heavy bombing unit Seventeen Martin bombers, giant bi- motored alrplanes, showed the eastern portion of the United States that within the span of a day they could cave thelr base near Norfolk, fully loaded with military equipment, pro- ceed northward or southward and | with the high explosives ‘they carry, | work havoc with any enemy within the nation’s boundaries. This flight, which was ended at the Virginia base Friday afternoon about 5 o'clock, ranks as one of the greatest aerial maneuvers ever conducted by the air servic Flights have been made from New York to Alaska and Scouts Receive $100,000 in War On Dime Novels NEW YORK, August 25.—A gift of $100,000 to the Boy Scouts of America, to fight the menace to America’s youth seen in dime novels. was announced today by Chief Scout Executive James E. West. The name of the donor was not made known. According to the announcement, the gift was made for the purpose. of “elevating the plane of juve- nile fiction and reading through the mobilization of nationally known authors in the interest of American boy. U. 5. EXPERTS SEE HARD COAL PEACE Find Significance in Prompt Acceptance of Invitation to New Conference. Exhibiting confidence that the open- ing of the new anthracite parley in Harrisburg, Pa., tomorrow will mark the beginning of the end of the pres- ent labor crisis {n that industry, gov- ernment fuel agencies yesterday devoted themselves almost entirely to preparation of data which might serve to strengthen the position of Gov. Pinchot, who will preside at the opening meeting. The statisticians of the United States Coal Commission who were closely identified with the exhaustive survey made of the anthracite Indus- try by the commission, will attend the Harrisburg meeting, armed with information on points which were raised at an earlier conference. In addlition to these, it 18 understood that Mr. Pinchot will have at hand an of- ficial resume of the emergency pro- gram for procuring and distributing | substitutes in :the contingency that his mediatory” efforts prove unavail- ing. See Peace Soom. Prompt acceptance by both opera- tors and. miners of Gov. Pinchot's in- vitation to be present at Harrisburg in order that the “safety and welfare” of anthracite-consuming states might be protected was cited by officials {here as indicating the accuracy of Ad- ¢ their forecast of ultimate peace. spokesmen have pre- dicted consistently that neither group would willingly face the responsi- bility of forcing an issue which, they contend, could only redound to the material injury of themselves through permanent reduction of markets. Plans for the meeting Tuesday in New York of representatives of the eleven states comprising most of the national anthracite market were com- pleted today. F. R. Wadleigh, federal fuel distributor, is to leave for New York today with the outline of the government's program for moving substitute fuels to industrial centers of the east. D. C. DEALERS TO MEET. Washington coal dealers will meet from San Antonio to Porto Rico, to- gether with others, but all these were made by a small number of airplanes and over a course prepared In ad- vance or selected for reason of a location of facilities. 1 The filght just completed, to Bane gor, Me., and return, however, Was made for the purpose of demonstrat- ing clearly the practicability of mov- ing a fully equipped alr force from a central point to any locality which may be threatened by any overseas enemy. Little or no advance prepara- tions were considered. A straight |line, the shortest distance between Langley and Mitchel flelds (Long Is- land) was taken for the first ‘hop Monday; another direct course was followed to Boston, which cut off part of Connecticut, nearly all of Rhode Island and Massachusetts; without stopping, a thind straight route was followed along the Atlan- (Contin WILL NOT CANCE! BIRKENHEAD TALK Bar Association to Hear British Leader Dispite At- tack on Woodrow Wilson. Special DispatciBto The Star. NEW YORK, Agust 25.—Resenting what he termed an “insolent” refer- ence to Woodrow Wilson by Viscount Birkenhead in his address Friday night before the Willlamstown Insti- tute of Politics, Henry Breckenridge, assistant secretary of war under President Wilson, today wrote a let- ter to John W. Davis, president of the Amerlcan Bar Association, suggest- ing that the former lord chancellor ot fore the bar a apolis this week. Although he refused to discuss Col. Breckinridge's letter, Mr., Davis said there would bs no change in the program of the assoclation's convens tion. He also intimated that thers will be no request made to have Vis- count Birkenhead change any part of his expected address. Remarks Quoted. The portion of Viscount Birken- head’s address which aroused the.re- sentment of Col. Breckinridge was as follows: “It seems to me that, while the name j.of President Wilson must always be Irevered by those who render homage to purposes almost superhuman, pur- sued with zeal almost as superhuman, { et it must none the less be recognized that his judgment of his countrymen was wrong and that by the error of that judgment he became, paradoxically enough, the agent of all these post-war | developments from which his altruistic mind would have most especially re- cotled. “President Wilson, indeed, came with a noble message of hope, but unhappily in the sequel, hope proved to be his principal equipment. “It is a fascinating speculation whether, had he been given health and strength to pursue the campaign which he contemplated, his idealism and per- sonality could have affected the forces of the world. I am bold enough, even at the moment when I pay the highest tribute to his unselfish motives, to doubt 1t." Calls Attack Absurd. Col. Breckinridge, seen tonight at his home, declared, “as a matter of reason and logic, Lord Birkenhead is absurd when he sald Wilson became the ‘agent of all these post-war de- velopments, from which his altruistic mind would have most especfally re- coiled” Reduced to other words, Wil son was the agent of things which, up to date, he gave his life unsuc- cessfully to avert.” Col. Breckenridge sald that in writing the letter to Mr. Davis, he was merely expressing his own opin- fon and that he did not know whether there were other members of the American Bar Association who felt the same way. He sald he would go no further than writing a letter in opposing Viscount Birkenhead's speaking at the convention Wednes- day night. Mr. Davis, who was for- merly ambassador to England, was at the University. Club_conferring _with clation in Minne- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Long, Mournful (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Sound Stirs City Until Mystery’s Solved ‘Who0-0-0-0-0! Through the lowlands and over the highlands of sleeping Washington, Just as the mystic hour of 12 boomed | from the church towers, the mourn- ful moan of a lone whistle howled with harrowing distinctness last night. The few pedestrians, who happened to be abroad, stopped dead in their tracks and listened; motorists halted thelr cars precipitately. Seconds ticked into minutes and minutes seemed suddenly like eons of time. Still that chilling howl swept over the city, like a voice from the great be- yond. Hundreds of men and Women awakened from a sound sleep by the eerie screech, hurried to the tele- phone and besieged newspaper offices with frightened questions. Neither the police nor the fire de- partment knew what had happened, - 5 yet both were veritably “burning the wires” trying to discover the cause of the apparent distress signal. Motor cycle policemen raced up and down the river roads, but found no ship calling for help. Ten minutes elapsed. Then, just as suddenly as it had started, the sound ceased. Dread silence took its place. Yet the mystery remained unex- plained. At Union station the mystery turned from what had promised to-be a tragedy into a comical situation. The whistle valve of a Baltimore & Ohio locomotive, which had been dragging a string of sleeping cars from New York to Cincinnati, broke several miles out of Union station. The helpless engineer was obliged to run his train direct into the term- inal amid a score of other sleeping cars, with the whistle sounding to its limit, uncouple the locomotive and hustle it out into the yards again be- fore mechanics managed to stop the bedlam that had temporarily halted all thoughts of sleep either in the train sheds of Union statiop or their environs, e England be barred from speak;ng ke- | WITH - Sy 1 SLAIN, MANY HURT AS CROWD ATTACKS KLANSMEN PARADE Mob Blocks March on Bridge in Pitsburgh; Many Shots Fired in Fight. MILLING, SHOUTING GANG FILLS CITY WITH TERROR Police Had Told Robed Men Pro- posed Procession Was Not to Be Permitted. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 26.—One man was killed, another probably fatally wounded and an unknown number of others injured at midnight tonight when citizens of Carnegle, a suburb,-and robed, members of the Ku Klux Klan clashed at the Glen- dale bridge over Chartiers creek. Quiet had not been ‘restored two hours later, but gll available deputy sheriffs, policemen and Allegheny county de- tectives were patroling the streets. A motor cycle squad had been sta- tioned at the edge of the borough to prevent any further attempt by the Klansmen to enter the town, and of- ficers expressed the belief that they soon would have the situation in hand. The man killed, who was wearing a white robe, has not been identified, and at the morgue it was stated that there was nothing on his body to in- dicate his identity. It was, however, covered with tattoo marks.- The most seriously injured was Steve Zarzol- beck, who, his friends say, was dis- charged a few months ago from the Regular Army after six years' serv- ice. He was a member of the party opposing, the parade and. was shot through the abdomen. Willlam Wil- liams, another ex-soldier and member of the opposing force, was picked up and hurled into Chartiers creek. The robed Klansman died in the office of Dr. ¥. B. Jones as he was placing him e »perating table to probe for the pizz-c ~~iugh his head. Three other Klansmen, wearing their robes, appeared later for treatment of minor injuries. They left with the robes hidden under their coats, the phy- sician said. No Permit Gramted. It was stated early this morning that no permit had been issued for the parade. It was estimated that 10,000 Klansmen had gathered on the hills above Carnegie and marched in the parade. Ten Klansmen are being held in the Carnegie Jail, having been arrested yesterday afternoon when they ap- peared n the streets of Carnegle with pistols showing from holsters, ac- cording to the police, and began di- recting automoblles carrying Klans- men to the scene of the meeting. David Cabel, who claims to be the ex- alted cyclops of the East Liberty Klan, one of those arrested, sald he, together with nine other Klansmen, was agsigned to direct traffic for the meeting, and said he had secured per- mission to that end from S. H. Gard- ner, district attorney of Allgheny county. Cabel and two others of those ar- rested wore Army uniforms, being veterans of the world war, they said, while the other seven wore civillan clothes.. Cabel, in his cell this morn- ing, sald that Sam Rich, who, he said, was the acting grand dragon of Pennsylvania, had arranged for the meeting and had assigned him as the trafiic director. The offices of physicians in Car- negie were crowded early this morn- ing with pedple obtaining treatment for cuts and bruises. The list of those wounded In the shooting was increased one more when it became known that John Carrick, a bystander, had been shot in the leg. Two men were arrested early this morning in connection with the kill- ing. The Klansmen had been gathering all afternoon and evening for what 18 understood to have been a state meeting on a hillside overlooking Carnegie. Early in the evening their Jeaders were told, police said, that a parade through Carnegle would not be permitted. Bridge Is Blocked. About 11 o'clock, however, the parade was seen to appear over the hill and start toward the town. In order to enter it the Klansmen had to cross the Glendale bridge, which spanned a small creek. A crowd gathered at once at that bridge and automobiles were run on it and stop- ped, eftectively blocking the struc- ture. When the automobile leading the parade reached the bridge it stopped. The klansmen immediately made no attempt to proceed and pald no atten- tion to the cries to lower the Ameri- can flag, which headed the parade. Neither did they make any move to turn back. After the impasse had existed for perhaps a half hour, the leaders of the marchers selzed the opportune moment and made a wild dash for- ward. The automobiles were rolled off the bridge and the crowd stationed at the one end swept backwards. The parade continued for two blocks with only isolated instances of bricks and stones being hurled at the marchers. Then the ‘opposing crowd seeming to have collected their forces, rushed forward. Bedlam at once broke loose. All kinds of mis- siles were hurled through the alr and firing commenced. One white- robed man was seen tofall. He was picked up and carried into a doctor's office'whers he died. . DAILY EVENING EDITION ALBERT SIDNEY SOLILOQUIZES. SLEMP T0 ASSUME DUTIES HERE SOON President’s Secretary Takes | Over Office Sept. 4—Gives | Views of Coolidge. ! —_—— Special Dispatch to The Star. \ MIDDLESBORO, Ky., August 25.— Bascom Slemp, newly. appointed secretary to President Coolidge, will| take up the duties of his position at Washington September 4, he announc- ed last night. Slemp had come from | his home In Virginia to Kentucky to| inspect his extensive coal and land | properties in Perry county, and was on his way home when seen here.! This probably will be his last trip to Kentucky In some time, as he ex- pects to be kept busy In Washington after assuming the secretaryship. That President Coolldge will place the solution of domestic problems now confronting the country aboye international questions is the opinion ot Slemp. Among these problems are the threatened anthracite coal strike | and question of affording aid to farm- | ers over the nation. The President, Slemp said, is'study- | ing the coal situation from all angles and will do everything in his power to avert a cqal shortage in case of a strike. He described Mr. Coolldge as being a man of “careful and mature decision and careful and definite actlon.” Slemp said that he belleved it was; the President's policy to carry out,| in the main, the latg President Hard- ing’s plans, but that there would probably be some minute difference in the program. Some form of world | court plan will, in all probability,| be promoted, he said. The agricultural situation of the United States is far more grave than| the average citizen realizes and something must be done to help the | farmers, he sald, in alluding to the! President's expected Intention to take up agricultural problems imme- diately. The farm problem and the handling of the coal strike are the two immediate tasks before the President, Slemp sald, but he added that he felt certaln an extra session of Congress would not be called. He sald his appointment as secre- tary to the President was a complete surprise. He was called to Wash- ington by telegram and upon ar- rival was summoned to President Cooligge's office. In discussing the matter of a secretary, President Coolldge told Slemp that he felt it! was fitting that & man from the| south should help him in the per-| sonal and executive way which a sec- retary to the President is called upon to do, he himself coming as he does from the east and that he needed the counsel and experience of one from another section of the country. | Slemp was enthusiastic about the personality of the President and his opportunity to work in such close relation to the new executive. U. S. VESSEL SINKS | AFTER HARBOR CRASH Shipping Board Boat, Springfield, Rammed by Clyde Liner While “at Dock in New York. By tho Assoclated Press, JACKSONVILLE, Fla., August 25. The United States Shipping Board steamship Springfleld, under lease to the Strachan Shipping Company of Jacksonville, was sunk in the St. Johns river here today, when it was struck by the Clyde liner Apache, which was just clearing for New York. No one was injured. The cause of the accident ‘has not been determined. The Springfleld a 5527-ton ship, was abandoned in the stream, having just arrived from Germany. The Apache, which had left the local docks shortly after 2 o'clock with seventy-four pas- ngers aboard, struck the stern of the Springfleld, tearing a hole more than fifteen feet across. The Springfleld sank in fifteen minutes and is lying in shal- low water. The Apache's bow was damaged, but returned to the docks un- der her own steam and discharged her passengersy | Music In Washington——Pa BURLESON GosH = A K Ny LOT OF ' TODAY'S STAR PART ONE—36 Pages. General News—Local, Natlonal, Foreign. Financlal News—Pages 26 and 27. Spanish War Veterans—Page 27. Classified Advertisements—Pages 28 to 35. Radio Gossip and News—Paee 36. PART TWO—20 Pages. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folks—Page 7. Aviation Activities—Page 8. Around the City—Page 9. News of the Jewish World—Page 12. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 13. The Civillan Army—Page 14. Girls and Thelr Affairs—Page 19. Army and Navy News—Page 19. PART THREE—I12 Pages. | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. 4 { Motors and Motoring—Pages 5'to 9. Fraternities—Page 10. of New Books—Page 10, “The Owl Taxi"—Page 10. Veterans of the Great War—Page 10. Boys' and Girls’ Page—Page 11. PART FOUR—4{ Pages, Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S8 Pages. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. GRAPHIC SECTION—S8 Pages. World Events in Pictures, COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; Mr. and Mrs. YSTERILS SHOT WOUNDS DG M Raymond Price Is Attacked While - Changing Tire Near Alexandria. Special Dispatch to The Star, ALEXANDRIA, Va. August 25— Raymond Price, 161 U street south- east, Washington, was mysteriously shot shortly after 7 o'clock tonight while on King street road.in Arling- ton county, about three miles west of Alexandria. The bullet, fired from some un- known quarter, struck Price in the fleshy part of the right leg and came out above the knee. Price was changing a tire after a blowout. His wife sat in the ma- chine. He was just about to remove the jack from beneath his machine when a bullet whizzed close by, bury- ing itself in the dirt road. Immediately afterward came a sec- ond shot, which struck him. Price was unable to find any trace of the person who fired the shot. Weak from the loss of blood and suf- tering from shock, Price drove his car to Alexandria, where he had his wound dressed at the office of Dr. R. Lee Wilkins. Friends took him home. Price is unable to assign any mo- tive for the shooting. The ‘police ‘were unable to find any trace of the gullty party. q —_— WILLS $75,000 ESTATE TO SON OF NEIGHBOR Factory Head Became Attached tof Youth Because of Loneliness; Provides College Course. By the Associated Press. MERIDEN, Conn., August'25.—Be- cause of the:close personal friend- ship which existed between the-late Robert W. Hollam, a factory super- intendent and Elmer F. Rader, son .of a neighbor, Hollam /left most of his $76,000 estate to Rader, it was dis- closed today when the Hollam will ‘was offered for probate. It is stipu- lated that Rader, who is a high school student, shall go to college &nd that five years after his graduation the estate shall be turned over to him. Hollam, It is understood, had taken a great liking to the lad because of bis own loneliness, and service will start immediately. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1923.—NINETY-TWO PAGES. BOY MISSES STE, | CRUSHED BY AT Eastern High School Pupil Fails in Effort to Hop Car; | Injuries Grave. Lawrence Linwood Ethridge, six-| teen-year-old Eastern High Schoolf student, was probably fatally Injured vesterday afternoon when he made a misstep in trying to hop on the run- | ning board of a truck operated b Carl Weissmuller, his schoolmate | chum, at 15th and C streets south- | east.. As he slipped his body fell for- | ward and the right front wheel of the | truck passed over him. | He was rushed to Casualty Hos-| pital in an automobile, whers Dr. Ed- | win J. Horgan performed an operation to relieve pressure on the brain. | 1f the boy survives, it was said at| | Casualty Hospital, one of the most {difficult operations in the history of the institution will have proved a success. The operation consisted of chisseling out the fractured portion | of the skull and so arranging the bone that it might regenerate. For | Jmore than an hour Dr. Horgan | ! worked over tie boy at the task of removing the fragments of bone| caused by the fracture. Ethridge lives at 219 15th street southeast. He s well known at East- ern High School. Weissmuller is the son of Michael Welssmuller, owner of the truck, and lives at 318 15th | street southeast. | Welsmulle! was taken to the fifth | precinct station. He was released lat- er last night under $1,000 bond, at the | instruction of Assistant District At-| torney David A. Hart. | TYPHUS CASE COMES FROM FALLS CHURCH Walter Hartman, Garfield Hospital Patient—First Reported Here in Fifteen Years. ‘Walter Hartman, thirty-three years | old, of Falls Church, Va, is at Gar- fleld Hospital, said by physicians to | be suffering from typhus, a disease | seldom contracted in this country. i The case was brought to the atten- tion of Health Officer Willlam C. Fowler yesterday and Is the first to be reported to the local health de- partment for more than fifteen years. Dr. Fowler stated last night that he was satisfied the diagnosis was correct. The patlent has been exam- | ined, he sald, by an official of the United States Public Health Service | | | i who has become recognized as an ex-$ pert in the treatment of the malady. The man was brought to the hos- pital here several days ago in the be- lief that he had typhold fever. Itwas not until yesterday that the case was put down by the health officer as| typhus. Dr. Fowler expressed the bellef that there is no occasion for fear of the fever spreading, as the patient was brought direct to the hospital. —_— MOVIE OPERATORS GET 22 PER CENT INCREASE .Otl;er Theater Owners, However, Refuse to Meet Men’s Demands. ‘Work Will Cease Aug. 31, Is Said. NEW YORK, August 25.—The Vaude- ville Managers’ Assoclation has grant. ed motion picture operators a wage increase of 22% per cent, the operators’ union announced today. Harry Mackler, president of Mov- ing Picture Machine Operators’ Union, | Local No. 306, said tonight he co: strued the action of the Theater Owners' i Chamber of Commerce In refusing yes- : terday to grant an increase of 25 per cent as a “forced lockou which would become effective August 31. WILL BURN $29,000,000. RIO DE JANEIRO, August 25.—The government announced today that it || “From Press to Home i Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at ’ 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 ’ 3 FIVE CE MARKETS BUREAU SHIFT TO HOOVER REPORTED LIKELY Farm Discontent Revives Talk of Transfer From Agriculture. MOVE ONCE PREVENTED BY CONSOLIDATION PLAN Commerce Department Said to Be Eager to Gain Control of Service. BY HARDEN COLFAX. 'A shake-up in the Department Agriculture is said to be brewing. ‘The machinery of markets will transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Commerce under the administration of President Coolidge unless Secre- tary Wallace can speedily reorganize the economic activities of hig depart- ment so as to placate the farmer leaders. Moreover, it would not be surpris- ing if two men heretofore considered Secretary Wallace’s right and left hand men would resign. They Dr. H. C. Taylor, chief of the bure: of agricultural economics, and Dr. T D. Ball, director of scientific work. A determined effort to effect the transfer of the bureau of markets t the Department of Commerce made at the outset of the Harding administration. Commercial interests generally favored It. Secretary of Commerce Hoover has always been credited with the desire to have this bureau under his direct supervision. Secretary Wallace was able to tri umph, howev mainly because had the undivided support of agricultural interests. of be was he the Support Withdrawn. That support now {s entirely lac Ing, according to expressions of agri- cultural leaders here. It is charged that the economic agencies of the government, under the Department of Agriculture, have made hash of the farmers’ Interests at a critical time, and that crop estimating, warehouse regulation and other activities affect- ing the farmers’ finances would prob- ably be improved by permlitting the markets' work to Eo to the Depart- ment of Commerce. The agricultural forces probably will not join forces with the commercial interests to bring about this transfer, but will assume a hands-off attitude. The bureau of which Dr. Taylor is chief was formed something over a year ago by the consolidation of the bureau of markets, the bureau of crop estimates and the office of farm man- agement. In a large measure, the con- | soltdation was a diplomatic move to surround the market work with other activities in such a way that reas- sembling the old bureau of markets and transferring it to Hoover's de- partment would be difficult. The move was successful and Dr. Taylor, who is credited with having engineered it, is said to have become Secretary Wallace's chief official adviser. Dr. Ball, on the surface, has had Ball's Career. Dr. | very little direct connection with the economic activitles of the department. He was assistant secretary for a few months at the end of Secretary Mere- dith's term. When that administra- tion ended Dr. Ball prepared to return to his home in the northwest and pub- licly announced his departure. A shift occurred overnight and Dr. Ball en- tered as the superior of the chiefs of various sclentific bureaus. Sentries in Washington do not hesitate to say that Dr. Ball's appointment came at the behest of Dr. Taylor. The bureau of agricultural economics, which fncludes the bureau of markets, has not worked to the satisfaction of those whose business it is to interpret governmental activities for the benefit of farmers. Not a great deal was sald about dissatisfaction until the wheat situation became acute. Wheat farmers had expected to put a large part of their surplus grain in warehouses and to borrow money on the warehouse re- ceipts. An amendment to the ware. house law, passed at the last sessio of Congress, provided for co-operativ warehousing and the intermediat credits act provided the money 1 financing it. Regulations Missing When the price of wheat droppe below a dollar a bushel and the farm ers were ready to warehouse, they found that they were unablo to do s because the Department of Agricul ture had failed to promulgate regu lations as provided for in the law. Al efforts to speed up the issuance of th regulations thus far have falled. & note of bitterness crept Into the com plaints a few days ago when it be came known that, with an oversuppl of wheat pouring from the threshc spouts, the bureau of agricultury economics was concerning ftself wit warehouse regulations for peanuts, crop that s still in the ground. Dissatisfaction was expressed, to. with the crop férecasting work whici was merged into the bureau ov which Dr. Taylor presides. The Ame ican Cotton Growers' Assoclation has hammered this work consistently ever since Dr. Taylor took charg.. Recently some of the big agriculturat journals of the east have joined in the attack. However, the middle west expressed no dissatistaction untt! dol- lar wheat began to hurt. Now there are rumblings from that section that the department overestimated produc- tion at a time when the forecast help- ed to depress the market to the farn er's ruin, Secretary Wallace himself has sald that thousands of farmers in his section will be rendered bank- rupt on the present crop of wheat. Claim Estimates Wrong. has retired from circulation paper money in contos and reis to the amount of about $29,000,000. The money will be burned Monday, The department's August estimate of production was 28,000,000 bushels (ConUnued on Page 2, Columa 1) q