Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Unsettled weather, showers probable tonight and tomorrow; mild tempera- ture. Temperature for - twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highes 75, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, af 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. No. 28,982, post Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 25 Entered as second-class matter office Washington, D. C. TOKIO DEAT Che WASHINGTON, T ering WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, H TOLL CUT TO 30,000; BODIES LIE IN STREETS AND PONDS; FIRST U. S. SHIPS ARRIVE WITH AID - 27 New Shocks‘ Add to Fear in Capital. COASTAL TOWNS ARE WIPED OUT 10-Day Moratorium Expected to Save Financial Chaos. By the Assoclated Press. \ The terrible sweep of the Japa- Mese earthquake is being disclosed %in direct cable and wireless dis- patches now coming from Iwaki, the #adio station connection, and from Psaka, Nagasaki and other points &ontiguous to the devastated region. { Yokohama has been literaly en- ®ulfed, the area of destruction cov- pring not only the city itself, but a ¥one more than a hundred miles mquare, including Tokio and four pther large citics. This is one of fthe most densely populated sections of Japan, with some seven million people within the stricken area. Tokio Dead 30,000. A direct message from the Iwaki ®tation, with which Tokio has estab- lished courier connections, says the Japanese home office announced 30,- 000 dead at Toklo, 100,000 injured and 150,000 homeless. Osaka cables that the great port of Yokohama is totally destroyed and that only one-fourth bt the capital city of Tokio remains. it estimates that 70 per cent of the itles and towns within a radius of hundred miles of Yokohama and | oklo are destroyved. Order has been restored in Toklo vhere thousands of homeless people re encamped in parks and other pen spaces. The government is feed- ng them scanty rations. i While the re of the world hurries s ships of war and commerce, deep - { n witk relief supplies, to Japanese | ters, Premier Yamamoto broad- | asts a message to his people urg- ng them to unite in the trying hours hrough which they are passing and ppealing to them to make a supreme | ffort to relieve the suffering and xpedite the work of reconstruction. 500 Forelgners Dend. i The cables say that already orders ! for building materials have been re- eived in England, while leading con- truction engincers and architects n New York have proffered thelr as- | istance in making a new Japan. Five hundred foreigners are sfl‘d! o have been killed in Yokohama, In- luded in this number, according to he various reports, are the following pmericans Capt. MacDonald of the Grand Ho- el, Mrs. Root and son, Max D, Kir- fiasoff, the American 'consul; Chief Pharmacist L. Zembech of the United ates Naval Hospital and his wife nd two enlisted men. The hospital uildings were wrecked, Other Americans reported killed re Bess' and Richard Mendell of Cleveland. Elizabeth Dodson of Kin- ston, N C., and W. T. Blume of the General Electric Company. The late ter was stationed in Tokio. Supplies of Rice Requisitioned, Throughout the stricken area the uthorities are trying to meet the wo Immediate needs of the situation: “are for the wounded and food for he hungry. Supplies of rice are being requisitioned throughout the | mpire, while engineers, working ! ith make-shift forces, repair the frallways to rush the food to the starving. Meanwhile there are no reports disorder, although there ~ ia " some plundering and looting. Gen. Fukuda is determined to quiet the population of the capital as quickly as possible in order that martial law may be evoked. The organization of relief work hroughout the rest of the world pro- [ceeds rapldly, and already the United States has been of material assist- ance. The American destroyer No. 211 arrived in Kobe vesterday with s upplies, followed soon after by the Ehipping Board steamer _City of Spokane, which leaves for Yokohama today with 6.000 tons of flour. ShiSps Taking on Supplies. Many other American-owned ves- mels are cither taking on cargoes of relief supplies at Pacific coast ports or are on their way to Japan. In san Francisco alone five Shipping Board steamers are being fitted out las relief ships. American response to the call for| ssistance has been immediate, and | ffrom all parts of the country come nnouncements of gifts in money d kind. A group_of lumber ex- forting mills on the Pacific coast are o donate 45,000,000 feet of timber to he Japanese government. The British China squadron has peen ordered to purchase supplies [and food and proceed to Japanese ators to render whatever assistance s needed. TOKIO DEAD, 30,000. Bodies Floating in Park Ponds and . Lying in Streets. g3y Radio Corporation to the Assoclated Press. IWAKI, Japan, September 6.—The Japanese home office today took the first steps toward attempting to Reported Killed. Max Kirjassoff, consul general at Yokohama. Mrs. Max Kirjassoff, Yokohama. Capt. MacDonald of the Grafld Hotel. habul E. Jenks, vice consul at Yoko- ai Elwood G. Babbitt, assistant com- mercial attache at Tokio. Mrs. Root and son, chief pharmacist. L. Z. Eubrich of Naval Hospital, and wife. % Two enlisted men. Bess and Richard Mendell of Cleve- land. Elizabeth Dodson of Kinston. Dr. Warden. Dr. Gilmore, Smith L. Zembsch. Paul Cannon. Angolia imson. Miss Evelyn Mantell. Mrs. H. E. Root. Jocelyn Babbitt. Doris Babbitt. Reported Safe. Miss Margaret R. Paine of 2472 On- tario road. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Max Kirjassoft at Kobe. Sam J. Wardell, Yokohama. Willlam _F. Nasos, preter at Yokohama. Leo D. Sturgeon, Yokohama. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Boyd Spen- cer at 1343 I'ark road. W. Low: Farnham, brother of Arthur B. Farnham, 3140 17th street. W. R. Lynch, formerly with United States Shipping Board here. Representative nest R. Acker- man of New Jerse Miss Jane Neil Y. W. C. A worker. All on Y. W. C. A. staff. 1 McAllister, San_Francisco. i Young, San Francisco, Miss Grace Heller. Harry Esting, Chicago. Mrs. Harry Esting, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. C. Greiner, Chicago. MORE DISTRICT PEOPLE IN JAPAN REPORTED SAVED Peebles and Pierson Families and Margaret Paine Sur- vive Earthquake. vice consul at student inter- vice consul at cott, ‘While no reports of death to Wash- ingtonians, their friends or relatives in the Japanese disaster zone have come from any source, dispatches con- tinued to increase today bringing the glad tidings of the “safety” of those in Japan known here. The latest dispatches told of the safety of Lelghton H. Peebles and v. Hlis sister, Miss Annie B. lives at 1617 19th street northwest, and of Miss Margaret R. Paine of 2472 Ontario road, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Paine. Plerson Family Safe. Word was also received from Wayne Pierson, former assistant treasurer of the Natlonal Theater here, who has for some time been connected with the United Artists’ Corporation, a mo- tion picture concern, that he and fam- ily had been in the Grand Hotel, at Yokahama, but escaped safely and had gone to Kobe. Miss Margaret Paine is well known in Washington, having lived here all her life. She went overseas with the Red Cross canteen service and was active in_the work of the Overseas League of this city. She is a grad- uate of Central High School and of the kindergarten department of Wil- ormal. N of her safety reached her anxlous family this morning upon thelr return from a vacation on Ches- apeake Bay, which théy had cut short to return to this city, awaiting word from their daughter. The message came as a telegram from John W. ‘Wood of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church today, who had_received a cablegram from Japan. Miss Paine was reported in the cablegram, which came from Kyoto, as “safe.” Doubt on Missionarle: There had been received, however, by early afternoon today no word from Miss Paine's close friend, Miss Ruth Burnside of Hyattsville, nor of the Rev. Norman C. Binstead of St. Alban’s parish, both of whom were missionaries under Bishop John Mc- Kim, in charge of Episcopal church work in Japan. The New York office, according to some dispatches today, reported that seventeen of the twenty-seven missionaries in the stricken area of Japan were ac- counted for. Friends of Representative Ernest R. Ackerman of New Jersey, who had received news of his safety through a cablegram direct from him at Nikko, Japan, to friends in New York, were somewhat - disturbed today by dis- patches coming through London that Nikko had been practically destroyed. They, however, clung to the belief that Re‘prelenlntlve Ackerman was still afe. Methodists Are Safe. Bishop Willlam F. McDowell of the Methodist Episcopal Church _an- nounced that a cablegram had_been received stating that all Meth- odist missionaries in Japan were safe. The cablegram came from Karulzawa, he &aid, the summer resort, to which many forelgners in Japan had gone for the summer, and was signed by Bishop Herbert Welch, in charge of Methodist missionary work in Korea and Japan. clear up confusion and speculation Fegarding the actual number of dead and Injured in_ the earthquake and fire at Tokio when it announced 30,- ©00 were dead, 100,000 injured and 350,000 were homeless. Col. Samuel Reber of New York and Maj. William C. Crane, jr., lan- guage officer of the American em- Dbassy, and Mrs. Crane—all previously reporied missing ‘at Tokic—are safe, jt ‘was learned today. City Three-Fourths Burne A courler returning today from mokio described the disaster there as upspeakable. The city, he said, was h%e-mmh. burned. n ponds In the ‘parks he found charred, unidentified bodies floating Members of the Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church South here were wondering today whether the message from Bishop Welch could also be understood to Indicate the safety of Miss M. Elston Rowland of this city, a missionary, who left ‘Washington August 18 to serve In Jap: personally for that church M Rowland Is a graduate of Georgetown University with the de- gree of A. B, and of Columbia Uni- versity, with the degree of M. A. She has been in Washington since 1917, ‘when she came here from Tennessee. Her late residence was In Rutland Courts. No word has been received from her, and as the vessel on which she sailed, the President Madison, was (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) ' (Continued on Page 3, Columa 1.) FATE OF AMERICANS = Edwin P. Brown and party, Boston. All employes of Singer Sewing Machine Company. Mark F. Sanders. All Baptist missionaries. All United Lutheran missionaries. Maj. Ernest Pugmire and family, Salvation Army. Capt. W. B. Sullivan, United States Marine Corps, attached to embassy. Belleved safe, but report not con- firmed. o Wayne Plerson and family, Wash- ington, D. C. All Methodist missionaries. Reported Injured. Commander U. R. Webb, United States Naval Hospital at Yokohama. Safety in Doubt. Rev, Mark McNeal, S. J., Jesuit Col- lege, formerly of Georgetown Univer- sity. Bishop John McKim, in charge of Episcopal Church work in Japan. Rev. Norman C. Binstead, formerly ; of St. Alban’s Parish. > Rev. Willlam Buchanan, Rev. Wal- ter_Buchanan, missionaries. brothers of Dr. J. C. Buchanan of 901 M street northwest. Miss Ruth Burnside of Hyattsville, sister of H. W. Burnside of 507 30th street northwest. Harry H. Campbell, brother of Mrs. Eurené W. Bond of 7222 Blair road. Miss Mary B. Campbell, sister of Harry H. Campbell. Leighton H. Peebles and family. Miss Mary Hoffheims, sister of W. E. Hoffheims of 1315 Decatur street northwest. Homer ~Rodeheaver, Billy Sunday. Miss Myrtle King, daughter of Mr: Will R King of the Farragut apart- ments. Clarence O. Dubose, Tokio corre- spondent of the United News Service. Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Meyers, mission- aries of the Epworth Methodist Epis- copal Church South. Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Metcalf and M. E. Rowland of Washington, assistant to Charles F. Sweet, missionar: Japanese Emperor Thanks Coolidge President Coolidge today re- cofved the following cablegram from the Emperor of Jdpan: “The President, Washington, D. C., “I am deeply-touched by your profoundest sympathy and kind- est offer in our appalling calamity. I beg of you to ac- cept my heartfelt “you and the American people.” “YOSHIHITO." FEAR 10,000 LOST AS VOLCANIC ISLE DROPS FROM SIGHT Late Reports Add New Areas to Toll of Devastated Sections. By the Associated Press. PEKING, September 6.—The police of Chiba, at the northeast corner of Tokio bay, report a new fsland off the Izu peninsula, while they say the Island of Oshima, which contained an actlve volcano, is invisible and is feared to have gone down with its 10,000 or more inhabitantsq There still is no news from the Bonin Islands and catastrophic changes there are feared. NEW DEVASTATED AREA. IWAKI, Japan, September 6.—(Via Radio Corporation of America to the Assoclated Press.)—Damage south- west of Toklo is summed up by re- ports today as follows: Qokohama, annihilated. Yokosuka, twelve miles across the sea from Yokohama, damaged greatly, to an extent upknown.’ Population 100,000 or more. Kamakura, thirty miles from Tokio, collapsed, mostly burned; all villas about Hayama, a bathing resort, lost. Hiratsuka and Olso, small seashore towns, tnirty-eight and forty miles from Toklo, respectively, destroyed. Kozu, a way station for tourists, spared. Damage slight west of Mishima. Shonon District Hard Hit. LONDON, Septembér 6.—Tremen- dous damage has been done by the earthquake all over the district be- tween Tokio and the so-called Shonon district, says the first official state- ment on/ the disaster made-at the Japanesé embassy here. This includes all the seacoast dis- tricts of Sagaml bay. BOY OF TEN SHOT BY BROTHER AT PLAY Esper 8. Larsen, 34, ten years old, was accidently shot in the left side yesterday afternoon while playing with his twelve-year-old _brother Clark in_their home, at 3520 30th street. His condition is critical. The shooting occurred in an upper room where the boys had been play- ing during the temporary absence of their parents, a mald being the only other person present in the home at the time. The mald, on hear- ing the report of the pistol, hurried to the room, and summoned the family physician. It was explained to the police that the older brother Was attempting to place the weapon in a hoster when it was accidentally discharged. The wounded boy, in an unconscious con- dition, was taken te Emergency Ho: pital today and an operation was per- formed in an_effort to locate the bullet. Esper S. Larsen, jr., father the boy, is'employed in the office o the geological survey. The case was only reported to the police today. A&vance Fleet Lands With Supplies. HOMELESS NOW EXCEED MILLION Americans Pouring Gold in $5,000,000 Relief Fund. As the dread specter of famine and pestilence cast its deathly shad- ow over stricken Japan, the advance flotilla of America’s armada of mercy dropped anchor off Yokohama early today and landed thousands of tons of food and medical supplies to keep alive more than a’ million homeless surviviors of one of the world’s greatest catastrophes until the main fleet arrives. While the American people were pouring their gold without restraint| into the $5,000,000 relief fund chest belng ralsed by the Red Cross, nearl a score of American vesscls, eaf loaded to the very limits of “safety with every concelvable kind of sup- plies, were racing fromt every avail- able port to the scene of disaster. Others were belng filled with rice, bedding, tents and medical supplies as fast as human hands and ma- chinery could do the work. Homeless Exceed Million. In the meantime the true story of the tragedy that swept the Japanese nation last Saturday and Sunday be- gan to seep out to the world in the jform of brief dispatches from gov- ernment representatives and news- paper correspondents. Cyrus E. ‘Woods, the American ambassador in Tokio, declared in his first messace to the State Department here today that more than one million people are and in need. aid from the American for over one million Japanes waid, “sheuld preferably tak. form of tinned meat, condensed milk, flour. underclothes, ' galvanized iron sheets and dimensioned timber for one-story shelters.” $3,000,000 by Monday. At the same time the executive committee of the American Red Cross set Monday as the latest date for the raising of the $5.000,000 relief fund President Coolidge called upon the people of the United States to raise. It also asserted that each new mes- sage arriving from Japan demon- strates that $5,000,000 must be re- garded as the very least this country should contribute and there was every indication that more would be needed. At Red Cross headquarters here alone $150,000 had been received by | mail up to this morning and checks were still pouring in by the hundreds. { This amount does not include $125,000 contributed outright by the Cleveland Community Chest nor $100,000 each from John D. Rockefeller, jr., and the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Founda- tion. These were tabulated in favor of the New York city quota. which is expected to exceed $1,000,000 alone. Chicngo Pledges $100,000. That the $5,000,000 fund will be oversubscribed at least by Monday is not doubted at national headquarters here. Nothing has been heard from the state and city chapters since they accepted their quotas, but some idea of collections should be received by tomorrow, and it is believed the Red Cross will be able to announce by Sunday that the national quota has Dbeen reached. The mayor's commit- tee of Chicago wired today pledging a minimum of $100,000. Elbert H. Gary. president of the United States Steel Corporation, wired today that he “gladly accepted” the chairmanship of the Washington district committee. This district em- braces_Connecticut, Delaware, Dis- trict of Columbia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia. Its quota alone is $2,- 900,000. p Other Cities Take Action. The executive committee of the St. Louis chapter wired today that it had .raised its quota from $65,000 to $100,000 and pledged success. All mall carriers in the Missourl metropo- lis are making a house to house canvass, it was stated, as St. Louis expected to wire that it had passed its quota before tomofrow. Boston has taken similar action and the governor of Massachusetts has ap- pointed a state committee of promi- nent men and women to carry the campalign throughout the common- wealth. Gov: Cox of Massachusetts, today wired President Coolidge that within an hour after Massachusetts had been informed of the amount of its quota for Japanese relief twelve prominent men had pledged that the amount wouid be raised. Embassy Receives Contributions. Ambassador Hanlhara informed the Red Cross today that the Japanese embassy here has been receiving many contributions from all parts of people DECLARE. i YOURSELF., i/ Star. @, Within the Hour” ‘The Star’s carrier system. tovers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers-are printed. “From Press to Home , \ ! | Yesterday's N;( Circulation, 87,39 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1923—FORTY PAGES. 77 You've Now? MINE PEACE STILL REMOTE AS PARLEY IS RESUMED TODAY Slight Modification Is Seen in Position of Both Miners and Operators. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, September 6.— Anthracite mine operntors and offi- cials of the miners' union, who today resumed comferences with Gov. Pinchot for discussion of pon- ble terms of settlement of the difterences which caused suspen- .+ slon of operations in the hard coal field September 1, adjourned at 12:30 until 2:30 this afternoon. Leaders of both sldes reported lit- tie change in the situation. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., September 6.— Leaders of the miners' unlon and anthracite operators, whose didNgr- ences have led to a general suspen- sion of mining, had some new ground to go over, but still exhibited marked difference in views when Gov. Pin- chot reassembled them today in the course of his peace effort. Tentative agreements on the part of the employers’ group to drop the stand for arbitration, which has been upheld since the inception of negotia- tions, were understood to be in the governor's han} as a result of yes- terday’s executive sessions. Miners' union officials, too, had in some degree modified the original scope of their organizations’ demands by agreeing that a 10 per cent wage increase for contract miners might do. They continued, however, to ask more for the day workers, who con- stitute the bulk’ of anthracite em- hloyes, and this the operators were most unwilling to accede. The union litewise tentatively of- fered to put a l{mit to the amount of dues which would be assessed against its members, if the operators would agree to_coilect those dues by the “check-off” method of holding the amounts involved out of each individ- ual miner's pay check. Based en Pinchot Plan. The tentative offers were all based on the original peace proposals of Gov. Pinchot, which included a 10 per cent flat increase in wages for all anthracite workers, abolition of all but elght-hour employment, recogni- tion of the union and of the prin- ciples of collective bargaining and dropping of the “check-off” demand by the union in exchange for an agreement by operators to let union agents collect dues in company offices on pay days. Gov. Pinchot was said to have sug- gested that the employers forego their arbitration stand, to which the unfon has indicated unflinching op- position, and that the miners' leaders in turn drop the “check-off” proposi- tion entirely. The resulting state- ments from each side did not quite bring about the bargain suggested. MINERS BUSY AT HOMES. Strike Causes Idleness. By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, September 6.— Reports from the. anthracite regions indicate that the miners. who have (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) 4 (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) AUGUST CIRCULATION The Evening Star Daily Average August, 1923 Daily Average August, 1922. Increas \ Sunday Average August, Increas: The circulation of The STAR August each year, yet during “Dog 87,150 82,158 SR 4,992 The Sunday Stali” Sunday Average August, 1923................ s 1928, ... .. 85107 93,989 is naturally at its lowest ebb in Days” there have been 4,992 more dail d 8,792 Sunday readers than during the same month last year. y'l'.hno ds;ily cirmllzion of The STAR will soon be over 90,000, and THE SUNDAY STAR'S ever-expanding circulstion im the city and _ nearby country will soon pa: A the 100,000 mark. l Wants America *x to Intervene In Ruhr, Regardless of France Upham Would Have German Capacity Estimated and Paris Told to Accept or Pay Debt to United States at Once. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 6.—American intervention with a firm hand to san believes that, under the rules of the war game, Germany, having lost, ! should make proper reparations, it is | stupid to s ek to impose conditions break the deadlock between France |on the vanquished nation that would and German 1 arations was advocated by Fred W. Upham, nationa home yesterday after a tour of Eu- rope. He will go to Washington next week to report to the President on the situation in the old world. Mr. Upham said he expects to recom- mend to President Coolidge that he ask Congress for authority to name a commission of American business men to determine reparations Ger- many is able to pay. Without asking permission of France, the United States, in Mr. Upham's opinion, should inquire into Germany's ability to pay, and then France should be informed that the figure arrived at should be accepted at once. Failure of France to accept the commission's findings should be followed by a demand upon France to pay at once the debt she owes the United States, according to Mr. Up- ham’s plan. Right to Demand. “The United States is the only na- tion in the world today that is in a position te demand that Europe put its house In order,” Mr. Upham said. While every right thinking per- FORD HERE T0 PUSH MUSCLE SHOALS BID Confers With Coolidge and Weeks—Modification of Offer Is Sought. By the Assoclated Press. Negotiations were resumed today between the government and Henry Ford on the latter's offer to acquire the Muscle Shoals, Ala., power plants! and nitrate properties. Accompanied by his son Edsel and one of his engineers, Mr. Ford came to Washington to confer with Secre- tary Weeks and later with President Coolidge regarding the project. The visit of Mr. Ford was under- stood to have been made at the in- vitation of Mr. Weeks. and while there was no announcement, it was believed the Detroit manufacturer was asked to modify his offer for the properties. The offer was referred by the War Secretary to Congress many months ago for final decision and is pending there. The changes In the proposal desired by the government deal chiefly with the Warrior steam power plant, to which the government does not pos- sess clear title and which it will be absolutely necessary, the school au-, Decorating and Painting While | compelied to_vacate soon. Notice has, been given the War Department that under the provisions of the contract with the Alabama Power Company, drawn at the time that the Warrior plant was constructed, the govern- ment would be expected to vacate at the expiration of the limit fixed in the agreement. 200 ESCAPE BLAZE AT SUMMER HOTEL By the Associated Press. NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I, September 6.—The Imperial Hotel here was destroyed by fire early to- day, the 200 guests escaping, scantily clad. The loss was $500,000. The Hotel Massasoit also caught fire. The fire in the Massasoit was confined to the servants’ quarters. Private houses nearby were damaged. F The fire started in the attic of the five-story wooden Imprial Hotel. Narragansett Pler is an exclusive resort, ri ng Newport as a New England summer place for the wealthy. : The Imperial Hotel was the largest and most_elaborate of the summer colony. The guests were quartered temporarily at neighboring hotels. Most of them lost many of their per- sonal belongings. The burned hostelry was a few | hundrea yards from the beach and a center of the soclal life of the colony. ¢ ¥ on the question of rep- |result in ruin, not oni | but for the countries in Europe that treasurer of the rnpu):li(‘;\niau"ng committee, upon his return | v for Germany. are looking to Germany for repar- France today, instead of paying its debt to this country, is employ- ing that credit to make of herself what she told us in her hour of need Germany was trying to do, to the de- struction of our very civilization. World in Jeopardy. “While many may sympathize with | France's idea of protecting herself against another war, the fact is that the economic structure of the civilized world is put in jeopardy by the pres- | ent actions of France. | “The European nations seem power- |less to “bring order out of chaos Without any regard to leagues of nations. world courts or any other tribunal that may be advocated by well-meaning Americans, the time has come for a business settlement of the whole problem. “That a commission of American business men would be fair to both rmany and France goes without saying. And in_my judgment we should not ask France's permission to_take thisSstep.” Mr Upham announced that unless President Coolidge vetoed present plans of the national committee, the republican national convention in 1921 would be held in Chicag: BALLO CONFRS ON BUDGET LASH Meets Commissioners on School Fund Cut Ordered by Director Lord. Superintendent of Schools Frank W. Ballou and Daniel J. Callahan, president of the board of education, are in conference this afternoon with the District Commissioners regarding reduction of the school estimates for the next fiscal year. Close to $1,- 000,000 will be chopped from the school budget, it was said, and the District officials sought the counsel of the school authorities before cut- ting any of the items. Thoroughly familiar with the items in_ their budget, the Commissioners believe that the school officials can better sort the urgently essential from those of lesser importance than themselveg, and for this reason called the conference which convened at 2 o'clock. Although contending! that every item of the school budget is ; thorities are sald to realize | cutting process with the other Dis- of the budget bureau ordered re- duced approximately $7,000,000. The Commissioners undertook the task of cutting the District budget today to the $25,100,000 mark set by Gen. Lord. Slashes already have been made in the budgets of the fire, po- lice, playgrounds and engineer de- partment. The estimates of the other departments will be taken up individu- ally following the conference with the school authoritles. Hope to Finixh Today. The Commissioners hope to finish the unpleasant task of trimming the budget this afternoon and to have it in shape for the budget bureau in the near future. It is understood that approximately $615,000 was cut from the police de- partment’s budget, eliminating entire- ly the request of Maj. Sullivan for ad- ditional policemen. The fire depart- ment’s estimates were reduced about $216,000. Similar reductions will be made in the budgets of the other mu- nicipal departments. Nearly all of the items eliminated during the cutting process, it is said, will be included in the supplemental estimates the Commissioners plan to submit to the budget bureau, that | | their budget must go through the trict estimates which Director Lord | TWO CENTS. NENACE 10 EAGU UNTES NENBERS T0 SAVE COVENANT Greco-Italian Issue Consid- eration Delayed Until Defi- nite Plans Made. ITALY STILL DEFIANT, BUT TENSION LESSENING Hope Remains That Question Will Be Adjusted to Credit of All Parties. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 6.—Efforts of the league of nations council to reach some agreement on the Greco-Italian crisis constituted the reason for the sudden decision to hold no session of the assembly today. Lord Robert Cecil and other mem- bers of the council desire to go be- fore the assembly with something definite, for they realize that if the world nations met together as a forum before any tangible results were obtained there would doubtless be a forensic explosion on the floor The assembly as a whole is looking to the council to take some action on the Italian question and the coun- cil, as the executive body, is con- cerned above all things with saving, the legaue of nations and preventing any dangerous split. No meeting of the council was held this morning, but its members con- sulted private in attempts to reach a tentative ccord with regard to procedure and the attitude to be adopted at the next formal meeting, which may possibly be convened this afternoon. There has been extensive tele- graphing by all the delegations to their home governments asking defi- nite instructions on the great ques- tion of the day, which has removed all interest from the problems fig- uring on the agenda of the confer- ence. The Tensfon Lessening. M. Politis, former foreign minister under Venizelos and chief represent- ative of Greece here, sald today that the tension seemed to have lessened somewhat, but he added that the problem of the Itallan occupation of Corfu Island offered supreme difficul- tles. Much interest is felt here in possible action by the council of am- bassadors in Paris, to which Greece also has appealed. Consternation and & deal ness prevail everywhere, for it is generally, though rei . admit- ted that the league has been unable to withstand the first great test of its practical use as machinery for regu- lating differences between nations, since one of its leading members has declined to concede to its competence. Hence there is a growing sentiment among the smaller countries that, if the league covenant applies to them, it apparently does not bind the great powers of Europe. All the more do they feel convinced of this because the proportions which the Italian and Greek conflict have taken are deemed by them to be un- justified by the original cause of the controversy, serious and regrettable as was the murder of the Italian of- ficers. of sad- Hope Still Remains. But hope is not abandoned: there are stout hearts among the statesmen of the half hundred countries repre- sented at Geneva, who, believers in the league and in the ideal of con- cillation and arbitration which the league voices, refuse to accept that action of any member, powerful or weak, can succeed in ruining the league as a power for good. Signor Salandra’s entire argument today was that the questions arising from the assassination of the Italian mission should be settled by the coun- cil of ambassadors and not by the 1eague, because it was the amoassa- dorial body which had appointed the mission to fix the frontier between Al- bania and Greece. That body was the living organism of the great peace conference and was empowered with the execution of the terms of treaties. The head of the Italian delegation accused Greece of cleverly seeking to escape from her responsibility and of diverting world attention from the murder of the Italian officers to Italy’s seizure of Corfu, by denouncing this selzure as an act of dangerous aggression. Mussolini Looming. It was not Signor Salandra but Mussolini who secmed to be address ing the council of the league today at its dramatic session. As the good- natured appearing former premier read his fateful message the crowded council chamber thought to hear in fancy not the voice of Salandra but that of his fascist chief and leader, who has suddenly loomed up on the stage of Europe. No ate would wish to belong to the league, read Signor Salandra, if membership meant renunciation of the right to defend its national dignity. Italy had not menaced world peace, and there was not sufficient reason for the applica- tion of the articles of the covenant cited by Greece, which were founded on the supposition that danger of war existed. Until the ambassadorial body pronounced judgment, he con- tended, n by the league w of the league M. Politis remarked that the Greek government repudiated energetically any allegation that it was morally or materfally responsible for the odious crime committed on its territory Greece, he declared, did not wish to evade the prerogatives of the council of ambassadors, but, on the contrary, had asked that the Council pursue an investigation. Italy, however, in bombarding Corfu had created a sit- vation which justified Greece. in ap- to tha league, P litta insisted that in his sug- gestion of yesterday that the league council appoint a neutral commission to Inquire into the crime, Greece was using common sense and trying to be fair all around, for his proposed Jeague commission could ~proceed with its work In conjunction with the ambassadors' council. Not only Greece, but Italy, was bound under the circumstances to refer the dis- pute to the league of nations; both in letter and spirit the covenant of the league demands it. If the coun- ¢il of the league accepted the Italian point of view, then, sald M. Politis, it was tantamount to ruin of the pact of the league. Lord Robert Cecil's quietly voiced warning_that if the treaty of Ver- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) A