Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1923, Page 4

4 8 DR SHITH AGAN CEOLORICAL HEAD Reappointment Marks Wind* ing Uo of Coal Commis- - sion Work. * Dr. George Otis Smith, who was re- leved as director of the geological survey to serve on the Coal Commis- sion, was reappointed to that post by President Coolidge, effective | next Monday. P, mith, the acting | director, will return at the same time to his former position of administra- tive geologist of the survey | Further action goward winding up the affairs the Coal Commission was taken today in the cutive designation of the Secretary of the} Interior ardian of the commis- slon’s records. Among these will be the frapiework on paper of an organ- | ization for emergency distribution of | fuel in the event of a national or sectional shortage of coal today ex xpiration Tomorrow. commission will expire under 1t midnight tomorrow, its following by _twenty-four | hours that of the office of federal fuel distributor R. Wadleigh, head of the fuel agency, will return tomorrow to the Department of Commer head of the coal division The “final” report of the mission to the President published carly next week col- lateral reports, dealing with specific Pphases of the industry, will continue to be made public during the next fortnight TOKIO DEAD REPORT HELD GHASTLY JOKE Official Total of 72,000 Lost in Quake Fails to Consider *‘Miss- ing" 230,000, Is Claim. Coal Com- o be By B, R. BGGER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dails News. KOBE, September 21.—The “official” report giving ‘Toklo's total dead in the recent disaster as 72,000 is re- garded everywhere in Japan as a ghastly joke. The total number of personstreported missing In the cap- ttal is and foreigners gen- ¥ aring that this number ¢ of the dead of a large harbor at Omori, a suburb of national capi tel. as a part of the “greater Tokio" rebullding project, s reported under | consideration by government heads. | The report gives credence to the growing belief Yokohama is doomed to extir ping port 500 HOUSES IN RUIN. Tottori Flood News Fails tc Con-‘ firm Report of Missing. ! Br the Associated Press. TOKIO, ptember 21. from Tottori ha hundred houses were destroy in the recent floor there, but do not mention the fate of the 5000 persons whom & previous dispatch from Yokohama re- ported missing. Communication with Tottori is provin difficult, ang inquirlies have Dbeen sent to Osaka Lo learn the par- ticulars. Late reports . a town « is situa in the valley Sendaigaw 114 miles fro Vhe ancient icapitay of Japan. | Tot 30,000 to 40,000 populat of the D. C.'MILK WAR ON; SUPLY ASSURED ed from Firgt Page.) 5 for each cow in his dairy g his milk other than the association, mpeon sald he had a nor- at present, supplied by his regular patrons, who weré mem of the association, and that after October 1 he expected an even great- er_amount a fine of for selli through W. A mal supply w sources of 0 r u 1 at the fact night that he would is ary permits to i \0t now supplying the District, pe ing inspection and permanent per-| mits. He was emphatic, howeyer, in declaring t no milk would be per- mitted to ter the District which eame from other thak. fuberculin- tested catt He expressed his con- fidence that there would be no shortage i Anticipating ® ‘surplus, thé assos clation ia going ahead with its plans te dispose of milk not shipped here The following statement, signed by | representatives of s n local dairles, was made public tod “There is no occasion for the milk | consumers of Washington to be dis- | turbed over the newspaper artigles| about a threatened milk shortage due to an effort of any individual or com- bination of individuals to centrol the milk supply of Washingron. The un- dersigned dairies, supplying about ‘»‘0| per cent of milk in the city of Wash- ington, have not only a sufficlent sup- | ply of the same grade of milk that they have heretofore used, but a sur- plus. A very great number of the farmers producing milk have refused to join in any effort to control the ! market and are: shipping and will | continue to ship their dairy. products 1o us di t 'as heretofore.” Signed by Chestr Farms dalry, by Henry N. Brawner, jr.; H. L. Black & Son, Inc.. by H. L. Bluck, president; Walker Hiil Dalry, by W. Simpson; National Dairy, by J. W. Gregg; Wise.Brothers, by R. Wise; Jerse¥ Dalr: by Bowles and ron Dairy, Inc., W. Williams, Those attending the meeting las! night in the health office were Dr. Fowler, for the District; W. A. S8imp- ®on, Henry N. Brawner, jr., and Ray- mond Wise for the dealers, and O. A. | Jamison, Dallas _Berry, John G. | Thompson, R. S. Hynson 8 P. Wachter for the farmers. JAPAN NEEDS CLOTHING. Appeal Made Here by Salvation Army for Garments. l All kinds of clothing, especially | unuergarments, are needed in the Japancse earthquake ares, according to a message recelved at national headquartcrs of the Salvation Army in New York, and transmitted yester- day to Adjt. George Paxton of the s0- cial service department here, The Salvation Army Tuesday shipped from New York forty sewing machines and_an automobile truck for relief work In Tokio. The mes- | sage added that the Japangse forelgn | minister had indorsed the efforts of the Salvation Army. o “The recent appeal to Washifig- tonians,” said Adjt. Paxton, “has brought quite a response, but we wish urge the public to do its very best, and give assurance that no package is too small.” —_—— Veterans. From the New York Sun and Globe. Flapper. (after the accldent)—It as gl -your ‘fault. I've been dri ing carefully. - I'vé had two_years S Ola May ploing: Htwiselt uiie O 4 g self v !u!" < mlwayy. walked .e‘tflsun Tve sixty- L years' experience. meeting sue tempol and | ment, TO REOPEN IN SCHOOLS Second Season of Beginners’ Classes ‘Will Start Early Next Month. The second season of beginners’ classes in the public schools for in- struction on orchestral Instruments will start early next month, it was announced today by Edwin N. C. Barnes, director of music. All puplls desiring to enter classes on . the violin, viola, cello, flute,® elarinet, cornet, trombone or other instru- ments are expected to procure regis. tratiun cards from their school prin- cipal. These cards must be filled out, signed by the parent or guardian and return to the grade school teacher. The establishment of this extension of public school service is made pos- sible by the co-operation of the com- munity center department. There will be two grades of instruction, one {for those who started last year, the other for this year's beginners. The fee, 20 cents a lesson, will be the same for ‘both grades. This development is under the gen- |eral direction of Mr. Barnes and un- der the immediate supervision of Laura Fairchild Ward, director of grade orchestras. ps Silent ‘20 Years; She Asks Divorce Bybthe Associated Pross. SPOKANE, Wash., September 21. —Because her husband has been on a *“sllence strike” for the last twen- ty years, Mrs. Nettie F. Hammerly asks & divorce from Henry Ham- merly: . Mr. ‘and Mrs. Hammerly were married at Luverne, Minn., in 1899, and have ten children. Mrs. Ham- merly avers that Her husband has refused to talk to her for a fifth of & century except in cases of absolute necessity, and that they have car- ried on their conversation through their children. > CORNICE FALLS, KILLS ONE. NEW YORK, September 21.—Parts of a cornice of a six-story building in lower Broadway toppled to the sidewalk during the luncheon hour today while the street was crowded with pedestrians, killing Logan Phil- 1ips, an Army engineer, and injuring several persons. RACE HARMONY IS TOPIC. National SociologicAl Society Meets in Lincoln.Temple. Race harmony Is the topic under discission at a conference of the Na- tional Sociological Soclety, which opened yesterday at the Lincoln Tem- ple, 11th and R streets northwest. Among the speakers were: Pro: Jesse Lawson, president of the so- clety; the Rev. J. P. E. Love of Hack- ensack, N. J.; James E. McCullock, secretary of the Sowthern Co-opera- tive League, and Dr. George E. Jack- son. TWO BEQUESTS OF $2,000. J. T. Henshaw’s Will Also Leaves Business Interest to Partner. James T. Henshaw, who died Sep- tember 12, left his interest in busi- ness to his partner, Willlam Brotherton. A bequest of $2,000 is made to a_niece, Marion C. Henshaw, of Alexandria, Va., and a like sum is glven to George C. Bowle in trust for the testator's sister,’ Theresa . Groves. The remalning estate is > be distributed among John G. He shaw, Willle A. Rogers and N L. Henshaw. vettie L. Henshaw named a8 executrix. The Battle of New Market, fought in May, 1864, as it was re-ciacted at New Market battleground yesterday, before n gronp of distinguished visitors | by United States Marines and Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute. 50,000 Watch Marines Fight Second Battle of New Market By a Stalf Correspondent CAMP COOLIDGE FVa., September 2i.—Having written their pames large in the ‘history of the Shendndoah valley as victors in the “second battle of New Market,” the Quantico marines marched off to Lexington this morning. There to- morrow afternoon they will fight a more deadly conftict when their grid- fron warriors match brawn with the Virginia Military’ Inistitute. eleven for foot ball honors. . Whatever laurels. may fall to Guantico .marlnés “In'_future ¥ none will surpass the fame they won for themselves in these parts yester- A when, with the assistance of the Virginia Military Institute éadet re th re-enacted in an impres- realistic manner the real bk_"le that was fought there by the Blue and the Gray nearly a half a century ago Fort Defiance. e 50,000 See Spectacle. Cabinet offic Arm: and Navy, Virginia and the military and naval attaches of many foreign nations were part of a crowd of more than 50,000 persons who witnessed the spectacle. By automobile alone there ame to the scene of the sham con- people from every 'staté in the careful tab having been kept by marine police on thé license tags of machines that parked in and around Newmarket. Fifteen thousand automobiles were parked during the day, a group of dlstinguished officials from Washington arrived by airplane, antlque buggies and long retired hearses were pressed into gervice by the. scores, and several special trains were run to Newmarket by the South- Southern railway. Atr Chiefs Arrive. Gov. E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia and his official party reached the old Lattlefield about noon, traveling in twent autotmobiles. Secretary of the Navy Denby, Assistant Secre- tary Theodore Roosevelt, Maj. Gen John A. Lejeune, commandant of the rine Corps; Rear Admiral David lor and Rear Admiral H. E. Long g eded them by an hour. The arrival of Maj. Gen. Mason Patrick, chief of the Army alr serv- ice; and Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett, chief of the naval air service, created a sensation, accompanied by a guard of honor of marine airplanes, com- manded by Lieut. Col. Thomas C. Turner, chief of the Marlne Corps aviation service, they; arrived on the field in big airplane about noon. They alone, of all the guests. were not subject to the stringent traffic rules laid down by the military police The sham fight was staged on the same fleld that the confederate and federal armfes fought over sixty ars ago. It was located between hirleys Hill and Bushongs Hill, the former of which was occupied by the Gray soldiers and the latter by the blue. The 4,000 marines and Virginia Military Institute cadets were divided into two groups, all of the latter being assigned to the _confederate army, since the cadets of that acad- emy actually participated in the real battle during the civil war gn the side of the southern forces. “Federals” Open Fire. It was just o few minutes after 1 o'clock when the federal drmy, dressed in blue uniform, opened fire with, their artilery from ‘behind Bushongs Hill. A moment later the confederate batteries dnswered from positions on ShiMeys Hill. For the next two hours the lofting mountains that surrounded Newmarket echoed once more to the crashing symphony ot war's deep-throated orchestra. - As the rattle of rifle fire added its rat-tat-tat to the bedlam and the hombardment _reached its fiefcest the governor of fl Union, point, the Virginia Military Institute Chdet regiment, dressed -in the same kind of uniforms. it wore back in appearad fr@m._the center of the Con federate left wing, “marching just as though they were on dress .parade,” as the cadets did nearly half a cen- tury ago, when real buliets their path. They moved gayly ward, the stars and bars of the Con- federacy floating’ at their’ head. it was a tense moment. In a spe. clal grandstand, erected close ai possible to the path the cadets would tread, were a dozen En ivors of that regiment that threw:itself direct from b et patele - SE New " Market: 8 - battle w - Mar! Vertonis by- the -romance Of the scene that was being re-enacted be-: , high officials of the | fore them, the crowd broke into thunderous appl Cadets Storm Batteries, At the point of the bayonet, the cadets stormed the federal batterles, overcame their gu s and silenced them so that the Confed e soldiers might advance moment they appeared and the tide of baitle had been decisively turned by regiment of schooiboys, just as it was in _the real battle during the civil war. The despised “Yankees" were put to flight. decisively defeated. The battle was over before 3 o'clock, but it was after 7 before the is of automobiles had finally noved - from their . parking The day was a holiday for town within a radius of thirty f Newmarket, and it seemed one hurried to the Even the hotels {n Staur iles away, were packed pacity by visitors, who were obliged to remain overnight Many of the visitors arrived on the scene a day in advance. Secre tary Denby, the foreign military at- tachees, Trinkle and a score guests spent Wednesday night as guests of the Quantico marines at Camp Coolidge and went with them to Lexington this morning. They ‘will remain over to see the foot bail game and return to Washington or, other points early Monday morning’ Sixteen Original Cadets. Among the most honored guests were sixteen members of the orig- inal cadet regiment that partici- pated. in _the battle. They are George A. Baum, J. C. Howard, J. B. Gray, Judge C. J. Faulkner, Gen Charies J. Anderson, J. W. McGavock, Mark C. Hankins, Rev. C. Crandolph, Maj. M .E. Tutwiler, H. Bowen Geosse T Lee, Dr. John Upshur, B. Baylor and Bolling W. Barton. Other distingulshed guests included Brig. Gen. S. G. Waller, Rear Ad- miral Rodger Welles, Admiral H. J Ziegemier, Maj. Gen. Charles H, Muir, Gen. E. W. Nichols, Rear Admiral Willlam L. Dodgers, Maj. Gen, H. Ha- raguchi, Maj. Gen. Samuel G. Waller, Capt. E, A."Varona, Maj. Victoriano Casajus, Col. C. E. C. G. Carlton, Maj Casimer Mach, Capt. H. Graca Aranha, Col. Guillermo Valowa, . Lieut. Com- mander, Y. Iwishita, Commander R. W Iweishica, Maj. K. Jumagal, Rear Admiral Potter, Brig. Gen. Bryant H. Wells, Brig. Gen. Charles H. Martin. Immediately after the foot bail game tomorrow, the Marines will re- turn to Camp Coolidge, spend Sunday resting and Monday will break camp in preparation for their long hike to Quantico, reaching there Tupsday morn. HINES TRIES TO CUT VET HOSPITAL'COSTS | General Treatment Found Averag- ing $8.30 Per Man for Tuber- cular Patients, Careful inspection 6f Veterans' Bureau hospital costs Is being made by Directof Hines to determine how they can be reduced. At present’ It costs $5.78 per day peér man for ‘general hospital treat- ment, $5.30 for tubercular. treatment and $3.75 for neurophyschiatric hos- pitalization. Of this sum 53 cents is expended from every dollar for sal- jaries, 27 cents for food, 7 cents for material and supplies and. the re- mainder for svch items as fuel, light and rent. ROCK HURLER GETS 120 DAYS. | Dent Thomas, twenty-two years ,0ld, colored, charged with throwing {a rock into the automobile of Ber- nard Daugherty on the Benning road, was convicted in the United States branch of police court today by Judge Schuldt and sentenced to serve 120 days in jail. HELD..IN AUTO THEFT. Willie Waple, forty-five years old, gharged with Stéallag an Jitomobiie from Oscar Seigle, 727 L street north- est, was ‘held for the aatio: "t s o bl R et ranch o Court /. By . Schuldt.-and the bond set at 3 1 reguati the | of | Wesson, J. J. A. Powell, James | DAUGHERTY DECISION FORCES REVAMPING OF ENTIRE U. S. SHIP POLICY (Continued from First Page.) n That th formation by th porations to carry on itions was conceded by the Attorney General, but all of these, he sald, were only after grants from Congress of “unmistakable legislative authore ity.” of government property. Cannot Delegate Powers. During congressional consideration of the shipping law the opinion re- called that Congress struck from the bill language designed to enlarge the hipping Board's powcrs and author- ized it to & other agencies to deal with the government fleet “It well settled Mr. Daugherty said, “that a public officer | or public body cannot delegate pow- {ers which require the exercise of | judgment or discretion. * The operation and maintenance the fleet until sold was intrusted by Con officials, who are at to congressional er is a rule,’ gress to public lan times subjeet control The plan was evolved by Albert D. Lasker, former chairman of the board. and Edward P. Farley the present chairman. Mr. Farley was in | New was handed to the President awd no comment was made by other members of the Shipping Board. Most of them are understood to have favored the plan, although there was said to be a division on the legal points. Sttuation to Be Canvassed. Shipping Board officials were not prepared to predict what form an alternate operation plan might take. | 1t"was indicated, however, that stepa | would be taken immediately to again canvass the situation and draw u some program which would come | within' the law. One suggestion in official quarters was that the Lasker-Farley plan might be retained in outline with the proposed subsidiary corporations op- {erating the board's ships under lease only. It was pointed out that the legal barrier against sale of the ships to the subsidiaries might not lie with_equal force against a leasing plan, which could be put into oper- ation 1largely as. a formality, but which would enable the board to car- ry out its purpose of separate group- ings for the varlous government lines. . ILLEGAL OPERATION SEEN. Decision May Affect System Used for Past Two Years. BY DAVID LAWRENCE, “The entire shipping program of the government has been torpedoed. Not only is the proposed plan of the United States Shipping Board to or- ganize subsidiary corporations held fllegal by Attorney General Daugh erty, but serfous doubt is belng ex pressed today whether the system of operation through managing agents in the last two years was legal In the absence of express authority trom Congress, the chances are noth- ing now will be done and the entire fleet may have to be tied up and con- siderable loss entailed unless Presi dent Coolidge brushes aside techni calities and gives the board the op- portunity to go ahead without outside obstruction. Opinion Causes Surprise. The Attorney General's opinion is a surprise bordering on a sensation. The -people who have been friendly to the proposed plan of subsidiary corporations looked up the legal hases of the matter and even had Patormal consulations with the offi- 8ials of the Department of Justice before President Harding died, and there was little thought of an ad- verse ‘opinion from the Department of Justice. Almost from the moment Mr. Coolidge took office, however, it began to be apparent that hostility to the Shipping Board plan was mani- fested at the White House. On_one occasion the President was ' re- sponsible for considerable discussion ag to whether he intended to ignore the Shipping -Board altogether. Th was when he let it be known he would appoint a épecial committee of Selicy. ‘Tha board ook this &3 ah o York when the attorney’s ruling | ! ! { | ] took this as an)Tracy place and (Photos by Harrls & Ewjng.) i | affront to its dignity, but it was de-| termined to await formal word from | the President as to his intentions| rather than press reports. | Other Interpretations Seen. ! The opinion of the Attorney General | is one of those documents which upon close reading appears based on lan guage in the merchant and marine | act that can be construed whichever | way e Chie: utive would like | to have th eneral rule. | The government in thel Panama Canal R: Corporation | and also the United States Grain Cor- poration, both of which are organized | under state laws, and. no- illegality | has ever been suggested about that| arrangement i Attorney General holds 'hz\l; were covered by the law | authority, leaving on the | one hand the impression that if Con- | gress sanctions the proposed organ- | {zation _of. subeidiary corporations | there will be no objection, but argu- | ing, on the other hand, that the mak- | ing of subsidiary cofporations pre-{ vents the ultimate sale of the ships More Legislation May her the Departn was not fully advised tures of the s passed Shipping Board or the Attorney Ge e rels that more legislation is; needed, but th tual plan did not, contemplate anything but uitimate ale. The government would hold all the stock in the corporations and would sell, that stock whenever the| bids were sufficient from private in- terests. Mr. Daugherty contends that re ving stock into the Treas which represents government D erty is mot a sale, and the Ship Board people probably would a with him ut they still do not B why a transfer of title with the stoc remaining in the government hands is at all objectionable. i Subsidiary Companies One’ Loophale. The upshot of the matter for the| present will be delay. The Shipping | Board could go ahead and organize { subsidiary companles * with trade | names following the detalls of its original plan, consolldating lines and rearranging personnel, but not using the corporate form. This probably will be fought by the operators and. steam-{ ship owners, who have been trying to| force the government either to Com- tinue the present method of operating under a commission basis through | managing agents or through the sale| of the ships at low enough prices to | enable the future owners to cash in ultimately. ¢ Death Blow Struck. The decision of the Attorney Gen- eral, however, that the Shipping! Board has no right to delegate its authorlty or powers to any agency is being construed as meaning that a | death blow has been struck at the managing agent system- and that hereafter the. government will have to continue in direct operation of its | ships until such time as private | wners are ready to pay the price the government wants. Any other subterfuge which enables private per- | sons to use government ships and} allow - accumulated commissions to apply on a future purchbase price is! not likely to have the approval of | Congress, where it seems now the whole matter will have to be thrash- ed out, with the probability that little will be accomplished for many months to come. (Copyright, 1023.) nt of as to Tu th by the | | CONTRACT.AWARDED | T0 PAVE 7 STREETS! $25,000 Worth of Improvements All That Is Included in Fall Pr’ngnm A contract for the paving of seven streets with concrete at an estimated cost of 325,000 was awarded the| George B. Mullin Company by the Commissioners today. | This represents the fall hlxhwnyi program of the. engineer department and is all that ean be done with avallable appropriations. The streets are: { The city heaas swarded to A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company a con. tract for 100 ffe hyvdrants. . 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