Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; some- what colder; fresh to strong north- west winds. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 50, lowest, $ a.m. today. Full report on page 2. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 Entered as second-class matter post oflice Washington, D. C. Fashionable D. C. Clubs Face at 2 p.m. yesterday; No. 29,044, DEMOCRATS ELECT THREE. GOVERNORS; SWEEPKENTUCKY Only Senatorial Contest, in Vermont, Returns Re- publican. NEW YORK ASSEMBLY IS CAPTURED BY G. 0. P. Elections Leave Administration Ruling Congress by Eight- een Majority. B i Democrats were in all three stat elected yesterday s where there were gubernator elections — Kentuck Maryland and Mississippi Vermont, where the only senatorial | kontest was held, returned a repub- Jican—Porter H. Dale, who defeated | ®ark H. Pollard, cousin of President | ©dolidge T the seven contests for the House, ®he demograts won four and the re- publi three, of the Publican victeries being an upset in former Representatjve Fair- «hild defeated his democtatic op- yonent for the place gade vacant by 1he death of J. Vincent Ganly in the twenty-fourth New York district. alignment was unchanged in other congressional elections. The victory of the democrats in Ientucky, where , Representative ‘Willlam J. Fields defeated Charles I { Dawson, represented a swing of the | pendulum which at the last-election Ewept Gov. Edwin P. Morrow, re- publican, into office. Mr. Fields’ ma- gority was decisive and he will have | & democratic legislature to support him. < Ritchie Wins in Maryiand. Gov. Ritchie, re-elected in Mary land over Alexander Armstrong, re- publican, hgd an increased majority over his first election H. L. Whitfield, democrat, opposition in Mississippl In New York state the republicans retained control of the general as- sembly, but the democratic judiciary one re- had no ticket in Manhattan and the Bronx | was swept into office, overwhelming the republican and independent ticket supported by William R. Hearst, The soldiers’ bonus apparently was | carried and the hydro-electric power | Project was beaten. Local issues were voted on in va- | rious sections of the country. Vir- ginia turned down a $50,000,000 bond issue for good roads. Ohlo elected | mayors supported By the Ku Klux | Klan in Youngstown, Portsmouth, Ak- | ron and several smaller cities. Phil- adelphia returned W. Freeland Ken- drick, republican, #s mayor,” by an“ overwhelming majority. Judge. In Tilinols Miss Mary M. Bartelme, the first woman to be elevated to a circuit court judgeship, was elected in Cook county. She is a republican 2nd led her ticket. The republicans elected eleven and the democrats nine | Judges of the superior court. | The New Jersey legislature remain- | ed in the republican column, notwith- | gtanding the vigorous campaign | waged by Gov. Silzer, democrat, for & democratic lawmaking body. Ameri- can party candidates, who waged a fight in Utah under the slogan, “Sepa- ration of Church and State!” were| beaten. | Mayor Rolph, republican, of San Francisco, apparently was re-elected. The results of the congressional elections will leave the tw houses | of Congress with this lin House—Republicans, 2: democrats, 205; social endent, 1; farmer- | Jabor, Republican ma- gority, 17, The' republican majority in the Sen- ate will remain at 6. Additional Political News will found on Pages 2, 4, 5 and 13. FOOD PRICES GO HIGHER IN THIRTEEN BIG CITIES fLabor Department Survey Shows| Decreases in Eleven Centers. 1923 Above 1922 Level. Prices of food at retail in thirteen of twenty-six selected cities invi ®ated by the Department of Labor Thcroased_during the month of Sep- tember 15 to October 15. Decrcases were reported in eleven cities, the dpartment reported today, wh changes were found in two. The ituation was not investigated. All the cities showed increases for the year from October 15, 19. to Oc- 1ober 15 last ranging from 2 per cent in Buffalo to 8 per cent in Indianap- olts and Bridgepor® Conn. Increases ! from 37 to 58 per cent ware shown in the cities compared with the average cost in the year 19813, Retail food prices increasel from ! September 15 to October 15 in the ! Tollowing cities: Jacksonville, 2 per cent; Cincinnati, Fall River, Newark, | New Haven, New Orleans, New York ; and Portland, Me., 1 per cent, and | Tharleston, Denver, Manchester, Phil- | adelphia and St. Louis, less <han five- | tenths of 1 per cent. | The following showed decreases: ! Indianapolis, 2 per cent; Buffalo, Chi- cago, Kansas City, Louisville, Mem- phis and Richmond, 1 per cent, and Baltimore, Peoria, Scranton ' ani Springfleld, i1, less than five-tenths| of 1 per cént. 'Bridgeport and Little | Rock showed no change. H NOTED SURGEON DEAD. Dr. Woman Is be Alex E. Garrow, Montreal, Was Sixty-Two Years Old. MONTREAL, November 7.—Dr. Alex . Garrow, one of Canada’s outstand- jng surgeons, died today from heart | trouble. He was sixty-two years old.l He had been attached for some wears to the professional staff of Me- Gill University. : —_— MUNSON LINER AGROUND. HAVANA, November 7.—The Munson Jine Munargo is aground in the harbor st Nuevitas, Cuba, according to pas- sengers arriving here. They sald the Jast of the passengers were taken off gosterday after ineffectual efforts had een made to get the vessel off a mud dbank. Tugs are to be sent from here to #loat her. . MONARCHIST PLOT | good quality and reliable republicans. | firmed, 47, at ‘Check’ by U. Haynes Says Other Centers Will Be Law Vi Fashionable clubs of Washington and “other great cities of the country” will be “visiteq” by prohibition agents and “checked” to see if they comply with the Volstead act, This was announced toddy by Pro- hibitlon Commissioner Haynes, who made public the ‘results of a drive in Philadelphla among “Philadelphia employers, bankers, professional men, | business m ocial leaders—all in- | fluential citizens occupying positions of vast wealth and power at the apex of soctety.” Prohibition agents, it was revealed, appeared before the board of gov- ernors of Philadelphia institutions, enlisting obedience to law, and other- by ersonal inspections” ' the activities of the club | Philadelphia clubs and some | which were found to have| with the law were made | hotels, complied HELD DUE TO FLAME INBERLIN HOURLY Changed Political Line-Up' Seen Adjustment to New Balance of Power. BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 192 BERLIN, November 7.—While ru- mors of a new putsch are flying about the city, the political situation seems to be adjusting itself to the new military balance of power. The center party, which has now passed from the hands of the pacific {into the hands of the former Prussian chancellor, Stegerwald, Tuesday made a remarkable decision containing the sentence: “The form of government is for us no object of strife. We accept any form which guarantees us or- der, prosperity and religious free- dom.” This is taken to mean willing- rness to accept a restoration of the monarchy. The centrists, in refusing to ap- DFove an appeal for volunteers to de- fend the republic, definitely aligned themselves with the right parties, and assured the permanent absence of soclalists from the government. Stresemann Cautious. Chancellor Stresemann, as usual, seems very cautiously to be seeking to delay a trlal of strength either with the right or left, and adjusting himself to conditions as they change daily, An indication of which way he is moving will come, however, when he names the ministers to suc- ceed the socialists. It is certain that he will not, In the present circumstances, formally receive the natlonalist party into the cabinet, but it appears probable that he will fill the posts with *“non- political personages” agreeable to the nationalists. Such concesslons, it is believed, might delay military action by the monarchist parties. The first call for 2,500 volunteers in Berlin already had been filled to- day. The matter was naturally pre. arranged, and 12,000 more are ready to volunteer as needed. The men are reported to be war veterans of | Their function-would be to guarantee the policing of Berlin, thus freeing the state -police to assist the reich- swehr. 3 Similar enrollments of volunteers are expected to occur in the threat- ened cities of Prussia. Other Reports Alarming. Alarming reports, as yet uncon-| state that two regiments of the Ehrhardt Brigade recently were organized under the personal direc- tion of Capt. Ehrhardt, who was here secretly November 1. The trades unions are planning systematic obstructions to prevent a possible advance of the monarchist: such as general strikes and destru tion of the railroads, but are keeping their members calm. Nobody can foresee whether the much-advertised putsch will oceur to- night according to the supposed schedule. PILLAGING CONTINUES. Stores Closed in Fear of Organized Mobs. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 7.—Sporadic plundering of foodstuffs was again in progress in Berlin today. Flaring signs “Christian _shop” have been posted on many of the smaller places Che republicans, former Chancellor Wirth, | Foem WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1923—FORTY PAGES. S. Dry Officials Great Cities’ Social Visited’ to End olation. Public by name today by Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Such unusual action by the prohibi- tlon unit, Commissioner Haynes said, came at an “opportune time,” follow- Ing a critical speech by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant attor- ney general of the United States, in charge of prohibition enforcement, in Boston this week, when she sald: “We are menaced by a no-man’s land in America—the ‘upper crust’ which feels itself above and superlor to the law, and the ‘dregs’ who strike be- neath the foundations of American liberties. everywhere where the oldest families on whom the nation 100ks as repre- sentative of the finest in American life. violate the law. When the campaign among Wash- ington club life will begin was not revealed today at prohibition head- quarters. There seemed considerable mystery as to how or when the Na- (Continued on P 2, Column Britain Reported Negotiating to Buy Greenland By the Assoclated Prese COPENHAGEN, November T Great Britaln, according to the Ekstrabladet, recently made over- tures to Denmark for buying Greenland, asking in addition that she be allowed to make the first offer of purchase if Denmark wish- ed to sell at a future date. ‘The reply of the Danish govern- ment, the newspaper says, was that the island was not for sale and never would be. BONDING AUTOISTS PROPOSAL REVIVED Reduction of Accidents Seen if Drivers Insured for $3,000, Committee Told. An ordinance requiring operators of all motor vehicles to file with the Dis- trict Commissioners an insurance pol- icy or a surety bond of at least $3,000 to provide indemnity to persons in- jured in automobile accidents, was ad- vocated by Herbert L. Davis, auditor of the District of Columbia Supreme | Court, who appeared today before the Senate District subcommittee which is investigating Washington's traffic sit- uation. Davis’ proposal also was indorsed by Dr. Willlam A. Kinnan, first assistant commissioner of patents and chairman of the public safety committee of the Columbia Heights Citizens' Associa- tion. Mr. Davis pointed -out that the bonding of motorists is provided for in the Borah bill, which failed of passage at the last session of Con- gress, but expressed the belief that “more teeth” should be put into this measure before it is reintroduced at the forthcoming session. Would Revoke Permits, The witness sald he was strongly in favor of a provision which would revoke the drivers' permits of boot- leggers and persons with criminal records. The committee adjourned its hear- ings shortly after noon until Novem- ber 19, as Senator Ball of Delaware. chairman, plans to leave Washington tonight on a business trip in Virginia Mr. Ball also will attend the water- ways conventlon In Norfolk. Establishment of obstructions at street intersections t. force traffic to follow certain channels would tend to decrease accidents at these points, sald G. G. Kelsey, a traffic_engineer- ing expert of Elizabeth, N. J., the final witness to testify before ad- journment. Kelsey declared about 70 per cent of all accidents wccur at street intersections. Girl Is Complainant. Miss Eleanor E. Capers complained to the committee of the laxity in the enforcement of traffic regulations in | the District, particularly to those which relate to the revocation of drivers’ permits. She also criticized the police efforts to obtain witnesses to traffic accidents and condemned the manner in which the coroner's jury records proceedings. Miss Caper sald her father was struck and killed by an automobile at 14th and Girard streets last Jan- uary 27, by a vouthful motorist who had been arrested on numerous charges of violation of the traffic regulations, and that it was many months later before she succeeded in having his driver's permit revoked. Mr. Davis further expressed the opinion that the number of accidents in the District would be reduced if cf business in the sections where raids had been in rrogress ths last jail sentences were imposed on traf- fic violators, in lieu of a fine. An attack on the all-day parking (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. 2 Copyright, 1023, 0 1T N PARIS, November 7.—While France and the United States pursue their arduous diplomatic conversations rela- tive to their respeotive reservations affecting the attributes of the pro- posed commission of reparations ex- perts, a tremor of excitement and un- rest once more is tightening the ten- sion throughout Europe. The cause of this unrest is primari-. 1y the German situation.” Through- out Europe it-is belleved that Bava- rian and other monarchists are about to attempt the overthrow of the Ger- man republic. It is known that since Germany, last Japuary put an end-fo (Continued on Page 2, Column Tension in Europe Tightening; Monarchy Is Seen in Germany the work of the allied missions of military control, armament of all de- scriptions has been greatly increased throughout Germany, until the pres- ent number of armed men is perhaps several times the number allowed b the Versailles treaty. % The defenders of the German re- public are thought to be poorly or- ganized, weak willed and almost un- armed. An easy monarchist victory therefore s foreseen. The question is, what will the monarchists do after taking power? Some of thelr leaders have openly avowed the intention of formally abrogating the Versailles treaty and challenging France to a remewal of the armed struggle. However, fool- hardy such a course might seem, there is no doubt that European tatesmen feel obliged to take se ously this possibllity. These two classes exist |- REPARATION BODY T0 HEAR GERMANY IFU.S. PLAN FAILS Commission to Act at Once if Experts’ Parley Plan Falls Through. PARIS SEES PROSPECTS FOR AGREEMENT BRIGHT Poincare Inclined to Recede From Firm Terms—Limiting Session. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, November 7.—The repara- tion commission has decided to com- ply immediately with the German re- quest for a hearing on the reparation question as proposed in the Berlin government’s note of October 24, if the several governments, including the United States, are unable to agree | regarding the setting up of the ad- visory investigating committee. This decision was reached by Sir John Bradbury of Great Britain, M. Barthou of France, Signor d'Trelio of Italy and M. Bemelmans of Belgium, at a meeting of the commission last evening at which Col. James A. Lo- gan, officlal observer for the United States, also was present. | The Germans in their note last month asked the commission to be- gin an examination into Germany's capacity for payment and to allow representatives of the Berlin gov- ernment personally to explain the situation and the measures Germany had taken for reforming her budget and stabilizing her currency. They likewise suggested that the German delegates be heard regard- ing the documents embodying the re- sults of the Belgian technical studies of the reparation problem. Prospects Brighter. The prospects for an agreement between France and Great Britain on the text of the invitation to the United States to join the conference of experts for examination of the reparation question were regarded in diplomatic and French official circles today as brighter than yesterday | The improved situation was said lto be due to the tendency of the | British government to accept in at< | tenuated form Premier Poincare's reservation restricting the estimate of Germany's capacity to pay to the “present.” M. Poincare, 1t s stated. has al- ready declared he is willing to mive @ rather elastic interpretation to this | Yeservation, permitting it to cover a period of perhaps two years. Discussion now is proceeding as to whether an naccord cannot be reached on the understanding that the word “present” would mean the period of the moratorium asked for | by Germany, which every one admits | must be granted for at least four years. Early Declsion Sought. The French premier is understood to desire an early decision, as there is {uneasiness in the foreign office as to |the eftect of a prolonged press cam- | paign on French public opinion, the | foretgn office having particularly in [mind " the articles and _dispatches |tending to_show Great: Britain and | the United States as drawn up against France. Another alternative suggested in the effort to reach an accord is the elimi- imation of the phrase “capacity for {payment,” which has proved so irri- |tating to the French official mind The British, Italian and Belgian dip- lomatists have considered a new formula which would mean the sime thing, but satisfy French sensibili- ties. “Productive resources” or “pro- gressive payments’ are among the phrases proposed. The theory is that | by adding such progressive payments |a total might be arrived at without he objectionable “capacity-for-pay- ment” idea ever having been men- | i i dor Jusserand, in his talk with President Coolidge, had the opportunity of noting the fine qualities of the sentiments ex- pressed by President Coolidge, and his manifestation of friendship for our country,” says the semi-official Temps in an editorial today. “The American government,” adds the newspaper, “is equally ready to ald Europe if ‘the conditions permit, or to remain aloof if its aid seems {impossible. If it intervenes it will act as the friend of France.” ACTION WAITED. T. 8 British Cabinet Discusses Poincare Proposals. By the Associated Press, LONDON November 7.—Premier Poincare’s latest communication re- lating to the proposed committee to investigate Germany's reparation re- sources was discussed informally by the .members of the British eabinet ~today, but, it is understood, no .de- |cision” was taken pending the result of the French premier's latest rep- resentations to Washington. Officials herg find it difficult to gauge the chances of the committee of experts being formed, particularly as the advices from Paris indizate France feels the creation of such a body at this juncture will be merely an academic gesture in the face cf the serious current and threatened events in_Germany. The dispatches from the United States seem to leave the issue equally in doubt, a govern- ment spekesman here remarking to- day that the American correspond- ents appear to blow hot and then blow cold on the attitude of the United States. The British government, however, has not abandoned hope of a favora- ble outcome and looks for some en- couragement from Washington as a result of Ambassador Jusserand's visiis to President Coolidge and Sec- retary of State Hughes. MADE ENVOY TO BERLIN. Former Mexican™ Governor Given Appointment. 4 MEXICO CITY, November 7.—Pas- cual Ortiz Rubio, former governor of the state of Michoacan ahd former minister 0f communications, has been named minister to Berlin, succeeding Manual Alvarez del Castiilo, who has resigned. Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexican minister to China, has tendered his Zreslgnation, 'ADOD HAT HANGS, OVER EDGE OF RING Right Signs Waited to Push It In—Friction Grows With Underwood Men. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Willlam Gibbs MecAdoo's bat is_all but in the ring. It's ready, X0 thrown in any time. Only tbe psycho. logical moment is awaited. The for- mer Secretary of tie Treasury is spending a week jn' Washington, con- sulting with _his chief supporters, cnecklnx/up on the situation from every prigle and generally tightening up the bolts and rivets of the McAdoo campagin. Cheery optimism pervades their deliberations. They believe their candidate is unquestionably in the lead at this hour. ‘They profess no fear of the two- thirds rule at the democratic national convention. They do not expect to enter the first ballot With anything more than the biggest vote recorded for any candidate—possibly a clear majority. Their hopes and plans rest on what they call their “reserve strength.” This consists of “McAdoo second-cholce” delegations, which, it is claimed, will plump for him when the bandwagon time comes. Alabama, despite its fealty to Oscar W. Under- wood, is catalogued as a “McAdoo second-choice” state. Stress Southern Note. what bitter rivalry that has grown up between the McAdoo and Underwood candidacles. The circumstance that ‘Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law is a son of Dixie—a native of Georgla—and that Senator Underwood is campaign- ing as an outright southerner who is entitled to the nomination because he | is such, has strongly accentuated the southern note in the McAdoo-Under- wood contest. McAdoo's friends are confident he is going to have more than an even break among southern delegations. They are positive Vir- ginla, under Senator Carter Glass' leadership, is for McAdoo. They are reagy to stake their political lives that Georgla will be in the McAdoo column. Josephus Danlels is said to be able to deliver North Carolina for his former cabinet colleague. In Texas, despite the recent activities (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) FARM WOMAN KILLS WOLF WITH HAYFORK Sticks Animal Through Neck When It Attacks Her in Barn- yard. i By the Associated Press. COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kan., No- vember 7.—Mrs. J. E. Adams, wife of a Toledo township farmer living seven miles northeast of here, killed a wolf with a pitchfork yesterday when the animal viclously attacked her. Hearing a commotion in her chicken vyard, Mrs. Adams seized a stick, thinking the invader was a coyote, which she ~easily ~could frighten away. Instead, the wolf, with bared fangs, rushed upon her. Mrs. Adams fled to a wagon, hoping to gain the protection of a hay rack on it, but barely had time to snatch pitchfork and turn before the wolf was upon her. 2 She struck the animal twice with the tings of the fork, and, when it changed tactics and rushed at her from the other side of the wagon, Juckily plerced the wolf's neck ard pinioned it to the ground. Two small Hogs sprang upon the wolf, and Mrs. ‘Adams was then able to dispatch it with a blow on the head. —— JEWELRY STORE ROBBED. Bandits Do Job While Hundreds Pass on Street. NEW YORK, November 7.—While hundreds were passing the busy cor- ner at Broadway and 47th street to- day, three well dressed men entered the jewelry stare of Julius Howard, foroed the proprietor and a clerk into a rear room and rifled showcases of swelry valued at '15,0!0. dita.escapeds _ .. .. There is no concealment of the some- | New G. W. U. Head Inaugurated Today GWYNNE AGQUITTED ' BY COURT-MARTIAL Mifitary Tribunal Finds No Ground for Malpractice Charges. Capt. Samuel C. Gwynne, Army Medical Corps, retired, was acquitted today on charges of malpractice by the general court-martial which has been trying his case for the past three weeks. ~The court found Capt. Gwynne in- nocent on all nine specifications, which alleged lack of proper care and treatment of Private Guy Pendle- ton, who was a patient at Fort Eustis, Va., during the summer of 1922, and both of whose legs were later amputated at Walter Reed Hos- pital. Capt. Gwynne.was ward surgeon at that time at the Fort Eustis Hospital. His superior officer, Maj. George Cook, was recently convicted on similar charges. The morning session of the court was taken up by arguments by Capt. Stephen R. Tiffany for the defense and Lieut. Courtney Whitney for prosecution, after which the court was cleared and the general court- martial board deliberated for an hour and a half before its decision. T. JEFF BURNETT GUILTY. By the Assoclated Press. BASTROP, La., Novemer 7.—T. Jeff Burnett, tried jointly \with "Harley Rogers for assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with the hold- up of Harry Neelis near here in Au- gust, 1922, . was declared guilty by Judge Fred M. Odom in district court here today. The case of Rogers was taken under consideration. the | { | | | “From Press to Home The Star is Sunday morning to Wa Within the Hour” delivered every evening and i homes at shington 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and servnee'pt will start immediately. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 92,945 LEWIS INAUGURAL DRAWSNOTABLES Ceremonies for College Head Start at 4:30—President Sees Educators. With all appropriate dignity Wil- liam Mather Lewis will be inaugu- rated president of George Washing- ton University this afternoon in Memorial Continental Hall in the presence of a distinguished audience of government officers, ranking mem- { bers of the diplomatic corps and na- tionally prominent educators. Ceremonies Incident to the event, began last night with a reception at the University Club, were continued | today, when President Coolidge re- ceived the delegates from distant uni- versities and colleges at the White House, and will reach their climax when Dr. and Mrs. Lewis are the guests of honor at a formal inaugural reception at the Willard Hotel to- night. - Received by President. The ceremonies today opened with the President’s private reception for the attending delegates at the White House. More than 200 visiting col- lege and university presidents, deans, professors and prominent educators were in the group. All will later participate in the inaugural cere- monfes. They were received by Presi- dent Coolidge shortly afternoon to- day, and remained with him for nearly a half hour. From the White House they were taken to the Hotel La Fayette, where they joined the trustees of George Washington University at luncheon. Grace was said by “Rev. Dr. James H. Marshall, pastor of Georgetown Presbyterian Church. The first speaker was Dr. Herbert McComb Moore, president of Lake Forrest Colicge, from which Dr. Lewis was graduated and in which he later taught. Dr. Moore presented greet- ings from the new university head's alma mater. Educators Speak. Dr Charles R. Mann} director of the American council of education, pre- sented the greetings of his organiza- tion, and was followed immediately by Dr. Samuel P. Capen, president of the Assoclation of Urban Universities and chancellor of Buffalo University. He felicitated Dr. Lewls upon his new high office in the name of both bodies. Music was furnished during the luncheon by the George Washing- ton University Freshman Orchestra. The inaugural ceremonies will be- gin at 4:30 o'clock. The Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal = Bishop of ‘Washington, will deliver invocation. John B. Larner, chairman of the board of trustees of George Wash- ington University, will be the first speaker. He wil' be followed by Sam- uel Herrick, bringing greetings and felicitations from George Washington Alumni Assoclation. _Simllar con- gratulatory remarks will be present- ed from the university by Dean How- ard L. Hodgkins. Greetings from American colleges will be oftered by Dr. Willlam W. Comfort, president of Haverford Col- lege. Dr. Livingston R. Farrand, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) What Was It Lincoln Signed? ‘Many Pupils Here Don’t Know) In the history tests prepared last June for -the sevénth and eighth grade classes by the committee on research and measurement of the board of education, for the purpose of ascertaining the pupil's knowl- edge. of certain noted Americans, only '56.2. per cent of, the 1,170 Tpils Knew that Abraham Lincoln was the_author of the emancipa- tion prodlamation, it was learned today upon compiiation of the re- lie: P Only 253 per cent knew that Gen. Meade was in command of the Union forces at the battle of Gettysburg. The knowledge that Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, and that Admiral Dewey was in com- mand of the United States forces at the battle' of Manila bay, was most widespread, each. question being correctly answeréd by 65 per cent. When the tests were ‘held the names of sixteen famous Ameri- cans and as many historical events were given.. The puplls were re- quired to connect the personages with the events in which they - played a party . e 4 _Breal men.” The replies showed the percent- . age of students giving correct designations about the specified personages, as follows: Jefferson, 65 per cent; Dewey, 65 per cent; Roosevelt, 58.4 per cent; Lineoln, 56.2 per cent; Clay, 52.4 per cent; Perry, (1.4 per cent; Grant, 40.5 per cent; Jackson, 40 per cent; Houston, 38.6 per cent; Hamilton, 31.7 per cent; Harrison, 30.8 per cent; Meade, 25.3 per cen Douglas, 24.1 per cent; Decatur, 23.4 per cent; Greene, 21.2 per cent; Taylor, 19.8 per cent. The committee, headed by R. L. Hayoock and J. C, Bruce, made the foliowing suggestions to the vari- ous grade teachers as a result of their compilation: “Teachers should not underesti- mate the value of biography in the teaching of history. The study of the achievements of great men should acquajnt the older pupils with the highest ideals of citizen- ship. Heroes of peace, no less than heroes of war, should have their jlace In the hal lof fame, Sup- plementary histories and boks of reference should be used exten- sively in studying the lives of TWO CENTS. HARDING FORGED FORBES T0 RESIGN, SAWYER TESTIFIES Surplus Supply Sale at Perry- ville, Md., Prompted Order, Senate Probers Hear. GOODS SOLD DESPITE BAN, PHYSICIAN SAYS Public Health Service Needed Ma- terials, Disposed of at Low Price, Is Charge. President Harding called for the resignation of Charles R. Forbes as director of the Veterans’,Bureau as a result of the Perryville, Md., surplus supply sale transaction, Brig. Gen Charles E. Sawyer, personal friend and physician to the late Executive, testifled today before the Senate vet- erans’ committee. Gen. Sawyer testified that in the tace of an order by the President that the shipments of supplies from Per- ryville be stopped, carloads of ma- terlals were sent out for two or three day: “As a result of this insubordination Col. Forbes was asked to resign,” Gen. Sawyer sald. Rends Prepared Statement. Gen. Sawyer, who is co-ordinator for the general hospitalization board. read to the committee a prepared statement regarding the whole Per- ryville transaction. He said that on or about November 26, or twelve days after the contract of sale had been entered into with Thompson & Kelly Co., Inc., of Boston, Surgeon General Cumming of the public health service reported to him that supplies at Per- ryville were being sold regardless of public health service needs. Gen. Sawyer accompanied Dr. Cum- ming to the Veterans' Bureau and asked for a conference. “It was after quite a heated confer- ence,” the witness continued, “that Col. 'Forbes was persuaded that the public_health service should be con- sidered in the matter at all. Tells Harding of Talk. “After this conference I took the matter up with President Harding and he requested me to proceed at once | to Perryville to see what was golng | on. Accompanying me on this trip | were Gen. Cumming and Dr. Smith | (Dr. Frederick C. Smith of the pub- lic health service). “Upon arrival at Perryville we | found great activity going on in the matter of shipping supplies. Investi- gation showed that_one large truck load of towels was Just being moved out of one of the bulldings. “Assuming the authority that had been given me by the President, I | directed the officer in charge to have | the materials unloaded and asked |him to await further orders before {any other shipment was made. He | gave me his word that such order | would be issued by him and that all shipping proceedings would cease |until this matter was finally deter- | minea. Gets New Executive Order. “Returning home I made a state- ment to the President, telling him that I felt sure that very valuable materials much needed by the Vot- |erans’ Bureau hospitals and the pub- lic health service were being disposed of at great loss to the government He immediately ordered through me | that further disposition of this prop- | erty should stop until there was com- | pliance with the executive order re- quiring a division of the property at PerryVville on the basis of 80 per cent for the Veterans' Bureau and 20 per cent for the public health service. “Within a day or two a second con- ference was held with Col. Forbes, including Dr. Cumming. Dr. Smith and myself, and we recelved a written agreement from Col. Forbes that the provisions of the executive order would be carrled out. Col. Forbes gave us to understand positively by a signed agreement that no further shipments would be made until the letter of the executive order had been executed. About three weeks later word came to me from a representa- tive of the public health service at | Perryville that materials were still being shipped; that practically 126 carloads in all had been forwarded to Thompson and Kelly. Says Forbes Ignored Harding. “I then-took the subject up with | the President and he immediately called Col. Forbes and said to him that nothing further must go: Re- gardless, however, of this order di- rectly from the President, other carloads within the next two or three days were shipped out, and as a re- sult of this insubordination Col, Forbes was asked to_resign.” To show President Harding’s per- sonal interest in the matter, Dr. Saw- yer said the Executive came to his office in the State, War and Navy building to see the samples of goods which were there. more_critically than I have i senting these samples to you witness said. Exhibiting the goods to the com- mittee, he declared: “These blankets are good enough to be used in any | home; this is the same kind of towel as is used in my own home; this sheet i3 as good a5 can be purchased.” Sees Autocrntic Power. Gen. Sawyer was led into a long discussion of his opinions as to trou- Dbles in _the administration of the Vet- erans’ Bureau. - He declared one cause of trouble was the autocratic power glven one indlvidual. “It's too big a task for one man, he_declared. Evidence presented to the committee yesterday was that Gen. Sawyer had opposed the sale from the first and that he had made representations to the President after he had failed in his efforts in other directions to retain for the government large quantities of supplies which were being disposed of at one-fifth of their invoice value. There also was evidence that Sena- tor Calder, republican, New York, had taken the matter up with the Execu- tive. Lieut. Commander Charles R. O'Leary, formerly in charge of the supply division of the bureau, told the committee it was his understanding that the subject had been brought to Mr. Calder's attention by New York firms seeking government surplus ma- terials. Threat of Exposure. A number of firms were trying to “get in” on the sale, O'Leary testified, and the representative of one of them, (Continued on Page 2, Column 33 { pre- the