Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 1

(U. S, Weather Bureau and cold toda ht with tempe ir atu) above zero by tomorrow morning. —Highest t 10 p.m. Temperature night: lowest 17 Full report on Page somewhat colder Forecast.) re a few de- 29 at mid- sterday h — 1,084— No. 29,82 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. (., SUNDAY OPERATORS OFFR MINERS S ONTHS WORK AT 0LD PAY Proposal for Return Made i Ads Today Broadcast Over Region. UNION HEADS ASSAIL PLAN AS PROPAGANDA n Declare Men Will Not Be Stam- peded—To Make Reply Tues- day—Priests Scored the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, December Anth operators, through advertisements in the Sunday newspapers, are directly striki employes to return to k at once at the rate of wages paid i pa mor cite th he operators guarantee the wages next eight months, and propose that A new long-term contract can be worked out in the meantime. The unlon leaders made no formal tement in response to this action. but Thomas Kennedy, international Recretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers ton, Pa., when he learned of it said the men would not be stampeded back to work; that they would retrn only when a new contract is agreed upon. He characterized broadcasting of the operators’ offer at this time as a lack of good faith and an attempt to “prejudice” the wage conference scheduled to meet in New York next Tuesday. Text of Proposal. The text of the operators’ offer, ad- dressed to “the mine workers and their leaders” and signed by W. W Inglis, chairman of the operators’ ne- gotiating committee, follow: Page advertisements will appear throughout the anthracite region, be-; urging immediate resumption of work, pending nego- tiations. The same message in cir- cular form has been distributed by mail to miners direct, business men and residents of the regions gen- erally. The text of the offer follows: “To Anthracite Mine Workers and Their Leaders “The door is open. “You can go to work mow at the wages fixed in the contract that ex- pired August 31, 1925. “We will pay these wages next September—eight months. ““Acceptance of this proposal would itselt constitute a contract. “While wages are coming in coal going out we can arrange U terms of a new contract. Signed by Inglis. The new contract—for a long term—must provide the way to brins out all the facts, prevent suspension and_adjust wages g “But that is_ something work out with the union. “The main thing is that you can go to work at once and be sure of the old wases for at least eight months. You can't lose. Think it over. Talk it over among vourselves and with your leaders. Ask Your friends if it is not a good propo sition. (Signed) “ANTHRACITE OPERATOR ‘CONFERENCE. “WILLIAM W. INGLIS, “("hairman Negotiating Committee. Mr. Kennedy pointed out that the' offer of the operators is similar to that contained in the peace proposal submitted to the miners and operators by the Luzerne County delegation of the Pennsylvania House of Represeat atives December 15. This peace offer was accepted by the operators and re- jected by the miners. Despite the joyous shouts that mn- gled with the Christmas carols in (ne coal flelds when news came t the wage conference would be resumed next Tuesday, indications are that the negotiators will have a rough road to travel. Miners® ginning Sunday in and he we can Agreement Cited. The miners ia accepting the peace proposal of Gov. Pinchot agreed to go to work without an in ease if it were found that an ad- vance in wages would send price of coal. This proposa accepted by the opers ground that it only arbit upward. They proposed without conditions, and thix is the big issue that will be fought out in New York. The check-off, which provides for deducting union dues from mine wages, is a second issue that will be strongly urged and strongly re- sisted. - The next w call for the wage k was issued Christmas and came as a gift to the prostrate coal fields. The meeting will be held with the understanding that any peace proposal may be discussed. Mr. Ken- nedy, who was the senior district uresident of the miners’ union in tne anthracite fields before he was elected {nternational secretary-treasurer, in a tong statement tonight took issue with the non-English-speaking priests in the upper coal fields, who in a letter urged miners tn return t abmit disputed points to Hears Operators’ Voice. He stated the sentiment expressed the letters of the pastors do not flect the sentiment of the priests in nthracite region. but, to the con- trary, they do reflect the thoughts and walicies of the operators. r'he statement also opposes the plan of arbitration proposed by the clergy- en, and states that the anthracite mine workers and their officers are ting for principle, for a just cause, nd will continue their endeavors “un. just and satisfactory agreement rived at.” have read statement, “the Mr. W. W. In Lewis, which by a clerzymen who stated tha esented in a pastoral c sent of the mine wnthracite coal.” I do not understand {he reason or the logic of their initial declaration. It {s not conceivable that hese reverend gentlemen who head parishes can represent hundreds of her parishes in the anthracite ion. 1 happen to know pesitively that n 1 very carefull id letter forwarded . John the L n pacity " (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) ing | i at his home in Hazle- | virtually | ated wages | rbitration } FAMINE RAMPANT IN HARD-COAL REGION, THOUSANDS SUFFERING RUSSO-APAN WAR GRI PROSPECT OF 1Strikers Driven to Desperation by Plight of Freezing, Starving Women and Children—Usual Gay Christmas Mocking Tragedy This Year. | ls | Russia’s Boring Into Orient With Feng as Puppet Seen as Menace. of Situation That Brought on First Fight Being Built Up by Policy of Soviet. sinister With a cold wave sweeping down from the North, temperatures of 30 | pecizl Dispatch to The Star | welfare of those who are better fitted | | (SCRANTON, Pa., December 26.—|to battle the long period of idleness. | | While children of the Nation today | Famine stalks in the desolate areas | are gleefully playing with ot blackened and weather-beaten col | land knicknacks from Sant leries. It is no dream, no picture, bu and “I;m:ml;k‘. from “"‘h‘, Slav |is a heart scene of dire suffering, ks i hey are munching the | go1gering tempest, which may break cakes and sweets of the Yuletide, | forth at any time into a demonstration | there is quite a different picture beins | that will long be remembered. Peace. !"na(‘led throughout the coal regions |arbitrations, seu!emenl—-(hfise' wlll-; —_— of Pennsylvania, where for four |0"Wisps are flitting ever and anon. . 5 [ months the anthracite miners have| Rumors succeed rumors and vanish VICTOR OF TIENTSIN been idle. each new move seems destined to Instead of the hearts all. Machi ie reluan tol give el SPEARHEAD OF DRIVE |there is the bread line, the soup pthagdeadipolf s fonetmiict 1oy, & e Pt e e [1ast & week, u month, six months, or | feienens dud the constamtaniling OCly: 1) the* Meaperation: Jof \ihose: {im | srim-faced miners waiting for some jnediately concerned and those lesser { power to intervene to give them back | sufferers, the consumers, and | their jobs, but vet stubbornly fighting [force a settiement. Hunger will not | on and on until what they term as |be the urge of sacrifice on the part { “just demands” are met by the coal |0f miners. operators. Children are crying for| If this had been the case the settle- | — bread crusts and cherishing them as|ment \;]num ‘}}::\efi!w‘on x(’ee:(‘hl:fll r"";‘e‘;* BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. B : candies and cakes of |80 when st real har A arse heviave e Candien ';“N e ol |Were heing felt by the thousands of | Preoccupied in domestic prosperity sl asons il people living in the zreatest anthracite | @and local political controversies like ilies are living on almost bread and | pRORE NE T e FEETIO A T e water, the health of the people is be- | “'roday a real problem is at hand. unaware of the tremendous events ing undermined. the restlessness of |Local charities have almost reached | piling up In the Far East. Nothing good order s t.wd- lm,.; way to = the end of their resources. The Red |jess than the grim prospect of another daring which bodes luwlessness and | Cross has taken a hand and has done | ysso-Japanese wir it hovering on desperate disregard for society or the | (Continued on Page 3, Column 5) | ihe Asiatic horizon. A= in the case ; lof the first Russo-Japanese war | which ended 20 vears ago, Russia’s {advance across Chini to the very i - | doors of Japan is again the menacinz | { factor in the situation. | ! Developments of the past 48 hours | {are of momentous importance. The | capture of the zreat international [ treaty port of Tientsin by the forces tof the Chinese “Christian general, —— . | - ———es | Feng Hu-Hsiang. is in the n: | . highest degree. Feng is a puppet of i Discovery Leads to Release Cold Wave Sweeps ThiS <ovie russia. He fights with Rus- ! 4 . sian money, Russian arms and Rus of Husband Held After Way—30 Below in Minne- |sian support. When Feng hoisted his E banner over Tientsin it was a i Christmas Tragedy. sota—6 Die in Chicago. |Chinese tuchun's emblem in aspect ! In reality it was the flag of Soviet i —— _— | Russia, carried at lenzth to the gates | o ; taeny {of Port hur, T ‘"”s‘"“’s‘f“\ "‘,"x'd‘ll"_"f&f | pelled czarist Russia 21 years ago Loueman L sonHanis buneslow st 3 It is now a red bear that is pawinz 4420 P street, in which Mrs. Harris | below in Minnesota and the zero mark ' and clawing his way across helpless and her five-vear-old son John lost!reached last night as far south asiand distracted China to the warm their lives and two others were made southern Towa and Illinois, Washing- waters of the China Sea. ill, one critically, was caused by the[ton is in for increasingly colder | Sumsioss. Shosipy il escape of carbon monoxide gas from | weather, with prospect of the mercury | . SAPUECS CCEPR TETTCE the furnace sliding down to within a few degrees || he fall ©f TIenn comes, fot In arriving at this conclusion yes- |of zero by tomorrow morning. e o R Faiee: upORE Ml el the terday afternoon, Coroner J. Ram: These reports from the Weather Bu- | capital of Manchuria. Although the ! Nevitt issued certificates of acci- |reau last night left no hope for an japanese have not effected a tech- dental death in both cases, based on |early let-up of the cold spell which | nical occupation of Mukden, the reports of an autopsy made to him|dropped in on the Capital with the |strengthening of their railway garr! by Deputy Coroners Rogers and |departure of Christmas and may lin- | son there is tantamount to ‘occupa e e e e e Ition. They at any rate are now rattyn fand T x - er) > S i Mukden in such military force that {chemist. The conclusions of Drx Advancing Cold Wave. the city is virtually under Japanese Rogers and Martyn, who performed prediction by the forecaster yester- mastery. The official explanation of | the autopsy, were born out by the|day that this morning would see tem- | Japan's Mukden operations is that | blood examination conducted by Dr.|perature around 14 degrees above : foreign lives and property there are | Rogers. who reported a “definite re- | zero were followed by further indica- in jeopardy hecause of the atta Rtion tolcanbon mibposie iEes: tions of the advance of the cold wave whicn Chang-Tso-din. the bandit war Mannahite e Moy 5 “Bever of | toward the ast and South, With |lord of Manchuria, is facing at the s e SRRy b chances of even Florida catching : hands of his old rival tuchun, Wu | Schenectady. mother of Mrs. Harris ‘yilling frosts” or below freezing tem- | Pei-fu. and on a Christmas holiday visit to| perature in the northern section of | Japan claims to have been asked her daughter's family, lies uncon-|the State hy Monday. Heavy frosts by foreign consular representatives scious at Emergency Hospital—the may even penetrate deep into central at Mukden to protect international me condition when found shortly | Florida, according to the forecast. interests there from danger threat- { after 3 o'clock Friday afternoon by a| . No snow was in sight last night for ened by a clash between the forces I oottty e ¢ thin. | Washington, the forecaster predicting | of Chang and Wu. The United States | hospital physician. Because of this.|fyjr ang colder for Sunday night, with | consul, Samuel Sckobin, did not join jphysicians are unable to make much | yongay fair and continued cold. in such a request. The Japanese {headway in treating her case and lit- | ™ 4 ‘gjnjster indication of the breath are entitled to keep 15.000 so-called | tle hope was held out last night for| of o1d Winter up in Canada was said | raflway guards in jiex recoyax to be the barometer, which, in various :churia tp protect the South Man- i v Youngsters Better. parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. ' churian Railway, which they received i Two others concerned—dJames W.|rose to the unusual high of 31.10 and | ynder the Portsmouth treaty of 1905. | Harris, four yvears old, and Mary Lo.|31:15 inches, according to reports to | No power disputes the full lezality {rena Harris, two vears old, are out|the Weather Bureau. of the military steps Japan has just of danger. James, who was found on| UPPER NEW YORK SHIVERS. |taken. | the bed with his grandmother, is re- | | covering rapidly at Emergency Hos- | Measures of Precaution. vhile 1i authorities know th i pital while little Mary, apparently But all initiated aut | unaffected by the unseen, odorless true inwardness of those steps. Thes | fumes that permeated the household are a far-sighted measure lolhr:;ie\:p still is being carefully watched at| |tion by the Japanese against the cease Georgetown University Hospital. less, ruthless and systematic advance The grief-stricken father, who had | of Soviet Russia through China. Mos. ow s i ' sheviz been held at the seventh precinct po- cow is not interested in bolshevizing lice station for nearly 24 hours pend * China. Moscow’s game is to break up i “hina—to_accomp| e very thin ing an outcome of a subsequent in- China—to_accomplish thi 3 vestigation, was at the home of his {against which the United States suc- n. W cessiully moved vears ago. when father, 3171 Eighteenth street, suffer- John Hay laid down the doctrine of ing from shock. It was he who dis-| "'y the rest of the State fem- the open door and the territorial covered the hodies of his dead wife| nergtures ranged from zero to 1s | tegrity of the old Chinese empire. and dying about lock Friday| ang 20 above. Milk shipments from Russia has been boring her way afternoon. and sounded the alarm.| noripwestern counties to New York China rapidly since 1320. Thi { Immediately on hearing the results of | *gre"USEI€RR COTNE S 10 TEW hation of the “Far Eastern repiib. the autopsy vesterday afternoon, Capt. New England's comparatively mild lic” in Siberia was the first afove in L. J. Stoll of the seventh precinct re- TR R = leased Harris. Called tor by relatives,| (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) ! he was taken to the Eighteenth street address and there collapsed. Sub-Zero Weather Sweeps Into Adi-) rondacks Region. EW YORK, December Sub-zero weather swept Adirondacks in up-State in advance of the intense cold pre dicted for tomorrow. Thermome t Fort Covington. near the n border, and Owlshead. on | the northern slope of the mountains, stood at 18 below. 26 ().~ into _the w York the grandiose plan. It by a Soviet invasigp< of the vast | Chinese Province of Mangolia, which Is now for all practical purposes Russian | territory. That brought red authority to the botrder-of Manchuria, on the 13 FILIPINOS DIE IN FIRE ~'in everything but the South Man- 3 . . " lchurian railway sphere controlled by Nearly Hundred Injured in €hrist- japan. The results of the Washington | Inquest Unnecessary. | ! There will be no inquest over the| two bodies, Coroner Nevitt declared | | last night, explaining “‘nothing can be accomplished by bringing this man (Harris) before a coroner’s jury. Al- | ready he has been submited to enough | | harassing. | The carbon monoxide conclusion of the coroner’s deputies cleared up a | ! perplexing problem in the minds of | | hospital physicians and police who, | while unable to give the cause of the’ i deaths, leaned toward the theory of ptomaine poisoning. A faint odor of mas Eve Blaze in" Movie ! was ostracized. worked in Russian in- | terests, for all Russian Chis |~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) House at Opon. By the-Associated Press. MANILA, December 26.—Thirteen | natives were killed and nearly a hun- dred injured in a fire which destroyed | Fas was said to have baen detected by | oving plcture theater in the town TODAY’S STAR L e torine S e ST aetected bY |of Opon, Cebu Province, on Christmas | e PART ONE—10 PAGES. Christmas afternoon but this was dis- | 4; . An American named Barnum saved | General News—Local. National and pelled because of the wide difference | many lives when he cut an opening | _ Foreign. in the condition of the occupants. The |n' the wall with an ax enabling hun.| Girl Scout News—Page 19. food theory, therefore, was followed |greds to escape when the regular exit | Schools and Colleges—Page 20. closely, the Immunity of Mary from|was jammed. | Radio News and Programs—Pages 24 | the iliness was explained as being due | " The fire started in the machine room | _and 25. to the fact she was not fed solid foods |y the breaking of a film. The audi- | District National Guard—Page 30 from the table. ence, numbering a thousand. rushed | Veterans of the Great War—Page 30. Coroner Nevitt, in to the exits, and many were trampled | Financlal News—Pages 32 and 33. yestightioniofithe case, under foot. The monetary loss was | Fraternal News—Page 34. (Continued on Page 4. small. Army and Navy News—Page 34. o Civilian Army News—Page 39. Roy Scouts—Page 39. making an in- «aid last night Column 5. PART TWO—I8 PAGES. “They Got My Goat,” Says: Artist uits White Collars and Tea| g teg, Eahora, e As He Q - | Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. ! ! Reviews of New Books—Page 4. ! By the Associated Press. |is all right as a place where pictures | Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 12. NEW ORLEANS, December 26.—|can go after they are painted, but; Around the City—Page 14. | George Hart, New York artist and|they will take any artist who is| News of the Clubs—Page 15. | president of the Brooklyn Society of worth his salt and they'll strangle| D. A. R. Activities—Page 16. = " ailed from New Orleans for |Fim: If you're going to do anything | Y. W. C. A. News—Page 16. era s o get out and settle Y yourself.” | la fiight trom civilization. > PART THRE! PAGES. From Vera Cruz, Hart plans to | Hart, whose etchings hang in New | travel Soross the Isthmus of Tehaun- o rk's Metropolitan Museum, the | tepec to Salina Cruz and from there play. > ‘E':;t‘l(nfn .\Iuseupr:: and South Kensing- |80 to Tehauntepec, where he Will | Music in Washington—Page 5. ton Museum in London, said he was make his home outside the city, Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 and 7 in full Aight from white collars and 4| amons the Ouxaca and Thuanas In- PART FOUR—i PAGES. Icups of tea. “They got my goat, dians. ¥ vid There's marvelous stuff to bej Pink Sports Section he said. 1 “If you're going to paint a picture fooeit | painted in Mexico,” he said, “and I'm | 5 zoing v H PART FIVE—8 PAGES. | that’s ‘worth painting or etch a plate [50ing to be down at Tehauntepec a S. | worth etching, you've got to go off [long, long time. T'm through” with ! in a corner by yourself and suffer,” |civilization, except for an gccasional | {continued the artist, whose friends | visit, for as long as T live."" i call_him “Pop.” Hart set out confidently on his - o You can't do It wearinz a white [quest for “men with. hair on their| GRAPHIC SECTION—$ PAGES. collar and holding a tea cup and sit- World Events in Pictures. | chests !ting around with a bunch of artists| Traveling. he said, is no novelty to z [talking art with & capital *A." Civili COMIC SECTION—i PAGES. Betty: Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mrs. i- | him as he has lived in the South | | ion. with white collars and steam-|Sea Islands. Alaska. Egypt and n',h.rl heated houses, subways and Laxivabs.i’-ul»o{»lh'er‘fi'av places, Mutt and Jeff. tures. The Rambler—Page 3 L] CHINESE CONFLICT whence Japan ex-| in | southern Man- | was followed | | conference of 1921, from which Russia : Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION MORNING, DECEMBER | | | | | | | | America generally | Swday Star, v Sunday morn and service wi “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and ing to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 ill start immediately. () Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS. g N SUCH W Z 7 2 \\ PUBLISH ©_~ 5. 0.P.T0 SUPPORT FARM COMMISION {Administration Offers Ex i port Body to Aid in Dis- posal of Surpluses. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The administration is ready to sup port a y n for a Government bhoard or commission to aid the farmers in the disposal of their surplus products it was made clear by Secretary Jar dine of the Department of Agricul- iture, following conferences vesterday with President Coolidge and Repre sentative Dickinson of lowa The administration has not. how ever, changed its position in opposi ition to the Government's going into the business of bu and selling farm products, or otherwise seeking 1o !fix prices. the Secretary said. Furthermore, it has developed that {many of the farm leaders in Congress {and out who have hitherto demanded the adoption of the Haugen-McNa plan for an export corporation to buy and sell surplus produ particu larly for export, have abandoned the idea. They are ready to !agreement with the administration {it is said, for the adoption of some h plan as outlined hy Secretary ardine. Board to Have Wide This plan _contgmplates {tion of a commistion under the De | partment of Agviculture, with broad powers to assist the farmers and their co-operative organizations. with |the aid of private capital and the ! banks, to handle a surplus, | the prices of farm products may not ibe forced to a point where the producers cannot realize a reasonab] ! profit. or may be forced 4;& to pre ta loss. | Serious efforts are five form on it to 3 i put such a plan into £ }an:l to get favo iony { Congress. 3 | This legislation {10 and sypplemental of the adminis- trationss” bill already introduced in hothehouses of Congress placing the ernment squarely behind the co. operative movement,and providing f the creation of a division of co-op- ! erative marketing in the Departmen; of Agrciulture. i | Secretary Jardine plans a series of | conferences in January with leaders and editors. 1t is his hope that in these conferences it will be possible to reach an agrecment satis factory to the farmers generally. His idea is to have the conferences com- pleted by the end of January so that Congress will have the benefit of any (Continued on Page 3, Powers. crea- Column 4) {HELP ASKED BY SHIP GROUNDED IN BAY Crew of Schooner Minnie and Anna | in Peril, Says Message Call- ing for Cutter. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, December | two-master schooner Minnie and Em- ma, Florida bound from Baltimore, was reported aground and awash | near Tangier Island Light in Chesa- i peake Bay off the coast of Virginia, in a message received today by C. C. Paul & Co., ship's brokers. The crew | was reported in danger, and thé mes- sage was relayed to Washington with {a request for a cutter. ! The Apache was reported proceed- ing to the scene. i Capt. J. N. Scott and a crew of five |are aboard. The vessel is owned by | P. P. Cabel, New York. DRUSE PEACE REPORTED. Chiefs Said to Have Accepted French Proposals. LONDON, December 26 (#).—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from ‘Btgdad gives a report brought by a | convoy from Syria that the chiefs of {the Druse tribesmen in Syria have |accepted peace proposals offered by | the French authorities. An armistice was reported to have | | been signed several days ago between | |the Druse tribesmen and the new | French high commissioners in Syria, | Henri de Jouvenal. This report came | from Cairo, Egypt. The French for- leign office admitted that negotiations { looking to peace were going on in | 8yria, but that no final signature had vet been affixed. It was admitted, however, that signing of an armistice ; jat any moment would not surprse the foreign office. reach an | =0 that | will be in addition | farm | | 26.— The 9 “Newsboy” of 94 Leaves $50,000 to Education Bureau By the Associated Press PORTLAND, Orez., 26.—Francis Gurks, 94-year-old “newsboy.” a picturesque charac- ter, who died Thursday, left an es tate of nearly $50,000 to the United States Bureau of Education Clad in rags. with burls ped about his feet in place shoes, Gurks was on his corner in the downtown district every night crying his papers. He died with out any known relatives Search of his effects has revealed investments in bonds and stocks Though known as Gurks, his real name is believed to have been 0. E. Green 1S, PARLEY ACTION GRATIFES FRANCE Decision to Attend Geneva Arms Conference Relieves Paris Uneasiness. December BY CONSTANTINE BROW By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily Newes._ PARIS, December 26.—French pd- litical leaders connected with - the Leazue of Nations received wefth sat isfaction the announcementthat Presi- dent Coolidge intends sending an American delezatiogefo spariicipate in the league’s di nt conference. Certain unegsfhess at first prevailed | because it s nored that the ae | ceptangezhy the United States would be sulject to the condition that the new* disarmament parley should take ynlace at Washington, Announcement that the American President will send |a delegate to Geneva was received with zreat relief. The importance of the meeting to he held at Geneva February 15 must not, r, be exaggerated. sk of the delegates who are zoing 10 the league capital on that day i< to prepare an for the conference which, acc 10 the estiniates of even the most ontimistic experts, will last at least teen months. The only objects of the Feb. ruary meeting are to get acquainted with the general program drafted hv the council of the league and to es tablish a program for the study of | topice which will come up during the |long conference. | Difficulties. of course, are contem | plated from the very beginning of the preliminary meeting. The general pro- gram established by the council pro- | vides discussion of land as well am naval disarmament. This program has | been accepted by practically all of the | nations, except Great Britain, whose | delegates insist that the two questions | | be disassociated. In order to comply | with this demand of the British, a new | decision of the council will be neces- sary, and the western powers won't | bother any longer to ask the Rus-| sians to participate in any disarma- | mant conferences. ! (Coprright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) BOY 15, SHOOTS MAN. Slayer [Escapes After Killing Opponent in Quarrel. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., December | 26 (#).—Sykie Oncks was shot and | killed here last night by Arthur Rob- erts, 15-year-old boy, who ran away | | immediately after he had fired a bullet into Oncks® head and has not been ap- | |prehended. The shooting occurred lni an apartment house. Witnesses told the police that the boy and man quar- | reledy and when Oncks advanced on Roberts the latter drew a revolver and fired. 5135 000 DAMAGE INALEXANDRIA FIRE Four Men Injured and Navy Torpedo Plant Threat- ened for Time. Four volunteer jured and property at $135.000 to $1 mes which part e brick warehous lnte vesterday and threatened : naval torpedo plant containing $20 000,000 worth of unloaded shells. The victims were: Leo Lyons. fell several feet from a wet roof and suffered serious in- ternal injur Clarence Padgett. cut on h: falling brick. Not serious. rank Simpson. fingers lacera by glass in breaking window hese. Not serious Tom Rowen, struck and knee injured All were cted at Alex dria Hospital, and. with_the excep- tion of Lyons, went to tieir homes Started ju” Warehouse. “he JArgest in Alexand <ince 1 truction last Summer of the N 1 Fruit and Products Co. and #he second recently in which gerous injuries have been suffered firemen were in- amage estimated 000 caused b ¢ destroved two at Alexandria by 1 for by fire truck Not ser: B firemen. originated in the rear tory warehouse of Holstein, Kirk & Co., dealers in gro- ceries and bottled goods, on King street between Union and Strand. THe adjoining structure, occupied by the same company, became iznited before arrival of the firemen, who were summoned by Steve Davis Davis rushed into the warehouse and telephoned an alarm. Although the walls of the buildings were left standing, practicall the whole interior was damaged by either fire or water. The origin of the fire is unknown and there was ne estimate of the damage given. However, the build ings were said to be valued at be- tween $60,000 and $70,000 and are said to have contained about $75,000 worth of goods. A large crowd looked on (Continued on Page Column 1.) 7 SHENANDOAH HERO HELD IN DRY CASE Sightseers Ruined Farm So He Had to Bootleg, Man Will Tell Grand Jury. The fou: Harvey By the Associated Press. BELLEVILLE, Ohio, December 26 —How the wrecking of the Navy dirig ible Shenandoah on his farm near Ava, Ohio. last September, caused the ruin of his farm and drove him hootlegging, is the story Andy Gamar is prepared to tell the Noble County grand jury. Gamary roes of the disaster, awaiting grand jury one of the he- is now in jail action. having | heen recently arrested for possessing | liquor. after Contrary to stories published the wreck that Gamary and | other farmers of the neighborhood | would become rich by collections from sightseers and by -compensation paid by the Government, Gamary says the laccident ruined him. When the wreck took place, Gam- ary relates he had a nice little truck zarden all ready for harvesting. What not destroved by the wreckage was trampled by the sightseers and his well, drained bone dry on the day of the wreck still remains so. So he says he was forced to seek another occupation. When officers raided Gamary's place they found him in bed and for safe- keeping he had taken his still to bed with him. to | ! REORGANZING BL (LK. BEFOREJONE MADEC. 0.PCOAL {Mapes Plan to Have Board | Devise Procedure Held Generally Approved. \PRESIDENT SUPPORTS SENATOR SMOOT PLAN I |Canvass Shows Many for Prin- ciple. But Differ on Method of Approach. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Reorganization and consolidation of Government departments is one of a limited number of major problems which the House rules committee is siously considering with a view to zetting favorable action early in Jan- vary =o that the measure may be put through the Senate before June 1, which is the date tentatively set by some administration leaders for ad- journment. | This is one of the pieces of legisla- tion recommended by President Cool- idge and it will be considered by the rules committee, which is the policy ind program committee of the House, ziving privileged place to measures which are considered of more press- ing importance. There are now before the Senate and House a number of bills proposing ; variations of two distinct principles on which the reorganization plan may be carried out. One calls for direct action by Congress in allocating each agency and activity of the Govern- ment under the reorzanization plan recommended by the joint committes and headed by a personal representa- tive of President Harding, under whose administration the Brown com- mitte crea The other scheme is for Conzress to authorize a com. mission to make the allocation of agencies and activities subject to ap-_ proval by the President. Mapes Fathers Plan. . . The latter plan is fathersd by Rep- Mapes, Republican, of . & member of the joint com- mittee. who formesfy was chajrman »f the House Digtrict committee. and who during Jis 14 vears of continu- ous service-in the House has had ex- ceptionak opportunity to inform him celf Uyro; Iy about the operations of the Government. Sentiment in the Jbise rules committee, of which Rep- fresentative Snell of New York is chairman. it is authoritatively de- clared, inclines strongly toward sup- vort of the Mapes resolution. This would create the ‘“reorganization hoard,” to be in existence until June 30, 1927, and authorize it to make consolidatio reorganizations and transfers of agencies and activities, and generally carry out the spirit of President Coolidze’s last recommenda- n. in which ke said: No final action has vet been taken on the measure providing for the re- organization of the various depart- ments. 1, therefore, suggest that this measure, which will be of great bene- fit to the eficient and economical ad- ministration of the business of the ment, be brought forward and passed.” Mapes' resolution was drafted rry cut the President’s wishes and is based on what his experience tells him is the rizht course to pur- sue to secure efficient reorganization. There has been some confusion over the reorganization plan since it was suggested. first by Senator Walter E. of New Je that Congress ould act through a commission or similar agency in making the alloca- tion of various units of the Federal service. Those who support this schente argue that a small group of two Senators, two Representatives and fifth person to be named by the President could thus deal expeditiously with the problem in a much more satisfactory way than in throwing the matter open to the whole 96 members of the Senate and 435 members of the House for solution. This scheme simply provides for a delegation of authority, always subject to presi- i dentizl approval, for the purpose of expediting the consolidation. President for Smoot Plan. President Coolidge has repeatedly told callers who brought up the Edge { or other plans of reorganization that he favored the Smoot proposition. It was assumed that by this he meant that he was behind the scheme orig- inally submitted by the Utah Senator at the conclusion of the Brown com- mittee’s study. But Senators Edge ! and Smoot and Mr. Mapes have been in conference with the President, and a prominent member of the House rules committee authoritatively states that both Senator Smoot and Mr. | Mapes have discussed specifically with the President the procedure outlined in the Mapes resolution and that he | is not opposed to it. | “That is the only practical and feas- | ible way to handle the problem of a! location.” said this authority toda: | “While I cannot speak for the entlre rules committee,” he said, T feel quite sure the common sense provision of the Mapes resolution will appeal to them all, and that some such plan will be reported to the House so that it can be given consideration promptly after the first of the year. We are | exceedingly anxious to get for the | Government the benefits that will cer- tainly result from reorganization, and I am convinced that the easiest and quickest way would be through a dele- By Cable to The Star and New York World. ROME, December 26.— Pope Pius has received the message of the American United Committee for Pro- hibition Enforcement, but is reserved concerning his reply. The view is taken that while the Catholic Church teaches temperance, it does not and cannot support the ‘whole program of the prohibitionists because Christ Himself countenanced the drinking of wine, as more than once set forth in the New Testament. The reply of the Pope is likely to take the form of concillatory advice which will be disseminated through the local church authorities, rather than any axnlicit utterance for or against the prohibition program. It} Pope Will Avoid Appearance of Meddling With U. S. Issue in Reply to Dry Law Plea will certainly, however, stress the duty of all good citizens to obey the law no matter how onerous it may be. This is entirely in keeping with both the letter and spirit of the Pope's encyclical. The papal atti- tude is a firm intention of keeping | the Holy See from the slightest ap- pearance of interfering with Ameri- | can political issues. (Copyright. 19265.) Clinton N. Howard, chairman of the United Committee for Prohibi- tion Enforcement, early in December wrote to Pope Pius from here ask- ing him to lend his support to “civil authority” to enforce the prohibition law in America. gation of authority as suggested by | Mr. Mapes.” May Tackle Old Work. It is foreseen that the reorgani: {tion board proposed in the Mapes | resolution might be required to thresh | over again part, at least, of the work already done by the Brown commit- tee. Assurances are given, however, ! that this review would not be any- iwhere near as extensive as would probably be found necessary if Con- gress itself should undertake to mo into the whole matter in debate and | attempt to decide each transfer upon l its merits. s Mr. Mapes® resolution provides that | the board shall “survey the adminis- | trative branches of the Government | with a view to determining what changes in organization are necessary to place under the same administra- tive supervision all related activities lor activities which have a common major purpose, and when it shall find " (Continued on Page 8, Column 2,