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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
DEPORTATION INQUIRY OPENS
House Committee Members Seek
Causes of Delay at Ellis Island.

NEW YORK. November 24.-Formal
inquiry into the causes of delay in de-
portation of radical aliens held at
Ellis Island was begun today by mem
bers of the House committee on immi-
grafton. The committee was especial
" curious about reds" brought here
from the state of Washington for de-
portation last April. Many were re-
leased after a removal here. Repre-
sentative Albert Johnson, chairman Of
the committee, declared that radical
Russians were being struggled into
the United States from Mexico at the
rate of 100 a day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
Aidoyne, Famous Home, Burns.

FLORENCE, Ala. November "a
Aidoyne, the famous country home of
Alexander Donaldson Coffee, four
miles from this city. was destroyed by
fire yesterday. The place was bought
by Gen. Andrew Jackson in 1886 for
his ward, Col. Andrew Jackson Hutch
ms, and Mr.. Coffee was his direct de-
scendant. The old place has been the
scene Of many brilliant social events.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
COAL MEN ACQUITTED.
Superintendent and Assistant Freed
of Manslaughter Charge.

SCRANTON, Pa, November ga
verdict of not guilty was rendered to-
day in the case against w. w. Inglis,
general superintendent of the Lacka-
wanna Coal Company, and D. B. Dim
mick his assistant. They were
charged with involuntary man.
slaughter in connection with the
death of a boy who was killed in a
mine cave-in. 1t was alleged the off,
Gals had been criminally careless in
operating the mine. The cost was put
on the county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
PRINCE OF WALES is
GREETED AT HALIFAX

HALIFAX, N. S., November "a
Steamer sirens, and factory WHISTLES
greeted the Prince of Wales when
he arrived in port today on the Brit
ish battle cruiser Renown. salute
of twenty-one guns was fired from q
battery at the citadel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
SEES NEED Of D. c.
RENT BODY At ONCE
Senator Sherman Declares
Conditions Demand Imme-
date Appointments.

1.-The District of Columbia rent COM
mission. provided for in the law
amending the food control act, so as
to strengthen the hands of the gov
eminent in dealing with the
so far as / am informed, although the
act was approved by the President
over a month ago-in fact, on October
o." said Senator Sherman. chairman
of the District committee today.
ssssTha-nseesEity for~a.Iae appointment
of this commission without further
delay is great" he continued. "The
conditions in the District of Column
bia, with it's congestion Of population,
which called for the enactment of
this law, are just as bad as when
the bill was passed by the, Senate.
There are upward of 100000 en-
ployes of the government living here
and they are all greatly interested in
this matter. The rent commission was
planned to insure these government
employees justice in dealing with land
lords"
Gives Case in Point.
II know of case of an employe at
the CdpltOI VINO is deprived OF neat
in the apartment which he occupies
because the landlord is seeking to
make him pay an increase of 20 per
cent. Other tenants in this same
apartment house are suffering from
similar treatment. There is no coal
in the cellar of the apartment. They
cannot even start a fire themselves.
Much injustice is being done the
tenants in this city. and there are
some cases where the owners of
houses are being treated unjustly I'M
der the operation of the Salisbury
resolution. Congress provided the rent
commission to handle these cases and
provided that it should be appointed
by the President. 1t should be APP
pointed"
Senator Sherman, discussing the
legislative situation as far as the Dis
trict of Columbia is concerned, said
he felt sure the firemen's increased
pay bill would be taken up by his
committee as soon as the Senate
meets again, and be reported favor
ably. The bill has passed the House
and it is expected the Senate will
follow suit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
Daylight Robbers Get $4,000.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, November "a
Four bandits, two of them armed,
staged a daylight hold-up this morn
ing robbing Barnett Grossman of
$4,000 in cash almost in front of his
home, and escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
Tinoco's Assassin Executed.

SAN SALVADOR, Sunday, November
23.-Jose Augustin Villalobos, who as
sasinated Gen. Joaquin Tinoco when
the latter was Costa Rican minister of
war, has been executed. according to
advices from Punta Arenas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
Wood Ship to Sail for Ecuador.

NEW ORLEANS, La, November "a
The Nika, 3,5O0-ton wooden steam
ship. the first of the newly formed
Ecuador steamship line. will sail from
here December Is for Ecuador. it is
announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
INDIANAPOLIS ENDS
BUSINESS DAY At 4
/" TO CONSERVE COAL
Factories to Close Three
Days a Week-Situation
in Other Sections.
By the Associated Press.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, November "a.
Indianapolis started on real coal
conservation today. Practically every
store and factory in the city was ex-
pected to close at 4 o'clock this aft
ernoon, the closing hour agreed upon
at meeting Saturday, when it also
was decided to shut down all factories
the last three days of this week. The
closing rules were not made manda-
tory. but It was said they would be
adopted generally In case no settle
ment Of the miners wage controversy
has been reached in the meantime an
other meeting will be held next Satur-
day to determine the course for the
following week.
in all sections of the state, and other
Industrial centers are watching the
Indianapolis plan with keen interest.
Reports from the coal fields are that
the situation is unchanged SO far as
the Indiana mines are concerned.
Men Firm in Pittsburgh District.
PITTSBURGH, November 24.-rhe
union miners Of the Pittsburgh dis
trict will not return to work until
their leaders and the coal operators.
COMMITTEES have signed a new wage
agreement in Washington. was the
opinion expressed at United Mine
" Vi mel mere To-Day.
Fear of a possible coal shortage
here has subsidized somewhat, but
members of the fuel distribution COM
mittee continue to urge that con-
sumers practice every economy to pre-
vent coal famine.
West Virginia Situation Improves.
CHARLESTON. w. Va, November
24.-The coal situation in West Vir-
GINA was further improved today,
according to reports from operators.
which indicated that only a few
miners in the unionized New River and
Kanawha fields were idle. Produc-
ton in non-union fields of the state
was declared to be normal and in some
instances in excess of normal
Eleven hundred miners failed to re-
port at Ward, W. Va, today, and the
mines of the Keelly's Creek Colliery
Company were closed down. Two hum
dred miners at Plymouth also re-
manned away from the pits today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
Ideas on Associations Vague.
Confident of Gaining Support.

The canvassers are confident that
the present drive will win, for the
associations the support of hundreds
of good citizens who have been igno-
rant of the objects of the organiza-
tions.
More than 400 notices have been
sent out by the Brightwood Citizens
Association of meeting to be held
in the Sunday school house of the
Emory Church, Georgia avenue and
Rittenhouse street, Friday evening,
at which Senator Sherman of Illinois,
chairman of the Senate District COM
mittee, will speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
New York Legion to War on Reds,

NEW YORK, November 24-War
against anarchy in all its various
phases has been declared by the
American Legion here in letters of
instructions to every legion post in
the state. signed by Russell E. Sard,
state commander,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS. November 1o.-Europe is
going to vote in the next national
and state elections in America.
Tho whims an5- grievances of every
nationality on this side of the water
will have an important bearing in the
results.
Many politician breasting the
political maelstrom will encounter
swift tides and currents that he reck-
oned not of. The entrance, in more or
less organized form. of the prejudices
Of European peoples is certain to have
its weight in the firal settlement of
domestic issues, for antipa thies which
have been aroused l., Europe because
of Americas stand in the settlement
Of territorial and political questions
on this continent are certain to have
parties which advanced the men who
did the interfering and in many cases
prevented the full realization of ma
tional aspirations in adjustments made
in the Paris peace conference.
President Is Blamed.
President Wilson today does not
hold that popularity that carried him
on the fioodtides of power and in
fluence in the peace conference. Bar
ring England and Czechoslovakia
there is not country today in Eu-
rope that does not blame him for I'M
realized hopes or thwarted ambitions.
Whether, if the facts were all known,
he is responsible for all the discomfort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
Demand Delivered Wednesday.

The American demand was delivered
to the Mexican foreign Office last
Wednesday, but as late as last Friday
jenkins still was held at Puebla and
so far as the State Department has
been advised he has not been released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
Reply Expected Today.

State Department officials expected
a reply today to the American note
demanding the immediate release of
Jenkins, who was rearrested Tues
day on additional charges in, connec-
ton with his abduction by bandits.
A dispatch bearing on the~Jenklns
case was received yesterday at the
Mexican embassy and it was assumed
that this was Mexico's reply. While
there has been no indication as to
Mexico's attitude, refusal to release
the consular agent would not come as
a surprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
MAN
HOUSES HIS FAMILY
OVER D. c. MORGUE
Living Quarters Held added
Compensation" Salary Re-
cIassifiers Are Told.
INCREASED PAY is URGED
FOR VARIOUS EMPLOYEES
Janitors, Watchmen and Custodians
If Buildings Included in
List Heard Today.

A family living over the District
Elorgue; a government Waterman, OF
a basic salary of S720 a year, estab-
lished in 1860, working for fourteel-
ynsrs with but two Christmases and
one Thanksgiving off in all that time;
a huge safe bending the floor in
building D" and endangering the
lives of hundreds of clerks; men
earning $1,000 a year in charge OF
government property worth millions
of dollars-theSe were some OF the
facts revealed to the joint congress
sional commission on Reconstruction
of salaries in the District at the hear
ing TODAY for the custodian and jani-
tor service in the federal departments
JanitorS, -watchmen or guards, Gus
todians of buildings. charwomen, the
District morgue officers, the head ami
NAL keeper at the Zoo. the District
pound and the market master of the
District presented pleas for salary in
creaSeS-
DR., Carr Astonishes. Commission.
In arguing for a salary scale of
$3.50 a month and 500 month for the
morgue master and assistant morgue
master of the District, respectively,
DIR. w. B. Carr. deputy coroner of the
District. astonished members of the
Redistribution commission when he
told them the assistant morgue master
and his family live over the morgue
These quarters, DIR. Carr declared. are
regarded as extra compensation"
He lives over the morgue" ex-
claimed Commissioner Henry Allen
Cooper. you call that added COM
pensation?"
DIR. Carr explained that he did not
so regard it, but that it was COM
monty so regarded.
do you think a family. including 2
wife and child. should live over a
lmorgue?" asked Mr.. Cooper.
II do not" replied the deputy coro-
her.
DR.. Carr told of the long service of
the local morguemaster and his as
sistant, and of their efficiency and
honesty. To illustrate the latter quail
ity. DR.. Carr declared that RECENTLY
a body that had been searched by the
police for money and passed 20. K"
was brought to the morgue. Nc
money was discovered by the police
The morguemaster. DR.. Carr declared
found $4,000 on the body of the dead
Heavy Safe Menace.
A huge safe weighing $500 pounds
sitting on four square feet of space
when the floor load" of building B."
oHe VI the lcHlpordry once structure
south Of Pennsylvania avenue, is but
seventy-five pounds pressure per
square foot. was the condition re-
vealed by E. NJ Dulin of the State
War and Navv buildings
The floor of the room, Mr. Dulin
stated. was sagging visibly from the
weight of the safe. which had been
brought into the building at night, he
said. He instanced this as an example
of the knowledge which the building
custodians must have. He told of
millions of square feet of government
Office property and stocks of supplies
and equipment amounting to thou
sands of dollars under the care of men
being paid as low as $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
.CANvASSERS START
ENROLMENT WORK
|NC|T|zENSH|P DRIVE
Members to Be Sought in
Every Section o.. City-So-
IiCitorS Well Received.

With the spectacular opening Of tfe
drive over, canvassers in every Sec
ton of the city will start out this
evening to enroll every resident Of
the District in the citizens associa-
ton in his or her neighborhood. They
will continue to canvass their neigh
borhoods until December 1.
w. B. Westlake, president of the
Federation of Citizens Associations.
today took charge of the drive in the
downtown part of the city. He issued
an appeal for canvessers to assist
him. Volunteers should report at the
headquarters of the drive committee,
room SOL, District building
Nearly all of the canvassing in the
neighborhoods will have to be done
after working hours in the afternoon
and evening. For this reason reports
of the progress Of the drive probably
will not be available for several days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
us NOTE T0MEX|C0
NOT YET ANSWERED
Demand for Release Of Con-
su "a {. Agent Jenkins Is Be-
fore Carranza Cabinet.

The American governments note de-
manding the Immediate release OF
William o. Jenkins, American con-
sular agent at Pueb1a, is understood
to have been considered by the Mexi-
can cabinet last Friday, the State De-
partment announced today. Gov. Ca
brera of Puebla was present, but the
departments advices did not say what
action. if any, was taken.
Statement by Department.
The departments statement follows:
THE department has not received
the answer Of the Mexican govern
ment to the American note calling for
the immediate release of William o.
Jenkins the American consular agent
at Pueb1a, Mex, who was rearrested
and put in the penitentiary shortly
after his release by Kidnapers near
Puebla. 1t is understood that the Mexi-
can cabinet had the note under con-
sideration Friday, and that Gov. Ca
brera of Puebla was called in from
Puebla for report"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
"Get" Game Goes On.

In the meantime, it is a game Of
get-as-m uch-as-you- Both OPP
orators and miners are trying to do
at a profit. The restraining
hand of the government is upon them
both to keep their demands from inn
posing too large a burden on the pub
Hc The differences between the
miners who want 81 per cent, the OPP
orators who offer 90 per cent and the
lContinued on SECOND Page.1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24

Saturdays Net Circulation, 9I,z4S
Sundays Net Circulation, S6,705
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24
WEATHER.

Fair tonight and tomorrow; gentle
winds.
Temperature for twenty -four hours
ended at pm. today: Highest, Sc, at
pm. yesterday; lowest, 81, at 8 am.
today.
Full report on page %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24

CONTINUED on Second Page.a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-24

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication OF special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
GENERAL DISARMAMENT
HAS BEEN AGREED UPON
BY PEACE DELEGATES
STATES GREEK CLAIMS
TO SUPREME COUNCIL
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. February g Premier
Fenizelos OF Greece was before the
supreme council of the peace con-
ference at its session this morning
and made Abatement on the
claims of GREECE. The appearance
of the Gtsk premier before the
council was,announced in the Off
cial statepAAt given out after the
session.
Premier Venizelos will continue
his presentation of the case of
Greece at tomorrow mornings ses-
sion of the council, it was added.
The Czechoslovak delegates will
again be heard at tomorrow's ses-
sion. IL was also announced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
FOR CONFERENCE IN
U. S. ON CHILD WELFARE

PARIS, February (by the Asso-
cIated Press).-Miss Julia c. Lathrop.
chief of the child welfare division of
the United States Department of
Labor has been in conference here
with a number of persons from France
and Belgium relative to an internao
tional child welfare conference to be
neid in the United States in April.
She mas succeeded in interesting them
IN the project and will soon leave for
Rome, where she will continue her
mission. She has been authorized to
invite a certain number of persons TO
ehe conference as guests of the Amer
lean government
1t is planned to have the delegates.
after convening at Washington, tour
the country and hold meetings in
localities where there is opportunity
TO study, at first hand, the problems
involved in the betterment of condi-
tons surrounding children
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
Division Complaints.
GEN. CHARLES P. EAGAN DIES.
Retired at Own Request Following
Controversy With Gen. Miles.

NEW YORK, February 3.-The
death of Brig. Gen. Patrick Eagan.
who won fame as an Indian fighter in
the 70s, is announced. Gen. Eagan.
who was seventy nine. died in hos
pital Saturday night. Born in Ire
land, the general came to America
when a boy and had served in the
Army for thirty years. when he was
retired at his own request, in 1900.
Following the Spanish war, Gen.
Eagan, who then held the office of
commissary General of subsistence was
tried by court martial convened in this
city, as "A result of a controversy with
Gen Nelson A. Miles regarding the
alleged issue to the Army of "embalmed
beef" through faulty inspection by
subsistence officers.
The trial was a sensational one, and
resulted in the relief from Office and
subsequent retirement of Gen. Eagan in
December. 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
BAN ON YOUNG LIEBKNECHT

BERLIN, Saturday, February l (by
the Associated Press).--The pupils
of the senior class of the Berlin high
school, which was attended by Hell
rnuth Liebknecht, an eighteen-year-
old son of the late DR.. Carl Lieb-
knecht, who was killed recently in
Berlin. struck Friday because young
Liebknecht attempted to resume his
place in his class. The strikers de-
ciared that they would not remain
members of any class to which the
youth who fired with machine guns
on our fathers and brothers and
otherwise participated in active hos
tilities against the states" belonged.
Young Liebknecht was . member of
the Spartacan forces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
EIGHT U. S. SOLDIERS KILLED
Thirty Injured in Collision in
France-Were on Way Home.

TROYES. France. February d
Eight United States soldiers were
killed and thirty injured when troop
train conveying American soldiers
from Chaumont to Brest collided with
two German locomotives standing in
the station at Montieramey, near here.
The men were on their way to Bresst
to take ships for the United States:
The dead and injured We're taken to
Bar-SurAube.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
Hindenburg Warns People.

LONDON, February I'm accept
ing the freedom of the town of Cas-
sci, Field Marshal Won Hindenburg,
according to the Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Amsterdam, said the
time was not for diplomas and hon
ors. but for work, and that the de-
fense of Germany was threatened in
the east. The field marshal Oh leav-
ing CasseI, went 10 kelSberG, which
is the headquarters of the German
armies operating against the Poles
and the bolsheviki.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
PARLIAMENT TO MEET.

LONDON, February (by the Asso-
eiated Press).-No British parliament
in century. except the parliament of
Premier Asquith, which had on its
shoulders the heavy responsibility of
deciding whether or not Great Britain
would enter the European war, ever
met with more important work to be
dealt with than the house of COM
mons of Premier Lloyd George will
find when it holds its first meeting on
Tuesday.
All the problems of the new house
may be summarized in the one word
reconstruction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
Rombay Strike Declared Off.

BOMBAY. India, Sunday FEBRUARY
. via MontreaL-A great strike which
has affected eighty-siX cotton fac
otries during the last three weeks
has been declared off. The employers.
on the advice of the governor of
Bombay, granted a 20 per cent IN
crease in wages and pohus OF
twenty rupees to- the men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
For Men Who Waive Travel Pay
Consider Only Exceptional Gases

1T must be understood" says the
departments announcement. that dis
charges or furloughs of this kind will
be given only in exceptional cases.
Requests for discharge must clearly
show that the sickness is of such a
critical nature as will require the SOL
dier's Immediate presence or that dis
tress in mans family is such as can
not be relieved by allotments of
money MADE under the war risk in
surance act"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-03
DEMANDS INQUIRY
IN ARMY CHARGES
Representative Siegel Asks
Committee to Investigate
Treatment of Officers.

That all charges made on the floor
of the House in regard to the mana ge-
ment of military affairs and of irregu-
larities in the recall of officers should
be Investigated by a special House
committee named by the Speaker is
provided, in resolution introduced
today by Representative Siegel.
Report of Reprimand.
MIR. SiegeI first reviewed some of
the apparent Irregularities about
demanding explanation. These in
cluded the report, previously printed
in The Star, that Gen. Enoch H.
Crowder, provost marshal general
who developed the selective service
plan, is said to have been reprimand-
ed by Gen. March, chief of staff, for
expressing his views before a con-
gressional committee.
Another charge that would be in
vestigated by this resolution regards
the recall of Gen. w. L. Sibert, who
commanded the first contingent of the
American Army sent abroad. but was
relieved and sent home when it ap-
peared that he might reasonably ex-
pect the rank of lieutenant general
The charges made repeatedly on the
floor and supported principally by
Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts
regarding the removal of Maj. Gen.
Clarence X. Edwards from command
of the 26th Division. composed OF New
England National Guard troops, and
who fought with them along the
Meuse, would also come within the
scope of the Siegel resolution.
Division Complaints.
Claims that injustice was done to
the 2Sth Division, composed of Penn
syIvania National Guard, commands
and to the 35th Division, composed of
the national guardsmen of Missouri
and Kansas, both of which went
through the terrific conflict in the
Argonne forest, were also specifically
brought to the attention of the House
by Representative Seigel, as demand
ing an explanation. under his resolu
tion.