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Evening star., 1919-02-28
VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN
REPORTED FAVORABLY
Bill Leaves Senate Finance COM
mittee in Form Passed
by House.

The victory liberty loan bill passed
W esday by the House yesterday
was ordered reported favorably by the
Senate finance committee without any
change in the form in which It passed
the House.
On the final vote the democrats
voted solidly in favor of presenting
the bill without amendment while all
republicans were recorded in opposi-
ton, although their opposition was
directed primarily at the provision au-
thorizing one billion dollars for the
War Finance Corporation to make ad-
vances in extension of foreign COM
merce.
Administration leaders, after the
committees action, said they were not
confident of enactm ent of the bill be-
fore adjournment. The republicans. II
was said, planned to offer several
amendments and also oppose vigor-
ously the War Finance Corporation 5
funds.
Complicated in consideration of the
bill was the controversy over an extra
session of Congress and President
wilson's announced decision not to
call one before he returns from Eu-
rope. 1t was pointed out that failure
of the bill, regarded as essential to
success of the loan campaign to begin
in April. might be made a factor in
forcing an early extra session.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
MAKES URGENT APPEAL
TO BUILD SCHOOLHOUSES
DR.. Claxton of Bureau of Education
Sees in Necessity Chance to
Give Employment.

An urgent appeal to build school,
houses throughout the nation has
been sounded by DR.. P. p. Claxton
of the United States bureau of edu-
cation, Mr. Ciaxton, in a statement
issued today, points out that during
peace times, when building was not
interrupted, there were not enough
schools. and that when building was
stopped the immediate need for
schoolhouses was more than doubled.
ITO supply the needs of the past
two years. said DR.. Claxton. will
require not less than $500, ,0oo,0 600 of
building. to be completed by the time
of the opening of schools in the fall
of 1920. If there be danger of an
oversupply of labor during the period
of demobiIization and a consequent
lack of employment for the men re-
turning from the Army and the mu-
milton plants, such a. schoolhouse
building program will be no incon-
siderable factor in the solution of
this problem of unemployment"
Evening star., 1919-02-28
ROBBERS MAKE RICH
HAUL IN APARTMENT
Woman Occupants Absent When
Several Thousand Dollars Worth
Of Valuables Stolen.

Burglars yesterday afternoon visited
an apartment in Windsor Lodge. the
home of Mrs. Edward w. Parker and
Miss Mary D. Jarvis, during the tempo
rary absence of the occupants, and
stole 1eWelry, stocks, bonds and silver
ware valued at several thousand dol
lars
Occupants Of the apartment were alb
sent not more than two hours When
they returned they found that the sew
eral rooms had been ransacked. Mrs
Parker and Miss Jarvis thought the
apartment burglar-proof but a dupli-
cate key, it is believed. enabled the in
truders to enter
Persons occupying other apartments
in the building saw no suspicious per
sons IN the structure, Detective EN-
prey examined the ransacked apart
ment. but was unable to obtain a clue
Fannie turr and Rose Furr, 161oh
Marion street, were victims of pick
pockets while viewing the parade yes
terday afternoon. Their pocketbooks
containing 50. We're taken
William \. Thomas. 3Gf 3 street
southeast. reported $50 was taken
from his home last night.
Charles Hammond. 1913 27th street,
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Says Commission Fooled.

he asserted that when the Public
Utilities Commission had men watch
ing the operation of cars the COM
panies practically doubled the service
until the Public Utilities Commission
men were taken off, thus making the
Public Utilities Commission believe
tnat the lines are operating a suf9i-
cient number of cars to haul the peo-
pie He stated that the Public IT'LL
tiles Commission was not blind ius-
tice," but failed to render the serviee
the people are entitled to. He point
ed out that three former well maid
employees of the street RAILWAYS now
hold lucrative positions on the pub
Tic Utilities Commission. He strongly
favored municipal control or owner
snip as solution of the street car
problem 1"'
N. r. Alias. president of District
No a., International Association of
Machinists. favored government own
ership of all public utilities and an
pealed to all labor and civic bodies TO
tie themselves to this big movement
IN the interest of the people. He de-
MED the claim that the street car
companies cannot secure the neces-
sary cars. He suggested the operation
OF street cars in trains of two or more
cars during the rush hours to relieve
the jam at 9Th and F. streets and at
18th street and New York avenue,
Thomas II. Jones of the engineers
favored municipal ownership and the
construction of parallel lines. He said
that Traffic Expert Beeler had been
brought here to unscramble the eggs,
but that he had made a worse scram-
bic than before.
Until there is municipal owner
ship" Mr.. Jones said, I'VE will have to
US, backed by the Public Utilities
Comm iSSion"
Evening star., 1919-02-28
PLAN FOR BETTER
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Labor and Civic Bodies, at
Meeting, Demand "Ade-
quate" Car Service.

The nucleus of what promises 10 be-
come an active factor with which the
arrangements of public utilities VIII
have to reckon, composed of union
of organized labor and every civic
body in Washington, was perfected
last night at Musicians Hall, 1906 L
street.
This movement was launched by
Federal Employees Union. No. z,
through a committee of which J. w.
Ginder, chairman of the committee on
street railway transportation, is
chairman. B. W. Payne. a member Of
the union. who is also vice president
of the Central Labor Union. and 5. Il.
BlaSsingham of the union are the
other memb bers of the committee.
Every organized labor body in the
city was invited to send delegates to
the preliminary meeting last night
for the purpose of discussing ways
and means of obtaining adequate
street railway service at reasonable
cost These trades bodies sent dele
gates: Metal Trades. Federal En-
ployeS Union, Stationary Engineers,
Steam Engineers, Sheet Metal Work
ers, Marine Engineers, several citi-
ZenS' associations, Carpenters and
Joiners. Navy Yard Employees and
the Marine Engineers Beneficial AS
Sociatiun.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Will Extend Its Scope.

Temporary organization was per-
fected by the continuance of the orig
inal committee of the Federal En-
ployes Union, directed to extend the
scope OF the movement by bringing
in every organized labor body and all
civic organizations, including the citi-
ZenS associations of the District of
Columbia. A permanent committee, to
be expanded as the organization
grows, consisting of ten men. was ap-
pointed to begin the preliminary of
investigation and the gathering of
statistics as to the cost and opel alton
of public utilities with a view of
bringing about municipal ownership
or municipal control and more COM
pactly to organize a movement seek
ing the establishment of some form
of local government in which the
masses shall have a voice.
This committee is composed of B. w
Payne, $. L. Blassingham and j. w.
Ginder, federal employees; George A.
Wiihurt, metal trades; J. P. McArdle.
sheet metal workers: 7. r. Donley,
machinists; n p. Alias, machinists;
Thomas H. Jones, stationary engi-
neers; George Crosby, carpenters and
joineTS, and Roscoe Jenkins, Northeast
Citizens Association.
A call for a mass meeting for March
13 has been sent out for the perma-
nent organization, when the general
committee will be enlarged, other
committees appointed. officers elected
and the name of the movement deter
mined upon. j. W. Ginder presided,
with Paul r. Donley as secretary,
last night
Evening star., 1919-02-28

told palice of the seventh precinct
that his home was robbed of $40 last
night.
Maggie Riggs. el1s 18th street. re-
ported the theft of a $40 bill from
her handbag in the hallway Of The
Portner apartments.
Vernon w Davis. III Sth street
northeast. was deprived of his pocket
book containing small sum of
money while on a street car.
Loss of q wallet containing 500 and
q pass to the Treasury Department
was reported by Miss A e. Horns
by, 800 23d street. She was on 18TH
street when she missed the wallet.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Col. William Bender Wilson Dead.

NEW YORK. February 2s.--News
has been received of the death at his
home in Holmesburg. near Philadel-
phia. of Col. William Bender Wilson.
famous as a civil war telegrapher
and railroad man. He was eighty
years old and was president of the
Society of the United States Military
Telegraph Corps.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
'Frilly" New
Georgette Pleatings
CSC Yard

THESE dainty adornments
u for the spring blouses and
frocks come in plain colors and
delicate color combinations.
Assorted widths. Wonderful
selection here.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Bolsheviki Murder Germans.

PARIS, February 25.-The German
sheviki have occupied the Island of
Oesel and assassinated the secretary
of the German legation. his wife and
courier. This announcement is
made in a Hayas dispatch from Basie.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Sovereigns Give to Salvation Army.

TOXIC. january 25 Correspond
enee of the Associated Press).-The
emperor and empress will give $500
annually to the Japanese Salvation
Army for the next ten years, it is an
nounced.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
For Municipal Ownership.

J. w. Tavenner of the carpenters
and joiners favored municipal owner
ship and the early construction of the
Great Falls power plant to supply
power light and heat for the District
of Columbia
G. A. Bowman, vice president of the
North Capitol and lexington Citi-
zenS' Association, favored all street
car lines in the District of Colum bia
under one ownership and operation,
the holding down of their physical
valuation and later the taking over
OF the lines with the establishment
of local form of government in
which the people shall be the masters
and not the Commissioners or the
Public Utilities Commission.
g. e. Blassinghafn of the federal
employees strongly advocated govern
ment ownership of public utilities and
local government for and by the
people. He said public utilities are
operated as private endeavors solely
| for profit and the people not consid-
cred: that municipality owned utilities
| meant service at last at ftas He
! pointed out that Traffic Expert Beeler
| is q street railway man and friendly
to those interests, having been gen.
eral superintendent of the Denver
| {CoI) lines for a number of years,
| and that the people cannot expect JUS
| tice at his hands nor that Of the Pub
| lie Utilities Commission, which he
| characterized as Incompetent, unfair
hand unjust.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Criticises Present Methods.

Declaring that the public fails to
secure reasonably fair operation of
the street railway systems at the
hands of the Public Utilities Commits
way lines, b. w. Payne said that, ac-
cepting the admission of the street
railway managers that they cannot
improve the service, the time had ar
rived when the people intended to de-
mand either an actual municipal oper-
ton of the lines in the interest of
the people or absolute municipal own
ership based upon a form of govern
ment in which the people shall have
the determining voice
I'VE live in mo mans land" de-
clared Mr.. Payne. "a community in
which the Public Utilities Commission,
supposed to be the representatives of
the people, have failed to do their
duty and render the people the service
they should; taxed without our con-
sent, principle contrary to the fun
damentals upon which this republic
was established and upon which it has
been maintained, and the people now
propose to protest and demand their
rights
g. A. Wilburt representing the metal
trades, and who was formerly en-
ployed by the Washington Railway
and Electric Company, causticallv
criticised the management of the
street railways and particularly the
| Washington Railway and Electric
/ Company, of which he said he spoke
with full knowledge. He criticised
Traffic Expert Beeler and his plans to
improve street car traffic, declaring
that conditions are growing worse.
This was due, he said, to many causes
for which the companies are respons-
lble. particularly the employment of
incompetent men.
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-12-18
Robert W.Stayton
Named President
of Kiwanis Club

Robert W Staytou was elected presi
dent ~ tina Kiwanis club Tor the conn
ing yenr al the rcgulef weekly lunch
con Of the club yesterday lu tho Elks
hall lie succeeds +. j. pridgen. who
expects 10 leave the city soon.
other officers and committeeman
-lectrd Yesterday are Vice president.
.Dr y 4. Painter secretary David
reel. ana treasurer b. J Miller
Board Of directors Jesse Wright
charnan W a Teas. ed Cuhage. IS.
a. Gunst ana Wyatt cargiie
Program committee, w T. Hobs
cher chairman the Reverend fiAen
r. Carroll. q. J.. Cunningham. Charles
r. Bancroft and George J. Mcrriman.
Membership and classification com
mittee W. y. Smith chairman
David Peel Charles r. Bancroft ~ w.
HclsCher aud Thomas n Southgate.
Attendance committee. David Poet
chairman Charles Taylor a. elem
mcr ana George - McCuistion.
House committee r .. cook. chair
man r u Marston, r. l., Guilt. GIL
bert McGloln and u j Miller
Publicity committee. clyde Rainey.
chairman Dr passmure nnd Dr Chap
pen
Grievance committee a. Il. Suth
oglaud. chuirmun Fred Roberts. 3. H.
pondrum BEN d. Lee aud =. b. Dow
OH
rhc next meeting Of the club will
be held az night the ladies' ass guests
OF the club Dr H. q. Painter ad
dressed the club yesterday an "Why
Am Not % Better tivuuian" and
Caesar Holm spoke OH "The Rela
tionship 80 tho BUSINESS Man and On,
Farmer"
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-12-18

80 tornus rhrlsu Commander
!. A@0A $50 if Special CopclaVo driu
~ Thursday Dee rs O'Clock
81. no.
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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-12-18
CITY NEWS
y IN BRIEF

Sixteen circulars were received az the
office OF The Nueces county sheriff NeF-
tcrdai from the state pcnitcptiury war
den of Wyoming aa,ing that especial
watch he Kept for sixteen prisoners
who had either violated paroles orr esq
uHpcu from Che prison Rewards mur
ine from 500 600 800 were offered tor
THEN detention. Most ot the escaped
prisoners wnrr SERVING terms of { 90 20
Years on ohurgc4 of grand larceny aud
manslaughter
A special meeting Of "Thc Lotus
club win hc hcid tomorrow NIGHT at
~, iu tho First Stntc Bank building,
up stairs Nl active members ore ro-
anetsod TO he present.
Nicholas CARA. arrested al Kings
Vile on charge OF pcddling Wescn
was released ON q $500 houd yesterday
morning Garza was arrested on the
train with suit cnso 1leger 80 have
contained moscal Tie wns on his way
from son Diego 10 Galveston.
The newly elected board Of directors
Of the Commercial Association viii
meet nt o'olnck tonight af tho Hsso-
citation rooms for the prrposc ut or-
gani1'ug aud Helocune officers
Tho Rotary Club viii r,ee, 1t tho
Eke mn Tor the regular weekly mu-
chron today
Routine business was transacted ~
The rcNulnr moetiur TUESDAY ni~ht OF
tho executive committee of fho Nueoes
county chapter of tho ROD Gross Tho
fuomhare of fhc committee were Row
. ~ SyloH Rev Hule0 u, Carroll Dr.
Herbert Caldwell Nr iilcHnnr llnrth H.
The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-12-18
WHO HIT PaEAcHER7
REWARD is OFFERED

SEW YORK someone struck Rev
~ Snepcrr Carneuter on the hcad With
rnhhiasfnne pftrr calling him 60 the
door OF his home The Bridge street
African ST. " church offers $3.50 re-
ward Tor ihf arrest of The culurit
REV Mr. CARPENTER has hccn preaching
rn.nted sermons on the sims nf hi4
finpF
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-26
ASSOCIATED PRESS MEN
TELL OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS

world which it is almost impossible
Tor the living to survive.
"And that being the case, the con-
ferees had to address themselves not
to any solace or comfort for the dead
for whom they could do nothing, but
to some sort of an organization, ii
possible, that should give some guar
antee that in the future there would
be no recurrence of this terrible ca
tastrophe, because they knew that by
the processes of war, by it's scientific
and mechanical development war had
now reached the point where any flu
ture conflict might well-nigh mean
human humiliation.
THE Germans hoped that the asso-
ciated powers would differ. 1t was
the dream of the Germans that they
could not agree. In principle they
have agreed. In principle as Glenn
enceau, who is the tiger of the place,
told me: we are as one in all this
business
Nov | do not know whether a
league of nations will work or not.
doubt if anybody knows.
Zone hundred years ago almost to a
month, one hundred years ago in
June, five sovereigns in Europe
1t was called the Holy Alliance. They
Vienna and after three years of a
struggle over the problem it failed
"There is one thing that in this hour
gives little promise that their fail
ure may be succeeded by something
like success and that is inter commu-
nication. That was day when the
limit of mans vision was ten or twelve
miles and certainly it was limited to
his own country. Today, by the pro-
cesses of inter- communication of one
sort and another, the world is neces-
sarily brought together and the very
introduction of the Associated Press
service into South America, the very
alliance that is there, gives the best
assurance, in my judgment, of the
amity of the whole western hemis-
phere.
Il am very proud of the Associated
Press, and one of the things that
seems to me of enormous value is
this: In 1898 there were five or six
socalled associated press organiza-
lions in the United States, all working
within their own fields, and at arms
lengths with each other. We went at
it F.. The first principle that we adopt
ed was there should be no alliance
with local organizations. That it
would be a national cooperative as
ISOLATION, in which there should be
members Individually representing
"Now, the consequence of that was
this: That men like Clark Howell,
from Atlanta; like Stahlman, from
who had been rebels of the
most rebellious kind and men like
Charlie Clark of Hartford, who had
been an 'abolitionist, became friends
and we by that act united this
country as it had never been united
by any other process. The north and
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-26

complish its object of insuring world
peace, Melrille E. Etone, general
manager of The Associated Press, re-
Gently returned from the peace con-
ference, told the members of the news
association at their annual meeting
and luncheon here today.
Mr.. Stone doubted if anyone knew
whether the league project would
succeed. By the modern processes
of accommodation, however, the
nations were inevitably brought clos
er together, he said, extending mems
visions and giving " a little promise"
that the failure of the congress of
Vienna 100 years ago might. be fol-
lowed "by something like success"
1t was mistake, Mr.. Stone said,
to imagine that there had been an
unpleasant or angry situation be-
tween the peace ENJOYS of the associ-
ated powers who had brought to their
task sincere desire to solve great
problem. Despite the German hopes
of differences among the conquerors,
he added, they had agreed as to prin-
ciple.
Describing a visit to the devastated
regions of France, Mr. Stone declared
it had been "torn by the most malig-
nant, outrageous savagery the world |
had ever known To bring about its
rehabilitation, he asserted, extension |
of longtime credits by American
manufacturers was essential a !
scheme which he said could be car
ried out through the banks, with the
federal reserve systems to fall back
upon in case of emergency.
In keeping with the pan-American
spirit of the meeting, inspired by the
recent addition of 25 South American
newspapers to The Associated Press
Mr.. Stone stated that +
this extension of the service gave as
surance of the amity of the western
hemisphere. In like manner, in earli-
er days, he said, the organization
had been material factor in cement
ing the relations of the northern and
southern sections of the United States
a union which made possible the ma
tional spirit evidenced in the Spanish
American war and re-emphasized in
the world conflict.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-26

1t has today, as it had before tn
war, the respect of the whole world
1t is easy to understand it. Their,
are things which cannot die; the wor
ship of truth is one of them.
"And from the standpoint of Chill
can journalism let me say that it has
joined the Associated Press because
! it embodies its own ideals and above
/ all, because Chilean journalists fee
that new tie and a very powerful
one has been created in the ever-grow-
ing friendship of the Chilean and
American people"
Frank B. Moves, president of the
association, who acted as POSTMASTER
expressed belief that when the peace
terms were made public, it would be
found that despite all the claims of
national interests America twill have
made good her word
with nations, as with individuals, Z"
he said, at seems both unfortunate
and inevitable that succeeding a peri
Cd of moral exaltation comes a re-
action in which our less admirable
traits come momentarily, at least, to
the surface and appear to dominate"
$50 after the spirit of heroic deter
mination that freedom should not per-
ish from the earth and that spirit had
won an unexampled victory, followed
a period Of fretful criticism, not at
all confined to the limits of this coun-
try"
Mr.. Moves, before introducing Mr..
Stone, paid tribute to the working
staff of the Associated Press in Eu-
rope as "amongs the heroes of the
world war"
wherever the fighting was the
fiercest, the devastation greatest, the
danger most imminent, on the battle
line itself, with the advance or with
the retreat, in revolutions torn cities,
in sections black with anarchy, in
freezing Archangel, in the wastes of
Siberia-wherever history was being
were members of this de-
voted band, working INCREASINGLY, sac
rificing life and limb and health in
order that an anxious world might
have tidings of the urge of the days
events"
The members of The Associated
Press at their annual meeting here
today reelected five directors whose
terms had expired. They
were: Ebert H. Baker, Cleveland |
Plain Dealer; Clark Howell, Atlanta
Constitution; Charles Hopkins Clark,
Hartford Courant; Charles A. Rock,
Pittsburg Dispatch; V. c. McClatchy,
Sacramento Bee.
The members also elected F. P.
Topeka State Journal, to
i'll the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of Oswald Garrison Willard,
New York Evening Post, the term
expiring in two years.
Advisory boards and committees
elected for the western division were
is follows:
Advisory board: ]. R. Knowland,
Oakland, Calf, Tribute, chairman; J.
(. Heslet, Butte, Mont, Miner, secre-
airy; directors: l. NJ Stevens, Pueblo,
Jolo., Chieftain; A. N. Mckay, Salt
lake, Utah, Tribune; c. B. Blethen,
seattle, Wash, Times; auditing com
nittee: w. A. Bower, Anaconda,
don't, Standard; nominating commit
ee: Calvin c. Cobb, Boise, Idaho,
Clark Nettleton, Seattle,
Wash, Post Intelligencer.
NEW YORK.-Development of in
communication promises chance
hat the league of nations may ac-