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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
HIGH LIVING COST
IN D. c. TAKEN Up
Salary Redistribution Com
mission to Co. Operate With
Senate Committee.
ACTUAL FACTS SOUGHT

Investigation of the actual cost OF
living in the District of Columbia in
1919 will be undertaken by the joint
congressional commission on reclassi-
fication of salaries in the District as
part of the work Of the commission
in reclassfying the 100000 govern
ment employees here.
In this the joint commission will
cooperate with Senator Sherman.
whose committee is to investigate the
cost of living here. The investigation
by Senator Sherman. it is understood.
will have for major purpose the
finding of the cause of the high prices.
The joint commission on reclassi-
ffcation. however, while interested in
the cause. is more interested in just
what the cost is of living in the Dis
trict
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
NO NEED OF PASSES NOW
Treasury Building Entrances,
Closed During War, Open to
Public Tomorrow.

The north and west entrances to the
Treasury building. which have been
closed since the entry of the United
States into the war against Germany,
will be opened tomorrow, and the
general public will be admitted to the
building without passes from 8 am.
until pm.
The lower floor, where the big vaults
are, and where most of the securities
held by the Treasury are handled,
will not be open to callers and sight
seers, however, and the former prac-
tice of letting visitors peep through
the grill at several tons of money
will not be resumed.
Instead Of guarding the entrances
TO the building. watchmen will now
be stationed around the vaults and the
rooms and halls where the money and
bonds are handled. The south entrance
will not be opened as it is seldom
used, either by employees or visitors.
Treasury employees may enter or
leave the building at the east. north.
or west entrance before 9 am. during
the noon hour or after 4:30. but at
other times they must use the east
entrance, where facilities for checking
them in and out are located
Guards were removed from all other
public buildings several months ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
SENATE EMPOWERS COMMITTEE
TO INQUIRE INTO LIVING COST
Resolution Is Unanimously Adopted and
Hearings Are Soon to Start-Scope OF
Investigation In D. C.. Unlimited

The Senate today adopted the reso-
luton authorizing a subcommittee of
the Senate committee on tho District
of Columbia to proceed with an investi-
CATION of the cost of living in the Dis
trict, comparing it with the cost of liv-
ing in other large cities.
The subcommittee will consist of Sem
ator Ball of Delaware, Senator Capper
of Kansas, Senator Elkins of West Vir-
ginia, Senator Sheppard of Texas and
Senator Dial of South Carolina. Sem
ator Sherman. chairman of the District
COMMITTEES and originator of the investi-
cation. will sit with the subcommittee
and give it's hearings personal atten-
ton.
The resolution was reported from
the committee to audit and control
the contingent expenses of the Senate
by Senator Calder of New York, and
was unanimously adopted by the Sen
ate. 1t provides as follows:
Text of Resolution.
That the committee on the District
of Columbia, or any subcommittee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
ENGLISH MARRIAGE RULING.
Man May Marry Dead wife's Sis.
ter-WidoW Is Denied

LONDON, July Correspondence of
the Associated Press)-As English
Ia" no" STANDS man may marry his
oead "l1e's sister, but a woman can
not wed ner dead husbands brother.
The point was made clear by the
presiding Judge at the Northampton
assi]es tne other day in the cases of
Two women VINO went through the
marriage service with brothers of
for trail. "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
NC MEN CLEVELAND GUESTS.
Ensign Rodd, meas Wireless OPP
orator. Is Given Loving Cup.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 15.-Lieut.
Commander Albert C. Read of the
American seaplane NC-4 and his COM
panion trasatlantic 1iers, Lieut..
Commander P. N. L. Bellinger of the
Inflated NC-1. and Lieut.. Commander
John H. Towers of the NC-3 were
guests at a public reception here to-
day at which Ensign Herbert N. Rod
Of Cleveland, wireless operator on
the NC-4, was presented with sill
yer cup by the city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
To Ascertain Actual Cost.

knowledge of the actual cost of liv-
ing for government employees is essential
for the commission. not only in CLASH
ication work, but especially when it gets
down to the work of making the salary
schedule for the 104, 900 federal and Dis
trict employees. 1t is brought out by
members of the commission that reclas-
sification and fixing the salary schedules
are two distinct processes. Members of
the commission have hammered away
at this idea in all their relations with
Il e clerks in the work before them The
classification comes first, and the COM
mission is now at work on that phase
Of the inquiry. Then will come the real
task of deciding on the wage schedules
Bearings on Redistribution.
Hearings on classification problems
as distinct from hearings on wage
schedules. probably will be held to en-
able the 104 900 federal employees in the
District to give their opinions on the
way the joint congressional commits
sion on Redistribution of salaries
should group them.
will precede hearings on wage sched-
ules. probably in August or earlier.
the latter to come in September.
These hearings will give the va
rious grades of clerks and other
federal employees opportunity to place
before the joint commission their
views as to their proper placing in
the groups of workers of the govern
rnent in the District The commission
workers. probably in Services" un-
der which will come groups" and
these groups, in their turn, subdivided
into titles"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
s KILLED, 50 HURT
|N|TALY DISORDERS
Two Anarchists Slain by
Carabanier-Government
Takes Action.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, July 14-Strike disorders
occurred at various places in Italy
today At Lucera eight persons were
killed and thirty wounded.
Near Genoa two anarchists were
killed in a fight with a carabanier.
The engagement with the anarchists,
which occurred at Sestri Ponente. four
miles west of Genoa, also resulted in
sthe arrest of four anarchists.
general strike began at Gallant
setta Sicily. The people there marched
through the streets crying .Vive
soviet and forced dealers in food
stuffs and other necessities to reduce
their prices so per cent.
Lucera is an ancient town in
southern Italy, west northwest of
Foggia.)
Moves to Preserve Order.
The Italian government, Premier
Nitti announced in the chamber of
deputies today, has taken ample
measures to preserve order in view
throughout the country. Troops. he
said, have been distributed every
where in cities and villages and in
the country, and they were provided
with supplies for more than forty
eight hours in case they should be
cut off from their bases.
There is no reason for a general
strike in Italy, the premier continued.
The government does not wish blood
shed and will do its utmost to pre-
vent it. Telegraph and wireless com
munication with every part of the
kingdom is assured, however, in case
Of trouble.
Italy is one country where a gen.
Nitti asserted. Bolshevism was an
Asiatic evil which could not spread
to Italy. The government, he said
does not want to intervene in boil
shevik Russia for the same reason
that 1t did not intervene there when
Russia was under czarism, which had
produced as many crimes, injustices
and massacres as the present regime
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
ALLOTTED TWO BIG SHIPS.
South Atlantic Company Tells of
Shipping Boards Action.

SAVANNAH. Ga. July 1.-THE Sa-
vannah office of the South Atlantic
Maritime Corporation announced today
the United States Shipping Board has
aIlocated the corporation two big steel
cargo ships for permanent lines be-
tween Savannah and South America.
The announcement was made on ad-
vice from J. p. Stevens. general man
ager, who is in Washington al present,
in conference with government officials
relative to this proposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Former Report Utilized.

Besides cooperating with the SEN
ate investigation. the commission will
make use of the Investigation made
in 1917 by the bureau of labor statis-
tics of the Department of Labor. This
investigation was made on a resolu-
ton of then Representative Edward
Heating, now secretary of the joint
commission on reclassificatio ton of sal
aries in the District
The report made by DR.. Royal Meeker,
chief of the bureau of labor statistics,
was thorough and brought out many
facts as to the cost of living in Wash
ington. The commission on reclassifi-
cation intends to bring this report up
10 date. using the report as far as POSI-
HE. and building up new observations
upon that groundwork.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
VOTE ON STRIKE IN BERLIN.
Tramway Employees Fail to Give
Two-Thirds for Continuation.

BERLIN, July 15.-Employes of
tramways here have voted 1O,643 to
s.545 for a continuation of the strike.
AS this is not two thirds majority
work should be resumed, but a large
number of the men say that they will
PERSIST in the movement The man.
apement of the tramways has an
nounced that all who do not return to
work Ivy Thursday will be consider
ed discharged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
NATURAL CAUSES CLAIMED.
Seattle Coroner Makes Affidavit on
Shin Board Agents Death.

SEATTLE. Wash, July 15.-In an
affidavit prepared for presentation at
an inquest set for today on the death
Of F. A. Dowsey, special agent in
charge of the plant protective bureau
of the United States Shipping Board,
C, S. Tiffin, coroner of King county,
reiterated the belief that Dowsey died
of natural causes.
Following the finding of Dowsey's
body in an Office building May 2.
shortly before he was expected to
COMPLETE a report on an investigation
he, Mad conducted here, the coroner
:Iributed death to apoplexy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
I DIE IN N0RTHSEA
ASM|NE EXPL0DES
One Officer and Six Men of
Sweeper Richard H. Buck
ley Victims.

One officer and six enlisted men
were killed in the destruction of the
American mine sweeper Richard h.
Buckley by the explosion of a mine
in the North sea Saturday. TWO other
officers were injured.
The dead-Commander Frank A.
King, Floyd Hartman. engineman,
Roam. Ind: John V. Mallon. seaman,
Brooklyn, N Y; Antimo Persido. COOK,
Brooklyn, n. Y: Homer Purdue, sea-
man. reserve force. Washington Court
House. Ohio; George Paul Rezab. fire.
man. reserve force, Warman, Mimi.
and George NJ. Sewers, fireman, re-
serve force, Knob Lick, Ky.
The officers injured were Lieuts.
Frederick G. Keyes and Walter l..
Sharon, but the dispatches to the
Navy Department today said their
injuries were not serious. Two OF
fcers and sixteen enlisted men were
Removing North Sea Mines.
The Buckley was engaged with
other mine sweepers in removing the
North sea mine barrage when a mine
became entangled in the sweeping
cable. Before the cable could be
laid out again the mine exploded di-
rectly under the ships stern. The
trawler was shattered by the terrific
impact and sank in six minutes be-
fore other vessels of the fleet could
reach her.
Commander King remained on the
bridge, directing the efforts to save
the crew, and went down with his
ship. The remainder of the dead
either were killed by the explosion
or trapped below decks when the
vessel sank.
The survivors of the Buckley have
been taken to the American mine
force base at Inverness. Scotland. Ac-
cording to cable dispatches to the
Navy Department this morning. only
one body has been recovered.
According to the records at the
Navy Department, Commander King 8
next of kin is his wife. who lives at
Albany. Ala. Commander King was
thirty-five years Of age and was ap-
pointed to the Naval Academy from
Alabama in 1903. He served on the
battleship Arizona during the war
and was promoted to commander early
this year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
LOUISVILLE PHONES RESUME
Normal Service Follows Replace.
ment Among Strikers.

LOUISVILLE, KY, July 15.-Normal
telephone service was had in LOUIS
vile today for the first time since
400 employees of the Cumberland and
Home Telephone Company struck two
weeks ago for higher wages.
The two companies. which operate
the only telephone service in the city,
are said to have imported enough
operators and linemen to resume day
service. Company officials look for an
early end of the strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
RECORD OF MEATS SENT
TO GREAT BRITAIN ASKED

A resolution by Senator Sherman,
republican. Illinois. requesting that
the Federal Trade Commission fur
nish the Senate with documents re-
lating to the exports of meats from
the United States to Great Britain
was adopted today without a record
vote.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
TO SUCCEED TAWNEY
ON JOINT COMMISSION

Former Senator Clarence d. Clark
of Evanston, Wyo, was appointed a
member of the international Joint
COMMISSION today by President Will
son. He succeeds the late lanes A
Tawney of Minnesota.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Freight Engineers Strike.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July 10
Twenty-Five freight engineers of the
Cincinnati-New Orleans and Texas
Pacific railroad between Danyille. XIV.
and Oakdale, Tenn, went on strike at
IL o'clock last night. as protest
against the use of the big Mogul en-
gines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
N|TIl GETS
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

ROME. Monday. July IA tby the AS
ISOLATED Press).-The government of
Premier Nitti, which took office sew
eral weeks ago. tonight received a
vote of confidence in the chamber
of deputies. The vote passed by PSI
to Ill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
FRENCH SOCIALISTS
OPPOSING THE TREATY

PARIS. Sunday July 10 (by the
Associated Press).-The national
council of the socialist party decided
today to oppose ratification of the
peace treaty. The vote was 1.420 to
ia, with 3S7 absentions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Views on Preparedness.
Favored Disarmament.

The lawyer quoted from the peace
pamphlet wherein Mr. Ford advocated
disarpaRent and asked If. in 1915, Mr.
Ford was opposing any preparedness
whatsoever.
Yes" admitted the witness.
Let JUS disarm and the world will
follow" Mr.. Stevenson read from the
booklet.
That was a good plan." said the
manufacturer
Attorney Alfred Lucking of counsel
for the plaintiff entered frequent OBJ
jections. He asserted that Mr.. Steven
son should not pick out stray phrases,
but should give the entire articles
when he read from the pamphlet.
Mr.. Ford never advocated anything
but universal disarmament" said Mr..
Lucking.
You state in this book that there
was ring trying to drive US into
Continued on rage twenty-one.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Strike Hats Swiss Papers.

BERN July 14.-No newspapers
were published in Switzerland today,
owing to the strike of the operators of
.ypesettihS machines. who are de-
handing a forty-two-bourw eek
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
FIRST SCANDINAVIAN STRIKE.
To Begin July 81 as Protest
AGAINST Russian Intervention.

Special Cable to The Star and the
Chicago Daily News. Copyright 1919.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July a.
The first general strike in Scandina-
via will begin in Norway July 81. The
social democratic party in secret
session yesterday decided definitely to
tie up everything in Norway, includ-
ing the railroads, as protest against
Intervention in Russia and also to
enforce the demand for electoral re-
tc..I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Borah Resolution Goes Over.

Senator Borah, republican. of Idaho
today called up in the Senate his res
olution, approved yesterday by the
foreign relations committee, request
ing the President. if not incompat-
ible with public interest, to transmit
written protest alleged to have
been made by Gen. Bliss. Secretary
Lansing and Henry White of the
American peace commission against
the Shantung settlement Senator
Borah asked unanimous consent for
immediate consideration of his reso-
luton, but Senator Hitchcock, demo-
crat, of Nebraska said he would OBJ
ject and asked that the resolution go
over. Senator Borah agreed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Hearings Soon to Start.

Senator Ball said he will call a
meeting of the subcommittee at an
early date and arrange for the COM
mencement of the hearings at once.
1t is his idea that great deal of
valuable information can be obtained
from the bureau of markets and from
government experts.
The scope of the investigation, how
ever, is unlimited, and it is the plan
of Senator Sherman to take in the
question of rents in the District, and
to look into the cost of shoes, wearing
apparel and other elements in the cost
of living besides food.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15

thereof. be authorized to send for
persons and papers and to administer
oaths. and to employ a stenographer
to report such hearings as may be
had in connection with any subject
which may be pending before said
committee, and such other expert as
Sistants as may be necessary; that
the committee may sit during the SEES
Sions or recesses of the Senate. and
that the expense thereof be paid out
of the contingent fund of the SEN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Committee Asks for Papers.
League Passed Over.

In beginning the reading of the
treaty text today the committee, by
mutual consent between republican
and democratic members, deferred
consideration of the league of nations
covenant.
Chairman Lodge read the text and
frequently was interrupted by ques-
lions and discussions of various Sec
tions. Members expected that the
reading would require several days.
Committee members said that cues
tons Of comforting with the President
and of open meetings of the committee
during consideration of the treaty prob
ably would not be considered until the
document had been considered section
by section. The committee will meet
again tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
FORD FOR LEAGUE
OR ANOTHER WAR
Cleanup Essential to Uni
versaI Peace, He Testifies
in Libel Suit.
DEFINES WAR MURDERERS
DEFINES WAR MURDERERS
By the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOUNT CLEMENS. Mich, July Is
Henry Ford made many frank admis-
sions in the course of his testimony
today in his million-dollar libel suit
against the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Examination was by Attorney Elliott
G. Stevenson. representing the Trib-
une.
Mr.. Ford admitted ignorance Of his
tory, ana said that more thAn5 ever he
considered it bunk" growing out OF
tradition; nor had he any personal
use for music or other forms of art.
Makes No Exceptions.
He reaffirmed his belief that pro-
fessional soldiers are murderers, nor
would he exempt Cen Pershing or Gen.
Grant from this category. He said
that his present view is for the fullest
preparedness unless there is a league
of nations, and that If the war just
concluded in Europe does not result in
such a league ne favors another great
war without delay in order to clean
up the situation so thoroughly that
universal peace would be had.
1t developed that Theodore Della
vigne, a publicity agent for Mr.. Ford,
wrote practically all of Mr.. Ford s
pacffist literature and that much of 1t
was circulated broadcast without Mr..
Ford's having read it.
81 accept full responsibility for It,.
however" Mr.. Ford testified repeatedly.
Flag Of Humanity.
The mysterious Flag of Human
ity," which counsel for the defendant
have been demanding ever since the
case began. made its appearance.
TT is the first time 1 ever saw it."
remarked Mr.. Ford.
DO you like it better than the Stars
and Stripes?" asked Mr.. Stevenson.
It's a different kind of flag an
sWered the witness.
Helps Display Flag.
The flag was about seven by four
teen feet. with the earth in white on
a blue field. Mr.. Stevenson was at
tempting to show it to the jury when
Mr.. Ford took hold of one end and
said, "rll help you"
The emblem. designed to typify
world brotherhood, is said to have
grown out of a remark by Mr.. Ford
three or four years ago, when he said
that all NATIONALS nays SnOuIQ De sue
ceeded by a flag of humanity. under
which all men of all nations might
stand.
Up to today counsel for Mr.. Ford
denied the existence, of such a flag,
but said a search for it was being
prosecuted. Last week Attorney Ste
venson said that his information was
that the flag had been brought to Mt.
Clemens and had disappeared.
Where was it found?" asked Mr..
Stevenson.
Il don't know" said, Mr.. Ford.
Views on Preparedness.
Attorney Stevenson introduced a
pamphlet containing pacificist argu-
ments which, witness admitted. was
widely distributed at his expense in
1916.
Mr.. Stevenson quoted Mr.. Ford as
saying Preparedness is the root of
war"
"That meant overpreparedness."
said Mr.. Ford.
What do you mean when you say
that war is murder?'
War Of aggression"
"And those who urge preparedness
advocate MURDER?
''Overpreparedness; yes" Witness
said that sane preparedness for de-
tense was legitimate. He had no quar-
rel with it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Calls Notes Unsatisfactory"

Mr.. Williams characterized a num-
Der of the notes held by the Cooper
Bank mere as being entirely unsatis-
factory. He said these notes had
been taken up at the time of the sale
OF the Bureau of Literature bonds. The
notes were for loans made to the
Coopers and their relations. he said
Senator Mclean asked il he did not
have in his office affidavits from the
directors Of the United Stated Saw
ings Bank to the effect that Bank
Examiner Trimble had authorized the
sale of the Burealu of Literature bonuds
Mr.. Williams admitted that there
might be letter to that effect and
testified that the bank examiner had
pressed for the sale OF these bonds he
cause he did not think they were suit
able to be held by the bank, but insist
ed that the bank examiner had said
they should not be sold for less than
their value.
Members of the committee endeavor-
ed to get from Mr.. Williams a state
nent as to the value of the bonds He
Continued on page twenty one.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-15
Discusses Bond Sale.

Mr.. williams then took up the mat
ter Of the sale by the U. S. Savings
Bank. of which Wade II. Cooper is
president, of about $4,000 worth of
the Bureau of Literature bonds. He
said that these bonds had been sold
by the bank at Is or 20 cents on the
dollar in 1917. although six months
earlier similar bonds had been sold to
the Waycross Bank of Georgia of
which Thomas f. Cooper was a direc-
tor. for five times that amount. He
said that Mr.. Cooper had attempted to
justify the sale by asserting that Ma
tional Bank Examiner Trimble had
acquiesced in and urged the sale of
these bonds. He read report from
Mr.. Trimble in which the bank exam
iner declared that he had not made
any agreement in regard to the sale
of the bonds, except that If they were
sold they must be sold at the full
value or the directors of the bank
would be liable for the difference in
the price for which they were sold
and the actual value of the bonds. Mr.,
Trimble's report, as read by the con-
troller. showed that a record of this
statement had been placed in the min
utes of the board OF directors of the
bank.