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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
MAY
END SHIP STRIKE
Owners Success Is Seen if
Americans Get Preference,
Other Union Men Next.
MORE VESSELS TIE UP

NEW YORK, July 81 (by the AS
sociated Press).-Ship owners. whose
vessels are tied up at this and other
Atlantic ports, today faced the prob
lem of framing a compromise pro-
posal to the demand of striking sea-
men for recognition of the union. An
offer to give preferential employment
to union seamen after men of Ameri-
can citizenship were given an OPP
portunity to fill vacancies in crews,
union leaders indicated, might be ac-
cepted. since all American seamen are
union members.
Freight Is Piled High.
Ships entering New York harbor
continue to tie up for an indefinite
period. the crews quitting Immediate
~. Ships scheduled to leave port
days ago remain at their piers foaded
with cargo. Freight houses are piled
high with merchandise ready to be
loaded on ships that cannot reach
this port from other harbors along
the Atlantic coast.
1t was estimated that about half of
the shipping under the American flag
was tied up in New York and other
Atlantic ports.
Estimates of ships tied up in Amer
range from 500 to SOt. According to
the ship owners, about $50 American
vessels are idle in New York harbor.
while the strike leaders say that twice
that number cannot be moved for lack
of men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
q. S. Officials Leave Vladivostok

VLADIVoSTOK, Friday, July II
(by the Associated Press).-Maj. Gen.
William S. Graves. commander of the
American expeditionary forces in ST.
beriay and Roland B. Morris. Ameri-
can Ambassador to Japan, left this
morning on special train for Omsh
Ambassador Morris arrived yester-
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
Received Harsh Treatment.

Numerous other colored persons
were at the street car transfer sta
ton when the trouble started. and
several of them failed to get away
in time to escape the assaults of the
uniformed men. Herman Page, col
ored, sixteen years old, and Melvin
Blair. a colored companion. both re-
siding at 304 18th street, received
numerous cuts and bruises, and two
others. who received similar treat
ment were William w. Thompson, col
ored, twenty-five years old, Airing
ton. Va, and Wade Rollins, colored,
forty-seven years old, PA d street
southwest The FIVE victims were
given hospital treatment.
About one hour later a message re-
ceived at police headquarters told OF
an outbreak on the part of men in uni
form at Pennsylvania avenue and 18th
street, where Lawrence Jones. colored.
eighteen years old. 2716 N stksst sss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
Four Shots Fired al
Conualescents and
-Four at Marine
From Auto.
Reports of Disturbances in
Many Sections of City
Keeps Reserves of
Precincts Busy.

As an aftermath to the rioting sat
urday night and last night police
have been receiving reports from sew
eral sections of the city of local dis
turbances. AS a result reserves al
the precincts have been kept on the
move during the past twenty-four
hours.
The far northwest section is the
only division of the city which has
thus far been immune to any dis
turbances. In the lower northwest
at II o'clock police received report
of reactionary attack by coloreo
men on patients at the Navy Hos
pital, at 23d and B streets northwest.
Driving up in a big touring car this
morning, four colored men fired four
shots at a marine on duty at the gate
of the Navy Hospital, and four other
shots at convalescent sailors in the
hospital grounds.
The automobile drove up in from
of the hospital grounds from 23o
street, and the shots at the sentry
were fired before a turn was made
west into B street. Just after making
this turn four other shots were fired
at the disabled sailors.
Shoot at Convalescents.
The men at whom the bullets were
fired in the hospital grounds were re-
covering from illnesses, police at the
third precinct were told, and were not
armed. The marine on duty at the
gate had no cartridge in his rifle
making it impossible for him to re-
turn fire.
The colored men got away un.
harmed.
Immediately on receiving the report
policemen were dispatched in automo
biles to search for the gunner. Nc
trace was found, and failure of the
uniformed men at the hospital to OBJ
tain the license number of the car i:
proving serious handicap to the pc
lice in the attempt to apprehend thu
four colored men.
At o'clock this morning police a
the second precinct received a hurr.
call to quell an attack upon Charlie!
Williams, colored, twenty-six years
old, of 938 L street northwest. Will
lliams is suffering from injuries to hi.
legs and face. He was found at New
York avenue and 9Th street, and wa:
taken to Emergency Hospital.
Fire From Automobile.
Residents of the northeast section
of the city were alarmed by three
white men shooting up the neighbor'
hood from the tonneau of an automo'
bile. Numerous pistol shots were
fired, but. SO far as the police of the
ninth precinct could learn. no sho'
was directed at any individual.
Shortly after 1 o'clock this morning
the police were told that the men ha6
fired several shots from their automo-
bile while going north on Bladens-
burg road near H street, and fifteer
minutes later the shooting was re-
peated on Montello avenue near Oates
street, not a great distance from the
scene of the first shooting.
Witnesses to the shooting reported
to the police that they were unable
to get the license number on the
automobile. About all they could tell
of the occupants of the car was thai
one of them wore white straw hat
and a brown raincoat covering his
suit of clothes. Search is being made
for the trio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
Questions Show Presidents Views.

Elliott C. Stevenson, senior counsel for
the Tribune. was allowed to cross ques-
ton the witness as to the assertions in
the advertisements and the questions in
the magazine and newspaper articles.
which brought out by the nature of the
questions much that President Wilson
said when he made addresses urging
preparedness in several cities in 1916.
Alfred Lucking and Alfred G.. Murphy,
attorneys for Mr.. Ford, laid a barrage
of objections between the Tribune law
yer and their client. asserting that Mr.
Stevenson was covering old ground over
and over again, and that he was by a
roundabout method dragging in the pre-
paredness evidence interdicted by the
court.
1t was accordingly decided to argue
the point today, and the jury was not
required to report until 10 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
1000 Fight With No Hope of Pay

At present, two thousand foresters.
working with prospects of no pay, or
with the hope of securing living funds
through private sources, are fighting
the flames, but are making negligible
Roadway Five times this number. it
is estimated. are required to success
fully cope with the elements.
The Oregon state board of forestry
has wired the War Department for
5000 gas masks. for use by men fight
ing threatening fires in that state. The
forest service of the Agricultural De-
partment also has put in a request
for thousands of gas masks for the
same use
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
MOUNDS TOFIGHT
/. HUGEFOREST FIRES
Non-Passage of Agricultural
Bill the Cause; Flames
Spreading.

Uncontrolled and spreading every
hour. forest fires are raging in north
ern and central Idaho, western Mon
ington. according to the forest service
here. And there are no funds avail
able to secure enough men to fight the
fires on account of the non-passaee OF
the agricultural appropriation bill for
the current fiscal year. Estimates of
damage. authorities declare. will run
up to more than a million dollars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
Authorities
Cooperate With
Maj. Pullman to
Bring Order.
Guard of a Hundred Train
ed Men at Disposal of
Washington Police
Department.

Washington will have no race riots
or disturbances tonight. If $50 armed
soldiers and marines, especially
trained in guard work and order
keeping can prevent it. according to
indications from the War Department
and the police department today.
Commissioner Brownlow and Maj.
Pullman today held a conference with
Secretary of War Baker and Gen.
Peyton c. March, chief of staff, re-
garding preventive measures to be
taken in case of the slightest signs
of trouble to night.
Maj. Gen. Barnett, commandant of
the Marine Corps, has assured Maj.
Pullman that all possible help will be
given by the marines, several detach-
ments of guards being placed at the
disposition of the local police force.
One hundred trained men, members
of the provost guard which was re-
lieved from active patrol duty here
on June Is. will be at the call OF
the police. Capt. Herman, acting pro-
vost marshal for the District, has as
sured authorities.
Lieut.. Col ]. NJ. Millken. former pro-
vost marshal in the District of Column
bia, has been detailed for duty with
Maj. Pullman, and the superintendent
of police was told that he remain on
such duty as long as his services are
desired.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
"Charity at Home"

Yet the Japanese, on their part, have
told the Americans again and again
that charity begins at home, and that
the Japanese ought not to be expected
to surrender rights or make sacrifices
if others are unwilling to do the same.
Has the United States surrendered
the Monroe doctrine? Has England or
France given up leases in China? Has
Italy been absolutely denied Fiume
'.i@ Japanese would be more i'm
proceed if Great Britain, for instance,
gave up some place like Wei-hai-wei.
SO that Japanese public opinion might
understand that everybody had become
altruistic.
The President did nothing to ad-
vance the situation today. nor did the
opposition senators make any impor-
tant move. Mr.. Wilson was too ill to
continue his conferences with sena-
tors, and a canvass of sentiment on
Capitol Hill reveals no marked tend
ency to capitulate to the President be-
cause of his oral efforts of last week.
Senator Lodge is as confident as he
ever was that reservations considered
embarrassing to Mr.. Wilson will not
cause prolonged negotiations with the
European powers. He is going ahead
on that assumption, and he has suffi-
CONTINUED on Second Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
ASK LIMIT OF QUIZ
OF MR.. FORD Be SET
Counsel Argue Over Its
Scope, Especially on Cues
ton of Preparedness.

By the Associated Press.
MOUNT CLEMENS. Mich. July 21.-
The second week of the appearance
of Henry Ford as a witness in his
$1.000.000 libel suit against the Chica-
go Daily Tribune opened today with a
long argument on scope of cross
examination, particularly where it in
volved preparedness.
Early in the case, after three days
of argument, Judge Tucker ruled that
evidence on preparedness, produced
for the single purpose of airing the
varying views of what constitutes a
state of defense, was not admissible.
The ruling was modified, however, by
the judicial opinion that whatever
Henry Ford wrote or said. or the
Tribune publ shed, was admissible.
Mr.. Ford's Act Lets Evidence In.
The fact that Mr.. Ford. through his
peace publicity campaign, conducted
by Theodore Delavigne, employed as
an expert by the manufacturer wrote
voluminously in opposition to pre-
paredness, let in much testimony on
that subject.
All last week Mr.. Ford was ques-
toned as to the three advertisements
which were published under his name,
all opposing Army and Navy increases
and as to interviews to the same effect
published by John Reed and Edward
Marshall. magazine writer's, and given
to newspapers by Henry A Wise
Wood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
Declined Invitation, Report Says.

While Senator Norris name was on
the list of engagements for today.
there were published reports that he
had declined the Presidents invita-
ton. The senator, however. refused to
discuss these reports further than to
say that any publication on the sub
ject was unauthorized by him.
Senator Norris did not visit the
White House at II am, the hour at
which he had been asked to call, and
White House. attaches. who commu
nicated with his office to announce
that the President had been forced to
cancel his appointments for the day,
were told that the senator had writ
ten a note to the President. 1t was
said at the White House that the note
had not been received there at that
time.
Senator Sterling of South Dakota
had been invited to the White House
tomorrow and Senators Page of Yer
mont and Mclean OF Connecticut on
Wednesday. These engagements were
postponed, it being the Presidents
intention to see the senators in the
order in which they were invited.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
PRESIDENT IS ILL.,;
ORDERED TO BED
Illness Develops While on
Cruise, From Which He
Returned Today.
CANCELS ENGAGEMENTS

President Wilson returned to Wash
ington early today from a week end
cruise to Hampton roads and was i'm
mediately ordered to bed by his per-
sonal physician, Rear Admiral Cary T.
Grayson. who announced that the
President was suffering with dysen-
terry.
Admiral Grayson said the Presidents
condition was not serious. but that he
probably would be unable to receive
callers before the end of the week.
Engagements which Mr.. Wilson had
with a number of republican sena-
tors to discuss the peace treaty and
the league of nations were Cancelled
The President had been complain
ing of feeling badly for several days.
and when he started down the Poto-
mac Saturday night on the Mayflower
it was supposed that he was suffering
with a slight attack of indigestion.
Senator's who were to have called
at the White House today were Edge,
New Jersey; Norris, Nebraska; Cum
minis, Iowa, and Calder, New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
$4,000 a Day Is Spent.

The timber being consumed by
flames is mainly of the white pine.
yellow pine and fir variety. The white
pine forests of northern Idaho are
regarded as the most valuable. In
this section alone. hundreds of thou
sands of dollars have been lost by the
flames and unestimated thousands
more are endangered.
The appropriation for the forest
service will total between five and
six millions of dollars. Fifteen thou
sand dollars per day and more are
spent during the fire season.
Flames Checked by Wireless Aid.
One of the most successful features
of the present fire fighting is a wire
less across the Bitter Root range of
mountains. The advices sent across the
range by this method when telegraph
and other means of communication have
been demolished have been of inestim-
able value, it is declared. in checking an
enormous spread of the flames
The shortage of labor is another
fundamental reason for the small
force. On account of the large sur
plus of positions for men, sufficient
unemployed cannot be obtained to work
on prospects of payment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
president RELIES
ION TOXIC PROMISES
Memoranda on Conditions of
Shantung Settlement May
Be Offered.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

President Wilson has in his pos
session memoranda designed to clear
UP much of the criticism over the ces-
sion to Japan of German rights in
China. He has been debating whether
or not to make public some of these
| memoranda.
Probably the consent of the Japa-
nese delegates at Paris is necessary
before anything textual can be made
public. though the substance of the
assurances given to Mr.. Wilson as
the head of the American mission may
not be subject to the same prohibition
of secrecy.
Senators who have talked with Mr.
Wilson since his return from Europe
and who have told him of the bad
taste on the senatorial palate made by
the effort to swallow the peace-treaty
with the Shantung provision have
come away from the White House
with the feeling that at least there
are two sides to the question and
that Mr.. Wilson's explanations put a
different face on the matter.
Some senators, like Mr.. Norris OF
Nebraska. are reported to be unwill-
ing to accept explanations in conf
uSHCC, lldI tHC pCoPiC al e
entitled to know what senators are
told by the President.
Mr.. Wilson's Argument.
Mfr Wilson has argued that expedi-
ency required acceptance of the Jap
anese view. At the same time he is
contending that Japan is on record
with respect to the future ,in a way
that will assure China the AZ of
her property.
While the agitation over the IAN
tung question cannot be said to have
pleased friends of the President, be-
cause of the inevitable tendency of
such settlement to cast discredit on
the work of the Versailles conference,
nevertheless the publicity that has
been given to the far eastern prob
lem is bound to have a favorable eff
feet on it's ultimate settlement by
amicable methods.
What Mr.. Wilson is believed to have
told the Japanese delegates in Paris
concerning the unfavorable impress
sion their demands would make on
the public opinion of America and
the world generally has now been
confirmed, and it is not at all neon
ceiyable that the President. on re-
newing his representations for a re-
vision of Japan's demands. will be
able to point to the senatorial OPP
position as evidence of the greater
harm than good to Japan by insist
ing upon an aggressive policy in
China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-21
WEATHER.

Cloudy. probable showers tonight
and tomorrow, no change in tempera-
ture.
Temperature for twenty four hours
ended pm. today: Highest. rs, at
pm. yesterday; lowest, 70 at am.
today.
Full report on page Is.
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Continued on Second Page.J
The Washington herald., 1919-05-20
WELCOME
FOR D.C.B0YS
Parade and Other Features
Will Mark Return
From Overseas.

Fathers. mothers, wives. daught-
ers. sons. brothers and sisters OF
soldier, sailors and Marines are
eligible to join the proposed 'Fa-Mo-
Wi-Da-So- -Bro-Sis Society to be Or
ganized tomorrow night. at the Public
Library. for the purpose Of entertain.
ing returning District soldiers.
Lorenzo G. Warfield is temporary
chairman OF the tentative society.
officers of which will be elected at
the meeting to be called at o'clock
About $50 Washington men of the
10th Field Artillery are expected to
arrive at Newport News tomorrow
morning on the transport Orizaba.
The District Signal Company Of
about seventy-five men. Is due at
New York today on the transport
Iowan. The 312th Machine Gun Ba-
talon, "Washington's own" is due
at Newport News on Saturday on
the transport virginian.
More than 500 men will return
this week. They will be sent direct
to Camp Meade and then be given
| furloughs to come to Washington
for the welcome Home" reception.
Their homecoming will be her
aided by a parade and a celebration
| lasting two days. II was announced
yesterday by Isaac Cans. chairman
OF the Welcome Home Committee.
Mr.. Cans was assured by the War
Department yesterday that the men
of all the units would be sent owe
! in a body from Camp Meade.
Mrs. Kuhn. wife of Maj. Gen. Kuhn,
commanding the Seventy-ninth Divi-
sion. and Mrs. Larz Anderson have
notified Mr.. Cans of their desire to
assist in the welcome home recep-
| tion. The War Camp Community also
has offered to give a dance and sup
per for the District men.
On Wednesday evening wives of
members OF the 3l2th Machine Gun
Battalion will give a, dance at St
Stephens parish hall to raise funds
for the welcome home" Friends are
invited to attend. Mrs. Samuel Ho-
mer Claiborne, wife OF Lieut.. Ciai-
borne. Company A, 312th Machine Gun
, Battalion, Is in charge.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-20
HAVIAN THESPIANS
GIVE SACRED DRAMA

Twenty-eight young women mem.
bers OF the FlaviNn Dramatic Clut
pleased a capcity audience last night
at st. Peters Church. Second and
streets southeast, when they zee.
sented The Sheperdess of the
Lourdes," sacred drama. The play
will be repeated this evening.
Miss Katherine Burke. as "The
Sheperdess:" Miss Corinne N. Lo-
throp as "Rosabella," her blind
daughter: and Miss Lorraine Wal
as "Luciila." were cast in the most
important parts.
Others in the cast were Miss Mar
guerite s. Connolly. Miss Agne.
Flaherty. Miss Theresa NJ. d. Popp
Miss Margaret Tappan. Miss Kath.
leen O'Brien. Miss Blanche c. Cook
sey. Mfss Genevieve O'Brien. Mis-,
Sara z. Kane. Mrs. Martha Johrder
McDevitt. Siss Stella Tappan. Miss
Frances Ludham. Miss Agnes Nolan
Miss Dorothy Colliflower. Miss Mar.
garet Stafford. AIiss Alice McAuliffe
Miss Alice MaloAe and the Misses
Annie Cooksey. Mary Louise Coli.
flower. Margaret Smith. Mary Kane
Helen Tracey. Margaret Stecker
Carey. Helen Cleary and Dorothy
Castel1.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-20
LEGION TO PICK
D.C.FOR HOME
Headquarters Of Veterans
Organization Planned
For District.

Washington will be made the ma
tional headauarters of the American
Legion.
Every assurance that the headquar-
ters would be brought here was given
the delegates Of Pershing Post. No.
]. at the recent national convention
at St Louis. Il was announced In
the report Of the delegates at a meet
ing last night, in the auditorium OF
the new Central High School.
Because Of a clause in the consti-
tuition Of the legion. adopted at the
st. Louis CAUCUS. stating that no post
should be named after a living man.
1t was necessary last night to change
the name of the local Organization.
After considerable debate, George
Washington Post. No. 1. was decided
on.
Col. E. Lester Jones, commander OF
the post. was elected to the ONCE Of
State commander Of the legion for
the District Of Columbia Capt. John
Louis Smith was chosen commander.
Col. Henry D. Lndsiey. who was
chosen chairman Of the st. Louis con-
vention as a delegate from Pershfng
Post, addressed the meeting. He
made no mention OF his recent res
lgnation as head Of the War Risk
Bureau.
A burst of applause greeted a sug-
gestion that the post be renamed In
honor Of the late Col. Theodore
Roosevelt. The former Presidents
name was stricken from the list OF
nominations following the state
ment by Col. Jones that it would
place upon the organization the
cloak of political party" He then
referred to the politisl Spirations
Of Lieut.. Col. Theodore Roosevelt
The Washington herald., 1919-05-20
ALLIES RECEIVE
VIENNA ENJOYS
Exchange Credentials in
Historical Palace in
Brief Ceremony.

st. Germain. France. May ls.--Allied
and Austrian peace delegates ex-
changed credentials in the Pavilion
Henry ~ here yesterday afternoon.
The ceremony lasted only two min
utes.
Jules Cambon presided in behalf Of
the allies. and Chancellor Renner
acted. for the Austrians The allied
countries represented were the United
States. Great Britain. France. italy.
Japan. Belgium, China, Cuba. Greece,
Nicaragua, Panama. Poland, Ru-
mania, Serbia, Sam. and Czecho-
Slovakia, all Of which declared war
against Austrif. and Portugal. which
severed diplomatic relations.
Versailles. sfaS 1s.-Foreign Minis
ter Brockdorff- Ra2tzau returned here
from Spa yesterGSy. At the same
time Herr GiesbeNs, General Won
Seckt. Commodore Heinrich and
twelve other members Nf the German
peace delegation returned xrom Berlin