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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
DISCUSS Improvement
OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY

Measures for the improvement of
the latent agricultural and water
power resources of the valley of the
mississippi river were discussed at a
nearing of delegates from the Missis-
slpp1 Valley Association with the
rivers and harborS committee of the
House today. A committee of the as
ISOLATION which is holding a two-day
conference at the New Willard also
met with Gen. Frederic V Abbot re-
garding the Illinois waterway project
which Is favored by the association
General legislation looking toward
greater development of the lands
drained by the Mississippi river to be
fostered by the Department of the In
terror was urged at a conference to-
day of representatives of the associa-
ton with Secretary Lane Committee
reports on the meetings will be read
at general session of the conference
this afternoon at the Willard A spe-
cial report will be made by Neal NJ
Leach, chairman of the committee on
merchant marine.
The association. as explained at the
opening general session yesterday
afternoon, is seeking general improve
ment Of the waterways and agricul-
tural resources of the Mississippi val
ley, and committees from the associa-
ton are now trying to further legisla-
ton toward this improvement. The
shipping board will be asked for al
locations of ships in the near future
by committee of the association, and
will be asked to take cogniza nee of
the facilities for shipping offered at
gulf ports The association is strongly
behind comprehensive merchant ma
rine policy. A dinner will be held to
night for delegates to the conference
at the New Willard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
TO ASK G. o. P. LEADERS.
TO AID FEDERAL WORKERS
Head of Employees Federation Re
quests Rearing Before Ma
tional Committee Here.

The National Federation of Federal
Employees will ask the republican ma
tional committee, at it's meetings here
this week, for republican party sup
port for legislation to improve con-
ditions in the federal civil service.
Hays today President Luther C.
Steward of the National Federation
of Federal Employees asks for a hear
ing in order to lay before the men,
bers Of the republican national com
mittee and thus before the party
leaders Throughout the country the
specific measures deemed essential by
the organized employees of the gov
eminent as represented by the 153
local unions of the federation in forty
three states.
The organized employees demand pro-
lection in organizing and afflli ating
with the American Federation OF
Labor.
Equally important, from the en-
ployes' point of view. is the PROPOSE
ton Of the national federation for
new kind of Civil Service Commits
sion, with enlarged powers and a
personnel to include representatives
of employees, administrative officials
and the general public, women as well
as men to be members of each group.
Coupled with this proposition the fed
Grafton urges legislation guarantee
ing to women IN tne service equal OPP
portunities and equal pay with men.
The Nolan minimum wage bill, ex-
tension Of the work Of Redistribution
to the. entire civil service of the
United States, and. pending such ex-
tension, a wage increase of $3.50 per
year for employees receiving base pay
up to and including $500 per year,
$3.50 for those in the grades between
$4,000 and $500 per year and s240
for the grades between $4,000. and s4,-
500 per year. are other features of the
employees program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
MUST BRING BUDGET
UNDER FOUR BILLION

The grand total of estimated and al
ready-approved estimates for the fiscal
year 1921 is s5,249.470,o 31.62 and these
must be scientifically and efficiently cut
to under $4,000, 900, 600, according to a
warning made to the House today by
Chairman Good of the appropriations
committee House Leader Mondell will
address the House on the same subject
tomorrow.
After summing up all the proposed
appropriations in the book of estimates
and other appropriations already APP
proved or supplementary to pending
legislation, Representative Good warn
ed:
greater problems confront this Congress
than that of applying the pruning knife
to the estimates of expenditures
1t must be applied with intelli-
gence, but with vigor and determine
ton. for if this Congress shall appro-
pirate more than 81, 900, 000, 900 for the
expenses of the government for the
next fiscal year. over and above the
necessary appropriations for the rail
road Administration, it will fall short
OF its obligations to the taxpayers of
the United States"
Folly to Increase Burden.
1t is absolutely imperative at this
Tune, MI. Good said. that the members
OF the House must realize the folly
OF fathermg legislation that proposes
TO still further increase the financial
burden He gave a carefully pre-
pared survey of the financial situa-
ton facing Congress.
He pointed out that the estimates
sent to Congress by the Secretary of
the Treasury do not include $4,000
600 in the Post Office appropriations
act. in addition to $4,000, 900 in the
permanent appropriations for road
construction; nor S125.000,0oo which
the Secretary of the Treasury in his
annual report said he proposes to pay
under the law in redeeming war saw
ings certificates; nor s25,00O 900 for
retiring federal reserve bank notes:
nor 100000 for miscellaneous re
demption of public debt
Other requirements of the govern
ment for large sums were emphasized
by Mr.. Good
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
EDWARD HARLAN DEAD
OF SPINAL MENINGITIS
Clubman and Official of Storage
Company Was Resident of City
Quarter Century.

Edward Harlan. clubman and resi-
dent of this city for more than TWEEN
ty-seven years. died yesterday after
noon at 3:15 o'clock at the Garfield
Hospital from cerebro-spi menin-
gifts. He had been i'll seventeen days.
He was f1fty-four years old and un-
MARI ed
Mr.. Harlan was the youngest son
of the late Judge James Harlan of
Howard county. Maryland. He was
born there January 10, 1865. and
moved. about twenty-seven years ago.
to this city. where he had resided ever
since. He lived at the Hawarden
apartments. on r street near 18th
street, with his two sisters, Misses
Helen and Elizabeth Harlan.
Soon after coming to this city he
became identified with the Chevy
Chase Lend Company. and later with
the Capital Traction Company at
he held for brief time. however, and
for the last twenty years Mr.. Harlan
had served as superintendent of the
Terminal Storage Company.
He was a member of the old Com
mercial Club. now the City Club, and
the Columbia Country Club.
Surviving him are four brothers.
James H Harlan. DR.. L. Lee Harlan
and DR.. Walter Harlan. all of this
city. and Charles R. Harlan of Glen
wood, Md, and his two sisters
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow afternoon. Rev. Mr.. Chappen
of the Mount Vernon Methodist Epis-
copal Church South will officiate. In
terment will be in Glenwood ceme-
terry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
Secretary Wilson Wires
Lewis to Urge Miners
to Accept PROPOSAL

Secretary Wilson today sent a tele-
gram to John L. Lewis, acting presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America. urging the miners to accept
President Wilson's proposal for set
Element of the coal strike. The
miners representatives are to act on
the proposal this afternoon at in
dianapolis.
said. has pointed a way out with
honor TO the government and honor
to yourselves"
Text OF Telegram.
The telegram. which was addressed
also to the members of the miners
scale committee, follows:
ST cannot too strongly urge you to
accept the basis of settlement pro-
posed by the President: I have been
associated with him for more than
six years, and I know that every
fiber of his strong nature has been
devoted towards securing fair play
for everybody, and particularly the
under dog, in a fight. Every blow
to to h bear many Of them@has ' been cen
brought about by his intense earnest
ness in that direction You can rely
thoroughly upon every promise he
makes.
But aside from that, as a result Of
we are facing the most difficult in
dustrial situation that ever confront
ed the country. 1t threatens the very
starvation of our social life. In this
emergency the President has pointed
way out with honor to the govern
ment and honor to yourselves. If my
judgment and experience are of any
value to you. let me use them in ad-
vising you, for the welfare of your
self and the country as a whole, to
accept the way out that is proposed
by the President"
Secretary Morrison of the American
Federation of Labor and other labor
leaders conferred with senator's today
in behalf Of the effort to secure from
the Treasury Department a detailed
statement of profits made by indi-
vidual coal operators as disclosed by
their income tax returns. A reso-
luton by Senator johnson, demo-
crat, South Dakota, for this purpose
is pending and, at Secretary Morri-
sons suggestion, will be broadened
by Senator Johnson when he calls it
before the Senate, to require sub
mission of operators capitalization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
MEXICAN RADICALS, ASSISTED
BY CARRANZA, PLOTTED HERE
Senator Fall Furnishes Evidence of At
tempt to Seize American Border
States and Create Revolt.

offer her mediation between Japan
and Germany.
The evidence IN possession of the
| President, indicates that conditions
now along the border are rapidly
| taking on the same character which
had been assumed in our relations
with Mexico prior and subsequent to"
the date fixed for the uprisings under
the plan of San Diego.
The New Mexico senator supported
his recent charges that radical litera-
ture advocating the soviet form of
the Mexican embassy and the con-
| sulates of Mexico in the United
States by an account Of the manner
| in which the information was Sc
| cured.
A copy of the booklet was procured
from the embassy by mailing re-
quest to the embassy, the senator
said. adding that admission by the
author. Arthur Thomson, that the
Mexican government was aiding him
| In the distribution of his article, and
that it had secured from him several
thousand copies, is contained in a
| letter written in reply to one signed
by German name.
The committee, the memorandum
said. has obtained possession of what
President Carranza called his Blue
BOOK At various places in this
book attention is called to "the OPP
preSSlve policy of the United States
toward Mexico. and stress is laid upon
the assertion that President Carranza
has resisted every such encroach-
ment, and in every instance from the
! first proposed Niagara conference
down to and including the American
protests as to naturalization of lands
and other properties that he has been
successful by refusing absolutely to
yleld in any respect to the demands
OF this government.
"Systematic Hostility,
The memorandum also contained a
copy of a letter said to have been
| written by CarranZa to Miss Hermila
! Ga Undo. who had written book en-
titled THE Carranza Doctrine" The
Mexican presidents note to her con-
cerned second book which he said
ne wished her to write. and with this
IN view he was sending her a copy
or the Blue Book" which he said
would justify the attitude of his gov
eminent in it's "systematic hostility
towards foreign spectators, especial
ly Americans and English"
| DO not forget my Injunction" Car
rama wrote, ito describe in lively
co!ors the tortuosity of the American
policy with relation to our country
causing the figure of Wilson to stand
well out as the director of that
policy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
LANDCLA|MSF|LED
| FOR D. C. PROPERTY
Officials Here Deny Validity
of Rights as Asserted
Under Old Law.

Several persons have filed claims to
enter valuable downtown business
properties in Washington under an
cient land laws applicable to public
lands They have paid entry fees OF
81 an acre for the land filed upon.
Such persons claim right to the cost
ly property under the terms of an
act of Congress of March 3, 1907.
which set out that public lands could
be held only by the securing of a pat
ent from the commissioner of the gen
eral land office. Such patents have
not been taken out by District land
owners. they claim, and this land IN
the District. they say. became part OF
the public domain when it was ceded
to the United States by Maryland
Make Light Of Project.
Officials of the title guarantee com
panieS of the office of the recorder or
deeds, of the District surveyors Of
flee are inclined to make light OF the
project to acquire valued land at q
low pric. They declare that there IS
no reason why property owners
should become apprehensive- Prop
erty rights held in the District OF
Columbia are safe and VIII be protect
ed. these officials state.
Those who have filed caveats or made
entries and paid fees at 81 an acre
will have only their trouble for their
pains, it is stated, by title guarantee
companies in the District.
1t is understood that about twenty
five claims have been filed and fees
paid the fees being held awaiting a
decision of some high official of the gem
| eral land office in the Interior Depart
| ment
Warning to Residents.
do not pay any retaining fee for
defending possible land title suits af-
| fecting property in the District of Co
| lumbia" is the warning to property
| owners from Secretary Seymour of the
| Chamber of Commerce.
/ The safest plan, Secretary Seymour
suggested, would be for property owners
| to keep calm and refuse to pay heed
| to any persons who might seek fee.
Melvin c. Hazen, surveyor of the Dis
| trict, said today there is absolutely no
! foundation for the claim that the United
| States originally held title to land in
| the DISTRICT of Columbia and that the
present owners have not clear title I'M
| less they obtained patent for their
4, land from the United States land office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
MAY ASK HALF MILLION
TAX ON PINT OF WHISKY
International Reform Bureau Of
ficials Have Plan for
Congress-.

A tax Of half a million dollars on
a pint of whisky, which would pre-
vent it's sale. is to be asked of Con-
gress by the International Reform
Bureau IN the event the United States
Supreme Court should give an ad-
verse decision in the wartime pro-
hibition amendment.
This was the plan expected to pc
decided on at meeting of the trus-
tees and executive committee OF the
bureau in executive session here this
afternoon. DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts. head
of the bureau, said the officers had
met here today for the purpose or
taking imm Mediate, action had the Su-
preme Court given an adverse de-
cision in the case yesterday.
The Supreme Court has decided
that thing can be taxed to death"
said DR.. Crafts. land we propose to
ask Congress to put half-million
dollar tax on a pint of whisky. If the
court decides against the present
law"
The league of nations was also dis
cussed at the meeting and a resolu-
ton for a truce on strikes was adopt
ed. 1t was decided to present this
resolution to the Federal Council of
Churches. for adoption. at it's session
in Baltimore tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
SOCIETY WOMAN KILLS
DAUGHTER, WOUNDS SELF
Mrs. Emily r. Powell of Wyncote,
Pa, Shoots Sleeping Child
in Denver, Colo.

DENVER. Col. December 9.-Mrs.
Emily r. Powell. forty years old. said
to be the daughter Of Horace G. Lip
pincott of Wyncote. Pa. socially
prominent, shot and killed her twelve
year-old daughter. JacQueline. as the
child lay asleep at the mothers apart
ment at 1000 Corona street. in the
Capitol Hill residence district, today
Mrs. Powell then shot herself, the
bullet entering her left eye. She was
hurried to a hospital. where it was
said her condition was dangerous.
Mrs. Powell had been sepa rat ted from
her husband. Other occupants of the
apartment house where she lived said
she had been acting strangely.
Mrs. Powell left a note saying: 1T
wish before I died might have
known what has always been wrong
with my hfe-the more loved peo-
pie the more / always hurt them"
PHILADELPHIA. December g.
Emily Lippincott went to Denver for
her health. While there she met and
secretly married Edwin S. Powell.
said to be a newspaperman. This
was in 1905. and three years later
they were divorced. Mrs Powell con-
tinued to reside in Denver. Besides
the daughter, JacQueline, there rs a
younger son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
Little Effort to Obey
in Pittsburgh District

PITTSBURGH, Pa, December g.
Little was being done in the Pitts
burgh district today to obey the in
junction of the government and save
fuel Mills with coal supplies were
operating as usual. stores were open
for their customary hours. and. this
being dark day, lights were burn
ing in Office buildings and residences.
Railroads, however, were curtailing
schedules and cutting off trains.
At the Offices of the railroad admin
istration. it was said, no order had
been received from Washington put
ting the fuel conservation regulations
into effect, and so far as known there.
individual and corporate initiative
was responsible for such steps as had
been taken.
1t was expected that before night
fall many business organizations, even
if a formal order did not come from
Washington. would have perfected
plans to carry out the published regu-
lationS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
sa,arie. Under Reorganization.

This is the schedule of salaries the
board believes should accompany the
proposed reorganization of the system
Superintendent. $4,000; associate superin-
tendent for white schools, $500; associate
superintendent for colOred schools, $500;
assistant superintendents (three for white, one
for eo0red schools sao pIesdents Z, nor nor
$500; member. board of examiners tive
white. two coloredl, $4,000; principals, high
school (seven). junior high school ttwo). (si1
white three colored). $4,000; assistant princi-
pals, high school EIGHT: six white. two col
ored), So 600; group principals approximately
fifty: thirty three white, seventeen colored).
1900: directors (hfteen). a. intermediate in
prms and WORM nh3,en
education (including speech defects and atyp-
ical schools; e. research and results; I. mu-
sic; &. drawing: h. household arts. N,5OO:
teachers. group &C." professors normal col
lege Twenty: s!oo raise each year for FIVE FIVE
ys.9 1861 ,esenssS sF0 seaeheT
group AZ" s., OOo-s2. 500; teachers. group
al" 81 .5Oo-s2, 600; substitute teachers.
81. Sos 500; probationary teachers. si'2"'-
1.400.
Would Retain Board of Examiners.
The board of examiners of the Dis
trict public schools should be con-
tinued and transfer of the authority
to the Civil Service Commission, as
has been proposed. should not be
made, according to a brief by Supt.
Ernest L. ThurSton OF the puplc
schools handed the joint congress
sional commission on Redistribution
of salaries in the District today
The board of examiners are best
able to do the work required by the
system because an integral part OF
it" Mr.. Thurston declared in his
brief, which took up the question OF
the advisability of placing the Dis
trict schools under the Civil service
Commission jurisdiction.
There would be nothing gained by the
proposed change in the form OF protec-
ton to the teacher or to the schools
in obtaining adequately prepared teach
ers, Mr. Thurston stated. land much
NAV be lost to the community and the
school system if it is carried through
Pointing out that there is no need Tor
a transfer to a national commission on
the ground of teacher protection. Mr..
Thurston told the commission that
there is no demand whatever within
the school system, either among the
| teachers or officers, in favor Of the pro-
posed change. The feeling is emphati-
cally the other way" he continued.
Neither is their need or justification
for the change on the score of economy,
Mr. Thurston said, since the local
schools can do the work as effectively
and efficiently as could the civil serv-
ice commission. he asserted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
WOULD MAKE AUTOISTS
AID THOSE THEY INJURE

Aroused over the manner in which
drivers of automobiles have left per-
unaided in Washington. Senator Cap
per of Kansas has introduced a bill
making it obligatory for all such
drivers tc stop and render the neces-
6ary assistance to persons whom
their automobiles may have injured.
Any persons violating the provisions
of the proposed law are to be pun
ished by fine not exceeding $1,000
or by Imprisonment not exceeding
one year, or by both.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
SYNDICALISM TRIAL OPENS.
Steel Strike Leaders Under Charges
at East Youngstown. Ohio.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. December 9.
hearing on charges of
criminal syndicalism against ]. T. NC
gladden., secretary-treasurer of the
Youngstown district steel strike COM
mittee. and two Pennsylvania strike
leaders arrested after a strikers
meeting. was opened today before
Mayor McVey of East Youngstown
McCadden and Frank Korasky of
Scranton, Pa, and John Klinsky,
Washington county. Pa, the two
other men held. were arrested follow
ing an East Youngstown labor meet
ing, where. it was alleged by deputies,
the crowd was urged to violence in
retaliation for the death of a striker
from injuries sustained in rioting
Charges were filed under the new
Ohio statute defining criminal syn
dicalism as urging violence or pro-
noting of a meeting where force is
advocated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
fittIe Increase Shown
in West Virginia Fields

CHARLESTON. w. Va, December
9.-The United States district court
injunction restraining members of
the miners union FROM conspiring to
keep the strike order in effect in the
southern West Virginia coal fields
has not resulted in any material in
crease in the number of mines work.
ing. according to reports received to-
day by operators. These reports
showed that since Saturday, when the
court order was issued. only slight
improvement has been noted in the
Kanawha and New river fields.
Most of the Kanawha mines were
still closed today, and early reports
indicated that there was no change
in the New river fields. Operators
said. however, that non-union mines
were working at normal and that in
the organized Fairmont district all
mines were operating excepting two
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-09
Director Hines Prepares
Report for President Wilson

After comforting with Chairmen
Cummins and ESch of the Senate and
House interstate commerce committees
regarding pending railroad legislation
Director General Hines has drawn re-
port with recommendations for Presi-
dent Wilson.
II was said at the White House today
that the report would be given to the
President today or tomorrow, but Off
Gals would not divulge its contents In
his recent message to Congress the
President said he would deal with the
railroad situation in a separate message
and Mr. Hines was requested to draft a
report on the pending legislation.
While the President has announced
that the railroads would be returned
to private operation by January
there is growing belief here that
return of the lines will await enact
ment of permanent legislation by
Congress. Officials. however. refuse
to comment.