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The Washington times., 1920-04-08
UNIONS FIGHT
STR|KESPREAD
Brotherhoods Concentrate e.
forts to Break Rail Walk
out In Chicago.
SITUATION GROWING ACUTE
Expect Freight Traffic to Be
Almost Normal BY
hightfalI.

CHICAGO, April 8.--Grand Lodge
officers Of the big railroad brother
hoods today concentrated every
means in their power to break the
strike of switchmen. engineers and
firemen in Chicago, and to prevent
the trouble from attaining the pro-
portions of nationwide walkout.
Traffic Tied Up.
with strikes tying up freight traf-
fc here and In Kansas City and Buff
falo and with walkouts threatened In
St Louis and Milwaukee, the railroads
face the most serious situation that
has confronted them In years.
The brotherhood chiefs. realizing
that the preservation of their unions
Is at stake, Joined with the railroad
heads in q united effort to induce
the strikers to return to work and
TO smash the !. w. w tactics that are
declared to be behind the trouble
The brotherhood chiefs expressed
confidence today that they would be
able to break the strike by the end OF
the week and that by tonight they
would have from so to rs per cent Of
Chicago's normal freight traffic NOV
Ing again.
The strikers, however, claim they
are standing. firmly together, ASSERT
that their ranks are being augmeh ted
by thousands of new members daily,
and declare that the strike Is sure to
spread. Within twenty-four hours,
they say, not a switch engine will be
operating in the entire Chicago rail-
road district.
Thousands Out Of Work.
In the meantime. thousands Of
stock yards workers remain out Of
jobs because of the closing down OF
activities, there, a fuel famine which
will cause a shut down Of the city's
Industries impends, and a food short
age is manifesting itself through
soaring prices. The steel industry
at Gary, Ind, is the latest to be af-
fected, reports from that city today
declaring the strike threatens to
close the steel mills, and that hum
dreds of men already have been laid
off.
Another addition to the strike was
reported from Champaign. ILL.,, where
$50 switchmen employed by the I'LL
nois Central and Big Four railroads
went on strike, completely paralyzing
operations in the freight yards. Many
cars of perishable fruit are tied up
there.
Brotherhood officials now in Chi
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The Washington times., 1920-04-08
SAYS FLEET WAS
PREPARED IN 1917
Admiral Wilson Testifies Before
Committee Probing Sims
Charges.

The active vessels OF the Fleet were
better prepared for war in 1917 than
they had ever been before. Admiral
Henry Il. Wilson, now commanding
the Atlantic Fleet, said today.
Before a Senate subcommittee in
-vestigating Rear Admiral Sims
charges of "unpreparedness for
war;" Admiral Wilson said:
IT have no hesitation in saying that
no nation upon the approach of war
had a force of battleships more nearly
prepared for battle than was the force
to which I was attached and which
spent the winter Of l9l6-1917 In
Southern waters.
And l feel sure that IL their force
had engaged an enemy on its cruise
north in the spring of 1917 the vic
tory would have been ours"
Admiral Wilson's testimony on this
point, spectators at the hearing have
remarked, comedies with that of the
really "seagoing" naval officers who
have appeared before the committee.
These officers, among them Admiral
Mayo, Admiral Rodman, and others
seem to resent the Inference by GER
tain witnesses that our ships were
helpless" with which view they
took vigorous exception when they
testified.
Not only were the ships ready, Ad-
miral Wilson resumed, but "fuii and
complete plans had been drawn IN
to meet the enemy In case he made
our coast"
From the moment war was de-
ciared. the navy-the department as
well as the fleet-entered into the
prosecution OF the war with the
greatest energy. and It's accomplish
ments deserve the commendatlon of
the nation" Admiral Wilson said.
He pointed out that within four
ICnntInnnd on Pnre Ia Cnlunn o.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
ITALIANS CALL GENERAL
STRIKE In FLORENCE

LONDON, April S.--A general
strike has been called at Florence in
consequences OF the labor troubles in
northern Italy, according to an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Rome
today.
The question OF ordering n general
strike throughout I'aly has been re-
ferred to the executive committee Of
he Socialists, said another news
agency dispatch from Rome. Sgnor
Ma'atesta, Of the rNtrc MIST group. IL
reported to be directing the strike
movement
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
TERMS SCHOOL
HEAD RADICAL
Van Schaick Came Home From
Europe With New Views,
Says Geo. {. Hamilton.

Characterixing John Van Schaick.
president of the Board of Education.
as a radical" George z. Hamilton.
In his testimony before the Senate in
vestig gating committee. today stated
he quit the board mainly because he
foresaw clashes between his own
conservative" viewpoint and that OF
the majority members.
~ saw we were widely apart" said
Hamilton. "van Schaick returned from
Europe with radical views. and was
conservative. The Board of Educa-
ton became a closed chapter with me.
81 shuffled off that coil with an
agreeable sensation of relief" added
Mr.. Hamilton, speaking of his resig-
nation from the board. He denied,
however, he had any hard feelings
toward any member of the board.
81 could have given praise to ey-
cry member of the board, although l
didn't always agree with them.
have no feeling in the matter at ALL
added Hamilton.
Had "Awkward Position
The former board president said he
had been put in an awkward posi-
ton" by Van Schaick's conduct when
the new board chairman was elected
in July, 1919.
al felt agrieved over the matter
he saidSUoand this cul minated in an
estranSem from Van Schaick. /
had consented to remain as president
until October, and Van Schaick had
urged me to do so.
"Yet, when the election came, all of
Van Schaick's friends voted for him,
| in spite of what he had said. 1t gave
me an uncomfortable feeling, and !
knew that ! didn't want to be at that
board table any more. / wrote to
him saying he had put me in an en-
| barrassing position and that 1t was a
matter of regret with me that l had
| to sever my connection with the
| board"
Mr.. Hamilton stated there were
| other reasons that led him to resign,
one being Van Schaick's favorable at.
titude to the union, and the other
his hostility to Thurston.
Praise For Thurston.
Mr.. Hamilton, in concluding, paid a
tribute to the teachers OF Washing.
ton. saying:
During my service Of two years
on inc podIu' L hSNSi opSci NSu Il pSl
sonnel of men and women who en-
deavored to do better work than the
officers and teachers of the Wash
ington schools; and a great deal OF
| the credit for II was due to the un-
firing efforts of Superintendent
Thurston."
Mr.. Hamilton reviewed the Moens
and Hunter cases At length, defend
ng the action Of the board In both
instances. He also stated he did not
believe teachers unions operated for
| the benefit of the schools.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
BOWIE ENTRIES

First race-Claiming; three-year-
olds and upward; five and a half fur
longs. Huzzar, 115; Earnest, 113;
Landslide, 112; True as Steel, 112;
Sea Mime, 1O5; Kirah, 1902; Annabelle,
1902; 'Enos, 107: 'Comacho. 107: La
ma, 1O5; 'She Devil, 102.
Second race-Claiming; three-year-
olds and upward; seven furlongs
Coucelles, Ill; 'Margery, 100; 'Verity
108; 'Tarascon, Ill; 'Ina Kay, 103;
'Deckhand, los: 'Meddling Miss, 1902
Third race-ClaIming, three-year.
olds and up; seven furlongs. Lady
Ward, III; sParrish, Ill: 'Tiger Rose
l0s: Marmite, 105: 'Challenge, 107;
mildred Euretta, 106: Huron I'd, Ill;
'Hope, 106.
Fourth race--Selllng; fouryear-olds
and upward; six and a half furlongs
Ettahe. III; Sylvano, 112; 'Betsy, 102
Poultney, III; 'Mumbo Jumbo, 100
Amackassin, 112: 'Ragnarok, 1o7.
Fifth race--The Benning Purse
four-year-olds and upward: one mile
Mountain Rose II. 107: Frank Monroe
l0T; Star Realm, 1902; Nose. 10I
Queen Blonde. 102; Hong Kong, 107
Antoinette. 102.
Sixth race--Claiming, three-year
olds and upward; mile and a sixteenth
Bogart, 10: 'Paui Connolly, 107;
Luther, 105; Crumpsall, l10; 'Greef
Mint, 100; 'Little Ed, iOe; Kilkenny
105; Austral, 110; Challenger, 80
'Boher ma Breena, SO.
Seventh race--Claiming; three
year-olds and upward; mile and q
sixteenth. Lady Ward. III; 'Pilsen
III; 'Lebluet. %: Courcelles, 107
'Prunes, 107; sack X, III: 'Capits
City. III: sSemper Stalwart, 107.
Apprentice allowance claimed.
Cloudy; track fast.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
HUNDREDS FLEE WHEN
RIVER BREAKS LEVEE

MUSCATTNE, Iowa, April S.-with
more than $4,000 acress OF farm lands
inundated by the rising waters OF the
Mississippi, the result OF break In
the levee twelve miles south OF Mus
catine, hundreds Of refugees focked
'nto Muscatine today by every avail
able road, their wagons piled high
with their belongings.
Every available man Is engaged in
strengthening the levees near Mus.
catine. Should these give way, the
city would be flooded. The river con-
tinues to rise slowly. Several thou
sRnd persons in the lower end OF
Muscatine are preparing to abandon
their homes.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
Los ANGELES PAPERS
Sc DAILY; l0c SUNDAY

LOS ANGELES, April S.-That .
crisis exists in tho newsprint publish
ing industry was demonstrated at .
Joint meeting of the Los Angeles
Publishers Association and repre-
sentatives OF the Associated Dailiss
OF Southern California. held at Los
Angeles.
It was the opinion OF publishers
that general adjustment In sub
scription rates and street prices was
absolutely necessary to meet increased
expenses. u,
To meet this situation, the prices Of
the Los Angeles morning papers after
May /. 1920, will be s1.05 per month.
delivered by carrier, and the single
copy prices on the streets and on
trains. at news stands and hotels.
effective April 20, will be cents for
daily issues and 10 cents sundays.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
WILSON MAY LEAVE RUHR
ROW TO NATION LEAGUE

President Wilson may leave the en-
tire question OF settlement of the
Ruhr valley situation to the
League of Nations. since Germany has
called upon that organization, accord
ing to the views OF those close to the
White House today.
The present situation affords an ex.
cellent opportunity for the President
to win some support for his treaty
fight. II was pointed out In Ad-
ministration circles If the League
of Nations is able to handle the pres
ent crisis with satisfaction to all II
would be a strong point In favor of
adoption OF the treaty with the league
covenant, IL Is pointed out
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
Keeping Up Witt
The Times
A FACT A DAY

advertising is the insur-
ance Of business according
to q Newark advertiser,
"and II is the persistent ad-
vertiser who survives times
of depression while his COM
petitor who does not adver-
tise goes down to oblivion.
Advertising absorbs its own
costs in the increase of
business it brings in.
eve are now at the peak
of a period of prosperity
and a reaction is bound to
come. When it does the man
who survives will be the
man who advertises. II is
a very well established fact
that the products of the
companies which do not
have well advertised brands
and trademarks are first to
disappear from the markets
in a period Of depression
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
P|CKETS FACE
3-YEAR TERMS
Irish Sympathizers Again Defy
Police and Continue Demon
StrationS At Embassy.
CITE C0LBY'S 1916 SPEECH
Banners Seized As Patrol
Wagon Arrives to Take Them
to Station House.

After a days pause, American
women sympathizers for the Irish
Republic resumed their picketing
at the British Embassy at 11:40
o'clock this morning Three Of them
appeared in front Of the Embassy
bearing placards upon which were
inscribed extracts from a speech
made by Secretary Of State Balm
bridge Colby in New York on May
a, 1916. The trio was arrested and
aiken to the House Of Detention at
1910 o'clock.
Three Under Arrest.
The three women who were taken
into custody were: Misses Mary Gal
Yin and Kathryn McKeon. both Of
PhiIadeiphia. and Miss Maura Quinn,
Of Boston.
The legends on the placards were
the same as those used In yesterdays
,icketing of the State Department.
The procedure followed in arrest
ng the picketers today was the same
as on Tuesday when four, who are
now out on bail. were arrested.
When the three women appeared
today. Patrolman Hunt, Of the Third
district, who was on duty NJ the en-
bassy, telephoned Capt. Robert E.
Doyle at the station house. Doyle
came to the scene accompanied by In.
spector Sullivan and four policewom-
en-. Doyle accosted the pickets put
ting the set form of question: DO you
know this Is the British embassy"
The three pickets replied In the af-
f1rmative. and to Doyle's warning that
II they did not desist he would be
compelled to arrest them, answered:
1--WE are sorry, but we are going to
continue"
Escorted to Patrol Wagon.
Tho police stepped back and waited
three minutes before policewomen ap-
preached the pickets, took their ban
ners, and escorted them to a waiting
patrol wagon.
At the women's headquarters in the
Lafayette Hotel, attention was called
to the fact that these banners differed
from those previously used in picket
ing the embassy, in that they quoted
the words Of the Secretary of State.
The question was asked IL District
Attorney Laskey. who ordered the ar
rest, could construe the words of the
Secretary as an insult to the British
embassy.
The women called a conference
after the latest arrest to decide
whether to continue picketing the
embassy. or, as yesterday, to turn
their attention elsewhere, possibly to
the Treasury building.
The pickcts arrested at the British
embassy will be prosecuted under the
Law of Nations" and section 4O62 of
the Federal statutes, according to the
United States district attorneys Of
f1ce.
Section 4os2, Federal statutes,
reads:
Every person who violates any
safe conduct or passport duly obtain
ed and issued under authority of the
United States, or who ASSAULTS, strikes,
wounds, imprisons, or In any other
manner offers violence to the person
of a public minister In violation of
the law of nations, shall be imprison-
ed for not more than three years, and
fined at the discretion OF the court"
The courts have ruled that an in
suit to a foreign embassy constitutes
CONTINUED on Page 10, Column 81
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
I DAYS
TOQU|T RUHR
Ebert Troops Must Evaouate
District In Week, London
Hears.
WILL COMPLY WITH ORDER
Dispatches Say Government
Forces May Withdraw
Within 48 Hours.

LONDON, April 8.-The Ger
man government has promised
France to withdraw It's troops
from the Ruhr district within
two days, If possible, and to dis
band the civic guards immedi-
ately, said Q Reuter- dispatch
from Berlin this afternoon.
LONDON, April 8-The Even
ing News stated today It had
learned that the German gov
ernment has been given q weeks
grace to withdraw its troops
from the Ruhr district.
PARIS, April 8.-orders have
been issued by the French military
authorities in Germany to shoot
down all civilians attempting to
block the passage Of General Doug
cites troops or create disturbances
in the newly occupied districts Of
Germany, according to dispatch
from Mayence today.
Dead in Frankfort.
Late advices put the number Qf
Germans killed in Frankfort yester-
day at seven. The French Sengalese
troops opened fire with machine guns
against a crowd Of Germans when the
commander of the Moroccan guard
feared the Germans were going to
make trouble.
Details of the troubles at Frank
fort were received today. The trouble
started when students organized a
procession through the city and start
ed forth singing patriotic songs.
French troops sent to disperse them
were met with teers and insults.
While efforts were being made to
scatter the students and onlookers, q
French officer became separated from
his men and 1t looked as II his life
was in danger.
Troops Ordered to Fire.
1t was then that the Sengalese
troops were ordered to fire. After q
volley the troops started forward to
rescue the officer. In addition to the
Germans killed outright others were
wounded.
1t was reported the trouble was In
tensified by rumors that the evacua-
ton Of Frankfort and Darmstadt had
been ordered as a result Of an ulti-
matum from Great Britain and Amerf-
ca These rumors emboldened the
crowd.
Huge crowds followed the German
students into the Schillerplatz. The
colored soldiers who tried to clear
the square were reported to have been
hustled about and pelted with stonea
1t required energetic action by the
French troops to restore order.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
INJURED IN COLLISION.

Henry Groves, twenty-seven years
old, 1914 Spring road northwest, today
is at the Emergency Hospital suffer-
ing from a broken right arm and pain
full injuries about his head as the re-
,ult of n motorcycle he was riding last
light crashing into a tree at Rhode
island avenue and II street.
The accident occurred when Groves
attempted to avoid a collision with an
automobile.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
SEE BRITAIN
. IN SHIP PLOT
Benson's Proposed Sale of
Government Merchant Vessels
Flayed BY Senators.

The abrupt stoitch IN policy OF
Chairman Benson of the Shipping
Board, tn announcing the proposed
sale of all Government-o0ned mer-
chant vessels, brought out the fol-
lotDirg statements from United
States Senators McGary and Cap
per, ,cho hare taken q LEADING part
IN rebuilding an American merchant
marine:
By SENATOR CHARLES L. M'NARY
of Oregon.
am not at all alarmed at the call
of finance to participate in the con-
ference advising the Shipping Board
in het method of disposing of our feet
of merchant ships. I cannot see any
danger in this conference, for already
we have demonstrated three points
toward the settlement of the Diff
Guilty.
First, Mr.. Hearst was issued an In
junction against the sale OF the for
mer German liners. Then a resolu-
tion was introduced in the Senate ar
ranging for an Investigation. And
last, but not least, II was agreed by
a vote in the Senate that no disposi-
tion or sale OF the German ships
could be transacted until Congress
should shape a shipping policy.
feel that we can rest secure on
this arrangement, and that II can be
repeated in the event that there Is a
disposition on the part of the board
to sell the remaining vessels at a
figure below their worth hope,
also, that Congress will determin ne
on the policy of government owner
nip when the time arrives for this
decision.
BY SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER
OF Kansas.
am very much surprised at the
move Admiral Benson is making for
the Shipping Board. Just why these
business men should be invited to ad-
wise with the board is something ]
cannot understand. His business men
are directly Interested and are not
likely to- view the establishment OF
his industry from an unselhsh stand
point.
Congress Is the body that should
pass on the big question without the
Interference of wall Street. There
are indications that Great Britain and
other nations are anxious to see
Uncle Sam get out of the shipping
business.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08

FRENCH ORDERED TO KILL GERMANS If IMPEDEl

GENERAL DEGoUTTE,
" whose troops have oc-
cupied the German cities
of Frankfort and Darn
stadt in the advance from
the French bridgehead at
Mayence into the neutral
zone.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
Saws the Manchester News:

Says the Manchester news:
zone doesn't have to hold brief
for Newberry to understand that
he is not in the same boat with
Berger" That is the true word.
And you may add: at is not nee
essary to hold brief for Berger
to understand that he is not in the
same boat with Newberry."
Berger was never accused OF
buying or stealing. votes. He was
elected by an overwhelming ma
jority of his fellow citizens, and
sentenced to Jail because Of what
he was alleged to have believed
and said.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08

Young women may not under
stand why the mother scorpion
makes a good mascot for girls.
But tired, wornout American
mothers will understand 1t. They
are not exactly eaten alive by their
children, but when they finish
cooking, scrubbing,; washing and
worrying for half a dozen OF
them there is little Of the mother
left except an empty shell.
The, children wander away from
that shell--and 50 does the hus-
b-nd too often, plaintively saying,
my wife has not quite kept up
with me a. / have risen in the
world"
The Washington times., 1920-04-08

The United States will "investi-
gate" an alleged effort Of Chicago
operators to corner all corn for
"May delivery" In France, where
they have republic, the man who
CANDLES in or corners food prod
ucts to increase the price artif-
cially is sentenced to long term
at hard labor.
That's what ought to be done in
this country. Let a man buy what
he W nts, sell when he is ready to
sell. But there is trouble enough
in tho world and more Of it threat
ening Without permitting the ras-
cality that supplies the shortest
road to revolution--namely con-
spiracy to increase the cost Of food.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08

"Shall we EVER forget the ter
rible events Of this great war and
ali the excitement of today?s We
shrll indeed. Two days ago we
celebrated the l31st anniversary
Of George washington's first cleo
tion as President. Did you notice
it2.--On- the same. day, ffty-eight
years ago, the first battle Of Shi-
loh was raging. We have man
aged pretty well to forget that
Eleven years ago on the same
date Peary landed at the North
Pole. He is dead and will soon
be forgotten.
And three years ago on that
same day this country declared
war against Germany. Some day,
strange as it now seems, we shall
forget that, just as we forgot
three years ago that once upon a
time we. had a war with England.
Fortunately, time is a sponge that
wipes the slate clean. That's why
death is SO useful. 1t also washes
off the slate, and let's US start
again with a clean page.
In New York's Legislature yes
terday two bills were introduced
to "wipe out the Socialist Party"
These, of course, are bills to regu-
late THINKING. If by law you
can wipe out parties and forbid
thinking, you can also make laws
to wipe out religions and forbid
BELIEVING.
There was wisdom in the ancient
American idea that citizens might
BELIEVE what they chose,
THINK what they chose, and
SAY what they chose, as long as
they did not injure others.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08

II, however, the Chico High
School mascot is q male scorpion,
1t should be discarded as mascot.
The female scorpion, after q brief
acquaintance with her husband,
kills him and eats him, or eats him
before he is dead. The female
scorpion is the worst wife as we'll
rs the best mother, in which she
resembles Olympias, mother Of
Alexander, who killed her husband
and encouraged her son by pre-
tending that a god was his real
father.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08

Noble Scorpion Mother.
Yes, We Forget.
Regulating Thought.
Investigating RascaIity.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
tcopyrishI. 1901

Young ladies of the State Nor
NAL School at Chico, Cal, adopt q
i've scorpion rs school mascot
Do not shudder. for q scorpion
(female) Is the best kind Of q
mascot for future mothers, the
female scorpion being the cham
pion mother Of the world.
When its young are born they
attach themselves to the mothers
back. The mother wanders about,
keeping them in the warm sun
light, protecting them from enc
mics, but getting weaker as she
goes, because her young ones are
actually devouring her body.
When they leave her to start little
families Of their own she is an
empty shell, eaten hollow.
The Washington times., 1920-04-08
WEATHER,

E@ss to~tx&t s-s 80
msssswJ osAti.~ss eooiJ
frost probably toAiSht.
Ts~peT.turs "a . - ~
% degrees.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-13
Uncle Eben.

"a man dat keeps talkin' bout his
self" said Uncle Eben, sometimes
surprises ypu by de way he manages to
make purity good speech on mighty
slim subjest."