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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-10
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
UNION ELECTS HEAD
Burd w. Payne Will Succeed
John S. Beach as
President.

Burd W. Payne was elected presi-
dent of Federal Employees Union, No
2. to succeed John S. Beach. at a
meeting of the union held last night
Mr.. Payne had been acting head OF
the union since Mr.. Beach resigned
several months ago on account of his
pressing duties as chief of the retire
ment division of the pension bureau
Selection of Mr. Payne. who has
been prominently connected with la
Dor and union affairs in the National
Capital for many years. proved pleas
Ing to members of the union through
out the government departments. Mr..
Payne is an employe of the Office of
the auditor for the Post Office De-
partment and has been in govern
ment service for the past seventeen
years,
Resolutions were adopted at the
meeting last night asking the ma
tional executive council of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal En-
ployes. which is to meet here Mon
day. to. ask the republican national
committee for more definite express
sion of opinion as to its stand on re-
. classification of federal employees. and
TO bring to the attention of the dem
ocratic national committee the case
of Stewart +. BlasSingham. law clerk
Of the Post Office Department. dls-
missed recently by the Postmaster
General.
Delegates and alternates to the ma
tional convention of the National
Federation of Federal Employees to
be held in ST. Louis. September IL to
Is. were elected as follows: U. j. Bill
Ter. Stewart E. Blassingham, Jere-
,n,iah Connolly, William ]. Hendricks,
Prof. George A. Hill, P. NJ. Kennerly.
Burd w. Payne and Van A. zahn: al
ternates. Miss ]. Stebbins. John 5.
Ginder, Mrs. Adele G. Guthridge,
James P McKeon, W. S. Douglass,
Edward L. Scheufier and Miss ).
Weston
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LEGION ORGANIZATION
OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY
Jane A. Delano Post Gives Enter
tanning Program at Red Cross
Building, Reed Hospital.

Jane A. Delano Post, No. s, of the
District of Columbia Department.
American Legion. celebrated the first
anniversary of its organization last
night at the Red Cross recreation
building. Walter Reed Hospital, in
the presence of large gathering of
members of the post and their
friends.
Miss Pauline NJ. Mcvey. commander
of the post. presided. The officers of
the post received the guests After
q brief address by Miss Mcvey, who
told of the growth of the post up to
the present time; Past Department
Adjutant Howard S. Fisk, reviewed
briefly the life work of Miss Jane A.
Delano. from the time of her gradua-
tioa. with high honors. from the
Bellevue Training School for Nurses
He spoke of the valuable services
which she rendered shortly after her
graduation, in the yellow fever. cpl
demic in 1887, at jacksonville, Fla.
gested the use of mosquito netting In
protecting patients suffering from
this malady. Her later efforts in the
mining camps of Arizona: her hospi-
tai work in various eastern hospitals
and finally her work with the Ameri.
April Is, 1919, also were lauded by
the speaker. He also gave a briei
history of the post from it's begin
ming, being composed as it is entirely
of Army and Navy nurses.
Miss Clara d. Noyes, president Of
the American Nurses Association, ant
a prominent Red Cross worker, re-
viewed the work of Miss Delano, witt
whom she was closely associated
throughout the greater part of hel
life. She spoke of her wonderful
,~Qualities and her accomplishments il
the nursing profession and of her de
votion TO her duties at all times Sh,
laid stress on her activities durinf
the world war. when she organized
thousands of nurses throughout thi
country for both domestic and for
eign service.
Miss McVey read letters of con
gratulations from Maj. Gen. NJ w
ireland, surgeon general Unitet
States Army: Rear Admiral w. c
Braisted. surgeon general Unite,
states Navy: Department Commando
James A. Drain and a telegram from
Santa Barbara, Calf, from Past De
partment Commander b. Lester Jones
The remainder of the evening wa
: devoted to dancing.
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ARMY HOSPITALS NAMED
FOR NOTED SOLDIER HER OES
Denver Institution Honors Memory OF
Fitzsimmons, First American Officer
Killed In France.

Designation of eight Army hospitals
as permanent memorials to officers
who distinguished themselves in the
service of the medical department
during various periods since the mid
die of the past century Is effected
by War Department orders now being
administered.
These institutions. formerly known
by number only. will be given indi-
viduality by the move; result sought
by the Army officials.
U. S. Army General Hospital. No. 81.
Denver, Colo, will hereafter be known
as ''Fitzsimmons General Hospital."
in honor of First Lieut.. William
Thomas Fitzsimmons. the first Ameri-
can officer to be killed by the enemy
in the world war. Lieut.. Fitzsim-
mons, member of the Medical Re-
serve Corps, lost his life in an air
raid at Dannes-Camiers, France, Sep
TENDER 4. 1917, while serving with
Base Hospital No. 5. United States
Army.
The name assigned to the Denver
institution. in the words of the official
order, ''f1ttingly commentaries the
eminent services rendered by the
civil medical profession of America
as members of the Medical Corps of
the Army during the world war"
Civil War Hero Honored.
Brig. Gen. George Miller Sternberg.
whose death in 1915 concluded a re-
ma-kable battle against germs and
infection through scientific research.
is honored by the designation of the
Department Hospital at Manila. P. l..
as the Sternberg General Hospital.
Gen. Sternberg served as surgeon gem
eral of the Army from 1893 to 1902,
founded the Army Medical School and
was awarded brevet ranks in 1865
for faithful and meritorious service
during the civil war
The Deps rtment Hospital, Hobo
lulu. Hawaii. will be known as the
-Tripler General Hospital" in honor
of Maj. Charles Stewart Tripler, who
served as a medical director of the
Army of the Potomac during the civil
war and as distinguished author
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published in 1858 an accepted authori-
| tative manual on the examination of
| recruits. He was awarded the brevet
rank of brigadier general in 1865.
The new hospital to be constructed
on the military reservation at Ell
Paso. Tex. for which funds have
already been appropriated. is an
nounced to be known as the will
liam Beaumont General Hospital" in
commemoration of the research work
carried on by Maj. William Beau
mont. who became the leading physi-
ologist of the country up to the time
of his death in 1853.
Named for Surgeon General.
General Hospital No. 10. at Oteen,
\. c.. is to be known as "O'Reilly
General Hospital" in honor of Brig.
Gen. Robert Maitland O'Reilly. who
served as surgeon general of the
Army from 1902 to 1909. and under
whose admin stration the Medical Re-
serve Corps of the Army was estab-
liShed
Lowell General Hospital" will be
the name of the institution at Fort
Sheridan, Ill. at present known as
General Hospital No: %: Surgeon
died 1866 served as surgeon general
of the Army from 1913 to 1886. The
first formal organization of the medi :
cal department for the Army was pre-
Scribed in 1918, and by virtue of that
act Gen. Lowell was the first officer to
bear the title surgeon general.
; Surgeon General Thomas Lawson
who served as surgeon general of the
Army from 1896 to 1861, is given a
memorial in the designation of Cen
eral Hospital No. 6, Fort Mcpherson,
Ca, as Lawson General Hospital"
General Hospital No. Al, Staten Is
land, n Y. is to be named after Col
John Van Rensselaer, Hoff (borh 184S
died 1920. who throughout his entire
military career devoted unremitting
effort to the efficient organization and
administration of the medical depart
ment and was the pioneer in develop
| ing the enlisted branch known as the
Hospital Corps,
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Old Man Coyote Postpones
Dining.

Don't win a battle It'll you've fought it,
Or eat dinner til you've caught it.
Old Man Coyote.
To postpone is to put over to an
other time. Old Man Coyote hadn't
the least intention of postponing his
dinner, but he did postpone it. He
postponed it because-wellk if the
truth be known, he postponed it be-
cause he had to.
had guessed that IL Peter Rabbit left
his hiding place he would go up the
bank Of the Laughing Brook, and how
artfully he had -circled around and
hidden to wait for Peter. Peter had
done exactly as Old Man Coyote had
just as long as he could and then
he had started to steal away up the
bank of the Laughing Brook. Though
Peter had tiptoed very carefully Old
Man Coyotes keen ears had caught
faint sounds that had warned him
gun to grin. When at last Peter
hoped out from clump of ferns
just a few feet away and right in
front Of him Old Man Coyote was
grinning SO that he showed all his
long. sharp teeth.
No wonder he grinned. Here was
the incest kind of a dinner actually
hopping right into his mouth. Any
way, that is how it seemed. Old Man
Coyote saw the fear and horror that
leaped into Peters eyes as he dis
covered those two rows of grinning
teeth just a few feet away.
Old Man Coyote chuckled to him
self. Hell dodge and run, but I'll
have. him in three Jumps" thought
he. He Is too badly scared to use
his wits. 1t will be no work at all
to catch him."
Just imagine how surprised Old
Man Coyote was when, instead of
lodging, Peter made a long jump
straight toward him. Old Man Coy
ote blinked and his grin grew broad
er than ever. He is so scared he
doesn't know what he is doing. 1t
looks as If l will have to watch out
that he doesn't jump right down my
throat and choke me- thought Old
Man Coyote.
Then as Peter again jumped toward
him Old Man Coyote sprang to meet
him, his jaws set to seize Peter In
those long. sharp teeth and make an
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from much experience, pats her on the
shoulder and whispered. TRY chops I"
For the next thirty days the house
keepers step is brisk and her eyes are
bright. for every morning she calls at
the butchers and orders-chops
But soon her step is tagging. and
again her eyes are Redeemed, and she
returnd to order-sliced ham.
The trouble. Miss Straus advises, is
that the young women of this day and
age. are too much taken up with a
desire to master the latest develop
ments in the fox trot to look in at the
kitchen some day and find how
mother. over the gas stove, manages
to keep papa in a good humor when
he comes home at night and sits down
to dinner.
The result is, when Mrs Newlywed
takes upon herself the task of feeding
| mate, she is up against it, Sliced
ham is easy to convert into fried ham,
and 1t doesn't take master hand to
broil shops. So the diet of the young
husband alternates between fried ham
and pork chops until every time he
sees the picture Of pig he turns to
the divorce court news and reads with
avidity the proceedings
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BRITISH WARSHIP SHELLS
FLEEING TURK BRlGANDS

By Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1920.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Turkey. July s.
A daring attack by nationality
bands on the little town of Beikos
opposite the summer residence of the
British ambassador. is accepted as an
indication of the state of affairs in
Turkey in the future. Yesterday a
band of 800 men attacked this small
summer resort town. which is only
twenty miles from Constantinople. A
small government force was over
powered the brigands, who played
havoc with the town. Many visitors
to the place were robbed and the
frightened inhabitants rushed to the
British embassy for protection.
An Indian detachment that was sent
out attacked the nationalist maraud-
ers. who after a short resistance
withdrew, taxing with them one Brit
ish officer as a prisoner. A warship
which arrived at the town while the
attack was on shelled the retreating
bands, which suffered many casualties
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MINERS HOMES TAKEN
BY PRIVATE GUARDS
West Virginia Sheriff Notified State
Constabulary Will Protect
Workers Rights.

CHARLESTON. w. Va, July 10 (by
the Associated Press).-Col. Jackson
S. Arnold. superintendent of the
state constabulary. has sent a mes
sage to the sheriff of Mcdowell county
W. Va, saying he had been informed
that coal miners of Mohawk were
being prevented from returning to
their homes by private detectives
and adding that if true he would use
his power to see that the laws of the
state are obeyed.
Miners Deprived of Homes.
In a message addressed to Gov.
John J. Cornwell and received here.
o. H. Workman, an official of the
United Mine Workers, located al Will
Hanson, asked that the constabulary
he used to remedy conditions at Mo-
hawk. He said that on Monday last
a band of private guards went TO
Mohawk while miners of that village
were across the line in Mingo county
waiting for a relief man representing
the union. The guards, he said. took
possession Of the miners homes, have
continued in such possession and are
keeping the miners from returning to
Mcdowell county.
Message to the Sheriff.
Col. Arnold, IN MS message to the
Mcdowell sheriff. said: 1T has been
reported to me that residents Of Nc
Dowell county are being prevented
from returning to their homes at Mo-
hawk by Felts detectives. Please add
wise me whether this is true, and If
true, what steps, if any, you are TAX
ing to prevent 1t. If true and not
stopped forthwith. l will use full
power conferred upon me by the act
creating the department of public
safety. 10 see that the laws of West
Virginia are upheld and obeyed.
Commenting on the report, the col
onel said last night that he hoped
the report was not true, but that If
true Il will go the limit to stop it,"
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INDIA ARMY HEAD UPHELD.
Council Approves Punishment of
Gen. Over for Firing on Crowd.

after having considered a report of
the Hunter investigating committee
and a long statement submitted by
Brig. Gen. r. E. H. Dyer, concerning
Dyer's action in ordering troops to
fire into a crowd of Indians at Amrit-
sar. in the Punjab. upheld the COM
mander-in-chief in India for remov-
ing Dyer as commander in the Puma b
and from holding any further army
position in India, according to an an
nouncement made by Winston Spencer
Churchill, secretary for war, in the
Louise of commons today.
The council also upheld the com
mander- in chief in declining to grant
Dyer further promotion and in his
reduction of the pay of Dyer to one
half.
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end of him. But when those laws
came together Peter wasn't between
them. No. sir. Peter wasn't between
them. They snapped together on
nothing at all. And Old Man Coy
ote's paws came down on nothing
That is. they came down on nothing
but the ground. Peter Rabbit had
vanished. Yes. sir. Peter Rabbit had
disappeared as completely as il some
good fairy had suddenly. made him
invisible.
OF course nothing of this kind had
happened. Such things never do hap
disappeared, but the only fairies that
had had anything to do with 1T were
his own quick wits. Frightened as
he was when ne had discovered Old
Man Coyote lying in wait for him, he
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WILSON'S REPORTED SAFE.
Report of Missionaries Escape
From Turks Is Confirmed.

Arrival at Tarsus, Cilicia, of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Nilsson, American mis-
sionaries, who were captured by
Turkish nationalists. is confirmed by
the French authorities, the State De-
partment was informed yesterday by the
American high commission at Con-
stantinople. 1t was stated that no
ransom was claimed.
A general improvement of the sit
uation in Cilicia was reported.
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THE WEEK
Epftcme of Events Up to July
10, 1920.
FOREIGN.

Greek armies win sweeping vic
tories over Turkish forces at Adramit
and Chardek on the Dar6anelles.
Fire. causes a loss estimated at 81, OO0, 900
in Japan. Pope Benedict hopes Irish
will win freedom, according to a
speech in Dublin by Cardinal Logue.
The Prince of Wales was uninjured
when his train was wrecked near
Perth. Australia. Menacing closeness
certed action by diet for defense of
Poland. Jaime Gonzales. Cuban avia-
tor. IS killed when his plane falls.
Maj. Gen. William c. Gorgas died
in London. King George rNys his
respects to Mrs. Gorgas. A new
formed in Austria. One hundred and
fifty killed in Bulgaria when bomb
explodes in a theater. Ambassador
Jusserand of France and his wife
leave for France on vacation.
Field Marshal Joffre is lauded at July
ultimatum to Russion soviet govern
ment demanding release of British
prisoners. Alarm is caused in Eng
land and France by bolshevik vic
tories over Poles. Food riots are re-
ported daily occurrences in Germany.
DurazZo is evacuated and taken by
D'Annunzio forces. it is announced.
Villa signs armistice with Mexican
government and agrees to recognize
Huertta as president. British war
ships at Constantinople celebrate
July 4 by bombarding Turks. Censor.
ship on election news in Chile lifted
by the administration. An American
banking syndicate agrees to loan
s25, 100000 to Switzerland. American
women saved from death in Turkey
by grateful Turkish officer. DR..
Charles Fl. Mayo is honored by British
in London. Women and boys volun-
teer for Polish army in country's
dire need. President Wilson will call
a meeting of the league of nations in
November. 1t is announced in London
Poles are aided by Let's in retreat
near Dvinsk. New divorce laws
drafted for Catholics in Rome. An
other revolt is plotted by five Next
can generals.
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BOYS FLEE SCHOOL.

David Perry. Frank Joseph and
Charles Matthews. colored inmates of
the National Training School for Boys,
escaped yesterday from the grounds
of the institution. Their absence was
reported to the police. and reward of
$40 offered for the arrest of each fugi-
, tive.
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NATIONAL.

Four army airplanes will start New
York to Nome trip July Is. it is an
nounced. Ship route is planned from
the Gulf through the Mississippi to
the Atlantic. James NJ. Cox and
Franklin D. Roosevelt head demo-
cratic presidential ticket. President
wires congratulations to Cox. Eight
persons were Killed in train wreck
In Oklahoma. Clifford Thorne urges
unified control of railroads on Inter-
state Commerce Commission in clos
ing argument of freight rate hear
ings. Four Washingtonians miracu
IL usly escape death when their auto
turns over at Harpers Ferry. Lieut..
Patrick H. Logan, famous aviator
killed near Baltimore in fall of his
plane. Twenty-six persons are killed
ir train wrecks in Pennsylvania and
Iowa. Burglars ransack room of
guest of Mayor Hylan at San Fran
cisco. Gen. Pershing is presented
with a sword by Sir Auckland Geddes.
the British ambassador. Twenty three
persons indicted for murder in West
Virginia as result of riots. officers
OF hair tonic firm given Jail SEN
fences for violation of the national
prohibition law. Population of ST
Louis is 1887. the census bureau
announces Whisky on way to Wash
ington. valued at 100000, is stolen by
gunner posing as revenue agents.
Special taxes aggregating between
$3.50, 900, 600 and SIS. 100000 due this
month"; the internal revenue bureau
announces. Senator Johnson agrees to
back Harding and Coolidge. Justice
Brandeis elected head of the Interna-
tional Zionist Conference in London.
President Wilson will stay in Wash
ington this summer. it is announced.
Two negroes burned al the stake in
Texas for alleged murder. Six killed
;,, T,,11 A accidents N
labor unions seek union support of
Cox for election. Both participants in
a pistol duel in South Carolina are
killed. Suffrage amendment is re-
jected by vote of Louisiana legisla-
ture. Extension of air mail routes is
planned by the Post Office Department.
Congressman Morgan dies in Illinois.
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What Happened to Him
May Happen to You!

while stopping hotel a trip |
lessly left my wallet when starting my days
list of calls writes salesman the Bankers Trust Company
of New York. and upon returning discovered that the wallet
disable was gone The temptation Ts had proved too
the but several hundred dollars
va "AAA~ worth of A. B. A. Checks bearing your
agents of the American Bankers Association What
do about the los?" 1t easy The Trust Company
through the Burns Detective Agency which employs make
travellers check the safest possible had the checks and
the who tried cash them."-Nat Hotel Gazette.
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After thirty-two years of waiting
Miss Harris Smith. debarred from the
Institute of Chartered Accountants
because of her sex. has been admitted.
and Becomes the first and only woman
chartered accountant in the British
empire
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Appointment to the women's branch
of the Chicago police force appears to
the past year the Windy city has lost
six of it's policewomen through mar
ria-e.
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LITHUANIA RECOGNIZED.
Independent De Facto State Ac
corded Country by Poles.

Recognition of Lithuana as de facto
independent state was accorded by Po-
land on July 6, according to a cable
gram from kovno received yesterday by
the Lithuanian representative here.
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POLES TO MOVE CAPITAL.
Ready to Give Up Warsaw Govern.
ment,

LONDON. July Sit Is the intention
Of Poland to move her seat Of govern
ment from Warsaw. according to state
ments printed by the German press.
quoted in a wireless message from Ber-
In todaY.
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had seen in the same instant a hole
in the ground just a little in front of
Old Man Coyote and his wits had told
him that there was the only place
where he could hope to find safety.
He hadn't hesitated a second. 1t had
into Old Man Coyotes mouth. when
really he was jumping out of it,
1t had been close call. He had
started that second jump just a wee
bit before Old Man Coyote had
sprung, and that wee bit had been
just enough and no more; he had
gone headfrst down that hole as Old
Man Coyotes jaws had snapped to-
'gether just too late.
Copyright, 1920. by T. W. Burgess)
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State Department issues regulations
for export Of arms and munitions. NO
danger of coal shortage is seen by
G. H. Cushing in address here.
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Miss Miranda Steele. eighty four
years old. has been employed for
sixty-seven years in the same mill in
Claremont, N. H.
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while stopping
lessly left my wallet
list of calls" writes
of New York "and
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LITILESIoRIEs
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