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The Washington times., 1920-04-18
G. W. U. SOCIETY HOLDS
BANQUET FOR STUDENTS

The Chemical Society OF George
Washington University held its an
nual banquet last night at the Mon
mouth Hotel. Faculty members were
among the guests OF honor.
Robert Anderson and George Sher-
IN are in charge OF arrangements for
a dance to be given by the juniors OF
Columbian College early next month.
Harold Mccoy. one OF the secre-
taries TO Congressman Esch. has
charge OF arrangements for an ora
toricAl contest for members OF the
lower classes at the university. to be
held In the near future. DIR. william
Allen Wilbur, dean OF Columbian Col
lege and head or the English depart
mont. will receive the manuscripts OF
contest ants.
Prof. Henry Grattan Doyle. OF the
Department OF Romance Languages.
has returned from Columbus, Ohio,
where he represented the university
at the recent meeting OF the Modern
Language Association OF America.
The White Squires., a new honor So
ciety at the university. will give a
formal closed dance at the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity house on April 80.
Twenty-Five invitations have been is
sued.
The Washington times., 1920-04-18
STABLES TO OENTER
D. c. HORSE SHOW
Annual Meet Of Capital Will
Have Steeds From Prize
Winning Stock.

Decisions by owners OF large sta
bles OF blue-blooded harness. saddle,
and hunting horses In all sections or
the country to enter their steeds In
the National Capital Horse Show and
Amateur and Military Racing meet to
be held here May Is to 90. assures the
success OF the srair. according to an
nouncement made by Melvin c. Hazen.
manager OF the afrair today.
YeYsterday groups OF workmen
began putting the large show grounds
at the Virginia end OF the Highway
Bridge In readiness for the event.
one high-class mounts belong
ing to Gen. John J. Pershing and the
members OF his stan are already quar-
tered at the grounds, and within a
few days scores OF other animals from
the stables OF local and Virginia
horsemen will take up their residence
there.
Besides Mrs. Loula Long Combs. the
noted sportswoman OF Kansas, city,
Mo, who has owned a string OF ma
tional champions for years, John L.
Bushnell, OF Springfield. Ohio. will en-
ter a string of sensational harness
horses. One of the peers OF the har-
ness horse circle in America Is THE
Governor" one OF Mr.. Bushnells prize
winners. which will be seen on the
tan bark here. Besides Mr.. Bushnell
and Mrs. Combs, both of whom own
leading American stables. Joseph
Weisenfeld, of Philadelphia, has re-
served ten stalls for string OF hsr-
The Washington times., 1920-04-18

ness and saddle horses he intends
showing in the Washington Tins.
CSSSAsS sta tie satFGASs % tNsss
exhibitors which makes the success
OF the harness classes Assuredly be-
yond the fOndest hopes OF the man
asemsnt OF the show are scores OF
announced entries Of hunters and sad
die horses from the neighboring
horse country OF Virginia, from the
and from the main line country"
outside OF Philadelphia Entries have
been received from exhibitors as far
north as Maine. as far south as Ken
tuoky ana beyond the Mississippi to
the westward.
The Washington times., 1920-04-18
WOUNDED YANKS' PAY
BOOSTED $40 A MONTH

The House passed yesterday a bill
Increasing IL $50 a month the allow
ance for former service men under
going vocational rehabilitation. SIN
gle men will get 800 AMI married
men 1920 a month by the proposed
legislation,
There are at presepg oVNr 2a 600
men in training. The increased hI-
lowance payments will aggregate
5000 900.
The Washington times., 1920-04-18

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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
FlotSam and Jetsam of Live In
terest Caught From the Wires
and Boiled Down.
LATE DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE
important Happenings in the Forty
eight States of the Union-Occur-
rences at the Capital-Latest
Cable Condensations.
WASHINGTON

An investigation was begun by Po-
sioner of immigration Wallis to Po-
lish representatives at Washington
that immigrants to the country are be-
ing systematically robbed at Danzig
and Warsaw before they start on their
journey.
Attorney General Palmer announced
the department of justice will assist
the joint legislative committee on
housing in its investigation of build
ing conditions in New York.
The bankers of the country are in
favor of restoring the war finance cor
poration's activities.
Distribution of the money in the
country outside of the amount held in
the treasury and Federal Reserve sys-
TEN was estimated at S51.06 per capita
September 1, or an increase Of $13. Is
over July l, 1917, by the Federal Re-
serve Board.
President Wilson and Secretary Of
the Treasury Houston will make one
more effort to get Congress to revise
the tax laws by reducing some of the
heavy super-taxes on incomes and elm
mating tax fnequities that have been
allowed to remain unchanged.
Five of the seven members of the
new Shipping Board were appointed
by President Wilson. Admiral Will
liam S. Benson, chief of naval opera
tions during the war, was reappoint-
ed chairman. The other four men,
bers named were Frederick L Thomp-
son, a newspaper publisher Of Mobile,
Ala; Gavin McNab, an attorney Of
San Francisco; Martin J. Gillen, an
attorney of Wisconsin, and Theodore
Marburg. a publicist of Baltimore.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
JURY ON
BUILDING CRAFT
Plumbing Contractor Who Selves
Up" $4,000 Says Union Lead
ers Aid in Killing Competition.
STATE ASKED TO PROSECUTE.
Plumber With 100000 Contracts
Fears ReprisaIs-LockWood Com
mittee Hears of ExtortIon
Reaching Into the Millions.

New York-The following develop
ments were brought out in connection
with the investigation of the Joint
Legislative Committee on Housing into
the alleged building material trust, life
insurance companies and savings
banks:
Decision to ask Governor Smith to
appoint Attorney General Charles D.
Newton special prosecutor in crimi-
nal action before an extra ordinary
grand jury against those implicated by
the evidence before the committee.
Refusal by Robert P. Brindell, presi-
dent Of the Building Trades Council, to
avail himself of the opportunity offer
ed by the committee to answer Eph-
riam B. Levy's testimony that he paid
George Backer. his building superin-
tendent $4,000 for Brindell to make
certain that the union men employed
on Levy's 100000 construction job
be ordered back to work after Brindell
had ordered them out on strike.
A plea was made by Mr.. Schnaier, of
Milton Schnaier & Co., Inc, contract
ing plumbers, doing an annual busi-
ness Of 100000, that he did not
want to have his doors closed and be-
come a sacrifice to the cause Of the in
vestigation for telling the truth about
conditions in his business. When SAM
uel Untermyer. associate counsel of
the committee, said it was Brindell's
doors that would be closed, Schnaier
made a hopeless gesture and exclaim-
ed that "there will be somebody else
in Mr.. Brindell's place, the same as
he is the successor of Sam Parks"
Announcement by Mr.. Unternyer
that he would show that in thirty-two
lines building material men were. first.
banded together in separate associa-
tions, from the manufacturer to the
retailer; second. that they were
gathered into different associations
under the Building Trades Employers
Association and. third, that employers
were forced into certain associations
while labor also was "dragnetted" into
Brindell's organization, the Building
Trades Council. He intends to expose,
punish and eject from the councils of
organized labor "the wolves and vul-
lures that have been fattening on its
vitals," and he said the $4,000 men,
toned by Levy was small change" in
the organized raid on the building in.
dustry, land that 1t Is SO widespread
that until 1t has been checked and
punished building operations In the
City Of New York are simply impos-
sible."
Testimony tended to show that
more than 400 members Of the Master
Plumbers doing a business Of more
than $1oO,OOO.OoO annually, were ex-
pected tC file with John T. Hattrick,
lawyer Of 165 Broadway, all bids on
contracts, on which they were ex-
pected to pay 4 per cent to an "in-
surance fund"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05

Headquarters of the Federated
Press, publishers of labor and radical
newspapers. Chicago, were raided by
the police.
Secretary Morrison of the A. F. OF
L. declared "employers are deliberate
ly closing factories and laying off
workmen" to reduce wages.
The New York Board of Estimate
passed Mayor Hylan's resolution re-
scinding all contracts for the proposed
S10,000.000 court house.
Motions for reargument of the New
York City Scent cases were denied
by the State Court of Appeals.
Mayor Hylan declared at a meeting
Of the Board of Estimate: "The build
ing trust, the milk trust, the coal trust
and all other trusts have built wall
about New York greater than the
Great Wall of China"
Owing to the largely increased vol
ume of travel to and from the United
States through the Ports of British
Columbia the United States Govern
ment has appointed two additional in
spectors for Vancouver.
The plant Of the Earle (Ark.), Com
press Company was destroyed and ap-
proximately 5000 bales of cotton
burned in a fire. The loss was esti-
mated at 100000. The fire is said
to have broken out simultaneously in
several parts of the plant
Convicts Stivers and Bassert, who
escaped from Sing Sing Prison were
captured near Warner, N. Fl.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
NATIONS BUSINESS

Governor Parker Of Louisiana ap-
pealed to the cotton ginners of the
south to close down for at least 80
days in order that producers may re-
ceive Giving price" for their prod
ucts. s-rrsrs
A movement to reduce wages or in
crease hours as step in wage reduc-
ton was started at meeting of truck
owners and representatives Of COM
mercial organizations as a counter
stroke to the demands of the union
truck drivers and chauffeurs for an
Increase, which the truck owners say
would amount to 40 per cent
Building material buying is reaching
it's zero stage so far as the New York
construction market is concerned, says
the Dow Service Daily Building Re-
ports. Prospective purchasers seem
content to await eventualities Of the
immediate future.
The Treasury Department will not
give the railroads the money entitled
t. them under the Cummins- Esch law
for claims made after September l
untll Iney nave presented lull uC-
counting, David F. Houston, secretary
of the treasury, said in Washington.
In making this announcement he up
held Walter w. Warwick, comptroller
of the treasury, in the latter's decision
Of several days ago.
Resolutions adopted at the closing
session of the annual convention Of
the American Bankers Association
approve credit and defation policies
of the Federal Reserve Board and the
Treasury Department.
The Massacoit. Manufacturing Com
pany of Fall River, Mass, one of the
biggest manufacturers of cotton waste
products of the country. announced
a 20 per cent wage reduction.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
SPORTING

President Ban Johnson of the Amer
lean League announced that an infor-
NAL conference of American League
owners would be called this week to
discuss plans to keep peace in base
ball.
Unless Al Yefeyre, the former Ford
ham star, decides to quit baseball, he
will sport the livery of the st. Louis
Cardinals next season. 1t was an
nounced from the headquarters of the
Giants that the New York Club had
asked waivers on the youngster and
that he had been claimed by the st.
Louis Club.
F. W. Luehring, who until this fall
was director Of athletics at Princeton
for ten years, is now in charge Of all
athletics at the University of Ne
braska.
Harvard defeated Center College Of
Kentucky 81 to IA. At the first half
of the game the Kentuckians held Har-
ward to a tie, but due to the greater
weight, almost 20 pounds man on
the line, the visitors were overmatch-
ed in the last two quarters.
Negotiations for a boxing bout for
the worlds heavyweight championship
between Jack Dempsey, the title hold
er, and Georges Carpenter, the light
heavyweight champion of the world,
have progressed so far that match
between them Is virtually assured.
Fred Cline of Indianapolis priced
CALI Curci at $4,000 when a buyer
approached him after Mart Wilson had
driven the five-year-old daughter OF
Peter Montgomery to a record Of
2 :03A against time at Lexington. She
is eligible to the slowest classes, never
having started in a public race, al
though she trotted in 2 :2311a in a mat
inee last year.
Single G., q veteran of the Grand
Circuit tracks, paced the best mile OF
his career at Atlanta, Ca, breaking,
according to track officials, the worlds
record for three heats, the seasons rec
ord and the Lakewood track record for
a single heat, making the three heats
in 80, 200 and 2:0OA.
"There will be no twelve club
league" said President Ban Johnson
of the American League.
1t was announced at the headquar-
ters of the New York Giants that
Pitcher Reynolds Vnlly and Infelder
George Armstrong had been released
to the st. Paul Club of the American
Association under optional agreement.
Kelly played last year with the San
Antonia team and Armstrong with the
Waterbury team.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
LATEST EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON

1t was stated by Federal Reserve
Board officials that stree call loans
are not subject to present laws gov.
erninq usury banks are able to
charge any rate they can get.
American delegates at the lnterna-
tionaI Communications Conference
are pressing for the restoration OF
the former German cables in 1.-the Al
lantic, connecting the United States
with Germany, again giving America
direct communication with Hamburg.
War Department sold to Thomson q
Kelly Company of Boston the re-
naming surplus of bandaaes and
absorbent cotton for $f,oo0oOO.
Production of bituminous coal during
the week ended October Is was,
with one exception, the greatest OF
any week since the signing of the
arnistice. The total as estimated
by the Geological Survey was 12,-
$4,000 net tons, an increase OF 49,
600 tons over the preceding week.
There was a steady Improvement in
the production of anthracite.
A determined fight will be made in the
next session of Congress to amend
the Federal Reserve act in such
way that it will limit the rates OF
interest that can be charged by
banks on call loans.
Bankers acceptances are becoming
more and more valuable as an aid
in financing of export anc import
trade. a special committee Of the
American Bankers Association on
acceptances reported to its annual
convention. There is urgent need
for the development of The aeceP-
tancc system.
According to plans prepared for Fred
ertck A. Wallis, Commissioner of I'M
miaratIon, the next Congress will be
asked to appropriate 100000 to
add 5000, 900 cubic fee. of housing
faa,l,tiaa a. gIlIa ia,and, Nav ssFk
F9araef,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
MAC SWiNEY Dies IN
74TK DAY OF HIS FAST
Sim Fein Plans for Great Funeral
Uncertain, as Body May Be
Sent Home Secretly.

London. - Death claimed Terence
MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, the
most prominent of the Irish hunger
strikers, and said to have been the
brains of the Republican Army" In
Ireland.
Joseph Murphy, one of the hunger
striking prisoners in Cork Jail, also
died after seventy-six days without
food, making the second death among
the Cork men, nine of whom now
remain in critical condition.
MacSwiney's end was not unexpect-
ed, for the Lord Mayor had been un-
Prison, where he was incarcerated.
He was entering upon the seventy
fourth day of his hunger strike as
protest against sentence Of two
two years Imprisonment on several
charges, including one of having in his
possession seditious documents.
Only his brother, Sean (John) Mac
Swiney, and his private chaplain,
Father Dominic, were with the Lord
Mayor when he died. Mrs. MacSwiney
and the prisoners two sisters, Annie
and Mary, were at nearby hotel.
The Lord Mayor, who was terribly
emaciated as a result of his long
abstinence from food, for many hours
had ben 1elirious, and was uncon-
scious when death came
1t was several hours after the Lord
Mayor died before his brother was per-
mitted to inform Mrs. MacSwiney
When she received the news she came
to the prison, accompanied by her par
ents and the Misses MacSwiney, and
the family groun, stoicaI and t!ry-eyed.
prayed over the body rs it lay on the
cot
There were no outward demonstra-
tions outside SriNton Prison after the
news of the death of MacSwiney be-
came generally known. large force
Of police had ben concentrated to
put down any disorders that might
occur. 1t was said at the prisol that
the reason for excluding the Mac
Swiney women during the Lord
Mayors last hours was that it was in
the prisoners .terests.
lust before MacSwiney died Father
Dominic and Sean MacSwiney knelt
at the bedside and offered up prayers.
The pricst administered the sacrament
of extreme JUNCTION.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
KING ALEXANDER
OF GREECE DEAD
Succumbs to Wounds Inflicted
by His Pet Monkey-Dynastic
Problem Acute.

Athens-King Alexander of Greece
IS dead. His death was due to wounds
which he had received in an attack
on him by pet monkey early in Octo-
Der, the king being badly mutiliated.
Throughout his last night his heart
action grew weaker, his general de-
bility became more pronounced and
pulmonary symptoms were intense.
Made King by Allied Influence.
King Alexander of Greece, second son
of Constantine l. and Queen Sophie,
sister Of the former German Emperor,
succeeded to the throne on July II,
1917, when his father quilted Greece
on the demand of France, Great Brit
ain and Russia.
His elder brother, Prince George,
Duke of Sparta, up to that time the
heir-apparent, was passed over by the
entente powers in the belief that he
was too much in sympathy with the
pro-German policies Of his parents.
The abdication of King Constantine
was brought about directly by an ulti-
matum notifying him that he must
abdicate in favor of his second son,
Alexander, or the Allies would recog-
nize the VeniZelos Provisional Govern
ment as applying to the whole Of Greece
instead of merel.- to the zone around
Saloniki. Compliance with the demand
by Constantine was necessary to save
the title Of King OF the Hellenes to
his family.
King Alexander was born August
l, 1898. He was educated in part at
Oxford, England, and his selection was
caused largely by the belief that his
residence there had caused him to be
friendly to the English. Before his
elevation he served in the Greek army
as captain of artillery, and was said
to have had an excellent military rec
ord.
With no expectation that he would
become king over his elder brother,
Alexander had fewer restraints than
were imposed or the heir-apparent and
was generally popular because of his
democratic bearing. He became a skill
full and daring automobile driver and
was fond Of sports and athletics.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
FOREIGN

Calculating that either the Fiume
question will be settled to his satisfac-
tion or else he will be bankrupt, Ca
brielle d d'Annunzio, Italian poet aviator
hero, has announced his prospective
arrival in Paris next spring to give a
series Of lectures on practical politics.
NJ Jean Jules JusSerand, ambassa-
dor from France, who Is now abroad,
will return to the United States with.
in the next few weeks and will shortly
thereafter be transferred to a Euro
pean embassy.
Terence MacSwiney died in Brixton
prison. The lord mayor of Cork died
without regaining consciousness at the
dawn Of the seventy-fourth day of his
hunger strike.
The Austrian budget deficit for the
current year amounts to 12,O00,000,OOO
crowns.
Anarchists from all over Italy at
tending d conference at Bologna were
arrested by the police
Polish irregulars under General
Pouakovitch captured Gomel,, beyond
the armistice line. Reports said many
prisoners including Soviet commits
saries were captured.
To aid European emigrants and pre-
pare them for conditions existing in
Canada, the Canadian Pacific Steam
ship Company has placed all inter
prefer on each of its vessels sailing
from European ports.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt celebrated
her seventy-tifth birthday in Paris.
She received congratulations from all
over the world.
Wholesale liquor dealers fl Canada
have made "gentIeman's agreement
not to snip liquor from the country ex-
cept by steamer, railway express or
through d transportation company, but
not by automobile.
MIXERS conference in South Wales
asked the National Miners Federation
TO order out all labor from the mines
This will render the mines useless II
numD runners are removed from their
places.
Angered at the failure of Premier
Lloyd George to initiate fresh parleys
with the striking coal miners, the
tripie alliance of labor, made up of
100000 miners, railway men and
transport workers, took the bold step
of ordering the government 10 open
satisfactory negotiations or face the
results of giunt sympathy strike
uailrc. tn pid the rpal rliEgers,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1920-11-05
GENERAL

A sharp break in the coal and coke
market in the ConnelIsvilIe region was
reported. Coke quotations dropped as
much as So ton. An unusually large
spread exists in the coal market from
S6 to $40 a ton.
Because he refused to answer any
questions bearing on his private finan-
cial affairs, State Comptroller Eugene
NJ. Travis was declared in contempt of
court by Justice Kernochan of Spc-
cial Sessions, New York. Justice Ker-
nOchan is sitting as a committing mag
iStrate in the John Doe investigation
into the purchase of bonds for New
York state.
Sawmills throughout the country are
closing down as result of q decline
in the price of lumber and the lack of
purchasers. Fifty per cent of the
plants on the Pacific coast and in the
south are closed
A record number of bears in the Ad-
irondacks has been reported by hunt
ers and guides. Tracks were found in
all parts of the mountains, and several
of the animals were killed
On account of forest fires Acting
Governor Claiming H. Cox of Massa-
chusetts issued a proclamation sus-
pending temporarily the open hunting
season on upland game.
BY the arrest of "FIO" Weller of
New York agents Of the. Department
of Justice believe they have solved the
mystery of a. series of robberies of
platinum valued at $500,000
With the discovery of two distinct
cases of incendiariSm at Oakland,
CAL. arson experts are making every
effort to run to earth ring of in
cendiaries which they are convinced
exists. Cans of petroleum and in
fammable material have been dtscoy-
cred on premises recently destroyed
by fire and because Of their frequency
little doubt Is entertained that they
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