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The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
COURT CLEARS
WAY FOR RENT
HEARING TODAY
II. S. Petition Asks Inter-
probation Of Ruling on
Constitutionality.
COMMISSION Is NEEDED
Judge Says Prohteering by
Landlords and Tenants
Should be Curbed.
COMMISSION Is NEEDED

The petition of the Department of
Justice filed in the Municipal Court
yesterday asking recognition of the
Rent Commission and its findings.
will be heard this morning by
Judge Robert H. Terrell, who
agreed late yesterday to suspend the
regular business of his court be-
cause of the gravity of the situation.
Assistant Attorney General Henry
II. Classic. on behalf of Attorney
General Mitchell Palmer and the
Department of Justice. filed a petit
tion yesterday afternoon with Judge
Terrell asking that the Department
be heard as a friend of the court
to show that the decision of the
Court of Appeals DECLARING the rent
law unconstitutional. does not sp-
ply to ali sections of that law.
Judge Terrell agreed to suspend
the regular morning business and
hear the petition because of it's
gravity. Some time ago the Munich
pal Court decided that it was bound
by the decision of the Appellate
Court In declaring the rent law un-
constitutional.
Since then the District Supreme
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
Convention Not Likely to
Let Senator Have Floor
To Knock" Wilson.
DANGER IN PUBLICITY
Missourian S Set Speech Un.
derstood Without Being
Heard, 'Tis Said.
By ROBERT T. BARRY.
public Ledger ServiceO

San Francisco, June 21.-It Is in
the cards for a man with a bundle
to be observed leaving the audi
'torium soon after the Democratic
national convention gets under
way. He will be from Missouri,
but the package he will carry will
not be similar to those exposed by
Missouri delegates to the Repub-
lican convention to the undoing of
Frank o. Lowden. The stalking
figure will be Senator James A.
Reed, the talented trouble maker
for the Wilson administration, and
his bundle will be a manuscript of
an undelivered address to the con-
vention condemning the covenant
of the league of nations.
The national committee is about
ready to pass upon Senator Reeds
application for a seat in the con-
vention. Quite naturally Homer
S. Cummings. the national chair
man and other leaders are not an
ticipating that decision in advance
of the formality of a hearing. but
the talk is so bitter against the
Senator as to leave small room for
doubt as to the feeling of the lead
ers. They are determined that this
lis to be stand by the President"
convention and they do not care to
have any Reeds around to muddle
their plans.
Senator Reed will come to San
Francisco without credentials from
the State convention. He will have.
however. a double endorsement from
CONTINUED on PAGE FOUR.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
BY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.

Copyright, 1920. by Public Ledge: Col .
What is the league of nations Is
sue which Mr.. Wilson desires to
submit. by the referendum of the
next election. to the American peo-
pie?
Mr.. Wilson was given the oppor-
tunity In November. and again a
few months later. to lead the United
States into the league of nations
which Is now functioning. The
United States would have been re-
leased from the obligation of Arti-
Gle X of the league and would have
saved for its own Interpretation and
enforcement its Monroe Doctrine.
These were the only substantial
reservations. The other nations In
formally acquiesced in them. New
ertheless, Mr.. Wilson insisted on
having no league at all rather than
to release the United States in these
two respects. II the Democratic
party in convention is to declare. as
Mr.. Wilson insists that it shall, that
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
OPENS
WIRE TOCOAST'
Telephone Links the White
House With Democratic
Sessions.

The White House and San Fran
cisco were directly connected by
telephone yesterday for the first
time since Democratic leaders began
to assemble for the national conven-
ton.
Joseph p. Tumulty, secretary to
President Wilson. talked with Ho-
mer s. Cummings. chairman of the
Democratic National Committee.
who is to be temporary chairman
of the convention. A report of con-
vention preliminaries to the Presr-
dent was said to have been the pur-
pose of the conversation.
Great optimism for a Democratic
victory prevails in San Francisco,
according to Mr.. Cummings" Secre-
tary Tumulty said. ''It was a won
derful connection we had. I could
hear as plainly as though we were
talking across the street"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
Nebraska Ballots
Go to Hitchcock
First, Then Bryan

William Jennings Bryan will
not vote against Senator Hitch
cock for. the Democratic Presi-
Dental nomination, It was
learned here yesterday.
The CommoRer himself will
not cast his ballot for his arch
political foe, however. Instead.
he will step aside and allow his
alternate to vote with the other
ffteen delegates from Nebraska
for the States favorite-son cam
didate.
Bryan, 1t is said here, believes
this action necessary to dis
charge the obligation placed
upon the delegation by the in
structions of the voters to sup
port Hitchcock. When this OBJ
legation has been discharged on
the first few Ballots. however,
Bryan is expected to take charge
Of his own vote and attempt to
carry the delegation with him to
whichever candidate. he decides
TO favor.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
SEES
PALMER SURE
Former Virginia Solon Pre-
diets Nomination on
First Ballot.
BY THOMAS f. HEALEY.

San Francisco. Cal. June 21.-
The nomination of Attorney Cen
eral Mitchell Palmer on the first
ballot was predicted today by c. c.
Carlin. former Representative from
Virginia, the Palmer Presidential
campaign manager.
Mr.. Carlin arrived in San Fran
cisco late this afternoon. His first
statement was to the effect that no
one need have any doubt as to
the sincerity of William G. McAdoo
in withdrawing from the Presi-
Dental contest. His second was an
assertion that the McAdoo dele
gates. those from Texas, Kansas
and Oregon would without question
turn in for Mr.. Palmer. He pre-
dicted also that the majority of the
Maryland delegates would support
the Pennsylvania candidate. An in
teresting bit of information. made
public by Mr.. Carlin. was that
under the unit rule Bainbridge
Colby. Secretary of State. a dele
gate from the District of Columbia,
would cast his half-vote for the
Attorney General
1T Is great injustice to Mr.. Nc
Adoo to doubt his sincerity" said
Mr.. Carlin. The administration
forces will easily control the con-
vention. The administration will
be indorsed in its every phase to
use Mr.. Palmer's words. Mr.. Palmer
will be selected as the standard
bearer and he is willing to stand
or fall under the administration
flag"
tCopyrixat. .9:o. BY Puhlie Ledger Col
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
WOOD PREDICTS
HARDEST FIGHT
Urges Union Of All Republi.
cans to Elect Senator
Harding.

-ansas City Mo. June .1.-3epub-
lens who expect an easy victory
f. their Presidential candidate at
th- fall elections are mistaken. in
rhe opinion Of Mai Gen. Leonard
~ cd.
wood. interviewed here, urged the
uricn- of all Republican elements
i0 support OF Senator Warren G.
Harding.
The people are interested in a
obstructive straightforward poll
icy. not in mistakes of the past.
They want to know what the Re-
publican party will do. II its poll
ciss arc reactionary, it will jeopar-
die success. And nc greater mis-
take can be made than to assume
that the fight is going to be an
easy one. It's going to be one of
The hardest contests in the his
tory of the party"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
IGNORANT OF WILSON
INTERVIEW "-M'ADOO

New York, June 21-William G..
McAdoo denied here tonight t.at
the political interview with Presi-
dent Wilson had anything to do
with his announcement that he
would not permit his name to be
presented for the Democratic Presi-
Dental nomination.
McAdoo's statement reads:
in order to set at rest absurd
rumors and speculations which have
been published to the fleet that NV
letter of withdrawal had some rela-
ton to the Presidents interview. or
carried a concealed purpose, 1 wish
to say, first, that l knew nothing
whatever of the Presidents inter-
view until l saw II in the papers
md. second, that the President
knew nothing whatever of my let
ter OF withdrawal until he saw II
in the public prints"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
Shouse Says Wilson
Out of Question
Because of Illness

Kansas City. Mo-, June 21.-
President Wilson's health makes
it out of the qustion that he
will attempt to make the race
for a third time. Jouett Shouse,
assistant Secretary of the
Treasury said today. Shouse
declared he believed the nomi-
nation of President Wilson by
the Democrats an impossibility
because of his physical condi-
ton.
There was not the slightest
collusion between the state
ment of President Wilson last
Friday morning and the with,
drawal of McAdoo that after
noon," Shouse said, in denying
reports that the two develop
ments were timed in the inter-
ests of a third term for Will
son. Shouse conferred with
leaders here today to prevent
McAdoo's name being presented
to the convention.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
COLBY CARRIES
PACT TOCOAST
Cabinet Member Declares
Interpretation Clauses
Acceptable to Wilson.
public Ledger ServiceD

An indication that President Will
son does not demand that the Dem
ocratic platform indorse the Ieagu,
of nations as II was written in
Paris, but rather in line with his
more racent position that he would
accept interpretative reservations,
was seen yesterday in the state
meut made by Bainbridge Colby,
Secretary pf State. just prior to his
departure frcm Washington for the
San Francisco convention.
Colby called at the White House
yesterday morning and was under
stord to- be the bearer OF the final
message from the White House TO
the delegates.
Determined opposition to anything
approaching multiplying reserva-
tions" was expressed by the Sec
CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
PALMER PAPER
SOLD TO RIVAL
Attorney Generals Publica-
ton in Stroudsburg, Pa,
Changes Hands.

Stroudsburg, Pa, June 21.-There
was a political sensation today
when 1t became known that Attor-
ney General Mitchell Palmer has
sold his paper, the Stroudsburs
Times-Democrat. Who the pur-
chasers are is not definitely known,
but Nelson A. Frantz, manager of
the Record. a rival paper. bitterly
opposed to the attorney general
took charge of the Times Democrat
today.
The following announcement was
in this evenings Times signed Nell
son A. Frantz. General Manager:
The Stroudsburg Printing Com
pany has been purchased from
Messrs. A. NJ. Palmer and c. L.
Drake by a syndicate several Of
whom are local gentlemen. The
purchasers have taken possession
of the property and its publications,
the Times-Democrat daily and
weekly and the Mountain Echo. The
political convictions of the former
owners will be adhered to by the
purchasers and a constructive pol
icy will be pursued"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
MARTIAL LAW
FOLLOWS RIOTS
One Striker Killed and Pc.
lice Chiefs Wounded in
Connecticut Town.

Waterbury, Conn, June 21.-Mar-
tial law was proclaimed here to-
night following terrific rioting. in
which one striker was killed and
police Lieuts. Richard Leroy and
John j. Bergin critically wounded.
More than 5000 striking brass
workers cIashed with $50 police and
a company of city guardsmen n at the
entrance to the Scovill Manufactur-
ing Company plant shortly after
noon.
Gov. Marcus H. Holcomb, in re-
sponse to an appeal from Mayor
William T. Sandland. ordered out
three companies of the local militia
men, together with a machine gun
company and the soldiers tonight
were patrolling the streets.
Bergin and LIE Roy were saId e.
be in a serious condition, and little
hope was held for their recovery.
lberto Rizo. the dead striker. was
riddled with bullets. Examination ot
his pockets disclosed radical litera-
ture.
Arrival Of the nre department
when the fighting between the po-
lice and strikers was at its height
prevented a higher casualty list.
several streams of water turned Oh
police and strikers alike scattering
the mob.
The riot followed a meeting of the
strikers. when they formed a col
umn and marched on the Scovill
company's plant. where they had
learned several of their number had
returned to work.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
JULY 22DATE
FOR HARDING'S
NOTIFICATION
Coolidge Will Be Notified Of
His Nomination Five
Days Later.
WOMEN TO BE NAMED
Selection Of Campaign Com
mittee Left to Hays at
Conference.
WOMEN TO BE NAMED
(PubIic Ledger servieeJ

Notification dates for the Repub-
lican nominees. Senator Warren G.
Harding and Gov. Calvin Coolidge.
were decided upon yesterday at the
first days session of the confer
ence between Senator Harding and
members of the Republican nation
al committee.
Senator Harding will be officially
notified Of his nomination by the
Chicago convention at his home In
Marion. o.. July %.
Gov. Coolidge will receive the
notification committee at his home
in Northampton. Mass. hve days
later. July 81.
The dates were rent out tonight
to Gov. Coolidge and pending a re-
sponse the greatest secrecy was
maintained at first by men attend
ing the conference.
The rest of the day, the con-
ferees said, was devoted to turn
ing on the power which is to set
the Republican machine in motion
for the campaign that is expected
to sweep the Republican nominees
into the White House
Committee To he Named.
The executive committee which,
under direction of Will H. Hays. ma
tional chairman. is to take over ac-
tual supervision of the campaign,
was not named yesterday as the
conference had before it reports of
the organization which has been
perfected in the last two years and
which was ready on the day OF
nomination to enter actively into
the fight"
1t was decided that five places, at
least, on the executive committee.
which this year will be enlarged
from ten to fifteen, shall be given to
women. and that the newly created
Offices of vice chairman of the exec
utive committee and assistant sec.
rstary of the national committee
shall be filled by women.
The women will pe expected TO
devote all of their time and energy
to the campaign.
Hays to Have Charge.
That there was danger of a test
of strength between National Chair
man Hays and Harry NJ. Daugherty.
pre-convention manager for Senator
Harding, as to who was to be the
directing force of the campaign
was set at rest. Mr.. Hays and Mr..
Daugherty, 1t was said. were work.
CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
|. W. W. BEHIND
RAIL WALKOUT
Extremists Making Another
Drive to Capture Labor,
Union Head Says.
tPublic Ledger ServfceD

Renewed efforts of the DEPART
ment of Justice to trace 1. w. w.
activities and the arrival in Wash
ington of railroad brotherhood Of
1cials, who intend to direct another
appeal to President Wilson, were
the outstanding developments here
yesterday in the OUTLAW rail
strike. which has recurred suddenly
in Philadelphia, Baltimore and other
Eastern cities.
Justice made no secret of the fact
that they believed the philadelphia
and Baltimore walkouts to be re-
vivals of the April strike and due to
the continued agitation of l. w. w.
organizers. The department an
nounced that the l. w. WIS and the
One Big Union" adherents were
planning to hold a convention of
1nsurgent" railroad workers in
Chicago June 90. The call for the
convention. amounting TO a drive
againts the brotherhood leaders
who have been counselling the men
to await the decision of the Rail-
road Labor Board, wasspublished
June IL in the Butte (Nfont.) Bull
letin. an /. w. w. organ.
Ostensibly the walkuut of yard
men and terminal workers in Phil
adelphia, New Jersey points and
Baltimore was an act of protest
against the delay of the Railroad
Labor Board The board has been
at work since tie midcle of April.
The men have jumped away from
CONTINUED On PAGE ELEVEN,
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
FOEINDEMNITY
MINIMUM FIXED
The Allied Representatives
Name 80 Yearly
Payments.

Boulogne, June 21.-Germany will
pay a minimum annual indemnity
of 5000, 900. 900 gold marks over a
period of thirty years. according to
an agreement reached by the Allied
Council of Premiers and made pub
lie tonight. .-
The plan to have France pay its
debt to England in proportion as
Germany pays it's debt to France
was definitely abandoned.
The representatives of the powers
reached Boulogne this morning fol-
lowing a conference between Lloyd
George and Millerand. at Hythe,
England. Decisions of the utmost
Importance will be reached.
Among the subjects to be consid-
cred are the following: The threat
of Greece to go to war to eliminate
Turkey completely from the Euro
pean situation. Determination of
the German indemnity in its en-
tirety. Relations with Russia.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
PLEA
FOR THURSTON
Van Setback Answers Pet
worth Petition to Retain
School Head.

In a letter reiterating the Board
of Education's refusal to retain Ern-
est L. Thurston as superintendent
of schools until Congress can con-
vene here again in December the
Rev. John Van Schaick, jr., president
OF the board, yesterday informed
Jesse C. Suter. who presented a pc
tition to the board meeting Wednes-
day that such a course was impos-
sible.
The petition was submitted in be-
half of the Petworth Citizens Asso-
citation and wSs promised careful
consideration by the board at its
meeting last Wednesday.
Appointment for Three Years.
DR.. Van Schaick in his letter of
refusal, calls attention to the fact
that the superintendent. of schools
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
POLES TAKEN
PRISONERS BY REDS

London, June 81. - Bolshevik
forces have taken 10000 Polish
prisoners in new attack along
the Dvina River, extending from
.Dvinsk to Polotzk, according to a
wireless message from Berlin to-
day, quoting a Moscow dispatch.
The Berlin message added that IL
was feared the Red troops might
occupy Warsaw and that serious
trouble had broken out within the
Polish ranks, More stringent mar
tial law was proclaimed at Warsaw.
There was no. confirmation of the
above from any source.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
Republicans to Saue League
From Presidents 'sRule or Ruin
Altitude, Says w. II. Taft

he was right and SO is to pledge his
successor to this course In the fu-
ture. then in case OF Democratic
victory we shall never ratify this
treaty and never enter this league.
This should be apparent to the
friends Of the present league of ma
tions.
Whatever the vote in the election.
the Constitution will still remain.
and by that instrument two-thirds
of the Senate are required to ratify
the tteaty and the league. There
are now forty-nine Republican SEN
ators. or these the terms of fifteen
expire in the coming election. II
the Impossible were to happen, and
every one of those Republican Sena-
tors were succeeded by a Democrat.
pledged to vote for the Wilson
League there still would be thirty
five Republican Senators, of whom
but one, Mr.. McCumber. would vote
for 1t. while there are two Demo-
CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
THURSTON 0. K.
VOTED 24-15
Federation Says Those Op
posing Senate Decision
Should Resign.

The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations, in special session last
night. approved the Thurston ad-
ministration of Washington.s public
schools. and recommended that
members of the Board of Educa-
tion. IL unable or unwilling to
carry out the recommendations of
the Senate committee. should re-
sign.
This action was in spite of en-
deavors by delegates TO sidetrack
the report with a substitute which
merely bade Thurston godspeed.
The report included the resolu-
tion containing these points:
That the administration of the
public schools of Washington under
the supervision of Supt. Thurston
is approved
That the recommendations of the
Senate committee (that Thurston
should be retained at least until a
survey of the schools has been
made) are approved.
That il the present board is un-
willing or is of the opinion that it
is unable to carry out the recon-
mendations of the Senate Commit
tee, its members. so being unwill-
ing or so finding. should resign.
Twenty-seven associations were
represented; nine not represented.
and one represented but not vot-
ing.
Thomas ]. Donovan. Central Cit
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
DOUG" AND MARY"
ARRIVE IN ENGLAND

London. June 21.-With shouting
thousands lining the pier, with air
planes darting overhead and the
scene one of joyous holiday cele-
bration. Douglas Fairbanks and his
wife. Mary Pickford Fairbanks. were
given the heartiest greeting old
England knows when they landed
at Southampton on their European
honeymoon.
Fairbanks gave the crowd thrill
when. seeing the crush was hope
less, he tossed his bride on his
shoulders and tried to rush her
toward the special carriage reserved
for them on the London train.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22

The hghting was of such des-
perate intensity that even women
and children took part in il. Many
women had their hair torn from
their scalps by handfuls. The op-
posing factionists held full posses
sion of the areas in which they
fought
Mails for Dublin and Belfast were
seized by masked men this morn
ing. Regiments entrained in the
south of Ireland for the scene.
Pools of bio Cd wersfound in many
places in the streets, and portions
of the skull Of a man who had
been beaten to death were picked
Up.
Ulster i'm Arms.
The Unionists were we'll provided
with rifles Of the latest type and
ammunition. despite the assurance
OF the Carsonites that all arms had
been withdrawn.
1t is feared that all Of Ireland
may plunge into the civil war, al
though republican leaders ciscoun-
CONTINUED on FACE H.EvEy.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-22
.HOUSEFO TOUR
BRITISH ISLES
Colonel Arrives in England
As Special Envoy of
American Papers.
BY CARL w. ACKERMAN.
Especial Cable, Copyright, 1920, by
Public Ledger Col

Public Ledger Col
London, June 21.-Col. Edward NJ.
House arrived at Southampton to-
day aboard the Lapland, happy
over the prospect of visiting Eu-
rope as private citizen and, al
though besieged by English. French
and American journalists. he main
tanned his customary silence, an
here ION personal business
Although Col. House has been
travelling in Europe every year for
more than twenty years, this is his
first unofficial visit since President
Wilson has been in the White
House. Recognized everywhere as
the press of England. France and
Germany has been specializing for
two weeks on the work he might
be undertaking at this time. AL
though publicly he declined to
comment on his present visit, he
told his most intimate friends that
he was associated with the Public
Ledger, and every one to q man
has spoken enthusiastically of the
service he will be able to render
the American public and journalism
in this capacity. Col. House has for
years been both a cordial and help
full counsellor of his journalistic
friends and. although the hundreds
of editors and correspondents who
from time to time have had the
benefit of his advice. have never
been able to quote him, they have
always paid the highest personal
and private tribute to the colonel
for his wide knowledge of Euro
pean affairs, for his frankness and
sincerity.
Having known Col. House for &
number of years after first meeting
him in Germany about the time the
war began, 1 journeyed to South
ampton today to meet him and ac-
companied him and his party to
London. En- route to England the
colonel was accompanied by Sir
william wiseman and aboard the
Lapland, soon after it tied up at the
docks the colonel was greeted by
the mayor of Southampton. Ameri-
can Consul Savage and L. Lanier
winslow, first secretary Of the
American Embassy.
After a two-hour ride the colonel
was met at Waterloo station by Sir
William Tyrrell. permanent under
secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs. and several personal friends
who brought him scores of mes
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