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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-22
TRIBUTE 10 + 9. NORTON.
Women's Federation Will Plant
Tree for Father Of Arbo9 Day,

The District Federation Of Women's
Clubs, representing twenty-ssvsn or
ganixations with 5000 members. will
on thu afternoon of May I plant . mo
mortal tree in honor Of J. Sterling
Morton, the father of ArhoP. day in
this country tho American Forestry
Association announced today. Mr..
Morton's birthday is April -, and
the District federation will plant tho
tree at the time Of its annual meet
ings here.
The General Federation, which
meets in biennial convention In Des
Moines June az, has set aside . big
program foy tree-ptantinE plans, The
tree to be planted on May at pm.
will be placed On tho side Of Rawlins
Park, near the interior Depa rtment
building. Clifford I. Lanham, super
intendent OF trees and parking for
the District, has provided tho plant
ing space.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-22
WANTS NAME CHANGED.
Miss Anderson Wishes to Be
Known as Miss Churchill.

Miss Gunilda Anderson. clerk In
the War Department, where she says
she Is known as Nellie Churchill. to-
day asked the District Supreme Court
to allow her to change her name to
Gunilda Anderson Churchill. The
Young woman says her mother died
when she was three years old and she
went to live with Mr.. and Mrs.
Churchill, in Minneapolis. and vent
to school under the name of Nellie
Churchill Since reaching majority
she has continued to use the name OF
Churchill she states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-22
Lawson Fined $1,000.

BOSTON. April 22.-Thomas w.
Lawson and l.. o. Van Ripper were
fined $1,000 each in municipal court
yesterday for violation of the state
statute concerning the advertisement
of mining stocks. Lawson and Van
Ripper. together with several curb
brokers, were arrested recently In
the campaign of Attorney General
J. Weston Allen against illegal ad-
vertiSing OF stocks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-22
1elgium to Seek Lean In y. s.

,8RUSSELS April 31.-Ths Belgian
Oovsrnment has decided to send a
special financial mission to the United
Elates to endeavor to obtain the in
txrvention OF Herbert Hoover in favor
Of . now Belgian loan. The delegates
Ate Florimong Hankar, director Of
the National Bank OF Belgium, and
Ernil Tranquil. director Of the societe
generale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-22

As a rule. workers in copper mines
are immune from typhoid fever.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
SPORTING

The New York Yankees viii con.
tinue to play their local baseball
games at the Polo Grounds, the home
of the New York Giants, at least
through the 1922 season.
Peter Manning, leading money win
ner of the year, and which won the
stake for 2.04 trotters at Lakewood
Park, came back and beat the field
in the $500 stake for 20S trotters,
the feature of the Grand Circuit pro-
gram at Atlanta.
William L. Lush will continue as
coach of baseball and basketball at
sthe Naval Academy, Annapolis, the ar
rangement covering three years
1t is reported in New York that the
military authorities will not permit
the leasing of the local armories for
boxing shows, a decision that blasts
the hopes of a number of ambitious
promoters.
AS Jack Dempsey refuses to cross
the Atlantic to fight Carpenter, the
Frenchman will have to fight in this
country, if he wants crack at the
worlds championship.
Ernest Barry, holder of the profess
sional sculIing championship Of the
world as a result of his recent triumph
over FELTON, in Australia, finds that he
viii be unable to do the training nee
essary to defend the title He hopes
that his nephew, Bert Barry. who is
eighteen years of age and six feet In
height, will become defender of the
title in his stead
Plans for a new ball park for the
New York Yankees have been aban-
doned temporarily as the result of
an agreement entered into between
the owners of the Yankees and the
Giants. Some months ago notice was
served on Colonels Rupert and Hus-
ton that they must play on some field
other than the Polo Grounds after the
1921 season.
Edwin T. Herndon and Joseph L.
Werner, both seniors, have won the
doubles championship of Princeton
University on the university courts.
The winner defeated Kaltenbach and
Dickinson in the finals, winning the
match rather easily at 6-3, SO, 6-2,
C.
Ball players from the Baltimore and
st. Paul clubs of the International
League and American Association, re-
spectively, will be used to build up the
wrecked White Sox.
Charles H. Ebbets, owner of the
Brooklyn National League ball team,
may retire from baseball
The human animal is a queer crea-
ture. Battling Levinsky fights over
200 times where he gives his best. And
then, in his final test, he wipes out the
record of long career by standing like
q dummy.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
PREDICTS EARLY
BOOM IN MEXICO
Southern Republics Mining In
duStrieS Are Being Extended
and Her Fields Being Titled.

Washington = Mexico's fields are
being titled, her mining industries ex-
tended and her railroads functioning
as never before, according to Roberto
Pesquiera, confidential agent of the
Mexican Government and personal
representative of Provisional Presi-
dent De La Huerta, in a statement
asking help from the United States,
issued here.
I'm the vast program of recOnstruc-
ton, already under way, Mexico de-
sires the friendship and aid of the
United States. 1t is my business to
build up these necessary cooperative
contracts that will mean much to both
countries" said Senor Pesquiera and
added:
"We mean to guard our tremendous
national resources against the ex-
ploitations of the past, but there is
no touch of narrOwness in our pro-
gram. Those who work with us will
share with us"
Mexico is now on the eve of unpre-
cedented prosperity, according to
Senior Pesquiera. "The rapid pacifi-
cation of the country" he said, has
been brought about much less by force
than by tact, good judgment and
square dealing. The old order has
given up the fight and its leaders
have accepted the new way as the
better way.
"Still another unmistakable indica-
tion of growing prosperity and of in
creasing popularity of economy and
thrift" he declared, ''is the fact that
during the last six months our ma
tional insurance companies have al
most doubled the business paid for in
any like period of their history
Senor Pesquiera's only reference to
the petroleum situation was this:
Laws and decrees are being care
fully revised in a spirit of sane liber-
alism In such spirit the basic prob
lem of petroleum is about to be
solved"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
GENERAL

The state department estimates that
there are about thirty-five Americans
in Russia.
The national conference of health
officers will be held at Detroit begin
ming November 80
One bandit was killed, two others
seriously injured and William Petre, a
bank clerk, probably fatally wounded
when ten men held up the Cleveland
Trust Company branch bank at Bed
ford, near Cleveland
Five thousand workers in the Troy
IN Y.) factories of the Cluett-Peabody
Company, We're notified the factories
would be operated on two-thirds time.
John D. Barrett of Jacks Island,
Bellehaven, Conn. a well-known ma
rine and insurance man of New York,
was seriously injured at the Green
WITCH railroad station when he was
struck by westbound express train.
AT the Greenwich Hospital it is fear
ed that his skull is fractured
Announcement was made at the
Founders Day exercises at Lafayette
College that the endowment fund had
been over-subscribed. The total for
the whole country was reported as
$1.057 sol. of which $105,19J was sub
scribed in Easton and vicinity. A
million dollars had been asked for.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
FOREIGN

Angered at the failure of Premier
with the striking coal miners, the
triple alliance of labor, made up of
100000 miners, railway men and
transport workers, took the bold step
of ordering the government to open
satisfactory negotiations or face the
results of giant sympathy strike
called to aid the coal diggers.
Jugo-Slavia has promised to evac-
uate the plebiscite district of Klagen-
furt. Premier Giollitti will partici-
pate in negotiations for settlement of
the Adriatic question.
Scotland Yard officials served f. j.
Costello, managing editor of Chicago
labor, Socialist and farm papers, with
a deportation order.
A fire, which started in the Hop Ex-
change, London, has been burning for
about eighteen hours. Damage is esti-
mated at $5,0OO00O.
Turkish nationalists, who have been
fighting the French in Asia Minor,
shelled the American College.
Polish government announced an or
der had been issued to troops to with
draw from Minsk.
Former Premier Orlando of Italy, re-
Gently appointed ambassador to Brazil,
arrived at Rio Janeiro.
The recent raid by bandits upon
Hunchun, a small frontier post in
Eastern Manchuria, contiguous TO
both the Corean and Siberian borders.
which at the time attracted little no
tice, promises to develop into dip
lomatic controversy between China
and Japan, involving the corean bor-
der district Of Chentao, to the south
of Hunchun.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
Great Events That Are Chang
inc the Worlds Destiny Told
in Paragraphs.
ITEMS TO INTEREST ALL.
Short Chronicle Of Past Occurrences
Throughout the Union and Our
CoIonies-News From Europe
That Will Instruct.
WASHINGTON

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 mem
bers named were Frederick l. ThOmp-
son, a newspaper publisher of Mobile,
Ala; Gavin McNab, an attorney of
San Francisco; Martin J. Glllen, an
attorney of Wisconsin, and Theodore
Marburg, publicist of Baltimore.
Despite the public appeal of the
State Department that government
agents refrain from searching the bag
gage of the diplomatic representatives
of foreign nations, the order requir-
ing customs officers to remove liquor
from the personal effects of arriving
diplomats. would remain in force.
A warning that government expen-
ditures next year would approximate
$4.000,000 and that taxes could not
be reduced beyond a point that would
supply this income was declared by
the Secretary of the Treasury, David
#. Houston, in a speech to the Ameri-
can Bankers Association convention.
Persons who violate state prohibi-
ton laws by manufacturing or selling
either fermented or distilled intoXicat-
ing liquors are liable upon conviction
rot only for the fine and penalty levied
by the court, but also must pay the
federal government $1,000 special tax.
Cooperation in securing from the
Federal Reserve Board lower interest
ton of the progressive rediscount rate
was asked of the agricultural commit
tee of the American Bankers Asso-
ciation by farm organization repre-
sentatives.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
WORLD NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

PHILADELPHIA A warrant
charging him with the murder of Ell
mer c. Drewes, Dartmouth Senior, was
issued for William p Brines, a Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Freshman, by
the district attorneys Office.
LoNDON.-Conditions in Petrograd
We're summarized in one phrase, Hun
ger and want, but order," by H. G..
Wells, the British author, when he ar
rived here from Russia He implied
that similar conditions prevailed
throughout Russia.
WINNIPEG. - British Columbia
voted for government control of
liquor
LONDON, While conferences took
place in connection with the miners
strike there was no appreciabIe ad-
vance toward a settlement, and there
is evident a strong reluctance on the
part of interested parties to take the
first step toward opening negotiations
looking toward a weakening of either
the government or the mines.
CHICAGO. - George kIatt, twenty
one years old, a mail carrier, was ar.
rested and turned over to the Federal
authorities, charged with burning polit-
ical matter sent through the mails 'be-
cause it made his pack too heavy to
carry"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
LATEST EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON

A $12,ooo,ooo export finance corpora
tion to operate under the Edge Law,
was launched by meeting of South
ern bankers. The corporation will
be formed for the purpose of han
ding Southern products, especially
cotton.
Recruiting for the army in Germany
will be resumed November I with
200 men needed for infantry units
overseas. Service on the Rhine has
proved so popular, Adjt.-Gen. Harris
said, that it took but six days to
fill the ranks when vacancies occur
red a year ago and enistments are
increasing.
The United States Shipping Board
housing projects, including the one
at Groton, Conn.,, will be sold, the
board announced. Each project will
be sold locally and under the direc-
ton of local boards of appraisal, the
boad announced.
Achievements of American intervention
in Hayti will have been "lost" unless
military occupation of the country
is continued "a great many years"
Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp, recent
" sent to Hayti at the request OF
the State Department to study condi-
ions, declared In a statement made
public
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
NATIONS BUSINESS

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
products of the country, announced
a 20 per cent wage reduction.
The Federal Trade Commission has
commenced an investigation of the
operations of the Chicago Board of
Trade in an endeavor to determine
the cause of the recent depression in
wheat prices.
Cotton prices continue TO recover,
having moved up so to go points
for the active months beyond Decem-
ber, and holding a good part Of the
gains after scoring them.
AT a meeting of one of the impor-
tant sections of the American Rail-
road Association in the Hotel BiIt-
more reports TO be submitted at the
annual meeting of the association in
Chicago next month We're discussed.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Com
pany have marked down several other
of their trademark fabrics. Other
cotton goods manufacturers are doing
likewise.
1t is reported in the wooIen market
that the Assabet and Weybosset mills
OF the American Woolen Company will
shortly be operated on spring, 1921
fabrics
The Quinebaug Company, Danlelson
Conn, cotton goods manufacturers, has
increased its capital from $500,000 to
S1,000000
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
BUILDER HELD UP
FOR $4,000 IN STRIKE
Might Have Been Members of
"Grafters' Union," Says
George Backer.

New York. = Evidence tending to
show the existence of widespread sys-
TEN of graft levied by labor leaders in
the building trades on employing build
ers and contractors in order to have
union men resume work on which they
struck without grievance was revealed
Mt the Joint Legislative Committees
investigation, held at the City Hall.
One aspect of the increased cost of
building operations in New York City
was tribute paid by contractors to
walking delegates for fixing up jobs,
according to the sworn testimony of
witnesses
Ephraim B. Levy, uilder, Of
West Seventy-second street, engaged in
an operation involving considerably
more than $2,000,000, consisting of the
construction of a large sales and Office
building on the entire block from
Thirtieth to Thirty-first street on Sew
enth avenue, told the committee re-
luctantly that he gave $4,000 which
was to be paid to Robert p. Brindell,
president of the Building Trades Coun-
Gil of New York, an organization in
the building trades.
The money, he said, was to go to
Mr.. Brindell land think the commit
tee" and the go-between il the trans
action was George, Backer, wealthy
builder and real estate man of 1877
Riverside Drive, who was engaged by
Levy TO superintend the construction
of his building
Mr.. Bacller on the stand admitted
that he received $25,O 600 in two INSTALL
ment, $4,000 first and then $4,000,
and paid it to "a couple of strangers"
men whom he met several times but
whose names he did not know He
said they were members of the graft
ers' union," that they "might have been
burglars or even Mutt and Jeff, and
looked like "ex-workingmen." Asked
by Samuel Untermyer, who conducted
the examination, to define an EEK
workingman," Backer said he vas
walking delegate"
The admissions of Backers concern
ing the destination of the money We're
made only after Mr. Untermyer had
forced him to admit that his first eX-
PLANTATION, that he lost the money at the
race track, was not true because there
was no race meeting in the vicinity of
New York on the day in question.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
irish INQUIRY
VOTED DOWN
British Government Wins Victory
When Motion to Investigate
RepriSaIS Is Defeated.
GREENWOOD DEFENDS FORCE.
Denies That ReprisaIs Are Numerous
and Says Sim Feln Terror Is Be-
ing Broken-BeIIeves We Want
No More Disturbing Elements.

London.-The motion of Arthur Hen
derson, Laborite, for an investigation
into the governments policy in Ire
land, which was tantamount to vote
of censure, was defeated in the house
of commons by 346 votes to 70. and the
implied vote of confidence in the Irish
administration was loudly cheered.
The r1otion had the support of for
mer Premier Asquith and Lord Robert
Cecil. whose attack was based on
charges of reprisals, and they demand
ed a public inquiry into them.
Taking part in the debate, 7. P.
oConnor said he reverenced the Eng
lish system of law and order in Eng
land, but in Ireland Prussian or Boil
slevist system was in vogue He de-
clared that the Irish question had
broken the League of Nations.
J. III. Thomas said the censure mo-
tion was not put up to excuse murder
or to surrender to crime, but TO pre-
vent international difficulties which
were arising. Propaganda was going
on al lover the world which was unfair
to this nation as whole and which
was doing incalculabe harm, he said.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28

A holpup Of New York Central
train as it was being made up in the
yards at Buffalo, n Y, netted the
bandits less than S10o
Secretary Colby declared customs
officials must cease searching baggage
of foreign diplomats.
The four army airplanes, which
completed a round trip from New York
to Alaska arrived in Washington after
two and half hour fight from
Mineola, N. Y. A squadron of fifty
airships, headed by the army dirigible
Zodiac No. 1, greeted the airmen.
The Philippine Senate has adopted
an amendment to the election law pro-
viding for prohibition of the sale and
distribution Of all liquors throughout
the islands for five weeks preceding
the general elections which occur
every three years.
Investigation of the baseball scandal
has been resumed by the Cook county
grand jury in Chicago.
The Union Wadding Company has
contracted for improvements on its
plant at Pawtucket.
The Silesia mills, in North Chelms-
ford, branch of the United States
Worsted Company, announced cut In
wages of Is per cent The reduction
is attributed by the company to condi-
tions arising from the inability to dis
pose of its goods on hand and the lack
of orders.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
FIVE PICKED FOR SHIP BOARD

President to Reappoint Admiral Ben
son as Chairman.
ngton.-President Wilson has
decided upon the appointments at least
of five of the seven members of the
new Shipping Board provided in the
Jones act. Admiral w. S. Benson,
present chairman Of the board, heads
the list. The others are said to be
Martin Gillen of Chicago, Gavin Nc
Nab of San Francisco, Theodore Mar
burg of Baltimore and Frederick l.
Thompson Of Mobile.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
COLBY SEES SOVIET COLLAPSE.
State Department Receives Word
Lenine Is Near Fall.

Washington. = The Bolsheviki gov
ernment is ceasing to exist in very
large and important areas in Russia,
according to a statement made by Sec
retary of State Colby.
"The middle classes" the secretary
added, "have lost all patience with
the excesses of the soviets and the
extinction of their liberty and are
obtaining grip on local govern
ments."
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
Farmers Appeal to President.

Washington. = George p Hampton,
managing director OF the Farmers Ma
tiona Council, made public a letter
addressed to President Wilson, ask
ing his cooperation in securing the is
suance by the secretary of the treas
ury of certificates of Indebtedness to
be deposited in national banks and
loaned to farmers.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
Greenwood MAKES pefense.

Greenwood Makes Defense.
London.-The Irish debate in the
house of commons resolved itself into
a duel between the opposition and the
government, the former demanding and
the latter resisting an Independent in
quiry into the reprisals.
The defense of the government set
up by Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief
secretary for Ireland, was that, while
the Asquithians put the emphasis on
the reprisals, put it on the provoca-
tion.''
He insisted that no case had been
made out for what he characterized as
Arthur Henderson's insulting resolu-
ton, demanding an inquiry into the
reprisals by the police and soldiers in
Ireland. He incidentally remarked
that America was no longer welcoming
emigration from Ireland because it did
not desire to swell the vast total of dis
turbing elements in the republic, and
he declared his intention to rake Ire
land from end to end, including Ulster,
in the search for arms.
The debate was precipitated by Ar
thur Henderson, former labor member
of the cabinet. While admitting that
the armed forces of the crown had suf-
fered provocation. Mr. Henderson de-
clared that the character of the re-
prisals they had taken was "quite in
keeping with the aggressive policy
which has been consistently pursued
by the government"
The governments policy, Mr.. Hen
derson asserted, seemed to him to aim
at stamping out nationalist opinion and
breaking the spirit of the Irish people.
The chief secretary detailed the cir
cumstances of the murder of Inspector
Brady, which occurred recently. He
admitted that there had been renrisals
in this case. Three shops belonging
to notorious Sim Feiners had been
burned, he said, and seven of their
shops smashed He was convinced,
however, that the persons who suffered
from the reprisals had connived at or
possibly helped in the murder of the
Inspector. He regretted the reprisals,
but declared these men had no right
to complain.
"The difficulty is," continued the
chief secretary, that there is a reign
of terror which extends throughout the
country. The Irish Republican army,
organized in brigades, companies and
platoons, armed throughout the coun-
try, with branches in England. Scot
land and Wales, has terrorized until
recently nearly the whole Of Ireland.
l am glad to say that terror is being
broken by the forces of the crown. 1t
is only the British government acting
through its forces in Ireland that can
break this terror. The Irish people
are helpless under it. The Roman
Catholic church is admittedly impotent
to break it."
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
HAITI INQUIRY TO BE PUBLIC.
Witnesses May Not Be Heard Until
Board Visits island.

Washington.-The naval inquiry into
the conduct of American marines in
Haiti will be public, it was announced
by Rear Admiral Henry t. Mayo,
chairman of the board appointed by
Secretary Daniels to conduct the inves-
tigation.
Admiral Mayo said the board had
begun the examination of documents
in the Navy Department and it might
be a week before witnesses are heard.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1920-10-28
FOOD PRICES DROP 2 p. c.

Report Shows Retailers Fer Cent.
Higher Than Wholesalers.
Washington.-The decline in the re-
tail price of foodstuffs during Septem-
ber was placed at 2 per cent. by the
Department of Labor's bureau of labor
statistics in it's monthly report on food
costs.
Some foodstuffs, notably potatoes and
sugar, sustained marked decrease in
price. The drop in the price of pota-
toes was placed at % per cent-one Of
the greatest decreases.