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The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
D.C.COALBODY
MEETS TODAY
Will Ask Federal Aid to
Prevent Winter Fuel
Shortage.

The coal committee appointed by
the District Commissioners to in
vestisate the theatened coal famine
in Washington will meet this morn
ing in the office of E. c. Graham.
chairman, at 1880 New York avenue.
1t Unexpected the committee will
consider data tending TO show that
unless Federal action is taken Wash
inston will face a coal shortage this
winter. The committee will present
their findings to the Interstate
Commerce Commission and will rec
ommend that some of the coal be-
ing sent to the Northwest and New
England States be diverted 10 WASH
ington to relieve the situation.
officials of the Interstate Com
merce Commission have not en-
couraged the committee to expect
aid from the Federal government
but in the absence of any official
instructions from the Commission
ers the committee has gone on with
its investigation.
The committee Is expected TO have
a hearing before the Interstate
Commerce Commission toward the
end of the week according to Gra-
ham.
James T. Lloyd. former member
of Congress from Missouri, at pres
ent a Washington lawyer, has been
added to the committee.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
AIDS UNITARIAN
DRIVEBY AUTO
M. M. Kallman, D. c. Eff.
cheney Expert, Starts on
Long Tour.

NJ. Martin Kallman. a consultant
business engineer. of Clifton Ter
race East. and member of the ma
tional committee recruited by Will
lam Howard Taft to direct the Uni
tartan religious and educational
campaign, has left Unity House. Z
Park square, Boston, on a whirl-
wind motor tour of the East and
Middle West TO organize local cam
paigns on an efficiency basis. Mrs.
Kallman will make the entire trip
meeting representative Of Uni
tartan women's' organizations in
cities as far west as Kensas City
and Omaha
From Washington the Kallman
car will run west over the national
trail through the Cumberland VAL
ley. with Columbus, Ohio. as the
objective. Leaving Columbus Mr.
Kallmah plans to go to Cincinnati
and Louisville. thence to St. Louis,
Kansas City, Des Moines, Omaha,
st. Paul and Minneapolis. Madison,
Wis Milwaukee. Chicago. Detroit,
Cleveland. Pittsburgh, Harrisburg,
Philadelphia. Wilmington and Bal
timore.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
(Dy Unfversai Service.D

Owing to damages inflicted upon
the former German battleship Ost-
friesland, the cruiser Frankfort and
the three destroyers, apportioned by
the allied naval authorities to the
United States, are. now in New
York with their German crews.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels
stated that he will not be able to
comply with the many requests that
they visit other seaboard cities.
The ships cannot be sent to sea
without extensive repairs.
Under terms of the award the
ships must be broken up within a
year. The Navy Department has
decided it win not pay to repair
them. ~
Captain Tells story.
Capt. ]. f. Hellweg, who was in
command of the convoy, has re-
lated to the department the details
of the cross-Atlantic trip.
The gutted condition in which
we found these vessels" he said,
cannot be exaggerated. What had
not been stolen was wrecked. The
vandalism indicates a very careful
preparation and thoroughness in
execution. The Ostfriesland, q
Dreadnaught of 22,44o tons, flagship
of the first battle squadron in the
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
LAWYERS OF NATION
TO MEET AT ST. LOUIS

The American Bar Association
will hold its forty third annual
meeting Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday at st. Louis. Lawyers and
statesmen of international promi-
nence are expected to attend the
sessions. Reports of many commit
tees have already been submitted to
members of the association in order
that Intelligent action may be taken
upon measures to be considered at
the st. Louis gathering.
Sir Auckland Geddes. British AM
bassador, and distinguished repre-
sentatives OF the Canadian Bar As
sociation will be the guests of the
American lawyers. Former Presi-
dent Taft has accepted an appoint
ment to attend the meeting of the
Canadian association in September,
as the representative of the Ameri-
can association.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
Looting of Fiue Crippled Ships
That Treaty Gaze to America
Reuealed in Captain Report

battle of Jutland. was the only ship
in our convoy which had not been
scuttled.
''on the other hand. she had been
in a dock yard in Germany for over
year. The ship was towed TO
Forsyth by the ex-Germsn battle
ship, Nassau. In spite of the fact
that IL was towed, they had an un-
necessarily large crew on board and
later Developments would tend TO
Indicate that this crew was sent
with a view of footing everything
possible en- route.
Anchor Chains Stolen.
"As an example of how thorough
the Huns were in lOoting the ship.
It may be noted that one-hslf Of
the anchor chain was taken.
We found practically all the mo-
tor generators and other auxiliaries
were either removed from their
bases or were being prepared for
moving,
When about 1000 miles from the
European coast, the steaming fire
room was flooded and for hours the
situation was serious.
The lack of ventilation was q
very serious matter, and during the
trip to the United States, more heat
prostration cases occurred than
had previously seen during my en-
tire service in the nAyy-a period
of twenty-three years
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
FORT MYER SOLDIERS
FINISH LONG JOURNEY

Army cots will feel like feather
beds tonight to tired and tanned
members of the second battalion OF
the Nineteenth Field Artillery, who
are due ct Fort Myer at IL o'clock
this morning. They are returning
to Fort Myer from Camp Dix. y. J..
after two months Of hiking and
camp life.
The battalion. under command OF
Mai. Beverley F. Brown, left Fort
Myer June 81 and consumed twelve
days in the hike 10 Camp Dix. The
time at the New Jersey post was
spent working with the West Point
cadets who were camped there for
the summer.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
SCHEDULES ALL IN
FOR NEW R. R. RATES

Omcials of the I. c. c. yesterday
were filing and dOcketing hundreds
of new tariff schedules filed by the
railroads to cover the new rate in
creases ranging from % to 40 per
cent
Filing of the schedules ended al
midnight Saturday for those rail
roads which plan to put the new
rates into effect Friday. This in
cludes all but a few minor roads
The new rates will add s1.5O0.-
0OO, 900 directly to the cost of dis
tribution in the United States. This
will be magnified from three to five
fold in living costs or from S4,50O,-
100000 to $500. 100000. according
to many government economists.
Railroad officials deny this. Ap-
proximately S4OO, 100000 in securi-
ties will be issued by the roads on
the strength OF the new rates. it is
planned.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
.BOCHE IGNORE
TURKS TREATY
End of Ottoman Empire
Rule Gets Only Two Lines
In the German Press.
CWashinston Hern1d-PubIic Ledger
Service-SpecinI Cable Dispatch)

Berlin. Aug. ga Turkish diplo-
mat today called attention to what
he described as one of the astound-
ing incidents of the World War. The
signing of the Turkish treaty at
Sevres last week. which not only
technically terminated the great
war, but also marked the end of the
Ottoman empire rule of seven CEN
turtles, passed unnoticed in Ger
many. Two lines in an obscure sec
tion of the newspaper announced
the Turkish peace.
Unconsoled, unlamented by the
nation which was the cause of its
ruin. Turkey was allowed to pro-
coed to the grave dug for her by
Prussian ambition. Germany's s
apathy toward the death of the sick
man" whom she used during the
war and intended using afterward
as a catspaw in her domination of
the east. evoked a cry of bitter re-
morse from the Turkish statesman
The epitaph of our ambitions is
really inscribed in the Turkish
treaty" said a German economist
Prizes upon which we staked our
all have gone up in the air like
smoke. the eye can see them rising
like bubbles, then vanishing into
thin air"
Copyright. 1920. by Public Ledger co..
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
G. 0. P. WIN SEEN
BY BERNSTORFF
Former Ambassador Thinks
Harding Is Presumptive
President.
CWashington HernId-Public Ledger
Seryice-SpecinI Cable Dispatch)

Bepfin, Aug. 22.-Count Won Bern
st6rff. in spite of his universally
reputation Of never
having understood America, still is
trying to explain America to the
Germans. In a leading article in
the Berliner Abendblatt, the former
amba ssador, writing on the Amer
ican Presidential campaign, says
Harding must be looked upon as
the presumptive President.
After explaining the Republican
platform, he says:
TN Harding's election you will
witness the triumph of Americas s
traditional policy of isolation and
protection under the Monroe doc
trine. The new policy will prob
ably lead to the termination of the
state of war with Germany"
Count Bernstorff adds that he be-
lieves the United States will. after
notifications and reservations have
been made in the peace covenant,
finally join the league of nations.
This, he says. is inevitable, as the
people of the United States always
have been sympathetic with the
ideals embodied in the league of
nations. Speaking of the errors of
President Wilson and the lesson to
be learned therefrom, he writes:
Once a President loses touch with
and gets out of connection with the
people of the nation. as Wilson did
at Versailles, his powers are gone.'
Copyright, 1870. by Public Ledger Coz
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
"Black Moses Preaching to New York's
10000 Negroes to Leave Their Happy
Homes and Found an Empire in Africa

started, cutting off white immigra,
ton from America and taking white
aliens back to the armies abroad,
the negroes in the North Mad plenty
of rights, but no work. The South
always has provided them with
work. but gave them, they say,
very little in the way of rights.
The vacuum created in the indus
trial world OF America by the scar,
city Of white alien labor gave the
negroes their great CHARGE.
Since 1914 there have been two
distinct infiuxes into New York. One
came from the South and the other
from the British and French West
Indies. The effect upon New York
has been to increase the pre-war
colored population three-fold.
Occupation, Open.
When a negro talks about his
rights he means security of life and
to be free from discriminating in
suits which tend to humiliate him.
He also includes the privilege Of vot-
ing. which he claims is denied to
him in the South. Behind IL all
is a demand for the abolition OF
lynching.
In New York the occupational
field for negroes has been consider
ably broadened- 1t used to be ex-
tremely limited. Outside Of running
elevators, acting as personal SER
wants and street cleaning. there once
was nothing for them to do. They
had even been replaced as walters
in the hotels by white aliens, who
pleased their patrons not half so
well Now they are back again in
the hotels. are doing longshoreman
work upon the docks. have been ad-
mitted into the unions Of the build
ing trades and are employed in
livery trucks.
The negroes Of Harlem have their
own grocery stores and meat mar
associations, and shortly two col
ored banks are to be put into Op-
Grafton. 1t is estimated that more
than 5000 automobile licenses are
held IN the names OF these col
ored residents. They have a thea
ter of their own. the Lafayette. q
play house at the corner Of 18Th
street and Seventh avenue. where
a versatile troupe OF negro actors
present 100 different dramas rang,
ing from the classic TO the Broad
way farce. over a dozen picture
houses are in the district All oi
which indicates small likelihood Of
a rush to the JUngles of Africa
| chasing a butterfly empire wher
they have an empire of their owl
in Harlem
,Copyright. 1920. by Public Lesger Coz
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
CHINA OFFERS
EUROPE COAL
Negotiations Under Way to
Get Supply for Scandi-
naWan Industries.
CNashinEton HeraId-PuhIic Ledger
Service-sPeciRI Cable DisPRtchl

Scrvice-special Cable Dispatch
Copenhagen. Aug. 22-Owiur 10
Europe's greatly increased demand
for coal China. which has been i'm
porting coal from Japan TO Ghe
amount OF a million tons per sn-
mum is now prepared ru enter the
list Of worlds coal exporters. That
Is confirmed by the Chinese AubaS-
sador at Copenhagen. who stated
that his government having re-
Ceived inquiries from the tradic au-
thorities in Scandinavia, regarding
China ability TO export coal. neg
Jiations are now proceeding be-
tween the TWO governments with a
view to obtaining a supply Of
Chinese coal for Scandinavian iu-
dusrries.
In 1909 the coal production Of
China amounted TO $1,000 H0u tors
and il is understood thar th.
Chinese republic is IN a position now
to export -ood deal OF coal Two
hundred thousand tons have hesu
offered for delivery ar SCaudiuA Wan
ports at the Approximate price NJ
zen pounds NORMALLY son per ton
all charges paid. and NEGOTIATIONS
are 50 far advanced that Danish
ships are now in PekinE hsrhnr
waiting cabl" instructions TO load
the first Chinese coal cargo.
The lower price of Chinese Coal
is not expected to have an adverse
effect on American coal shipments
to Scandinavia on account OF the su-
perior quality Of the American out
put. which gives out no ashes ar1
las the same caIorifc properties as
Chinese coal
Copyright, 1891 bv Public Ledger OoA
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
FLAMES WRECK BOAT
ON CHESAPEAKE BAY

Baltimore, Aug. 22.-wrecked by
hre today at pier No. l the steamer
Old Point Comfort, of the Balti-
more. Chesapeake Railway Com
pany sank within forty minutes of
the time the fire burst forth com
pletely enveloping the craft.
Officials are unable to estimate
the damage; Several times the
wharf caught fire. Fire boats cut
the boat from the pier and moved
it to midstream.
The vessel was a relief boat of
the company's feet of about twenty
passenger steamers plying between
Chesapeake BAY points.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
LOSSES
ALARM FRANCE
Figures of 1919 Show
$4,000 Born, While
635,000 Die.
GRAIN YIELD SMALL
Paris Looks to America to
Make Up Crop
Shortage.
GRAIN YIELD SMALL
tWrshincton HerAId-PubIie Ledger
serviee-speciaI Cable Dispatchl

tNr-btncton Herald-Public Ledger
servtce-speciaI Cable Dispatehb
Paris. Aug. 22.-That France has
serious problems other than her for
eign affairs is indicated by the pub
.lication OF statistics Of the minister
rof labor showing that deaths in 1919
exceeded births by more than 2Oo.-
600.
The figures for seventy-seven de-
partme ents-there are eighty-siN de-
partments in all, but those invaded
are eXclUded-are, deaths. SIS. 600 I:
births. $4,000. which is an advance
OF 5000 births over the previous
year. In Alsace Lorraine, however,
there were more births than deaths.
the figures being births, q. 600 /;
deaths. 10000.
wheat Yield Disappointing.
Predictions OF experts on the
French grain crop this year show
that the United States remains the
only salvation Of France and Eu-
rope. The French wheat crop will
be one-fourth less than previously
estimated and IS. OOO. 900 bushels less
than the 1913 crop. The quality OF
the grain is below normal. the
weight being 3 per cent less than
usual. The yield per acre is slightly
greater than 1913 but the total
average is one-third less. To meet
the normal demand Of consumption
! France will have to import 50. 0UO. 600
bushels Of wheat
Italian Crops small.
The Italian harvest is also dis
appointing and Italy will have 90
9 import practically the same amount
as France. England Us hoping 90
make UP the bad crops OF Australia
and India by the Russian ueEUtia-
I uons and purchases i'm tie United
States
There is little hope OF wheat from
Argentina. as due 10 the local short
age its export is prohibited though
I il the December crop is good the
prohibition may be Cancelled.
The French wheat crop fCures
are, 1913. 500 100000 bushels. 1913.
los. 900. 900 bushels: 1890 estimate.
23l, 600. 900 bushels. For rye the nC-
ures are. 1913, $4,000. 600 bushels:
I 1919. 3O.OOO0OO bushels: 1920. estr-
mated. $4,000. 600
Copyright. 1890. by Public Ledger CO.. .
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
RED MEN TO PICNIC
ON CHESAPEAKE BAY

Approximately 1000 eNcursionists
are expected to visit Chesapeake
Beach tomorrow on the annual eX-
Cursion of the Grand Council of the
Improved Order of Red Men. Thos.
H. Dennis is in charge Of arrange
ments.
There will be a special athletic
program and dancing. Numerous
fishing and Grabbing parties have
been arranged.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
SOVIET PLOTS
MADEIN BERLIN.
Diamonds Adorn Bolshevist
Runners at German
Capital.
WARSAW SENDS SPIES
"Rumor Factory" Runs Full
Blast Where Reds
Meet.
WARSAW SENDS SPIES
CwashnEtoni Heraid-Publie Ledger
Service, Special Cable DispatchD

Berlin, Aug. 22.-The German cap
itaI is It this hour Europe's clear
ing hoise for wild rumors and q
whispering gallery of intrigue and
propaganda, the equal of which no
neutral capital attained in all the
years of the war. Berlin has be-
come the meeting place of all the
MachiavelIis from the East and
West - the stamping ground of
Bolshevists and antis, of Polish
spies and entente scouts, a shoal of
fresh schemes and plots breeding on
the yet smoldering Cinders of recent
disaster.
The Hobbies of the principal hotels
teem with activities of these agents,
disseminating false news and
spreading panicky rumors. The
governments are wrecked weekly,
Warsaw has been captured a hun
dred times over. and only TO-DAY the
league of nations crumbled and in
its place arose a powerful Anglo
German-Russian alliance. At least
a dozen treaties, founded upon new
and absurd combinations, were
written and annulled overnight.
Confusion Grows.
Adding to the chaos are the Ger
mans themselves. with their own
axes to grind either for or against
BoIsheyism and their military juntas
and panic-mOngers of the red peril.
Confusion grows and plots thicken,
as Ukrainians and Wrangelites. Hin
dus. Egyptians, Turks and Magyars
appear on the scene.
One is swamped by a defuge of
pamphlets whose principal aim is to
mislead. Every one misleads every
one else The result is a state OF
such complete anarchy and riot that
an American observer here surrend-
ers in despair.
The chief rumor factory is the
Bolshevist headquarters in Berlin
There one can order his rumOrs
specifying everything from the di-
mensiOns to the effects desired. The
Bolsheyists are quartered in an old
fashioned parlor floor, the various
rooms Of which are divided among
the peoples commissaries. charged
with the business of giving out
vises. censoring letters for Moscow,
writing propaganda and handing
out rumors to the press.
The little czar of the establish
ment is the Bolshevist who sits be-
fore the gate between you and his
excellency Victor HOpp. He is an
apopIectic-looking individual. once
saddlemaker to Nicholas, now Kopp's
bodyguard.
Nearly all the Bolshevists in this
place wear diamonds and smoke fat
cigars. The reason is simple-"palm
oil" To get a wise or authority to
send an unsealed letter to Soviet
Russia. one must push a piece of
cOIored paper under the commits
sary's nose-and it must be the right
color.
Here is a list of today's rumors
Warsaw falls for the 1O1st time; the
Poles are making another counter
offensive: Trotzky declares war on
France: Wrangel captures Odessa;
the French are moving troops across
Germany; Munich goes Bolshevist
there is a new monarchist ''putsch"
in Berlin.
Copyright 1920. BY Public Ledger CO..
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
BY RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

New York, Aug. 22.-If you stand
at Lenox avenue and l35th street in
Harlem, at the upper end of Man
haitian, and draw a circle with a
radius of half a mile, you will have
inclosed a unique and remarkable
negro city of 10000 population
within the Greater CITY of New
York: the best housed and best
paved negro city in the world. No
alleys; no broken down, ramshackle
tenements. Not a fringe OF wretch- :
ed shanties around, where the
white folks live" as you may hno
in the South. but a solid, substan-
tial, up-to-date AHerican city.
Into this satisfied. settled, luxury :
loving, civilized black city. which
already possesses a profound com
munity feeling has come an in
truder, man from the British
West Indies, with project TO raise
funds for the establishment Of
mighty negro nation in Africa" He
is Marcus Garvey, the black
Moses" and founder of the Black
Star Steamship Line. and the Uni
yersal Negro Improvement Associa-
tion and African Communities
League of the World.
A monster mass meeting at Madi-
son Square Garden was the tinsel
and gilt which Garvey arranged as
part of his propaganda. For a
month he proposes to pass the hat
among colUred persons of New
York. holding daily secret sessions
of negroes from all parts of the
United States and the West Indies
at Liberty Hall, in West l3sth
street. eliminating, as he says, in
the election of His Supreme High
ness. the Potentate. High Highness
the Supreme Deputy and other high
officials, who will preside over the
destiny of the negro people of the
world until an African empire is
founded"
Impresses Some.
Sort. of smacks of Aaron Burr,
Fortunately the great majority of
colored persons of New York look
upon Garvey as "P. T Barnum
who is putting on a big show TO
amuse them. Unfortunately there
is a great number of uneduCated
negroes who have been Impressed
and are subscribing from their
hardearned wages to the further
ance of Garvey's indefinitely locat-
ed African empire.
Let US go among the negroes OF
New York for a saunter and study
their living problems. They have
indeed. become very sensitive &c
the social and economic current.
that are running around the earth
today. Before the European wa
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
LATIN-AMERICAN TRADE
5 TIMES THAT OF 1905

Trade between the United States
and LatIn-AmeriCan countries in
creased AL per cent in the last fif-
teen years. according to figures
compiled by the Pan American
Union. For the fiscal year ended
June so. 1905, exports and imports
amounted to s456,621.111 while the
business for the fiscal year ended
June so, 1920, reached the immense
total Of s2,927.167,752.
in the fiscal year 1sO4-5. the Unit
ed States sold to Latin America
products valued at only s156,542,-
S67: in 1880. 1.156,56S,952, a gain
of $1,000. .o26.0S5. The United States
bough. from all Latin America hf-
teen years ago goods valued at $780,
o7s,244; in 1880, s1,77O,5SO,7sO.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
BOYS SKULL BROKE
IN NFALL FROM ROOF

Hagerstown. Md. Aug. 22.-Frank
Meats. son of Karl Meats. a farmer
of Downsville district, was badly
injured and is in the Washington
County Hospitals here with a frac-
tured skull as the result of falling
from the second story of the gran
airy on his fathers farm.
He fell twenty-five feet upon his
head He has been unconscious
since the accident.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
BOOTLEGCERS BLAMED
FOR AUTO MURDER

New York. htE e2-PoIirs be-
lieved tonight they would find the
murderer OF It. +. ECkert. who was
found shot 10 death in a stolen
automobile At SoU'h Reach. staten
Island. Police declared tho young
man. whose body had been riddlcd
by bullets. was only released cCon
Tombs Prison FridsE. following rs
arrest on charges e h-iuE impli-
Gated in auto thctls and bootleg
EinE.
It was believed ECkr-t was kill
ed by conredcratns: who feared he
might give evidence is1pl!CatinE
them.
The Washington herald., 1920-08-23
Girls No Longer at Every Port for
Ship Master With Wife Along;
BensonMakes SpecialRuling forP air

Seas of matrimony'' has a literal
Significance for many sea-faring
men not often thought of, it is
shown in a little tale told by the
Shipping Board. Admiral Benson
has said that in certain instances
wives may accompany masters of
vessels to sea.
The sweethearts at every port
now may be out of the question.
The Division of Operations of the
Shipping Board has just received a
request from the wife of a master.
asking that she be permitted to take
passage with her husband.
And when Director of Operations
Paul Foley passed along the request
to Admiral Benson. chairman. the