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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
Today's News
In Paragraphs

Poland predicts soviet will fall during
coming winter. Page l
Identity of girl suicide at Great Falls
established; motive still a mystery.
Page 1
Judge Gould sets Thursday as date for
hearing on Potomac Electric Power
Company's petition relating to new
light rates. Page /
Charge Illegal combine raised prices of
farm implements. Page l
Canal boats to bring $50, 900 tons of soft
coal for capitals use Page 1
City Club begins probe of escapes at st.
Elizabeth's. Page l
Consumers ask bigger voice in settling
winter milk price. Page i
Construe Harding's speech to indicate
he plans to scrap old treaty. Page l
Quantities of United States stationery
removed from Army shacks in Poto-
mac Park as step toward removing
eyesores. Page 2
applications next week. Page 2
iner, is dead. Page .
Women vote today in Massachusetts for
first time at state primaries. Page 3
Discussion of the American Leeion's at
( titude in politics will be a feature OF
! the national convention of war vet
erans- Page 3
W. A. Gardiner, American who was
captured by bandits in Mexico August
/ 90 has made his escape. Page 4
D. c. Rent Commission held specia,
| session today to hear cases recurring
| immediate attention. Page 5
officials investigating trolley wreck near
| Denver. in which eleven were killed
| and ninety-nine injured. Page Z
Father Dominic declares the lord mayor
Of Cork is unable to assure Premier
| Lloyd George that murders of police
| men In ireland will cease II the hunger
/ strikers are released. Page 9
Stunts" cost three American aviators
/ their lives. Page 10
Scandinavians find deplorable chaos in
Russian industries Page 10
Alabama soft coal miners due to strike
at midnight tonight. Governors COM
| mission trying TO conciliate. Page IL
Harding makes call on Gen. Leonard
! Wood on way to Minnesota. Page Is
Cox to speak three times in North Da-
kota. Page Is
Building fine home for Racquet Club
! Page 13
Italian metal workers threaten to ma
tionalize industries. says Rome.
| Page IS
Civil war in China is reported to be
growing In magnitude. Page Is
Pershings war map now in National
Museum Page q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
CANAL BOATCOAL:
I5O 900 TONS FOR
CAPITALS SUPPLY

Washington will receive approx
mately 10000 tons of bituminous
| coal via the Chesapeake and ONO
canal during the eight months of ca
pacity operation this fall. winter and
spring. according to estimates by
Supt. Nicholson of the local office.
| made public today.
The canal fleet now comprises sixty
six boats. each with capacity OF llo
tons. Each boat. on liberal time
schedule. viii make two trips per
month TO this city with coal. round
trip generally consuming fifteen days
In many instances the return trip
of the boats is made with gravel, sand
or supplies in ballast. thereby render
ing the operation of the waterway
prof: able.
we arc ready to take care of all
the coal We can handle from the Cum
| hcriand valley" declared Supt- Nich
olson. Our machinery is IN smooth
running order and we should be able
to supply the city's soft coal oins
with 4 good supply of fuel
The coal brought down by the canal
furnishes a source of power for sew
eral of the city's large manufacturing
establishments. During the summer
the canal brought quantities OF varl-
GUS supplies to the city, including
produce from the fertile Cumberland
region.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
REIGN OF RUSSIAN
SOVIET NEARS END,
CLAIM IN WARSAW
Salvation of Country Seen in
WrangeI-PoIes Seek
Early Peace.

f'F Table 70 TIL" Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright. Is.n
WARSAW. Poland. September In
is reported hy those that sbould
KNOW that the .Jolshcvis; autocracv of
Russia is tottc-iag and viii NOT las,
through the winter There is need
OF tracing just frontiers and of world
"ioe support Of Cen. Wrangers army.
SO as TO enable il TO rescue million.
OF Russians from misery and.tyranny
it is claimed
win the defeat of Gen. Budenny.
VINO mas been compelled to fight a
&c uaro action with the remnants
VI MS army. interest turns to the
coming peace conference in Riga. Po-
idho wants and needs peace and only
d sfhali party desires to continue the
night into Russia
however, no one should be naive
enough to think that the signed en-
sasement OF the bolsheviks will be
kept The bolsheviks have a code AZ
dishonor of their own and consider
IL proper to break faith where il is
possible to obtain an advantage, They
are without scruples. as they have ad-
'histed themselves many times.
Reds Are fn Minority.
~ must be remembered also that
tne redS represent only a small per-
centase OF the Russians, and hence
tneir engagements are not binding
Az present they are giving their full
attention to Gen. Wrangel in the
Crimea. and if they are successful in
aetea.ing MIN they will not hesitate
to attack Poland again.
All the anti-bolshevists including
the Cadets. the Russians in Paris and
Gen. krasnoff's followers in Berlin,
favor Gen; Wrangel. seeing in him
col sN
helping the peasants to own their
own land and is establishing demo-
cratic government behind his advance
posts.
Lithuanian Crisis Over.
LONDON. September (By the AS
ISOLATED Press).-The Polish govern
ment has addressed an appeal to the
league OF nations requesting its media
! ton in the Polish Lithuanian dispute.
Unless an improvement occurs in the
| situation Poland will be compelled TO
declare war on Lithuania, the appeal
states.
The communication declares an un-
provoked attack had been made on
the Polish troops by Lithuanian forces.
The league of nations is consider
ing the appeal
The Polish demand is. the note in
dicates, that the Lithuanian troops
evacuate Polish territory within few
days.
PARIS. September 6.-The hostil-
| tiles between Poland and Lithuania
are virtually over. according to ad-
| vices reaching official circles here to-
day. Peace negotiations will be be-
| gun Immediately at Mfrtampol. south
west of Koyno. it was added.
The suggestion that the negotia-
tfons be held in Mariampol came from
the Lithuanians, foreign office ad-
vices stated.
WARSAW. September 6.-Monday's
official statement from military head
quarters reports additional attacks
by the Lithuanians upon Polish
forces, which the latter have re-
pelled. The communique says:
Our detachments continue success
fully to repel attacks by Lithuanian
troops. A scouting company Of two
officers and 200 soldiers. with six
machine guns. which penetrated be-
hind our rear, was captured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07

Justice Gould to Consider
Injunction Amendment
on Thursday.

Justice Gould Of the District Su-
preme Court agreed today to hold a
hearing at IL o'clock Thursday on
the petition of the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Company for modification
of the injunction obtained by the
company in 1917. which prevented
reducing the rate for current at that
time from 10 to cents per kilowatt
hour.
Since 1917 the people have paid 10
cents. but cents has been set aside
in fund to be returned to the pub
action of the commission in ordering
the rate reduced to s cents.
The commission held hearings re-
Gently and decided that under present
conditions the rate to householders
should be S1s cents instead Of cents.
in the rates the court must amend
the Injunction Of 1917.
Wants Injunction Wiped Out.
Corporation Council Francis H. Ste
phens will argue that the injunction
should not be modified. but should be
wiped out entirely. Such action by
the court would stop from now on the
payment of 2 cents per kilowat hour
into the impounding found and would
permit the company to collect the
new rate of Sla cents. There is now
approximately! $1.5oo,ooo impounded.
If the courts should only modify
the injunction. the people would con-
tinue to pay 10 cents. but the COM
pany would get 81a cents and the re-
naming cent and one-half would go
into the impounding fund 1t is prob
able that if payments into the i'm
pounding fund are stopped at this
time the money already in that fund
will remain there pending a settle
ment of the suit involving the yalua-
ton of the company's property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
STRANGER
WzlNSCI7ZZENSHIP
BY FINGER PRINT

A finger print taken several years
ago, when Anders Martin Anderson.
native of Norway. was serving in
the United States Army, aided Ander-
son to become an American citizen
today. The applicant, an honorably
discharged soldier, has been living in
Washington only one month. and did
not know any one here who could
vouch for him.
Remembering the fact that his finger
PRINT had been taken when he enlist
ed. Anderson sought Walter S. Kaye,
chief of the finger-print division Of
the adjutant generals office After Mr..
Kaye had taken an impression of the
thumb OF the applicant and compared
1t with the record of Anderson's en-
listment he came to court and identi-
fled the applicant
Justice Gould accepted the identified
tion and naturalized4 Anderson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
PROSECUTOR IS ACCUSED,
Saratoga, N. T., District ATTORNEY
Arraigned for Neglect of Du+r

SARATOGA SPRINGS. n. Y. SEN
tember 7.-Charles B. Andrus. district
attorney of Saratoga county, was ar
raigned before Justice Van Kirk in
supreme court today. charged with
neglect of duty. The arraignment
followed his indictment by the ex-
traordinary grand jury which has
been investigating alleged gambling
in this city and county.
With him were arraigned several
others against whom sealed indict-
ments were found last week, includ-
ing John P. DENIM of ALBANY. wbo
is the proprietor of a restaurant
raided this summer by officers direct. .
ed by Wyman S. Bascom, who ha.
been representing the attorney, gem
eral.
Pending arraignment the details of
the charges against District Attorney
Andrus were not made public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
CHARGES ARE DISPUTED
BY HARVESTER COMPANY

CHICAGO. September z (by the As.
sociated Press).-Statements issued
by the international Harvester Com
Vehicle Company in reply to the re-
port OF the Federal Trade Commits
sion denied that either organization
has at any time attempted to fix or
maintain prices.
The International Harvester Com.
pany's statement. signed by Cyrus H
Mccormick. chairman of its board OF
directors, said:
TT should be noted that the report
does not find prices or profits in the
farm implement industry excessive
exorbitant or unreasonable, yet the
commissions figures on manufac-
turers' profits greatly exceed this
company's net earnings.
The commission might we'll have
added in its report. that if farmers
were allowed the same rate of COM
pensation per hour for labor of them
selves and of their families that the
manufacturers pay for the produc-
tion Of farm implements 1t would be
evident that the farmer needs ali
of the advanced price on farm prod
ucts to make a decent living. The ad-
vance in prices in both cases is due
to causes beyond the farmers or the
manufacturers control.
'"The harvester company has never
colluded with any competitor in fix-
ing or maintaining prices.
'"The Senate resolution calling for
this report did not mention the de-
cree in the case Of the government
against the harvester company New
ertheless. the commission has un-
necessarily and unjustifiably injected
that subject into the report.
"Not one new fact is presented in
this criticism except the finding that
the harvester company's percentages
Of trade in the lines which 1t is ac-
cused OF dominating continues stead
lily to decrease"
The statement closed by asserting
that the federal court decree gave
this company q certain period to make
certain changes in its business, and
xhaf <HSa v,AeiAd has MT vat AYn1Va6 n
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COMBINE TO BOOST
FARM TOOL PRICES,
|SCHARGED BY J.. S.
Trade Commission Recon-
mends Action Against I'm
pIement Makers.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Methods alleged by the Federal
Trade Commission to have been used
by manufacturers of farm implements
to advance prices through Concerted
action" are described. 1t became
known today. in a report of the COM
missions Investigation. which was
The commission announced last
night that it had recommended the
lreopening of anti-trust proceedings
kAgainst the International Harvester
Company and the institution of court
proceedings against implement manu-
facturers and dealers. who, the COM
mission asserted, have illegally in
creased prices.
Prices Boosted 81 Per Cent.
Its investigation. the trade commits
sion declared, disclosed that between
1914 and 1918 prices of farm imple-
ments advanced 73 per cent. Advances
in the costs and expenses of manu-
the commission said, an increase of
this amount.
Discussing methods which the COM
mission charges officers and members
Of implement manufacturers associa-
tions used to bring about and main
tain high price levels, the report states
were held. at which advances in
prices recently made or intended to
be made were discussed Meetings
also were held. 1t is charged, at
which inflated costs were compared.
with the tacit understanding that
prices would be advanced the same
percentage shown by the inflated
COSTS and at which agreements
were made respecting uniform terms
and the Standardization of imple-
ments and equipment"
Evchanred pri~> Yi.t.
The commissions report further
states that members of manufac-
ture-s' associations made use of fire.
quent exchange of price lists by mail,
so that members could check up on
each others prices, terms and equip
ment furnished" and thatlet ters were
sent urging low-price members to
increase their prices"
by these methods the commission
asserts. beginning with -,~~t'~~-s
held in February, 1916, and continuing
through 1915 the maldi,-c.u.
arrived at uniform percentages of in
creases to be applied first to one and
then another line of implements.
That the officers and members of
the manufacturers associations real
lied" the report continues, that they
were engaged in Illegal activities is
indicated by the attempted secrecy
they sought to throw over all price
activities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
PROBE OF ESCAPES
AT ST. EL|zAbETH'S
BEGUN BY CITIZENS
City Club Public Safety Group
to Demand Conditions
Be Remedied.

No stones will be left unturned by the
public safety group of the City Club
to determine the responsibility for the
numerous escapes from St Elizabeth's
Hospital, which eliminated Saturday
night in the murder of one inmate and
the shooting by an employe of the insti-
tuition Of another.
Today W. Pearce Rayner. chairman of
the public safety group. and Claude W.
Owen. head of the police protection COM
mittee of the group, conferred in Mr.
Owens Office on the general conditions
prevalent at the big government hospital
Lives In Danger.
I'VE do not know the cause of the
numerous escapes" said Mr.. Owen, but
We are going to find out The lives
and property of Washingtonians are in
danger from insane people running wild
Something will have to be done and
quickly.
THE police protection committee,
which has been functioning for only
about ten days and has not yet COM
pleted organization, will take immediate
steps to do SO in order to conduct a
rigid investigation into conditions at
ST. Elixabeth'x
III it is found Congress has not ap-
propEiated money sufficient to hire
guards5 enough properly to take care
OF inmates and prevent their escape
we want to know about 1.-THE public
wants to know about it. If, on the
other hand, these escapes are due to
improper administration of officials
the public likewise should be in
formed.
VIII Urge Remedy.
''In the event that the investigation
shows a lack of funds for proper
guarding Of the inmates. recommends
tions will be made to Congress to in
crease the appropriation.
Should the Investigators find evil
dences of improper administration on
the part of officials. Of the institution
an internal shakeup will be recon- j.
mended. Now is the time for action.
Further escapes must be prevented
and the lives and property Of citizens
safeguarded."
Officials of st. Elizabeth's say failure
Of Congress to appropriate sufficient
funds to erect a gatehouse on one side
of the hospital has given inmates of
the institution opportunity from time
to time to escape. The gate. is was
stated. has been locked, but not
guarded in the past. Hereafter. Off
Gals said. the gate will be both guard
ed and locked.
1t was pointed out that the grounds
of st. Elizabeth's are so large that an
escaped inmate could dodge his pur-
suers for several days without being
caught.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
0OOQ 900 FACING FAMINE
WHOLE FAMILIES EZNDLIVE.S
Mothers Sell Children, and People of
Chinese Provinces Subsist on
Weeds and Leaves

gins. Inhabitants of whole districts
are living on weeds and leaves.
Eyewitnesses say that whole fam
lilies have committed suicide rather
than face starvation.
Mothers are selling their children
for a few dollars, and thousands of
horses and oxen are being killed or
sold at ridiculous prices on account
of the lack of fodder.
Experienced foreigners consider the
situation almost unprecedented, and
predict the worst famine in forty
years. The American minister here
has opened a relief subscription with
81, 900. 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
CAMEL ON ADE RAMPAGE
Downs Ten Services OF
Fifty Officers Required.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. September T.
Fifty Indianapolis police officers, on
special duty at the Indiana state fair.
were called upon early today to quell
q camel which apparently had not
had its drink during the last eight
days. It wandered from its own show
grounds into a soft-drink booth and
drank ten gallons Of red lemonade
before the police officers and the cam
ell trainer could get it back into the
Garden of Allah"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
QUAKES DAMAGE ITALY.
Milan and Genoa Get Shocks Last.
ing Five Seconds.

ROME. September Very marked
earthquake shocks were reported today
from points in Tuscany Casualties had
resulted, the reports stated, and the
authorities have sent aid,
The points from which the shocks
were reported were Castlenuoyo di Gar
fagnana- Pievefosciano. Castiglione di
Garfagnana and Villa Collemandia, all
in Tuscany.
shock lasting about five seconds
was felt at 1855 O'Clock this morning
in Milan and Genoa, according to dis
patches from those cities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
WANTS NEW LINE.
Lithuania Does Not Recognize
"Curzon" Boundary, Says Note.

WARSAW, September 6.-Lithuania,
in reply to the Polish charge that Lith-
uanian forces had crossed the Curzon
boundary line without declaring war,
throws responsibility for the recent
clash at Seiny, to the east Of Suwauki,
on the Poles.
The Lithuanians say they do not
recognize the lines of demarkation hxed
by Earl Curzon and Marshal Foch but
are ready to cease hostilities and negoti-
ate a new line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
GERMANS SEIZE CAR.
Blow Up Munitions Bound for Al
lied Troops in Silesia.

BERLIN. September GA train
loaded with food and munitions for
the interallied occupation troops in
Upper Silesia was stopped today at
Erfurt by railroad workers. The rail-
road workers uncoupled the munition
car, which they blew up. They per-
mitted the remainder of the train to
proceed. The minister of Frankfort
discharged the guilty persons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
$3.50, 900 FOR COURTESY.
virginian Left Fortune by Woman
He Helped in Street.

PETERSBURG, Va. September g.
w. B. Davis of Hopewell has received
letter from a law firm in San Diego.
Calf. requesting him to report there
to claim $250,000 left him by a woman
he assisted two years ago when she fell
on the street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
REDS ACCEPT RIGA.
State Department Informed Peace
| Conferences to Proceed.

The State Department was advised
TODAY from Warsaw that the soviet
authorities at Moscow have accepted
Riga, Letvia. as the place for new
conference with the Poles to end the
war.
The bolshevik forces operating
under Gen Budenny, the cavalry lead
er, in the Lemberg sector. have been
driven back by Polish troops and have
already crossed the Bug river in their
retreat, the advices from Warsaw
state.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
W. D. HAYWOOD OUT ON BAIL,

NEW YORK. September 7.-william
%. Haywood. the l. w. w. leader, who
IL out on bail after being convicted
and sentenced to twenty years In
prison and $4,000 fine for violating
the espionage law. was the principal
speaker here at q socialist Labor day
protest meeting. i.
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200 SAGHALIENS DROWN,
Tidal Wave Sweeps Barracks on Is
land.

TOXIC. September 1.-Two hundred
mon were drowned in . tidal wave
which swept over buildings and bar.
racks on the Island Of Saghalien, &C.
cording to reports reeeixed hera. :.
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ny WILLIAM R. GILES.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright. 1920.
PEKING. China, September RE
PORTS from Shantung. Honan and
South Chilli give details of most
serious food situation. Last years
bad harvest, followed this spring by
drought and then plague of To-
Gusts. has brought 100000 people
to the verge of famine. Thousands
are already starving and conditions
will be still worse, when winter be-
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TEN TAKEN FROM ASHES.

KLAMATH FALLS. Ore, September
Ten bodies have been removed from
the ruins Of the Houston Hotel. which
vas destroyed by fire yesterday. Four
other bodies have been located in the
debris, but because OF intense heat
firemen have been unable to reach
them. -. .-..,. - s.-.
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SEVEN BODIES IN BAG.
Mutilated Corpses Of Women Floa,
at Vladivostok.

TOXIC, September 1.-The muti-
lated bodies of seven Russian women
incased in Q hempen bag were recent.
ly found in Vladivostok harbor, ac-
cording to special dispatches received
hero.
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CANADIAN FLYER KILLED.

WARSAW. September Capt ]. c.
McCullum of Montreal. a member of
the Kosciuszko Squadron, has been
killed in an airplane fall near Lem
berg, il was learned here today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-07
GREEKS ON BLACK SEA.
Division Lands for Occupation of
Angora.

CONSTANTINOPLE. September g.
"A Greek division is being landed on
the Black sea. probably at Ineboli.
Asia Minor, for Angora, and possibly
will establish Pontus republic. The
Greeks also are relieving the British
at lsmid.
Pontus is in the northeastern corner
of Asia Minor, bordering on the Black
sea. The kingdom of Pontus was
founded about the beginning of the
third century. 1t reached the height
of it's power under Mithridates the
Great.
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WEATHER.

Fair tonight tomorrow. cloudy and
unsettled: moderate temperature, gen.
tie to moderate variable winds.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending noon today: Highest, 7S at
Pm today: lowest, 81. at am. today.
Full report on Page 20.
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