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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
RETAINED CLERKS
| OF PENSION AGE
TO Be WATCHED
Government Will Drop En-
pIoyes Any Time Work Is
! Unsatisfactory.

Close watch will be kept upon all
superannates who are retained in the
government service for the two-year
period in order to see that they MAIN
tain the efficiency which allows them
to remain in the service despite their
having reached retirement age.
Under the law retained superan-
mates may be ordered to retire at any
time when their efficiency seems to
wane. This discretion lies in the
power of heads of departments. and
there is a belief current that the power
will be used. if necessary.
There is every proba bility. there
fore. that close watch will be kept
on the several hundreds of superan-
nuates who have been certified to the
Civil Service Commission for reten-
ton. When that establishment certi-
fies them as efficient they may stay
Tor another two-year period.
No bed of Roses"
That this two-year period will not
he entirely a bed of roses in all cases
was the belief today. Human nature
is strong, it is declared and jealousy
is not entirely unknown in the service.
So the retained superanuates will have
to mind their step"
The first batch of retirement cases,
having been given preliminary sur
veillance by the retirement division
of the pension bureau. today went to
the historic board of review of that
bureau.
Nearly 1000 cases are docketed by
the retirement division and as they
are looked over carefully they are
being sent to the board of review.
Here officials will carefully go over
the cases. and then send them to the
commissioner of pensions for his .. h
Appeal from his decision lies with
the Secretary of the Interior.
Great Curiosity shown.
Much interest was manifested
among the superannuateS of the PEN
sion Office today over who is In
cluded in the list of sixty names sent
to the Civil Service Commission for
retention. Eighty-eigh employees of
the pension Office had applied for re-
tention.
Acting Secretary Hopkins OF the In
terror Department today refused to
make public the list of those sent to
the Civil Service Commission until
the list should come back approved.
So the eighty-eight must remain in
doubt, none knowing whether he has
been a lucky one or not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
BUREAU EXPLAINS
1920 MEAT PRICES
Unusual Fluctuations Occur
in First Six Months of
This Year.

Unusual fluctuations in the price of
beef in Washington and other eastern
cities occurred during the first six
prices are explained in a report of
the United States bureau of markets
The report deals only with the whole
sale price of beef. The retail prices,
however. varied with the wholesale
prices, and one is said to be explained
By the other.
Starting with a top price of $21
hundred pounds for good grade beef
in January, sharp and erratic price
changes marked trading throughout
the period. with the lowest top price"
of at a hundred pounds recorded
during the last week in May and the
high point of S31 a hundred pounds
made June %, an increase of $14
hundred pounds, within thirty days.
Among the principal disturbing in
fiuences are releases by the War De-
partment of surplus stocks of beef
high-priced feeds, fruition of produc-
ers efforts to increase cattle produc-
ton for war needs and anticipated
foreign demands. labor troubles, de-
creased transportation facilities. en-
Dei SOcS, OIScllitu lOTeIS circuit anu
exchange conditions, decreased beef
exports, financial credit restrictions
declines in prices of hides, tallow and
other animal by-products with the
varying consumption.
Prices of live stock in the Chicago
market and those paid for dressed
carcasseS as taken from New York
quotations from ten days to two
weeks after the live cattle transac-
tons also showed wide fluctuations.
the report asserts.
A comparison of live cattle prices and
prices on relative grades of dressed
meats on January and June 80 this
year with those of corresponding
dates last year shows the top price
for good beef steers at the beginning
of this year at s1S.75 and at the end
Of June at $3.50 with the opening top
rprice on dressed beef from such steers
at 81 and the close at SCI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
TEAM 9 LEADS DRIVE
OF COLUMBUS CLUB
Executive Committee Will Meet
Tonight-List of New Mem
bers Added.

Members of the executive committee
of the Columbus Country Club and cap
tains and team workers who are con-
to discuss the progress of the drive
Initial contact has been made in thou
sands of cases, it is said and follow-up
methods will be devised at tonights
meeting. John McCarron director of
the drive. viii preside.
At the close of Yesterdays drive
Team No. 9, headed by Frank c. Hall.
was leading. Team No. 4. directed by
Capt Bradley. held second place. while
thlrd honors were divided between Team
NO. 2 and Team No. s.
MISS Agnes Whelan sold life mem
bership to C. B. Guthrie. The follow
ing new members were added to the
club roster Yesterday
BY the executive committee. Frank
-. Roach and Robert J. Barrett: team
No :; headed by H. F. Dolan. OBJ
tanned memberships from Lieut.. John
H. Doherty. Joseph D. Sullivan. Rob
ert K Mahoney and James A. Sulli-
van; Team No. 4, headed by DR. James
r Bradiey-AuStin A. Herr. w. F.
preston, James r. Fowler. E J.
Roche. c. J. San Fellipo and James
J. Hayes. Team No. 5. headed by Dr.
Smith-S A Gatti. j. E. Gatti and
Joseph X. Scalco. Team No. s. head
ed by Frank decentralization How
ard Cooper. Michael Hemmessy. Mat
thew r. Quin and John J. Crogan.
Team No. 3. headed by Frank Hall
}. A Ferrero. Francis Donovan
Joseph NJ Hausler, J. w Nealine. l..
II. Nealine. E T. Quigley, j. A Nc
Carthy. F. a. Mccain. J. j. O'Leary,
J. j. Harley, William Hodgkins. j.
Leo kolb. Edward L. Brady and Leo
H. Cleary Team No. TO- headed by
Duke Howard, received a subscrip-
ton from E. l.. Hillyard.
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LANDLORDS T0TRY
COERCION, TENANT
TELLS RENT BOARD
AppIeman Charges Combine
to ''Intimidate" Has Been
Organized.

That INSCRIPTIONS landlords of
Washington have organized for the
purpose of 'intimidating' tenants
was the charge made before the Dis
trict rent commission yesterday after
noon by F. B. Appleman. tenant in
the Danford Apartment house. 1923
harvard street one of nine defend
ants in a blanket complaint filed by
David H. Bowen, owner of the prop
erty.
Appleman declared that Mr.. Bowen
had made this statement to him in
an effort to influence him from pro-
testing to the rent commission
against increased rental
Says Blacklist Is Plan.
Appleman told members of the COM
mission that Mr.. Bowen had outlined
the objects of this Organization of
property owners" pointing out that
its main purpose was to blacklist
tenants who appealed to the rent
for relief from exorbitant
charges, so that they would be pre-
vented from securing quarters else
where, or from members of the fra
ternity."
According to the testimony of the
defendant, a tenant who refused to
pay the increased rent, and filed pc
rition with the rent board for deter
of the dispute. would. under
the rules of this organization. be
elected from his premises as soon as
possible under the law and his name
would be sent to others in the league
for their information"
The allegation of Appleman caused
considerab BILE stir. even in the already
turbulent hearing which developed in
the Danford apartment case. A num-
Der of witnesses. all of them tenants,
nj int in he
Mr.. Bowen. on his operation of the
a partment house. Among charges
made were that he examined the mail
of tenants. refused them screens, al
lowed the apartments to become un-
heated in the winter and furnished
hot water only occasionally.
Appleman, who has been paying
S32 for the apartment he occupies,
protested to the commission that the
$50 asked by the owner was eXorbi-
tant He declared that one time he
attempted himself to ire the furnace.
but that the janitor informed MN
Bowen had issued orders to allow no
one to fix the furnace
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GRAND Jury
TO PROBE RAIL STRIKE
Sixty Road Officials and Union
Heads Called to
Testify.

CHICAGO. July 23.-Subpoenas for
sixty railroad officials and union
grand jury next "Wednesday were is
sued today at the request of District
Attorney Charles F. Clyne.
Mai .Elroy Hume. special assistant
attorney general. arrived here from
Washington several days ago and
heads of the sixteen recog-
niZed railroad unions about the strike
The witnesses are to testify in the
of the activities of John
Grunau. president of the Chicago
Yardmen's Association, and twenty
seven other leaders in the unauthor-
lied railroad strikes last April. Cru
nan and his associates have been out
on bail following their arrest on
charges of violating the Lever law by
holding up movement of food and
fuel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
HURLEYATTACKS
DISTRICT HEADS
IN WAGE DISPUTE
Reviews Per Diem Case in
Effort to Show Facts
Are Distorted.

Declaring that the District Commits
sioners have sought to bolster I'D their
untenable position by creating the wrong
impression in the public mind regard
ing the proposed strike situation of the
city Employees Association members
Joseph II. Hurley. president of that or
ganization. today issued statement
giving resume of all negotiations be-
tween the District yer diem employees
and the Commissioners for the past two
years.
The basis of the contention. accord
ing to the statement, and the issue
which will be involved in the strike
vote viii be the refusal of the Dis
tf1ct heads to abide by an agreement
to pay the local per diem laborers
the same scale as is paid the same
class IN the navy yard. The statement
says, IN part:
Issues Summary Of Case. 1000
The present Congress extended the
bonus provision to the navy yard en-
ploye,. which placed him s24o in excess
OF the District man. This s240 di-
vided by 313 working days would
give the per diem man daily in
crease of &c cents, and this is what is
being asked-that the pay be equal
yard scale be adhered to-
Appearing before the District COM
mlttee at hearing on the 1921 an
preparation bill for the District. Col.
kutZ said. regarding asking for leave
for per diem employees: Our suggestion
IS not to go as far as they go in the
navy yard, but to grant leave with
pay to the extent of fifteen DAYS. The
municipal employees may be said to
be slightly different from the federal
employees. but in fixing their rates of
pay we try to follow those paid in
the navy yard, and in doing that we
do not take into consideration the
leave privilege which the navy yard
employees enjoy
Mr. .Brownlow, on the same subject
says: In fixing the wages for the per
diem employees. mechanics and labor
ers, we have for number of years
followed the navy yard scale
I'm April the committee of forty
five employees waited upon Col. Kutz
who strongly reiterated in their pres
ence his determination to adhere to
the navy yard scale.
Mr.. HurIey's Claims.
ION July 1. 1912. Congress in the
legislative. executive and judicial act
decided that a bonus of S12o should
be paid to all District and federal
employees. Thereupon the wage board
of the District of Columbia was di-
rected by Engineer Commissioner
Kutz to so reduce the basic rates of
pay as to absorb this $3.50, and to
make the two rates of the navy yard
and District equal. This was done.
The men objected. but the agreement
previously entered into was Haunted
at them and they abided by their
compact. We feel now that if that
standard is all right to follow in a
cut, it is all right to follow in a raise
of pay
The bone of contention is the
bonus which the navy yard employees
secure extra. The Commissioners of
the District would issue no statement
today on the situation. Col. Kutz
will address the employees tomorrow
night.
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.CULPEPER COUNTY
LOSES $50 IN CENSUS

Culpeper county, Virginia. lost $50
residents during the decade ls10-1s2o,
according to population figures for
the county announced today by the
census bureau. which places the pres
ent population at 1929. as against
l3.472 in 1910. The population showed
a decrease of 1.3 per cent in the
decade.
districts is as follows: Catalpa dis
trict including Culpeper town.
1924: Cedar Mountain district. 2.4i2;
jefferson district. 1868; Salem district.
2450. and Stevensburg district, 2.S43.
lation of 1879. as against l,795 in
1910. the bureau reported.
Three towns in California showed
the heaviest increases yet recorded
since the taking of the 1910 decennial
census These are Brawley, Calexico
Brawley increased 4.511 to total of
$3.50, a percentage increase of 5l2+
that of CaleXico increased 5,f26 to D.
total of 6.223. percentage increase
of ESQ., while Ell Centre increased
from 1910 persons in 1910 to 5.46i in
1920. a percentage increase of 1884.
West Frankfort. Ill, increased from
2lll in 1910 to S.47S in 1920, "A per-
centage increase of 3016. the bureau
day follow:
Phoenixville. Pa. 10.4s4: decrease.
259. or pa per cent Monterey. Calf,
5.47s: increase. $50. or l1.3 per cenA
Pocatello. Idaho. l4.961: increase.
5.S5I. Ga per cent. Albany, Ore. 4,S4e:
increase. sos. or 1872 per cent. Cor
wallis. Ore. 5.752; increase. 1900. or
264 per cent. Fairmont. Mimi. 1850;
Increase 1872. or 56.t per cent.
Rochester. Mimi. 1922: increase.
5,S7S. or 74.9 per cent. Drumright.
Okla. $40; incorporated since 1910.
Tulsa Okla. with an increase OF
1864 per cent in the last ten years
bringing its population to 72,O75, as
announced today by the census bureau.
has had the third largest rate OF
growth of any southern city. except
ing Miami, Fla. which showed 44O.l
per cent. Tulsa ranked as fiftieth
southern city in 1910 in point of popu-
lation. and its population this year
probably will rank the city among the
first fifteen of the south OF the cities
whose population already has been an
nounced, Tulsa ranks below Knoxville
and above Little Rock. In the tenl
years Tulsa has passed Little Rock:
Mobile, Chattanooga and score OF
smaller cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
WHISKY HUNT LAGS
ASARRESTS CEASE
Many Warrants Unserved,
However, Indicating "Brisk
Business"

There was a decided lull in BUSH
ness in United States Commissioner
Isaac r. Hits bootleg court" this
morning. 1t was expected that BUSH
ness would be brisk because of the
number of warrants issued. but the
warrants had not been served.
rs somebody tipping off bootleg
gers" was the significant question
asked in the commissioners office
this morning
Commissioner Hit said federal
agents and the police had raided the
home of John Banks. colored, 31S
Broad alley southwest, and seized
sixty gallons of mash and four gall
Ions of alleged corn whisky.
/ Still and Defendant Lacking.
Banks was not at home nor was a
still found. The commissioner sug-
geSted it was strange that all that
mash and finished product were found
and that the defendant and still were
lacking
Fully one dozen warrants for boot
ieggers and persons accused of vio-
iating other provisions of the prohi-
Dltion enforcement and internal rev.
enue laws are in the hands of the
federal agents to be served.
detectives Stringfellow and McDuf-
ne, on duty at Union station, last
night learned why so much liquor is
OSAH6 OiOu6Ht mere from new YORK.
1t has been reported that quantities
or liquor brought here from New
York and Pennsylvania had been the
means of reducing the price of the
liquor to the disadvantage of Wash
ington bootleggers.
Henry Blackwell and Leonard Bou-
via, colored residents of New York,
their house address being given at
100 West 139th street, told the detec-
tives that whisky is easy to obtain
in New York, while the demand is not
very great. They had heard of the
demand for it in this city at advanced
prices, they are said to have told the
detectives, and brought thirty-two
quarts and twenty-four pints with
them.
Price in u. c. Double.
They told detectives they paid $50
a case for what they purchased, and
said they expected to get 1920 for it
here. They were arrested and charged
with transporting liquor and jury
trials were demanded when they were
arraigned in Police Court today.
Solomon Dorsey. a colored waiter.
was arrested in Union station this
morning by Detective Lynn and
charged with transporting forty
seven pints of liquor from New York
to this city in violation of the Vol
stead act His case may be called in
Police Court tomorrow.
Detective Stringfellow has turned
over to Chief Clerk Hesse of the po-
lice department forty four quarts of
whisky found abandoned in Union
station in a suit case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
HUNT MURDERER
Of GIRL ONLY IS
Farmers Trail Man to
SWamp-Victim Killed in
Field.

POTTERSVILLE. Mich, July "a
Leaders of band of 800 farmers search
ing the countryside for an unidentified
man who yesterday attacked and killed
Beatrice Hickox, a thirteen-year-old girl.
on a farm near here. declared today
they had the fugitive surrounded in
swamp.
The farmers all armed. were rein
forced during the night by squad OF
state police who patrolled all roads In
this vicinity today.
The girl was killed early Thursday
while carrying water to the fields for
her brother. An examination OF the
body showed she had been strangled and
her head crushed with a large rock
Neighbors partially identified the fugi-
tive today through photograph brought
here by Lansing police as an escaped
convict from jackson prison.
A man taken into custody near
Lansing is being held for snvestiga-
tion. According to the authorities he
was unable to give a satisfactory ac-
count of his movements on Thursday.
but denied knowledge of the girls
death.
Girl Victim Bound to Tree.
DURHAM, y. c., July 23-Miss
Maggie Moize of Statesville was found
last Monday bound to tree on the
roadside in Orange county. suffering.
from the effects of a brutal assault,
it has become known. In hospital
at Burlington. where she is recover
ing she told Police Chief T. Z. Lloyd
of HillSboro that she had been beaten
with a stick, bitten about the neck
and body and that powder from pistol
cartridges had been rubbed into the
decorations by Sam Lackey of Ruther-
fordton. She declared he then bound
her to a tree and left her.
Lackey has been arrested and &C.
cording to the police. admits the
crime. He is charged with seduction
under promise of marriage, burglary
and assault.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
ASK NEW PRIORITY
ON COAL TRAFFIC
TO NEW ENGLAND
Order Would Require Ten
Roads to Give Right
of Way.

New emergency orders directing
priority in the movement of coal to
the Atlantic seaboard for trans
shipment to New England were asked
today Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission by coal operators, dealers
and railroad executives.
The order. it was proposed would
require a half score of railroads tap
ping coal fields in West Virginia.
Maryland AMI central Pennsylvania
to give the right of way To move
ment through Hampton roads, Balti-
more, Philadelphia and New York.
The request of the operators is for
cars and priority of shipment for
coal bound for New England This
coal would be shipped to the Atlantic
seaboard where it would be trans
shipped by water to New England
ports.
Order Follows Conferences.
The order for relief of the famine
in the northwest and the one expect
ed for relief in the New England
ference held in Washington last w eek
between operators, and another con
ference held in New York between
operators and railroad executives.
Officials of the National Coal Asso-
citation believe the orders will afford
complete relief not only for the short
age of coal in the northwest and in
New England, but for other parts of
the United States as we'll
The request today was taken under
Amusement by the commission, which
informed the coal and rail men that
some order would be issued probably
today or tomorrow.
Agent to Supervise.
The order provides for the appoint
ment of an agent of the commission
to determine. the daily number of
cars of coal that would be sent to
tidewater. and the mines would be-
compelled to fulfill this levy before
supplying other orders. Further. 1t
was proposed that the order direct
the railroads to increase the car sup
ply at the mines.
The commission was informed that
the program of the coal and rail men
would provide for the shipment of
100000 tons of coal monthly to New
England by water, and that $50, 900
tons were expected to be sent by an
aH-rail movement. This would con-
tinue until the end of the present
coal year. April /. 1921.
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RESOLUTE IN FRONT
IN FOURTH CUP RACE
OFF OF SANDY HOOK
CONTINUED from First Page.)

the yachts were about three miles
from the first mark. and both some
what to leeward of it, Resolute was
well to windward off Shamrock ant
seemingly about two minutes to the
good.
Fog Delays start.
Fog today delayed the start of the
fourth international yacht race
While the two cup sloops were
lettering around the Ambrose chan
mel lightship at 1880 in a four-knot
breeze a thick bank of vapor inclosed
them, causing the regatta committee
at 11:45 to order fifteen-minute post
ponements.
At noon visibility about the light
A perfect chorus of whistles was
sweeping the spectator fleet. The
breeze was about three knots, and as
it was from the south fog was pre-
dicted for the rest of the day.
The regatta committee at 1890 set
signals for the following thirty-mile
triangular course:
A beat to windward from the Am
brose channel lighfship south-south-
west down the Jersey shore. reach
east by north out to sea and another
reach back to the lightship.
Interest in the International yacht
races was at high pitch today, when
more than a score of private yachts,
several excursion steamers and large
number of smaller craft steamed out
to the Sandy Hook course.
Greater enthusiasm was manifested
in today's event than at any time
since the first day of the contests
More than 1900 persons were aboard
the first two excursion boats leaving
for the racing course.
Chances Thought Good Today.
Sir Thomas Upton and his friends
feel that Shamrock's best chances OF
capturing the pewter mug lie in to-
days contest, in which the Irish slooE
has twenty miles of reaching-a point
of sailing in which she has shown su-
periotity over Resolute.
Should the American craft win to-
day, the cup boats will meet tomor-
row over a thirty-mile windward and
! leeward course, and the chances for
Resolute-a witch at windward work
in the final and deciding contest
would be bright indeed.
Resolute, although not hauled out
of the water. was not neglected By
her crew, who spent yesterday test
everything ready for a contest in
which seconds count. Both yachts
were pronounced by their shippers
fit for the marine battle.
White and green hulled sloops rode
again side by side in the shelter oil
the Horseshoe after day of rest
spent by the challenger in a Slater
Island drydock. where her sleek sides
underwent another Furnishing. While
being groomed for what may prove
the last race of the series, Shamrock
also was equipped with a new top
mast and a new topsail. Following
these alterations the New York Yacht
Club announced that. pending a re.
measurement of the green sloop, the
race would be run today with a
handicap of six minutes and forty
seconds in favor of Resolute, unless
the measurement, probably after
the race, should alter these figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
BOY COASTER is KILLED
IN STREET CAR CRASH

Lewis Phillips, colored. five years
old, of 1909 18th street, was killed to-
day when the wagon in which he was
coasting ran into the rear end of a
street car at 11th and Q streets. The
child was dragged by the car and his
skull fractured He was taken to
Emergency Hospital. Inquest is to
be held at 1880 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Harry Hughes. twelve years old, Of
41Ol Ingomar street. was struck by
an automobile owned by F.. c. Bran
denberg at Wisconsin avenue and
Fessenden street and several ribs
and his Jaw broken. He was taken to
the Georgetown University Hospital.