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Evening star., 1920-03-20
RECLUSE SHOT IN HOME.
Two Arrests and Search Made for
Wounded Mans Son,

SYKESvILLE. Nd. March 20.-Shot
down by an unidentified man Thursday
night as he answered a rap at his
door, Joshua Merriman. an aged re-
cluse supposed to be possessed of con-
siderable wealth, is expected to die.
Two neighbors. Nimrod Brouthers
and his wife, who were in the house
when the shooting took place and who
departed hurriedly. are in jail at
Westminster and Sheriff Bloom and a
posse of men are securing the coun-
try for the old mans SON, Stanley
Merriman.
Merriman had lived alone several
months. He seldom left the place,
only going now and then to the viii
laee store to purchase supplies.
Brouthers and his wife were in the
habit of going to the hut to see if
everything was all right, and it was
on an errand of this kind that they
went to Merriman's home Thursday
night.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
Would STRIKE REDS.
IN NEUTRAL ZONE

LONDON. March 19.-Private ad-
vices from Paris state that the EbeS It
government has asked the allies to
permit it to send German troops to
put down bolshevism in parts of the
neutral zone which was established
by the peace treaty and in which the
Germans were not to have troops.
There is no intimation what action
the allies will take in this matter.
President Ebert maintains that mill
tary action is necessary to save this
section of the country from the redA
A bomb exploded outside the British
embassy in Berlin last night, as q
naval division was marching past, a
dispatch says. Several persons were
killed or injured. but the embassy
apparently suffered no damage.
The Exchange Telegraph issues a
sensational report to the effect that
a telegraphic message from Berlin
says that a hundred persons were
killed in the fighting at the Branden-
burg gate in Berlin and that the din
ing room of the Hotel Adlon was COM
pletely destroyed by machine gunf1re.
According TO the same authority,
Russian bolshevist forces are advanc-
ing from the Russian frontier.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
FOR AMENDED v0LSTEAD Ac1
Veterans Association to Urge Light
Wine and Beer Privilege.

The Veterans Beer and Light Wine
Association has been incorporated by
certificate filed with the recorder of
deeds. The purposes of the organiza-
ton are stated to be the cementing of
tics of comradeship among veterans of
all wars upholding of the Constitution
and advocating the legalizing of beer
and light wine by an amendment to the
Volstead act or other legislation.
Preliminary officers elected yesterday
were Richard SeeIye Jones, editor of
Stars and Stripes. president; Col Ran
some H. Gillette, lat of the Twenty
seventh Division, American expedition
ary forces, member of the New York
state assembly, vice president; Kenneth
McRae commander Of George Washing
ton Post, American Legion secretary.
and Arthur l.. Chamberlain formerly of
the Twentieth engineers of Houston.
Tex, treasurer. Edward Stafford, filed
the articles of Incorporation and is
named as general counsel.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
$85O,OOO SOUGHT BY
UNITED PRESYTERIANS

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 90
Eight hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will be appropriated. by the
United Presbyterian Church to re-
lieve the distress of the old and dis
abled pastors Of the denomination
unable to cope with the increased cost
of living. The largest sum the COM
nlittee on ministerial relief has been
able to grant to date is $500 yearly.
With funds raised in the new world
movement campaign of the denomi-
nation 5000 will be added to many of
the grants. Two hundred thousand
dollars will be added to the endow-
ment fund from which the grants are
made. and almost half a million dol
lars will be raised to strengthen the
church pension fund.
Through a survey just completed it
developed that S159,000 is required
for current relief for ministers, $780,
900 for relief endowment and $491,990
for the pension department. To this
is added 100000 as the United Pres
byterians' share Of the interchurch
world movements budget for ministe-
rial relief and $175,000 as the esti-
mated ministerial relief benevolences
of the church for the next five years.
Statistics just compiled show that
more than half the clergy in America
receive salaries less than the average
workingman. The United States in
come tax returns list only 1,671 as
having an income, including salary.
Of $4,000 per year.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
RULING ON WIRE RATES
AT HOTELS ANNOUNCED

The order issued by the Postmaster
General while he had control of tele-
phone and telegraph lines that hotels,
apartments and similar institutions
could not charge more for calls than
other pay stations. is still applicable
in Washington. the Public Utilities
Commission has ruled.
The commission today forwarded a
letter to the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company. stating that
since the local company is still
operating under the toll charges fixed
by the Postmaster General during the
war, this order of the Postmaster Gen.
eral about hotels and apartments
must be considered part Of those tolls.
The rates fixed by the Post Office
Department expired December l last.
but the commission granted the re-
quest Of the company to continue
those rates until it has time to de-
termine whether the rates in Wash
ington should be changed.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
AMATEURS TO GIVE PLAY.
Parkview Sosiety to Give Servant
= Problem Sketch.

Fanny and the Servan Problem
will be presented Friday night in the
auditorium Of the Parkview School by
the Parkview Players. an amateur or
ganization recently formed to promote
dramatic effort in the Parkview Com
munity Center.
The role of Fanny will be taken by
Mrs. Aurora Edwards, and thehero of
the cast will be impersonated bv Lieut..
Thomas Connolly. member of the
United States Aviation Corps.
All members OF thecastare residents 8
Of Parkview section. They are viii
lard Miller. Susanna Bennett Mrs.
Laura F. Ward, Miss Edith Shannon.
Robert Hilliard, Miss Augusta Cox.
Misses Helen and Emily Mann, Sergt,
Clinton D. Miller and E. ]. Ward.
The chorus. each representing a diff
ferent dependency of the British en-
pire, consists Of: England Miss Maude
Haughey: Scotland, Miss Edith Shan
non; Ireland, Miss Harriet Freeman:
Wales Miss Elizabeth Shannon; Cana.
da, Miss Margaret Shannon; Africa.
Miss Catherine Culverwell, and Straits
Settlement, Miss Lois Shipley.
The properties will be in charge of
Charles w. Gilmore and William T.
Kenner Paul Russell will act as
prompter. A small admission fee will
be charged. which will go entirely for
the extension work fthe Parkview
Community fund.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
ENFORCEMENT OF LAW
IN ALASKA ASSURED
Gov. Riggs Promises Prompt Steps
Should I. W. W. Revolt Develop
in Fishing Season.

Active steps to suppress any sort of
revolt or a general strike against gov
ernmeptal authority in Alaska with
the opening of the fishing season,
about May 1, will be taken in the
event of such revolt or strike, Gov.
Riggs of Alaska said today.
Gov. Riggs has talked within the
last two days with officials of the De-
partment Of Justice concerning re-
ports of activities of members of the
I. w. w. calling a general strike on
the opening of the fishing season, and
is understood to have been assured
OF complete support of the govern
ment in the event of any such action.
Governor Here to Ask Legislation.
Gov. Riggs has been in Washington
for more than month urging mem
bers of Congress to enact legislation
authorizing a mounted police guard
for Alaska similar to the Pennsyl-
yania constabulary. At present there
is declared to be inadequate police
protection in the territory. There are
forty deputy marshals and their aids
scattered over Alaska to enforce the
law
A battalion of 400 soldiers of the
United States Army is scattered at
four Army posts throughout the ter
ritory-at Forts Seward. Liscus, st.
MichaeIs and Gibbon. These men may
not be called into service, however,
without orders from Washington.
Vigilance Committees Formed.
In the meantime. to prevent any
possible outbreak. Gov. Riggs has or
ganiZed bands of the citizens of the
territory into vigilance committees
and it is primarily upon these com
mittees that the safety of the terri
tory is said TO depend.
Gov. Riggs said today about half
The population of Alaska is of foreign
birth and unnaturaliZed. He said T.
w. W.ism is rampant and has OBJ
tanned a toothoia among the miners
, fishermen and boatmen in the terri
tory.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
|NOSKE RECEIVES
CONFIDENCE VOTE
Minister of Defense Will Re-
main in 0ffice-Germany's
Situation Serious.

PARIS. March 20 (Havas).-Gus-
tav Noske. who rendered his resigna-
tion as minister of defense to Presi-
dent Ebert of Germany yesterday, has
decided to remain in Office, the social
democratic and democratic members
of the national assembly having CIV
en- him vote Of confidence.
PARIS, March ia report that
the Berlin socialists are drafting an
eleven-point charter. which amounts
to the establishment Of a soviet gov
ernment, is given. DR.. Schiller, min
lister of justice, believes the situation
serious. but not hopeless.
The situation in Berlin late this aft
ernoon WaS such as to indicate that
the future depended on a solution of
the general strike. according to ad-
vices received here. Negotiations for
settlement of the labor troubles
were still progressing. and had the
effect Of keeping the situation fairly
quiet.
The exact demands Of the workmen
are unknown, but they are believed
to include withdrawal of the few re-
naming kapp troops, nationalist ton
of the coal mines and the resignation
of President Ebert.
News reaching the German delega-
ton in Paris shows the situation il.
most serious in the Ruhr district, par
ticularly around Essen, where there
is much fighting with Spartacists. The
same situation also is reported il
Dusseldorf.
Evening star., 1920-03-20

The communists are reported to be
gaining headway in Saxony and
Westphalia- A soviet republic has
been proclaimed at CheHanitz and
P1auen.
Ruhr District Ahnme.
STUTTGART. March 1s.-The Ruhl
district is afiame with boIshevism, ac-
cording to official reports. Essen has
been taken by a red army and Gen
ing reinforcements. Thurinia is said
now to be under the control Of gov
eminent troops
The Baltic troops retiring from
Berlin have intrenched themselves a,
the geological Gardens and at Char
lottenburg, on the west side of Ber-
lin. according to reliable reports re-
ceived here this afternoon.
Fighting In Leipsig.
LEIPZIG. March 19.-Although an
agreement had been reached Wednes-
day night between leaders OF the
workmen and the military authorities
for a peaceful settlement of the pre-
vailinC situation, the workers yester-
day rejected the agreement, and fight
ing was resumed. Fighting continued
throughout the day and late into the
night, workmen everywhere bu:idins
barricadeS. Losses in the fig CHUNG are
said to be extremely heavy. and Tu-
mors of hundreds Killed and wounded
in various parts of the city are met on
every hand.
HMBURG, March 19.-Government
troops in the station here were dis-
armed this morning without bioodshed
and sailors hoisted the white flag over
the cruisers Schwarzburg. Regens-
burg and Wittiesbach. The captain of
the Wittlesbach committed suicide by
shooting.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
Won LUETTWTz TROOPS
BEATEN At SCHLESW|G
Battle Seventy Miles From Ham
burg-Ludendortf Reported
Compromised.

COPENHAGEN, March 20-Troops
fof the Won Luettw!tz forces. which
were being besieged in the castle at
Sch!eswig. seventy miles northwest
OF Hamburg. have surrendered uncon-
ditionally. and power is again in the
hands OF the old government. accord
ing to the Nachrichten of Hamburg.
or the castle garrison six were killed
or badly wounded. On the peoples
side one man was killed and one
wounded.
Events In Nuremberg.
COPENHAGEN. March ia dis
patch from Munich. Bavaria, dated
thursday, says Premier Won Kahn, in
adaresslng the landtag on events in
Nurem berg. sa. d detachments of some
l.oOO revolutionary soldiers fired on a
oetachment of regulars from windows
ol houses, WounGing several pedeS
trians. In the afternoon a large crowd
tr'ed to storm the police station. and
tWenty-three persons were killed and
eighty wounded.
The premier added that the troops
and the police were now masters Of
the situation.
Denies Hamburg Soviet.
Leaflets are being circulated in Ham
burg. in which the independent socialist
party contradicts the rumor that it in
tends TO proclaim a soviet republic there
according to a dispatch from Hamburg
under today's date
The dispatch adds that fighting is
proceeding in the town of Schlcswig
seventy miles northwest of Hamburg,
between Regulars and armed work,nen.
and, according to reports at hand in
fiainpurg, there seems to be no pros oect
OF the troops surrendering.
Ihe Berlin correspondent Of the Politi-
ken declares that Gen. Ludendorff is
compromised in the highest degree in
connection with the revolt
Evening star., 1920-03-20
MORE us. WORKERS
| BACK BONUS FIGHT
Federal Employees in other
Cities Send Word of
Approval.

/ Federal employees IN az parts Of the
country seem dissatisfied with their sal
aries, according to word reaching the
headquarters of the National Federation
Of Federal Employees here.
The employees Of Uncle Sam in other
cities are hacking the fight Tor the
Steward of the federation said today.
AS a sample of the sentiment he SAID
that taxpayers Of Albuquerque, N. M,
were interested in the bonus, and had
notified members Of Local No. 40 in THAI
city that they would help.
New Mexico Local Writes
Are the department heA ds doing any
thing in the bonus fight?s members OF
the New Mexico local have written. II
not. why not"
Tomorrpw a big mass meeting is
cheduled in Chicago for tederaa en-
ployes Of that city, at when tifne
are to be introduced ask
ing for a living wage" ann the ap-
pointment of a wage comm ieslon-
The Chicago federal workers are
protesting against what they term
the "niggardly salaries of govern \
ment employees" 1t is declared that
in one great government BUILDING IN
SO fast that it takes one employe to
handle them.
Montana With Federation.
Federal employees of Montana also
have written to the headquarters OF
the National Federation of Federal
Employees expressing their desire to
stand behind the federation in it's
fight for the bonus.
President Steward will go to Balti-
more tomorrow to help organize a
federal employees union composed of
civilian employees of Camp Hoiablrd
Evening star., 1920-03-20
BLIGHT ON THE TREES.
Reason Given for Stripping 18th
| Street Sycamores.

Assurance was given today by Cliff
ford Lanham. superintendent of trees
and parkings, that the sycamore trees
on 11th street. which have been strip
ped of all their smaller limbs, will fill
out within a year, healthier and more
beautiful.
Mr.. Lanham said these trees have
been suffering from blight for some
time and that they were stripped to
save them from further destruction.
The sycamore, he said, is an excep-
tionally strong tree and will stand any
amount of treatment.
This process. tried on other streets
in the District. has shown. Mr. Lam
ham said that trees so treated de-
velop better than before the TRIM
ming.
One of the noticeable results of this
pruning. he said, is that the limbs
grow out straighter and leave an open
vista up the center of the street
Evening star., 1920-03-20
MEXICAN OUTLAWS
PREPARE TO YIELD
One Leader Surrenders and
Another Is Negotiating
With Carranza.

MEXICO CITY. March 20 (by the
Associated Press) Palafox.
one Of the leaders of the Zapatista
ranging with the war department for
the capitulation of remaining bands
of outlaws formerly under command
of E;miliano Zapata, who was killed
in a fight with government troops
April IL. 1913.
These bands are in Morelos and
nearby states.
Questioned by interviewers as to
the reason for his surrender, Palafox
stated he could not continue to op-
pose the present government In al
lance with Francisco Villa, Felix
Diaz, Manuel PeIaez and other rebel
leaders.
Reports from Mexico City today
state that Roberto Cejudo, a rebel
leader in the state Of Vera Cruz, is in
Mexico City negotiating for his sur
render.
Cejudo has been generally credited with
being a subordinate of Felix Diaz, but
has been operating independently. 1t is
believed that if he surrencers. 5000 men
in Vera Cruz will lay down their arms.
This will leave in the state of Vera Cruz,
except for Felix Diaz, who has for sew
eral months been a somewhat negfigi-
BILE quantity, only Pedro Gabay, famous
for his train hold-Ups and other daring
assaults, operating in the state.
Cejudo is reported to have been en-
powered to negotiate the surrender of
other groups of rebels in the states of
Hidalgo and Jalisco and in the Haus-
teca Potosina.
More troops have been ordered north
! by President Carranza to operate
against Villa in Durango and in the
Laguna country about Torreon.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
BRYAN BIRTHDAY CAKE
HAS SIXTY CANDLES
Nebraskan Honored by Friends in
New York-Touches on Treaty
and Prohibition.

NEW YORK, March 20-William j.
Bryan had birthday cake last night
with sixty candles on it. It's dimen-
sions were three feet by two and 1t
was brought into the banquet hall at
the Aldine Club, where hundreds of
his friends were staging a dinner il
his honor.
"All right to wish for the White
House?" came a query as the toast
master urged each guest to make a
wish when Mr.. Bryan blew out the
candles. But Mr. Bryan did not blow
out the candles after all. He allotted
this task to a woman from each table.
A loud remark of The treaty is
dead now" interrupted Mr.. Bryan, as
he was declaring that 1.-The Senate de-
bate on the treaty is a disgrace.
Hesitating only for a second. he re-
piled:
81 am not willing to believe it is
dead. The treaty has been defeated
The people are greater than the Sen
ate and they can force the Senate to
do their will"
The senator who is willing to spend
know the needs of the domestic prob
lens in this country" he added.
This statement brought forth a
storm of applause.
Mr.. Bryan referred to the action
taken by the recent democratic con-
vention at Albany against prohibi-
tion.
.~There will be no wet plank in the
platform either at Chicago or at San
Francisco" he declared with the pre-
diction that he will live to see the
time when not a saloon in the world
will be open
The democratic party has been re-
deemed as every democratic state in
the Union has ratified the amendment.
he declared.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
FOES Of SALOON
ATTACK HITCHCOCK
League Declares War on
Senator, Who Says Posi-
I. ton Is Misunderstood.

The Anti-Saloon League today de-
clared war on Senator Hitchcock OF
Nebraska
Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel
for the league. in a formal statement,
said the senator's declaration in favor
of an amendment to the prohibition
code permitting light wines and
beers Ought to defeat him not only
as a candidate at the democratic
convention. but for the leadership In
the Senate"
ITO. champion beer and wine
amendment is nothing short of an at
tack upon law enforcement" said Mr.
Wheeler This beer and wine move
ment is the entering wedge to destroy
prohibition"
when shown the Anti-Saloon
League announcement. Senator Hitch
cock issued a statement saying that
the league apparently had not fully
understood his position, which he set
forth as follows:
First, l stand for an enforcement
of prohibition laws, including the ap-
preparation of all needed money to en-
force them.
second. I accept without reserva-
ton the constitutional decision of the
people, which abolishes the American
saloon forever, and with it strong in
toxicating liquors
Favors Light Wine and Beers.
Third believe. however. a law
full way will be found and ought to
be found to permit the manufacture
and harmless use of light wines and
beers. The Supreme Court has opened
the way for this by holding that Con-
gress in its enforcement laws may
decide what constitutes Intoxicating
liquor, and on this matter Congress
will naturally respond to the will and
judgment of the American people
when properly expressed
Fourth, the American people can
not be denied the right to change
their laws within constitutional linn
its, and the Volstead act, like any
other law. may be changed within
those limits" --
Evening star., 1920-03-20
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROBE.
Findings of Joint Committee to Be
Made Public March 26.

Findings of the joint committee of
the Chamber of Commerce and the
Board Of Trade that Investigated the
Community Service, Inc, are to be
made public at the monthly meeting
of the Board of Trade at the Willard
Hotel. March 2S. The report of the
Joint committee, which was completed
yesterday, will be presented at a JOINT
meeting Of the boards of directors OF
the two organizations. to be held in
the rooms of the chamber w Wednesday
night at O'Clock, which will be pre-
sided over by James f. Oyster, prssi-
dent of the Board of Trade.
If the report is approved at the joint
meeting, it will then be submitted TO
the entire body of the Board of Trade
for approval before being made pub
tic.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
OBREGON LEADER KILLED.
Mexico City Reports tue Murder of
Eliseo Ayiles.

Advices from Mexico City today re-
port the murder of Eliseo Aviles. Sec
retary of the liberal Obregonista
Club at Morelia, in the state of Mi
choacan. Aviles was killed by fed
eral soldier from the garrison al
Zinepecuaro.
The officials Of the Obregon COM
mittee of Michoacan have protested
to President CarranZa and to the
government of the state against the
murder which, it is said, resulted
from political differences.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
PROPOSES HARB0R FOR NC-4.
Acting Secretary Roosevelt Sug-
gests Housing in National Museum

The first airship to cross the At
lantic ocean under it's own power,
the NC-4, will find it's resting place
in the National Museum, if a sug
gestion made by Acting Secretary
Roosevelt of the Navy Department to
Representative Padgett of the naval
committee is accepted. The big sea-
plane is now dismantled at Rock
away air station.
This wonderful flying boat has
earned the right to good treatment"
Mr.. Roosevelt said. -She has shown
the spirit of the United States Navy
to the world. Her crew was made of
typical American naval officers and
men. They made good"
Mr. Roosevelt estimated it would
require $4,000 to house the ship in
the west court of the museum.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
GETS YEAR FOR ASSAULT.
Attendant at st. Elizabeth's Used
Blackjack on Patient.

Henry c. Brandau. an attendant at
st. Elizabeth's Hospital. was convict
ed by a jury in the United States
branch OF Police Court yesterday
afternoon and sentenced to one year
in the District jail on a charge of as
sault on a patient at the hospital
Evidence showed that on the night
Of March IL Brandau and Francis H.
Callum, another attendant. assaulted
Otto A. ]. Knott. patient with black
jack, inf1icting serious injuries.
Brandau. when arraigned, demanded
a jury trial. Callum left the hospital
and the police have not yet located
him,
Evening star., 1920-03-20
U. S. SOLDIERS STATUS
IN GERMANY is SOUGHT

President Wilson is asked to advise
Congress how far the activities Of the
American troops in the occupied Rhine
provinces may be directed without ex-
press orders in a resolution intro
duced by Chairman Kahn of the House
military affairs committee.
In asking for the 'exact status" OF
the force, the resolution also inquired
as to the extent of the authority OF
Marshal Foch as commander-in-chief
of the allied forces in the occupied
territory Of Germany and the scope OF
operations of the Americans under the
terms of the armistice.
Evening star., 1920-03-20
CLOCK MECHANICS
LACKING IN SCHOOLS

There's always something to take
the joy out of life for District public
school officials. First it was a teacher
shortage, then came a janitor short
age, and today another shortage was
added to their perplexities. This time
they are diligently searching for clock
repairers.
For some reason unknown to school
authorities the clocks in many schools
have suddenly gone on strike. Conse-
quently some of the teachers are oper-
ating their classes on a "wrist-watch''
system, while others are forced to de-
pend on the sun or the letter carriers.