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JOSEPH P. IDDINGS DEAD.
Noted Geologist and Author OF
Many Books.

Following a long illness. Joseph
Paxon Iddings. widely known geoio-
gist of Grove Hill. Sandy Spring,
Md, died Wednesday at his home
Funeral services will be held from
his late residence at o'clock this
afternoon. Interment Will be in
Woodside cemetery, Sandy Spring.
Mr.. Iddings was born in Baltimore.
January q, 1851 In 1877 he was
graduated from Yale University, and
later studied microscopic Photography
at Heidelberg University. He was
professor of petrology at the Univer-
.sity of Chicago for a number of years.
Mr. Iddings was the author of sew
eral books on geology. He was Il
member of the Association of Pc
tnology of the National Museum in
Washington. the National Academy of
Science, the London Geographical So
ciety, the Scientific Society of Chris
tiania, Societe Franchise de Miner
alogie, the New York Academy of
Science, the Geological Society of
America and the American Phil
osophical Society.
He is survived by his sister, Mrs
Francis d. Cleveland of Boston, Mass.
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NEW DEMOCRATIC OFFICE.
Routine Work to Be Handled at
Convention Hall Quarters.

The democratic national committee
has opened additional quarters in
Convention Hall, 5th and L streets,
where the greater part of the me-
chanical work incident to the cam
paien will be conducted.
The present headquarters. in the
Woodward building. will be contin-
ued, according to w. ID. Jamison. di-
rector of finances for the democratic
national committee.
The committee has planned an eX
tensiye circuIarizing and advertising
campaign. and the work of preparing,
addressing and mailing the matter
will be done at the new quarters.
The appeals for funds for the party
and the various selected speeches
made on the floors of Congress during
the last few years also will be dis
tributed from there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10

PARIS, September 10 tby the AS
ISOLATED Press).-Olive Thomas. for
merly widely known on the American
musical comedy stage and for several
years past motion picture star, died
at IL O'Clock this morning in the
American Hospital at Neuilly. She
was taken to that institution last
Sunday suffering from slow poison
ing. having swallowed a poisonous
solution early that day by msitaAe,
according to DR.. Joseph Choate. the
American physician in charge of the
case.
Recently Miss Thomas. who came
TO Europe with her husband. Jack
Pick ford, several weeks ago, had
suffered from nervous depression. it
was said. First aid was promptly
given her by Mr.. Pickford when he
returned Sunday to the hotel where
they were stopping and found his
wife in a serious condition, and every
possible effort was made at the hos
pital to counterfeit the effects of the
poison, but without avail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10
PICNIC AT RIVER VIEW.
Colored School Children to Be Civ.
en- Free Excursion.

There is to be free excursion to
River View on Friday, September Il.
for 600 colored public and Sunday
school children of the District of CO.
lumbia and Alexandria. The steamer
will leave the wharf, Sth and Water
streets southwest, at 1880 a m. and
pm. and : pm. and from Alex
andria, Union and Cameron streets, at
1880 and s pm. The excursion is un-
der the auspices of the White Cross
Free Labor Bureau of America and the
Sunday school of the Cosmopolitan
Baptist Church. Rev. DA Drew is
chairman of the committee and an
nounces that all arrangements are
completed Tickets may be obtained at
the bureau. 921 n street northwest,
from 9 am. to 5 pm. daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10
WARREN DELANO KILLED.
Uncle of F. D. Roosevelt Hit When
Horse Bolts at Rail Crossing.

POUGHKEEPSIE. n. Y. September
Warren Delano of New York and
Rarrytown, uncle of Franklin d.
Roosevelt. democratic vice presiden-
tial nominee. was instantly killed at
the Barrytown station of the New
York Central railroad. twenty-one
miles north of here, when his favorite
horse. Bell. frightened by the ap-
proach of an express train, dashed
onto the tracks.
Mr.. Delano had large mining inter
ests in Pennsylvania and was presi-
dent of the Delano Coal company.
with Offices in New York city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10
QUESTION MAN 18 MONTHS
ABOUT II. MISSING WOMEN
Paris "Bluebeard" Finally Sug-
gests' Investigating Judge
Needs Vacation.

PARIS. September 10.-Henri Landru,
whom the police call the Gamhais Blue
beard. and held responsible for the dis
appearance OF eleven women to whom
he had promised marriage, shows no
sign Of weakening under the continual
and gruelIng eighteen-month examiDa-
ton and preliminary investigation which
judge BONN has conducted
You seem wan and tired today" he
said to Judge BONN. solicitously. when
he last appeared before the Judge
Don't you think you will be able to
take vacation this year,
1t was fine a bit of irony as ever
Delivered by Landru. as last summer
Judge BONN. after six months exami-
nation of the alleged Bluebeard, gave up
in despair and went to the country for
four weeks.
In the Hobbies Of the courthouse the
other day l4andru, accompanied by his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10

More than 200 Irish girls landed il
New York recently with the lnten
ton of becoming taxi drivers, a No-
cation they followed in Ireland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10
MEMORIAL TO HEROES.
o. of P. Alumni in Australia Estab-
lish Dental Scholarship.

PHILADELPHIA, September TO-
A fund of between $4,000. and $40
900 to establish a scholarship at the
University of Pennsylvania Dental
School for graduates of some Austria
liam University has been raised by
PENNSYLVANIA alumni living in Austr
liza. it was announced today by DIR.
]. n. Penniman. acting provost of the
university.
The scholarship is to be established
a a memorial to Pennsylvania alumni
who lost their lives in the world
war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10
MANS FALL FATAL

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, September 10.
John l.. Baci, widely known Indian
apolis newspaper man, died here.
Death was due to injuries sustained
when he fell down stairway in the
nress stand at the speedway during
the 5OO-mile race May 81. Mr.. Baci
was born in St. Louis and had been
in charge of the automobile depart
ment of the. Indianapolis News for
six years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10

lawyers. met Nine. Bessarabo, who is
being examined by Judge BoniD con-
corning the disappearance of her hus-
band and the subsequent finding of his
body in a trunk at the Nancy railroad
station. The lawyers introduced them.
Saluting with a flourish of his weather
beaten hat and bending low. Landru
said simply; MY homages, madame"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10
Mean.

F rom the Detroit Free Press.
You have liquor enough in your
cellar to last lifetime"
How can you say that? You know
l have only four bottles.
II know that. but the way you're
hanging on to it convinces me that 1t
will last you lifetime.
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MARRIED.

cAIN-DAvIDSoN. At Atlanta Ga. septen.
Der 6. 1920, NEWTON q. CAIN of Atlanta.
Ga, and NARY S. DAVIDSON of Washing
ton. ID. {.
McCABE-wEBSTER. Mr.. and Mrs. w f.
Webster announce the marriage of their
daughter THELMA LOUISE to GEORGE c.
McCABE. In New York city, September !.
1920. at ST. Joseph's Church.
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DIED.

WILSON Departed this life Wednesday. Sep
TENDER 8. 1920. at s:45 pm. at his resi-
dence. 322 L st. Sc. after a long Illness
SAMUEL WILSON. the beloved husband or
Georgiana Wilson tpee Young. He leaves
TO mourn his loss sister. two brothers
and host Of relatives and friends Funeral
from Ebenezcr NJ. l.. Church. 4th and ID sts-
Sc. Sunday, September l.. ut pm. Rev
]. W. Waters, pastor. Relatives and friends
invited. lnterment at Woodawn. tAnnap-
oils and baltimore papers please copy IL
WILSON. All members of Eureka Lodge. No.
4562. q. T.. o. OF q. F.. are reGuest.s~,o be
present at our regular commnnica ton to-
night TO make arrangements for the funeral
OF our late brother, SAMUEL. WILSON.
JESSE NJ. CARTER, y. G.
RoBT. c. DYSON, L. S. 10s
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In some parts of West Africa the girls
have long engagements. On the day or
their birth they are betrothed to a baby
boy trifie older than themselves. and
at the age of twenty they are married
The girls know of no other way OF get
ting a husband and so they are quite
happy and satisfied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-10
The Political Gift.

From the New York Evening Post.
Neophyte-Senator, what is the Sc
cret of success?
Honest Senator-The ability to
foresee which side of the question is
going to have the most votes,
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MRS. FRANCES c. PEARCE.

Mrs. Frances Chatham Pearce. wife
of Christian S. Pearce. cashier in the
Office of treasurer of the United States.
Died this morning at her home, 1903
Newton street.
Mrs Pearce was a member of the
Cheatham family, one of the most
prominent families in Nashville, Tenn.
She came with her husband to Wash
ington in 1924, when Mr. Pearce be-
came connected with the Treasury
Department.
Resides her husband, Mrs. Pearce is
survived by two daughters, Mrs. A..
Peneyck Brown of Atlanta, Ga. and
Mrs. Harold b. Whitmore of Hartford,
Conn.
The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17

iGOOOOOO marks, large portion of
which belongs to the state. Is also rep
scented on the board of the Govern
ment Holding company. The Bavar-
ian Lloyd held commanding position
in transport work on the Danube and
nelghboring rivers, but lost the great
er part of its vessels at the end of the
war. Negotiations are, however. pro-
ceeding between the different govern
pient departments and others inter
ested to put the company once more
on commercial footing. The German
ship-salvage company "Odin," Berlin.
with capital of 100000 marks, was
originally formed to carry out work
in connection with the salvage of
transports and other shipping in the
Baltic. The company was not very
successful owing to the unsuitable
methods of salvage adopted. 1t is now
proposed TO divert the company's ac-
uvlties to towage and lIGhterage work.
According to a resolution adopted by
the German Metal Economic league,
reported by the Wolf Telegraph Bu-
reau, the export of so per cent of all
pig metals coming from German mines
during May June. July and August
is to be permitted. No limit is placed
upon the export of all partly manu-
factured metal products. provided they
are not sold at prices under the do
mestic rates. German manufacturers
may import raw metals, if they do
not pay moro than the standard prices
in the world market. German export
prices on semi-manufactured iron and
steel products have been materially
lowered during the last few months.
Bar iron selling at 6,336 marks in
April has been cut to 1000 marks per
ton for export to Holland and Switzer-
land and to $3.50 to Denmark, the lat
ter being the same as the domestic
rate In Germany. The iron industry
is protesting against further payment
of export duties.
The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17
Economic Bureau Looks After
Electric, Steel and Aluminium
Plants.
BUT EXTENSION IS DELAYED
Naturalization of Coal Mines May
Have to Wait Change in Makeup
of Reichstag-Holdine Com
pany Formed.

Washington.-Sinc the conclusion
of the Spa conference. at which Ger
many agreed to increase Its coal out
put In order to bring the deliveries to
France up to approximately 100000
tons per month, there has been re-
newed agitation among the miners for
the naturalization of the mining in
dustry In the hope that better work
Ing conditions and pay may be OBJ
tained under such condition than
with the mines owned and operated by
Hugo SHINES and his few associate
coal barons. Other sections of Ger
man Industrial life are also likely to
he ultimately run by the state, al
though 1t will probably he necessary
for the German people to elect more
radical reichstag to effect these
changes. as the present cabinet is not
pledged to any great extension of the
principle of public ownership and op-
Grafton.
In the meantime. however. as the re-
suit of earlier agitation for govern
ment control and operation of the lead
Ing industries, the national economic
bureau of the German treasury de-
pnrtment has quite n few important
government controlled Industrial
plants to look after. according to
summary of,its activities recently pub
l,shed in the German press and quoted
from In commerce reports. The most
important of the government factories
are the arsenals and naval construc-
tion yards which are now engaged on
non-nilitary construction. This In
cludes the manufacture of steel. the
making of all sorts and descriptions
of machinery In large quantities,
especially for agricultural and do
mestic purposes. and the repairing OF
rolling stock and locomotives. Small
arms works are being maintained as
such so far as is consistent with the
provisions of the peace treaty.
State in Control.
''In order to consolidate the govern
ment interests in these different un-
dertakings II company was formed in
December. 1919. called the German In
dustrial Stock company, with capl-
tai of 1OO,OOO,0OO marks (nominally
500. 500. 900; at current exchange. about
81. .250, ,0OO); the whole of the shares
being in the hands of the government.
The state thus exercises either full or
partial control, according to the num-
ber of electrical. electrOchemical and
other undertakings.
The huge generating station at
Zschornewitz. near Bitterfield. belong
ing to the Electric Plant company, is
controlled. 1t provides the current for
the state nitrogen works in Witten-
berg. obtaining the necessary fuel
from adjacent Ignite mines. 1t has an
The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17
BLAME DISASTER TO CARL
Austrian Collapse Charged to Emper-
ors Conflicting War Orders.
Says Commission.

vienna.-Chief blame for the col
lapse of the Austrian forces on the
Piave river, In the AustrO-Italian cam
paign, is placed on the former EN-
peror Carl by the report of commits
sion appointed to investigate war de-
linquencies.
On the fateful November .. 1918. the
report says. the then emperor issued
three conflicting orders within few
hours The first was for the conclu-
sion of an armistice. Forty-five min
utes later this was revoked and 95
minutes afterward 1t was issued again.
During this period. 1t was said, the
emperor consulted no one on the mat
ter.
1--WE must ask" the report says,
.:whether the emperor and his advisers
were not guided by the fear of the
army flooding back on Vienna rather
than by any other circumstances. II
may be. perhaps, not by express inten-
tion but rather subconsciously. that
the desire prevailed with more than
one of these men that the troops had
better not return home at all
The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17
LACK OF SHIPS a
HALTS TOURISTS

ing to the land of his birth for visit.
1t was recently said by the head of
large line in speaking of tariffs, that
in 1914 a man could purchase tour
ist ticket including rail fares and hotel
accommodations for trip half way
around the world for the same sum
that he is now compelled to pay for
one-wiiy ticket from New York to u
Mediterranean port.
Records of departures and arrivals
as kept here by the Steamship Mems
association show that despite the very
apparent rush, travel is only about
half, MS to number of passengers,
what 1t was In 1914. In May and June
of that year there sailed from Amer
lean to transatlantic ports 184.30O per-
sons of whom more than 100000 were
classed as third class. In the same
months of 1920 the outgoing total was
sO.323 of whom $4,000 were third class.
Arrivals Show Slump.
or incoming passengers in one
month Of 1914 there were 105, 100 per-
sons. The corresponding month this
year showed 45.12 arrivals.
The rush this year and the difficulty
in getting accommodations Is account
ed for by the fact that there is need
ed "ships, ships and more ships!" of
the passenger-carrying class. Avail
able tonnage, due to the ravages of
the war. Is greatly depleted. The
North German Lloyd and the Ham
burg American lines, which prior to
the war carried a large percentage of
the transatlantic travel. do not exist.
In addition, many of the big liners
of allied flags are gone, as for exam
pie the Lusitania. Almost all the
ships of the pre-war fleet of another
large British line were submarine vic
Tins. Other ships were of n necessity
laid up for periods of more than II
year for reconditionlng due to their
accommodations having been ripped
out with axes to make them into troop
carriers. An example of this Is the
huge Olympic, which but recently was
returned to her passenger carrying
trade.
The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17
German Works
Run By State

output OF 100000 kilowatts and. be-
sides running the nitrogen plant, sup
plies current to the Berlin Electric
works, and will shortly extend this
supply of energy to Leipsic and the
province of Saxony. The Central Ger
man Power Works company comprises
the central power station at Senften-
berg, formerly belonging to the Alum
mum works, Lauta, with nm output of
10000 kilowatts; and the Niederau-
sitter Power plant. near Spremberg,
with adjacent Ignite mines. and with
an output of 10000 kilowatts. Up to
the present the electric energy devel-
oped by these two plants has been utll-
ized in the manufacture of aluminium
and nitrogen. In the future it Will also
he employed to supply electricity for
the surrounding Industrial districts.
The East Prussia central station.
which was recently erected TO provide
the province of East Prussia with
electric power. is controlled. as also
is the ALI works, Munich which was
formed in 1918, In conjunction with
the DIR. Wacker Alexander company.
for electrochemical manufacturing. to
utilize the water power OF the lower
ALI. The output is, roughly, 10000
k,lowatts. The Wurttemberg Rural
Electric company was reorganized IN
1919 to enable the state. with the con-
sent of the Wurttemberg government,
to take dominant interest in the
supply of electricity to the province of
Wurttemberg.
Great efforts were made during the
war to put the manufacture Of alum
inum on firm footing, in order to
make Germany independent of foreign
supplies. Plants were erected and the
manufacture started at Horrem. Bit
terfeld and Rummelsburg, each factory
having an output of 5000 tons of alum
inum per annum. In 1915 the Erft-
werk company was taken over by the
government and reorganized with
capital of 25,OOO.OOO marks. The
branch works of this company. in Gre
venbroich Qower Rhine). have been
fitted up to produce 1000 tons Of
aluminium per annum.
Iron and Steel Mills.
In regard to iron and steel mills the
Ilseder Smelling company and the
Peiner Rolling Mills company are con-
trulled. These works have a capital
of 2O,OO0.OO0 marks. of which the gov
ernment holds % per cent. The chief
features of this undertaking are that
the mines producing the ore are in
close proximity to the smelling and
rolling plant. and that, situated as
they are in central Germany, they have
an advantage over the competing
works in Westphalia in placing their
output in adjacent districts. In pre-
war days their yearly output of ore
amounted to 100000 tons.
The Bavarian Lloyd Shipping com
pany In Regensburg with capital of
The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17
PLAN TO WATER
VAST DRY AREA
Project Up to Congress to Re-
claim 1000, 1000 Acres at
S250,000, 900 Expense.
TURN DESERT into EMPIRE
Members of House Committee on Ap-
propriations and Group of Western
Colleagues Make Inspection
Tour of Government
Projects.

Washington.-Plans for putting
turnl map of the United States by a
program of reclamation calling for the
expenditure of about $3.50, 100000 over
n ten-year period are to be considered
seriously by congress when 1t reas-
sembles.
Members of the house approprIa-
tions committee and a group of West
ern colleagues who have been making
an inspection tour of the governments
reclamation projects and of the nation
al parks in company with officials of
the department of the interior, after
travelling 10000 miles by train and
1000 miles by auto and viewing the
irrigation achievements since 1902
have come back earnest converts to
big reclamation plan.
Arthur p. Davis, director and chief
engineer of the reclamation service.
who accompanied the congressional
tour, is now in the West visiting other
projects and preparing his recon-
mendations for the annual estimates
to be submitted to Secretary Payne.
Secretary Payne, who has just in
spected two of the governments prin-
cipnl reclamation projects at Yakima,
Wash. and Shoshone. Wyo.. has be
come an enthusiast regarding the de-
STABILITY of utilizing Americas unde-
The Ordway new era., 1920-09-17

OF Indiana, member of the appro-
priations committee. says that he and
others who have just inspected these
projects have been converted from
their previous reluctance to make such
large appropriations and now believe
that it Is national duty thus to Gre
ate opportunities for Its citizens to
establish themselves In permanent
homes on such fertile areas. wrested
from the desert.
Many who opposed the farms for
service men" proposition In the last
congress on the grounds that It was
camOufiaGed reclamation have pledged
their support to an out-and-out irrlga-
tlOn development.
Senator Jones of Washington intro
duced Il bill in the last session which
seeks an appropriation of S250OO0 900
for reclamation work and the interior
department has drafted program
that calls for more than that
Turn Desert Into Empire.
Senator Charles l.. McNary of Ore
gon wrote favorable report last De
cember from the committee on irriga-
ton and reclamation of arid lands. He
pointed out that under the reclamation
act passed in 1902, the government has
expended in construction work a little
over $123, 100000, that water for ir-
rigation purposes has been made avail
able for 1,7S0,0O0 acres of land, which
had been largely barren. desert waste
and unproductive. 1t is now worth
from 500 to $3.50 an acre, with an
average crop value per acre of S63.6O.
"Out of the uninhabited and almost
worthless desert has been carved an
empire of nearly 100000 acres. in
tensively cultivated and producing
crops whose annual average gross re-
turns per acre are about double those
of the rest of the country" says Di-
rector Davis of the reclamation serv-
Ice.
While the bill introduced by Sena-
tor Jones calls for $25O.OOO,OOO. the
reclamation service is now working on
30 projects which call for n total ap-
preparation of $500, 100000. but re-
turns would be coming in from some
of the earlier construction before the
entire expenditure was made. or the
100000 acres which II IL proposed
to add to the farm lands about one
third is public land belonging to the
United States government.
Director Davis has figured out TINT
the average value of lands in the
projects did not exceed $40 an acre. or
S17,OOO,0O0, when the government ir
rigation was started in 1902. and that
todny they easily represent increases
in land values of S5560O0.0OO due to
this work. and has prepared de-
tailed report on this for congress. He
figures That only SO per cent Of the
total ultimate cost will he finally
charged against the government. {.