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Evening star., 1920-05-21
MEXICAN EMBASSY HERE
IS DIRECTED TO CLOSE

DR.. Alvaro Tore Diaz. confidential
agent of the provisional government
of Mexico. has directed the Mexican
embassy here to cease to function. Sec
retaries at the embassy refused to
comment on the situation.
The power Of the embassy. which
thus far has not given allegiance to
the revolutionary government in
Mexico City, to validate all papers for
use in the republic of Mexico was
withdrawn by DR.. Diaz and further
payments for the conduct of the en-
bassy from revolutionary funds is re-
fused.
The confidential agent of the revolu-
tionary government announced that
the new regime in Mexico will not
recognize acts Of consular agents ap-
pointed under the Carranza govern
ment. New commercial agents. he
said, will be assigned to important
posts in the United States. These Will
have authority to make legal all pa
pers concerning the new government,
issue clearance to vessels and under
take other consular acts.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
HOUSE ADOPTS
PEACE MEASURE;
UP TO PRESIDENT
Republicans Put Through
Senate Resolution by
Vote of 228 to 139.

The republican peace resolution was
adopted finally today by the House
by a vote of 22S to 139. It now goes
to the President.
The House majority accepted the
Senate substitute for the original
House resolution, democrats vainly
opposing it. The House vote was
taken to indicate that the veto of the
President. which is regarded as GER
tain. cannot be overridden.
Twenty democrats Joined with the re-
publicans in adopting tho resolution.
while two republicans. Representatives
Kelley. Michigan. and Fuller, Massachu-
setts. voted against it.
Chairman Porter Of the House for
eign affairs committee, in presenting
the resolution adopted last Saturday
by the Senate. moved that the House
accept the measure unchanged. which
action, he said, would prevent delay
in sending it to the President Under
House rules only one hour Of debate
consent, and Mr.. Porter announced
that he would refuse to permit longer
discussion.
Representative Flood. virginia,
opening the democratic fight against
the resolution, asked that more than
one nOuT . QSOAIS Uc poIuAJ~Cu anu
complained that the republicans were
seeking to jam through" the meas
ure. Mr.. Porter. however. refused to
grant longer discussion, and. opening
the debate, declared that the Senate
and House resolutions were 'in effect
substantially the same" though differ
ent materially in FORM"
Germany has conceded our de-
mands by the treaty Of Versailles" !"
continued Mr.. Porter, land the only
controversy remaining is the one be-
tween the chief executive and the
Senate over the terms of the treaty.
Under this state of facts no reason
able mind can escape the conclusion
that the war is long since terminated.
and that our country is fnsistently
demanding that the shadow which
this technical state Of war casts upon
the rights and liberties of the Amer
ican people shall be promptly re-
moved.
Congress surely has the right to
exercise the same power and vacate it's
official acts and thus restore the nation
to a state Of peace. The arbitrary po-
sition taken by the President in regard
to the terms Of the treaty with the
imperial German government has
prevented the making Of peace In the
usual way, which is by treaty; it.
therefore, becomes the imperative duty
OF Congress to declare officially that
the war is at an emo
Evening star., 1920-05-21
HOPES FOR UNANIMOUS
REPORT ON SCHOOLS

The Senate select committee. which
has been investigating the public
schools Of the District win make an
other effort to finish it's work on its
report this afternoon Chairman Sher-
man has called a meeting for o'clock.
He reiterated today his hope that the
committee would make a unanimous
report
for inclusion in the report upon which
ali the members OF the committee do
not agree. There are, however, a
number of recommendation to which
au agree. The chairman believes that
the committee should report its
recommendations unanimously, and
that any other matters can be laid be-
fore the Senate by the individual SEN
ators in speeches. II this plan is not
Followed, it is likely that the entire
committee will unite in certain
Recommendations, and that there will
be majority and minority reports on
the matters at issue among the men,
berS.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
QUEEN Cannot BREAK
INTO AMERICAN MOVIES
Marie of Rumania Turned Down
After Her Proposal to
Turn Actress.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1920.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright, 1920.
PARIS, May 21.-Europe's most
beautiful queen, Marie of Rumania.
appears to be experiencing difiicul-
ties and rebuffs in her efforts to get
into the American movies" similar
to those encountered by movie
struck" girls in the United States.
The Paris director of one of Ameri-
cas- largest moving picture concerns
says that he rejected the queens of
fer to act as the heroine in an
-Rumanian movie plot. with
her sumptuous palace gardens in
Bucharest as the background because
she wanted too much money"
The director said that she asked
$4,000 and 10 per cent of the net
profits to be used for relief work
among the war orphans and starving
children of Rumania. He declared
that she even would give the Ameri-
can cinema concern a free hand in
developing the plot provided it in
cluded a proposition for Ruma nian
propaganda in the United States. She
would go as far as thrilling horse
back riding" but insisted on a double
for the most perilous events.
The queens offer was made through
a Rumanian agent in Paris. The
American cinema official here says
that the agent declared that in spite
of his first rejection the queen had
instructed him to try again among
ether American moyinE p1cfnEs spf;
A i
Evening star., 1920-05-21
NEW YORK STORES WANT
JOBBERS TO CUT PRICES

NEW YORK. May 21.-The price,
cutting movement here today reached
some wholesalers, when managers and
buyers of prominent department
stores announced their establishments
would refuse to purchase from job
bers until substantial reductions were
made. The department stores which
claim to offer reductions from Is to
so per cent now demand that whole
salers make concessions to them.
An official of one of the largest de-
artnent stores, with branches in six
cities. said:
1--WE are not buying future stock
now and will not until manufacturers
and wholesalers come down with their
prices. Normally. we buy $750.000 Of
furs on our initial purchase. So far
we have refused to purchase a single
piece"
Similar statements were made by Of
fcials of other stores.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
VILLA SAYS MEXICAN HEAD
MUST SATISFY HIS IDEALS
Ready and Willing to War on Revolution
for Americans Pursuit of Him.

know this to be true The Carran-
zistas fred into Ell Paso as the excuse
TOR American troops to cross"
Fat and Lftheness Gone.
Villa is fat and has not the litheness
and snppleness of his heyday, a few
years back. He weighs more than two
hundred pounds and he keeps from
adding weight by exercising and set
ting-up exercises. Every morning he
squats nearly to the ground and rises,
repeating the operation eighty times.
That Is for his stomach. When this ls
completed he runs for fifteen minutes,
while one Of his men holds a watch TO
see the fnll time IL spent.
Villa does not drink and he extends
prohibition to his men. Search for ?
bottle OF beer by visitor to hi4 camp
today was futile, and the visitor was
informed every place he visited Wis
had issued orders no liquor or beer
WAS to be sold while his men were
about. The penalty Villa set was
hangingp they said.
"And he always Keeps his word" the
liquor vendors added
Yesterday Villa baptized twenty
children of Mexicans living here
abouts and became the godfather TO
CHIHUAHUA CITY. May 21 (by the
Associated Press) the an
nouncement by Gen. P. Elias Gales
that. he believed Francisco Villas po-
litical aspirations rendered working
agreement with him unlikely, hopes
that the rebel chieftain would be
eliminated painlessly from the arena
went glimmering today.
Through his emissary, Alfonso
Gomez, Villa declared he had no In
tention of being eliminated, according
to Gen. Gales. The general stated ne
would publish letters from the insur-
gent leader and the reply to be sent
the latter.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
MORE GARDENING URGED
BY BAY STATE GOVERNOR

BOSTON, May 21.-Gov. Coolidge
today issued a proclamation, in which.
after stating that food reserves are
dangerously low. he called upon the
people Of that state to raise what
food is possible by gardens and
otherwise.
TO aid IN overcoming the labor
shortage, Gov. Coolidge announced he
would ask the legislature for $500 to
establish camps for public school
students in places. where they can
be employed on the farms.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
HACKERS GUILTY
OF "L0|TER|NC" IN
HOTEL V|C|N|T|ES
Judge Hardison Rules Law
Covers Both Private and
Public Property.

Judge Hardison, sitting in the Dis
trfct branch of Police Court. TODAY
gave written decision in cases
brought against the Terminal and
Federal taxicab companies and a
private hacker for alleged violations
OF the law Of Congress of July II. 1919,
known as the -loitering" act
Seven defendants were found guilty,
while one case was dismissed The
case in which there was a dismissal
involved the right of the Terminal
Taxicab Company to park a vehicle
to the west of the center entrance TO
Union station, it being admitted that
such occupation caused no obstruction
to traffic.
Rules on Lettering Act.
The court held the defendants guilty
in all cases in which lettering about
the entrances to hotels was concerned.
II was held by the court that Congress
has control over the streets of the Dis
trict, and all the vehicles involved in
the charges are subject to such legis-
lation.
The language of the act is that
they shall not loiter in front or
around public buildings" said the
court "and. according to the verbiage
or the act it is not necessary that the
lettering should be on public property
or public highway, nor is the power
Of Congress limited to controlling
these vehicles while on public prop
erty. 1 am of the opinion that the
power to control would extend to
! them while they are publicly used.
even though they are at the time on
private property"
Land Ownership at Union station.
Judge Hardison discussed the ques-
ton Of the Washington Terminal
Company owning certain land about
Land is absolutely essential to the
performances OF the duties for which
the company was created.
I'VE cannot conceive of q Union
station that people cannot get to and
FROM" the court said.
The situation sought to be rem
edied," the court said, was the con-
gestion Of taxicabs around Union sta
ton and the hotels, which resulted in
Inconvenience and danger to the pub
lie getting to and from those places.
and the people who had occasion to
use the streets around those places.
Idea Held by Congress.
Il think it is quite clear that Con-
gress did not aim to discriminate in
favor of or against any particular
class Of vehicles. Congress was not
interested in any controversy exist
ing between the individual hackers
and the taxicab companies It WAS
| iMmaterial to the average congress-
| man who voted on 1t, and likewise to
| the man who drafted the bf1l, whether
the congestion and consequent danger
and annoyance were caused By cabs
Of the Terminal COMPANY or BY 0bs
owned by individual hackerH
Tho term public vehicle, think,
was used because it was q compre-
hensive term, and was intended to ap-
ply to all vehicles serving the public"
Counsel for the defendants noted
appeals to the Caourt OF AppealA
Evening star., 1920-05-21
ASK BAKERS TO TESTIFY
REGARDING BREAD COST

Charles l. Corby and Lewis Holmes.
bakers. have been requested to ap-
pear Monday before the Senate Dis
trict subcommittee which is to in
vestigate the price of bread in WASH
ington. The investigation was or
dered by the Senate after Senator
Capper of Kansas charged on the floor
that there had been great profits
made in the bread business here in
recent years and that any increase
in the price of bread was entirely
UNIV arranted
The hearing will begin at 10
O'Clock Monday morning in the Dis
trict committee room in the Capitol
building. The subcommittee. which
is headed by Senator Ball of Della
ware, hopes to conclude the investi-
cation within a few days.
Following the testimony N regard
to bread prices the subcommittee will
call before it hotel men, a. the in
stance of Senator King of Utah who
insists that profiteering in the hotels
has beer extraordinary and is desir-
GUS of -ae passage of a law regu-
lating rates that may be charged IN
hotels and inns in Washington.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
SENATOR OWEN ASKS
DATA ON PROFITEERlNG

The Department Of Justice has been
..Ead in a resolution by Senator
01en. democrat. Oklahoma. 'for all
facts, figures. data and information
relative to pronteering.t The Iis., rese1
caiied for a list of all corporations
mh;ch made more than Is per cent on
their capital investment in the last
year.
of sngar was proposed by Senator Nc
Nary' republican. Oregon. Violation
would subject exporters to fine of
$4,000, and ships carrying away
sugar would be forfeited.
IN the House creation of govern
ment commission to nix maximum
nrices of necessities was proposed in
- In by ,R0f7eurRQ
Evening star., 1920-05-21
CITY EMPL0YE STRIKE ENDS.
Five Thousand in Chicago Return
to Work,

CHICAGO. May 21.-Five thousand
city employees on strike since Monday
returned to work today.
Teams<ef8 voted unanimously to re-
turn when the city council finance
committee last night declared their
demands would not be considered
while they were on strike. Street
sweepers, chau6eurs. team owners
and garbage handlers voted to follow
the teamsters' lead.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Campaign EXPENSES
INQUIRY BEGINS MONDAY

Investigation of the preconvention
campaign expenditures and pledges
of both republican and democratic
presidential candidates ordered by the
Senate will begin here Monday
The Senate privileges and elections
committee today authorized a SUBJ
committee to do the work with all
possible dispatch" and to hold open
hearings.
GUS candidates win be asked by tele-
graph to attend the session Monday.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
NEW YORK L1GHTERMEN QUIT
Strike in Harbor Out of Sympathy
for Longshoremen.

NEW YORK, May 21-Omcials of
coastwise shipping companies report
ed today that they had been little in
convenienced in handling freight
shipments because of the walk-out OF
lightermen yesterday.
Strike leaders asserted that 900
members of the lighter captains'
union were out. They said thai the
walk out had been called in Sympathy
with the strike Of longshoremen en-
ployed in handling goods from New
Jersey terminals to coastwise piers
alleged to have been caused by the
employment of non-union men BY four
coastwise lines.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS
JOIN IN PRICE TUMBLES

CHICAGO. May 21.-Prices came
down helter-skelter today on the
board Of trade. All grain and provi-
sions Joined in the tumble.
breaks, respectively rs cents a bushel
and $2.05 barrel. July delivery of
corn touching as low as $1.64h. and
July pork $34.75.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Fireman Killed, Fifteen Injured.

CINCINNATI. May 21.-Frank Klein.
a city fireman, was killed. Clarence
Pasquet. another fireman was prob
ably fatally injured and fourteen
others were less seriously injured in
a collision between IRE appar1tu1
haea early today yAfle -t1Q oomni
Evening star., 1920-05-21
CAUGHT AFTER 4-sToRY FALL.

LOUISVILLE. May 21.-While CIV
ing an exhibition to student" nre-
ton. a fireman, slipped and fell four
stories, to be caught by three firemen
who had hurried to catch him wal
ton was being passed from one win
dow to another by two other fremen
,6m tn AaRA. en6. i1G1usa -. - -
Evening star., 1920-05-21
BILL MAKES UNLAWFUL
CERTAIN BANK RENEWAL S

Representative King, republican,
Illinois, today introduced a bill max
ing it unlawful for any federal re-
serve bank to accept or rediscount
renewals of commodity notes. drafts
or bills.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Earns s177.42 on 500 Shares.

NEW YORK. May 21.-Net profits of
the Atlantic Refining Company for
1919 were $S.s71.046. equivalent to
$177.42 a share (s10o par value), ac-
yesterday. In 1918, the company
earned s7.o4s.49o. or s14s.1s a share.
The surplus at the end of 1919 was
$7,S71,4o6 Estimated federal taxes
were $4,752.622. The Atlantic Refln-
efnx OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Suffrage Action Put of,

BATON ROUGE. La. May 21.-with
Of both houses OF the
Louisiana legislature until Monday
night and with committees still un-
appointed, it is evtdant there win Be
10 dedntte a0t3oa on woman, ,9U1f
Evening star., 1920-05-21
WEATHER.

Partly cloudy tonight and tomor-
row: little change in temperature.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended 2 pm. today: Highest, n, at /
pm. today: lowest, 63, at a. m. today.
Full report on page 8.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Hearing Here May ..

Hearings to consider applications
for loans will be held here May %.
cations embody in detail statements
Of the transportation needs which the
carrier would be unable to meet, and
what service for the public could not
be performed il the loan asked was
not granted; statements OF what Sc
curity is offered, and the respective
earning power Of the applicant
IF the loan is desired for other addi-
tons and betterments. the commission
said. 1T should be clearly stated where
in the expenditures proposed will ex-
pedite car movement or meet the
transportation needs of the country !"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-21
EVELYN NESBIT Halls
HER BROTHER TO COURT
Says He Held Up Money A.
ter PalDning Her Ring.

Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry
X. Thaw, appeared in West Side Court
yesterday as complainant against her
brother, Howard Nesbit, of 36 West
Twenty-sixth street. alleging he had
withheld $500 belonging to her and which
she needed so she could go to Pittsburg
and visit her son. Russell Thaw.
Miss Nesbit, who said she had been
i'll for some time, told the court that n
week ago she gave her brother dia-
mond ring worth $4,000 and told him to
pawn it for 1000. She said he gave her
500 and later gave her $780, refusing to
hand over the rest of the money. Her
brother said he and his wife had ex-
pended considerable sums of money on
Miss Nesbit during her Illness and that
the money belonged to him.
Mrs. Howard Nesbh testified that her
wages OF s25 week. which she received
as confidential secretary to broker,
were spent during the last few weeks
on necessaries for Miss Nesbit. Magis-
trate Levine adjourned the case until
tomorrow morning at the request of
Howard Nesbit.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-21
ALIEN ARRIVALS FOR
CHRISTMAS NOW $4,000
1000 Brought in Yesterday
by Four Big Liners.

More than 1000 immigrants arrived in
this port yesterday aboard liners that
got in Sunday night and yesterday morn
ing, swelling the immigration for several
days to the remarkable Christmastide
number of $4,000 and filling the soul OF
the Commissioner Of immigration, Fred
erick A. Wallis, with amazement. With
force of only eighty inspectors the
Commissioner is going to have the task
of his career to clean up the $4,000 be-
fore Christmas.
The Commissioner and his assistant,
Byron II. Uhl. are going to try TO get
authority 10 increase his force Temporal
rlly. Mr.. Wallis said: ut is not only
desirable but absolutely necessary for
us to pass as many OF the eligible immi-
grants as possible. 1t is desirable be-
cause we should like 10 have the aliens
get to their destinations before Christ
mas. and it is necessary because we
haven't room for them"
The big ships that locked yesterday
include the Cunarder Carmania, from
Liverpool and Queenstown. with 1860
aliens. mostly Irish and English; the
Holland-America liner Nieuw Amster-
dam. with 1850, chiefly Polish Jews; the
Cunarder Imperator. with 1877, and the
French liner La Savoie. with Az.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-21
KRAMER CLASSES BREAKER
OF DRYLAW AS ANARCHIST
There Will Be Fewer of Them After New Years. He
Tells Ministers-New Enforcement Chief
Asks for Cooperation.

his visit. he expressed satisfa elton with
the situation and said there would be
improvement early I'm the new year. AS
evidence of this, he indicated that the
number OF permits TO wholesale dealers
will soon be greatly diminished. RSmors
of the resignation of Charles Il. OCon-
nor. State prohibition director, were
denied.
Mr.. Chaplin began the fifth day of his
administration. the first of his first week
BY addressing his agents. outlining his
policy and asking for cooperation.
Four barrels of wine and a quantity
of whislley were seized in "A raid which
detectives of the special service division
made on n restaurant in Twenty-seconG
street. The owners. George Perrou,
lCazeille,. all of 269ia West Twenty
second street. were arrested The de-
tectives reported finding n revolver III
the room occupied by the first two and
had them arraigned before Magistrate
Joseph r. Corrigan in Jefferson Market
court charged with violation of the Sulli-
van law. They were held for Special
Sessions in 5000 bail. Perrou. Beck and
Cazeille were charged with violation OF
the Vofstead act and were surrendered
to Federal authorities.
Howard Herman, nephew of County
Judge u. Harry Herman of Richmond
pleaded guilty before Federal Judge
Chatfield yesterday afternoon to the
charge of transporting liquor He was
fined $3.50.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-21

Federal Prohibition Commissioner
John f. Kramer put violators of the
Eighteenth Amendment in the same
category with anarchists in an address
before the Lutheran Minister'S Associa-
ton OF New York city at the West
Twenty-third street Y. NJ. c. A. yester-
day.
The man who does not accept the
verdict of the majority is an anarchist, .
he said There never was a question
that has been so carefully considered
as the prohibition of the liquor traffic.
Everybody knew II was coming. There
never was an issue that was passed by
such an overwhelming majority. An
other thing about IL is that il was
adopted forever Thirty-six States
never can be gotten to obtain a nodi-
fication."
He said that man need not be
good American citizen to obey the law,
but e he differed from the views OF the
,naiority he needed to be a good sport.
lie further declared that II was not
question of likes or dislikes,' but ODE
dience. IF the law is not right then
T. IS UP 10 the people to seek it's repeal
through orderly means" he added. THE
repeal never can be gotten through vio-
lation of the law"
Both before and after addressing the
miussters Mr.. Kramer conferred with
Daniel j. Chaplin, recently appointed
supervising Federal prohibition agent
for the city. Although reluctant TO d.
vulge what had been accomplished by
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-21
FIGHT REQUEST FOR
SINGLE MEMS HOME
SIS, 100000 Clause Attacked
by Wards Relatives.

Relatives of Marcus l.. Ward, the son
of a former Governor of New Jersey.
who died in the Essex Club. in Newark.
last May, leaving a large estate, have
begun a contest in the Court of Chan
Gerry. in Newark. against clause of
Mr. Wards will. which bequeathed
81. OOO. 900 10 establish the Marcus l..
Ward Home for Aged and Respectable
Bachelors and Widowers" OF the resi-
due Ward left 100000 TO relatives and
$500, 900 to charity organizations.
The contestants, who include Joseph
NJ Kitchen of East Orange. and MEM
bers of the Longworth family of Cincin-
natl Of which Representative Nicholas
Longworth is a member. do not attack
the validity OF the will. but they set up
the claim that the trust fund created Is
Illegal and against the public policy be-
cause il would not be possible TO find
enough aged and respectable bachelors
and widowers in New Jersey to use up
the income. which would amount 10
more than 100000 n year.
They contend also that the clause
creates fund in perpetuity which
would soon be increased to huge proper
tions because it could not be used, and
that il Is, therefore. contrary to law
and public policy.