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Evening star., 1921-08-19
]. v: SWANk DIES
AT THE AGE Of s.
Noted Penman Who Served in
Treasury Department
Over Fifty Years.

j. w. Swank. master penman for
the Treasury Department for more
than fifty years. died at his home,
1872 Gales street northeast. wednes-
day night, at the age Of eighty six
years.
Born in Mauch Chunk. Pa, in 1885,
he attained the rank Of professional
penman before leaving that city for
Washington in the early COS. He
lived here continuously from that
time.
Since the days Of Secretary Seward
and the Lincoln cabinet he lettered
resolutions for each retiring secre-
tary of the Treasury. Many high Of
ficials Of the government possess sets
their retirement from Office.
Noted for Skill With Pen.
His skill with the pen made him a
for many years. and advancing age,
according to friends and fellow
workers, left no trace Of unsteadiness
in his writing.
He was a member of the Veteran
Penmen's Club of New York city. and
members Of the profession are being
received by his family.
The script in official use by the
government for currency and en-
graved plates Is the type of which
Mr.. Swank was master. according
to Treasury Department officials. His
line Of work demanded not only per-
feet lettering in the script, but also
an exact science of shading and plac-
ing the individual letters. Years of
training, as we'll as natural aptitude.
1t was said. are requisite before at
Evening star., 1921-08-19

LowRY-sIIPsoN. At Baltimore. Nd,
July 20. 1921. by the Rev. c. NJ. Eyster.
ROBERT b. LOWRY and IRAiA L. SIMP-
son, both Of Washington, ID. e. .,
Evening star., 1921-08-19
TORONTO OFFICIALS ISSUE.
EDICT TO "RUM RUNNERS"
Liquor Coming Across Border Will
Be Seized Unless It Has
Legal Destination.

TORONTO. August 19.-Announce-
ment was made today that the at
torney generals department would
accept the challenge of the alleged
rum runners" on the Essex border.
Incorporation under a federal char
ter. it was said, will not guarantee
exporting concerns against seizure OF
liquor shipments. which are not made
in regular carriers.
Liquor aboard vessels in the De-
troit river, the department announc-
ed, will be seized for assurance from
the owners that the shipments have
legal destinations. If the court be-
fore which the case is taken denies
the attorney generals confiscation
order on the grounds that the goods
are for export. the consignee will be
notified that his liquor is awaiting
instructions and he will be asked to
specify by what carrier it shall be
forwarded.
Evening star., 1921-08-19
TAKES DRINK; FINED $40.

Charles A. Monroe, colored, charged
with transporting liquor, appeared
before Judge Hardison in the United
States branch, Police Court, and be-
cause Of some extenuating circum-
stances was fined only $40.
1t was stated that Monroe was
riding in a machine and was offered
a drink by the driver. Taking the
bottle in his hands he took a long
swallow. At that time the driver.
noticing the approach Of two police
men. jumped out and disappeared.
leaving Monroe holding the bottle of
whisky.
Monroe did not own the bottle, nor,
except for his parched throat, have
any interest in it. but the fact that he
was holding it. even for the short
SPACE of time when the policeman
found him, constituted a technical
violation Of the volstead law against
transporting. and. according to the
ruling of the court, was guilty.
Evening star., 1921-08-19
WRITER'S Of PACIFIC
LANDS TO0RGAN|ZE
Plans for Permanent Body Of
Newspaper and Maga-
zine Men,.

HONOLULU, T. H., August 19.-Ten-
tative plans for the permanent organ
ization of newspaper and magazine
men of Pacific lands are being drawn
Iup at Columbia. Mo-, by DR.. Walter
Williams, president of the Press Con-
gress of the World. which will meet
in Honolulu next October. according
to advices received from Alexander
Hume Ford, secretary director of the
Pan-Paciflc Union. who is in the con-
tinental United States helping ar
range plans for the press congress
and other international gatherings to
be held here.
The outline for the Pacific organ
ization.. which contemplates bien-
nial pan-Pacific press gathering in
Honolulu. will be submitted to DR..
Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia Uni
versity. New York. to Henry Stead OF
Melbourne, Australia and to other
journalistic leaders in countries bor-
dering the Pacific.
First Convention Date.
The first biennial ran-Pacific press
convention, says Mr.. Ford, is sched-
uled for the summer of 1922, when. it
is expected. President Harding will
meet premiers of Pacific countries in
Honolulu.
DR.. Williams has written to each OF
the Pacific countries requesting that a
paper be prepared on journalism in
each for presentation on the last day
Of the sessions of the Press Congress
Of the World in October. which has
been set apart as pan-Pacific press day
All the delegates will be invited to
the morning sessit ms. at which DR.
Williams will preside, and in the aft
ernoon organization of the permanen,
Pan-Pacific Press Congress will be
undertaken.
Discusses Program.
Speaking of the plan in a recent let.
ter from the mainland, Mr.. Ford said:
"Dr. Williams feels that the legacy
Of the Press Congress of the World
| will be the formation Of a Pan-Pa.
cif1c Press Congress. Among those
preparing papers bearing on this are
Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia Uni.
versity. Henry Stead of Stead's Re.
view. Melbourne. Australia: B. w
Fleisher of the Japan Advertiser and
Transpacifc Magazine, Toxic. and
Walter s. Rogers of the American
State Department. Latin American
countries. China, Japan, the Philip
pines, New Zealand and Canada
have been requested to name dele
gates to the Pan-Pacific Press Con.
gress and papers will be expected
from them as well"
Evening star., 1921-08-19
BRIDEGROOM GIVES BAIL

Harold B. Foulkrod. twenty-five
years old. who has spent the first four
days of his married life at the Dis.
trict jail, may now begin his honey
moon. He gave bail of 5000 yesterday
to appear before the grand jury to
States Treasury check which is said
to have been stolen. He had been en-
ployed in the Office of Gen. Butler al
Quantico, Va.
Accompanied by a deputy marshal
Foulkrod secured a marriage license
last Saturday and with his bride, Miss
Emily Blatchley. went to the office OF
Judge Mattingly of the Municipal
Court and were married. The deputy
then accompanied the husband to jail
and the wife returned to her fathers
home.
Evening star., 1921-08-19
BURSUM RENOMINAJED
AS G. o. P. CANDIDATE
Senator Chosen at Harmonious
and Enthusiastic Convention
in New Mexico.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SANTA FEE, N. NJ, August 19.-By
acclamation in one Of the most en-
thusiastic and harmonious conven-
tions ever held by the republicans of
New Mexico, Senator Holm o. Bursum
received the nomination to succeed
himself Frank H. Hitchcock, former
Postmaster General. and Miss Ed
wards Of Indiana. representing the
woman's division Of the national-com-
mittee, were among the convention
speakers.
High tribute was paid to President
Harding by Senator Bursum in his
speech Of acceptance.
THE administration Of Harding will
mark an epoch that will live forever
in the history of the world he said.
Delegates and visitors applauded
and cheered when the senator de-
clared:
whether it takes four hundred
million dollars a year. or four billion
dollars; whether it takes the shirt off
the back Of every citizen of this coun-
try, our disabled veterans must be ad-
equately provided for"
In making a plea for recognition of
Mexico, he said. in conclusion:
I'VE must recognize Mexico. finance
her and promote the best of trade re-
lations with her"
Evening star., 1921-08-19

CAPT. THELEEN DETACHED,
Capt David E. Theleen has been
detached from duty at the Boston
navy yard and placed on waiting
orders.
Evening star., 1921-08-19
B. & 0. DEPENDS
ON REFUND|NG BILL
Road Planning $780, COO
Worth of Needed Repairs
Under Legislation.
Special Disna tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE. August 19.-The ex-
penditure of $9,500.000 by the Bafti-
more and Ohio railroad in repairs
to its rolling stock and maintenance
on the fate Of the railroad refunding
bill now before Congress. with fair
probability Of its passage.
The Baltimore and Ohio has been
forced to withdraw from use over
700 locomotives and large number
Of freight and passenger cars need
ing repairs. Its Mount Clare shops
here and the shops at Cumberland
are practically closed. even with this
amount of work to be done, because
of the lack of ready cash to pay
for 1t.
Repairs Planned.
If the refunding bill is passed by
Congress. the Baltimore and Ohio will
receive about $13,O00.000 as its share.
With this money: according to Of,
be started. with the consequent
throwing open of thousands Of posi-
tions. which will ease the unemploy-
ment situation to a large extent in
this vicinity.
George NJ Shriver. senior vice presi-
has been attending the hearings at
Washington before the Senate COM
mittee on interstate commerce in
connection with the pending legis-
lation providing for the funding of
certain obligations of the railroads
to the government, said there was
apparently a good deal of misunder-
standing as to the purpose of the
legislation and how it comes to be
necessary.
Vice President's Statement.
Briefly stated" said Mr.. Shriver,
"the situation is this:
THE government during the period
of federal control expended large
sums of money upon the railroads for
additions and betterments and i'm
provements. with or without the con-
sent of the corporations and largely
from the standpoint of war necessl-
ties. The transportation act, 1920. ano
the contract with the railroads clear
ly contemplated that such expendi-
lures would be funded: that is, that
these expenditures wo1ld be consld-
cred advances to the railroads whlch
they would repay over period Oh teH
years. The appropriations so far
made were not sufficient to proVioe
these funds. and consequently the
director general was compelled to
withhold from the carriers as an on
set large amounts due to them on ac-
count Of compensation. depreciation
ETC., which should have been paio
over to the corporations when theii
properties were returned to them on
March 1. 1920.
.'The lack of these funds" said Mr.
Shriver, has prevented the railroads
from going ahead with their repair
and Improvement work. which they
would otherwise do, and thus add to
| the employment at a period when il
| is most needed"
Evening star., 1921-08-19
MEXICAN BISHOP DIES.

NEW YORK, August 19.-The Rt.
Rev. Jose M. Ignacio Monies de Oca y
Obregop, bishop Of the diocese of
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, died yesterday
at the home of Mgr. Michael J. La
velle. rector of st. Patrick's Ca
thedral. The Mexican prelate came
here recently en- route to his diocese
from a visit in Spain and was taken
ill while visiting Mgr. Lavelle. Bishop
De Oca was eighty-on years old and
had been a bishop fifty years. For
the last thirty-seven years he had
been head OF the San Luis Potosi
diocese.
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tanning the stage Of professional
penman for the government.
nNs 0r~~,NrxS-- ChnA.~.

Surviving him are his children,
Mrs. r. ]. Palmer, Charles Swank and
Laidlow Swank of this city. Mrs. o.
L. Haverly of Athens, Pa, and Mrs.
James E. Arnout of Jacksonville, Fla.
Funeral services will be conducted
from the residence tomorrow at 2
o'clock. Interment will be in Glen
wood cemetery.
Evening star., 1921-08-19
GREEK STATESMAN DIES.
Former Premier Rhallys Passes
Away Following Long Illness.

By the Associated pres1.
ATHENS. August 19. 9.-Demetries
Rhallys, former premier Of Greece, is
dead, 1t was announced here today. as
the result of an illness from which he
has been suffering for many months.
NJ. Rhallys. although an octogena-
rtan, had been active in Greek politics
until very recently. forming a minis
try late last fall in succession to Pre-
mier Venizelos. after the latter's de-
feat in the elections.
1t was his cabinet that authorized
the plebiscite on the return of King
Constantine to the throne and that
was in office at the time of the king S
reaccession.
Evening star., 1921-08-19
WOMAN SHOOTS SELF.

Mrs. Marie Patrinka, twenty-nine
years ole, 1920 41st street. Tenley-
town, while in room with her hus-
band and an aunt at her home yes.
terday shot herself in the region OF
the heart. She had been unoer
treatment for nervousness and, it is
stated, declared she could no longer
stand the strain. She was taken TO
Emergency Hospital. Her condition
ia serious, it is stated.
Evening star., 1921-08-19

Verse written by Mr.. swanl< shortly
before his death, showing that he re-
tained his great skill until the end.
Evening star., 1921-08-19
DR.. Common, EDUCATOR, DIES.

WILLIAMsPORT. Pa, August ia
Rev. BENJAMIN Cuthbert Connor,
president Of Dickinson Seminary,
died here late last night following
an operation two weeks ago. He was
t native Of Maryland and graduated
from Dickinson in 1871 and from
Wesleyan College, Middletown, Conn,
four years later.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
SENATE ASKS
ABOUT TREATY
HARDING, WHO RAPED WILSON
SEcRETIVENEss, is A SPHINX
COMPARED WITH LATTER
TELL NOTHING WHATEVER
Democrats Ready to Draw a Deadly
Parallel Between the President
and His Predecessor-Irrec-
oncibables Contented.

Washington. - Curiosity, accompa
MED by some impatience, is being man
ifested by the senate concerning the
new treaty OF peace with Germany
according to dispatches from Berlin
which is now in the final processes Ol
negotiation.
So far the senate has been kept com
pietely IN the dark about the negotia
tions. Although members of the for
elgn relations committee keep an evel
Watchful eye on the administration 3
moves in international diplomacy, their
Ignorance concerning the treaty max.
Ing now in progress is paralleled only
by what they claim was their inability
TO obtain information while the Yer.
sailles treaty was being framed. The
only light they have been able to get
has come through newspaper dis
patches and this has been dimmed by
administration declarations that they
are wide of the mark.
The democrats, 1t is reliably report
ed, are planning to make all the cap
halthey can out of the alleged deadly
parallel"
Inquirers at the state department
concerning relations with Germany
elicit no information beyond the bare
admission that Ellis Loring Dresel, the
American commissioner at Berlin, is
engaged in deliberations with the au-
thorities in Berlin.
Most of the irreconcilables, although
they would be better pleased IL they
were kept more closely informed of de-
Eelopments, were gratified to hear that
the administration is actually engaged
in the negotiation of a new treaty, be-
cause they regard such action as con-
proof that the Versailles pact
Is scrapped forever so far as the Unit
ed States is concerned.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
q YEAR
ALWAYS o.
SuperStitiouS Bulgarian
Spirits of Evil.
Observe Many Odd Customs \
They Believe of Immense Impt
tance to Their Welfare.

! Are you one of those who will moi
/ walk under a ladder, raise an um
brella in the house or spill the salt
without casting few grains OveI
your shoulder? If you believe In
these or the kindred superstitiOns fast
dying out in this country, you will
feel degree of kinship with the av'
erage Bulgarian peasant. For there
are so many things a Bulgarian may
not do, writes Temple Manning, in thG
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Among the many customs Of rural
Bulgaria, to neglect which is consid
cred unlucky and even sinful, are the
following: To bring flour into the
house and neglect to fumigate 1t with
special incense. This must be done to
drive out Of the -four any demon
which may have entered the sack.
When the housewife or her daugh-
ter goes to the spring for water, she
must not neglect to spill little on the
ground before even starting with the
pail for the house. This is done to
turn out any elemental spirit which
has been ScOOped into the pail. II IL
isn't done the spirit may take up its
abode in the house, and may even en-
ter the body OF one OF the family who
drinks the water.
II you are asked to sell a loaf Of
bread you must not part with 1t with
out first having cut or torn Off a
small piece from an end. The spirit
that has helped you make the bread
must be given a chance to ny out Of
the loaf and still linger in the house
he loves.
Under no circumstances may you
give child q spoon to play with. I
do not know just why you may not
do this, but 1t is considered exceed
ingly unlucky.
Nor can 1 account for the belief
which is common in some far farming
sections Of Bulgaria, that 1t is very
unlucky TO give a child under seven
years Of age a bath. The child may
wash itself, but that is its own look
out. The mother may wash the child
little also, but not give it a bath all
over at one time.
Imagination easily accounts for the
prohibition against cleaning a stable.
selling milk, fetching water or doing
any of the many other farm duties
after darkness has fallen.
But how is one to account for the
Bulgarian belief that to permit a dog
to sleep on the roof of a house will
disturb the rest of the dead members
of the family?
These and countless other super
stitions rule the daily work and hab-
its Of old Bulgarians and the youths
who live and work in many a shut-in
section Of that hilly land.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
WANT MILD BEER
TO BEAR TAX
PROPOSAL FOR REVENUE RAISING
SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED"
AMEND VoLsTEAD ACT.
APPROACH THE DRY LEADERS
$40 Barrel on 2.75 Per Cent 5eerAos
Wine Suggested as Tax-House
Committee Now Gets Down
to Brass Tacks.

Washington.-A movement asking
congress to shift burdensome taxes
from the people to non-alcoholic beer
has been started throughout the coun.
try, urging congress to have the reye
nue. provide for the manufacture and
sale of beer containing 2.75 per cent
alcohol and in that way raise from
$l,0OO,OO0,000 to $1,25O,OO0,O 900 in tax.
es, and the proposition is being seri.
ously considered.
An effort has also been made to get
prohibitionists to agree to a tax Of
$40 per barrel on mountaineering ce-
real beverages containing not more
than 2 3/4 per cent of alcohol by
weight"
The suggested legislation would not
violate the spirit OF the 18th amend.
ment, but in effect amend the Vol.
stead act by killing the provision pro-
hibiting the manufacture OF beer with
an alcoholic content. A bill or amend.
ment to that effect viii be introduced
in the house to be considered when
the regular revenue bill is taken up.
Practical experts have estimated
that between 10000. 900 and 120, 900 900
barrels Of beer would be consumed II
1t contained 234 per cent OF alcohol.
Majority members OF the house ways
and means committee expect to get
down to brass tacks of tax revision
at once.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
Aviation Marvel Found

An airplane capable Of landing with
out the need Of a large aviation field,
able to rise without long run before,
able to travel more than 800 miles
an hour and, If necessary, to meander
along at but a few miles an hour, Is
announced as the invention of an
Italian engineer, Epaminonda Ber-
tucci Of Rome.
The inventor claims that he already
tried out the machine on a small scale
and regards his first experiments as in
dlcative of the success of the inven-
ton. The new machine is primarily
intended for aerial war chasing and is
to be armed with a machine gun. 1t
is a mOnoplane.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
Bitter Inkinn

Elinor Glyn, the novelist, was talk
Ing to a reporter about her long visit
In Spain.
THE death rate for babies is fear
ful In Spain," she said. IF it were
not for that sad fact the world would
soon contain more Spaniards than
Chinese; for the Spanish are a re-
markably prolific race. Families Of
10 and even 20 children are not un-
common among them.
"But these children die off I'm their
Infancy because their mothers are so
very ignorant of hygiene. once heard
two Spanish doctors joking-joking
bitterly, you know-about this ma
ternal ignorance which does so much
harm.
Yes said the first doctor, Don
ma Pillars new baby died off, of, of
course. At the age Of two months she
was feeding 1t on pork, cheese and
wine .,..--.. -,
Pork, cheese and wine-a good
diet, that, for two-months' old baby.n
said the second doctor. The rich Ho-
mars, though, have a better one for
their youngster. They give 1t for din
ner every evening a brace of chops. ,
fried potatoes, sweet pudding and a
stifr whisky and soda, with coffee.
hqueur and a good strong Havana ct-,
gar to follow"
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
"Nothina Worth Takino."

Paris.-Burglars entering the pala-
tial mansion of Baroness James Re-
Rothchild, but after ransacking the
house from top to bottom left without
taking any loot. The building is sit
uated at the corner of Avenue Fried
land and Rue Tilsitt, few yards from
the American passport bureau. 1t con-
tains a collection of old masters worth
several million francs.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
WILL AVOID CLASHES.

American Soldiers to Wear Uniform
in England Only Occasionally.
Washington There is a mysteri-
Gus bit of international politics." army
officers think, behind the order of The
war department forbidding American
army officers and enlisted men from
wearing uniforms in the United King
dom, except while attending court or
state ceremony. The order was issued
by Secretary Weeks at the request of
the British government. 1t does not
state the reason for the British re-
quest, which brought the order out of
a clear sky, and it does not require
that British army officers and men
must observe the same rule in this
country.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
WHITE HOUSE CLERK WEEDS.

Nelson Webster Married Maryland
Woman In Presidents Absence.
Washington.-White House attaches
had a pleasant surprise to enliven the
dull hours while the president is away,
when they learned Of the marriage of
one Of the best known figures around
the executive offices, Nelson P. Web
ster. disbursing clerk, who counts his
services in decades. Mr.. Webster and
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Lemont-Lilley, of
Elkton, Md, were married at Elkton
during the vacation Mr.. Webster took
In the presidents absence.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
Race Reported BY Wireless.

Chicago.-Chicago newspapers re-
ceived results Of the speed boat races
off the municipal pier by wireless tele-
phone through the Associated Press.
For the first time in history a wireless
telephone direct into a press associa-
tion office is being used to cover q
news event.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13

London-The soviet authorities have
decided to send three special delega-
tfons abroad on behalf of starving
Russia, declares a Reval message for
Warded by the Exchange Telegraph
Agency from Copenhagen.
Prof. Bechterey, formerly OF the Uni
Versity Of Petrograd, will head the
delegation to England, France, Spain
and the United States, the message
said. Adolph Joffe will head the dele
cation to Switzerland, Italy, Czecho-
SloVakia and Poland, while NJ. Lunar
charsky, former minister Of education,
will head the delegation to Sweden,
Denmark, Norway, Holland and Bel
GUM.
Meanwhile. asserts the dispatch, the
soviet representatives abroad have
beee ordered to suspend propaganda
work. 1t also is reported that orders
for machinery and other goods will be
held up, the money remitted being
used for the purchase OF food.
All the American prisoners in Mos
cow and Petrograd will be sent across
the Russian border soon, according to
a message received here by Walter L.
Brown, European director Of the Amer
ican relief administration from Leo
Kameneff, chairman of the Russian re.
lief committee.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
ASK WORLD TO AID RUSSIA.

international Red Cross Calls Confer
enee at Geneva to RelieveC Famine.
Geneva.-The International League
ofRed Cross Societies, through Claude
Hamilton Hill and Gustav Ador, gen.
eral secretary and former president,
respectively, Of that organization, has
issued an appeal to all governments,
urging them to participate in a confer
ence at Geneva August 15, in order
to study ways and means of relieving
the famine-stricken areas of Russia.
The Concordia sentinel., 1921-08-13
British CoaIinc Port.

Kingston, Jamaica-In connection
with the proposal to re-establish Port
Royal as q naval station on account Of
the strategic position of Jamaica In
the Caribbean sea, provision is being
made to coal and yictual British ships,
especially those passing through the
Panama canal.