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Evening star., 1921-08-12
PRESIDENT TO TAKE
I WEEK End CRUISE.
With Mrs. Harding and Party
Will Sail Aboard May
flower Tomorrow.

I The President and Mrs. Harding
have planned another week end
kruise on the presidential yacht May
hover. Accompanied by party OF
blk or eight friends. they have ar
Ranged to leave the navy yard dock
between 4 and 5 o'clock tomorrow
Afternoon and will return to WASH
ynEton early Monday morning.
I The cruise will be confined to the
Potomac river and lower Chesapeake
bay. 1t is considered likely that the
facht will be used each week end
between now and the time when the
President and Mrs Harding leave Tor
4 two or three week vacation during
The coming recess of Congress.
sr5 President Heads Red Cross.
Harding was formally
slotified today Of his election last Fri
e&ay as president of the American Red
$ross A subcommittee Of the execu-
tive committee of that association
called at the White House in the ca
End discussed with the President ad-
Einistrative and technical matters
concerning the program OF activities
$br the Red Cross for the coming
Hit was explained that the delay in
slecting President Harding to head
x9ie Red Cross was due to the failure
~ receive former President Wilson's
designation until only a Few weeks
Ego. Following the formalities and
jf6e discussion of Red Cross matters.
ahe President accompanied his callers
- the grounds in the rear of the ONCE
8nd posed with them for group
photograph.
Those in the notification committee
Mere DR.. Livingston Ferrand. Maj
Hen. Ireland, surgeon of the Army;
x&sar Admiral Stitts, U. 9. N, and
Rdliott Wadsworth, assistant secre-
Fifty OF the Treasury.
= Secretary Weeks q Caller.
ffSecretary Weeks called at the White
House early today to settle the matter
t4f the appointment of an associate
Eyfstice of the supreme court OF the
philippines. He was accompanied by
McNary of Oregon Announce
paent of the appointment probably
hall be made late today or tomorrow
Charles B. Warren of Detroit, Mich,
who was recently appointed ambassador
to Japan, called at the White House to
pay his respects and to briefly dis
cuss with the President matters con-
cerning his new post. He also saw
Secretary of State Hughes, who will
give him his definite instructions be-
fore he leaves Washington. which
will be within the next few days Mr.
Warren expects to sail with his fam
lily for Japan September l next.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
ADOPT %S,0D0
PLAYGROUND PLAN
United Citizens Committee
Will Lay 1t Before Commits
sioners TODAY.

A $455.000 program for the i'm
provement and extension of the play
ground system of the District has
been adopted by the united citizens'
playground committee and will be
laid before the Commissioners this
afternoon.
OF that amount $s3o.oo0 is for the
purchase of additional land. 100000
for experimenting school play,
grounds and $4,000 for additional
maintenance
Seven sites Recommended.
-Four sites for playground for white
replace the Columbia Heights ground.
100000: purchase of Merritt field.
now used as an unequipped play
ground. at I street between Sd and
4th streets northeast. $4,000; pur-
chase Of not less than $4,000 square
feet OF ground in the vicinity OF
northeast. $4,000; purchase of lots
between Virginia avenue, AN. 9Th
and School streets southwest. $17.OOO:
Three playground sites for colored
children are recommended. with pur-
chase prices. as follows: In the
southeast section near Lincoln park.
$4,000: land in the vicinity of viii.
son school. $4,000, and purchase OF
the present Rose Park playground,
9th street between Dumbarton ave-
nue. and o street northwest. together
with two lots north and south. $4,000.
The total amount to cover acquisi-
tion of land is $330,000.
Committee FavOrs Plan.
The committee report heartily ap-
proves the plan now being put into
partial operation by Commissioner
Oyster of opening the school yard
Fairgrounds during the summer as
well as the school months.
by doing this" the report con-
tinues. there will be in all sections
of the city. particularly the crowded
portions. Fairgrounds for the smaller
children within comparatively short
distances from their homes. They Will
serve the purpose in many COM
munities where it Ia now Impossible
to find unoccupied ground to pur-
hase for playground needs.
by an estimated expenditure OF
about $4,000. for play supervisors
and extra janitor service. about fifty
school Fairgrounds can be kept open
during the summer months and on
Saturdays and daily after school
hours for ten months in the year"
Need shade Trees.
The committee also touches upon
Fairgrounds and suggests that this
be done in the fall by the District
authorities.
Steps also should be taken. the
committee believes. to have the play
grounds lighted for the benefit OF
older boys and girls for evening rec
reation.
The Commissioners are urged to ask
the federal authorities for the use
of tho Jjhertv Hut reservation near
Union station for major sports under
proper regulation.
The report was drafted by spe-
cial subcommittee of the citizens
committee, with Phillip Walker as
chairman.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
HOUSING CONCERN OUT.

The Federal HousinE Corporation,
as government agency, is not sub,
ject to taxes on its property in va
rieus cities, Secretary Davis Of the
Department of Labor declared i'm q
letter to the Senate yesterday in re-
sponse to a resolution by Senator
asking why taxes were not paid on
the corporations property in Bridge
port. Conn.
The Department of Justice, Secre-
tary Davis said, has ruled that the
corporations property Is tax exemnt.
tax suits.
TAX claims Of 3s7l.o0o have been
dled against the corporations prop
erty by various cities. The Bridge
port claim is $4,000,
Evening star., 1921-08-12
INTERCEPTING SEWERS
URGED TO BE COMPLETED

Continuation of work on the upper
Potomac and main Anacostia inter-
cepting sewers is urged upon the
Commissioners by former Sanitary
Engineer Asa E. Phillips, in his last
annual report submitted to the city
heads today. Mr.. Phillips resigned q
few days ago.
Within few years. he states, funds
will be required to begin the sewage
treatment works, and the interceptor
sewers should be completed in the
meantime, the report continues.
II the demands for economy necessi-
tate a reduction in the suma to be
asked for in the next District appro-
priatfon bill. the sanitary engineer
suggests that 1t would be wiser to re-
duce the estimates for these two in
terceptor sewers rather than elimi-
nate them altogether.
The report states that during the
summer months 22,981 stormwater
catchment basins were flushed and
treated with mosquito oil at cost of
a1,0e4.50.
The sanitary engineer advises the
Commissioners that 1t would be q
waste of money to make extensive re-
pairs on old trunk sewers that were
built more than ffty years ago. and
that they should be reconstructed.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
BOXER BILL PASSED.
Senate RENTS Further Chinese
Payments.

The bill Of Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts for remission of further
payments by China to the United
States under the Boxer rebellion in
demnity treaty was passed yesterday
by the Senate and sent to the House
Senator Lodge described the measure
as an unsolicited ''act of friendly
kindness" carrying out past policies
remaining due on the indemnity.
This is balance of about $9,000,-
600 in American expenses incident to
occupation. All private claims grow
ing out of the uprising, Senator
Lodge informed the Senate, have
long been settled.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
KEEP CORNERS CLEAN.
Wiping Out Breeding Places Urged
in War ON Flies.

The necessity for wiping out the
breeding places Of flies in the home.
as well "a swatting the grown pest,
was emphasized by Health omcer Few,
Ter today.
The tops of, cuphsards and other
dark corners of the kitchen should be
kept clean, he saids as one 'means of
keeping down the development of the
disease carriers.
Greasy bags ana paper in which
food is delivered should not be left
in the house longer than 10 necessary,
since it serves as fertile place 70.
the breeding Of fies.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
BROWNS AFTER FALL,
Boy Loses Life When He Slips
From Plank.

While crossing a plank from one
boat to another at the wharf of the
l. A. Clarke Lumber Company. foot
of 10th street southwest, yesterday
afternoon. Joseph Elwood Hanson,
colored, four years old. fell overheard
and was drowned. His body was re-
covered by the crew of the police boat
and taken to the morgue. A certifl-
cate of accidental drowning was
given by Coroner hewitt.
The child's parents reside at Riv-
erside Md, the father having been
in charge of a sailing craft engaged
in hauling wood to this city from
lower Maryland. His father and
mother were only a short distance
pened.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
COAL PRICE HIGHER,
PREDICT DEALERS
Expect Increase About Sep
tember 1-Stagnation in
Market at Present.

Users of anthacite coal in the Dis
trict of Columbia may face a serious
shortage of fuel early next winter
and will pay higher prices for coal.
unless they buy now, according to
local dealers seen today. Dealers bins
are full at present of coal bought at
a relatively low price and purchasers
may realize a saving by buying now.
IL is stated
There is at present between 10000
and 10000 tons of anthracite coal in
dealers bins in the District-about
the normal or possibly a little more
lnan normal for this time of year.
Ihe present prices in the usual sizes
range from s14.50 to s14so a ton.
About September ! dealers here
expect a jump in the price of an
traclte. They are waiting now for
the erect of the Pennsylvania state
tax on the wholesale price 1t lis
pnedicted this will amount to about
~ cents ton to the dealer and the
consumer consumer VIII have to meet the in
crease py an Increase in the cost of
coai bought after that date At
present coal prices are about 60 cents
ION higher than they were in April
aio mere is every prospect they will
80 nigher before they decrease
n me situation in the District
amounts, dealers say. to a practical
boycott on purchases of anthracite
Two causes contribute to this situa
loH, one being the very mild winter
OF l92o-l921. when very little coal was
purchased in comparison with other
years, ana the other. the fact that
purchasers appear to be waiting for
Iower prices, which, dealers say, will
NOT come soon. il at all within a year.
Consumes 5sO.OOO Tons.
Washington in normal coal wears
consumes about 100000 tons of coal
including both bituminous and an
.nraclte. Anthracite production for
the country is considerably ahead of
iast year. yet purchases of hard coal
production. il is said.
IN case the coming winter equals in
severity the winter of l9lS-l9lS with
severe cold spells and heavy snowfall.
dimculty may not only be expert
sneed In getting coal to Washington.
put also in delivering the fuel after
1t arrives here. it il "ointed Out. This
was one OF the situations for which
the District coal committee made.
preparations last fall. There Was no
need TO take measures to combat such
mild winter
Because of the apathy of coal pur-
ehasers. thousands of coal cars nor
aIiy IN use al this time of wear arr
tied up on sidings. when they should
pe In use hauling coal for winter de-
livery. Coal dealers in the West Vir-
gina felds and parts of the Penn
sylvania fields report a partial ces
sation OF business, with little pros
pect OF business picking up until fall
AS evidencinG the rise in prices of
anthracite in the District of Colum
pia In the past year and a half. the
bureau OF labor statistics of the De-
Iartment OF Labor made public toda- =
ngures showing that the price of an
in that period. In May, purcha sers az
hard coal here paid sl420 for theit
coal while in January. 1924, the pric.
was $12.50. p'''
Evening star., 1921-08-12
LORDS DISCUSS FAMINE.
Members Of House Advocate Meth
!od Britain Followed in India.

SSy the Associated Press.
| LONDON. August 1.-THE Russian
famine was discussed in the house of
Cords yesterday. Several members
advocated the system employed iI&n-
fia in coping with similar visitatlons,
bamely, the establishment of large
famine camps on the great lines of
mi grafton, where the people could be
Retained until the return of normal
permitted their restoration
I'd the native villages, where means
eould be adopted in the meantime to
preserve the framework of village
life. Provisions also were suggested
TOR insuring a pure water supply.
! Lord Macdonald thought that the
government ought to make a grant of
from $4,000. 900 to f50.000.0 900 for the
purpose of relief.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
Mr.. DAWSON HAS TuMoR.

NEW YORK. August 12.-An oper-
alton today on Henry p. Davidson
Of ]. p. Morgan & Co.. for an
affection Of the auditory nerve dis
closed tumor near the brain, 1t
was announced at Roosevelt Hospi.
tai. where the operation was per-
formed by four specialists.
Although Mr.. Davidson was on the
operation table for more than three
hours the tumor was not removed.
1t was stated, because Of loss Of blood
and depression caused by the anes-
thetic.
His condition. howevsr. was repest.
ed satisfactory.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
Boats Propeller
Kills Nine-FOOt
Shark in HarbOr
Special Dispa ten to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICksBURG. Va. Au-
gust II. While entering Horn
harbOr In his motor boat. Hen.
~ Owens Of Matthews county
had the unusual experience Of
having his boats propeller
strike and Kill q nine-f00t shark.
The force Of the blow stopped
his engine and blood was seen
to rise from the water at the
stern Of the boat. Later the
shark was found dead. with tre-
mendOus gaAhes in its head and
tail.
The shark had been I'm the har-
bOr for some time.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
WOMEN JOIN POLICE FORGE.

Washington's police force has been
augmented by two members of the
fair sex. Misses Ethel NJ. Van Ness.
GOT 31st street, and Veronica A. Dew
lin, 2609 18th street. who will be un-
der MrsI Van Wrinkle. lieutenant in
charge Of the wemsn's bureau. which
now numbers twenty
Evening star., 1921-08-12
ENGINEER CORPS CHANGES.

| Maj. Thomas M. Robins. Corps of
Engineers. has been detailed a. .
Fiember Of the board of ofhcers con-
;sidering q system Of national high
ways in connection with rural post
foadsL He will relieve MAI. CYeawOIl
darlington. Corps Of EnEinesrs.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
HOME FROM HAWAII

Col. Robert 8. Smith, finance de-
partment. has been relieved from
duty in Hawaii and ordered to Fort
Benjamin Harrison, Ind. for duty.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
ORDERED TO WASHINGTON.

Maj. Paul r. Hawley, Medical
Cbrps, at Camp Grant. ILL.,. has been
ordered to this city for duty at the
Army Medical School.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
TAX CONFERENCE
SET FOR MONDAY
Continued from First Pase.)

the people for eight years, until final
~ turned out Of office. and that the
republicans were going to fool them
by cutting Off $60o,000.0o0 of their
taxes.
Majority members of the ways and
means committee considering the tax
bill held only one session yesterday.
This was given over largely to dis
cussion of changes in administrative
features of the existing law.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
ON WAITING ORDERS.

Capt. George L. Rayard. Naval
Chaplain Corps, has been relieved
from active duty and placed on watt
ing orders.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
PRINTERS REJECT LOWER PAY

LONDON, August 13.-London print
ers voted overwhelmingly against ac-
eeptancA Of the proposed reduction Of
10 shillings week In their wages.
Evening star., 1921-08-12
SILESlAN DISPUTE
WILL BE REFERRED
TO NATIONS LEAGUE

CONTINUED from First Pase.)
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
W. e WERE sitting at a corner
" table in q certain small
restaurant hard by where

restaurant hard by where
Sixth Avenues az" structure, like
an overgrown straddlebug. wades
through the restless currents of
Broadway at sharpened angle. The
dish upon which we principally dined
was called on the menu Chicken a
la Marengo. We knew why. Ma
rengo, by all accounts, was mighty
tough battle, and this particular
chicken, we judged, had never had
any refining influences in it's ill-spent
life. From its present defiant at
titude in a cooked form we figured
it had pipped the she'll with a bur-
glars jimmy and joined the Domi-
necker Kids gang before it shed it's
pin feathers. There were two of
as engaged in the fruitless attack
upon its sinewy tissues-the present
writer and his old un-lawabiding
friend, Scandalous Doolan.
For a period Of minutes Scandal
GUS wrestled with the thews Of one
OF the embattled fowls knee joints.
After a struggle in which the
honors stood practically even, he
laid down his knife and flirted q
thumb toward a bottle of peppery
sauce which stood on my side of the
table.
"Hey. bo," he requested, "pass
the llniment, will you? This sea-
gull's got the rheumatism.
For the nonce l could not classify
the idiom in which Scandalous
couched this request. 1t could not
be underworld jargon; it was too di.
rect and at the same time too pic
turesque. Nor to me did it sound
like the language of the circus lot,
Tor in such case it probably would
have been more complex. So by
process Of elimination I decided it
was Of the slang code of the bur
lesque and vaudeville stage, with
which, as with the other two, Scan
dalous had a thorough acquaint-
ance. / felt sure, then, that, with
proper pumping, a story might be
forthcoming. AS 1t turned out, /
was right.
"Where did you get that one,
Scandalous?" asked craftily. "Your
own coinage, or did you borrow it
from somebody else?"
He only grinnsd graphically. After
. bit he hailed the attendant waiter.
"Say." he said, "slip me a dipper
OF straight chicory and ono Of those
Flor de Boiled Dinners. and then
you can break the bad news to my
pal here"
By this I knew he meant that he
craved cup Of black coffee and one
OF the domestic cigars to which he
was addicted. and that / could pay
the check.
I'LL nibble at these" said, "un-
I'll you get through" And reached
for = little saucer of salted peanuts
that lurked in the shadow Of the
bowl containing tho olives and tho
gallery.
ssseakins Of peanuta," no said,
I don't seem to care deeply for such.
! lost my taste for them dainties
1uita aome time back"
"What was the oecasionr' 7
prompted, for saw tho light Of
teminiscence smoldering in his eye.
TT wasn't no OCCASION" he said;
It was a catastrophe. Did I ever
Happen to tell you about the time
furnished the financial backing for
Windy Jordan and his educated bull.
md what happened when tho blow
~ came?"
I shock my hssd and In silence |
Aaykensd.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-06
few weeks Windy had been infestine

a lodging-house for members of the
profession over here on East Elev-
enth Street, and Emily had been in
livery barn down In Greenwich
Village, just naturally eating her
old India-rubber head off. Windy,
having run low as to coin, wasn't
able to pay up Emily's back board,
and the liveryman was holding her
for the bill.
$50, hearing some way that I'm
fairly we'll upholstered with cur
rency, he comes to me and suggests
that if I'll dig up what's necessary
to get Emily out of hook he can
snare a line of bookings in vaude-
vile, and We'll all three go out on
the two-a-day together, him as
trainer and me as manager and
Emily as the principal attraction.
The proceeds is to be cut up fifty
fifty as between me and him.
"The notion don't sound like such
a bad one. That was back in the
days when refined vaudeville was
running very strongly to trained
animal acts and leading ladies that
had quit leading but hadn't found
out about it yet And next to emo
tional actrines who could emosh
twicet daily for twenty minutes on
a stretch, without giving way any
where, good trained animal turn
had the call. It might be q troupe
Of educated Potomac shad or an edu-
Gated ape or a city-hroke Gila mon
ster or a talking horse or what not.
In our case twas Emily. the bull.
f.
g FIRST thing, we goes down to
the livery stable where Emily
is spending the Indian summer and
consuming half her weight In dry
provender every twenty-four hours.
The proprietor of this here fodder
emporium is named Mcclure, and he
states that so far as Emily's per-
sonal conduct is concerned, during
her enforced sojourn in his midst,
she's always deported herself like a
perfect lady. But she takes up an
awful lot Of room, and one of the
hands is now on tho verge of nervous
prostration from overexertions In
Cured in packing hay to her, and it
seems she gets to dreaming that
mouse nearly an inch and half long
Is after her---all bulls is terrible
afraid. you know, that some day
mouse Is going to come along and eat
'ena-and she cries out in her sleep
and tosses around and maybe knocks
down a couple Of steel beams OF
busts in row Of boxstalls or some
thing trivial like that. Then, right on
top Of them petty annoyances, Nc
Guire some days previous has made
the mistake of feeding Emily pea
nuts. which peanuts. as he then finds
out, Ia her favorite tidbit.
'Gents,' says Mcclure, Il merely
meant them peanuts as q special
treat, but Emily figures 1t out that
they're the start Of fixed habit he
says. Ever since then, If forget
to bring her in her one five-eent bag
OF peanuts per diem, per day, she
calls personally to inquire into the
oversight. Shs waits very patient
and ladyliks until about IL o'clock
In the morning. and u l amt made
good by then she just pulls up her
leg hobble by the roots and drops in
on ma to find out what's tho meaning
Of tho delay.
"'She amt never rough nor over
bearing, but it inter{erss with trade
TOR mo to be sitting here in my office
at tho front Of the stable talking
business with somebody, and ill Of a
sudden ths front half At ths largest