The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-10
Washington News
Rx Associated Press

l the reCOInnSnOallOnS OI the SpSClal | presidential committee headed by 1 Charles G. Dawes of Chicago for or | ganization of a veterans service ad- ministration to take entire charge of relief for disabled soldiers, was given l today by the National Disabled Sol- l diers' league. In a formal resolution 1 adopted by that body, the President l is asked to make the consolidation of l bureaus having to do with soldier re- l lief work and to appoint one of the l GALS disabled veterans as director | general of the new administration.
 The two marine corps airplanes fly l ing from Washington to the Virgin Islands reached Port Au Prince, Haiti, yesterday, the navy department was advised today. The next stop will be Santo Domingo city.
 1 Deposits in the United States postal | savings system were approximately | $161, ,150, 900 on-April 1, the postoffice departments announced today. Phoenix, Ariz., with deposits for March totaling $15S,064, lead in the gains for the ] month and jumped from one hundred 1 thirty-ninth to fifty eighth rank in the total amounts on deposit. Boston came l second in the monthly gain with $146,- S92. New York third with ss4.491, and Globe, Ariz- fourth with s21,700. One | hundred and forty three postal deposi- tories now have more than $1oo.oe0 l on deposit. 4a
 | Postal employees will hereafter be | armed and rewards given for appre- hension of mail robbers. Postmaster General Hays today sent out an order l posting standing reward of $5.000 | for any postal empioye or other per- | son who brings in mail robber." The | order further provided for the arm I ing of essential men in the service and gave notice that 'every man is expected to uphold the honor of the 1 service.'
 Charles Johnston resigned today as chief of the division of Mexican af- | fairs of the state department to enter l private business. Richard Tannis will be in charge of the division as acting chief
 The army's organized reserves, made up of the officers reserve corps and the enlisted reserve corps were de- scribed by the war department in a statement today as "the principal war component of the army of the United States, limited in strength only by the man power of the nation"
 Preparations for the transfer of the task of providing medical and surRi- cal treatment for disabled war vet erans from the public health service to the war risk bureau was made to- day at conference of officials of both bureaus with Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury LaPorte.
 Several nationally known pro league republican supporters of Presi. dent Harding representing the western and middle western states and New England, who had prepared a memo rial to be presehted to former Premier viviani, have abandoned the plan be- cause disagreement as to the wisdom or presenting the paper at this time arose when the New York signatures were being obtained.
 Denver s. Dickerson of Nevada, for mer superintendent of federal prisons accepted today the managing director- ship of the Prisoners Relief society.
 An invitation to attend the nationa, convention of the B'rith Abraham. Jewish order, at Atlantic City May IS was taken under consideration today Dy President Harding who told a dele gation that if he found 1t i'm mpossible to attend, he would send represen- tative or message of greeting.
 
 Appointment of Capt. Julia l.. Lati- mer to be judge advocate general of the navy has been recommended to the i President by Secretary Denby. Captain Latimer, who is a native of West Vir- ginia. is now commandant of the | seventh naval district and the naval I station at Key West. Fla He- would 1 succeed Rear Admiral George R. Clark | Wno recently reached retirement age. l
 
 A soldiers bonus bill will be intro duced in the House early next week by | Chairman Fordney of the ways and Heahs committed, who initiated the | aolusted compensation measure that | was passed by the last House. but | Iahed to receive Senate approval MT. | Fordney said today he had not de- termined whether the new bill would | contain the same five main provisions carried in the old measure, but indi- cated 1t would be essentially the same
 Negotiations are in progress with France to obtain for American cable | companies the right to deal directly | with the French public. it was An- nounced today at the state department | The government is attempting to put American cable companies operating in France on the same footing as French companies in the United States. it was explained l.