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Evening star., 1921-07-03
ALEXANDRIA

- ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 2 (Special9.
Independence day will be marked
by general suspension of business:
Practically all lines of business will
close, banks, city and government
offices will be closed and the city
post office will be closed all day.
There will be a collection at o'clock
in the afternoon.
left the city to spend the holiday
at nearby resorts. The vast majority.
however. will not leave till tomorrow
and many wifi go Monday: There will
be no celebration here. The use of
certain kinds of fireworks. not regard
ed as dangerous, will be permitted.
and at night many set pieces will be
used.
Funeral services for Abram H.
took place this morning at 1880
o'clock, from his late residence. in the
Rosemont apartment, 414 Duke street.
They were conducted by Rev. Percy
Episcopal Church and burial was in
Union cemetery. Pallbearers were A.
r. Peake. Joseph Desilva, Benjamin
Baggett, Lambert Sullivan, Herman
Friedlander and w. 8. Richardson.
Ashby Edward Bladen. deputy clerk
of the court In this city, and John
Barton Phillips, also of this city,
were among the candidates to sue
cessfully pass the state bar examina-
June % and 20. Mr.. Bladen is deputy
clerk Of the court under Newell 8.
Greenaway ana Mr.. Phillips last year
was a teacher in the Alexandria High
School
In connection with the attendance
campaign being conducted in the vari-
Gus Sunday schools of the city during
the summer months. 1t is noted that
list Sunday tho attendance reported
was 1.443. against 1,642 the week
previous.
The Old Dominion Boat Club will
participate in the Peoples regatta,
which will be held in Philadelphia
Monday. The local club has entered
p1le. with the crew of Lionel Betton
and Henry Howard. and the four
Dared, with Louis Hoy. Allen Roberts
Jack Pohl and Marshall Shuman, are
the boats entered.
The retail credit mems bureau Of
the chamber OF commerce has ar
ranged to hold an important meeting
Friday night in the rooms OF the
chamber Of commerce.
FITZGERALD Council. No. 45s, Knights
| Of Columbus. will give its annual ex-
cursion to Marshall Hall Thursday.
1t is expected that it will be largely
patronized.
old. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward A.
Trent. died this afternoon at his par
ents' residence, 1877 South Fairfax
street. The funeral will take place at
10 o'clock Monday. Rev. p. v. Reg
ester will conduct the services.
Evening star., 1921-07-03
P0LICE'LosE DAY OFF.
Maj. Gessford Delays New System,
Fearing Legal Complications.

Maj. Harry L. Gessford. superintend
ent of police, has found it necessary to
delay inaugurating the system of giving
every two months. It was his intention
to inaugurate the system this morning.
and. 1t is stated, many members Of the
force already had planned for the days
respite.
1t was suggested that giving the men
the day off might not conform to the
legislative provision giving each men,
ber of the department not to exceed
twenty days annual leave. and Maj.
Gessford has asked the corporation
counsel for an opinion on the question.
1t is believed the decision will be IA
vorable to a days respite every two
months.
Evening star., 1921-07-03
RED CROSS WORKER DIES.
Funeral Services Held Yesterday
for Mrs. Mary J. Dodds.

Funeral services were held at her
late residence yesterday afternoon for
Mrs. Mary J. Dodds of 1918 Girard
street, whose death occurred Friday in
George Washington University Hospital.
The body was taken to. Rockville. Ind,
for interment. Mrs. Dodds. who is sur
vived by her husband. William ]. Dodds,
had made Washington her home for the
past twenty-six years. She was born
near Williamsburg, Ohio, seventy-thre
years ago. During the world war she
won distinction from the American Red
Cross by her work among the soldiers
and sailors. She was presented with a
medal Of merit.
Evening star., 1921-07-03
TysTs FOR NAVY CLERKS.

An examination Of candidates for
appoinsmsnt a. acting pay clerks in
the Navy VIII b held throughout the
naval service beginning October 8.
Candidates must have served three
years in tho enlisted branch Of the
Navy, and two years of that service
must hAve hesn on cruising vesseiR
Evening star., 1921-07-03
BAND. CONCERT.

At Walter Reed Hospital this
evening at Z o'clock, by the In
terror Department Band, w. G.
Wilmarth. director
March. Gel Captain. ..Sousa
Selection, robin Hood"
de Koven
Intermezzo. ''Cupids Garden
Eugene
Favorite songs of America.
Foi.er
(a) Kentucky HOME"
(b) "Old Folks at Home"
March (new), "Armistice Dsy"
WilE Arth
dedicated to the world war
heroes)
Popular, my Nanny"
Donaldson
Vocal solo by I. l.. McCathran
Mazurka Russo, La Czarine"
Came
March, Freedom of the Seas"
Esberger
'Star Spangled Banner"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-23
TO DISCUSS R R. WAGES
Conferences Between Officials and
Employees of Santa Fe Begin Monday.

Preparations have been made in the
office of the general manager of the
Santa Fe for the first of the series of
mence here Monday.
The conferences, which are for the
purpose of securing the consent of
fourteen classes of Santa Fe employees
to a reduction of 20 per cent in their
wages, are to continue, at almost daily
intervals, thru the remainder of this
month, and into May.
The first conference which is
scheduled for 10 o'clock in the office
of F. c. Fox, general manager, is with
the maintenance of way and structure
employees, with the exception of the
common laborers.
1t was stated today at the general
offices that no information had been
received as to the number or personnel
of the men who will be here to repre-
sent the workers.
Thre is much uncertainty as to the
exact status of the results which are
TO be achieved in the discussions be-
tween the officers and the employees in
view of the recent order of the United
States railroad labor board, abrogat-
ing the national agreements as to
wages and working conditions. None
of the railroad officials in Topeka.
either for the Santa Fe or for other
roads, have been advised as to the in
depreciation which will be put on the
order by the higher officers of the
TRANSFORMATION world
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GRANT hike IN PHONE RATES
Six Kansas Towns Must Pay More
for Service.

Raises in telephons rates in six Kan
sas towns served by the Southwestern
Bell Telephone company will become
effective next Tuesday as the result of
the action of Judge James Mcclure
in the district court today in overrul-
ing a motion by the public utilities
commission for another thirty days
stay of execution. The cities affected
are Eldorado, Lyons, Atchison, Hutch
inson, Arkansas City and Winfield.
On March 26 Judge Mcclure grant
ed the Bell company a restraining or
der enjoining the utilities commission
from interfering with the company's
raise in rates. He held that the pres
ent rate was unjust and confiscatory.
The order was not to become effective
for thirty days. in order that the com
mission might have time to make an
investigation and make another order
relative to the rates.
A few days ago the commission filed
a motion asking for another thirty
days, set the hearing on the company's
application for an increase for May 23
Judge Mcclure held today that the
Bell company had waited long enough
and that the raise might become ef-
fective Tuesday.
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union IN PROBE
National Miner Officials Invade
HOwat's Territory.
Want to Know About Strike
No Action by State.

Pittsburg, Kan, April 23.-Andrew
Steele, of Novington, Mo-, VIM. Dali
rymple, of McAlester, Okla, and
George Peck, of Pittsburg, members
of the international executive board
of the U. M. w. A, are here today to
investigate the strike of miners at the
big steam shovel pit of the Dean Coal
and Mining company.
The strike has been in progress
three weeks. Steele, Dalrymple, and
Peck were instructed to make the in
vestigation by John L. Lewis. inter-
national president.
morning in conference with Alexander
Howat, president Kansas district of
the Miners union. At noon no state
ment concerning the progress of the
conference was Forthcoming.
The strike at the Dean shovel pit,
one of the largest in the Kansas field,
started over a dispute when the COM
pany began the use of a loading ma
chine in the removal of dirt.
The loading machine is operated by
men hired by the company by the
month Men paid by the day made
the objection which led to the strike.
The Kansas court of industrial re-
lations has taken no action on the
Dean strike. ss-.-
President Lewis spent two days in
Kansas City this week conferring with
officials of the three southwestern
districts. President Howat was not
invited to the conference.
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MAY JOIN REVOLT
Thirty Thousand Recruits Pos
sibIe for Mexican Rebels.
Government Tries to FOreStall
DisgruntIed LabOrers.

Mexico City, April 23.-Thirty thou
sand men in the state of Coahuila will
join the revolution now threatening
unless the Mexican government pro-
vides the cotton growers with further
financial aid. a delegation informed
President Obregon today.
The finance ministry had offered
the growers a loan of 80 per cent of
the value of the crop, but has only
paid 20 per cent, which has proven
insufficient to continue work in that
region. The growers asked Obregon
to direct the finance ministry to ad-
vance the remaining so per cent, de-
claring that laborers in Coahulia are
tempted to join the revolution-said
to be set for May 5, the national holi-
day owing todaek of employment,
Official advices received here stated
that Pablo Gonzales, generally re-
garded as the head of the new revo-
lutionary movement, had arrived at a
point ten miles west of Laredo, Tex
where he announced he would inspect
his onion ranch. 1t is now believed
this was a pretext and that his real
object was a conference with other
revolutionary generals.
1t is known that the United States
authorities are keeping informed Of
Gonzales's movements and are watch
ing him closely.
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MOVED TO TOPEKA
e. S. District Attorneys Office
VIII Be Returned Here.
A. +. Williams Fayors Moving
Office From Il. c., Kan.
MULVAhE ASSURED OF IT
Senators Curtis and Capper Ap-
prove Plan to Bring 1t Here.
Office Was Taken From Topeka
by Fred s. Robertson.
MULVAhE ASSURED or IT

The United States district attorneys
office is to come to Topeka with the
appointment of Al F. Williams OF
Columbus to succeed Fred Robert
son. That is the assurance brought to
Topeka today by D. w. Mulvane, Re-
publican national committeeman,
when he returned from a three weeks
eastern trip. Mulvane is known to
have Joined with Senators Curtis and
Capper in urging return of the big
federal department from Kansas City
to Topeka.
Taken to X. c. by Robertson.
Shortly after Fred S. Robertson was
appointed by President Wilson as at
torney for the district of Kansas, he
secured permission from the depart
ment of justice for removal of the
office to Kansas City, Kansas Now
the department is TO be returned Al
F. Williams. the new district attorney.
is reported to favor location of the
office here and both United States
senators and the national committees
man want the office re-established
here.
"The district attorneys office is
coming back to Topeka" Mulvane
stated today. There isn't much ques-
ton about that. II is the wish OF
Senators Curtis and Capper and the
department will be returned to To-
peka where it rightfully belongs"
Mulvane was in Washington for n
considerable time preceding announce
ment of federal appointments for this
state. He was in frequent conference
with both Senators Curtis and Capper
and went over the patronage question
with them in detail He said today
that in his opinion the appointments
would meet with general aDDroyal
among leaders of all factions in the
Republican party in Kansas.
The Kansas national committeeman
| has been named as member OF the
| special commission which will make
trip thru southern states with d
view of studying the present basis OF
representation in national conventions
The trip has been delayed until May
| Members of the committee will COM
plete their work. Mulvane indicated
! today, in time to report to the ma
| tional committee at its special session
/ in June
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DOvER-AUBURN 7. B. CLINICS
Tuesday and Wednesday After
noon Free Examinations Given
by Contributors to the Topeka
Tuberculosis Association.

The first two rural clinics OF the
Topeka Tuberculosis association will
be held next week when Dover and
Auburn will be given free examina-
tions. DIR. Forrest L. Loveland, ex-
amining physician, and nurses of the
Topeka Tuberculosis association and
Public Health Nursing association will
be in charge of the clinics. Dover has
Tuesday afternoon, April 26, and Au-
burn Wednesday afternoon, April 27.
The Dover clinic was made possible
thru the purchase of a 800 health
bond from the Topeka Tuberculosis
association, Bertha Hampstead Me-
mortal clinic, by Horace L. Hall The
Auburn clinic was financed by the
Crosby Brothers company.
The remaining clinics to be given
in Shawnee county. and their donors.
follow:
Tecumseh. May 3. Warren NJ
Crosby Co.
Rossville. May A. Bank of Topeka
East Indianola, May 10. Mrs. Grace
Holmes
Indian Creek Grange, May II. Mer-
chants National bank.
Wakarusa, May II, Kansas Reserve
State bank.
Berryton. May IS. Central National
bank
Posters announcing the clinics were
placed in the vicinity of DoverNand
Auburn Friday afternoon by Mrs
Kurtz Kellam, clinic director of the
! Topeka tuberculosis association, and
Miss Ariel Nichols.
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TO name OIL INSPECTOR SOON
Ben Paulen and George Smith After
H. H. Motter's Place Here.

Governor Allen may wire from New
York his selection for state oil in
spector to succeed H. H. Motter. who
is to become internal revenue collec-
tor for the district of Kansas. Names
OF two candidates were urged for ap
pointment today with prospects that
the list would be enlarged in a day or
two.
Friends of Ben S. Paulen. former in
spector, seLt kilograms to Governor
Allen as soon as they learned that
Motter had been selected by the Kan
sas senatorial delegation for revenue
collector. Paulen held the office six
years. He was appointed by Governor
Capper in 1915 and remained in serv-
ice during the first term of the Allen
administration.
An appeal for appointment of
George Smith OF Marysville was also
sent to the governor. Smith is a vet
eran Republican editor and one of the
strong party workers in the Fifth dis
trict
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FACE R. R. CRISIS
Transportation Now Greatest
Economic Ill of Z. s.
Coal Famine Feared for Lack of
Needed Facilities.
KEEP FOOD PRICES HIGH
Roads Are Demanding Grant of
Lower Rates.
Supreme Court Expected to Kill
Transportation Act.

Washington. April 2S.-Remedies
for the nations transportation ills, re-
garded here as the chief cause for the
Industrial and agricultural slump are
nearer than has been generally sup
posed, it was learned today.
President Harding knows of some of
these proposed steps and has had a
hand in framing them, but he has not
felt able to announce them as yet.
This explains why the president, while
believing the railroad and economic
situation is the most serious confront
ing his administration and has not put
forward any plan for its solution.
Coal Shortage Feared.
Harding has been told that unless
something is done about the railroads,
there will be another coal shortage
next winter, the agricultural slump
will grow no better. all industry will
be hampered and some industries may
be killed due to the size and inequi-
ties of the present freight rates.
One member of the cabinet has told
the president that unless something is
done, "the whole geography of the
country will be changed
Meanwhile, the situation is in the
hands of the interstate commerce
commission and railroad labor board.
Both are judicial bodies and not even
the president can forecast judicial de-
clSlOIlS even lIlO he might nave SOIIle
intimation of them.
r.. r. Want Lower Rates.
1t is known, however, that rail-
road managers soon will ask lower
freight rates on some commodities, in
Guiding many classes of farm prod
ucts. The interstate commerce COM
mission is expected to promptly grant
these requests. Should the request
fail to materialize. the interstate COM
merce commission has the power to
initiate lower and more equitable
rates.
A conference of labor. capital and
the farmers to consider the railroad
and industrial situation has been pro-
posed to Harding. --.-
The proposed senate railroad inves
tigation may illustrate the necessity
for changes in the present transporta.
ton act.
If all other means fail, the govern
ment still has power to declare tina
an emergency exists and take over the
roads, something Harding and his ad
visers are 1oath to do.
Meanwhile, the supreme court ma!
put the whole railroad problem bach
into the lap of congress by declaring
| the transportation act unconstitu
tional
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-23
IRISH IN POLITICAL FIGHT
Elections to New Parliament To Be
Between Radical Parties.

Dublin, April 23.-Moderate organ
izations formed in southern Ireland to
put forth candidates for the southern
Ireland parliament and to work out
the home rule act have been dissolved.
Members of the Dominion league Will
not intervene unless the British gov
ernment promises the parliamentary
elections will be treated as furnishing
a constituent assembly, charged with
the task of discovering a solution of
the Irish problem.
Lord Decies, a representative peer
of Ireland and a member of the house
of lords. is said to intend to offer
himself for election to the south Ire
land parliament from North Kildare.
Sim Fein leaders would welcome his
candidacy, and have promised that,
should he enter the lists, he will re-
ceive good treatment.
All the elections to be held In
northern Ireland will be keenly
fought, the nationalists and Sim Fem
ers having agreed upon mutual candi-
dacies, and the full strength of the
national Catholic vote will be polled.
Belief is expressed here that the ma
tionalists will secure twenty out of the
fifty-two seats in the northern Irish
parliament.
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TO BREAK BOGUS CHECK HABIT
County Officials and Merchants As
sOciation Formulate Plan.

County officials and Milton Tabor,
secretary of the Merchants associa-
ton, have decided to combine in an
effort to break Forrest Blaylock, an
auto mechanic, of the habit of writing
worthless checks.
A few days ago Blaylock entered a
plea of guilty to passing d worthless
check on the Tully- Mcfarland drug
store. He admitted having written
about forty checks up to that time,
officers said. He was fined $25 and
court costs and released upon his
promise to reform and make the
other checks good.
Blaylock had not been away from
the court house two days. it was de-
clared, when he started writing checks
again. Tabor today swore to a COM
plaint against him, and warrant was
issued for his arrest.
We're going the limit this time"
Tabor declared today. He gave US
his word that he wouldn't put out
any more, and here have my pockets
full of them and the police have as
many more. The only thing to do
with a man like that is to put him
behind the bars. Most of the checks
were passed on filling stations and
are mostly for small amounts
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JAZZ HASHERS STRIKE
Lay Down Tools and Quit When
Publishers Refuse Part Talking
Machine Royalties.

New York. April 2S.-And there's
strike in the jazz factories.
One of the country's greatest indus
trial institutions-the manufacturers
of jazz music for the entire worlds
threatened by a Walkout of the Song
Writer'S union. it was learned here
today.
The Composers and Lyric Writers
Protective league, of which the strik
ers are members. Informed the Music
Publishers Protective association that
they wanted a minimum royalty of 3
cents on every copy of music sold,
with so per cent royalties obtained
from photograph records and player
piano Iol- concerns.
This s. unded too much like the
Financial Blues to the publishers and
they countcred with a minimum roy
atty of . cents and nothing doing on
the mechanical products
So the entire staff of nine writer's of
Watterson. Berlin & Snyder. music
publishers. laid down their tools and
walked out
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REVOLT GROWING
Ukrainians Push Rebellion
Against Russ BOlsheviki.
Campaign of Terrorism Started
by Soviet.

Stockholm, April 23.-Organized re-
bellion against the Russian soviet gov
ernment is growing with renewed
force in Ukraine, it is declared in tele-
grams received here from Petrograd.
Peasants engaged in the revolt have
taken many towns between the Dnei-
per and Dneister rivers, where the
movement is most pronounced and
they are reported to be engaged in
operations intended to force the Boil
sheviki eastward to the left bank of
the Dneiper.
Ukrainian peasants commanded by
General Makno, operating in the Lo-
zovo district south of Karkhov. have
torn up the railway line running be-
tween Moscow and the Crimea.
The Bolsheviki have concentrated
troops in the district of GomeI and
Rechitza, north of Kiev, where they
have driven back the rebels, and in
the neighborhood of Smolensk. north
west of Moscow, have begun a cam
pa1gn of terrorism. It is reported they
have executed two thousand persons
within the past few days.
The rebellion is said to be spread
ing in the region of Karkhov and Po-
leSia
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is HIS BIC CHANCE
Harding Seized Right Moment
for German Note.
SmOOths Way for Knox Peace
Resolution Terms.
BERLIN MUST Be GOOD
President Created the Proper
International Situation.
Both Allies and Germans Must
Now Accept U. S. View.

Washington, April 23.-"Harding' s
big chance" is the name Republican
senators on the senate foreign rela-
tions committee have given the plea of
Germany that the president act as
reparations go-between with the allies.
Coming on the very eve of consider
alton by house and senate of resolu-
tions to end the technical stage of
war with the central powers, the Ger
man appeal, Harding's reply, and the
consequent re-entry of the United
States into world affairs are consid-
cred of greater Importance than if the
peace state had already been estab-
lished, a leading member of the for
eign relations committee said today.
At Psychological Moment.
''Just as we are about to consider a
peace resolution, Germany appeals to
us. The appeal, very properly, is re-
jected, but not entirely. The situation
created by Harding's reply, taken in
connection with our consideration of
the peace resolution is very favorable
for the United States.
I'm the first place, Germany being
exceedingly anxious to enlist the good
opinion of the United States with re-
spect to reparations settlements with
the allies, will be more likely disposed
to accept Immediately the Knox reso-
luton terms relating to enemy prop
erty held here and American rights
than she would be under other cir
cumstances."
Resolution Is Revamped.
Again the allies are concerned about
the American settlement with Ger
many. They believe they have no
cause to fear that we will make an
unwise peace, but the conjunction of
the peace resolution and the repara-
tions negotiations is likely to react
favorably in allied capitals.
1t is psychological rather than act
ual, but it appears likely that by wise
handling, both of the peace question
and the reparations negotiations. the
United States will regain much of the
prestige it lost among European ma
tions during the past eighteen months
The Knox resolution has been re-
vamped and is ready for presentation
to the foreign relations COMMITTEES
Monday. Senator'S Lodge and Knox
expect an immediate report.