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The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
DAVIS, INPRESDENTSNAME,
LSNATIONS OFFICIAL HOST

Acting Secretary of State Norman Davis
for the nation yesterday when he Diplomatic Corps
New Year reception cuomary given President
health of President Wilson compelled request
tary Davis the honors.
This reception also took the place of the diplomatic breakfast
ordinarily given New Year by the Secretary State
omitted this through the absence of Secretary Colby South
America Mrs Colby with wives of the officials the
partnent assisted Acting Secretary and Davis
receiving the guests.
The day celebrated extremely quiet the
White House The President and Mrs Wilson had dinner
the Presidents daughters Miss Margaret Wilson
Mrs Sae and Mrs Wilson's mother and sister The whole
motored early in the afternoon
The Vice President and Mrs Marshall celebrated the New
Year by giving the of Willard
o'clock where they had steady of callers from
diplomatic and official circles,
Secretary Navy Daniels gave impos-
ing reception The Marine Band played the
drawing Navy provided music
the ballroom guests.
Secretary Mrs Baker received through the
informal assisted by their house
guests Canon and Mrs J. Townsend Russell
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
Washington Dark
AS Pepco Power
Fails on Holiday

For the second time in three days
the Potomac Electric Power Com
pany failed to give efficient service,
resulting in a shutdown on electric
lights and TRACTION power in prae-
ttcally all sections OF the city for
more than an hour last night.
Mechanical trouble in the Ben
ming power plant was the cause OF
the shutdown. Beginning at Sis
O'Clock and continuing intermit-
tently until almost s o'clock, lights
in homes and stores and current In
street cars were affected Cars on
the Washington-VirEfnia Railway
Company lines were at a stsndstill.
Holiday crowds were forced to
slight and walk.
Only the most meaFer information
was forthcoming from the power
plant and the compsny's Offices even
at late hour last night. Informs
tion" clerks at the various stations
OF the power company professed
themselves ignorant Of definite facts
Concerning the first power shut
down Of the year
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
DRUG STORE JAG
TO END SOON BY
CHEMISTS GUILE
Hair Tonics and Perfumes
To Be Made Unfit for
Internal Use.

Days of grief are ahead for the
drug store tippler.
Twenty per cent alcohol. neat
ly printed on a hair ytonic, perfume
or witch hazel bottle may no longer
be the sign post of a whisky sub
stitute.
Chemists at work under the di-
rection of the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau are said to have very nearly
completed a new standard of medi-
cation for such preparations which
will make them so disagreeable and
nauseous when taken internally
that one dose is expected to suffice
even the most seasoned veterans of
prohibition. --,-.-----------.s,..-,s-.=s4. >
Six chemicals, quinine, resorcin,
salicylic acid, sslicylate of soda,
cinchonidine and tartar emetic. are
to form. the basis of the Kramer
cure" for perfume and hair tonic
jags.
Medication of toilet preparations
has been the rule under prohibition
enforcement for some time but the
regulations heretofore have been
rather vague and permitted the in
lection of medicinal ingredients
which detracted only slightly from
the mellow kick" which the i'm
biber received.
Experiments which the govern
ment chemists have been making
have convinced them that they have
found a way to really spoil the
diversion of hair tonic from the
scalp to the stomach. Quinine and
cinchonidine are first cousins and
exceedingly disagreeable visitors to
mans interior in large quantities
Salicylic acid and salicylate of soda
come from the ancient and honor
able carbolic acid family and are
guaranteed to irritate any substance
with which they come in contact.
Resorcin is extracted from asafet-
ida and therefore revives a form of
cold fashioned medication in a new
tangled garb.
All of these deterrents, which are
being worked out in proportions
sufficiently great to be effective
would of themselves be rather a
drastic dose, so for humane rea-
sons all formulas must include
enough tartar emetic to prevent a
witch hazel cocktail or other 1921
concoction from staying too long in
the place where it might do the
most harm.
Recent figures compiled by the
prohibition enforcement office show
that fully 75 per cent of the So
called medicated preparations were
either so lightly diluted or in such
a manner as to prove no great
handicap to the man with a real
thirst who was not particular as to
what he absorbed provided it gave
the proper reaction.
Government chemists are still at
work in an effort to neutralize
what happiness" lies in favoring
extracts, but as these are manu-
factured and intended for human
consumption they have not yet
been able to solve the problem.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
Medals He Won
In War Spurned
By DAnnunzio

ROME, Jan 1~-GabrieIs d'An-
nunzio, ss n means Of showing
his contempt for his native land.
has sent back TO King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy all the deco
rations he won during the world
war as an aviator, it was learned
here today.
When the soIdier-poet surren-
dered Fiume to the Italian gov
ernment forces he ISSUED n state
ment repudisting his allegiance
to Italy and declaring its sban-
donment had rendered IL un-
worthy of his citizenship.
Speculation continues as TO
D'AnnunEio's future residence,
and rumor has been revived that
he has been contemplating going
to Ireland, which IS generally re-
Earded ms the place best httsd
to his turbulent nature.
ABBAzIA, Italy, Jan. 1s-DsAn-
nunsio's Iegfennzires will evncu-
ate Fiume tomorrow, according
to semioniciaI advices received
here today, ending thcfr years
dramatic occupation Of the city
in defiance Of the world in gen
eraI and Italy I'm particular.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
PROTECT AMERICAN
CITIZENS IN LATVIA

The United States will send at
least one warship and probably more
to Riga, capital of Latvia, where
the safety of Americans is threat
ened by extremist agitators, it was
announced by navy officials last
night.
Latyia was formerly Baltic
province of Russia and Riga is its
principal ice free seaport. American
interests there are very large.
While no attack, so far as can
be learned, is planned against citi-
zens of this country, conditions
within the city are so disturbed that
it has been deemed best toS have q
warship on the scene.
Rear Admiral Koontz. chief of
naval operations, will instruct Rear
Admiral Albeit p. Niblick, now in
command of all American naval
forces in European waters to select
the necessary ship or ships.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
Lloyd George Plans Peace
Message for NeU Year

LONDON. Jan. Premier Lloyd
George is considering issuing a
New. Year message to the world
In which the keynOtes will be op-
timism, hope for world peace and
economic stability, IL was stated at
the premier's official residence to-
day.
Ihe premlers secretary said
Lloyd George was following closely
the American discussions on reduce
tion Of sea armaments, but, he con-
siders there has been no develop
ment Of sufficient Importance to
cause him to expand his statement
70 the dominion representatives on
December 22.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
SHIPPING
PROBE EXPECTED

Investigation of the United States
Shipping Board by the Walsh House
committee will probably be re-
sumed next week, it was said here
last night Operating officials of
the present organization will tes-
tify. it has been indicated.
Meanwhile, Chairman Benson is
preparing a detailed business in
formation" statement of Shipping
Board affairs called for in a resolu-
tion by Senator Edge, New Jersey.
Board officials declined, to
comment upon the assertion of
Chairman Good, of the House Ap-
propriations Committee that the
board does not know it's business
and is wasting money.
However, around the Shipping
Board there is increasing evidence
of "touchiness" at recent charges
against it.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
DENMAN CHARGES
BRITISH DECEIVED
U. S. ON TREATIES
Former Shipping Head
Says Balfour EquivO-
Gated in Loan Talks.

william A. Denman. former Chair
man Of the United States Shipping
Board yesterday sent the following
letter to every member of Congress
and to the representatives in Wash
ington of all the principal Ameri-
can and British newspapers:
In the spring of 1917 the Balfour
Mission to the United States Sc
cured for Great Britain a loan of
upwards of four billions OF dollars.
1t was a willing transaction be-
tween liberal America and liberal
Britain. Had the deceptions used
in procuring 1t been known TO our
government, the consideration for
the loan probably would have had
less of good viii and more ot sub
stantial security for our national
interest IN the Pacific.
Great Britain is now seeking to
renew this loan and substitute dis
tant payment notes for its matur-
ing obligation. This seems a timely
opportunity to point out a typical
case Of that duplicity and lack OF
candor in Britain's foreign repre-
sentatives, which have placed a
barrier between the liberals of both
countries. They have partly de-
stroyed that sympathetic relation
ship towards the creation of which
Mr.. Bryce and men of his spirit
have so much contributed. They
have gravely hampered the similar
task of Ambassador Geddes and our
quiet but ever helpful friend Mr..
Broderick.
Testimony is Unquestioned.
TT is perhaps we'll that the testi-
mony which 7 am about to offer
concerning the negotiation of this
loan comes from one of English
antecedents and not sustaining any
blood relationship to those now suf-
fering under the atrocities of Ire
land.
'Mr. Balfour arranged for these
moneys in the month of May, 1917.
His protestations of deep friendship
for the interest of the United States
filled our press and warmed his au-
ditors in the halls of Congress and
at the tables where our hospitality
was extended to him. While he was
making them. the ink was scarcely
dry on the last of the three notes
constituting the so-called secret
Shantung treaties, which, from a
naval standpoint, destroyed the Is
land of Guam, probably our most
valuable naval base in, the Pacific.
Japan, our rival in the Pacific. was
by agreement with Great Britain
confirmed in the poss ssion of the
Marienne group of islands, which
placed an insurmountable barrier
between us and the North Asiatic
coast and the Japanese islands.
Meant Isolation of Guam.
Great Britain's price for this was
the British control of the islands of
the South Pacific; which in the
event of the hostilities to which
such diplomacy inevitably tends,
isolated Guam FROM the Philippines.
"Britain's action was comparable
to a secret treaty with Germany,
say thirty years ago, whereby, for a
price, we. agreed to secure her the
island Of 'Helgoland.
1T is obvious that Mr.. Balfour
owed to US the disclosure of the ex-
istence Of those agreements. Why
he did not, requires no further ex-
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
Four in Family
Killed In Crash
After Funeral

CHARLOTTE. N. c., Jan. 1.-P. A.
Deal, farmer, 81 years old; his son.
E. NJ Deal, So; his wife, Al, and
Lena Belle Deal, 13-year-old daugh-
ter of E. NJ. Deal, were killed this
morning when an incoming freight
train of the Southern Railway
struck their automobile as they
were leaving Charlotte for their
home at Newton, after attending the
funeral of Mrs. ]. H. Deal, daugh-
ter-iu-iaw of P. A. Deal, here Fri
day.
Beona Deal, ll-year-old sister of
Lena Deal, the only one of the party
to escape death, is in a hospital
painfully hurt.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
SCHOOL BOARD
SAYS BUILDING
NEEDS URGENT
Slashing of Estimate by
Commissioners Not
Approved.

Dissatisfaction by the school ad-
ministration with the action of the
commissioners in reducing the pub
lie school estimates of the Board of
education is implied in a statement
issued last night by DR.. Abram
Simon, president of the Board of
Education, and DIR. Frank w. Bal
lou, superintendent of schools.
The estimates referred to were
those for additional school house
construction, asked for by the Dis
trict subcommittee of the Senate APP
propriations Committee The Board
Of Education drew up a program
of construction approximating S5,-
100000. The commissioners slashed
S291,O00 worth Of school improve
ments from the estimates.
The superintendent and the
Board of Education" the statement
read, believe that at this time the
paramount need in the school system
Is better schoOlhouse accommoda-
tions for the children. Other edu-
cational improvements must await
The total building program of
the Board Of Education was esti-
mated to cost about $5,O00,OOO. In
view of the present high cost of con-
structon; of the ever-increasing
number of pupils to be accommO-
dated; and o fthe impossibility of
construction of the usual number of
buildings during the past five or
more years, this sum ought not to
appear eXtravagant. 1t is to bring
sChoolhouse construction up to date.
No Open Breach.
The breach between the two
groups of city officials was never
brought to the surface in the school
officials statement. On the contrary
the school board head and the su-
perintendent declared:
"In the development of its build
ing program, the Commissi ners of
the District have rendered invalua-
BILE assistance to the Board of Edu-
cation. They also reviewed the other
estimates of the Board of Education
with sympathetic consideration.
They have, at all times, taken a
keen interest in the educational
needs. The relations Of the COM
missioners and the Board of Edu-
cation have, in every way, been
most cordial and sympathetic"
Directly under this assertion,
however, the school authorities
turned on the commissioners in dip
lomatic phraseology. They said:
The school authorities believe, of
course, that they understand the
needs of the schools. They do not
pretend to be equally we'll informed
about other needs. The school Of
hctals gladly accede to the judgment
of the commissioners in their at
tempt to provide for the compare
tive needs of the whole District. The
commissioners are best able to
judge what those comparative needs
are. School officials do noe ask or
expect the District Commissioners
to give school needs a comparative
place higher than, in their opinion,
the public regard for sound edu-
cation would justly entitle them"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
BL00dhOunds Trail
Escaped COnUicts

MONTGOMERY; Ala. Jan. 1.-Po-
lice today are securing the country
for Russell Shouse and Charlie Win
nagle' long term prisoners who
made their escape from Aldrich
mines shortly after o'clock this
morning.
Shouse was serving a ten-year
sentence for highway robbery. He
was sent up from Montgomery
County in 1918. =,
Winnagle was serving a life SEN
tence for murder. He was sent up
from Tuscaloosa County in 1915.
Bloodhounds were procured fmme-
diately and put on the trail of the
prisoners but at a late hour this
morning the dogs had been unable
to pick up the trail.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
S o S Reports Waikiki,
y. S. Ship, in Distress

The American steamship WALL
kill is in distress with her engines
totally disabled at latitude, forty
six degrees forty-eight minutes
north, longitude twenty-five de-
grees thirty minutes west, accord
ing to a dispatch received at the
State Department yesterday from
London where Lloyd's report the
S o S.
The steamship Camak is standing
by for further assistance needed.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
Germany Claims Arnty
NOI1 Cut to $4,000 Men

BERLIN. Jan. 1.-Omcial an
nouncement was made today that
Germany's armed forces have been
reduced to $4,000 men in accord
ance with the disarmament prom.
ises made TO the allies.
The statement added that $4,000
pieces OF ordnance have been de-
stroyed as well as-5,00O, 900 rides,
$4,000 machine guns and $4,000
aeroplane parts.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
Chamberlain Improves.

'nator Chamberlain, of Oregon,
whd was operated on a second time
Friday, spent a restful day yester-
day according to attaches at the,
Emergency Hospital last night. The
Senator's condition was described
as satisfactory.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
Building Strike in Belfast.

BELFAST, Ireland, Jan. LA
general strike was declared by the
building trades unions OF Belfast to-
day as the result OF the decision Of
employers to reduce wages and fr-
crease working hours. Five thousand
workers are affected
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02
]. F. Stevens in Pekin-

PEKIN, Jan. John F. stevens-
American representative of the In
ternational Consortium, arrived in
Pekin tonight.
tcOpyright, 1877, Public Ledger Col
The Washington herald., 1921-01-02

CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-10-15

Cause" growled the Big hiliman
you went and spilled h-l out o. tn
main big picnic. We meant to wtp.
out all o them thar lowdown Balli
and Torreys. By. When they went Il
hang Bill Dale In the mornin', we'd ha
bad good reason 70 a-killin' 'esn every
one-ths weaselsl 70 see. BY, every
man Moreiand but CALEB, and evsrJ
man o the Littlsfords, h hid here In
these laurels, and has been ever sens
that thar fool trial begun. We Wal
lest a-waitin'. How did We happen
to know it, -'
cats easy, BY. Ne and Ben Lit.
dynamite. when We seed Bin Dale
s-follerin' that stranger man, and Go1
a-follerin' Bill. and you a-foilerin' Goff
We knowed somethin' ongodly mean
was In the wind. So follsred you,
By, a-breakin' of bushes as went
to mark the trail, and Ben he went
back and got the rest Of 'em and fol
Tered me-" -u H.} Hl,d n
Then to Dale, "well. Bill, what'rs
we a-goin' to do with this here cussed
polecat Corr
Dale turned to the shystsr coal man,
who was still being closely watched
BY Heck. ''- Dt'. -'--
II told you l was pretty apt to
thrash you the next time we met,
didn't L" clipped Dale. do you want
to get out of this country for good
or do you want to fight me to q fin-
Ish2 I'm through talking right now
Golf"
I'D guess I'd rather fade" acknowl-
edged Golf.
"Then fadei" sf m
Goff skunk of through the brush.
When they had covered a mile, John
Moreland grasped Dale by an arm and
said to him:
II reckon you think we're sort O. blood
thirsty, by us a-waitin' to kill of that
pack back thar; don't YET Well, We
amt blood-thirsty. Bill. Them Balls
and Torreys amt wo'th nothin' &c
themselves, nor to their families, nor
to nobody else. The sooner they're
dead the better OF they'll be. and
the better OF their famblies'n be, and
the better of everybody else will be.
You amt safe, nor amt safe. as long
a. they're alive. ,
I'VE like you. Bill Dale" he contin-
ued Eravely. "And you're shore wo'th
It. You wouldn't sell out to that
cussed polecat, even to save yore OVID
life, and ats what calls narve and
principle in ye. Bill Dale. the amt
many men In this here whole outflt
who wouldn't give We the last id
drop O blood in their bodies. ct ~
needed IT. 10 the right. Bill ahead
Of us In a cliff"
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-10-15

beginning. On Its jsafksy ~ tSetslsa
seems - have rsgalsd itssk y q CO.
siderable extent On Tia strawaiA which
1t was packed. Almost - slon - u
arrived the tortoise passed iA1o state
Of hibernation. The following Apra
the creature took 4 shsrt wafk resn1
On q sunny day but its activities wers
short lived. Quite seoa the tortoise
became desperately III with sts0ach
trouble and 1t was not lsag befoss y
died. A poat-mortem examination ~
vealsd tho fact that <As animal had
died from acute indigeseaea startaA b.
the large amount Of straw sGtsa -
it, journey To- nngianA Dszins ~
winter sleep 4 the crsatsre ~ ~
ease seems b have besa AelA n 49,
ance only b develop o. fatal hnse
when the Information was at an sa1.-
Scientific American.
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-10-15


his knees. There was I puzzled look
on his leathery face. Dale had re-
ceived half q dozen letters. and By
Heck was at loss to figure out the
why Of such an overwhelming amount
Of mail. ual 5e .naihA9Id y r
Dale finished his figuring. leaned
back In his swivel chair and took up
letter that seemed altogether too
bulky for a business letter. More
over, its address was in pencil, and
somewhat scrawled, though a chirog-
raphy expert would have said that
the handwriting showed strength Of
character. Is 4-''f-
II wonder who It u.s." Dale muttered,
"that mistakes Us for q newspaper
office and is sending us copyY'
"Jest what was a-thinkin',"
irawled BY Heck through his Niagara
rails mustache. "Open her up, Bill;
nebbe It's money. by Jake!"
Dale saw the postmark then, and
his brows drew with interest 1t was
the postmark Of his old home city.
From Babe" he told himself-and
It was. Dew -it- or
spelled most of her words correctly,
put the only punctuation she used was
period and her capitals were few.
For wonder, she had put 1t into
paragraphs: ..... Id.
ITO be eoatfnusd)
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-10-15
CHAPTER XIV.
A Letter and a Proposal.

IetIST ana proposal.
The Moreland Coal company's two
big rough buildings were completed
In record time. There had been no
further manifestations of interference
from the Balls and TOrreys, and Hen
derson Goff had been nowhere in evil
dence since the night Of Bill Dales
ironclad verbal ultimatum. Work on
the little railroad was progressing like
wildfire. and everybody was in high
spirits.
By Heck had just arrived with the
mail. He stalked with an air Of great
Importance into Dale's office. and
threw the mail down on the new roll
top desk; then he stepped backward,
dropped into a stralght-back chair and
began to nurse his rifle tenderly on
The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1921-10-15
Ne, Usually. Just ooeasIsnaiiy.

Net Usually, just Occasionally.
Many joke has been told absut tie
canninsss Of the Scots, but nowhere
are these enjoyed more than north a
the Tweed. There 10 the tale about
Sandy, who came back from Lendsa
saying that all Londensrs were thisvsA
and robbers. According to his story.
he had been going down Bond street.
one day, and had been lured BY an ad-
vertlssment into buying thousand
pins for 4 penny as q present Ter his
wife. But when he came to count them
there were 16 short. Whether such
yarns are true or not does net matter,
but everyone knows that the Scots are
ken about the "bawbees." Perhaps
that Is why the present outcry In Brit
ain for economy has led to the ap-
pointment of q Scotsman a. chancellor
Of the excheQuer. The Scots only
smile at such a suggestion, and point
out that the chancellor Of the az
cheQuer usually ends by being prime
minister-Christian Science Monitor.
lA0 .al :. - = - l4rt-a
moan .Da nnrHr<, nu>urYr M.