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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
W0MEN'S LEAGUE
CALLS CONVENTION
Board Summons Delegates
From Every State to CIeve-
land Meeting in April.
D. c. WOMEN ARE ACTIVE
Mrs. Maud Wood Park Appeals for
Organization to Use Its Power
to Best Advantage.
ID. C. WOMEN ARE ACTIVE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ATLANTA. Ga. February S.-The
board of the National League Of
Woman Voters. meeting here. where
the third regional conference is being
held today and tomorrow, ordered is
sued from it's Washington headquar-
tiers the official call to the second an
nual convention to be held in Cleve-
land, Ohio, April 11-16.
Complete plans for the convention
were made by the executive board.
which held an all-day session yester-
day. At the close of the afternoon
conference Mrs. George Gellhorn. st.
LOUIS, vice chairman of the league and
chairman of the convention commit
tee. announced that the reports from
the organization department to the
treasurer's office show such trepen-
dous growth as to indicate that the
slogan for the convention. "A delegate
from every congressional district in
the country" would be fulfilled, with
many visitors in addition.
This extraordinary growth is largely
due to the initiative of individual lead
ers,' said Mrs. Maud Wood Park. Wash
1ngton, d. c., chairman of the national
league. therefore the board, in co-opera-
ton with the convention committee, has
decided to make Presidents night, one of
the chief features of the convention pro-
gram. At this time state chairmen will
exchange the interesting methods they
have put into effect to accomplish the
growth Of their state organizations and
to further the main aim of the league
an intelligent electorate"
The Call to Duty.
The call. signed by Mrs. Park, reads,
in part:
1.-THE league calls it's state auxliaries
through their elected delegates to meet
in convention at Cleveland, April II to
16, inclusive.
Hear the call to the second convention
of functioning league of women voters
We meet to celebrate the close Of our
first and successful year and to plan with
broad vision and renewed energy for the
months ahead.
I'VE have not wasted our year. The
league now stands organized in every
state in the Union. The woman voter
has already proved herself an earnest
and selfish worker. The league has
power. How best shall we use this power
to become a vital and helpful force in
our country? How best continue in the
work of educating a conscientious, we'll
informed electorate?
Answer the call. Send a delegate
from every congressional district in the
United States of America"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
GREET DR.. FREEMAN
AS EPIPHANY RECTOR
1900 Members Welcome New Pas
tor-Slad to Begin HIS
Work Here.

More than 1900 members of the
congregation of the Church of the
Epiphany. gathered at the large
parish hall last night to welcome Rev.
James Edward Freeman. D. D.: his
wife and daughter at a formal re-
ceptfon in honor of his arrival as rec
tor of the church.
In the receiving line were DR. Free
man, his wife and daughter, Rev
Percy Foster Hall and Mrs. Hall. Rev.
A. J. Porry and Rev. Robert Evans
Browning and Mrs. Browning. The
hall was crowded to capacity. Mem
bers of the clergy of the dioces = =
tended. Rev. Mr.. Hall delivered the
address of welcome, reading the re-
marks of Col. George Truesdell, who
was prevented by illness from being
present. In his response to this ad-
dress DR.. Freeman declared that he
was happy to be with the congrega-
ton and looked forward to his assoc
citation with the members with ex-
pectationS of great pleasure
DR.. Freeman will preach tomorrow
Ash Wednesday, at II O'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
U. S. ARMY ENLISTMENTS
ARE QUICKLY STOPPED
Officers Say It Will Take Nine
Months to Get Forces Down
to $4,000 Men.

The bars, Were up today against
further enlistments in the Army until
the enlisted strength automatically is
reduced to the 5000 maximum au-
thorized in the joint resolution which
the Senate yesterday made law by du-
plicating the action of the House in
overriding the presidential veto The
vote in the Senate was 81 to ]. Sena-
tor Kirby. democrat, of Arkansas
casting the only opposing vote With
out awaiting official notification of
the Senate's action, Secretary Baker
last night ordered every Army re-
cruiting station in the country to
close down on enlistments.
Army officers estimated today that
it would take nine months. or unit
next November /. to reduce the pres
ent enlisted strength of approximate
ly $4,000 to<the required 10000 En-
actment of the Army appropriation
bill now pending in the House. which
provides for an Army of only 10000
men after July /, would necessitate a
longer period of reduction to reach
that figure. The measure has been
regarded as practically certain of
passage by the House. which was ex-
pected to take a final vote on it today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
THREAT IN CANADA
TO MEET us. TARIFF
Retaliation Is Proclaimed,
Should Fordney Bill Be
Enacted by Congress.
DOMINION LAW UNDER WAY
Leaders Surprised That Americans
Should Favor Enactment Against
Methodist Customer.

Special Dispatch to The Star
OTTAWA, Ontario, February T.
That Canada will meet any Wash
tngton tariff moves and will immedl-
ately retaliate, if the Fordney bill is
passed, was intimated at. Hamilton
by Dr.. F. Tolmie, Dominion minister
of agriculture.
Dr.. Tolmie said the federal author
tiles, although keenly Interested,
would not announce any new nscAi
policy until they first learned what
tariff the United States would ADOPT
but as soon as this knowledge was
obtained action would be- taken: he
said revision of the Canadian tar1H:
SO far as it affected all branches OF
agriculture, was under way at pres
ent, and would provide for hlgner
protection contingent on the adop-
zion of the proposed tariff in the
United States.
Reports Tariff Sentiment.
DR.. Tolmie recently returned from
a convention Of cattlemen held at
Ell Paso, Tex. He said he was sur
prised to learn that the delegates
were a unit in favoring a tarln
against Canadian goods. He was at
a loss to account for rn this as n the
best customer the United States had.
With Canada spending last year in
the United ST. es the staggering sum
of $1.260,000, 100. with an adverse
trade balance in favor of the United
States of $340,000,000, DR.. Tolmie
claimed it was up to Canadians TO
speedily adjust the unfavorable trade
balance by buying in Canada
Oppose Free Trade With U. 5.
Tariff matters-what is going on at
Washington, and what will soon be
going on in parliament here-loom
large in today's political news Hon.
Hugh Guthrie, minister of militia, In
a public address said that under no
circumstances could Canada afford to
have free trade with the United States
and that the next general election
would be fought on the question OF
the protective tariff. He declared that
free trade would ruin Canada. He in
timated that it was not rhe liberal
party the federal government fears at
the next Dominion election, but the
farmer party of the west, which, he
asserted, was really originally started
by American settlers. Ha quoted
many figures to show that while their
advocacy of much freer trade with
the United States might be all right
from their standpoint. it would ruin the
industries ofCanadian cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08

SAYS HE HAS CONFESSION
Witness John McDonald-Jury
Starts Probe-Convict
Serving Life Term.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February S.-Frank p.
Walsh of counsel for Thomas j.
Mooney, convicted of murder in San
Francisco in connection with the Pre-
early today telegraphed San Francisco
authorities apprising them of an al
legged confession by one of the wit
nesses in the case that he had given
perjured testimony at the trial. A
special grand jury now is investigat-
ing an alleged conspiracy to convict
Mooney.
The witness named was John Nc
Donald, now resident of Trenton.
Nj. According to MIR. Walsh. Nc
donald declared in an affidavit covering
thirteen typewriter pages that the
case against Mooney was a "frame-up.'
Mcdonald Swore in his confession
Mr.. Walsh said, that he could not
identify Mooney as the man he had
seen with a suit case prior to the pre-
paredness day explosion, although he
identified Mooney during the trial. He
said District Attorney Fickert. the
San Francisco prosecutor, had forced
him to make the Identification
Quotes McDonald's :. Testimony.
Mr.. Walsh quoted Mcdonald as say
ing he stood in Stewart street. near
the corner of Market, in San Francisco.
at about 1 o'clock on the afternoon
of July %, 1916 He said he saw a
man set a suit case on the sidewalkh.
then, accompanied by another man
who came from saloon, walk away.
Mcdonald is alleged to have fur
Their said that he then walked down
Market street, and in short time
heard an explosion. He thought it
part of the Preparedness day cele-
bration. Next day he met police
man named HeXtron and told him
what he had seen, but asserted he
could not identify the man.
He was induced. Mr.. Walsh quoted
further. to go to police headquarters,
where he was questioned by District
Attorney Fickert and Capt Mathison,
and told them he did not know
Mooney, who was suspected.
He subsequently, was taken to
Moneys cell and to that occupied by
Billings. another defendant. He as
serted. according to Mr.. Walsh, that
Fickert remarked: These are the men
you saw
Says He Changed Time.
Further Mcdonald is alleged to
have stated he was coached with 9TH
er witnesses in Testimony to be given.
He asserted he fixed the time of see
ing the suit case dropped at so
o'clock in Billings trial. In the
Mooney trial, he stated that at the
instance of Assistant District Attor-
ney Edward Cunha "he changed the
time to /: 80 O'Clock in order to break
Moneys alibi.'
Nine persons were killed in the Pre-
paredness day explosion. Mooney was
sentenced to death and Billings to life
imprisonment After every appeal
from the sentence had failed Presi-
dent Wilson interceded in MONEYS
behalf and the sentence was commut-
ed to life imprisonment.
Mcdonald From Baltimore.
TRENTON, February S.-John Nc
Donald, an employe of a hotel here,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
TUBERCULOSIS CURE FOUND
BY SWISS BACTERIOLOGIST
New Method Consists of Injections Of
Anti-T oxins-Patients In Good Health
Six Years After Taking Treatment.

further anti-tubercular treatment of
any sort,
These results are vouched for
among others. by the London ply
stefan, DIR. Leonard l.. b. Williams,
fellow of the Royal Society of Medi-
cine. and other scientific bodies.
The treatment takes the form of
injections of anti-toxins and ferments.
which are modified according to the
condition of the patient. Briefly. it
symptoms. then immuniZing the pa
tient. completing the cure and pre-
venting relapse.
AS originally described before the
Academy of Medicine by Prof. Letulle.
the method consists of,intramuscular
injections of combination of anti
genie solutions and ferments. 1t is
claimed that the treatment causes the
closure of lung cavities and the disap
pearance of the bacilli
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
PLANS FOR AIRCRAFT
AND BATTLESHIP TEST
Navy Department Proposes to De-
monstrate "Relative Superiority"
of Two Arms of Service.

Preparations are being made at the
Navy Department for an actual test
of the relative superiority of air
craft and the modern battleship. Sec
rotary Daniels in a letter to Sec
rotary Baker yesterday. invited the
War Department to participate in
experiments to be carried out with
in ninety days. in which the surren-
dered German battleshiD Ostfries-
land probably will be used as the OBJ
ject of attack by aircraft dropping
high explosive bombs from the air
Conditions approxmating as close
ly as possible those of battle, will
be simulated in the tests. it was
said.
With the Importance of aircraft de-
velopment brought to the fore by the
projected experiment, the House
naval affairs committee today plan
ned to consider II executive session
measure authorizing the immediate
construction of two speedy aircraft
carriers for the Navy The Senate
naval committee. at the same time
was prepared to hear views of the
Navy general board on the resou-
ton of Senator Borah to suspend
naval construction for six months to
give experts an opportunity to study
the naval lessons of the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
NEW COUNCIL FORMED.
Branch of Organization for Recog-
milton of Irish Republic.

Accompanied by fitting ceremonies
the Terence MacSwiney Council of
the American Association for the
Recognition Of the Irish Republic
came into being last night, when
more than 100 citizens of Southwest
Washington assembled in st. Dom
inic's Hall and formed the new or
ganiZation.
Joseph Fitzgerald was unanimously
chosen temporary president, and Mrs
Mary Reed temporary secretary. Per
manent officers will be elected at
meeting next week.
Robert J. Barrett of the Padraic H.
Pearse Council of the organization
opened the meeting, and addr csses
were made by Rev. Edward Fitz-
gerald of the Dominican order. An
thony Barrett and Rosa F.. Down
ing.
Singing of Irish ballads by Bernard
Fitzgerald and the Misses Brosnahan
featured the entertainment program.
Formation of the Abraham Lincoln
Council of the association will be
held Thursday night at 1871 l street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
MERGER IS OPPOSED
IN LIMITED FORM
Citizens Want Capital Trac-
ton Company Included in
ANY w. R. &c. Combine.

Merger Of the Potomac Electric
Power Company and the Washington
Railway and Electric Company with
out at the same time Incorporating
the Capitol Traction Company was
opposed by the North Washington
Citizens Association last night. The
meeting was held at the city post
Office and the members of the asso-
citation were taken through the build
ing by w. H. Haycock, assistant city
postmaster.
Washington Topham, author of the
opposing the merger OF the
power company and the Washington
Railway and Electric Company, said
such merger could do the public
OF washington no good and should
not be accomplished without taking
in the Capital Traction Company. He
street railways. leaving the. Potomac
Power Company as a seperate
l. ]. Matthews said the
power company and the W., r. & +.
Co., are even now one company in
fact, though not in name.
Mr.. Topham brought up informally
the matter of proper water supply for
The association took no
action on the water supply at last
nights meeting.
Ask for Trahic Officer.
Improved facilities for handling
traffic at the intersection of LIST street
and Rhode Island avenue were dis
cussed by the association. Frank R.
Wheater proposed that an island of
safety be placed at the intersection
and that request be made to police
headquarters to station a traffic Off
Ger at that point permanently.
Gen. c. II. Ourand, chairman Of the
school committee of the association,
said Congress has reported favorably
on the proposal for a junior high
school in the northeast section, but
has taken no action looking toward
to the Gage School, in
the associations territory.
Three candidates were elected to
c. H. Mayors presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
RIGHT TO PICK HUBBIES
AND EQUAL SUFFRAGE,
CHINA WOMEN DEMAND

SHANGHAI. February S.-Chfna.
following hard on the peoples Of
the western world, now has its
Chinese woman suffrage associa-
ton. The platform drafted at the
opening meeting by the member
ship. composed of women educated
in the schools of China and abroad,
is as follows:
Every woman may have a right
to vote. Men and women will have
equal protection under the law.
Girl slavery shall be prohibited.
Women shall have the right to the
possession of their property. which
shall be registered by name.
Women shall have the right to
marry. whom they desire. Women
shall have equal opportunities for
education with men. Women shall
have equal vocational opportunities
and vocational education with
men. Women shall have equal
rate of wage with men.
Concubinage shall be prohibited.
single standard shall be main
tanned for men and women. Widows
shall have financial recompense
from the state for the care of their
children
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
%,9)Q,0DOVESSE[ !: !
T0TAKEF|RST TR|P
IN
Hawkeye State, Most Costly
Steamer Ever Built in U. S..
IL
Leaves Tuesday. /,
BOOKED FOR HONOLULU
Millionaire Passenger List An
nounced-Ship Was Built at Il
~
Sparrows Point, Baltimore. j
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star ~
BALTIMORE. February s. The
United States Shipping Board stearii.
ship. Hawkeye State the most costly
steamer ever built in America, wifi
leave on its maiden voyage to Hono;
lulu next Tuesday with what the 10.
cal shipping men term a millionaire
passenger list. w
The vessel complete cost the Shibl
ping Board $500. 900. which is mors.
than airy merchant ship in operation
in the world. The Bethlehem shipsr
building Corporation. which built tne
Hawkeye State at it's Sparrows Point
plant here, received about $500 vEv
Tor construction OF the snip anu lHe
other $2.OOo.O0O was spent in outifr
ting, decorating and Tor several ipr
norations. Before the war. the Oly.Hs
pic, considered the most paiatIai ana
the largest in operation. cost on,Y
S1,oo0.0tp. The Levlathan, wnIcn cost
more than the Hawkeye State, hSs
been tied up for some time at Ne,W
York. "a.
Reason for Enormous Cost. IN,
The hdwneye S.a.e >..v..u..s coSt
was caused pardy ny .nais,,
ed tor troop transport. she VITA
changed to a passenger ship wnS4
the war ended. 1t was tue go.etsir
mcnts first experiment in passenger
shipbuilding, and every euoit Wis
made to See that she was as good
as. If not better than, any buiit IN
Europe. To make the ship able 10
compete with the fastest rIdropeais
liners. no expense was spared in putt
ting in innovations. Among many
saloons, lounglng decks ans Other
accommodations Tor the passengers
there is a swimming pool on the
main deck. :i,
Ten MiiliOnaires as Passengers. -:
The first trip of the steamer. whiats
will be to Honolulu, stopping Ill
Havana, Panama canal ports and Sa,i
Francisco. VIII be made by people
. able to appreciate her mag Al in &c nes
1 here viii pe at least ten IniIllo..aitxS
aboard her anu many other wealthy
men. The Chicago Athletic CiuD Wifi
occupy most OF the ship: whi.e eight
! stat.rooms and suites have been takeA
by persons booked through an exprese
agency. One of the passengers it ~
said. is spending $4,000 on the triSl
which will take seventy days. itis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
GOAT LEARNS TO
BLOW SIREN JUST
AT WORKING TINE

DALTON, Ga, February S.-When,
about year ago. a night watch
man at a local Industrial plant res
cued a diminutive billy goat from
the railroad track, where it had
fallen from a passing
train, or had been deserted by
some tin-can tourist en- route
south, he had no idea that he had
acquired a valuable assistant in
his duties.
The kid soon learned to follow
at the heels of the Waterman as he
made his rounds about the plant
and to share the mans lunches. A
few mornings ago the Waterman
was delayed beyond the time the
first whistle should have been
blown to call the employees to
work. While at home, the watch
man was surprised to hear long
call from the giant siren at the
plant, and before he could reach
the engine room this was repeated.
Thinking that some intruder was
playing a prank, the Waterman
cautiously approached the door.
just in time to see the goat perched
on top of a barrel with the ring
of the whistle-cord over one horn
sounding the third call for work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
PRICES IMPORT FACTORS.
Phenomenal Increases in 1920 Held
Due to Those Figures.

Phenomenal increases in imports
into the United States ir 1920 were
largely due to the extremely high
prices in the early part of the year
and to the persistent Importation in
large quantities, irrespective of
prices, says a statement yesterday
by the National City Bank of New
York Imports jumped from $780,
100000 in 1919 to s5,2S0.000.000 in
1920
The big increase in the value of
foodstuffs imported, amounting to
$4,000, 600. is due largely to the ex-
tremely high prices paid for sugar
and coffee in the first half of 1920
On the export side the chief sur
prises were the falling off in food
stuffs. and the big increase in manu-
features exported The latter item
made a new high record, having totaled
s4,163, 900, 900, against s3,4S6, 000, 900 in
1919
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
DECLARES EXCISE TAX
ON GOLD IS "GOLD BRICK"
McFadden Bill Flayed by Chairman
of jewelers. Vigilance
Committee.

The McFadden bill, providing for
an excise tax of $40 an ounce on gold
used in manufactures and the arts.
today was characterized as gold
brick instead of a gold bill, by G. H.
Niemeyer, chairman of the jewellers
vigilance committee. before a sub
committee of the ways and means
committee.
Under the terms of this bill" he
said, how easy it would be for
prospector to drop a $40 gold piece
down a mine shaft, haul it up again
and get $50 for it at the assay office"'
Mining the bounty would soon be-
come the great American industry,
according to Niemeyer. a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, February 7-After lapse
of about seven or eight years. Prof.
d'Arsonval, member of the Institute
of the Academy of Medicine. has pre-
scented report to the French Academy
of Sciences on. the curative treatment
of tuberculosis by new method dis
covered by the Swiss bacteriologist.
Henry Spahlinger. = The method was
first applied in 1913 and 1914. in hos
pitfalls in England, France and Swift
erland. Oh patients suffering both
from the minor forms of tuberculosis
and advanced phthisis.
Since that time these patients who
were pronounced cured have been
kept under observation. All of them
are declared to be alive and in good
health. and they have shown no
symptoms of relapse for the last
six years. althoug they underwent no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
48 DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.
Man Accused of Staying Wife Pc
sists in Hunger Strike. f

THE DALLES, Ore, February S.y..;
George r. West. charged with u.1ythS
slain his wife near here three months
ago. has completed his forty-eig ktA
day without iood. accord,.s IL .,4y..
sicians at the hospital. where he HE
lain since an attempt to take his ow9
life by drinking acid. The doctori
also said that West had not taken
more than two quarts of water in "A
during his fast. as he is so badl,
burned internally that he cannol
swallow anything. .1S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
AGED IL, TALKS TONGUES
7irl Valedictorian Of Glass Is Also
High School Teacher.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, February s.
Yvonne Weber. aged ~ years. has
established a record for graduation
in the public schools of Pittsburgh.
Yvonne graduated from public school
as class valedictorian yesterday.
She speaks four languages and
teaches physical culture and dancing
in the high school class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08
MAYOR HAS TO LIFT BAN.
Court Allows Steffens and Tucker
to Speak in Portland, Ore.

PORTLAND, Ore, February s.
Mayor George L. Baker was enjoined
by the circuit court from preventing
the holding of a meeting last night at
which Lincoln Steffens and Irwin st.
John Tucker had been advertised as
principal speakers.
Mayor Baker had notified the pro-
moters he would not permit Steffens
and Tucker to appear in Portland at
present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08

who is alleged to have confessed that
he testified falsely at the trial of
Thomas j. Mooney in San Francisco.
could not be located today. McDon-
aid. whose home is believed to be in
Baltimore. has been employed here
for several months
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-08

Street railway fares in Wisconsin
average lower than those in any
other state.