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Evening star., 1922-07-07
FIGHT ON rogers
i. ST|RS ARMY MEN
Chief Of Quagtermaster
Corps Reported Scheduled
for Demotion.

Unusual interest is being manifested
at the War Department. and par
ticularly in the Quartermaster Corps,
as a result of rumors that MAI. Zen.
Harry L. Rogers may not be redetah-
ed as chief of the Quartermaster
Corps when his present four-year de-
tail expires, July %. -,
Opposition to Gen. Rogers, it is said,
has developed on the part of a GER
tain element of the general stan
ways been in agreement as to poilcies.
and according to certain off1cers, tnat
group has set their influence against
him. Gen. Rogers testimony oe1ore
certain committees of Congress con-
cerning the general STAN Is allegeo 10
be one of the objections 10 MS re-
appointment.
No Fight with Stan.
With the majority Of the general
ntaff. 1t was explained, Gen. Rogers
Is in complete accord. and he mas
had no fight with the general stan'
although holding to the policies IN
regard to the Quartermaster Corps
long experience gained in the worio
war, on the Mexican border and In
Mexico.
Brig. Gen. George v. H. Moseley,
commandant at Camp Custer. 1ormer-
ly a cavalry and field artillery OIL
ficer. and Col. Henry c. Smither. cav
airy, chief co-ordinator of the bu-
reau of the budget. have been men
toned, unofficially, as posslbie sue
cessors of Gen. Rogers. That mas
stirred up lively objection from Of
ficers of the Quartermaster Corps;
who are said to be solidly behlnd
cen. Rogers for reappointment. and
who are vitally opposed to an Of
ficer from another branch or the
service being jumped over the neaos
of all in the Quartermaster CORPS
to displace their chief-a quarter
master
other chiefs of service whose terms
of office have expired during the
present administration and who nave
been redetailed. it is pointed OUT, IN
clude Maj Gen. Enoch H. Cro"aef'
judge advocate, general; MAJ. Gen. ef
ficer. and Maj. Gen. Frank w. Coe'
chief of coast artillery.
Demotion Seen Precedent.
In fact, it is being said that no
chief of service has failed OF reap
pointment during the present admin
istration, and demotion would De CON
sidered a slight to Gen. Rogers. VINO
as chief auartermaster Of the a. f. F.
in the expressed opinion of his asso-
problem that ever confronted any
army. s,,
Gen. Rogers is said to have revolu-
tionized the Quartermaster Corps ac,
tivities on the Mexican border. ana
was chief ouartermaster OF Gen.
Pershins's Mexican expeditionary
force He was chief of supply Tor
the entire A. E. F.. established ana
perfected the graves registration
service. and the salvage service ana
has been recognized by foreign gov
ernments, being decorated with the
Order of the Bath by the British a. govo oSo
ernment, and as a commander OF the
Legion of Honor by France. He wears
the distinguished service medal
awarded by the United States gov
eminent.
Should Maj Gen. Rogers not be re-
detailed as quartermaster general, MS
rank would revert to that OF colonel.
with the prospect that he might be
detailed away from washington 10
some small Army post. That prospect
is resented by officers of the Quarter
master Corps. who say they 1ntend
to make a stiff fight for his reap
pointment.
Evening star., 1922-07-07
militia engineers
Of D. c. TO CAMP
Regiment Off Tomorrow for
Two Weeks Of Intensive.
Training. j,

Washington's new citizen army, the
121st EnEineers,' National Guard Of
the District of Columbia, born since
tho war and taking on generous pro-
portions, will go into camp tomorrow
evening at Camp Simms, the rifle
range at Congress Heights. Two
weeks of intensive training in the
most spectacular branch Of the Army.
the engineers. faces them, and every
man of them IL anxious to get away.
There will be bridge building.
bridge destruction by explosives.
Of breastworks. trenches and other
protective works required by armies
In modern warfare. Coupled with q
generous proportion of recreation.
these young men will be returned to
their civilian occupations in two
Orders have been issued BY. COM
mand of Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan.
commanding the. District Of Columbia
militia, for the movement Of this local
army, which Is a part Of the great
organization in the Sd Corps area,
sylvania, District of Columbia, Mary
land and Virginia.
Forty-Eisht Pieces in Band.
With a band of. forty-eight pieces,
the regiment will assemble at the
armory at 3 o'clock tomorrow after
noon, when the men will don their
equipment, and at $40 will march to
9Th street, where they will board spe-
cial cars fer Congress Heights. and
march from there to the rife range,
where camp win be established. An
advance guard Of officers and men now
Is at the camp making Preparations
for the main body: 4 large part Of the
organization will be quartered in the
commodious barracks there. while four
companies will be quartered in tents.
Ready to put the enlisted personnel
through an intensive program Of train
ing will be q stan Of officers and non-
commissioned officers, who underwent
an intensive course themselves at
weeks camp period held at Camp
Simms several weeks ago. They will
be under the supervision of Regular
Army officers.
The armory of the. National Guard.
at 472 L street northwest. took on a
warlike aspect today. when field
baggage Of the officers and men was
being assembled and tagged. 1t Is
being prepared for shipment, and will
be loaded aboard the motor train to-
day and transported to the camp,
where it will be ready for the main
body when 1t arrives.
Camp Simms 10 lone of the ideal
camp sites for q small body of
Evening star., 1922-07-07
MAY SEND SHIP SUBSIDY
OVER TO NEXT SESSION
Senate Republicans Planning Leg
islative Program Said to Exclude
Several Pending Measures.

The republicans Of the Senate are
developing legislative pr Igram for
tho remainder Of the present session
Of Congress which Is said to ex-
clude the administration ship subsidy
bill, the Muscle Shoals project and
the Dyer anti-lynching bill. These
measures. 1t Is beloved, will go over
until the next session.
On the program. Of course. are the
tariff bill and the soldier bonus bill,
though It IL expected that the OPP
position to the latter bill will cause
considerable delay in the disposition
Of that measure. The Capper-T -Tincher
grain future trading bill. the Liberian
loan Of 100000 and the rivers and
harbors bill are among the other
measures that may 60 through, 1t Is
said.
II tho President, on his return to
Washington. is still opposed to the
soldier bonus bill in the form in
which It passed the House and 10 re-
ported to the Senate, an effort may
be made, 1t is Eaid, to reach a com.
promise that will be acceptable to
him. But tho sales tax suggestion
Of the President to raise the revenue
to pay the bonus cannot go through,
1t Is said.
Evening star., 1922-07-07

troops. The camp proper 10 on high
ground, with modern sanitary con-
veniences, including q large con-
crete swimming pool for the use Of
the troops. The topography of the
lowland in the camp property 10 such
as to furnish conditions for all kinds
of operations which the engineers
may face-deep guliies to be bridged.
woods and high surrounding hills
where the engineers may show their
skill in providing means for the
movement Of infantry with the least
obstruction.
Company A. 1920 Engineers. the
armory Sunday morning. and will
leave by train at 10 o'clock for Camp
Humphreys, Va. the United States
Army engineer camp. where they will
undergo two weeks of intensive train
ing.
Evening star., 1922-07-07
CARROLL BROWNE DIES.
Geological Survey Employe Fifteen
Years at Harvey's.

Carroll Browne, an employe OF the
geological survey. died Thursday. after
a brief Illness For the past seven years
he has been employed in the library OF
the geological survey. Previous to that
he was employed at Harvey's restau-
rant for more than fifteen years. He
was born in Charles county. Md. fifty
years ago, and came to washington IN
1887.
Surviving him are his wife. formerly
Miss Jennie Grayson: four sisters and
four brothers. Funeral services will be
held Sunday at 1 pm. from Zion Bap-
tist Church.. under the auspices OF the
Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities.
interment at Harmony cemetery.
Evening star., 1922-07-07
PLAN CHURCH CARNIVAL.
3t. Gabriel's Practitioners Seek
Funds for School.

The parishioners Of St. Gabriers
Church, at Grant Circle and Varnum
street, will inauEurate their second
annual carnival tomorrow night on
the church grounds. The money
raised will be used to build the new
parish school and church. Many new
carnival novelties will be introduced
every night. Among tho features Will
be a large fancywork stand, music
pavillion>and steam carousal.
The carnival will continue all next
week and the different nights have
been allotted various organizations.
Monday will be Knights Of Columbus
night, and their clown band will take
charge. Tuesday night the Elks
clown band will hold the boardG
Evening star., 1922-07-07
CLASS OF CADETS COMING
Navy Graduates, OF
Cruise. TO visit washiugton.

The graduating class Of naval ca
dets from Argentina, who are on an
eight-month cruise on the ship Presi-
dente Sarmiento Of that country. now
anchored in NewNYork. will arrive in
Washingt this afternoon for brief
visit. They will stay at the Washing
ton Hotel. Today the young Argen-
tine ''middieS' are visiting Annapolis,
Md. Tomorrow amorning they will
visit the Naval Observatory. They
viii leave for New York tomorrow
nj ght, which will be their headquar-
ters for two weeks.
Evening star., 1922-07-07
ORDERED TO DAYTON, OHIO.

Capt. William H. Murphy. Signal
Corps, at the War Department. has
been ordered to Dayton. Ohio. for duty
in command Of the Signal Corps radio
laboratory, McCook Field.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16

workable material and selling to the
public for peaceful purposes the ships,
buildings and many other objects used
is going on constantly and will continue
for some years before all the war
material will be absorbed. Many peo-
pie will be using, unconsciously, in
automobile, house, knife and fork at
table, or almost any other conceivable
object, some souvenir.
The process of destruction and junk
ing goes on always but is accumulated
by war because then it is accelerated.
John Stuart Mill, the eminent English
economist, pointed out that every five
years practically the whole tangible
wealth of nation is destroyed More
buildings are torn down every month,
in peaceful processes of improvement,
in many American cities, than were
shelled down at the siege of Antwerp.
Last years wheat crop is totally de-
stroyed. Nearly all of last years
cotton is consumed or soon VIII be.
The destruction of war is more spec
tacular and therefore regarded as
more disastrous. but in an economic
sense, the loss is not greatly different
from the ordinary peace-time destruc-
ton deliberately undertaken as a
measure of progress.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16
ELLIOTT TO TAKE UP
CASE OF VETERAN,
VICTIM OF SHOCK

The case of Charles Joseph Bart
lett. University of Pennsylvania grad
uate. veteran of the World war and a
native Of BellevilIe, H., who is at
Reid Memorial hospital suffering from
the effects of shell shock, will be
taken up through the British embassy
at Washington by Rep. R. N. Elliott,
it was announced Friday. Bartlett is
being cared for under the direction of
Harry Ray Post, American Legion.
Bartlett is subject to periodic at
tacks of nervousness as the result of
injuries sustained in the war He en-
tered the police station Thursday
evening and asked for help. While
there he became so i'll that he was
removed to the hospital on recommen-
dation of DR.. w G. Huffman, city
physician, who was called by Ray
Weisbrod, member of the American
Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Reports from the hospital Friday were
that Bartlett was extremely nervous
and would have to be kept in bed for
several days at least.
Bartlett is an educated man, about
80 years of age. He was penniless
when he struck Richmond Thursday.
According to his service record, he
enlisted with the Royal Fusileers Oct.
8. 1914, and served four and one-half
years. and was discharged as unfit for
service May 1, 1919. He was regi-
mental sergeGnt-major of the Cold
stream Guards when discharged
Although he received a pension
when he left the army, It was with
drawn about two years ago, he said.
His last help from the British govern
ment came In October, 1920.
Efforts will be made by Congress-
man Elliott to have Bartlett's name
placed on the pension list once more.
The case will be taken up through
the British embassy at Washington.
Bartlett claims he had no relatives
except a brother, who was killed
while serving in the American army
in the Argonne.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16

bile manufacturer who remaka the
material into engines, springs and
other parts requiring great strength.
The heavy machinery used in operating
gun turrets is sold to manufacturers
of farming implements or to iron
foundries. There Is much copper,
brass, gun-metal, bronze. lead. zinc
and manganese on battleship. These
are all used in shipbuilding as well as
in other lines of manufacturing. When
taken from the battleship they are
sorted and sold to dealers or direct to
manufacturers.
All the material Is as carefully sort
ed and graded as new metal. 1t Is
stacked in neat piles and classified by
shapes and sizes. Experience has
taught the junkmen the best forms in
to which to convert their materials to
attract buyers and the big modern
junkyard looks more like a depart
ment store than the ordinary backyard
junk piles of small dealers. To make
the required sizes, crocodile shears are
used. These have jaws which cut with
ten-ton pressure. Also, tangled frag-
ments of lighter material are pressed
AAAbO OAOSho AL a oOI VI OH nAASn
an enormous pressure is exerted.
, While great fighting ships Of the
navy will be reduced absolutely to
scrap some of the lesser craft will be
dismantled only so far as fighting
equipment is concerned The hulls
will be used for merchant ships new
| interior arrangements being effected
to make them suitable for the carrying
of cargo. Three old destroyers, the
| Truxton, the Worden and the Whipple
which were retired some time ago
have been rebuilt as merchant ships
! and now ply in the fruit trade between
the United States and tropical Amer
lea. Many of the destroyers are fast
| oil-burning ships and are easily sus
ceptible of conversion into passenger
| or cargo ships
A modern battleship costs $4,000,
| 900 or more; as junk it brings not
! more than one one-hundredth part Of
! that sum. The battleship Maine was
bid in as junk for $4,000 There are
not many persons or companies who
are In the market for secondhand bat
tleships and the buyer must regard as
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16

Battleships are made of the best
quality of material and therefore have
a large value as junk. Armor plate is
made of the finest nickel steel. This
is cut into billets and sold to autnmn.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16
Robert Watt Graduates
From Technology Institute

Robert H Watt, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank N Watt, SO South Fiji
teenth street, was graduated Friday
morning at Carnegie Institute of
Technology, Pittsburg. with a degree
of Bachelor of Science in mechanical
engineering, college of engineering.
The graduating class numbered 365.
one of the largest In the history of
the institution. The speaker at the
commencement exercises was DR.. John
Huston Finley. an editor of the New
York Times, and formerly New York
state commissioner of education.
Mr.. Watt graduated from the Rich
mond high school in 1917 after which
he spent year in Earlham. At the
time of the S. A T. c. he was en-
rolled in this service at Miami uni
versity at Oxford Ohio, but when the
unit there was disbanded after the
signing of the armistice, he completed
the years school work at Earlham.
He has spent the last three years in
Carnegie Institute. Watt will drive
home and probably will arrive in Rich
mond Saturday night or Sunday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16

part of the price he pays the enormous
cost OF the wrecking. While the seller
of the secondhand fighting ships gets
little in proportion to original cost, the
ultimate cost to the junkman is many
times what he pays for the complete
vessel. Almost as many men are re-
quired to take ship apart as to put
one together
More than half a million tons of the
American navy are being scrapped IN
der the disarmament treaty and the
junk is to be handled in such a way
that many people will ride in automo-
biles, sail in ships, use electrical ap-
planes and use tools which formerly
constituted parts of the great ships.
Other Junkfng Enterprises
1t is the greatest and most spectacu-
lar junking enterprise which has fol-
lowed the war but there are many
others. The government bought a ire
mendous quantity of material of all
sorts and built many buildings espe-
cially for war use. Many of these are
all being strapped. In every big city
in the country can be found important
evidences of this vast industry which
Washington is a typical example. A
business man purchased or leased a
portion of Camp Meigs, the temporary
camp where the war garrison of Wash
ington was quartered. Using the camp
site as a junk yard, he proceeded to
scrap the camp buildings as well as
other temporary buildings erected in
Washington in the emergency of war.
I To- -, -, \
hand of building takes everything in
it-lumber, bricks, steel, plumbing,
lighting fixtures and all other materi-
| ais which go to make up a house.
This results in the accumulation of
stock for a sort of department store
of the building trade. Builders can
find in such yards almost anything in
/ the way of materials for any sort of
building.
This industry is thriving in many
cities, especially those near which
/ great army camps were located during
the war. The process of reducing to
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16
Uncle Sans Junk Business
By FREDERIC J. HAsKIN

WASHINGTON, D. c.. June 16. -
Americas real work in the naval dis
armament program Is being STARTED in
earnest The conference itself Is his
tory and the men who reduced to writ
ing the agreements are engaged in
other affairs. The actual scrapping of
the ships of war is just beginning. 1t
is jog which is making the United
States the seat of the biggest junk in
dustry the world ever has known.
Dismantling a battleship is a task
second only to building one. A battle
ship is designed to withstand destruc-
ton. In war it is its function to en-
dure the pounding of the heaviest
shells which the ingenuity Of man has
invented, to say nothing of the pound
ing of the seas. And now, under the
disarmament treaties, a whole feet is
to be destroyed.
Practically all of the work is to be
done in private yards of junk men or
shipbuilders. A Philadelphia firm
made the government a proposal to
take over the entire fleet scrapped by
the treaty, but as a matter of public
policy it was decided not to give the
JOO W OiAC I1OWONCI,
this company has obtained the job of
scrapping several battleships and a
number of smaller vessels. Among
the important warships to be scrapped
at Philadelphia are the battleships
4 Missouri, Wisconsin and Maine, the
cruiser Columbia, the cruiser Raleigh,
which was with Admiral Dewey at
Manila Bay, and the Monitor Mon
| terey. The junk company's yard is on
the waterfront and it now is dredging
channel deep enough to receive
these great ships.
The most. useful implement in the
destruction of an armon-clad battle.
ship is the oxy-acetylene torch This
is device which shoots flame of ex.
tremely high temperature into a mass
of steel and cuts it as a knife cuts
bread. These torches are used in cut.
ting the huge armor plates into com
mercfal shapes and sizes. The pneu
matte drill and the chisel are used in
the Remembering of lighter parts, and
ponderous misunderstanding be
tween a trip-hammer and pile driver
is used to crush and break up large
blocks Of metal into smaller, more
workable chunks.
Material for Automobiles
Battleships are made of the best
| quality Of material and therefore have
a large value as junk. Armor plate is
| made of the finest nickel steel. This
Is cut into billets and sold to automo
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16
Democratic Men, Women
To Meet at Cambridge

Both men and women voters will at
tend meeting of Democratic voters
of western Wayne county to be held
at Cambridge City Friday evening,
starting at 1880 o'clock. Frank Nc
Fail, county chairman, will attend the
meeting with a number of Democratic
workers from this city.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16
Use of Air Guns In City
Prohibited, Says Euersman

use of air guns within the city linn
its is prohibited by city ordinance,
and is punishable by fine of 81 and
costs" said Chief of Police Eversman
Friday. Two boys were lectured at
the city hall after they had been
brought in on complaint of the neigh
bors, who said they were using the
guns too much.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16

South Twenty-third street. Thursday
evening. Larkin is charged with
grand larceny. He has been wanted
at Nashville for some time and OIL
GERS arrested him as soon as he was
seen here. he was arrested on infofA
nation furnished by the Nashville po-
lice
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16
Will Take William LGrkin,
Arrested Here, to Nashville

William Larkin will leave for Nash
vile. Tenn, shortly. in custody of
officers from that place, as result of
his arrest on the carnival grounds
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-04-06
EXTENSION FUNDS NOT MATERI.
ALLY REDUCED

The apparent cut OF half a million
dollars in the appropriation for the
extension work Of the Department of
Agriculture, is, in reality, no reduc-
ton at all In the amount of money
appropriated for this work the COM
ing year, The cut occurs in what is
known as the supplementary fund.
which was a war time appropriation
and which was continued until the
work being supported by the fund
could be taken care of by the increase
already provided for in the regular
appropriations. This year the in
crease in the Smith-Lever fund, which
is used exclusively for extension work
amounts to a half million. This takes
care of the decrease in the emergency
fund. There has been a slight de-
e in the appropriation made di-
rect to the Extension Office of the De-
partment. made possible largely by
the reorganization of this service.
When compared with decreases made
in other lines of work this Is less than
might have been expected, amounting
TO $4,000 or an average per state of
less than .$1400.