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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
BUREAU INVENTORY
DELAYED A WEEK
Strict Secrecy Being Main.
tanned by Committee Inves-
tigating Engraving Plant.

Report on the inventory" taken at
the bureau of engraving and print
ing by a special Treasury Depart
ment committee cooperating with
Department of Justice agents may
not be ready for submission to Sec
rotary Mellon for another week. it
was learned in authoritative quarters
yesterday.
No inkling of what the report may
contain has been allowed to leak
from the secret activities of the COM
mittee. and officials everywhere main
tain silence, which they say will
not be broken until the completed re-
port has been presented, and until 1T
has been decided what part shall be
made public. President Harding has
made it known that he intends to give
out such information as Is OF public
interest cncerning the entire bureau
situation.
Director Louis B. Hill. who has been
conducting study of the personnel
situation of the bureau. with a view to
putting into operation a Treasury order
of March Is, calling for a reduction of
the personnel commensurate with pres
ent needs. reported yesterday that
progress was being made, but that those
scheduled for dismissal had not been
picket yet. Investigation of the bureau
was being made in a careful way, he
said, In order to conform to the
Treasury order and maintain efficiency
of the plant. The employees to be dis
missed before the end of the month may
total 600, Director Hill said, and will be
selected from three classes-those on
extended retirement. married women
whose husbands are working, and per-
sons entering the bureau during the
war without civil service status.
Ultimately the bureau will be cut
from it's present total of G. 900 personnel.
Mr.. Hill said. to 5000, but not all of
the 1000 will be dropped at once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
SHIP SUBSIDY MEASURE
IS URGED ON CONGRESS
Emil Albrecht, Representing 10000
Business Men, Endorses Mer-
chant Marine.

The humble tramp" is the backbone
of the merchant marine, as the
"doughboy" is the dependence of the
Army. Emil 2. Albrecht. president of
the Philadelphia Bourse, said in a
statement presented yesterday to the
joint congressional committee hold
ing hearings on the proposed ship
subsidy bill.
Mr.. Albrecht Endorsed the subsidy
plan on behalf of several commercial
organizations of philadelphia. saying
these organizations with combined
membership Of 10000 ARE unit in
their approval of the principles" of
these bills, which have for their OBJ
ject the upbuilding Of permanent
American merchant marine privately
owned and operated. differed by
Americans and manned as far as pos
sible by United States citizens to
carry full share of American COM
merce and to serve as a necessary
auxiliary to the Army and Navy In
peace, and IL need be in war"
merchant marine, said Mr.. AL
brecht, is not a lot Of vessels laid
up. out OF commission. or rotting in
various ports. but a we'll balanced
feet OF vessels of proper types and
speeds in active service carrying the
goods or commodities to the various
markets of the world, and bringing
back things in exchange"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
TREASURY REGA|NS
MILLIONS IN SILVER
Half of Metal Sold England in
India Coin Famine
Restored.

BY the Associated Press.
Half of the silver sold to Great Bril-
tain and a third of the silver dollars
melted up to supply the metal for re-
lieving the coin famine in India dur
ing the war have been replaced by
the Treasury. according to figures
compiled yesterday by the mint.
Officials estimated that the standard
silver dollars melted during the war
to relieve the critical coinage situa-.
ton in India will all have been re-
placed in the vaults of the Treasury
two years hence. In 1918 the gov.
eminent sold to Great Britain ap-
proximate1y 200.000,000 ounces of sill
yer, obtained from melting standard
silver dollars. for approximately
$203,000.000.
2O9,0OO,OOO Ounces Needed.
About EOS. 100000 ounces OF silver
will be needed to replace the dollars
used in supplying the precious metal
needed by Great Britain for India,
officials said, and since May. 1920,
183. 100000 ounces have been pur-
chased under the terms of the Pitt
man act for 81 an ounce.
About 270.000,000 silver dollars were
melted for the British sale. but some
weight from long usage.
Estimating the annual silver out
put of the country for the next two
years at 100000 ounces. officials as
serted it would require that long for
the treasury to obtain the remaining
106.000,000 ounces required which the
law provides must be mined in this
country and for which the miners
must receive 81 an ounce regardless
Of the market price for silver until
the dollars sold to Great Britain have
been replaced.
1OO.0O0.OOO Dollars Coined.
Officials stated that since May. 1921,
more than 100.o00.000 standard sill
yer dollars have been coined. the
coinage Of silver dollars having been
resumed by the mint for the first
time in IL years. Great Britain. Of
fcials said. has paid about $4,000
900 on account of the silver pur-
chases.
At various times a total of $4,000
900 in gold has been received while
total of $71,000.000 has been re-
ceived by the federal reserve bank of
New York for the account of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23

son. A. c. Monohan. DR.. w. S. Bene-
dict. c. L. johnson. Leonard w. De
Cast. Arthur B. Heaton. F. w.
Walker, E. T. Goodman. Ernest H.
Daniel. William Carl Goodman, Reid
L. Harrison. Zach Brewer, Angus
Macdonald, L. B. Sleet. A. L. Creepy,
Seton Darr, George F. Moss, James
p. Schick. Walter NJ. Bastian. George
c. Shaffer. Maurice p. King. George
A. Lewis. A. E. Parker. DR.. George T.
Sharp, Vergne w. Potter, Nejib He
kimian. George B. Du Bots, Ernest
Kletsch, F. Lawrence Walker, Harry
w. Taylor. John NJ. Waters, s. Frank
lin Gardner, P. J. Foley. DR.. H. A.
Fowler. c, H. Nelly. George H. En-
mons. jr., Eugene c. Copenhaver, S.
Russell Bowen. DIR. ]. A. Flynn,
Charles S. Alden. T. J. Crocker. DR.. s.
B. Muncaster, William E. Yost and
Wallace D. Blick.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23

Arrangements are completed for
the twenty-second annual Associa tie
Council of the National Society
United States Daughters of 1872. to
be held at the willard Hotel next
week, beginning Monday. il has been
announced by Mrs Clarence +. r.
JENNIE of Connecticut. national presi-
dent of the organization.
The program of several days will
include. aside from the business meet
ings. IA banquet, reception. trip to
Arlington and visit to the White
House.
Monday morning the national exc
cutive board will convene. and a meet
ing of the new executive board is
called imm ediately after the adjourn
ment of the Associate Council. A trip
to Arlington will be made Monday
afternoon. and Il reception will be
held Monday evening.
Mrs. Potts Committee Chairman.
Mrs. Noble Newport Potts is chair
man of the committee of arrange
ments fer the reception. John Nj.
Stahi of Chicago. ex-president of the
Society of the War of 1872. and Mrs.
Mabel w Willebrant, assistant attor-
ney general, will be among the guests
of honor.
The committee on credentials un-
der the leadership of Mrs Washing
ton L. Mann of New York. will con-
vene Monday. Tuesday and Wednes-
day mornings from to 10 o'clock.
The associate council will open
Tuesday morning at 10 O'Clock for
business session. when state reports
will be heard.
Six officers are to be elected-the
first and third vice presidents, record
ing secretary. treasurer. historian and
auditor Election will take place on
"Wednesday morning.
Reception mt White House.
Tuesday afternoon the daughters
will he received by President and Mrs
Harding, and the banquet will be held
Tuesday evening. for which the guests
of honor will include Senior Don Fed
erico Alfonso PeZet, amba ssador from
Peru; Senator Stanley OF Kentucky
and Mrs. Stanley and Chaplain Muir
of the Senate. Banquet tickets are in
charge OF Mrs. Frederick W. Matte
son. 3S3S Woodley lane northwest.
Mrs. Harry F. Dimock will give a
tea for the visiting daughters We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock at her
home on Scott circle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
AS INSTRUCTORS.

Sergt Evan D. I.atta. Signal Corps,
of the office of the chief of staff. War
Department, and Sergt. David Malen-
FAINT ordnance department. at Fort
Myer. Va have been assigned to duty
as instructors with the Pennsylvania
National Guard. They will proceed
to Camp Meade, Md. for preliminary
course Of instruction at the training
center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
SALARY FIGHT SETTLED.
Senate Compromises on Lower
Shipping Board Figure.

a compI omise on salaries of Ship
ping Board officers. reducing the mum
Der of high salaried officials and fix
ing maximum salary of $4,000 in
stead of $4,000. proposed by the SEN
ate. was reached yesterday by Senate
and House conferees and ratified by
the Senate subject to acceptance by
the House.
The Senate receded partially from
it's salary schedule, and the conferees
agreed to authorize six officials at
s25. 000. two at $4,000 and one at S15.-
900. The House a few days ago re-
turned the bill to conference after re-
jecting the higher salary schedule pro-
posed by the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
LECTURES ON DALMATIA.
Archaeological Society Holds Last
Meeting of Season.

The Archa Biological Society OF
Washington held it's final meeting OF
the season yesterday afternoon az
the Mount Vernon Seminary, as the
guests of Mrs. Somers and Mrs.
Hensley Robert Lansing, president
of the society. presided.
Lieut. Col II. r. Fairclough. pro-
lessor of classics in Stanford Ini-
versity gave an illustrated lecturs
on Some Antiquities OF the Dalma-
ton Coast"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
SCHOOL POSITIONS OPEN.
Examination Announced for Nurse
and Dental Operators.

The health department wants a
school nurse and two school dental
operators.
Health Officer Fowler announces
that the Civil Service Commission will
hold examinations for these positions
in temporary building No. /. at 18th
and d streets. and 9 o'clock the
morning of May 5. Applications
should be filed at the health office
in the District Building on or before
May 3.
The school nurse will be paid $I.440
and the dentists, who are employed
only three and one-half hours day,
will receive $940 year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
RIVER FIRE STIRS ALARM.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. April 22-An
explanation of a report which reached
Cincinnati from Lawrenceburg, Ind.
last night. that large steamboat
had been seen on fire on the Ohio
river. was offered by residents of
Cloves and North Bend. who said that
tons of driftwood accumulated on the
Ohio river shore in this locality had
been burned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
wRANGEL TROOPS D1sARMED.

SOFIA. April 22.-Bulgaria has noti-
fed the Ukrainian soviet government
that all the troopers under the COM
mand Of Gen. Baron Wrangel arriving
in Bulgaria have been disarmed. The
note was In reply to Ukrainian mes
sage declaring that. in the event of
these troops attacking the Ukraine.
the incident would be considered an
act Of war on the part of Bulgaria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23

treasury from the Secretary of State
for India To April Is. nearly s49.-
OOO.O was paid on the remaining
s122,000. 900 and s12000.000 more is
due on May il when more than half
of what is now considered the British
silver debt will have been liquidated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
WIFI BANG VENDOR FINED.

LITTLE ROCK. Ark. April a.
Charles Baker. vendor Of Whiz Bang.
q weekly publication, was convicted
in circuit coutr here yesterday of
selling obscene literature and fined
800 by q jury composed of ten men
and two women. It was said that
Baker came here from Minnesota to
make a test case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23

After more than twenty years
work among lunactics an Edinburgh
doctor has come to the conclusion
that many forms of insanity are
caused by microbes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23
ORDERED TO REPORT.

Technical Sergt. John +. Ashmore,
ordnance department, at Fort Slocum,
~ Y, has been ordered to report 10
the adjutant general of the Army,
War Department. for duty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23

Those who stay out late at nights
in Stuttgart have to pay tax, either
to the caretaker of the house where
the reveler lives, or at the place
where he has been visiting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-23

Among the natural history curios
discovered by the Mount Everest ex-
petition was a whistling hare.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-11-07

to note that the really Barnumesque earn
ings are not of the gilded present, but Of
ffty-fve years ago in the case of Dickens
and thirtytwo in the case Of Stanley. 1t
is easily possible that few modern celeb
rites may have got more out of single
lecture or a short series than the two here
mentioned, but none has come up to them
as regards sustained performance and total
winnings
Popular taste say those enterprising
lecture agents who have to appraise it,
runs in cycles. The successful manager
has to be as good judge and interpreter
Of shifting currents as a weather fore
caster. James B. Pend, whose father, the
Major managed the tours of Henry Ward
Beecher, Matthew Arnold. Mark Twain,
Bill Nye and many others, recalls that
before the war there was a long period in
which explorers and travellers were upper
most. This was the era Of Peary, Cook.
Paul Rainey, Buffalo Jones, Amundsen and
Commander Evans, who told the story of
SCOTS tragic effort to reach the South
Pole. Concurrently there was, as Mr.. Pond
views it, literary cycle" with visits from
Masefeld, Alfred Noyes, William Butler
Yeats, Lady Gregory and others. This still
continues, but was most marked just be-
fore the war.
Before, during and since the war every
lecture manager Of large ambition has
tried TO lure George Bernard Shaw to the
United States, and some of them haven't
given up yet, although It is understood now
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-11-07

stories about it, but the most reliable (and
the one that the court accepted as true)
has It that Dominack and his father-in-law
were engaged in ploughing in the latter's
field
Dominack was trihe peevish that day.
He showed it in his childish abuse of the
old cayuse that had been teamed up with
a mule to the plow Came a particularly
irritating incident and Dominack assailed
the unfortunate beast with a club. Father
in-law objected, not so much from hui
manitarian motives as because the nag
was a serviceable old brute and good for
more work.
Whereupon Domlnack brought the club
down upon the old mans head with ruin
Gus force. One blow did it. The old man
died and Domnack, not at all concerned,
was dragged into court. The Crowns
prosecutors told the jury all about it and
the jury scowled at the nonchalent Domi-
mack, who couldn't somehow get interested.
They decided to Jail him for six years.
does seem minor punishment for muir
der, but the killing of Dominates father
in-law did not strike the court as the most
terrible offense that might be imagined.
At any rate Domlnack was thrown into
jail, where he proceeded to sleep and eat
and take life serenely. It made little diff
ference to our hero,
A few weeks later the Shuswaps were
invited to play a strong baseball team
from somewhere or other down the prov
ince.
1--WE can't play" said the Shuswaps.
1--WE have no pitcher. We would be terri
bly, beaten by this team unless Dominack
was with US to pitch"
They were quite right about It. The
game was played and the visitors won.
1t was a fearful shock to local pride and
it just about wrecked the morale Of the
Shuswaps. The Shus'Iapg always looked
mean on the diamond but on this occa-
sion they played as badly as they looked.
They never wore uniforms anyway. Half
the fun in going up to see them play Of
Sunday afternoon was to see Dominack in
the box with brown derby on the back
of his head. The first basernan wore
ragged jersey. a railroad brakemans cap
and a pair of denim overalls. He never
wore shoes.
Charlie the shortstop scorned shoes also.
The diamond was a bit lopsided. The
bases were tree stumps hacked off close to
the ground. 1t was almost twice as long
from first to second as it was from home
to first The distance from second to third
was twenty feet more than it should have
been. You see they had to have the bases
where the stumps were.
Dominack had not been in jail very long
and the Shuswaps hadn't sustained many
humillating defeats before it was decided
that It would be quite within the law were
Domnack to be fetched out of his cell on
Sunday afternoons and permitted to pitch
for the home team. After the game Of
course he'd be locked up again.
So they'd march Dominack to the dia-
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-11-07

mond, give him the ball and the Shuswaps
began winning again. Great was the re-
joicing among his brethren. His first ap-
pearance after going to jail was something
of a plot He knocked six or seven home
runs, they say, and pitched the opposition
to death. So wild did the Shuswaps be-
come that the Jail attendants were some
what apprehensiVe lest there be battle
when they tried to take Dominack back
to his cell.
But there was no trouble at all. Domi-
mack went sinking back to prison with
his brown derby hat on the back of his
head and his dirty overalls trailing at his
heels. There was nothing Of the noble
redskin about Dominack.
In time the authorities who have to do
with parolng prisoners decided that it
might be Just as well If Dominack were
released He was fetched into court and
told that he could go back to his cabin
on the reservation and stay there as long
as he behaved himself.
"All right" grunted Dominack.
"But the minute you do anything wrong,
back you 60" they warned him.
"AIl right" repeated the big Shuswap.
So Dominack shuffled back to his cabin
and made rather complete job of behav-
ing until a few weeks ago when team
came up to the reservation for the usual
Sunday game.
It develops now that this team had come
up to win. 1t was composed of profess
SIGNALS and it is said that its pitcher and
catcher had won renown in the Pacific
Coast league. Much money was wagered
on the result OF the game and Dominack,
coming as close as he ever has to being
enthusiastic jammed the old derby further
down than ever and proceeded to pitch
great baseball
SO, too. did the opposing pitcher. The
white man was good. Even the mighty
Dominack, the greatest baseball player in
the world. struck out. Along about the
fifth inning, neither side having scored
the contest had become pretty bitter. Here
and there arguments broke out and the
Lake Windermere rooters began to realize
that they were witnessing the makings of
a nice free-for-all battle. While the Shus-
waps were at bat Dominack was heard adj
dressing his fellow warriors:
white man ball players throw dust
on umpire when no like him." he said.
Dominack Lad laborously spelled out
newspaper accounts of big league heroes
and was recalling them for the benefit of
the team. Sometimes white man hit
umpire If no like what he say. Maybe
knock him down and drag him down the
street by the hair If he no good"
Dominac,; went to bat. He took off
the derby connected with a fast ball and
sent 1t sailing over the trees beyond the
outfield.
Foul ball." cried the umpire And the
riot was on.
Local police officials stepped in and pre-
vented a massacre To be entirely accu-
rate only a few blows were struck Some
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-11-07

HIR HENRY NJ. STANLEY. lecturing
in this country in the winter of
~ 1s9O-91. talked to ITO audiences, who
paid $2S7070 to hear and see him. lie
took back to England a net profit Of $1l0,-
900, or $1,000 lecture. This was nine
teen years after he found Livingstone, but
he had Just explored Africa third time
and great was his fame.
Charles Dickens came here in 1867 in
some trepidation because of the fun he had
had at our expense in american Notes
and Martin Chuzzlewit." He caught colo
and endured the continuous discomfort OF
what he called 1.-THE true American ca
tarrh," but he gave seventy-six readings
the gross receipts of which were S22S,VoO
and the average $4,000 an evening. After
every expense was paid his personal net
profit was IFS, 900, or $4,000 in our money,
as a pound sterling was worth 81 at that
time. His gain would have been larger II
he had been willing to accept United States
currency. Doubtful Of it, he converted
the currency into gold, then at premium
of 1914 per cent.
These records, Stanley's and Dickens's,
have never been equaled on the lecture
platform, although among the lions that
have come to roar upon our shores since
then have been many of distinction. The
foreign invasion has been steady and, we
may assume, profitable, for most of the
visitors, having once confronted American
audiences and escaped with their lives and
checked the count at the box offices, have
been eager to return. But It Is interesting
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-11-07
By THOREAU CROWN.

that Shaw will never come any more than
Rudyard Kipling Will return. OF all the
foreigners who could enrich themselves
and their agents by merely dropping across
the Atlantic and opening their mouths
Shaw is regarded as the surest bet. We
know of one specific offer made to him of
$500 apiece for eighteen lectures which
he could easily give in a month If he chose,
and probably he has received higher bids.
Shaw says he can't see any reason why he
should come to the United States. In addi-
ton he regards himself as too elderly and,
more important, he doesn't need the money,
which, no matter what one hears to the
contrary, is what brings most of the gifted
aliens here.
George Moore, after resisting American
Establishments for half a lifetime, had
agreed just before the war to come to
America, but the submarines put him off,
and as he is now So years old It Is doubtful
If we shall see him in the flesh. The war
also stopped Maurice Hewlett from coming.
On the other hand 1t was at least indirectly
responsible for the return of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. His belief in the manifesto
ton of life after death was quickened by
messages attributed to his son, killed in
the war, and he felt that the war had
placed the people in receptive mood for
his message.
Another celebrity upon whom American
Requirement has been wasted is Max Beer
bohm. He sends word he is happier where
he is and can't talk in public anyway.
Copyright 1922. by TIL