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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-03-14
HIGHER RBREADPR|CE
T0BE|NVEST|GATED
U. S. Attorney to Probe for
Trust at Concerted Increase
of 1c Per Pound.

United States Attorney Gordon will
investigate the increase in the whole
sale price of bread which takes
effect tomorrow. and if evidence Is
obtained that the bakers by an agree
m ent or concerted action have decreed
the increase, Maj. Gordon will bring
the matter to the attention of the
grand jury.
"An agreement among the bak-
ers," said Maj Gordon, Ito increase
the price of bread would. in my
opinion, constitute a violation OF the
Sherman antitrust law. and II
evidence of such agreement or
criminal concert is obtained from an
Investigation, I will present such
evidence to the grand jury at once"
Mai. Gordon explained that he made
an extended inquiry through a num-
her of Investigators some weeks ago,
and has the data then gathered on
bis desk. The demands on his time
in nresenting the Knickerbocker and
Morse cases to the grand jury have
prevented him from giving consldera-
ton to the evidence relating TO the
actions of the bakers at that time.
He expects to be able to review the
reports of these investigators shortly.
An increase of 1 cent per pound In
the price of bread. wholesale. was an
nounced today, to take erect tomor
row.. by two NE ieading innsa.sa oaheriIs which H is
expected to be general, will make
from to cents difference-accord-
ing TO the retailer--in the retail price
of bread.
The raise was made. according to
cause of the increased cost OF flour,
which in turn was caused by the
inmn in wheat from 90 cents to
$50 per bushel during the past few
months.
hound loaf and from 10h to IL cents
FOR. the half loaf.
Coincident with the announcement
of the raised prices, one large baker
tcday explained that since December
his firm had been losing money
steadily on account of the increased
cost of materials. Flour, he said. had
inmped appreciably in price at one
time during this period. touching a
mark 81 in advance of the price
nrior to December 5.
AS a result, his firm has lost more
than $4,000 during that time, ex-
cinsive % Of the profits which would
have been realized normally. he said
The retail price. depending on the
type and location of the retailer.
varies in margin from l to cents on
the mound of bread. The increase, it
10 estimated, will send the retail
nrice of bread from s and 9 cents to
3 and 10 cents per pound. =.
Mixed bread, including rolls and
biscuits, also will be affected by the
increase.
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PREPARE TO MOBILIZE MEN.
Party of American Engineers
Ready to Go to Russia,

NEW YORK, March 14.-H. S. CAL
vert, one of the men associated with
William d. Haywood in obtaining con-
cession to operate an iron works and
coal mines in Russia. says that q party
of engineers and technicians will soon
leave for Russia to prepare the way for
six thousand American workmen.
Calvert, like the other concessionaries
is member Of the I. w. w. and was
formerly a foreman in the Ford auto
mobile plant in Detroit. The others in
the group of concessionaries, Calvert
said, are Thomas Barker and D. Bayer,
who are we'll known in I. w. W. circles
in this country. but are now in Russia
with Haywood. and G. j. Rutgers, a ma
tive of Holland. who has been identi-
fled with the 7. w. w. movement in the
United States.
Under the terms Of the concession, Cal
vert declared. the soviet government
will collect a revenue of z per cent from
the properties and reserves the right to
commander approximately SO per cent
of the colony's output of coal, iron and
machine products, for which it agrees to
give the workers credits with which they
can purchase other supplies. The re-
mainder, he said, is to be left to the
workers to dispose Of as they see fit
The Nadejdinsky iron works are about
1900 miles east of Moscow and the
Kosnetz basin is about 5000 miles east
OF Moscow in the Tomsk district of
western Siberia.
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ONLY WOMAN IN HOUSE GOES HOME
TO FIND WOMEN SET AGAINST HER

possesses many womanly sympathies.
Her one unopposed political ipdorse-
ment, for postmaster in her rAhome
town, was given to a woman. While
herself postmaster OF Muskogee, un-
der President Roosevelt, Miss Alice
favored women wherever possible in
the assignment of postal employees
In the pioneer days Of Indian terri
tory she was an educator of young
womanhood. Yet 1t is the direct
charge Of the League of Women Vot-
ers Of Oklahoma, which has infiu-
entail chapters in Muskogee and Ok
mulgee. in the second district, that
Miss Robertson failed to espouse the
cause OF womanhood when the ma
ternity bill presented the opportunity.
Sees Politics Mt Root.
Miss Robertson was frank in her
reasons for opposing the bill. She
is just as frank in saying that the
hostility of most Of the league MEM
bers is fostered by women who op-
pose her for political reasons.
II am against sex in politics." says
Miss Alice. II did not want to run
at the beginning, but the men in
sisted and I did what considered
my duty. The people put me in. II
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MAY NEED TO Join
PREPARATIONS BODY
U. S. Membership Is Seen as
Possibility in Official Cir
cIeS Here.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The United States government may
find itself compelled by circumstances
to become an official member of the
reparations commission.
The fact that under the present
state of affairs European govern
ments can get together and dispose of
Germany's assets without regard to
the rights or claims of the United
States is giving concern in Official
quarters. Up to now. America has
been able to drift along with an un-
official observer, r. w. Boyden, who
has been presenting the views of the
United States carefully and dis
creetly.
tive permission to send a representa-
tive to participate officially in the
discussions and actions of the repara-
tions commission. 1t can be stated
positively that the American govern
ment, in presenting it's claim for
$241, 100000 of the German repara-
penses of the American Army Of oc-
cupation, did not have in mind, one
way or the other, the qeustion of
membership on the reparations COM
mission. No preconceived plan has
been adopted which seeks to demon
! member of the reparations commits
sion. The government is really drift
ing along, letting developments speak
for themselves.
President Quoted.
On one occasion not long ago
President Harding publicly expressed
his regret that the United States
was not officially represented ON the
reparations commission because it
might have a voice in the contro-
versy over German dyes. The claim
for expenses of the American army
of occupation is. a second develop
ment.
In the absence of President Hard
ing, officials here cannot very well
say whether the executive would
agree to ask Congress it's views on
American membership on the repara-
tions commission. Certainly a joint
resolution would have to be adopted
before the executive would be free
to act
The reparations commission, Of
course, has nothing to do with the
league Of nations. It is a separate and
distinct institution. 1t was created by
the Versailles treaty, and when the
United States made a separate peace
with Germany the identical clauses of
the Versailles treaty which relate to
reparatfons were taken textually and
! made part of the American-German
treaty. So the United States is entitled
to membership in the commission
| whenever it wishes to exercise the
right. The Senate, however, interposed
| a reservation that the consent of Con-
gress must be secured before a repre-
| sentative is sent to any international
commission under the treaty. This ac-
! ton has been referred to by President
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By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March ~14.-
Margarete Matzenauer, famous
diva, apparently has lost her
chauffeur husband, whom she
termed 100 per cent man."
The husband, Floyd Glotzbach,
has come back to his job at the
Del Monte Hotel here driving tour
lists about.
A year ago he took Nine. Matze-
nauer out for q drive-for hire.
She sat on the front seat with him.
better to enjoy the scenery. Later
came the engagement and mar
riage and Glotzbach left the driv-
ing wheel
The San Francisco Examiner to-
day gives Glotzbach's reasons for
leaving his bride In New York:
"Babylon Palaces" Bore.
I'D rather be a chauffeur In
California than to dwell forever in
the palaces of Babylon" he said.
It would seem Glotzbach was
forced to let another man drive his
wife's automobile.
"It would drive any man cra7y-t to
sit back among the cushions and
squirm every time he felt the
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Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MUSKOGEE. Okla, March 14.-Are
the woman voters, in the heyday OF
their new enfranchisement, deter
mined to defeat this fall the only
woman representative in Congress?
Homesick. for the community that
knows eher as Miss Alice" Repre-
sentative Robertson came home re-
Gently to rest-and found herself fac
ing the crisis Of her political career.
She has returned now to Washington
defiant. She believes the movement
against her by certain women's or
ganizations is entirely partisan. If
Oklahoma women want to bring in
outsiders to hei6 fight, Miss Alice is
willing to meet them. The opposition
is based upon the fact that Miss Rob-
ertson voted against the Sheppard
Towner maternity bill" and. it is fur
ther charged, has shown a lack of
sympathy for other measures de-
signed solely in the interest Of
Her friends. rallying to her defense,
claim thatN'Miss Alice of Muskogee"
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REFUSES FIUME POST.
Signor Giuriati Decides Not to Ac
cept Governorship.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, March 15.-Yielding to the
pressure of the Italian government,
Giovanni Giuriati has decided not to
accept the govephorship of Fiume.
In a final interview today with Pre-
mier Facta and Foreign Minister
Schanzer, Signor Giuriati was in
formed that although the Fiume
question was intimately involved
with Italian sentiment, it also must
be regarded from the viewpoint OF
international policy and his appoint
ment by a unconstitutional body,
like the Fiume committee on national
defense, was illegal.
Signor Giuriati, while not sharing
the views of the government, agreed
not to accept the governorship, as
serting that he desired to act only
for the best interests of Fiume.
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COAL STRIKE CERTAIN,
SAYS SECRETARY DAVIS,
AFTER TALK WITH LEWIS

A general strike In the bitu-
minous coal industry ON or about
April 1 is inevitable, Secretary of
Labor Davis and John l.. Lewis,
president of the United Mine
Workers Of America. agreed to-
day, following a prolonged con-
fere1-e at which they discussed
the situation growing out of the
controversy between the miners
and mine operators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-03-14
BOMBS ROUSE LISBON.
Explosion Victims Garry Picture.
of Lenin and Trotsky.

LISBON, March 1a.-Bomb explo-
sions have occurred recently in sew
eral parts of the city, and others
werS reported today. Several cas-
1alties have resulted, the victims in
Guiding two of the bomb throwers,
upon whom the police reported find
ing portraits of Lenin and Trotsky.-
The government is taking strong
measures to prevent the projected
social uprising, details regarding the
possession of Oports syndicalists.
fhere. have been more than 100 ar
stests of agitators.
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F1L1pINos COMING HERE.

MANILA, P.tI., March 13.-The Phil
iupine mission to urge the claims of
the F'ilipinos for independence will
denart for Washington aboard the
steamer keystone State, April 80. it
was announced today. The mission is
headed by Gen. Emelio Aguinaldo.
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TORNADO K|[[S22;;
HUNDREDS INJURED
Sweeps Through Arkansas
Oklahoma and Louisiana
With Big Property Loss.
By the Associated Press

by the ASSocf1te0 ffesS.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. March IA
through farming
settlements of Jefferson and Lonoke
counties early today took death toll
of four whites and six negroes and
wrecked farmhouses and other prop
erty, according to meager reports
reaching here.
McALESTER, Okla. March 14.-Nine
persons were killed and number
leveled a path through Gowen. a
mining village fifteen miles east of
here, last night, according to DR.. W.
w. Sames of Hartshorne, who re-
turned to his home today after assist
ing in relief work at the stricken
and injured are Mexicans, DR.. Sames
said. Many persons were slightly in
jured.
List Of Dead.
The dead are Mrs. Sidney Wilker-
son, Clifford wilkerson (infant), Mrs.
Pat Laney. Mrs. George Glembo. Rena
teen; Mrs. Pete Alnabois. Pete Alma
bois, Matilde Alnabois.
BATON ROUGE, La, March H.
The settlement of Sunrise, La, in
West Baton Rouge parish. was prac-
tically obliterated this morning when
cyclone struck it. Two persons
were killed, sixteen injured and a
number of dwellings were demol-
ished, according to reports reaching
here.
Fifty Buildings Wrecked.
SULPHUR, Okla. March 14-One
man was dead and half a dozen other
persons were in hospital seriously
injured today as a result of tornado
which ripped through the west side
of this city late yesterday, wrecking
about fifty buildings, with property
damage estimated around 100000.
Several of the seriously injured were
not expected to live.
Volunteer workers began clearing
away the debris at daybreak. APP
proximately $50 per sons are home,
less. They are being cared for in
residences which escaped the path of
the tornado. Several score of persons
are nursing minor injuries.
The tornado swooped down from
ern portion of the city and dropped
into the west side, leveling a path
two blocks in width and more than
a half mile long. Most of the struc-
lures In the twister's path were
dwellings. The courthouse and the
Presbyterian Church were demolished
and the roof Of the Methodist Church
was carried away.
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Lenin Giues Haywood Control
Of Works to Employ4, ,800L: v. ".
Soviet Assigns 100000 Toluard Financing Undertak.
ing-Whole Production of Factory and Mine
Concessions to Go to Government.

is to assist them to return to their
country after they have handed over
to the state the works and factories
that had the insta :ations and instru-
.aents brought from abroad.
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WEATHER.

Rain tonight and tomorrow: colder
tomorrow.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 60, at
pm. yesterday; lowest. A, at am.
today.
Full report on page I.
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Member Of the Associated Press

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication Of gil news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights Of publication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved
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tlContiuued on PAGE 2. Column ~
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RENT COMMISSION
FACING CALL-DOWN
Senators See Failure to Fully
Enforce Ball Law in the
District.

Calling of the District Rent Com
mission to task for alleged failure to
enforce more fully the Ball rent act
by initiating more Investigations into
apartment house rent is to be con-
sidered by the Senate District COM
mittee at its meeting Wednesday.
r Senator Ball. chairman of the COM
mittee, and author Of the Ball rent
law. and Senator Gooding were in
conference on this situation today,
and both expressed themselves as
strongly in favor Of Immediately call
ing the members Of the commission
before the committee, but later de-
cided that they would hold the matter
in allegiance until Wednesday, when
the committee is to meet, and take
the matter UP with the full member
ship.
Senators Ball and Gooding will
strongly urge the committee to have
the members Of the rent commission
called before it, and inform them that
in the committees belief they are NOT
sufficiently active in the carrying out
the law as now written, and ASCERTAIN
from them why they are not pursuing
a more aggressive attitude in the in
vesitgation Of apartment house rent,
Says Commission Lacks Activity.
Senator Ball said today that he did
not believe the commission was show
ing the proper degree of activity In
this regard. and that the Senate COM
mittee should call the members of
the commission before it and seek an
Continued on Page 2, Column s.
Evening star., 1922-01-21
SEES MARRIED WOMAN
DEPRIVED OF RIGHTS
UNDER BALL RENT Law

Contention that under the Ball
rent law a married woman Is not
granted the right to obtain possess
sion of real estate was made in
petition filed today with the Dis
trict Rent Commission by Johanna
Barbagollo, through Attorney
Raymond Hudson.
The petition is in answer to a
complaint made to the commits
sion by Mrs. Sadie L. Fishbein,
who desires to obtain possession
of property she owns for use in
her husbands business.
The brief filed by the tenant
through her attorney holds that
married woman has no more
rights in the District Of Columbia
under the Ball act than she did in
common law, except where those
rights are specifically granted by
statute. The Ball law, the brief
states, does not grant to a mar
ried woman the right to obtain
possession of her property.
This is the first time that such
contention has been raised. 1t
was pointed out at the commits
sion's Offices today. The decision
of the rent board in the case Will
be handed down later.
Evening star., 1922-01-21
REVISION PLANS READY.

Completed plans proposing reor-
ganization Of the executive depart
ments of the federal government pre-
pared by the joint congressional COM
mittee on reorganization were sub
mitted to President Harding at the
White House today by Walter F.
Brown, chairman of the committee.
These plans, which were described
in The Star yesterday, will be. re-
viewed by the President and the men,
bers of his cabinet before being re-
turned to the joint committee for con-
sideration, after which they will be
submitted to Congress for enactment.
Chairman Brown said today the
committee anticipates number of
changes in the plans when they have
been considered by the President and
the members Of the cabinet. He ex-
poets the latter to complete consid :
Grafton of the proposed changes
within the next two or three weeks.
Evening star., 1922-01-21
WILL RUSH BILL TO BUY
PlNEY BRANCH PARK

Plans are being formulated to rush
through Congress q measure provid-
Ing for the purchase Of Piney Branch
Valley Park. which is the territory
lying in the Piney Branch valley
beginning from the east side of the
18th street bridge and running in a
northeastearly direction to 18th and
Varnum streets.
Senator Ball, chairman of the
Senate District committee, who made
a personal inspection of this property
recently, said today he would intro.
duce a bill Monday providing for the
purchase of this tract of land i'm
mediately. Provision for its purchase
already is contained in a bill pending
before the Senate District Committee.
but the measure includes two other
properties, the Patterson tract and
the Klingle ford valley tract.
Senator Ball, appreciating the danger
of destroying the beauty of this park
by commercial projects now under
way. has decided to separate the
Piney branch project and to make a
strong fight for its immediate passage
in the Senate.
1t is believed that the tract, which
contains approximately nineteen
acres can be purchased for $3.50, 900.
The land is contained in the plans
of the park commission for q per-
manent drive through the parkway
systems !:
Evening star., 1922-01-21
|OBRECON MAY VISIT
|U.S.FOR0PERAnON
Mexican President Declared
Preparing to Have Right
+. Arm Attended To.
By the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, January 21.-Per-
mission from congress is necessary
before President Obregon can leave
the country. 1t is pointed out in con-
nection with the report that he may
go to Rochester. Mimi, to undergo an
operation on his right arm. No op-
position is expected if such permis-
sion is requested.
Rumors Of the presidents reported
intention are current here, but high
officials decline to comment upon them
and the president himself cannot be
seen.
Gales May Act NJ President.
The Mexican constitution provides
that, during the presidents absence
from the country, an acting president
be chosen by the permanent commits
sion of congress which acts when
congress is not in session. President
Obregon is credited with having COM
plete control of the present perma-
nent commission. and it is rumored
that, should he make the trip to
Rochester. Secretary Of the Interior
Gales would be named.
Miguel Alessio Robes. minister to
Spain, who is now in Mexico. Is also
considered available for the post.
Senior Robles for years has been act
i've in political life and he was private
secretary to Adolfo de la Huerta when
the latter was provisional president,
preceding the Obregon administration.
May Get Cabinet Post.
Although his 1t return from
Spain was decl"' a to be for business
reasons, it was generally believed at
the time that Senior Robes had been
selected for some cabinet post, pos
sibly that Of foreign relations. with
Alberto ]. Pani, the present incum-
bent, going to the department of COM
merce and industry.
The report that President Obregon'
health demands immediate attention
has occasioned some surprise here. In
asmuch as he seemed to be in better
condition than when he entered the
presidency more than q year ago.
Evening star., 1922-01-21
Wars Will Vanish in Pacts'
FORMULATION, Says Prince

country; which was most enjoyable,
: though I must admit that my re-
sponsibilities were so large and my
j duties SO much heavier than l coud
bear that could not enjoy your
country as much as would other
, wise have done.
president Harding, Secretary
HUGHES and all Of their countrymen
have been so exceedingly kind to
me and the other Japanese delegates
that it is impossible to express our
gratitude in words. The conference.
think, has been as highly success
full as we could expect, especially as
regards the naval limitation phase
I and the quadruple treaty, which will
bring peace for all time to the whole
! world. I am sure there need be no
fear Of wars hereafter"
Evening star., 1922-01-21
BY the ociated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, T. H., January co.
The peace Of the world Will be as
sured in the future by the promul-
CATION Of the naval armament limi-
tation and far eastern agreements,
Prince Tokugawa said in farewell
statement issued Just before his
departure for Toxic today.
The statement was issued to the
American people through the Asso-
GATED Press.
Il feel" Prince Tokugawa said,
''that / cannot leave this outpost
Of the United States without saying
q few wsrds of gratitude in connec-,
tion with my recent visit to that
Evening star., 1922-01-21
BRITISH TROOPS CLASH
WITH TURKS IN TWO-DAY
BATTLE, SAYS REPORT
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1922.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, jan
uary 21.-A serious clash between
the British and nationalist forces
in Mesopotamia has occurred, ac-
cording to an urgent message
from Angora- The nationalist re-
port states that British troops
were trying to cross the neutral
zone and were opposed by Turkish
forces. After a fight lasting two
days the British withdrew. A
Turkish brigade has been hurried
from Van and other reinforce
ments under Ferid Pasha have left
Angora for the Irak frontier.
Though the report emanates from
nationalist sources and has not
been confirmed by the local British
authorities. the news has caused
considerable excitement among the
Turks, who see in this action the
beginning of British hostilities
against Mustapha Kemal Pasha.
Evening star., 1922-01-21
11EuT. YEATMAN ASSIGNED.

Lieut.. Philip W. Yeatman has been
assigned to duty in the bureau Of
naval operations. Navy Department.