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Evening star., 1922-04-15
Says Stars FOreteH
President Harding VIII
Go to Genoa Farley

BY the Associated Press.
GENOA, April 15-When the
economic conference opened the
roetfcnIIy inclined discerned
the spirit of Columbus hover
ing near. Now, even the stars
themselves are helping shape
tts destinies, II signOr Tombas
the Italian astrOIoger. In to be
believed.
TOmbn, now IN Genoa, claims
particular distinction. because
when Pope Benedict died he
propheSied that Cardinal Rntf
would be the next Pope. Here
are some Of his conference
pr0phesiess
One Of the French delegates.
he says the stars tell him, soon
will fall Ill.
America will participate I'm
the conference before 1t In over.
Indeed, IT fs probable that Pres
ident Harding himself will
come over, and for his arrival
the conference may be proiOng-
ed sixty days.
TOmbn also says he has celes-
tial revelations on several i'm
port subjects concerning the
conference, but that he cannot
dfvulge them, because they
would betray state secrets.
Evening star., 1922-04-15
NEW RULE FOR FUEL OIL.
Supply for Navy No Longer to Be
Stored Underground.

The Interior Department yesterday
announced a new policy in handling
reserves of fuel oil for the Navy con-
templating abandonment of attempts
to keep the oil in storage under
ground. The new scheme was worked
out in cooperation with the Navy
Department.. a statement by the In
terror Department said, and involves
the permanent storage above ground
of royalty oils" derived from naval
oil reserve lands in California and
Wyoming storage to be made by op-
orators at points on both coasts suit
able for quick supply to the fleets in
emergency.
Contracts have been made and are
now being made" the statement said.
(which will insure the Navy ample
storage for all the fuel oil which it
has obtained now and which it will
hereafter obtain from such reserves.
This storage will be located at such
points that, in any time of crisis or
need, the ships of the United States
can obtain the same at points from
Guantanamo. Cuba. to the extreme
northeast of EIaine and from CAL
iforpia to Hawaii"
Evening star., 1922-04-15
RESULT OF TARIFF
|. BATTLE UNCERTAIN
Endurance Contest, Senate
Prospect-Repubiicans
Call Conference.

The forthcoming tariff bill fight in the
Senate promises to resolve itself into
an endurance contest With many
thousands of rates and hundreds Of
amendments to be considered, those in
charge of the measure estimate that
at best it will take close to two months
of steady work to put the bill through.
Whether a final vote can be taken IN
that time, they say, may, depend upon
the determination with which the demo-
Gratis, aided by some republicans. press
their fight.
Republican leaders are preparing for
the struggle A call went out today to
majority senator's for party confer
ence next Tuesday. Senator Curtis OF
Kansas. the republican whip, said the
principal purpose was to impress upon
the senator's the necessity for their
presence on the Senate floor throughout
consideration of the measure.
Doubt as to Enactment.
Whether the tariff bill can be enacted
at This session is regarded by many at
the Capitol as doubtful. Were this any
but an election year they would ahtlci-
pate little difficulty in holding Congress
in Washington to enact it, but many
members. and more particularly those of
the House. desire to be back home dur
ing the campaign.
There is some talk now about a
recess of sixty days after the Senate
acts on the bill. The work on the
measure in conference will require
those favoring the idea of recess
argue that no time would be lost
through that procedure as the con-
ferees could be in action while Con-
gress was away.
There are those among the repub-
licans who do not look with favor
upon the enactment of tariff bill
lust before elections. They say there
always is dissatisfaction over any
tariff measure. Admittedly. however
the discussion now as to when the
measure is to get through is mere
discussion, with the future too uncer-
tain for the formulating of any
definite plans.
Faces Crush OF Business.
The Senate is facing a crush of
highly important business, including
besides the tariff. the soldiers bonus
the Army Navy and other appropria-
tion bills, and the ship subsidy meas
ure. While the tariff is to be called
up next Thursday. it will have to be
laid aside from time to time for some
of the other important bills. Until
the program can be laid out with
greater accuracy than is possible al
this time, one guess as to what viii
be the fate of the tariff at this ses-
sion admittedly is about as good as
another.
The House is making fairly rapid
strides at clearing it's calendar, and
leaders there expect to be through
certainly by the 1st of July. They
anticipate difficulty in keeping the
members on the job after that time
and are endeavoring to get the Senate
to speed its work.
Evening star., 1922-04-15

landlord then or later, the commits
sion shall expeditiously enforce it's
decree in like manner as provided for
enforcing decree in behalf of tenant
in section l12.'
Mr.. Crafts insists that it is only
and tenant alike. At present, he says,
the law requires the rent commits
sion to enforce n verdict for a tenant,
bat does not make any such require
ment in case the verdict is in favor
of the landlord.
Evening star., 1922-04-15
TWO MORE INJUNcTIoNs.
Unions Barred From Activities In
West Virginia Fields.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON. w. Va, April 15.-
Judge George w. McClintic of the
United States district court yesterday
issued two temporary restraining
orders on officials and members of the
United Mine Workers of America in
the New River fields and in sections
of Raleigh and Fayette counties,
making total of three since Monday
The first of those of yesterday was
issued on petition of operators of the
New River field, and affects 119 oper-
ations. The other was granted on ap-
'plication of six coal companies and
one individual. Both injunctions in
clude in The defendants President
John L. Lewis Of the International
Union organization and other union
officials.
Both injunctions prohibit mass
meetings in the field affected and any
action by union organizers which
might cause miners to leave the en-
ploy of the companies at whose oper-
ations they are engaged.
A petition to revive the temporary
Injunction against union miners from
Interfering with employees Of the
Richland Coal Company of Wheeling
was filed in district court at Clarks-
burg yesterday with Judge W. E.
Baker.
Evening star., 1922-04-15
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENOA, April 15.-Women have little
part in the Genoa conference. There is
not one on any of the thirty-four dele
cations as a responsible member.
Nine. Alexandra koliontay, leader of
the feminist movement in Russia, OBJ
tected because the soviet did not in
clude woman member, and the woman
leaders of the Germany and the CEN
trail European countries emphatically
drew attention to the slight they had
suffered.
However, several prominent women
are included on the various staffs, and
the clerical forces of nearly all the dele
cations consist largely of the gentler
sex. Signora Olivia Rossetti Agresti,
who lectured widely in the United States
Evening star., 1922-04-15
UN|ON|SbLAMED
FOR MINE STRIKE
Coal Age Says Issue Is
Whether Economics or
Miners Should Rule.

Basic issues In the present coai
controversy involve the questions OF
whether the wages of mine workers
shall be reduced in accordance with
current economic conditions. ana
whether the coal mining industry
shall be subjected to the rule OF
national labor union which Is IN
s;stent on imposition of standardized
conditions, regardless of local needS
of miners, operators and the pupnc.
This is the view taken by Coal Age,
made public in an editorial today.
These issues" Coal Age says. nave
been confused in the public mind Dy
the impression that the whole DIM
Guilty arises out of the refusal oy
some of the operators in the centraI
competitive field to meet the miners
in Joint conference. The. operators
clair. that the agreement settiing
on a Joint conference prior to March
31. 1922. was shattered by the action
of the miners themselves when tney
struck in August. 1920. six months
after the wage agreement nau peeh
entered into.
Claim Miners Insincere.
The operators claim that the miners
are inSncere in that, altnousn the
agreement of March 81. 192o, covered
only the bituminous industry. the
United Mine Workers have struck In
the anthracite regions in spite OF the
fact that negotiations between repre-
sentatiyes of the hard coal operators
and miners were actually IN progress
at the time.
Declaration of officials OF the
miners union that refusal OF ope-
rators to participate in central COM
petitiye field conference is the cause
of the strike call. is declared by Coal
Age as an attempt to obscure tne IS
sue. 1t was definitely resolved, the
publication says, that snouio ne"
wage contracts not be agreed on De-
fore April l, the union miners wocld
cease work. Owing to the amount o!
work involved in formulating coal
wage scale, it was considered impos-
sible to reach agreements by April l.
Cites Anthracite Demands.
Regarding statements made that
wages are not involved in the strike
cali in the anthracite field, the an
thracite operators general pollc,es
committee made public today de-
mands of the hard coal miners the
demands specifically ask for an in.
crease of 20 per cent in the contract
&are scale and an increase OF 81 per
lday for day men. Further demands
ask that provisions of the elght-nour
day clause shall be applied to all per-
sons working in or around the an
thracite coi!ieries coming under the
jurisdiction of the United Mine WORK
ers regardless of their occupations
other demands include time and
half for all overtime and double time
for Sunday and holiday work.
The anthracite operators nave re-
piled that defiation in the cost OF pro-
ducing coal, 20 per cent of which is
represented by mine labor, Is impera-
tive. Readjustment Of the wage
rates the operators answered, is the
first necessary step to reduce the cost
of coal to the consumer. 1t Is OBJ
yious that prosperity and steady
work in the anthracite fields" the
operators reply said, must cease
unless the price or antnracIte coai
can be reduced to a figure which the
consumer can pay.
Evening star., 1922-04-15
SENATE PASSES BILL.
Act Extended by SO to II Vote
After Debate.

The Senate late yesterday passed the
rent extension bill by more than a two
to-one vote. 36 to II.
Before passing the extension bill
the Senate amended it by excluding
from the application of the rent law
business properties. Under the exist
ing law. they are excluded. but the
extension bill as reported to the SEN
ate proposed to have business prop
critics placed under the Jurisdiction
of the Rent Commission along with
residential property.
The Senate also adopted an amend
ment, offered by Senator Caraway of
Arkansas, democrat. designed to pre-
vent hotels In Washington from rais-
ing their rates suddenly. when a con-
vention or unusual season Of activity
creates "a great demand for rooms.
The Caraway amendment provides
that the hotels shall post in each
room the rates 1t proposes to charge
for rooms, and for meals, II the hotel
Is run On the American plan. These
rates must be filed with the Rent
Commission.
Rates Cannot De Advanced.
'.The rates charged for rooms shall
not be advanced" the amendment
says. Sin less than thirty days from
the date Of the approval OF the rem.
Evening star., 1922-04-15


interruptedly through Good Friday. it
was announced today there would be
no meetings of commissions on Easter
Sunday.
The hub of the economic conference
these days is by general consent the
villa De Albertis. where Lloyd
George is living during his stay here.
The local press in recognizing this
has styled the British premier the
manager of the conference"
Mr. Lloyd George is carrying out
there the idea of holding private
discussions without minutes being
taken of the proceedings, without the
issuance of cornmuniaues to the press.
and without the Intervention of any
one except those directly concerned
in the discussion. His object, he has
said himself to ito prevent the srys-
Utilization of the Franco a-Russian
differences"
The British premier's idea seems to
be working out well. in some respects
at least. as the conferences are meet
ing there rather as individuals than
as delegates of their respective ma
tionS.
Labor Council Opens.
A council of representatives of the
various European labor federations
met here today to consider labor
questions as related to the economic
conference and to agree on the ques-
tions to be discussed at. the labor con-
ference at Rome on April 20. Some
of the members of the council are
also members of the various dele
cations now here for the economic
conference, as delegates or experts.
The Saar valley deputation today
presented to the economic conference
and to Archbishop Signorf of Genoa,
for transmission to Pope Plus. its
statement concerning the situation OF
$50, 900 Germans in the Saar valley un-
der French occupation.
According to the statement the
treaty of Versailles provided that the
Saar valley should be administered by
the league of nations. that laws should
be enforced in the German language
and that no military occupation should
! be allowed. Instead. the commission
saws, the Saar is under the regime OF
"implacable French autocracy" and is
occupied by 5000 French soldiers.
while French officials accomplish their
work of denationalization in order to
prepare for the plebiscite fifteen
years after the signing of the Yer
sailles treaty.
Fight Over Church Jurisdiction.
The statement asks for intervention
by the Pope concerning religious
Inhabitants of the Saar are Catholics.
The statement charges that France
tried to take the Saar valley from the
jurisdiction of the German Bishop
Rice of Treves and join IT to the
French bishopric of Metz. Mgr.
Korum, Bishop of Treves, died of
broken heart because of French occu-
patton, the statement says. So far
French plans concerning the religious
question have failed, 1t says. because
Of protests addressed by the German
people to Mgr. Pacelli, papal nuncio
in Berlin, and also direct to Cardinal
Gasparri, papal secretary of state.
(Dr. Joseph Wirth, the German
chancellor and head of the German
delegation at the Genoa conference.
Yesterday stated that he would not
support in any way the Saar valley
commissions protest, adding that he
was determined to adhere strictly TO
the agenda of the conference. wh.ca
excluded political questtons)
Evening star., 1922-04-15
TELLS OF NEGOTIATIONS.
Kennedy Issues Statement OF Con
ference in New York. .
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
WILKES ES-BARRE. Pa, April 10
Thomas Kennedy, president of Dis.
trict No. 5, United Mine workers OF
America, and chairman OF the miners
wage scale committee. today issued
a statement in which he said their
position with regard to justification
of the nineteen demands Of the miners
remained unchanged. In part, the
statement in reference to the de-
mands, showed the wage scale nego-
tiation situation as follows:
Second and third parts of demand
No. /, considered, with the miners
admitting that the claim of the opera
tors relating to rates for mechanical
loading was fair. The demand has
not been Withdrawn, but action has
been postponed.
Demand No. Z, dealing with pay for
dead work on a uniform consideration
basis. considered but undecided.
Demand No. 9. requiring grievances
to be settled on a basis of equity, at
tackled by operators and defended by
miners.
Demand No. 10, asking for a
uniform rate for middle rock or slate
under consideration at adjournment
The operators have not presented
any written statements In answer tc
the exhibits presented by the miners
Evening star., 1922-04-15
No Woman in 81 Delegations
Taking Part in Genoa Farley

last year, is the chief interpreter en-
ployed in translating the Italian ad-
dresses into English at the important
sessions. She is a granddaughter of the
poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. and has
attracted attention owing to her ability
to remember long addresses and deliver
them Immediately into another language
without notes.
Her ability as a public speaker was
demonstrated at the opening of the
conference. when she made all the Ital-
ian speeches audible in English in spite
of unusual confusion.
Signorina Italia Garibaldi, grand
daughter OF the patriot, who attended
the Washington conference with the
Italian delegation, has been loaned TO
the Russian delegation by the Italian
foreign office.
Evening star., 1922-04-15
MINE WAGES COMPARED.
Nova Scotia Output Less, Earnings
More, Than in West Virginia.

HALIFAX. N. s., April 15.-Nova
Scotian coal miners produce on an
average only about half as much coal
as their fellow-workers in the West
Virginia bituminous fields. yet their
average earnings in 1920 were 1885,
as compared with $953.40 earned by
the average West Virginia coal dig
gers, according to wage figures made
public today by the operators and
production statistics given out by
United Mine Workers officials.
The comparative productivity of
miners in the two fields was ex-
planned largely by the fact that most
of the Nova Scotian mines are sub
marine, and for every ton of coal
hoisted nearly four tons of water
has to be pumped out, while in West
Virginia most of the water runs off
by gravitation. In most of the Nova
Scotian mines the coal seams dip fire.
quently as much as one foot in ten,
making the haulage all uphill work,
while in West Virginia most of the
haulage is downhill or on the level.
Nova Scotia's coal output in 1920
was 5,6s7. 800 tons, as compared with
about 100000 tons produced in the
West Virginia fields.
MORE NoN-UNION MEN OUT.
Evening star., 1922-04-15

to headquarters of the United Mine
workers, heret acoording to vive
President p T. Fagen Of district S,
were in the Indian Creek region of
Fayette county, where six indepen-
dent mines employing about 1900 men
were closed yesterday.
From Westmoreland county, he
said, reports indicated that fifteen
mines had, been closed In the past
two days. bringing the total Of closed
mines to thirty-nve and striking
miners to $1,000.
Reports from Uniontown late last
night showed that 1874 striking
miners Of the Nenacolin plant of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com
pany. in Green county. had retarned
to work yesterday.
Evening star., 1922-04-15
CHRISTIAN GETS DEGREE,
Secretary to President Is Honored
by University.

George B. Christian. jr., secretary
to President Harding. is now a bache-
lor of secretarial science, being the
first recipient Of the degree.
This honorary degree was confer
red upon Mr.. Christian in his Office
today by T. Lawrence Davis. dean of
the Boston Secretarial University.
At the same time Mr.. Christian was
made an honorary member of the
Sigma Society. which is looked upon
be conferred upon a secretary and
which it's members compare in sig
nificance with the Phi Beta Kappa of
the liberal arts.
The ceremonies incident to the con-
ferring of these honors were per-
bers of the faculty of the Boston Sec
retarial University and student mem
bers Of the Sigma Society.
Evening star., 1922-04-15

n,oduce this result will equal. il not
exceed, s45, 900 per annum.
.sThis means that the taxpayers OF
the District must pay $4,000 per
wear and the taxpayers of the coun-
try $4,000 per year to maintain this
pernicious system. In plain language,
il cost the taxpayers OF the tnlted
States $4,000 per year for rev peo,
nile in the District of Columbia, and
the millionaires seem to be given the
preference in the functioning of the
commission. H..
will readily be seen that the average
rent reduction is less than 30 per
month. -
'.The intimation is given that in
partially abandoning the docket to
take up the Chastleton hearings on
it's own initiative, the commission Is
yielding to pressure. from Capitol
Hill, which, hope. is not true. Tor !!
do not believe there is member OF
this House who can justify himself
in expending $4,000 of the taxpayers
money in such a futile cause.
"The Rent Commission renders re-
port to no one, SO far as can ascer-
tain. It is responsible to no one. and
functions as II pleases without being
examined or supervised at. all
Enlargement of Personnel.
"The commission is asking for an
enlargement of its personnel that it
may. catch up with the docket, but
l am confident the taxpayers of the
country will not look with favor on
an extension of this pernicious legis-
lation.
'aThere are hundreds of new homes
being built in Washington, and of
these hundreds have been unable to
find a single one with for rent sign
upon 1t, as each house, on being COM
pleted, is readily sold.
The result of the Ball rent act is
to drive wage earners and people Of
moderate means to buy property on
the installment plan at exorbitant
prices. The Ball rent act has cer-
tainly been a Godsend to the real estate
promoters.
II sincerely trust that. although
this measure has been jammed
through the body at the other end of
the Capitol, as a result of propa-
ganda, the membership of this House,
pledged as they are to economy in
government expenditures, may defeat
It and remain true to their constitu-
ents."
~-~r a mn, n a ccrc nrrr
Evening star., 1922-04-15
SALARY INCREASE BILL.
Would Raise Police Court Judges
to $1,000.

poita Inc saiales OF Ine 5uases ,r .. .ne
bia would be increased to $1,000 a
year each under a bill introduced in
the Senate today by Senator Stanley
of Kentucky. The salary OF the
Police Court Judges at present is only
$500 year, a sum entirely In
adequate, in the opinion of Senator
Stanley.
Evening star., 1922-04-15

England's more than million ana
"A half surplus women nave ueen
urged to emigrate to the dominion1 +
Evening star., 1922-04-15
DISTINCT PROGRESS
MADE AT GENOA ON
RUSSIAN QUESTION

Continued from First Page.) }
Evening star., 1922-04-15
HOUSE AGAIN GETS
D, C. RENT MEASURE

lContinued from First Page.)
The Washington herald., 1922-03-03
REVOLT IN PUNJAB
ABOUT TO BREAK

DELHI, March 2.-ConditSons in
the Punjab are rapidly approach
ing the breaking point. Advices
from Lahore. Amritsar and other
centers in this danger spot of India
indicate a growing menace from the
Sikh volunteers. officials here be-
lieve that the condition cannot
much longer be ignored and thar
the organization must be put down
by force.
Those Sikh bands are rapidly in
creasing and their attitude toward
the British troops. native forces and
police is becoming more insolent.
The old Sikh prophecy which de-
clared that in 1922 the Sikhs would
regain control of the Punjab is
probably back of the present move
ment The leaders are preaching
the Sikh dominance over their
enemies which is bringing thou
sands into active opposition to
British authority. The presence of
the Prince of Wales; complicates
the situation and makes action by
the troops difficult. ..-a.-.
(copyright. 1s2z.)
The Washington herald., 1922-03-03
Daughter Of Coal Dealer
Gets Seat in House Of Lords
Lady Rhonnda Wins Right to Place in Ancient
And Dignified Upper House of British
Parliament First Woman Member.

LONDON. March 2.-The victory
over Tradition won by viscountess
Rhonnda who will SIT in the house
Of lords as a peeress may change
completely that ancient house Of
mobiles. The house may be amazed
some day to find twenty-six women
I'm Its midst. ..,a
Il am delighted with my victory
said the yIscountess when the result
OF her petition 20 sit with the up
per parliamentary chamber was an
nounced. She left London immediate
ly for the country "for a good rest,
before returning to plunge into her
legislative work.. ~
The government has always been
chary of granting peerages to the
wives or daughters Of mobiles. Only
when a royalty Is concerned, or
when for the sake Of tradition IL is
'eemed necessary to perpetuate the
title and there are no male heirs TO
assume II. Is the dignity conferred.
And in the past there has been no
assumption that the title car
ried with It the right to sit with the
lords.
ady Rhonnda goes back to the
dim ages for precedent. Until the