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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1922-11-10
TREASURER'S REPORT.

A statement of the receipts and dis
bursements by John Gardner, Treasurer Of
Montgomery county, from July |, 1922 To
September 80. 1922, inclusive, as required
by Section las of the Code OF Public Local
Laws for MONTGOMERY county,:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
DENNY BANS USING
RADIO FOR POLITICS
Orders Navy Stations Closed
to Broadcasting Speeches
by Congress Members.

Secretary DENLY announced today he
had ordered naval radio stations
closed to public use for broadcasting
speeches, lectures or any other form
of non official communication except
ing musical programs to be picked by
radio telephone.
Issuance of the order followed an
investigation by the department into
the use of the naval radio service by
members of Congress in addressing
their constituents on political sub
jects. Democratic members Of Con-
gress declared use of the government
radio had been granted only to re-
publicans and the matter was the sub
ject of considerable discussion around
the Capitol.
Mr. DENLY. in announcing the order.
said it was temporary, and designed to
stop all use by private individuals of
the naval radio broadcasting facilities
until definite policy had been
worked out by the government to
handle this business The question of
what department of the government
shall control the use of the air for
radio purposes within the country and
off the seaboard is now under dis
cussion, Mr.. DENLY added. and he had
closed the Navy broadcasting stations
to private use in order to prevent any
controversy arising before a govern
ment policy is evolved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
"CHRIST" NOT CENSORED
FROM PARLEY PRAYER,
Mr.. HUGHES DECLARES

Charges of Censorship" re-
sulting in deletion of the name Of
Christ from the opening prayer of
the arms conference were denied
today by Secretary Hughes.
Taking his first notice of the
charges. which were repeated sew
eral times on the Senate floor dur
ing debate on the four-power
treaty, Mr.. Hughes wrote to Rep
resentative Fess, republican, Ohio.
that the japanese delegates knew
nothing of the omission and that
''of\ course, no censorship was ex-
ercised."
Mr.. Fess had forwarded to Nhe
Secretary an inquiry from an Ohio
banker saying that "a few of our
religious friends say that in the
Washington peace conference the
name of Christ was censored in
order to please the JASanese dele
gates"
In his reply Mr.. Hughes said:
The narrowness and bigotry ex-
hibited in the criticism to which
your correspondence refers are. in
my judgment, SO utterly despica-
BILE that 1 do not intend to notice
the matter in any way. I shall not
say anything in reply to the state
ments that are made. The best
thing is to ignore the matter alto
gether. DIR. Abernethy's prayer
was admirable in every respect"
Mr.. Hughes then added for Mr..
Fess' information that no censor
ship was exercised.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
|PLEA Of GOVERNOR
||TOSENDU.S. TROOPS
REFUSED BY WEEKS
Aid Sought in Enforcing Mar
tiaI Law in New Mexi-
can Coal Field.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE
UNWARRANTED,. HE SAYS
Can Only Act if State Fails to Pre-
serve Order-Refusal Follows
White House Conference.

Secretary Weeks today declined to
send federal troops into New Mexico
IN response to a telegram from Gov.
NJ. c. Mechem. who said he might need
them to preserve order in the Gallup
coal fields, where martial law was
declared yesterday as result of dis
order incident to the coal strike.
The War Secretary's telegram. sent
and made public after he had con-
ferred on the matter with President
Harding, said:
Unless disorder develops to
point where state authorities are un-
able to preserve order, federal troops
cannot be used in connection with
the coal strike"
Although Secretary Weeks did not
so state, the policy stated in the
telegram is understood to be the
policy of the government with re-
spect to use of troops in the coal
strike, as it has been the govern
ments general policy in times of
past emergencies.
Mr.. Weeks, discussing the matter on
leaving the White House. said THAI
the National Guard was available for
dealing with any caSes of minor dis
order that might deyelop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
$4,000 FOUND ON "vAG."
Bonds and Certificates Discovered
on Intoxicated Stranger.

ALBANY, N. Y, April S.-A shah
billy dressed man, considerably under
the influence of liquor. entered a po-
lice station here early today and
asked for flop" as vagrants term
a place to sleep. When the officers
searched his clothing they found lib
erty and Industrial bonds and war
$4,000.
The man said at first that he was
James Tolson of Wilkes Barre, Pa,
but later said his name was Josh
Jones'" He said he had bought the
bonds in New York. The envelope
containing the securities was ad-
dressed to Joshua c. Jones, 203 South
Main street, WilkeS-Barre
Police officials communicated with
the authorities at Wilkes-Barre to
verify the mans statements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
DEMANDS REASONS
FOR D|SM|SSALS
Civil Service Reform League
Says President Must
Explain Action.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April S-The National
Civil Service Reform League, of which
Secretary Hughes is vice president,
today issued statement through its
acting president. William Dudley
Foulke. asserting that. as an act of
simple justice President Harding
should assign his reasons for dismis-
sal last month of the director and
thirty-one employees of the bureau of
engraving and printing.
the statement called attention to
section 6 of the act of August "a.
1912. providing:
That no person in the classified
civil service of the United States shall
be removed therefrom. except for
such cause as will promote the eff
cheney of said service, and for rea-
sons given in writing, and the per-
son whose removal is sought shall
have notice of the same and of any
charges preferred against him,
and also be allowed reasonable time
for personally answering the same in
This provision of the law, the state
ment said, was based on rule Is
sued by President Mckinley in 1897
In case immediate action was neces-
sary. the President could have sus-
pended instantly all the persons al
fected by his order, pending the filing
of charges and the opportunity for
reply, added the statement. which
continued:
April we wrote to the President
and Secretary of the Treasury asking
if reasons were given in any case, but
we have received no reply. If en-
ployes are inefficient or corrupt they
should be separated from the service
without delay, but however grave
may have been the reasons behlnd
these removals it is an act of simple
justice for the employees concerned to
be furnished with a statement or
those reasons.
"And above all, the President. as
an example to all citizens, should oD-
serve the provisions of the laws which
it is his duty to enforce"
Richard H. Dana of Boston. who
now is abroad. is president OF the
league and Arthur K. Kimball of
Waterbury. Conn. chairman of It's
council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
UNIONS ORGANIZING
POLITICAL MACHINE
Making Good Headway in
Plan to Put More Men
in Office.

Resultant from the meeting held in
Chicago last February of union labor
men and farmers, which took the
title of Conference for Progressive
Political Action" come reports of
actual organization in political ac-
activity along the lines of endeavor
laid down by the conference. The
avowed object of the organization is
to support candidates for public
office. regardless of political afilia-
tion, chosen by the conference as
recognized friends of labor and the
farmer.
An announcement by Frederic C.
Howe, secretary of the conference.
tells of work started and under way
in Oklahoma, Iowa, North Dakota,
Michigan, Indiana, Wyoming, Nevada.
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Texas,
where results have been obtained and
more work contemplated.
Pennsylvania furnishes the most
conspicuous instance of the activities
of the conference. Representative
w. ]. Burke is candidate before
the primaries for nomination as
senator, to succeed Senator Pepper
Mr.. Burke Is a member of the Order
of. Railway Conductors Indicative
of the support he is receiving, w. S.
Carter, president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, has sent a
letter to his organization urging the
members to support Mr.. Burke's can
didacy, saying Il hope this letter
will induce each and every one of the
10000 members of the brotherhood in
for brother Burke's candidacy"
ain Mahoningtown, Pa, according to
the statement, the labor union men OF
the congressional district, including
all crafts, trades, railroad men anG
farmers have formed an organization
named the Farmer Labor Council. Our
object" the statement says, ''is te
make every effort to get the laborine
men, more especially the union men
to line up in a cooperative way an6
give our undivided support to mer
of our own choosing. We are putting
gineers man in the fight for Congress
Harold M. Rea, of Newcastle. and 8
union printer, Phillip s. Evans, fol
state assembly,"
In Indiana. already eight union mer
have entered the primaries for the
general assembly in the republican
and democratic parties and other can.
didates will be entered. County or.
ganizations are being formed, farm.
ers are put on the advisory com.
1mittees and calls are being sent te
all federation of labor locals anG
railway mems organizations. while
prominent brotherhood men are being
put on committees.
In Oklahoma the organization ha.
taken the name of the Farmer Labor
Reconstruction League" and the re,
port states that complete state an6
congressional ticket will be in the
the organization, it is asserted tha'
752 delegates were present, from rail
road brotherhoods, farmers unions
the Farm Labor Union, organized
labor and a hundred socialists
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
RENT BILL FACES
FURTHER DELAY
Senators Insisting That CAL
endar Be Followed, Post
poning Ball Act.

The legislative situation in the
Senate is threatening to delay con-
sideration Of the bill to extend the
life of the District rent act.
The agricultural appropriation bill
was made the unfinished business in
the Senate late yesterday afternoon.
Senator McNary of Oregon, in charge
of that bill, is willing to yield SO that
the rent bill can be taken up Mon
day between IL and 2 o'clock, but
other Senators, it is said, will insist
upon the calendar being taken up. AS
consideration of the calendar Is In
order on Mondays, under the rules. 1t
does not appear that there will be
opportunity to consider the rent bill.
Also the leaders propose to have the
Senate go into executive session Mon
6ay afternoon to consider, the noml-
nafions of Senator Smoot of Utah and
representative Burton of Ohio, as
members of the allied debt funding
commission, and that probably will
occupy the rest of the day.
EARLY Action Asked For.
Senator McNary and Senator Ball,
chairman of the District complttee'
have talked the matter over and
Senator McNary will give way to the
rent bill at the earliest opportunity,
he said. The Oregon senator is in
favor of the rent legislation. 1t
probably will be Tuesday or We'd
nesday, however, before the rent bill
is taken up. Senator Fernald, chair
man of the public buildings and
grounds committee, Is anxious u, ais also
TO get consideration Of the $4,000
900 90 hospitalization bill for veterans
of the war, recently passed by the
House. .,u
Nov 81 unless Congress puts through
the proposed legislation extending
the life Of the act for two sars. years be, e,
fore that date vii; the eo sqpp0rtef tba;r ntmost e
during the coming week to get the
hill through the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
BUREAU CLOSED FOR WEEK.
Order Given to Insure Accurate
Inventory.

Shutdown of approximately three
fourths of the bureau of engraving
and printing at midnight tonight for
about week, by the Treasury Depart
is for the purpose of taking a quick ar
and more accurate inventory of tie
stock, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Wadsworth announced to-
day.
No employees pay checks will be
ness, it was announced, as plans have
been made to count the time off,
against either the annual leave. or
the rotating furlougn," which
amounts to three days a month for
each pier diem employe. At the bureau
about 1000 persons would be laid eff,
out of the 5000 employed there.
To cooperate with the commit ee
headed by Deputy Assistant Treas
urer TAFT, five Department of Justice e
agents, who are expert bank exam
bureau of engraving and printing,
who are to be chosen from the de-
partments closed down. will make the
inventory.
Inventories of the bureaus stock,
Mr.. Wadsworth said, usually had been
made while work was in progress,
but the committee appointed by Sec
retary Mellon, of which Mr. TAFT is
chairman, recommended cessation
of the work Of the paper division to
facilitate the count of the stock The
operation of the paper handling di-
of taking a count, it was explained
The committee appointed by Mr.
Mellon to make the inventory con-
sists of Representatives of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, the treasurer of
the United States, the controller of the
rI
the Post Office Department., and the di-
rector of the bureau, as printing and en-
craving work is done for these differ
ent government agencies by the bu-
reau.
The partial shutdown, Mr.. wads-
worth said, would not affect the gov
ernment's supply of paper money,
stamps or government securities. The
shutdown. he said. was somewhat t
similar to the inventory of a manu-
facturer's plant. and the result would
be the "take-off on the books" stock
on hand and in process for the COM
ing year.
The official order closing three
fourths of the bureau divisions was
issued this morning by Louis A. Hill.
director, under authority of Secretary
Mellon. Mr.. Hill was in conference
late yesterday with the Secretary and
Assistant Secretary Wadsworth, when
it was decided to close part of the big
plant.
The divisions to be silenced tonight
will be: Wetting, examining, plate
printing, surface printing, numbering,
binding, stamp cumming, stamp per
forating, ink mill. land other minor
related divisions that may be found
advisabI
Divisions which will remain in oper-
alton include machine, engineer, en-
craving, stamp packing, stamp book
and coil, and vault.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
DEATH AND injury
IN NTORNADO'S WAKE
Big Property Destruction in
|, Storm Sweeping Okla
homa and Texas.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALLINGER. Tex, April Six
persons were killed, seven injured and
six homes destroyed six miles north
west of Rowena. near here, in
tornado which swept that section at
/ o'clock this morning. Communica-
tion is badly crippled. and it is feared
the death toll will be greater when
wreckage has been searched.
One Killed nt Lawton.
LAwTON. Okla. April S.-One per-
son was killed, scores injured. some
seriously, and extensive property
damage caused by tornado which
swept Lawton at o'clock this morn
ing. Telephone poles were leveied in
the streets in the main business Sec
ton CT the city. and numerous dwell
ines in the outlying sections demol-
ished.
Forty Houses Destroyed
FORT WORTH, Tex. April S.-A
| tornado which struck Cisco, Tex.
near here, early this morning wrecked
the depot and tore down a number
of residences and barns, according to
first reports received here.
One person was reported killed and
ten injured in advices to railroad
offices here.
Forty houses and a motion pic
| ture theater, the Broadway, were de-
stroyed, according to the report.
Plate glass damage in the business
section was extensive. Rain which
| followed the destructive wind flooded
ground floors in many stores.
One Dead; Several Injured.
WICHITA FALLS, Tex. April s.
One man was killed and several in
! iured in a tornado which swept Elec-
| ira, near here, early today. Twenty
five houses were destroyed in one
section of the towA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
six F|REMEN HORT
IN NF|GHT|NGFL
Difficult Blaze at Southern
Building Results in 1000
Damage.

Two f1remen are in Emergency Hos
pital and four others were more or
less injured as the result Of fighting
a fire that started in the basement of
the Southern building. 18th and H
streets, shortly after o'clock this
morning. Private NJ. A. Carley of No.
engine company suffered a possible
fracture of a small bone in the right
leg, and Lieut.. c. c. Fling of No. 6
truck company was seriously affected
by the smoke and heat. The others
injured were: Lieut.. F. D. Gibbs and
A. E. Sanford of No. l engine COM
pany and Privates c. NJ. White and
Herbert Frye of No. truck company
Numerous other members of the de-
partment suffered from the smoke,
heat and gas emanating from the
building, including Fire Chief George
S. Watson.
Starts in St0rerOOm.
The fire, the origin of which has not
been determined, started in store
room in the northwest corner of the
basement of the building, where a
large quantity of literature and paper
was stored, and rapidly spread to an
adjoining room containing lumber and
awnings.
Unable to reach the scene of the fire
through the hallway from the lower
end of the stairway, the firemen were
forced to cut holes through the wood,
cement and tile floors of the Guar
anty Company of New York, and
Frank H. Edmonds optician. on the
18th street side of the building.
Water was then poured through the
openings and the cellar flooded. In
order to provide additional outlet for
the smoke and heat the large WIN
dows of business places on the first
floor were smashed. These openings
also provided a means for the fire.
ment to get through to the rooms in
which the fire was raging.
The task of fighting the fire, Chief
Watson said, was one of the most
severe he had ever encountered, be-
cause of the density of the smoke and
the intense heat. Lack of ventila-
More than an hour after the first
alarm was turned in, a second one
was sounded for the purpose of get
ting additional men to take the places
of those who had suffered from the
heat and smoke. Chief Watson, in
commenting on the work of the fire.
men, said the men who fought the fire
were entitled to great commentator
for the bravery displayed.
Damage to the building was esti-
mated at $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
MEMORIAL PROBE
FAILS IN CONGRESS
Mr.. Campbell Gives High In
dorsement to George Wash
ington Association.

The Underhill resolution for an in
vestigation of the George Washing
ton Memorial Association does not
present any matter which is within
the jurisdiction of Congress or of the
committee on rules" said Representa-
tive Phillip Campbell of Kansas,
chairman of the rules committee, to-
day.
THE Attorney General of the
United States has passed upon the
question of this associations right
to erect George Washington me-
mortal building on a certain site of
government land in the National
Capital" continued Chairman Camp
bell The President of the United
States participated in the exercises
of laying the cornerstone There is
nothing now to prevent this associa-
t1on from going ahead and putting up
this building"
Representative Campbell explained
that he had intimate knowledge re-
gardlns the history of the George
Washington Memorial Association and
the work that it has been doing. He
said that he had so assured Mrs Henry
r. Dfmock. whose guiding hand is in
charge of raising funds and preparing
Tor the erection of this memorial and
assembly hall.
Can Get Money Back.
Il am assured by Mrs. Dimock tha,
| if any contributors to the fund in Mas.
sachusetts, as has been se1te6VvRer-
| resentative Underhill, father of the
resolution for investigation, or else
where. are desirous of getting back
the money they have voluntarily con-
tributed they can do SO by making ap-
plication in the proper way
Il have been assured and I am fully
convinced that no funds contributed
for this memorial building have been
| misappropriated, either directly or in
directly. and 1 feel assured that they
will not be-"
Chairman Campbell said that the
! rules committee had considered the
| Underhill resolution referred to if and
decided that it had no jurisdiction, as
the investigation proposed was not
properly within the Jurisdiction of
Congress and that the committee had
refused 10 take any action upon it.
Dispute Over Site Settled.
dispute over the right of the me-
| mortal association to the site donated
by Congress through legislation was
settled recently through opinions rem
| dered by the Attorney General and the
judge advocate of the Army, who up-
held claims of the association.
Legislation granting the site at 9Th
and b streets provided that construction
should be started two years after the
| conclusion of the world war. The de-
cisions held that the war officially
ended in 1921, and that therefore the
| association was given permission to ex-
tend its time, under the law, to 1928,
for raising funds and beginning con-
struction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
SIX ADDITIONAL UNITS
|OF US. ARMY QUIT EUROPE
1,1OO Men. SO Officers Sail From
Antwerp-85 Wives, % Children,
Honeymoon Detachment.

COBLENz, April S.-Six more units
of the American forces in Germany
said farewell to Europe today, 1,lo0
men and So officers leaving Antwerp
on the steamship Cantigny. Eighty
five soldiers wives and twenty-eight
children also sailed on the Cantigny.
the largest number since the depar-
ture of the honeymoon detachment
last May.
The ORGANIZATIONS leaving today were
the Headquarters Company of the Ist
Brigade, Ambulance Company Sc.
Hospital Company 81. Motor Trans
port Company 63, Service of Supply
Company 20. and the Sd Battalion of
the 5th Infantry
This reduces the strength of the
American Army on the Rhine to 1900,
or 'one-sixth of the number here a
year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
Boy Music Martyr
Yar,ks Out Tooth So
He Car, BIO,u Flute
By the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, April S-A
real martyr to music has been
brought to fight by Miss VIM
eta l.. Stacks, superintendent OF
the Methodist Episcopal Dea-
cOnesses' Home here. Miss
Stacks, in describing the efforts
to initiate music classes in set
tlement work, told Of one small
boy who cOnfided that his life's
ambition was to play the flute.
The teacher struggled in vain
to teach him, but his lips would
not pucker right.
Finally the teacher said: "JOe,
1 guess you will never learn to
blow a flute because of the way
that front tooth has grown. 1t
is i'm the way"
A few days later the lads
mother returned home to find
her sons face bloody, but shin
ing with triumph. He had bOr-
rOwed pliers and had pulled the
tooth.
"And Mt the first recital Of the
students of the Glass; Miss
Stacks concluded, she blew notes
on the flute"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08
DISCARDED 'FOREVER' FROM H7RY
SERVICE FOR FREEING BOO7ZEGGER
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FORT SMITH, Ark. April g.
Disbarred forever" from future
jury service in the Arkansas courts
because they insisted upon ac-
quitting a bootlegger. twelve
prominent business men of Fort
Smith threatened today to take
their "disfranchisement" to the
Supreme Court of the United
States, il necessary.
The prominence Of the jurors
five of them being presidents of
large corporations-and the dras-
tic action of Judge Brizzolara Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-08

while he would welcome War De.
partment cooperation to keen tha
zone dry, he thinks it viii bs
necessary for the unit to have its
own representative on the spot to
administer such passive features
of the law, for instance, as that
relating to use of liquor for medi-
cal purposes.
Today the commissioner said he
War Secretary within a few davs
but if they fail to break the dead.
lock the White House may have
to. Meantime the new zone pros
hibition director. John T. Barrett
of Revere, Mass. is under s,ls-
pended assignment orders, await
ing a definite decision. 4