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Evening star., 1923-10-17
BODY
MEETING FORECAST
Senator Smoot Says Confer.
ence in Next Few Days
Is Advisable.

\ meeting of the American Debt
Commission within week or ten
days was forecast by Senator Smoot.
republican,. Utah. one of the members,
after a conference today with Secre-
tary Mellon. He declined to disclose
what developments had served to
change previously announced plans
to delay further meetings until the
opening of Congress
MIR. Mellon was quoted a few days
ago as saying that there were no
matters requiring attention OF the
commission at this moment and that
he believed no call would go out until
Congress convened, at which time all
members of the commission would be
In Washington.
The commission members, however.
are by coincidence in the city now,
and Senator Smoot said today that he
regarded a meeting for the purposes
of general discussion of conditions
as advisable.
None of the members would con-
firm that steps were under considera-
ton TO reiterate to the foreign paw
ers that the funding commission is
ready 10 receive proposals. Senator
Smoots prediction of an early meet
ing. however, revived reports that
some communication with the debtor
nations is planned.
The commission is required by law
to make an annual report of its oper-
atoms TO the Secretary os the Treas
must be completed by November 10.
and 1t is assumed the commission
will pass upon material prepared for
il when the next conference is held.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
.DEADLETTERRA RACK
POST OFF|CEPLAN
Display to Rouse Public to
Need of Addressing Mail
Properly.

Dead letters will be placed in a spe-
cial exhibit by Postmaster Mooney at
the main city post Office to give per-
manent warning to washingtonians
always to address their letters cor
rectly.
Every day the local post Office re-
ceives scores of letters so poorly ad-
dressed that it is impossible for the
carriers to deliver them.
A little more care on the part of
the average sender of such made
quately addressed letters would obvi-
ate the trouble, it is believed, and re-
duce the number of letters from this
city which must go to the dead letter
office every year.
One Letter Blank.
Specimens OF envelopes containing
all sorts of poor addresses will be in
cluded in the exhibit. From the letter
that has no street address to the en-
veiope that bears not a single mark.
all will be there.
A perfectly blank envelope, al
though properly sealed and stamped.
bears the legend insufficient ad-
dress"
When postal authorities cannot
make a delivery the letter is opened,
in order to see IL any clue may be
secured from the missive within.
Sometimes the return address is given,
Officials pointed out again today
that all letters should contain. in ad-
dition to the full and proper name
and address, the name and address Of
the sender. The latter should 60 in
the upper left hand of the envelope.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
PUBLICITY URGED
ON BUREAU PROBE
Plate Printer Editor Insists
Treasury Findings Be Given
Out in Full.

demand that publicity be given
on bureau of engraving and printing
conditions, as uncovered by the spe-
cial investigating committee which
conducted an inquiry into charges
Of sweat shop" conditions and ia
voritism in the printing division, was
made today by Frank j. Coleman,
editor of the Plate Printer, which
organ originally made the complaint
as to conditions
Coleman said: I'VE have no news
except a prepared statement handed
to newspapers by the press service
of the Treasury. We want to know
what happened. We want to learn
what the investigation resulted in.
We would like to have Details
Referring to statement from the
Treasury recently with regard to
progress of the probe, Mr.. Coleman
said:
1--WE disagree with the statement
that the fear Of discharge, due to the
installation of the new power presses,
was the cause of the unrest in the
printing division and a breaking down
Of the morale.
I'VE are confident that the report
of the special committee does not lead
to any such conclusion, as we have
interviewed practically every plate
printer in the bureau, and their state
ments to us prove conclusively that
the chief of the printing division is
the main cause of the breaking down
of the morale and the unsatisfactory
conditions that have exeisted in the
Printing division, and that he used
the threat of discharge to put into
operation his sweat shop methods
'Mr. Hardie (chief of the printing
division) is either guilty or not guilty
of the charges preferred by the Plate
Printer, and we request that the Sec
retary make public the findings of the
special committee
Evening star., 1923-10-17
White House Zoo
Gets 2 Cats; Eden
For Dogs Ended

Two cats. one black and the other
tiger-striped, have arrived at the
White House to put ''out of joint"
the noses of Peter Pan. the wire
haired fox terrier. and Laddfe
Buck, the Airedale terrier, who
heretofore have reigned supreme.
Laddie Buck. by the way. has
had his name changed to the more
a1lfteFative Paul Pry. Paul Pry
and Peter Pan make quite q COM
bination. 1T was pointed out today.
The quandrom Laddie Buck has
shown himself inquisitive, to say
the least. since his arrival at the
White House, suggesting the wis
dom of the change in name. He
barked vigorously during an ad-.
dress the President was making
to the worlds dairy congress. and
has in other ways shown a desire
= TO mix up in things not belonging
to him.
The cats-dubbed by the White
House cook. at least for the time
being, Blackie and Tige-are from
an admirer of the President in
Boston. Z
Evening star., 1923-10-17

EFT w. Frazar of Yokohama, Japan.
who won international prominence by
relief work during the recent earth
quake: DR.. Michael Hoke of Atlanta.
Ga. chief surgeon of the Shrine Hos
pital for Crippled Children: N. Fl. Bal
lard. state superintendent of educa-
tion of Georgia: Stith NJ. Cain. grand
secretary of the Grand Lodge of Ten
nessee; Claus Spreckles of San Diego.
the Colorado Agricultural College,:
Wynne G. Rogers. associate justice Of
the supreme court of Louisiana: Rey-
mold f. Blight of Los Angeles. Calf. /;
Whiting S. Worden, Yokohama; /;
George r. Harvey. Manila. and Fran
Masons receiving the honor of
X. c. G.. II. are: Representative
Julius Kahn OF San Francisco. Gov.
Wallace r FaErington. Honolulu.
Y. $; A, military aide to President
Coolidgei Mai Raymond S. Bambur-
ger. u. s. A, Leavenworth, Kan
Bishop Adna Wright Leonard. Meth
odist Episcopal Church, San Fran
cisco: Edward F. Buchner. professor
yersity; Baltimore. Nd: George L.
Hardwick, Cleveland Tenn. grand
master of Masons; Col. Dennis p.
Quinlan. Z. S. A. San Francisco:
Charles B. Glenn. superintendent of
schools. Birmingham. Ala; Judge
John Foster Symes, United States
district court, Denver, Col; John F.
keating, superintendent of schools,
Pueblo, Con; DIR. Stratton d. Brooks
president of Missouri University, ST.
Louis; Judge William II. McHenry.
United States district court, Des
Moines, Iowa: Charles kliene, Shang-
hal. China; Alexander Ramsay, Pc
king. China; Alexander l.. Dewette,
Yokohama, Japan.
ReynoId e. Blight. newly elected
recipient OF the thirty-third degree,
was the speaker at a meeting ST
the council this afternoon. His sd-
dress was upon the national program
for education. In his talk he gave
statistics OF tlliteracy in the country
and urged both state and national
measures to be put in force to wipe
out the existing conditions.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
DIR. BARRETT WILL SPEAK.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. October IT
Pressing problems of organization
policy, athletic contests, sightseeing
tours and an elaborate aerial program
Wed for the attention today of the
tiou of the American Legion.
Among the speakers on today's pro-
gram were DIR. Kate Waller Barrett,
national president of the American
Legion Auxiliary, which opened it's
convention here yesterday; Robert z.
Rondy of the American Red Cross and
William ]. McGinley. supreme secre-
tary of the knights of Columbus.
Entertainment arranged for the
visitors this afternoon includes auto
mobile trips about the city, luncheons.
band concerts, dedication of a plaque
at the Palace of the Legion of Honor
in Lincoln Park, parade and man.
moth military exhibition at the Pre-
sidio. tennis games at Berkeley and
an aerial circus at Crissy Field, with
seventy airplanes of the Army and
NAVY air battle fleets participating.
The women of the American Legion
Auxiliary yesterday pledged them
selves to a campaign to eradicate
traffic in drugs in the United States.
A committee report, prepared by
Mrs. j. E. Baird, national chairman OF
the Americanization committee, stated
that ''at the present rate OF increase
of the drug evil in the United States,
figures Indicate that within twenty
five years we would have a nation of
drug addicts.'
The report also urged the women of
the auxiliary to combat what is call
ed the growing dangers OF commun-
ism and Sovtetism.
Evening star., 1923-10-17

cred by the few travellers who barely
penetrated the borders of Kweichow.
Close by Turkestan, where primf-
tive man is supposed to have first
learned to domesticate animals, it
has been suggested that Kweichow
may be the long-sought cradle of
civilization, the plains upon which
human life was first evolved. Be-
tween two and three million mem
bers of the non-Chinese tribes sur
viye there, and the opportunity for
study among them has not yet been
lost. Their slow absorption by the
modern Chinese, however, has been
going on since 1856 B. c.
The fate OF the Kweichow tribes
has been parallel to that of the
country they developed a culture
of their own, only to be conquered
by an alien race, in their case by the
Chinese. Slowly they were pushed
from the fertile valleys, until all
that remained for them were the
tatns of Kweichow. There they have
continued to live their primitive life,
unmolested by their conquerers so
long as they remain within their last
reservation.
Isolated from World.
Most Of them do not know the
world war was ever fought and the
problem of Japanese encroachment
IN Shantung, the province of Con-
fucius' tomb, has never worried them.
Ihey still thrash their grain on the
roofs of their hones. as was once
oone In the Holy Land. and f1y great
PRAYER flags" from the turrats of
tS0rsiied tS castles. Quarrels are set
lieu between individuals, not tribes
The duelists meet on the field of
honor armed with broadswords and
bags of stones.
Queer animals are also reported
70 nave fled to Kweichow. and one
department of the National Geo.
graphic Society's expedition will he
charged with the duty of locating
tribe of monkeys that is said to
bury its dead in the presence of the
entire band. 1t is the rhinopithecus
! hrelichi, the largest non-anthropoid
species in the world, of which the
only evidence now available is the
SKIN OF a female showing a head and
oooy measurement of twenty-nine
thirty-nine inches
There has been speculation among
scientists regarding the possibility
or this species belonging to an ami
| mai described in a famous passage of
Chlnese literature as follows:
Have Formal Funerals.
Its nose is turned upward, and the
tail very long and forked at the end
whenever il rains, the animal thrusts
the forks into its nose. 1t goes in
nerds and lives in friendship. When
one dies the rest accompany it to its
burial. Its activity is so great that
II runs its head against trees; its fur
is SOFT and gray and the face black. %
Going directly TO Peking, Frederick
X. Wulsin, leader of the expedition,
VIII first take with him into Kwei-
chow Chinese botanist and a staff of
Chinese assistants for a reconnafs-
sance. Later he will be accompanied
( by party comprising botanists,
biologists and anthropologists The
| last named will study the origin
| physique, habits, language and rich
mythology of the Chinese tribes
| which vary. in all these respects, from
| their Chinese neighbors.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
.GOVERNOR'SPARLEy
BEGINS IN INDIANA
Thirty-Seven States and Ter
ritories Represented-Visit
D. C. Saturday.
Bx the Associated Press.

tne 4SSOclaieu IresS
WEST BADEN, Ind. October IL
Governors or executive representa-
tives of thirty-seven states and ter
ritories moved on this city today for
the fifteenth annual conference of
governors, prepared to discuss ma
tional and regional problems and to
organize their program for a meeting
in Washington Saturday with Presi-
dent Coolidge to consider prohibition
enforcement and related questions.
An address of welcome by Gov.
Warren T. McCray of Indiana, a mem
Der of the conference executive COM
mittee, and the response OF Gov. w.
H. McMaster of South Dakota were
to inaugurate the sessions here fol-
lowing the arrival OF the conference
party from indianapolis, where most
of the executives gathered to travel
by automobile this morning to this
city
Important Subjects Up.
Taxation. agriculture. uniform leg
islation, water power development,
and railroad valuation are listed as
the principal subjects to be consid-
cred by the entire conference.
These governors are officially regis
tered at conference headquarters:
Alabama, w. w. Brandon: Colorado,
William Z. Sweet: Connecticut.
Charles A. Templeton: Delaware, VIII
liam u. Denney: Florida, G. A. Har
dee: Georgia, Clifford III. Walker; /;
Indiana, Warren T. McCray; Iowa,
Acting Gov. John Hammill; Louisi-
ana. John IL. Parker; Maine, r. p.
Baxter; Massachusetts, Charming H.
Cox; Michigan, Alex. J. GrOesbeck ; Min
nesota. J. A. o. Preus; Missouri, Ar
thur NJ. Hyde: Montana. J. M. Dixon:
New Hampshire, Fred II. Brown New
Jersey, George s. Silzer; New Mexico,
James +. Hinkle; North Carolina,
Cameron Morrison; North Dakota, r.
A. Nestos; Oregon, A. r. Smith. repre-
senting Gov. Walter NJ. Pierce; Penn
sylyania. Clifford Pinchot: South Caro-
lima. Thomas G.. Mcleod; South Da-
kota, w. H McMaster; Tennessee,
Austin Peay; Texas, Pat NJ. Neff;
Utah. Charles X. Mabey; Vermont,
Redfield Proctor; Virginia, Z. Lee
Trinkle; Washington, Louis F. Hart;
West Virginia. L. F. Morgan: Wis
consin, John J. Blaine: Wyoming, B..
Ross; Alaska, Scott Bone; Hawaii,
Wallace r. harrington.
Gov. Bryan Misses Farley.
Gov Charles w. Bryan of Nebras-
ka advised Gov. McCray today he
would be unable to reach West Baden,
but would arrive in Washington in
time for Saturdays meeting with
President Coolidge.
Gov. Charles c. Moore of Idaho and
Len Small of Illinois are expected
to arrive here before Friday, officials
said today.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
FORT MYER HORSE DROPS
OUT OF ENDURANCE RACE
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y. October IT,
yagrant, United States Army entry.
ridden by Mai. ]. NJ. Wainwright of
the 3d Cavalry, Fort Myer, Va, drop
ned out today after the fourth mile of
The third days run in the national
horse endurance contest at Avon,
near here. The horse went lame.
Dude, an entry Of the Morgan Horse
Club; Fair Lady, owned by j. r.
Steers, Port Chester. N. Y, and Nintu.
ridden by Lieut.. Corpining OF Denver,
The field has narrowed down to
nineteen entries for the daily sixty
mile grind. which will come to close
Friday afternoon.
A mild sensation was caused when
Fair Lady was ruled out before the
start of the race today. The animal,
which finished strong yesterday, was
oonsidered by experts to be in line
for a prize. Her high spirit, however,
caused her downfall. The horse, in
her eagerness to be off today. cast a
shoe. While being reshod an attend
ant twisted her leg, tanning her. The
Judges then barred Fair Lady.
Nintu, out of the running, recently
won the endurance contest In Colo
The animals got away to a fast
start this morning. the weather be-
ing ideal and the roads excellent.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
HIGH STATE OFFICERS
CALLED In kLAN SUIT
Members of Judiciary and Political
Leaders in Indiana Also Sum-
moned as Witnesses.
By the Associated Press.

Dy the osSOCldteu HTees.
INDIANAPOLIS. October 17-Sub-
poenas calling for the appearance in
federal court here October "a of sew
eral persons including state and
county officials. members Of the ju-
dietary and political leaders of both
major parties as witnesses in the in
junction suit brought in behalf of
six South Bend citizens against the
Ku Klux Klan. have been issued by
William Kappes, clerk of the court.
The list of witnesses was submitted
by Joseph Roach. who with Patrick
'O'Donnell. president of the American
Unity League, brought the action for
the South Bend residents, who seek
to have their names removed from
lists purporting to be lists of klans-.
men.
Among the persons for whom sub
poneas were issued are Ed jackson.
secretary of state; Ora Davies, state
treasurer; Newman T. Miller, state
fire marshall. and Lawrence Lyons,
former republican state chairman.
James A. Collins, judge of the
Marion criminal court, Judge James
LeatherS of superior courtroom l.,
and Judge Clinton NJ. Given of super
Tor courtroom 4. are members of the
Marion county judiciary. named.
county; Albert Losche. clerk Of
Marion county circuit court, and Dr.
Paul F. Robinson, Marion county
coroner, also are on the lists Of wit
neSSes.
Other persons included in the list
of witnesses are Ralph Updike, state
representative from Marion county;
Capt. Walter McCord, Capt. Harry l..
Hagen and Lieut.. r: p. Holler, Army
officers stationed at Fort Benjamin
Harrison
The original suit, among other
charges, alleged that members of the
Khan are engaged in a conspiracy to
form a super government to gain
control of the judiciary and the ad-
ministration of justice and that the
klansmen are endeavoring to gain
control OF the Army and militia and
were influencing members of the Army
board of inquiry called to look into
uses of government property by the
Khan.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
POLICE DRY WORK
PLEASES OYSTER
(Continued from Fyrst p,p.,

Continued from First Page)
SCISSORS and transporters of the BAN
ned fluids successfully eluded the
police during the twenty-four hours
ended at O'Clock this morning, n
the record of arrests for any of the
offenses enumerated having been
made during that period is an fndfca-
ton.
1tSwas the first daily report of the
superintendent of police made to
Commissioner Oyster in many months
that failed to show a liquor arrest.
it is stated Why such arrests were
not made was not stated in the re-
port.
Nineteen persons were arrested for
intoxication during the period men
toned. and there was one arrest for
driving an automobile while intoxi-
Gated. No other arrests bearing on
dry law violations were mentioned
in the report to Commissioner Oyster.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
CASUALTY HEADS
! f. OFFER SERVICES
Superintendent and Chief
Nurse Waive Salaries to
; Keep Hospital Open.

While Casualty Hospital, in the
hands OF receivers. today appeared to
be wavering between life and
death" in much the same way that
thousands of Washingtonians treat
ed in the historic old structure during
the past two decades have wavered,
Mrs. Margaret A. Mays, superintend-
ent of the hospital, and Miss Ouida
Menday, superintendent Of nurses,
came forward with an offer volun-
tearing their services gratis until
the institution can regain it's feet.
NOT only the superintendent but the
entire stan Of employees and attaches of
the hospital are loyal to Casualty. s.
II am authorized by Miss Munday
the superintendent of nurses to an
nounce that she volunteers her sery-
ices gratis until the hospital can get
on It's feet, and Casualty need not
ray me one cent for my services if
this VIII help to keep it's doors open
until something can be done And
when the hospital gets on its feet I
am ready and willing to do whatever
the ones in charge of the hospital
wish me to do. My resignation will
be awaiting those In charge of the
institution in case they wish to re-
place the superintendent. Until that
time l am willing to work for Cas-
Ialty for nothing. because I believe
IN the hospital and in the need of the
it,"
Meanwhile, northeast Washington
continued to send emergency patients
10 Casualty. An operation was going
forward there this morning. Activity
has not stopped. Last night between
and s o'clock the ambulance and
private automobiles took eight pa
tients to the emergency room.
The directive personnel of the hos
nltat was waiting for definite word
as to the continuance or discontin-
uance of work. No word had been re-
or Oracle Richards, the receivers an
pointed by the court yesterday
Evening star., 1923-10-17
PLANS LOAN TO HUNGARY,
League of Nations Is Asked to
Draft Financial Program.

PARIS, October 17.-Reorganiza-
ton of Hungarian finances by the
league Of nations upon the same gem
eral plan as applied to Austria, was
advanced another step today, when
the international reparation commits
luton requesting the league to draw
up such a plan. The commission, as
the resolution reads, is ready in
principle to contemplate raising the
priority on Hungarian assets at a
later stage In order to allow finan-
cial reconstruction"
The tentative plan Is to issue
loan Of E24.000.000 on the interna-
tional market. Part of 1t, as In the
case of the Austrian loan. will be
offered in New York.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
Canal Dragged
For Body of Mar,
Believed Suicide

II am gone: goodbye. NJ. L. T."
scribbled on a piece of pasteboard
and left at the north end Of the
foot bridge over the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal at Potomac street.
with articles of wearing apparel.
today led police to investigate the
possibility of the writer's body
being in the water.
Policeman Bragg of the seventh
precinct found the garments and
note. and police OF the harbor pre-
cinct and William It. Reynolds,
boathouse keeper, started drag
ging the canal. The body has not
been located.
The wearing apparel consists of
a mans pair of shoes, suit of un-
derwear and sweater. the paper on
which the message had been scrib-
bled being pinned to one Of the
garments.
Evening star., 1923-10-17
WOMEN TO OFFER
NEW AMENDMENT
zoo in Delegation November
1918 for Equal Rights
~ Demonstration.

Formal announcement was made
for the first time today by Miss Mabel
Vernon, secretary of the National
Woman's Party. of a special confer
Gnce TO be held here November II
and Is, when a delegation OF 200
womerr, representing all parts of the
country. will present a proposed
Constitutional amendment before Presi-
dent Coolidge at the White House.
The amendment Is called the Lu-
cretia Mott amendment and is briefly
and clearly stated to. require that
men and women shall have equal
rights in the United States and every
place subject to its Jurisdiction"
Miss Vernon, who is d well known
lecturer and one of the prime movers
in the Woman's Party movement. Will
have charge of all arran Eements for
the deputation to the President at
noon on November II and the busi-
ness session that afternoon. when de-
tails for seeing Congress members
and securing opinions on the passage
Of the amendment when IL is intro
duced into Congress will be appointed
Senator Curtis, Will introduce it In the
higher branch.
Ceremonial Pageant.
Miss Hazel MacKaye sister of Percy
NacKaye, dramatist and poet, will have
charge of a ceremonial pageant to be
held in the crypt of the Capitol on the
afternoon of Sunday. November IS.
The ritual is to be very simple. with
a vested choir of girls. Women repre-
senting every state in the Union will
lay wreaths of the state flowers upon
the statues in the crypt of Lucretia
Mott, Susan b. Anthony and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton. The official party cos
tune of purple. gold and white will be
worn by the delegates for the first time
on this occasion. Only national, state
and local officers of the party will COM
pose the delegation.
In a way, the entire convention is a
finale to the celebration of the seventy
fifth anniversary of the establishment
Of the National Woman's Party at
Seneca Falls. in 1SiS. held at Seneca
Falls the 2lst of last July and in the
Garden of the Gods at Colorado
Springs on September 90