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7 he Net Circulation of the Washington Herald Yesterday Was 42,970 THE WASHINGTON HERALD 1 ? ? * = > NO. 4681 WASHINGTON. D. C? FRIDAY, AUGUST 22. 1919. ONE CENT 4 MEXICAN BANDITS REPORTED KILLED BY U. S. SOLDIERS Americans on the Border are Warned to Move into Cities U. S. FORECAST Today and tomorrow?Slightly warmer. Highest temperoture yesterday. 88; low est. 69. Eight Senators Willing to Vote to Throw Out Present Treaty. SPEAKERS TO TOUR U. S. , Borah, Johnson, Reed and Poindexter Map Out Western Itinerary. Senator Philander C. Knox yester day took the stand that the treaty of peace with Germany should be utterly cast out and rejected by the United States. Senator Knox announced this po sition at a luncheon served in his office in the Capitol to which were invited seven other Senators who are Irreconcilably opposed to the league of nations ana to the entire treaty. Those who attended were: Senators Borah, of Idaho; Johnson, of California; Fall, of New Mexico; Moses of Xew Hampshire; Bran degee. of Connecticut; Poindexter. of Washington, and Reed, of Mis souri. At this conference it was stated that at least eight more Senators can be counted upon to vote to re ject the treaty. The figures as given at the con ference were: Certain to vote against the treaty even if amended, sixteen; certain to vote ac&inst the treaty unless ! strong reservations which other na tions must accept before the United i States will become a party to the | treaty, not less than thirty-flve nor more than 40. After Senator Knox had made his announcement, the Senators in the CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. DISTRICT BOARD TEST OUTLINED Commissioner Gardiner's Successor Should Be Civic Worker. / The District Commissioner chosen to fill the vacancy left by the ex piration of the term of Commission er Gardiner should be a man who has been active in Washington civic work. This view was expressed b7 the Federation of Citizens' Asso ciation. at its meeting last night, and Incorporated in a resolution to be presented personally to the I*res klent. Jesse P. Crawford. Washing ton Topham and Jesse C. Suter were appointed a committee to present the resolution. The federation contended that a president of that organization was the only logical choice for Com missioner, the president being ap pointed by delegates of all local citizens' associations. representing all District citizens. The resolution was first adopted by the Petworth Citizens' Association, and was approved by the federation ' before the federation s resolution was 4 drawn up. It was also decided to take a ref erendum of all civic associations on municipal ownership of street rail ways and service at cost, for the ben efit of the joint committee of the federation which is framing a bill to bring about these institutions. A membership drive, in which the entire city will i,? canvassed for members for the citizens' associations was decided on. Jesse C. Suter is in charse of this work, which will com mence during the autumn. Kngineer Commissioner Kutz ad dressed the federation on the zoning bill for regulating building In the District. Natural Gas Fumes Kill Two in Old Well Providence. R. I.. Aur. 21?Leon Dietrich and Charles Johnson, of Ea.*t Blackstone, Mass., were killed by natural *as fumes while work ing: in an abandoned well on Diet rich's farm last evening. Farmer Uses Wireless. Trumbauersville, Pa.. Aug. 21. On the farm of Mahlon Holsopple is a wireless telegraph outfit erect ed by his son. A government weath er report sent out daily from Ar lington. Va-, is caught by the Hol ?opr'? wireless. I FINDING OF 3 SKELETONS LEADS TO MURDER CHARGE 'fur/** k/avg Long- Series of Disappearances Followed by Discovery of Human Bones?Companion Of Men Who Dropped Out Arrested. Ma pit- Hill, Kan.* . Aujr. 23.?Kansas | has unearthed a "murder farm." Three skeletons have been dug up and searchera wttfi Jtrudr* tmd vhov els are seeking more. Rufus King. former keeper of a ! livery stable here, is formally charged ( ? with three murders. He was arrest I ed in Colorado and has been brought I back here for trial. : And Wabaunsee County officials ! | think they have soiled the 11-year! , mystery of this "Port of Missing j > Men." Until the first skeleton was found the mystery had been impenetrable. : ; with never a clew that indicated a j solution. Four men disappeared in : this little cattle town at different ! 7? 1 Poles Break Off Relations With Berlin, Raise Army Berlin. Aug. 21.?Negotiations be-[ j tween Germany and Poland were ; broken ofT today and will not be j resumed, it is announced, until or-1 der has been restored in upp^r Si- i lesla. Polish authorities, it is reported^ are forcing all males between 20 and 40 to take up arms. In some districts the Poles are deporting' [ Germans into Poland. HEIRS TO LOSE NICKEL IF WILL IS CONTESTED Goshen, N. Y., Aug. 21.?"If any one makes trouble they will get! nothing." is the warning written on the back of a sheet of note paper on which is written the will of Mrs. [ 'Annie Davidson, of Newburg, who, I bequeaths 5 cents each to her sev- ? j eral grandchildren and the remain I der of her small estate to her chil- ; Idren. The will was offered for probate ^ today. New Honolulu Dock Opened. j Honolulu, Aug. 21.?Mrs. Josephus 1 | Daniels, wife of the Secretary of the | I Navy, pressed a button today open I j ing th^ gates of the Pearl Harbo drydock. Secretary Daniels said : he expected to make Pearl Harbor ' one of the world's greatest marine stations. periods. They left not the slightest trace behind them. Lant PiMiipp^nrnnrr S Year* Ago. fltub> 1' Out shall, jjfc* \ca.s the lait to vanish. Relatives were convinced ho was the victim of foul play, hut CONTINUED ON f'AUR TWO. WILSON MAY SEE GREEKS TODAY Delegates to Protest Bulgar Rule in Thrace?Hope For Interview. Greek-American delegates, who are in Washington to protest the Bul garian rule in Thrace, expect to In terview President Wilson today. At a meeting held last night at the Hotel Washington, Senator Moses, ot New Hampshire, declared that if President Wilson ^insists on the set tlement of the boundary questions on purely racial demarkion, Greece will be awarded all of Thrace. Representatives Dallinger, Lufkin, James and Davy also addressed the meeting and presented optimistic views on the subject. i^ergt. Hercules Korgis, the Greek American "one-man" army, was in troduced mid the cheers of the dele gates. He arrived in Washington yes terday afternoon and was escorted lo the hotel by a parade of the 300 dele gates. He captured 25German prisoners on the Soissons offensive after having been severely wounded, informing the Germans who werrf about to fire on his patrol, that they were surround ed by Americans and that if they fired they would me mowed down oy | machine guns. After this persuasive argument the Germans surrendered and Sergt. Korgis mar !? them back to the lines despite his painful wounds. Dream Foretells Death. Lancaster. Pa.. Aug. 21.?Joseph H. T^ander. a lineman, fulfilled his wife's dream today when he plunged to his death from a little ear attached to an aerial telephone cable into the street. Mrs. I^ander, mother of a w^fk-old baby, cried bitterly this morning when her hus band left home. warning him against a death which had appeared to her in a dream last night. Palmer Confirmed by Mistake As Senate "Sleeps at Switch" A. Mitchell Falmer's nomination for Attorney General was con firmed for Just twenty-three hours, ending at 1 o'clock yesterday. During Wednesday's executive session of the Senate a large num ber of postmasterships were con firmed, and. in some manner, the paper bearing Palmer's name was slipped In with the nominations for postmasters. The whole batch was confirmed without investigation, with the result that Senators yes terday were astounded to read In the record that Palmer, upon whom a big fight has been made, had been confirmed as Attorney Gen eral. Mr. Palmer was about as much surprised as anybody, for after the fight against his appointment, he was not quite prepared to believe that his nomination would go through as easily as that, although he has boon assured that he will be confirmed. The record was corrected in a brief executive sesion of the Sen ate this afternoon, and Mr. Pal mer's name was put back on the calendar. Meanwhile he continued to direct the actiyities of the De j partment of Justice as an Attorney General unconfirmed. ? BELIEVE NEGRO ! NEAR ADMITTING PETER MURDER Maj. Pullman Enforces Secrecy About Case- - "Progressing Nicely." SUSPECT'S JAIL RECORD Cummings Has Long and Mysterious Talk With Two Detectives. With George Cummings, colored, be lieved to bo <^n the verge of con- j fessing to the murder of George Fe- j ter, at Jericho Station, and the shoot ing of his daughter. Katherine. last | Sunday, Maj. Pullman last night clos ed to the public all sources of in formation relative to the cane. Vague hints were given out by Maj. j Pullman in reference to the case, and | he declared, as on previous occasions, that the case is "progressing ni-ely." J The major did state, however, that Cummings htd declared that he lied to the police as to his whereabouts on Sunday, and it is deemed probable that the negro has already confessed to being near the scene of the crime. Only three members of the depart ment are conversant with the case: Maj. Pullman. T.ieut. Buriingame and Detective Sereeani Scrivener. A positive or.it- * has been issued j by Maj Pu.'nrvu that all informa- j tion for the oubli. must come from J him ( amoiinK^ M*J Be Tried. The fact thai > e.Mterday a war-J rv* t t'?r 'h*: ,.? ?<+?' of < ?urP'vJligr. for murder, was iSrue.j by tne police of Maryland leads T,i<-.ni?ers of the de partment to believe that the pris oner may be plar^d on trial. Extradition papei>; are being pre-I pared and it ?-? thought thnt the! negro will b? turned over to the Maryland authorities either today or { tomon ow. Cummings *o1 1 the police 'hat his rgal name is Wi ,;rht Strawder and that he 's an escaped convict. He is said to have been sentenced in Georgia some yeirs ago to ten year? in the penit? ntiarv for stealing a pair of shoes, escaping Irom a jail before he coul'' be taken to prison. Sheriff Garrison, of Prince Georgej , County, probably will come to this i city today to confer with the police' about moving the prisoner. Sfiwl* for Detective. Cummings yesterday afternoon' sent for Detective Scrivener to come and see him. saying he had several things to say regarding the shooting of the farmer. Lieut. I3urlingam" and th?- detective were closeted with th nagro at the Seventh precinct all afternoon and until late last night. After hearing all the prisoner had to say the two officers returned to headquarte:s and declared that any information on the case must come from Maj. Pullman. Miss Peter is "doing nicely,** it was said last nicrht at Emergency Hospital. A rumor was circulated, however, that the ^irl is barely, holding her own in the flght against' death. MJSS'NG A WEFK, SHE IS FOUND IN TOMBS New York. Aug. 21.?Mrs. Henry Salomon, who has been missing from her home since last Friday, was found today in the Tombs. She had been arrested last Fri day in a department store on a charge of shoplifting. and had given the name of Mrs. Sarah Ilirsch. BLANKET SALE HALTED BY WAR DEPARTMENT The Quartermaster General of the , Army has directed the suspension of I the sale of surplus commercial blan- i kets held by the War Department, it j was announced last night. The sus- j pension was directed in order to per mit the War Department to deter- i mine upon and inaugurate a more equitable distribution of its surplus stock of blankets. As soon as a plan that will make the surplus stocks still held by the War Department available to residents of all sections of the United States shall have been determined upon, the sale of blankets will be resumed. Meanwhile the War Department is checking up iUr stocks of surplus blankets for the purpose of ascertain ing the exact number that still re main for sale. STORM SWEEPS CITY FLOODING STREETS Shoppers and office workers were taken unawares late yesterday when a heavy thunderstorm deluged the city. Street became rivers within a few minutes after the storm broke. The storm did little damage. Street icar service remained normal within the city. Signal .wires were burned out by the i lightning on the Tennallytown line. PRESS-TIME III FLASHES Berlin, Aug. 21.?At least one American sailor was seri ously cut up in a battle be tween American and German bluejackets along the water front at Neufahrwasser at a dance tonight. Pittsburgh, Aug. 31.? The street cars will be put into operation, despite the decision of the men to continue their strike. London, Aug. 21.?It is un- | derstood the government is considering appointing Sir William Robertson as com mander-in-chief of the British forces in Ireland. New York. Aug. 31.?A stag gering order for goods, ru mored to be for use of the Chinese army, has been placed with M. Erlenbach, of 253 Broadway, a purchasing agent, it was disclosed today. London, Aug. 21.?Australian engineers in Palestine have unearthed what antiquarians and historians declare are the remains of St. George. Eng land's patron saint, according to a dispatch from Melbourne. San Francisco, Aug. 21.? Taito, one of the principal cities on the island of For mosa, near the Chinese coast, has been destroyed by a storm j which swept the island. Other ?slr.nds in thf jfro?tp were dam- 1 aged. t Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 21.? Lieut. E. Stone, pilot of the < NC-4 on her trip across the Atlantic, here studying land I planes, narrowly escaped in jury when he was forced to make a landing to avoid fall ing into the river. He allowed the plane to nose into the mud. Turin, Italy, Aug. 17.?Gen. Pershing arrived here today. He was welcomed at the sta tion by the civilian and mili tary authorities. Champagne was served in the royal salon. He has left for Rome. SENATOR IS HIT BY STREET CAR Fletcher, of Florida, Near Death When Struck at Thomas Circle. Senator Fletcher, of Florida, was knocked down and severely injured by a Capital Traction street car about 7 o'clock last evening, while I attempting to cross the southbound t: i? k at Thomas Circle. He was picked up unconscious and bleeding from a deep wound of the forehead and placed in the au tomobile of Dr. Herbert E. Martyn, who conveyed the Senator to his home. 1455 Massachusetts avenu'. The cut on the forehead required | Ave stitches and there were bruises , on the right hand, forearm and I shoulder. The injury to the head i almost resulted in a fracture, the j physician said. Senator Fletcher | also suffered from shock. That the I accident was not a fatality was re i markable. according to witnesses. The Senator soon recovered con ; sciousness and was able to describe I how the accident occurred and to draw a pencil diagram showing the positions of the street cars when he was struck. Interned Sailor Tries to Escape. j Atlanta. Ga.. Aug. 21.?Will Frueh I ling, interned German sailor at Camp McPherson, enjoyed twenty i minutes of liberty today. Frueh I ling was sprinting for the woods i when spied by a guard Pittsburgh Car Men Stay Oat. Pittsburgh, Aug. 21.?In a refer ! endum vote, striking motormen and i conductors of the Pittsburgh Street j Railway company overwhelmingly j voted to continue the strike. Take* Poison by Mistake. LUlie Beard, colored, 1324 S street northwest, took several bichloride of mercury tablets by mistake last night j and was removed to the Emergency j Hospital in a bcrioua condition. ?00 DEALERS JO!N TO FORCE FAIR PRICES i Merchants Cheer Palmer' And Wilson at Big Food Meeting. WILL "POLICE" TRADE Organization to Issue Fair Price List Based on Reasonable Profit. Afore than GOO retail and whole-, h.h1" food dealers last ninht pledged their assistance to the Department ( ? >f Justice in its campaign for prose cution of profiteers hy forminc the Fair Price Association of the Dis- ? trict of Columbia, at a mass meet-; ine in Business High School audi-, toi ium Th*1 dealers applauded frequently during the talks by Clarence R. ! Wilson, former District Food Ad- i ministrator. and Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Palmer attacked price gougers j and t ailed upon the lo<yU dealer* ( to police th?- grocery business. "Ninety-nine out of 100 dealers i are taking only a fair margin of, profit. " said Palmer. "It is much to your interest to poli? e the croeery : business so that the one dealer who , po??s wrong may be compelled to go , straight. Pnlmer >rwrr* I'orkrrt. The Department ??t Justice is not j s.ft?*r the man who r uns the corner j grocery store. We started by j prosecutinc th? five treat packers i oi <*hicatro, and. if Justice still . reigns in America, those gentle-j men will be brought to book. < ONTTNTKD OS PAUE TWO ACTORS DARKEN | ANOTHER HOUSE Playwrights Organize But Will be Neutral in Theat rical War. New York. Aug. ?1.-The Booth The ater. where "The Better 'Ole" was being played, was added tonight to the list of houses darkened bv the actors' strike. A walkout by stage hands and musicians, in sympathy with the strike of the actors, was re sponsible for the closing. The Booth was the nineteenth theater to close because of the strike, and but one house is still be ing kept open in defiance of the actors?the Playhouse, where "At 9:45" is being produced by William A. Brady. While the playwrights were form ing an independent organization to day. Daniel Frohman, one of the Pro ducing Managers' Association's lead ing members, was issuing an optimis tic statement regarding an early set tlement of the strike, and the man agers' association was declaring the situation unchanged and that it was "standing pat.'* The striking actors were also busy, holding a meeting at Equity head quarters. Irvin S. Cobb?writer, war correspondent and humorist?spoke. In forming a permanent organiza tion the playwrights elected as offi cers: Otto Harbach, president; Owen Davis, vice president, and Silvio Heln, treasurer. The association's purpose is the pro tection of dramatic authors, declared Mr. Davis, who added that it will maintain absolute neutrality as be tween managers and actors and their differences, at present and in future. FOUR OTHER MEXICANS CAPTURED, ACCORDING TO RETURNED AIRMAN Our Troops Are Now About 50 Miles South of the Rio Grande?Detachment of the Eighth Cavalry Arrives at Marfa, Tex., to Join the Pursuing Column. Marfa, Texas. Aug. 21.?An American airplane brought word here tonight that four Mexicans had been killed by the American forces. The Mexicans were said to have been of Renteros band, and were shot after being cornered in a mountain pass. A returning soldier also reported that four Mexicans had been captured. No official report has been made by Oil. Langhome as to the number of captured or killed. The Americans in their pursuit several times divided their force, and it is believed the troops have had contact with the bandit forces in three skirmishes. Tonight the troops were reported to be about fifty miles south of the Rio Grande. tlrplanr. Kr?| Tp t oinma nlfiUfM WARNING IS SENT ALONG THE BORDER Eagle Pass. Tex.. Aug. 21.? United States consuls at Vera Cruz, Tampico and Oaxaca have idvised all Americans living in out lying districts in their territory to go into the cities, according to dispatches reaching the border to day. Yaqui hands, which have been terTorirfng the mountain districts, are reported to have been dis persed by federal troops. NEW SALARY PLAN DISCUSSED BY UNION Reclassification of salaries of gov ernment emplov?w discussed at a meeting of tb" rerartmen" of Ar riculturo bran-h rf rht Federal F.m ployps' I'nion. No. a committee composed of chr. lrmen of bureau sub committee^ submitted a new plan adopted by tb?' organization. b\ which employes would be dividod into four classes with salaries ninj'n:" from $1,080 to a year and ad mitted to the higher classes by ex amination . The committee advocated this as a means of insuring promotion to em ployes who deserved it. The plan, when called for. will b?? submitted to the Keatlns: commis sion appointed to reclassify salaries 1 of government workers. WILSON LACKS POWER TO PROCLAIM PEACE Replying to a series of written questions submitted by Senator Fall <N. Mex ). President Wilson yester day declared it his judgment that ! he has not the powrr to proclaim a ' state of peace before the ratification of the treaty by the Senate. The President also says that re nunciation of territory rights by Ger many does not convey title to the allies, but does put disposition of th? territory in their hands. EMBASSY ATTACHE INJURED IN WRECK I. By sterns Heemskerk, honorary attache at the Netherlands Legation, was seriously injured in a train wreck at Beitner. Mich., six miles south of Traverse City. Wednesday when a Pere Marquette freight tram collided head-on with a passenger train Six of the train crew were killed. Fifteen pass^n^ers were injured. No word as to Mr. Heemskerk's condition has reached his legation. Champ Clark Warns G. O. P. It Is Flirting With Sure Defeat A special tariff bill for the pro tection of the tungsten industry in: the United States precipitated an old-time partisan political battle In the House yesterday. Party lines were drawn tight as the bitter debate continued for five hours. It was a veritable field day for charges and counter charges, sarcasm and abuse. But the result' was a foregone conclusion. The Re publican leaders had their majority well in hand, and when the final vote came they put through the bill by a count of 171 to 131. % The bill passed is dffrign^d to take the place of the provision in;the Underwood tariff law which places tungsten on the free list. It is only one of the other high tarifT bills contemplated. Minority Leader Champ Clark put the House in an uproar when he! charged that the bill was drawn on "orders direct from Wall street." Republicans boohed and the Demo crats rocked the chamber with "rebel yells." When the din had ^ subsided. Mr. Fordney demanded to j CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. Communication b?tw^n the pur puins column! and the Mexican Fed eral t'oops in the Bl* Bend wu k?*pt up by airplane It has been sug^?tH by OoL Lanchorne to Mexican Consul Ban honocm a at Presidio that Gen. An tonio Pruned*. the Carranra com mands. co-operate with his troop* in the bandit chase. although tbe American? were leading and had pr?ater facilities. Ther* *s a (rood disposition on tb* part of Carranra troop* to do who* they can to aid. arrordlnr to rv port* hut they *r+> himp^-M by a la^k of o'd^rs from Gen. Manuel M Di< truer. ron<> commander of Ch1 hu*h ua. who is not in rapid com mu meat'on with op^rationa. Of*, nirkmnn No? In Cknrf* The arrival at Marfa of MaJ. Gea. Joseph T. Di^kman for the review of the American troop* was the ocrastrn of a celebration toniirht The gcn? ral and hi* staff officers wot" received at the railroad station with military ceremony and are the rt:o*t* of Col. T^ntrliorne. who ha* dir^-t^d eipht "hot trail" drive# across the Rio Grande prior to thi* one. Brs-de* the four troop* r?f the E'jrhth Cavalry, a d^tactim^nt of th* Fifth Cavalry 1* with the column. Th- se t-oops w^re sent from Fort Bliss. CARRANZA SENDS NOTE OF PROTEST Th* Mexican revrrnm^nt has ad dressed a solemn ivotest to the' T'nitefl State* over the invasion of It* sovereignty by the action of Araer ican troop* in cronstn* the boi^e in search of bandit* 1>e note, de livered to the State T>ep* ? ' merit refi terdav by Ambassador Bon.lla-s. ask* for the Immediate withdrawal of tha forces The note call* for an %n?w^r, and one win be mr.de po*slblv today hv the Stat* Department- If this rov ernment 1* in rrceipt of re^rts show, in* that the search for the bandits ptill constitute* a "hot trail.** there I* not exported to be an Immediate withdrawal, or in fact any withdrawal until the T'nited States i* safiwfled that the soldiers have accomplished everything that is possible Complete satisfaction would onlv be achieved OOVnVTED ON PACK TWO Arrest Negro on Charge Of Shooting Policeman T.awrenre T la It on. years old, #M Third street southwest. wa.< arrested last nicht. charred with the sbootln* of Police Pri\-ate Prank MoGraw Fourth precinct, on July 1? when <M?* Graw waa attempting to disburse a proup of nejrroes dxirtn* the race riots Halton Is charjpvi also with rob bing William J Rowe. ^77 P street southwest, last Tuesday, and the po lice claim he is responsible for sev eral other recent luJdups in th" Southwest. He was arrest#M hv Pri vates Hardy and Cox. of No. 4 pre cinct. Charpes against him are as sault with intent to kill and robbery. Southern Labor Confess Admits Negro to Unions Aahevllle. X. C., Auk. 21 ?The South lern I^bor Congress, in session h*?re to day, expected to pass, by unanimoui [vote, a resolution to admit the negro laborer into the unions. | Nerroes will be organized wherever possible, and, when they have lanr? [numbers, into separate union*, but to ibc taken in with the whites when 'he colored men are small in numbers.