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7 he Net Gradation of the Washington Herald Yesterday Was 41,504 THE WEATHER Today day?Fair: slightly warmer. Tomor -Fair. Highest temperature yester day, 8o; lowest, 71. NO. 4625 THE WASHINGTON HERALD BOTS AND GIRLS Do you know how thunderstorms are made? Read The Washington Herald to morrow. There will be a treat tor you. WASHINGTON. D. C., FRIDAY. JUNE 27, 1919. ONE CENT la Wi DEBUDGET HELD UP BY 50-50 VOTE | ??? Appropriations May Not Be Available at Beginning of Fiscal Year Because of House Refusal to Con tinue Old Fiscal Plan. FOLLOWS HOT DEBATE Davis Warns Senate Will Insist Upon Retention of Tax Plan and Points to Probable Hopeless Tie Up of Conferees. ^ Prospects of the District appropria t tion bill being tied .up in a legislative disagreement on July 1. the beginning of the fiscal year, loomed large last night, when the House sent the measure back to conference with in structions that it would not agree to the passage with the half-and half plan of taxation retained. The action was taken in the face of warnings by Representatives Davis and Crampton, of the House con ferees. that the Senate would un doubtedly insist upon the 50-00 plan, and the disagreement would mean that the bill would not be passed by July 1. Hour Votes f Stand Firm. After spirited debate, the House, by a vote of 160 to 123. voted to instruct the conferees to refuse to yield on the taxation question. Representative Crampton made a vain endeavor to have the House yield by stating he was certain that Senator Sherman, of the Senate Dis trict Committee and the chairman of the House District Committee, would consent to early considera tion of a measure to abolish the 4 iO-OO plan and substitute some * fiscal measure agreeable To both branches. The 50-50 plan came la for some vigorous criticism during the de bate, Representatives Sisson, John son. Gard. Crisp and Juul urging that it gave the District favorable discrimination in taxes not fair to the government. Sarplas as Argument. The $6,000,000 surplus in the Treasury to the credit of the Dis trict was pointed out as concrete evidence that more money was rslsed by tnxation and paid by the government under the 50-50 plan than was necessary for actual maintainence. Representative Campbell led the ! fight for the continuation of the ex isting method on the ground that it was unfair to change the law by the rider method. "Uncle Joe" Can non also opposed a change, and Rep resentative Johnson, of Washington, declared that no change should be effected until the people of Washing ton were given the vote. Should the Senate decide to aban don the fight for the 50-50 plan, rt will mean that the District will pay ail money raised by taxation for maintenance and the government win appropriate the difference between - what the District raises and the ac | tml cost, provided that the amount must not exceed 50 per cent of the 'total cost. This Teacher Gets School Job for Life Educational Board Can't, Control Contract Between James and Mary. j "It is the most complete harmony between teacher and school I have ever known." declared the Rev. John H Jeffries, pastor of the Ryland Methodist Episcopal Church, after he had married James E. Teacher and Mary E. School yesterday, at the home of the pastor. 412 Tenth street ?out h west. "Under the contract we have just entered into, the school agrees to obey the teacher." remarked the groom "Forget the motto 'Spare the rod and spoil the child.*" laughed the bri^e. The couple will leave this morning for Baltimore, when they will go to Newport News, the home of the groom. Teacher was discharged from the army June 12. after having spent eighteen months overseas. He fought through the battles of Montfaucon. St. Mihiel and the Argonne. The ro mance began prior to the war. POLK CONFIRMED AS UNDER SECRETARY The Senate late yesterday con irmed the nomination of Frank Polk aa Undersecretary of State, lugh Gibson ae Minister to Poland md Richard Crane as Minister to Mm Caecho-Slovak Republic. N s Price Tumble Looms, But Senate to Probe; Baker Foils Packers Stock of Commodities Have Enormously Increased, Government Statistics Of Government Show. With the Senate preparing to in vestigate profiteering and high prices in Washington, the Depart ment of Agriculture last night is sued statistics tending to show that the country's stock of all commodi ties has shown a stupendous in crease in the year ending June 1, and prices logically should be re duced. Despite these optimistic figures, I Senator Sherman, chairman of the Senate District ittee, is pre paring to stat#!. jislative ma chinery to wont to uncover what or who regulates the price of food-; stuffs in the District. The probe will begin next Monday morning and will try to determine whether real estate owners and dealers are charging exorbitant rentals. The committee is expected to re port a resolution calling for a com plete Congressional investigation 01 all phases of over-charging in the Capital. That the supply of wheat should bring down the price of bread is shown by the fact that commercial wheat stocks reported amount to 51.392,898 bushels or nearly three times as much as last year. Wheat flour holdings show an Increase of| 121.8 per cent. I Rye stocks show the largest in crease over last year?346 per cent ?this being attributed to the de creased manufacture of liquor. Meat dealers view the prospective | investigation with complacence, and a number of Center Market merch ants asserted yesterday that an un- ( j usual demand for steaks and the finer cuts of meat and roasts had sent prices soaring. ' One prominent dealer declared that the high prices could be attributed to the general prosperity. I "People have been making high sal [ aries, and demand the beat meat. This i brings down the sales of the poorer cuts, and in the evening-up process prices go up on some," he said. Packers Attempt Coup by Low Bids on Army Meat Stock?Will Be Sold to Public at Cost Prices. Secretary of War Baker announced last night that he had rejected a proposition by which packers would have realised double profits on the 142,000,000 pounds of sjxrplus array beef and will give the American peo ple an opportunity to buy the sup plies at or near actual cost. Of the ninety-six bids received for this surplus supply, a majority came from packing concerns, bidding ex clusively for their own product and offering the government a price rep resenting 60 per cent of its cost to the army. All the bids were rejected. OONTINCDO ON PAGE EUSVEW. beePecWn CHEERS UP WETS Believed N. Y. Court Action Will Result in 2.75 Per Cent. Beverage. i New York. June 26.?Whether 2.75 ' per cent beer can be sold in all parts of the country will be decided in New York in the near future, accord ing to Emory R. Buckner. brewers' attorney. The Federal Circuit Court of Ap peals decision today held that 2.75 per cent beer could be sold if not intoxicating, he said. While the de cision held that the district attorney could not be enjoined from prosecut ing 2.75 sellers, the decision recog nized the brewers' right to restrain the revenue collector from refusing to issue licenses for its sale, Buck ner pointed out The brewers will seek to make per manent the temporary injunction they now hold against the collector. All the brewers have to do. he said, was to prove in the permanent injunc i tien hVaring that 2.75 per cent is not | Intoxicating. G. O. P. Chief Smoothes Way for Peace Treaty With Chairman Will Hays of the Republican National Committee in the role of a pacifier. Republican Senators yesterday started a move ment to bring about united action by the party organization in the fight agaist the league of nations. Hays came to Washington at the request of Republican Senators who felt his counsel was necessary to j heal the split in the Senate organ i i zation. He spent the entire day at I the Capitol in conference with Sena j tors Lodge. Knox, Curtis, New, Wau j son. Colt and McCormioJc. The con | ferences will continue several days, ! as Hays plans to remain in Wash ington for almost a month. Hays has no settled program as j to what the policy of the Repub- j licans on the league issue should be. He is firm in his stand that it should not be made a partisan ques tion- If he has his way, the Repub lican national organization will take j no action along this line, despite the demand of Senator Borah and others that the party should de clare itself irrevocably against the league. j Hays' purpose, as revealed in his i conferences with Senators, is to brirrg the Republican Senators to FORDWILL GIVE BACK WAR GAINS Henry Ford is going to give his war profits back to Uncle Sam. Ford yesterday telegraphed Secre tary of the Treasury Glass a request for a skilled accountant to cheek over the Ford company's books and de termine the amount he shall pay.' Ford's share of the company's profits are 58H per cent, he said. i Secretary Glass instructed the In ternal Revenue Bureau to comply with j Ford's request. His company had contracts with the war and navy de partments aggregating many millions. The Eagle boat plant is included ! among those on which profits are lo I be returned. ? In taking this step Ford makes good a promise he made publicly at the | outset of the war. He said at that [time he would take no profits on war i materials, and volunteered to let the (government utilize to the fullest ex tent possible all the resources of his manufacturing plants. | The contracts which the War De ipartment made with Ford and other [Detroit manufacturers have been re cently criticised by Congressmen. It j has been contended that unduly large , profits were permitted. gether on tome plan of action that will lead to ratification of the league of nations covenant with amendments or ratifications to suit the radical opponents of the entire league scheme. It may be the Root plan or some other plan, but the definite object which Hays hopes to achieve is unity of action, and the presentation of a solid party front to the league program. Personally, Hays believes in and hopes for the establishment of a ! league of9 some kind that will insure permanent peace. He believes that the sentiment of the country is for such a league?and Hays has trav eled a lot. UNIONS SUPPORT RETIREMENT BILL Department Heads Also in Favor of Pensions for Old Clerks. Union officials, representing em ployes of practically every govern ment department, yesterday afternoon spoke in behalf of the Sterling Civil Service retirement bill before the Sen ate Committee on Civil Service and Retirement. District Commissioner Louis Brown low indorsed tha bill heartily. Henry L. Staling, legal representative of the American Federation of Labor, compared the policy of private cor-! porations in pensioning aged em ployes with the government's policy of turning them out with no provi sion. or keeping them on the rolls CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE. YANK GOES TO BRIG i IN FLYING "MARIA" Stamford. Conn.. June 26.?An air- i plane will be used tomorrow for th?. first time as a "Black Maria" to transport a military prisoner from this place to Mineola. N. T. Charles Lowden, of this city. Is lb custody here for over-staying his furlough from the. camp at Mineola. He enlisted here recently and crossed Long Island Sound In the aerial ferry established to carry re cruits to Mineola. Notice was re ceived that he had become A. W. O. L. He was apprehended here and tomorrow, weather permitting, he will be transported from the Stam ford city lock-up to Mineola by air plane. WIRE STRIKERS VIOLATED RULE, SAYS BURLESON Attempts to Pass the Buck By^ Referring to War Provision. SAYS FEW QUIT POSTS Statement Declares Main Body of Telegraphers Stuck to Job. Postmaster General Burleson yes terday told delegates of the Ameri can Federation of Labor that the telegraphers who had gone out on strike had thereby violated the rules of the Federal Wire Control Board, and that he would not direct their re employment by their companies. The delegates who met Burleson were John H. Walker, of the United Mine Workers, and W. E. Bryan, of the Leather Workers' Union. Their mission was to carry out a resolution adopted by the Atlantic City conven tion of the American Federation of i Labor directing them to ask Bur leson to bring about an adjustment of the strike. The delegates were accompanied by S. J. Konenkamp. president of the Commercial Telegraphers* Union of America, who is here trying to bring the strike to a successful termina tion. The delegates declined to com ment on their conference with Bur leson other than to say that tney had made a prompt report to Fran* Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, who is still at Atlantic City. Bnrleson Statement. / Burleson in his ^statement con cerning the interview with the dele gates said: "It has repeatedly been announced by the Wire Control Board that strikes on the part of employes while the wire systems were under the control of the government were pot permissible. Whether the 27? of the 40.000 Western Union em ployes. and the small number of employes ot the Postal Telegraph i Company who went on strike are i now to be taken back into the serv | ice of these companies is a matter resting with their manaerlal officers. "These employes voluntarily left the service of the companies, in vio lation of the rules of the War Labor Board and the Wire Control Board, and the Postmaster General will not direct their re-employment.** Koneneamp Replies. President Koneneamp, for the tele graphers, last night issued an open letter in reply to the Burleson state i ment, in which he says: I "There has been no machinery es CONTXNTED ON PAGE TWO. CHIEF GERMAN GOAT TOLD TO SIGN TREATY Mueller Is the chief goat for the German people, for he has been picked to head the delegation sent to sign the peace treaty and may be the only one to sign. REBUKE GIVEN CIVIC WORKERS; Congress Limits Salaries to 20 Per Cent of $25,000 And Discloses Friction. Congress yesterday administered a| legislative rebuke to the District Com-' munity Center authorities and inci- J dentally disclosed a disagreement be tween the District Commissioners and those engaged in this civic work. In the District bill is an item tor 125,000 for the continuation of this; work, originally Instituted through | the activity of Miss Margaret Wilson,' but there is a provision that not more than 30 per cent of the appropriation ; can be spent for salaries. It was disclosed that In the esti-' mates the Community Center officials! had provided over SU.000 of the ap-1 propriatlon would be spent for sal-; aries. Commissioner Btownlow, It Is understood, fought the officials | when he learned that dancing teachers and other well paid em pic yea would eat up the bulk of the appropriation in salaries. The community center authori ties went over the heads of the District Commissioners and made a direct appeal for *63,000. The House voted them (30.000; the Sen ate knocked this down to $-5,000 and the conferees accepted the Sen ate reduction and inserted the clause for salary limitations. Added Punch in Saulsbury Law Delays Rent Profiteering Here Conferees on the District bill put stronger "teeth" in the S&ulsburv | clause of the measure which will j afford District residents protection from rent profiteering beyond the 90 days following the signing of the peace pact by Germany. As originally presented, a notice of eviction, effective 90 days after the signing of the treaty, would have | been sufficient to oust tenants. fts amended by the conferees, the Saulsbury act will apply for 90 days after a practical peace has been con cluded. Representative Crampton ex I plained that "'practical peace" means 90 days after the Senate has ratified ! the treaty of peace. The Senate | is expected to debate the treaty for some months. The interpretation of the rent clause led to a bitter attack upon Senator Pomerene by Representative I Johnson, who declared that the Buck. | eye solon's measure actually pro l tected and encouraged rent proftteei | ins. j The Senate yesterday resented ; j Johnson's remarks, and passed a res olution calling upon the House to | take action against the Kentucky i member for unparliamentary proc?~ | dure and language. I Representative Johnson said last ? night he welcomed action by the i House, since it would give him an opportunity to say some things anent | rent profiteers and the real estate j | situation in the District which he j was compelled to forego a few days ! | ago because of lack of time. j House leaders said last night that ; I the matter would undoubtedly be ] I satisfactorily adjusted by expunging j j the remarks from the Congressional Record. Don't Miss the Parade Motor Transportation Day June 28th Don't fail to get a copy of Next Sunday's Washington Herald The Automobile Section will be greatly enlarged and chuck full of interesting information for Auto and Auto Truck Owners? as well as prospective Buyers. Better Tell Your Newsdealer to * f i Save Yon a Copy HAMBURG SEIZED BY SPARTACAN TROOPS; HUNDREDS KILLED DURING STREET FIGHTING; EIGHT OF CROWN PRINCE ENRAGES PEOPLE | >? ? I ? Officials Admit Advent of 'W31ie' Is Bound to Com plicate Hon Affairs. GOOD SPARTACIST PLEA Only FoDowing Among Sporting Lieutenants And "Flappers." Berlin, June 26.?Like an electric spark the news flashed through Ger many today that Frledrich Wilhelm. the former Kaiser's eldest son and heir, hag fled from his exile at Wier Ingen, Holland, and Is now "some where in Germany." But the news had a widely different effect upon the various classes of the population. Summing it up briefly, the overwhelming majority of the people are bitterly disappointed, and even partly enraged at the return of this arch-representative of swagger ing Junkerism. Will Complicate Matters. In official quarters it is conceded that this sensational development is bound to complicate matters and this at a moment when the people already are torn and racked by the bitterest emotions. The former crown prince's sanctuary in his own country will be precarious, and perhaps brief. The Spartac;sts. just preparing for a nationwide rev olution, hail his arrival as the best imaginable propaganda? for their cause. Nor does the bulk of the Ger man people doubt for a moment that Friedrich \Vi|helm has any aim and interest other than re - establishing the throne. Hm Deprrnftlnac Effect. Had the former kaiser himself es caped and crossed back into Germany the event would not have had half the depressing effect, for few believe the former monarch still harbors any hope of regaining th crown, and sym pathy with him?a* a private citixen, and as such alone?is widespread. The former crown prince, however, never popular with t?e w*4 imkni*, tfcongh worshiped by sporting IteuteflunUrand adored by a host of "flappers," Is a bugaboo even to the pan-Germsns and the very personification of ml 1 tarism to the Radicals and Socialists The first move on his part for the re-establishment of the monarchy would go far toward reuniting the Independent and majority Socialists. PULLMAN ADMITS PDLICE BLUNDER Citizens Are Held Up and Searched for Liquor Without Warrant. Superintendent of Police Pullman admitted last night that Acting Sergt. Eby acted without authority or jus tification of law in arresting four oc cupants of an automobile at the Dis trict, line early yesterday morning and compelling them to submit to the humiliation of having their baggage searched for liquor. He made this admission after Clyde B. Ambrose, formerly connected with the Department of Justice and one of the men detained, had called at po lice headquarters and entered a vig orous protest. "Thought He Had More Judgment." Maj. Pullman said that there was no search or seizure law operative in the case and that Sergt. Eby act ed entirely of his own accord. "Eby has been in the departmen: a long time and I thought had bet ter judgment than to do a thins like that," the superintendent said. The detention of the party cau&ed widespread comment throughout the District because many others have been held up on the Bladensburg road and compelled to submit to an investigation of their baggage by the police acting without search warrants. Ambrose and the other Washing tonians in the party, which included William P. Duvall, 338 Fourteenth street northeast: Frederick W. V. Wolfe and Edgar Guy Allaugh, were the first to make a protest. When held up on the way from Baltimore by Eby and Policeman Fennelly, the party demanded war rants. None were forthcoming and they refused to open their grips. The four men were taken to the police station, where their baggage was searched. No liquor was found A notation was. made upon the po lice blotter that the men were held for "investigation." They were re leased immediately after the search. Maj. Pullman was noncommittal as to whether charges will be preferred against the policemen in the case. Interned Hans Ready To Sail for Germany X. Charleston. S. C.. June - 2f.?Thi transport Martha Washington will fll tomorrow with 500 prisoners ot ar. It was announced today. Othei ships with additional enemy aliens will depart next week. ? Large (roups Of prisoners from Fort Douglas an4 Fort Oglethorpe reached Charleston on special trains I today. I Wilson to Stamp Treaty with Ring Bearing Initials Paris, June 26.?The per sonal seal which President Wilson will attach to the peace treaty, will be made from the impression of a seal ring, manufactured from a gold rfiugget pre sented to him by the State of California for a wed ? ring. "ihe signet is his name, in shorthand, resembling Arabic writing. WOULD HAVE U.S. RUN WRECO LINE Union Believes Service Im possible Otherwise, Says President. "When the *Wreco* show* that it \ is in a position to give service, grant them an increased fare; but. if it is shown that service cannot be given, the company should be taken over by the government. I believe this is the general sentiment of the members of the union." Thus spoke W. Carson Ryan, pres ident of Local No. i. Federal Em ployes' Union, last night. According to Ryan, the local union is opposed to any increase in fare for the "Wreco" until some evidence is given by the company that im | proved service cap be gmara?teed. j "The "Wreco* plainly shows by Its ! administrative efforts that it is in I no position to give the riding public ithe service that is paid for." he said. I "When permission ^ras given the I t car companies to go from a basis of | six tickets for a quarter to a flat S-cent fare, improved service was promised. The public did not get it. When the 2-cent transfer matter was before the commission, improved service again was promised, and again j the company fell down. "Now, jphen additional financial aid i is needed, the company should be re J quired to furnish at least fair service ; before any assistance is given. i"I believe the trouble with the *Wreco* is public sentiment, and not financial disability. In every case ' where labor and the administration of the 'Wreco* clashed, the company ' did not show the proper spirit. ; Thugs were imported to put down I a strike, with the result that many people left the line and traveled exclusively on other cars. "Regardless of the measure of re ' lief given the 'Wreco*. I believe a 1 careful scrutiny should be made or | financing methods employed be jtween the 'Pepco* and 'Wrcco*. This i investigation should be made by i some other body than the Public Utilities Commission." FIGHT OR YIELD TO IRISH, HE SAYS . . ? Phelan Declares Britain Can Have No Peace Until She Frees Ireland. That there can be no peace for England until Ireland is act free was asserted in the Senate yesterday by Senator Phelan in a speech support ing the cause of the Irish delegates at the Peace Conference. He said: "The Irish line is flung around the world, and the insistent demand of Irishmen and lovers of freedom every I where will compel the blunderers of ; Downing street to yield to a world I wide demand based upon world-wide ' principles, which the conference and | j the league of nations have esta'.v j lished. Bear in mind tiie league con sists of a union of free nations, and if England does not yield to the ab solutely logical case of Ireland and i give her the decision, then the Irlfh Justifiably will expose England to every disadvantage in peace and war throughout the world. "From the days of the American ' revolution England has been held strictly to account by America.. and It would need leas weight than the I Irish to throw the sca-les of Judg ! ment against her whenever a conflict ? should arise." i Senator Phelan undertook to Jus tify the course adopted by Prealdeut I Wilson in refusing to demand recog i nltiop for the Irish delegates by say i tng that If ha had done so It might I have broken up the Peace Conlerenoe. f Senate Flees to Akona, Prussian Town on Out skirts of Port City. BARRICADES IN BERLIN Government's Position Grows Precarious as Un rest and Revolt Spreads. Berlin, June 26.?Hamburg late today passed completely into the hands of Spartacist troops. | More than 200 persons are re port (yd to have been killed in street fighting. The rebels swept through the city, beating and slaying alt who opposed them. The town hall was seized early in the day and all political pris oners were liberated. Troops of Gen. von Lettow. detailed by the Bauer government to put down the revolt, were either killed or thrown into the cells vacated by the political prisoners. M? mbnry Smatr PW*. The Hamburg senate has fled to Al Tonv a Prussian town, virtually a suburb of the big port city. Hamburg Is Germany's bicgeat com mercial port, and the revolt is prov ing a costly blow to the newly ea tablished government Orders ha ve been given to crush out the revolt by force, but Gen von Lettow Is powerless to act because of defec tions from th-< ranks of his men His soldiers are loath to (ire upon their own countryman, and in man* Instance* have deserted to the ranks of the rebels. Battles la >?ilia. Here in Berlin the situation K raja *dly approaching a crista The streets are barricaded like fortre-saes and lighting became general today Tonight the desultory lighting of tlie day developed into a number of real battle, and many are reported killed iind -wounded. The government la at tempting to eopc with the situation without resorting to the use of ma chine guns, but late tonight it was announced that further lighting would necessitate extreme measures The government is keeping a close censorship on all news concerning the fighting here and little infor mation is obtainable. Declare Peace < ??cl?*e*. News that the Crowp Prince had escaped from Holland only in creased the tensity of the situation. Despite the Internal revolt, the new government today iasued the following proclamation: ? Peace is concluded. All efforts must be directed toward fulfillment of the treaty." The government's position con tinues precarious, though the ques tion of the new peace delegation la finally solved. Dr. Hermann Mueller, the foreign minister.#has yielded at last to ttie pressure from all sides, and will head the delegation to sign peace at Versailles. Dr. Johannea Bell, transition minister and in charge of winding up German colonial af fairs. will accompany him. They will leave Berlin tomorrow. Dr. Mueller fought stubbornly against going, but the argument that he shoull never have acceptel tlie foreign minister's portfolio if he were not willing to exercise its functions broke his resistance in the end. Good Licker Elbows Mere Gold Aside Safety Deposit Boxes Make Room for Whisky And Wine. New ^ork. June 26 ?"Have you a safety deposit box where I can store some whisky?** Thia is one of the many inqulrftea a New York safety deposit company received today, now that impending prohibition is becoming mora than a shadow cast before the ?vent. Treas ures of gold and jewels are nothing now as compared with the precious mellow fluid of the rrape. From all indications Aching part ice are not so likely to be so popular after July 1. The safety depoait vault company, however, has a serious legal problem to settle before rtrong bones are rented out for the storage of whisky and winea. The company ia frequent ly obliged to sell the contents of the vaults to recover the fee for rental A sale of liquor la illegal. The only prospect for the directors of the company would be to consume the liquor as compensation. ftttdit Holds Up Hotel. Philadelphia. J una An aimed bandit early today held up the omca of the Hotel Hanovtr and larapaa with several hundred dollaijs In cash and soma Jewelry deposited by guest*.