HUBERT WORK TO Bl ASSISTMTO HAY: Head of American Medic; ! Association Given Recess Appointment. r- ^jmhi W:' 1 A ^KBBrerllMiiT "?., ^ 9 EIEH3Hbv;w^^B'' ^' < fl ^^^B9K^ras9HmRv9?K-v' H HI BERT WORK. First assistant postmaster xenen Hubert Work, president of tl American Medical Association ar republican national comniitteema from Colorado, was given a recess ai I ointment by President Harding' t< '' ~ ? ~~ * ? ~ ^ "o ? ao in ol a^oisnwu i'v jiniaoLti fo ^ 4 oral. Dr. Work formerly was president ( the American Medico-Psychologic* Society and a member of the Oolorad state boards of ht-alth and of medic: examiners In 1910 h?- was republica state chairman of 1'olorado. Durin the war he held a commission in tfc Medical Corps of the Army and ros to the rank of colonel. Dr. Work succeeds John C. Koon who will continue as postaf expei of the department and work with th joint concessional commission on poj tal service. Xhe name of Alexander McCabe c San Francisco is understood to be ui der consideration for appointment t one of the two assistant postmast* generalships yet to be filled by Pres dent Harding. U. S. FORCES ON WAY AS UPRISING STIRS RHINE AREA RIOT? fContinued from First Pag?.) checked and that it will fail of su< cess, although sporadic communii uprisings continue to occur here an in Eislehen. Mansfeld, Hettstedt an other important mining and manufac turing centers. Count Poninski. colonel of police i the Mansfeld district, said today: "The situation is in. hand; the uj rising has virtually been suppresse and no further serious outbreaks ai expected." Orders were posted in Mansfel Hettstedt and Klostermansfeldy tot that any citizens appearing in tl streets after 8 o'clock would be shi without challenge, and citizens mu; not be seen at the windows. It specifically set forth that no excel tton will be made regardless of emei gencies. Although isloated outbursts are n ported from Eisleben and Hettstet and a few grenades were thrown her some of the communists' chief acttv ties were shifted to Bltterfeld. whet workmen mounted machine guns c the station platform and searched a passengers on their arrival this aftei roon. Twenty armed communist boarded one train and asked if an soldiers were there. They searche for arms, and after a long delay pei mljted the train to proceed. ine only otner town or important held by the communists is L.eun; where there are no police, and man radicals are employed by the Bade aniline and soda factory, which utilize the services of 20,000 men. roadrmu Fanatics. Workmen were arrested at Halle t< day with a quantity of dynamite i their possession, with which they wei attempting to blow up the polit presidium; grenades were hurled ini the printing press turning out a pat German organ, but the newspaper li sued a later edition appealing to th workmen to "renounce the leadershl of this small band of political nonent ties and conscienceless demagogue who are seeking to drive you to fanat cism." It is declared in rnmmnniaf that the Halle outbreak was not ai cording to schedule, but that the Inc dent might result In orders for a rlslr here. Green police are standing guar at every street corner and motor pi trols with rifles disperse the crowd as they gather on the sidewalks. PLOT TRACED TO MOSCOW. Prussian Minister of Interior Saj It Has Lapsed to Outlawry. ftie AftAoeiated Prpwi. BERLIN. March 27.?The Com mi pist outbreak in industrial arras < central Germany and the concert* attempt by the German bolshevis' to provoke a geperal strike through out the country are viewed by tl government its an unmistakable aym* t'.m of a determined and system&t plot, the inspiration of which is d reotly traceable to Moscow, ar whose single purpose is the estal lishment of a German soviet repul 3ic. a government spokesman declare today. With regard to the evidence tl government could adduce to suppo its declared convictions. Herr Seve jiik. rruwan minister or the interic ?&id: "We bane our belief on unimpeael eble circumstantial evidence in oi possession and also point to the pul Jic utterances of accredited con munistic leaders here and elsewher who openly desienate the present p> riod. when Germany is sorely trie with problems xrowinK out of tl entente's invasion in the west and tl TJpper Silesian situation, as the mo opportune moment for a revolt. "The Ge rman communist party tak its orders from Moscow and one ne< only follow the manifestos daily a| peartng in its official organs to loca thp> fountain head of this iniquity." The rioting in the Saxon provinc the minister added, was also pr ^uctive of tangible evidence of tl complicity of soviet agents in the 1 tigation of the present diwturl>anc4 He said he strongly suspected, ho^ ever, that the cue for th?- present i urrection miscarried, and that tl gignai found the extremists, elsewhe than in Prussian Saxony, unprepar JUI wilt* VI IIN B| Uianiv iHlfd lu JUIil I. movement or timid about acting. 'The impending collapse of t present coup >nd the fact that it now lapsing into plain outlawrj continued Herr Severing, "must pro Inopportunely embarrassing to t Moscow government, which Is see ing the re-establishment of dipl rnatio and trade relations with t 1 nited States. England and oth countries at the very moment th accredited emmissarie? of sovletll are attempting to establish bolsh vism in Germany with the aid. of p iagev dynamite and-Mgaua." r POLICE WILL REOPEN L SCHOOL FOR 'ROOKIES S Lieut. William S. Shelby, Assistam Head of Traffic Bureau, to Be in Charge. Police Lieut. William S. Shelby j| assistant head of the traffic bureau will leave that branch of the service some time in April to reopen th? school for "rookie" policemen, it be came known today. T J . ... . 01 it... m i_. i ? uit-uL. oneiuy lurmeny whs in cnnrK' of the school, but during the post war period, when many vacancies ex isted on the force, it was though unwise to take men of! duty evei for a few days at a time to put then in the police school. Now the pap in the ranks is rapidl; being- filled and the task of trainin* the newer members of the force wil be resumed. There are only abou thirty vacancies on the force today which is considerably less than th department hah had for the past year Some of these vacancies probably wil be filled before the school gets unde way. When the school was in operatioi before the men were detailed then in small groups for periods of twenty four days, during which time the; were given instructions in all of thi practical problems that come up it the daily life of a policeman. MAINS POUR ONPRESIDENI Variety in Callers Is Refreshing, But Many Must Be Disappointed. This was invitation day for Presi te dent Harding. Nearly every othe id caller brought an invitation to th< n President to attend some form o >- celebration or banquet. Althoufrt >- somewhat refreshing from the eus tomary daily stream of patronagi seekers it is considered doubtful ii he will bo able to accept any of th< 11 i invitations. Several of them were from local or 11 ; gunizations. Miss Leonore Marie Li? 11 j grange and Miss Cecil Norton invitee e I the President and Mrs Harding t< ie I attend the District of Columbia nigh ,e I at th- Cenlr.l VI i ..V. 1 I..JI t*. uvmyvi rtUUl' I torium tomorrow night. 9" ! Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, as president -t i of the Indiana Society of the District 'e of Columbia, invited the President * to attend the annual banquet of thai organization, to be held at the Ebbit >f Hotel April 30. Invited by Publishers. ;r An invitation to attend the annua 1. banquet of the American Publishers Association, to be hold in New Yorl April 2S. was extended to the President today by Herbert L. Bridgeman president of the association. President Harding was urged today by a committee representing eleven of the independent organizations of railroad employes and subordinate ^ officials to appoint a man representi Ing their organizations to the I'nited State Railroad Labor Board. Those in the committee were: Earl H. Norton. Order of Railroad Station Agents - Chicago, 111.; John L Cone, grand ._ president, Railroad Yardmasters ol 5, America, Chicago. 111.; T. J. Coyle grand president, Brotherhood of Railj road Employes, Boston. Mass.. and ia t> Iff niei * - , *. r. mcnaruaon, president. Amencan Federation of Railroad Workers n Mrs. Lo?r?lrtft Calls. Mrs Helen Dortch Long-street, widow >- of the famous Confederate general d was received by President Harding re today. Mrs. Longstreet served for a number of y. sidered likely that President Harding r_ will reappoint Mrs. Longstreet to hei post. Reappointment to the Shipping lt Board of Frederick I. Thompson. Moe bile, Ala., as the gulf coast membei ij was urged today by Senator HeflUn ' democrat. Alabama, during a confer^ enoe with President Harding. Th? ooiu mint huh me iTtesideni * told him he was seriously consider, ins retaining Mr. Thompson on th< '? board. * PLANS TO COMBINE I BUREAUS PROGRESS m ______? 18 . (Continued from First Pare.) tor* operating Indiscriminately with. >- out general supervision by any one. ? Rivalry Bar < L a Ion. It Is a fact that the rivalry betweer ;0 the bureaus has heretofore prevented j. consolidation, and in the past the Sec5. retary of the Treasury, who has hac ,e Jurisdiction over the secret service p refused Just as emphatically to rnerg) t_ with the Department of Justice bua, reaus as dJd the Attorney General. It 1- 1?a? been true of both republican anc democratic administrations. Mr. Hard ss inn's opportunity lies in the fact thai s- his cabinet secretaries' are in a re1 ceptive state of mind now becausa * they have not become enmeshed ai 'd yet in government red tape or internal jealousies. It is a favorable mo '* ment for consolidation. The trouble, of course, is that nc bureau thinks the other sufficient!) competent to be made the parent bureau. Somebody will have to de~ cide that ouestlon and either put in charge of the government's various bureaus the best detective 01 investigator and organizer in thi government service, or select th? i- most efficient bureau and put undei if its wing ail the other investigators 'd Difficult to Make Decision. The passion for co-ordination can of course, be carried too far, and th< !e opponents of some of these plans in sist that Just because newspaper! le and magazines both use white papei and the printing press is no reasoi 1(1 why they ought all be grouped undei a- the same management and that thi ' various bureaus in the governmem have made for efficiency in the long run because of the specialists the] develop. Secret service operativei rt ?ay they know counterfeiting bettei r- than others. Department of Justtci r. investigators insist they know hov to handle intricate cases involving ii- ; violations of the trust laws, and sc ir the whole discussion proceeds. Some 0- 1 times me arguments pru ana cot n- ! are made by the friends of the Jol e, i seeker, and it then becomes doubli e- I difficult for the chief executive am ed | his cabinet to make a decision. Jus ie ; now Mr. Harding and his cabinet ari ie ' being beset by exactly this problen st i and the capital is watching Intently ! for the outcome of the campaign fo es | consolidation, ed j (Copyright. 1921.) " POPE GREETS DOUGHERTY ohe Cardinal Expects to Beach Nes "a Tork April 12. ROME, March 2*.?Preceding hi ' I departure from Home tomorrow "e I bound homeward. Cardinal Doughert; r5 | today was received by Pope Benedict , The cardinal's reception by the pontll "e i was most gracious. and the prlvat ' audience lasted more than a half houi ! Afterwards his holiness receive 'J . the Very Rev. Joseph A. Whitaker o ' I Philadelphia, who had accompanied th v? cardinal to the Vatican, be Before leaving the Vatican, Cardina fc- Dougherty visited Cardinal Gasparr ?- the papal secretary of state, wltl he whom he had a most cordial conver 6r sation. at Cardinal Dougherty and his part sn plan to travel to Paris and to sal >?- from Cherbourg April < on the steam *r Olympic, due to arrive la New Tor! r WHITE HOUSE GRC - EC 1 piX..'': *-'v . : f > - v . &XV" - e ' ' ! I^v pS';-' >r : . - . ...V , . ,, - ' > : " . . ? Hp^: Warn- < mmf;? Bl| flV ? ^H^^BB9|^M^Q|mj^|||^|pr2 ^^^H|^BHBHHHHHB?HnHflB i ALL AGES AND SIZES KNJOY THE > (iROl'XDS, THE F1 ! WORKERS ABROAD ; HAVE EYES ON U.S C Conditions in France an ; England Prevent Emigratior | R. B. Mahany Reports. 1 Large numbers of the laborin j classes of both France and Englar I jrwant to emigrate to the United State I but are finding It Impossible to do t ! through inability to save enoug I money, and also because of the a( verse monetary exchange. This coi dltlon was reported to Secretary < Labor James J. Davis today by Rov land B. Mahany, who was sent to Ei ' rope by the Wilson administration l l attend the sessions ot the Internation. Commission on Immigration and Em ' y ration. ifls resignation was accept* f last week by President Harding. 1 Secretary Davis today., asked Ac ' Ing Solicitor Collins otitis* Labor D ! partment for.an opinJp^Lpn the lega ' lty tlppSmnftdt a sum of (25,000 to defray the ei I pensee of the immigration commit sioner and his aids. I "This extremely moderate provisie , for so Important a conference," tl > report said, "affecting, as It will, tl emigration and immigration regult ' tlons of the world, is emphasized fc I comparison with the fact that at tl first international labor conferent t held at Washington, in 1919, a meetin - whose discussions were necessarll s more or less academic, the empire < i Japan sent twenty-three experts wil - apparently unlimited means." Amy of Unemployed la Paris. In Paris, the report said, there w? > a great army of unemployed. The ir ' terior country France, however, : said, was thrifty and to a measurab! ' degree prosperoua "My general impressions pf bot \ France and England," Mr. Mahan " said, "Is that while industries are nc \ at a standstill, the whe*?l? of entei ; prise have slowed down to such a d< gree as to keep work and wage-cor ' dttlons for a long time at their prei ent status." ; DECREASE IN MALADIES. With Spring Weather Fewer Cor tagious Cases Are Reported. With the advent of spring weathi contagious diseases ace beginning 1 decline. Health Officer William i Fowler reported today. Suoh maladies as diphtheria, scarli fever, chlckenpox and measles, whU are prevalent among children durin the cold months, decreased in numb< last week. Yesterday, according i Assistant Health Officer Morris. on two new cases of diphtheria and 01 of scarlet fever were reported. During the week ended March 1 there were forty-one cases of saarl fever reported, but last week brougl only twenty-five new patients to tl attention of the department. Only one new case of smallpox wi reported last week, as comparai wii four in the preceding seven days. Whooping cough declined fro , thirty-four to twenty-four cases la [ week. Typhoid fever increased sligh iy. but thin is only temporary, tl f health department believes. . OPPOSES LIBEL RULING. r, y Solicitor General Asks Mandamt T In U. S. Court Cases. ? Solicitor General Frierson asked tl d Supreme Court today to Issue writs f mandamus against several dlstrl c Judges who have ruled that libel sul could be filed against Shipping Boa: d vessels which met with aoclden ' while under government control. The vessels named included tl ~ Western Maid, Liberty and Carolii y Un. ,1 * One of the coldest mixtures knov It Is three pounds of muriate of llr filrsdi TTrhi pQ&ndOf IBMfc 4 )unds again prese1 ;gs and frolic to ' T ; ,-f';:r IflM . H' Bm ^ . V HOSPITALITY OP THK WHITE HOI'S RST TIME SINCE l?l?. ?i *~ MOTHER TAKING CHILDRE TO ZOO INJURED BY AUT ' Knocked Down When Driver of Ci |( Backed Machine in Obedience to Policeman's Signal. Mrs. Susie Miller, 1444 E stre U southeast, on her way to the Z< this morning with her three chi |f dren, who had supplies of East eggs, was knocked down by an a.it mobile at Pennsylvania avenue ai 7th street and severely hurt. One the children, Mildred, six years ol id either fell or was knocked dow gi but was not hurt. Dorothy, seve and Frank, eight years old. were n knocked down. Mother and chlldri were taken to Emergency Hospiti 1- It was found that Mrs. Miller hi . received fractures of two ribs, h " hip was hurt and her face slight >" lacerated. Physicians did not r r- gard her condition afi being da: gerous. Mrs. Clutha Ralyea McAlIisti to driver of the automobile, is the wl >-1 of Rev. Charles E. McAllister, past ' of the Episcopal Church at Hyatt vllle. She was taken to the first pr cinct police station and held on t! ireitnicai cnarge 01 tailing 10 nave . e" operator"* permit. 1- Accompanied by Mra. Ellzabe >y Hendricks, a friend, Mrs. McAllist i* was motoring west on Pennsylvan es avenue, and at 7th street. It is state ~y she failed to stop her machine bai of the building line of 7th street u r" til she would get a signal from Cros insr Policeman Curtis. of The signal she received was one move back of the line, and it w ? while her car was backing that Mi It Miller, on her way to board a c y bound toward the zoo, was struck ai n knocked down. Policeman P. J. Lym of the sixth precinct appeared abo the time the accident happened at . had a motorist take the three mer .J bers of the Miller family to the ho pital. \t SENATOR CAMERON CALL ? $100,000 SUIT BLACKMAI is It Declares Papers in Alienation A tion Were Filed in 1?10 and No Effort Hade to Serve. >n ,e In a formal statement today Sei ~ ator Ralph H. Cameron of Arizoi ,y characterized as "sheer unadulte 'e ated. plain blackmail." a suit flit * against him by Edward T. McFarl g of New Tork asking $100,000 dan ly ages for alienation of Mrs. McFarlin if affections. h Papers in the case. Senator Can eron's statement said, were first fll< in 1916, and, he said, no effort at ser ice on him was made until last wee , "Now that I have become a Unit* 11 States senator." said Mr. Cameron : hit statement, "those behind this ridl ulous suit have evidently decided 1 . attack in the hope of Injuring n by giving widespread publicity to tl y absurd charges made by them. I a >c prepared to fight this suit with bot [" fists, fearlessly and In the open." The statement said Senator Camer< had met Mrs. McFarlin once In the ol servation car of a train between Ch cago and San Francisco in 1912, befoi her marriage, had met her twice sim and met her husband once. NEW YORK. March 28 ?The form complaint against Senator Camero . filed in the supreme court here 1 Edward T. McFarlin, contains only brief outline of the suit. It mere alleges that the senator exerted "ui sr due influence" over Mrs. Margar to McFarlin in 1916 and that he "ha C. bored and detained her." Little is known here of the M et Farllns. According to the compial rfi they were married in 19X3 and livi ig in Stoneham, Mass., until 1916. S KEPT IN ARMY POSTS. ie * 9 President Appoints Officers Wbe Nominations Pail. ,e President Harding made recess a: iS polntments today In the cases of i th the Army officers whose nominatioi to bureau positions failed at the r cent session of Congress. The list includes the appointment le Maj. Gen. John L. Chamberlain to i inspector genera], Maj. Gen. George Squier, to be chief signal officer; Brf Gen. Amos A. Fries, to be chief of t! chemical warfare section; Brig. Ge Herbert F. Lord, to be chief of tl finance division. The officers recent nominated as chiefs of cavalry, infa try and field artillery also were givi recess appointments. All of the of cers appointed today have been lie charge of their respective offices sin of the failure of their nominations, b ct in reduced rank and mesa pay. ts ? ? WAGE DISPUTE TIES UP TUG " NORFOLK, Vs.. March >8.?Ooaa. (,? going tuera are still tied up in No _ folk harbor. More than thirty barf are at anchor, causing- congestion result from the order to marine e glneers and officers of ocean tui rn to tie up and stay in port until t: is wave scale disagreement between t men and towboat owners is adjusts SIT ANIMATED SCENE THEIR HEARTS' CONTEfc W?W * * aX ? '&?? % h < ':/< fc3b^ ' r9^ ~''xr-" v- . - . <:* : :?'% < ; .? . /> ... .* .>;: ?. ; ' vn- , ':V-:'/:':. ( .- ' : IV? r'' . < , n'\- i'l liv "?< *** \ ^ ?!? ^ g: ;.^ >; ^v::::; . 4 - - ' V *.<#; - ' ' :.;- ' *% - ' - : '* ; i'"' - ? < ". ^ - ( <' *' . - ? * ::v.> wwk? ;Js > x,;. v< -i * .. *; :- r-.'fl ?1: i:-vv y"; " : -' ; * ' , '' v' ' -. " - ' ; )*',, *<>" > ' ^ ' " -s. i m|jB ?=. n ^^^ IIRkjf 0 i^Bflii * .^fe. ^ ^fJ^ ' '^ c i^T^ x S " ' ?\\ n- IH^^I^bBM^L^ rs. '^z^^P^SP^^lsSSiS^wR^Hi^^l ">d THIS LITTLE MISS HAD JUST DRC ch " OK FIVE RULES L TO GOVERN MOVIES c Attorney for D. C. Suggests New Regulation for Closer ? Film Censorship. An amendment to the police regula|n tions placing five general restrictions n- on motion pictures in the District, has >' been drafted by Corporation Counsel f)_ Francis H. Stephens and submitted to ;d the Commissioners for consideration. r- After specifying that the existing regulation against improper exhijrfjn tions of any kind shall apply as far c- as possible to motion pictures, the to proposed new regulation states that le "in addition thereto moving pictures , ie are hereby forbidden: m Five Mew Restrictions. -h In which immoral sex relations are shown or unduly suggested. >n 1 Or which are based upon "white h- slavery" or procurement of women. ?" Which depict nude persona except pe children, or persons so nearly so as to shock ordinary sensibilities. Which show undue demonstrations a? of passionate love or scenes of vice n. AH ulaU.A. v* w IViClivejy Which use titles and subtitles cons' taining salacious suggestions or use y In connection therewith advertising n" matter, photographs or lithographs of et this character. r Draft Only Tentative. C- It was made clear at the District nt building today that this draft of the sd proposed amendment is only tentative and has not been passed upon by the Commissioners. Copies of .it have been sent to the representatives of the local exhibitors and also to the committee representing the advocates of more regulation m of the movies. Both groups have been invited to make suggestions or comment. The corporation counsel Indicated P- today that he also would welcome ill suggestions from any other citizens ns who are interested. Mr. Stephens drafted the amendment, following a conference between the Commissioners and committees of representing the moving picture cxbe hlbitors, the Washington Federation O. of Churches and the National Cathog. lie Welfare Council. i QUAKERS TRY NEW PLAN. ly , en Ken and Women Sit Together at ?n Business Meeting. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 28.? Men and women sat together in Joint conference at the opening seaalon toS. day of the yearly meeting of Friends (Orthodox). It was an Innovation bo n~ far aa looal Quaker meetlnga are con? cern? . -J . ; /- ->>", ^ " > - , , .. > *,,* '' ." % ':,r- : ?;> ' ' -,y ^ & r' : ... - ; ; : k : " ' 5 ' ' / / ... a y mn iV\ 2 rfr .I ? v ' ' ' ' MLJJ. * 1 Q LJ r y >PPED HER PRIZE EASTER EGO. i innir nn\/ uvi nrrn LHUUItL DUT WMHUDU AT MANY BENCH SHOWS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY The White House is being flooded with invitations from the managements of dog show associations throughout the country for Laddie Boy to participate. They are coming so thick and fast, and from such far distant points that Wilson Jackson, master of hounds at the White House, said Laddie Boy would be a little stranger in these parts if all the invitations were accepted. Thus far none of these requests to show the President's dog has been accepted, and it is considered doubtful if any of them will be. It is considered likely, however, that I^addie Boy may make his first and only appearance at a bench show when the annual affair of the local dog fanciers is held in the District. BERLIN ASKq'^iTRATfON Denies Treaty Prohibits Making of Aeronautical Material. By the Associated Prek*. BERLIN, March 28.?The German government, replying today to an inquiry of the interallied aeronautical control commission as to whether manufacturers of aeronautical material still were supported in their continued violation of the entente's decisions regarding the construction of such material, proposed that the matter be referred to arbitration. In its communication, the German government states that it still adheres to its standpoint that the Versailles treaty did not give the allies the right to prolong the embargo on the manufacture and importation of aeronautical material beyond July 10. 1920. FOUR CRIPPLES ARRESTED Peddlers Taken in Raid and Charged With Vagrancy. Headquarters detectives last night raided the home of Thomas Boyd. 469 Missouri avenue northweBt, and ar 1-- - i coiru ivjui lupines, anegea 10 nave been playing poker with money which they are said to have solicited on the streets. The men gave their names as Thomas P. Martin. Edward Conklin. 1 in*: e "This decision shall not be conaid r ered as afreeting any wage Inrr.-oa . now In effect nor any agreement, ref gardlng wages between any of the d carriers and their employes" ' Four Tkoauaf Affected. JJ The board decision affects approximately 4.000 employee The railroads : involved are in general remote from large cities and provide service for small communities located tn nearly every state. Because of the varying k kinds of work performed by the employes the hoard declared it found it t "impracticable to decide on the evi1 denee submitted what are reasonable wakes for the varying work under Infinitely varying conditions" by the I employes A general rule* snd working hearing affecting the trunk lines of the country Is before the board. No set of rules, however, has ever been applied uniformly to the short lines The board dexlared it was "imprartieable to determine what reasonable f rules shall be In effect on the short 1 lines until the question of reasonable | rules and working conditions on the standard railroads has been disposed of." Representatives of the carrier# and the employes are atill given the right to confer as to wages and working r conditions under the board's decision t Representatives of fifteen employes' organizations are among the 4.000 " men affected by the decision. In a f few cases employes belonging to all ? fifteen unions are Involved on the same road, lot on the larger part of the roads only a few classes of employes I. come under the decision, for the reason e that the board's decision affects only those In whose behalf a dispute was * brought to the board. Original Certification. , Disputes were originally certified to the board on the part of employes belonging to one or more of the fifteen unions on 103 railroads Ten of these roads however, were electric lines and the board ruled these lines out. Tvmntr-iSx other lines adopted fhf> iraffl* snfifi^iilas ** Ivl Ktr fVa SswmV h lines, laid down In what la known as ' decision No. 2. the wafts award by e the labor board handed, down July 20. 1920. The trunk lines In the wage de? clslon were those represented by the Association of Railway Executives. Following the application of deh clslon No. 2. employes on roads not " affected began to file disputes with the board, and the whole matter was ' taken up in a hearing known as the short line hearing, on October 18. ? 1920. The hearing consumed fourteen & days, over a period of more than a month. The short lines are not para ties to the present rules and working '* conditions hearings, and in event they e do not aooept the board's decision on rules a separate hearing on rules for i- Short lines also will be necessaryVarious scales of wages have been - in effect on the sixty-seven roads, d Some aarriers paid the standard scale established by the United States Railroad Administration. Others paid approximately the same rates as those paid on the trunk lines in the same terrltorir. St ON TRIAL FOR MURDER. n J e Negro, Twettty, Charged With Kill- # a ing Sweetheart, Seventeen, i John Raymond Allen, colored, twenty years old and a cripple, was placed ^ on trial today before Justice Gould : In Criminal Division 1. to answer an ~ indictment for murder In the first * decree. It Is charced that he stabbed to death his sweetheart. Halley Coch-. " ran. seventeen years old. October tf '* last, at lttf Monroe street northwest. Residents of the upper floor of the house were apprised of the tracedy when the cripple climbed the stairway. bleedlnc from Injuries. When 1 these people sought to aid him he < sent them downstairs, saying. "She il J is worse oft than I am." Assistant United States Attorney ,f ' (fLtary for the prosecution will claim e that the girl sought to bresk off an Lt engagement with the boy and that he it stabbed her and then attempted to d end his own life. Attorney James A. O'Sbea reserved a statement as to tbs d probable defense. ,f :?. 1 LAWYERS \H CONFERENCE. A special meeting' of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia is f In progress this afternoon to consider t the advisability of uniting on a can didate for the position of lodge of the * Municipal Court to fill the vacancy due 1 to the resignation of Michael M. Doyle. - opposition is expected to develop to > the proposal to name a woman to this J position. | Several members expressed the view l that with Miss Kathertne Sellers on 1 the bench of .the Juvenile Court the .j woman lawyers have their full quota _ | of local Judicial places. Until the 1,1 number of qualified female lawyers e 1 increases, they say. so that they bear la greater proportion to the number of e i qualified male lawyers they should not - be given other judicial appointment* -1 Other lawyers expressed unqualified e opposition to the suggestion to appoint a woman to the Munladpe.1 Court. iMiimmimiiiiimiimiiiiiiiKifiHimiim'i s tar Building | Available ? r 1, 1921 | i feet of office space or E second, third, fourth and = r's new building will he - 8 October 1. 5 issociations may acquire = s at reasonable rates. = ements and reservations = :t special requirements. = ilding will be one of the = ice buildings in Wash* = i s usiness Manager, The 2 ' treet and Pennsylvania s . . .. i*F | | mjiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiniinniiiiiiinumuuZ > f