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WEATHER. Partly cloudy and mild tempera ture tonight and tomorrow; probably with occasional showers. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 80, at 2 p.m. today; lowest, 60, at 6 a.m. day. Full report on page 7. Closing New York Stocks, Page 19. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Proas Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In thia paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday's Net Circulation, 93,111 9Q J.(JQ Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. WASHINGTON,/D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1922-TWENTY-SIX PAGES. TWO CENTS. CONSIDERING PLANS TO TAKE MANY JOBS . FROM OIVILSERVICE Administration Leaders Want Executive Control Over All Higher Positions. $3,000 OR $4,000 PLACES MAY BE STARTING POINT Proposal Under Consideration Would Insure Ordinary Clerk of Job While Efficient. t Plane to take all the higher posi * tions in government service out of the jurisdiction of ironclad civil serv ice laws and regulations and place them in the appointive power of the President are being seriously considered by ad ministrative leaders, it was learned v today. Such plans have been proposed to the President, it is understood, with the idea of giving the executive necessary authority to control the administrative offices, without, at the same time, placing himself under criticism and charges of having vio lated civil service regulations. Two Sections Proponed. Positions paying $3,000 or $4,000 might be made the starting point for the proposed order of things, so that the civil service would be divided, broadly speaking, into two main sec lions, the government clerks below the higher salary named and all offi cials above it. Those below the minimum would be in the same position they occupy today?that is, protected from forces which might seek for a return of the "spoils system" in government serv ice and practically ^reasonably se cure of life tenure of office as lon^ as they are efficient and abide by the laws and regulations: in other words, during their good behavior. Jtaok and File Unaffected. Those advocating the new plan do not believe in disturbing the pres ent system in so far as it affects the great rank and file of the govern ment service, the hundreds of clerks, stenographers, laborers and others i who occupy the more humble posi tions. A strict interpretation of civil service laws and regulations in re lation to these employes is favored by proponents of the new plan. It _ _ is pointed out^j&at if a new super intendent comes into a mill, the last thing he wants to do is to disturb the workers, the men at the wheels and levers, the rank and file who really do the work. But the new superintendent, it is contended, should have the right to put at the foremen's positions such men as he can implicitly trust to carry out the new policies of the mill he directs. Would Have Broad Powers. It is exactly this which the pro posed division of the civil service contemplates, it is understood. The men in the higher positions would come under the undisputed appointive power of the chief executive. He would have the right, without public discussion, to appoint or dismiss for the better working out of his ad ministration, as he was given to see the light. Just where the dividing line would come, it is admitted, would be a knotty problem. It might be placed at salaries beginning with $3,000, aa suggested, or it might be decided upon to start the appointive offices higher, say at $4,000. ^ ->o Hard and Fast Roles.. Even then there could be no hard and fast rules laid down, perhaps, it is said, owing to the different character of the various departments, and the larger bureaus, many of the latter being in every sense comparable to great departments. The bureau^ of engraving and printing, for instance, is in reality a government department all by itself, it is pointed out. and the head of it occupies a much higher position than that of a mere bureau head. ? There are hundreds of these higher positions in government service, the men?and women?occupying them holding ttee real "key positions" in the service. It is this corps of chiets, chief clerks, superintendents, etc., which was responsible during the war for seeing to it that each individual government worker "did his bit" in regard to the various liberty bond drives, etc., urging the employes to subscribe and in other legitimate^ ways making sure that the employes did their proper share. Look to "Key Persons." So today, it is understood, these of ficials are regarded as "keV persons" in the best sense, and to them the administration looks for increased ef ficiency. It is realized that no one can ever take away from the "man in the ranks" the title of "worker," but it is believed that the man who di rects, who superintends, who has to make decisions, is a "worker," too. in his perhaps different way, and being at the various critical points of com mand, must listen to the highest com mand of all?that of the commander in-chief. It is becoming more and more realized in administrative circles that the powers of the President, under the civil service laws, are very large. The recent dismissals at the bureau of engraving and printing forcibly brought to the public attention these powers. It was something like the young man who said: "Why, they can't put me in jail!" but they did. Basic Statutes Broad. Today the impression is firm that the basic statutes creating the Civil Service Commission are so broad that the President perhaps had a perfect right to do what he did in relation to the bureau. This is the opinion of those who have made intensive study of the statutes, and the various laws and regulations of the commission as promulgated through the years since the commission's creation. President Harding's Ideas regard ing the immediate reorganization of a number of the government depart ments. which will necessarily call for considerable of it shifting among ex ecutive heads, are to be carried out &s was originally intimated a few t Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) TRIAL BOARD ACQUITS UEUT. VAN WINKLE Meat. Minn Van WInkle, head of the woman'* bureau of the local police department, wai found not Ituilty of the chargCN and specifica tion* of conduct prejudicial to the Kood order and discipline of the force, for which she was tried yes terday, it nan learned on reliable authority late thin afternoon. El FORJMSAIS Civil Service Reform League Says President Must Explain Action. B.v the Associated Press. NEW YORK. April 8.?The National Civil Service Reform League, of which j Secretary Hughes is a vice president, j today issued a statement through its j acting preitfdent. William Dudley Foulke, asserting that, as an act of simple justice President Harding j should assign his reasons for dismis- ' sal last month of the director and j thirty-one employes of the bureau of | engraving and printing. ?' The statement called attention to section 6 of the act of August 24, | 1912, providing: "That no person 'in the classified civil service of the United States shall ( be removed therefrom, except for such cause as will promote the effi ciency of said service, and for rea sons given in writing, and the per son whose removal is sought shall have notice of the same and of any charges preferred against him, * * * and also be allowed a reasonable time for personally answering the same in writing. ? ? ?" This provision of the law, the state ment said, was based on a rule is sued by President McKinley in 1897. In case immediate action was neces sary, the President could have sus pended instantly all the persons af fected by his order, pending the filing of charges and the opportunity for reply, added the statement, which continued: "April 4 we wrote to the President and Secretary of the Treasury asking jf reasons were given in any case, but we have received no reply. If em ployes are inefficient or corrupt they should be separated from the service without delay, but however grave may have been the reasons behind these removals it is an act of simple justice for the employes concerned to be furnished with a statement of; those reasons. "And above all. the President, as, an example to all citizens, should ob- j serve the provisions of the laws which j it is his duty to enforce." Richard H. Dana of Boston. whO> now is abroad, is president of the league and Arthur K. Kimball of j Waterbury, Conn., chairman of its council. BUBEATJ CLOSED FOB WEEK. i Order Given to Insure Accurate I Inventory. Shutdown of approximately three- j fourths of the bureau of engraving ] and printing at midnight tonight for j about a week, by the Treasury Depart- | ment, which was ordered this morning, . is for the purpose of taking a quick?r : and more accurate inventory of t le stock, Assistant Secretary of the j Treasury Wadsworth announced to day. No employes' pay checks will be i cut on account of the. enforced idle-| ness, it was announced, as plans have been made to count the "time off" against either the annual leave, or! the Vrotating furlough," which amounts to three days a month for each pier diem employe. At the bureau I this morning it was estimated that about 4,000 persons would be laid eff, j out of the 6,000 employed there*. To co-operate with the committee j headed by Deputy Assistant Treas urer Tait, five Department of Justice agents, who are expert bank exam iners, and about 650 employes of the j bureau of engraving and printing, j \*ho are to be chosen from the de partments closed down, will make the j inventory. j Inventories of the bureau's stock,! Mr. Wadsworth said, usually had been i made while work was in progress, | but the committee appointed by Sec- 1 retary Mellon, of which Mr. Tait is chairman, recommended a cessation of the work of the paper division to facilitate the count of the stock. The operation of the paper handling di visions greatly complicated the work of taking a count, it was explained. The committee appointed by Mr. Mellon to make the inventory con sists of representatives of the Secre tary of the Treasury, the treasurer of the United States, the controller of the currency, the Federal Reserve Board, the Post Office Department, and the di rector of the bureau, as printing and en graving work is done for these differ ent government agencies by the bu reau. The partial shutdown. Mr. Wads worth said, would not affect the gov ernment's supply of paper money, stamps or government securities. The shutdown, he said, was somewhat similar to the inventory of a manu facturer's plant, and the result would be the "take-off on the books," stock on hand and in process for the com ing year. The official order closing three fourths of the bureau divisions was issued this morning by Louis A. Hill, director, under authority of Secretary Mellon. Mr. Hill was in conference late yesterday with the Secretary and Assistant Secretary Wadsworth, when it was decided to close part of the big plant. The divisions to be silenced tonight will be: Wetting, examining, plate printing, surface printing, numbering, binding, stamp gumming, stamp per forating, ink mill, "and other minor related divisions that may be found advisable." Divisions which will remain in oper ation include machine, engineer, en_ , graving, stamp packing, stamp fcook j and coil, and vault. U. S. Commissioner of Educa tion Would Change Loca tions for Children's Health. DECLARES EACH BUILDING SHOULD HAVE GROUNDS Mr. Tigert Says Sound Mind and Sognd Body Go Hand in Hand. Streets are not desirable play grounds for the children, United j*teS- Commissioner of Education ti? ^ ? tigert informed members of the joint congressional committee on Congress investigating the local school requirements. He told the com mittee. in answer to questions, that ' Pla>ground facilities of the chit Coiu? ' if IP Commissioner Tie-prf the country ?"???.? Stops'"of facilities a^A o polntinK out that play m^J'rchr.Vstem"3' I mfsXnernt^V;ertWas0dStoaS^hd ,CT" recommendations were ?n regard to a playgrounds problem Mr pointed out that if u' Mr. Woods to provide th? I I ' was decided be in ii! ? schools some would gVoundSnaU?PlE^i?rr?HvV"! ESkSSE this Commissioner Tigert replied: Wonld Move Schools. "I think I would take them out of the congested districts as rapidly as with th ,1 ^ "0t StUdied the clt>' I rtn ?, t partlcular Point in mind. I don t know whether it is possible to he?V th6 nUmber Of pupils to be served and still put them in a place where each school can have I strong?""advise fnsS\rh In Buch a disfrict^' Street, along in the?" if if'i"possible I its "constVtue'ncyl '/'would'1 d^VTS ! Kroun'd.Wh0re U COUId ^V'pla^ 1 davCif r f.?t0 ,sc.ho?l ? ith them everv a<*> if I expected to see them aiiwft Cp I stayed here very long i i?? 'I flmlu tiere several months before my family came. Fortunafeiv i". y. LTvr"? aJSiASS the standpoint* o??the tSffi.Lco?eT things"0'?' think Va^some" V'Jhe of?^eCOpU,lde7TndW-LtbV^dh? cHitfes oef adtquate P'aygrounds fa- ! a school away off 3where"l'tOtcan0Vf serve its constituents ' ?annot P>-e theyHhave t^S^'doS? an>' one would hold that to be 1 de s'rable playground." f When Itepresentative Walters sub ss sfS Mind and Body Linked. "I can answer that. For 2,000 years and more it has been generally con ceded that a sound mind and sound body go together. Juvenal. a Roman writer, said: 'A sound mind exists in a sound body.- That has been an obvious, self-evident, intuitive truth The people who know anything about education, physical or mental know there are certain children that caiT not use their minds unless they have some opportunity to get recreaUnn or play. So far as that beX 2 luxury or frill, as you describe if it is an absolute necessity. It is ab system/' "ecessary to a public school ??TIJh/ef??rt ?f thc children's bureau o" ,th.e Playgrounds of this city said that in as much as public education is now regarded as a proper funct o? for public support, and playgfounds are a necessity for the wpli h?i^? 5 children, we believe that thev^fufd be on land owned by the clty We be lieve that it is necessary there should be at least one public pllv ground in each of the school districts of Washington. This would provide for not less than two acres of play ground for each 4.000 children. Should Have More Space. * "Had the suggestion of two acres of playground space for 4,000 chil dren been carried out Washington to day would have approximately sixty six acres devpted to the play needs of its children, if all the children?those under five, as well as over_?... counted. As it is. it has but thl^ty flve acres and of those only twentv six and one-half acres can be permal nently relied upon. Of these, twenty and one-half acres are owned hv Vh? District and six acres are y^the the District by the fed??l S56d to ment. Practically nine acres belo'n^ to private individuals. belong "This is an amazing situation Cer tainly the playground area now f" use should be assured and -T ? for acquiring landRented JFmT will provide 100 acres at ?east if th ^1yd^eanadcSreasreoJOtbh1,cr0 children/' "" aSid6 '^coK CANAL ZONE DRY LA WENTANGLEMENT LIKELY TO BE PUT UP TO PRESIDENT The latest kink to develop in prohibition enforcement, involving a disagreement between the War Department and the prohibition unit over legal jurisdiction in the Panama Canal Zone, may have to be passed along to President Harding for untangling. Secretary Weeks, whose depart ment administers law in the zone, has asked Prohibition Commis sioner Haynes not to install there a recently appointed prohibition director because of possible fric tion over Jurisdiction. J4r. Haynes has replied that while he would welcome War De partment co-operation to keep the lone dry. he thinks it will be necessary for the unit to have its own representative on the spot to administer such passive features of the law, for instance, as that relating; to use of liquor for medi cal purposes. Today the commissioner said he expected to talk it over with the War Secretary within a few days, but if they fall to bre^k the dead lock the White House may have to. Meantime the new zone pro hibition director. John T. Barrett of Revere, Mass., is under sus pended assignment orders, awalt ine a definite decision. V--1' we'D . have to J OFFER, Guinea _ pi&s here -o Orders Navy Stations Closed1 to Broadcasting Speeches , by Congress Members. Secretary Denby announced today he had ordered naval radio " stations closed to public use for broadcasting speeches, lectures or any other form of non-offlcial communication except ing musical programs to be picked by j radio telephone. Issuance of the order followed an investigation by the department into the use of the naval radio service by members of Congress in addressing their constituents on political sub jects. Democratic members of Con gress declared use of the government radio had been granted only to re publicans and the matter was the sub ject of considerable discussion around the Capitol. Mr. Denby. in announcing the order, said it was temporary, and designed to stop all use by private individuals of the naval radio broadcasting facilities until a definite policy had been worked out by the government to handle this business. The question of . what department of the government! shall control the use of the air for radio purposes within the country and off the seaboard is now under dis cussion, Mr. Denby added, and he had closed the Navy broadcasting stations to private use in order to prevent any controversy arising before a govern ment policy is evolved. RENT BILL FACES FURTHffi_ DELAY Senators Insisting That Cal endar Be Followed, Post poning Ball Act. The legislative situation in the Senate A threatening to delay con sideration of the bill to extend the lite of the District rent act. The agricultural appropriation bill was made the unflnished business In the Senate late yesterday afternoon. Senator McNary of Oregon, in charge of that bill, is willing to yield so that the rent bill can be taken up Mon day between 12 and 2 o'clock, but other Senators, it is said, will insist upon the calendar being: taken up. As consideration of the calendar Is In order on Mondays, under the rules, it does not appear that there will be opportunity to consider the rent bill. Also the leaders propose to have the donate go Into executive session Mon day afternoon to consider the nomi nations of Senator Smoot of Utah and | Representative Burton of Ohio, as ?tmtaers of the allied debt funding commission, and that probably will occupy the rest of the day. Early Action Asked For. Senator McNary and Senator Ball,, chairman of the District committee, have talked the matter over and Senator McNary will give way to the rent bill at the earliest opportunity, he said. The Oregon senator is in favor of the rent legislation. > It probably will be Tuesday or Wed nesday. however, before the rent bill Is taken UP- Senator Fernald, chair man of the public buildings and grounds committee, is anxious also fo eet consideration of the *17,000, 000 hospitalization bill for veterans of the war, recently passed by the HThee'District rent act will expire Mav 22 unless Congress puts through the proposed legislation extending the life of the act for two years be fore thai date. The supporters of legislation will do their utmost during the coming week to get the bill through tlje Senate. 3Q-6ENT ITEM LOSES. House Refuses to Spend This on Civil Sefvice Enforcement. "For enforcement of the oivil serv ice laws, 30 cents." This amendment was offered by Representative Connolly of Texas In the House today when the Justice and State department appropriation bill was under consideration. It was defeated. * ?,C "CHRIST" NOT CENSORED FROM PARLEY PRAYER, MR. HUGHES DECLARES Charges of a "censorship" re sulting: in deletion of the name of Christ from the opening prayer of the arms" conference were denied today by Secretary Hughes. Taking his first notice of the charges, which were repeated sev-/ eral times on the Senate floor dur ing debate on the four-power treaty, Mr. Hughes wrote to Rep resentative Fess, republican,-Ohio, that the Japanese delegates knew nothing of the omission and that "ofv course, no censorship was ex ercised." Mr. Fess had forwarded to \he Secretary an inquiry from an Ohio banker saying that "a few of our religious friends say that in the "Washington peace conference the name of Christ was censored in prayers made before that body in order to please the J^^anese dele gates." In his reply Mr. Hughes said: "The narrowness and bigotry ex hibited in the criticism to which your correspondence refers are. in my judgment, so utterly despica- ' ble that I do not intend to notice the matter in any way. I shall not say anything In reply to the state ments that are made. The best thing is to ignore the matter alto gether. Dr. Abernethy's prayer was admirable in every respect!" Mr. Hughes then added for Mr. Fess' information that no censor ship was exercised. UNIONSORGANiZING POLITICAL MACHINE Making Good Headway in Plan to Put More Men in Office. Resultant from the meeting held in Chicago last February of union labor men and farmers, which took the title of "Conference for Progressive Political Action," come reports of actual organization in political ac- j activity along the lines of Endeavor laid down by the conference. The avowed object of the organization Is to suport candidates for public office, regardless of political affilia tion, chosen by the conference as recognized friends of labor and the farmer. An announcement by Frederic C. Howe, secretary of the conference, tells of work started and under way in Oklahoma, Iowa, North Dakota, Michigan, Indiana, Wyoming, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Texas, where results have been obtained and more work contemplated. Pennsylvania furnishes the most conspicuous instance of the activities' of the conference. Representative W. J. Burke is a candidate before the primaries for nomination as senator, to succeed Senator Pepper. Mr. Burke Is a member of the Order of, Railway Conductors.-- Indicative of the support he is receiving, W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has sent a letter to his organization urging the members to support Mr. Burke's can didacy, saying: "I hope this letter will induce each and every one of the 12,000 members of the brotherhood in Pennsylvania to do all that is possible for brother Burke's candidacy." ?In Mahoningtown, Pa., according to the statement, the labor union men of the congressional district, including all crafts, trades, railroad men and farmers have formed an organization named the Farmer Labor Council. "Our object" the statement says, "is to make every effort to get the laboring men, more especially the union men, to line up in a co-operative way and give our undivided support to men of our own choosing. We are putting up a Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers man in the fight for Congress, Harold M. Rea, of Newcastle, and a union printer, Phillip S. Evans, for state assembly." In Indiana, already eight union men have entered the primaries for the general assembly in the republican and democratic parties and other can didates will be entered. County or ganizations are being formed, farm ers are put on the advisory com lmlttees and calls are being sent to all federation of labor locals and railway mens' organizations, while prominent brotherhood men are being put on committees. In Oklahoma the organization has taken the name of the "Farmer Labor Reconstruction League" and the re port states that a complete state and congressional ticket will be in the field. At the meeting which perfected the organization, it is asserted that 752 delegates were present, from rall I road brotherhoods, farmers" unions, the Farm Labor Union, organized labor and a hundred socialists. IT Difficult Blaze at Southern Building Results in $7,000 Damage. Two firemen are in Emergency Hos pital and four others were more or less injured as the result of fighting a fire that started in the basement of l the Southern building. 15th and H j streets, shortly after 2 o'clock this ? morning. Private M. A. Carley of No. ! 1 engine company suffered a possible | fracture of a small bone in the right I leg. and Lieut. C. C. Fling of No. 6 truck company was seriously affected i by the smoke and heat. The others injured were: Lieut. F. D. Gibbs and A. E. Sanford of No. 1 engine com pany and Privates C. M. White and Herbert Frj'e of No. 6 truck company. Numerous other members of the de partment suffered from the smoke, heat and gas emanating from the building. Including Fire Chief George S. Watson. Starts in Storeroom. The fire, the origin of which has not ' been determined, started in a store- j room in the northwest corner of the basement of the building, where' a | large quantity of literature and paper ( was stored, and rapidly spread to an adjoining room containing lumber and awnings. Unable to reach the scene of the fire I through the hallway from the lower end of the stairway, the firemen were forced to cut holes through the wood, cement and tile floors of the Guar anty Company of New York, and Frank H. Edmonds, optician, on the 15th street side of the building. Water was then poured through the openings and the cellar flooded. In order to provide additional outlet for the smoke and heat the large wfn dows of business places on the first floor were smashed. These openings also provided a means for the fire ment to get through to the rooms in which the fire was raging. The task of fighting the fire, thief Watson said, was one of the most severe he had ever encountered, be cause of the density of the smoke and the intense heat. Lack of ventila tion hampered progress, he said. More than an hour after the first alarm was turned in. a second one was sounded for the purpose of get ting additional men to take the places of those who had suffered from the heat and smoke. Chief Watson, in commenting on the work of the fire men. said the men who fought the fire were entitled to great commendation j for the bravery displayed. Damage -to the building was esti mated at $7,000. I (SIX ADDITIONAL UNITS |0F U.S. ARMY QUIT EUROPE 1,100 Men. 52 Officers Sail From Antwerp?85 Wives, 28 Children, Honeymoon Detachment. COBLENZ, April 8.?Six more units of the American forces in Germany said farewell to Europe today, 1,100 men and 52 officers leaving Antwerp on the steamship Cantigny. Eighty five soldiers' wives and twenty-eight children also sailed on the Cantigny. the largest number since the depar ture of the honeymoon detachment last JIay. The organizations leaving today were the Headquarters Company of the 1st Brigade, Ambulance Company 56, Hospital Company 57, Motor Trans port Company 63, Service of Supply Company 20. and the 3d Battalion of the 5th Infantry. This reduces the strength of the American Army on the Rhine to 2.600, or t>ne-sixth of the number here a year ago. Boy Music Martyr Yanks Out Tooth So He Can Blow Flute By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 8.?A real martyr to itiuMic ha* been brought to tight by MI?n Win etta L. Stack*, superintendent of the MethodiNt Kpixcopal Dea eoneMMea' Home here. MIm StackN, In deitcribing the effort* to Initiate munie clauses In set tlement work, told of one small boy who confided that his life's ambition was to play the flute. The teacher struggled In vain to teach him, but his lips would not pucker right. Finally the teacher said: "Joe, I guess you will never learn to blow a flute because of the way that front tooth has grown. It is in the way." A few days later the lad's mother returned home to find her son's face bloody, but shin ing with triumph. He had bor rowed pliers and had pulled the tooth. "And at the first recital of the students of the claKs," Miss Stocks concluded, "he blew notes on the flute." MEMORIAL PROBE FAILS IN CONGRESS Mr. Campbell Gives High In dorsement to George Wash ington Association. "The Underhill resolution for an In vestigation of the George Washing ton Memorial Association does not present any matter which is within the jurisdiction of Congress or of the committee on rules," said Representa tive Phillip Campbell of Kan sas, chairman of the rules committee, to day. "The Attorney General of the United States has passed upon the question of this association's right to erect a George Washington me morial building on a certain site of government land in the National Capital." continued Chairman Camp bell. "The President of the United States participated in the exercises of laying the cornerstone. There is nothing now .to prevent this associa tion from going ahead and putting up this building." Representative Campbell explained that he had intimate knowledge re garding the history of the George \\ ashington Memorial Association and the work, that it has been doing. He said that he had so assured Mrs. Henry P. Dlmock, whose guiding hand is in charge of raising funds and preparing for the erection of this memorial and assembly hall. Can Get Money Back. "I am assured by Mrs. Dimoek that if any contributors to the fund in Mas sachusetts, as has b?n resentative Underbill, father of the resolution for investigation, or else where, are desirous of getting back the money they have voluntarily con tributed they can do so by making ap plication in the proper way. "I have been assured and I am fully con\ inced that no funds contributed for this memorial building have been misappropriated, either directly or in directly, and I feel assured that thev will not _be." Chairman Campbell said that the rules committee had considered the Underhill resolution referred to it and decided that it had no jurisdiction as the investigation proposed was not properly within the jurisdiction of Congress and that the committee had refused to take any action upon it. Dlapntr Over Site Settled. A dispute over the right of the me morial association to the site donated by Congress through legislation was settled recently through opinions ren dered by the Attorney General and the judge advocate of the Army, who up held claims of the association. Legislation granting the site at 6th and B streets provided that construction should be started two years after the conclusion of the world war. The de cisions held that the war ottieiallv ended in 1921, and that therefore the association was given permission to ex tend its time, under the law. to 1923, for raising funds and beginning con struction. $15,000 FOUND ON "VAG." Bonds and Certificates Discovered on Intoxicated Stranger. /ALBANY, N. Y., April 8.?A shab bily dressed man. considerably under the influence of liquor, entered a po lice station here early today and asked for a "flop," as vagrants term a place to sleep. When the officers searched his clothing they found lib erty and industrial bonds and war savings certificates amounting to 115,000. The man said at first that he was James Tolson of Wilkes-Barre, l'a? but later said his name was "Josh Jones." He said he had bought the bonds in New York. The envelope containing the securities was ad dressed to Joshua C. Jones, 203 South Main street, Wilkes-Barre. Police officials communicated with the authorities at Wilkes-Barre to -verify the man's statements. CARDINAL MISSES ATTACK. LONDON, April 8.?A Central News dispatch from Rome, dated yesterday, recounts an attempted attack on Car dinal-vicar Pompilj by "an American dressed as a priest." When the man, whose- identity is unknown, called at the vicarage the cardinal, through his secretary, re fused to see him. Thereupon the man struck aryi injured the secretary, Mgr. Candidori. Attendants rushed to the latter's aid. and took a revolver from the assailant, who, however es caped. DISBARRED "FOREVER" FROM JURY SERVICE FOR FREEING BOOTLEGGER Special Dispatch to The Star. FORT SMITH, Ark., April 8.? Disbarred "forever" from future jury service in the Arkansas courts because they insisted upon ac quitting a bootlegger, twelve prominent business men of Fort Smith threatened today to take their "disfranchisement" to the Supreme Court of the United States, if necessary. The prominence of the Jurors? five of them being presidents of large corporations?and the dras tic action of Judge Brizzolaru of sr the circuit court, have created a sensation, and th% wet and dry elements in the state quickly are taking sides. The situation has not been helped to "any great extent by The re-arrest of the acquit4!?.*! boot legger, June Maharf. on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The police s:iy that Ma ban and his friends staged a riot ous party in celebration of his vic tory in the courts. Statement by Judge. ? Judge Brizzolara, In a statement after the disbarment of the jury (Continued on Page 2, Column 3? PLEA OF GOVERNOR TO SEND U.S. TROOPS REFUSEDBYWEEKS Aid Sought in Enforcing Mar tial Law in New Mexi can Coal Field. FEDERAL INTERFERENCE UNWARRANTED, HE SAYS Can Only Act if State Fails to Pre serve Order?Refusal Follows White House Conference. Secretary Weeks today* declined to send federal troops into New Mexico in response to a telegram from Gov. M. C. Mechem, who said he might need them \o preserve order in the Gallup coal fields, where martial law was declared yesterday as a result of dis order incident to the coal strike. The War Secretary's telegram, sent and made public after he had con ferred 011 the matter with President Harding, said: "Unless disorder develops to a point where state authorities are un able to preserve order, federal troops cannot be used in connection with the coal strike." Although Secretary Weeks did not so state, the policy stated in the telegram is understood to l?e the policy of the government with re spect to use of troops in the coal strike, as it has been the govern ment's general policy in times of past emergencies. Mr. Weeks, discussing the matter on leaving the White House. Bald Ihfct the National Guard was available for dealing with any cases of minor dis order that might develop. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. New Mexican Troops Ordered Out Following' Mine Riot. By "the Associated Press. SANTA FE, N. M.. April 8.?Martial law was declared in the Gallup coal | mining fields yesterday afternoon in a proclamation issued by Gov. M. C. Mechem. Headquarters Troop, at Al buquerque. and Troop D of the Na j tional Guard, at Santa Fe, wore or dered at once to the field. THe proclamation was issued after j an appeal from the "sheriff 6f lie I Kinlev county, who reported a riot i at Mentmore camp. No details were j given. The coal strike as applied to the bi ! tuminous fields was declared today, ; by Phil H. I'cnna, secretary of the I Indiana Coal Operators' Association. ; to have resulted, "not because the operators refused to meet the miners, but because some operators refused to deal with the union in the groups which the union desires." Testifying before the House labor l committee, Mr. Penna further de | clared "a contract with the United Mine Workers of America is no long er of value." | "I don't like to tell this committee." ! he continued, "that a mine worker's : contract is no longer good. b?causf | my life has been spent in organizing ; the workers, and promoting collec ! tive bagaining. 1 say it because the claims of veracity compel. "The United Mine Workers do not respect contracts; they have not an honorable record in%the policy, and when men say they do. they speak erroneously. The public is entitled to know that fact." In Indiana "the terms of the con tract made strikes impossible." HARD COAL SALES CUT. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 8.?Union repre sentatives and delegates from the coal operators, who have been in session as a wage negotiations committee, sus (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Big Property Destruction in Storm Sweeping Okla homa and Texas. By the Associated Press. ( BALLING ER. Tex. April 8.?Six I persons were killed, seven injured and I six homes destroyed six miles north I west of Rowena, near here. In a ! tornado which swtfpt that section at ? 1 o'clock this morning. Communica j tion is badly crippled, and it is feared j the death toll will be greater when ? wreckage has been searched. One Killed at Lnwton, ! UWTOX, Okla.. April 8.?One per i son was killed, scores injured, some ? seriously, and extensive property } damage caused by a tornado which I swept Lawton at S o'clock %this morn ing. Telephone poles were leveled in the streets in the vmain business sec tion cf the city, and numerous dwell ings in the outlying sections demol ished. Forty Houaen Destroyed. FORT'WORTH, Tex.. April 8.?A tornado which struck Cisco, Tex.. , near here, early this morning wrecked j the depot and tore down a number j of residences and barns, according to ! first reports received here. j One person was reported killed and I ten injured in advices to railroad offices here. Forty houses and a motion pic ture theater, the Broadway, were de stroyed, according to the report. Plate glass damage in the business section was extensive. Rain which followed the destructive wind flooded ground floors in many stores. One Dead; Several Injured. WICHITA FALLS. Tex., April 8.? One man was killed and several in jured in a tornado which swept Elec tra, near here, early today. Twenty five houses were destroyed in one section of the uva, - :