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MUSTS INVADE1
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Cavalry Appears on Ismid 1
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Peninsula Front 65 Miles 0
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AGREEMENT AT MUDANIA
READY FOR SIGNATURES
Greeks Show Alarm at Terms, Proposing
Evacuation of Thrace
in Ten Days.
T-y tii?- Associated Cress. |
( i i.N'STA.NTlNOrisE. October 5.?
Pritish general headquarters reports
the appearance of Turkish nationalist
cavalry at Kandra, in the Constantinople
neutral zone.
Kandra is approximately sixty-five j
fcniles east of Constantinople, near the
Black sea coast of the Ismid peninsula.
This is the first reported violation
by the Kemalists of the Constantinople
neutral zone, although Turkish
cavalry has repeatedly violated the
neutral zone around Chanak. on the
'southern shore of the Dardanelles.
The Ismid peninsula offers the only i
direct approach on Constantinople for
land forces.
PARIS, October 5.?A special dispatch
from Angora says that ordershave
been issued to the Turkish military
commands to evacuate the neutral
zones in Asia Minor immediately. ;
The Turkish cavalry already has begun
to withdraw from the DardaI
nelles section.
AGREEMENT IS REACHED.
Pact Expected to Be Signed at Mudania
Today.
By the Associated Press. 1 '
PARIS, October 5.?An agreement j
has been reached by the conference
of allied and Turkish military lead- !
ers at Mudania, and will be signed
some time today, according to private |
dispatches received here.
The main lines of the agreement, "
Bays the Figaro, are: f
First, the British and Turks both c
to withdraw from the neutral zone
on the southern shore of the Darda- j c
relies, the British to Gallipoli and - t<
the Turks behind the line formed-by f]
the rivers Granicous and Seamander; E
Second, the Turks agree that the ?
allies remain in Constantinople dur- J*(
ing the peace negotiations, on ?on- J
dition that Kemalist civil authorities s
are also installed there.
Third, the Greek army to evacu- ^
nte Thrace within ten days. If the r"
Greek government refuses to give the ^
necessary orders, the allied fleets are P
to blockade the Greek ports and the
Kemalist forces cross the Dardanelles -A
nnd drive the Greek troops out of ?!
Thrace. w
The dispatches do not say whether tl
the Greek representatives accepted
these conditions.
Constantinople advices late last
night said the Mudania conference
was on the verge of an agreement on ol
all points of the Turkish proposals u;
with the exception of that relating ! g,
to the allied occupation of the west- i jr
? rn line of the Maritza river in j m
Thrace, and that argument on this j 0j
was still proceeding. The allies jr
were said to have agreed to turn over i fc
Thrace to the Turkish army within
thirty days and to have secured the
assent of the Turks to the establishment
of a definite line of demarca- d,
tion between the British and Kemal- cj
ists in the Chanak zone, placing them
out of rifle shot of each other.
GREEKS SHOW ALARM.
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Say Their Representatives Have a
Not Had Opportunity. p
pr th?? Associated Press. ^
ATHENS. October 5.?Consternation
was caused h^re by a Constantinople
wireless message picked up ft
late last night by a local station, C(
purporting to give the armistice con- w
ditions arranged by the Turks and tl
the allies at the Mudania conference.
m
The conditions outlined in the mes- n
sage include the occupation of eastern <j(
Thrace by allied forces and Turkish Vj
gendarmes up to the line of the River jg
Maritza and evacuation of the fc
province within ten days by the
Greek army, failing which the allied
fleets would blockade Greece.
Government officials declare the B
Greek delegates have not yet had an tl
opportunity to present their views at P;
Mudania. and efforts to confirm the h
above report are being made. ' it
Consider Appeal to V. S. J d<
It is understood that the officials
are considering an appeal to the w
United States for assistance in ob- tl
taining a Just solution of the ^
Thracian question.
The Mudania conference ie being b<
watched by the Greeks with mingled B
fears and hopes. To save Thrace, J
dethrone Constantine, oust the gov- m
ernment and punish those who in-1
capably governed Greece In fhe past I (t
was the popular basis for the recent u
revolution. It will be exceedingly a<
difficult for those now governing 'c
Greece to tell their followers that t?
the chief aim of the revolution?the P:
retention of Thrace ? cannot be
achieved.
The suggestion is made that if B
oriental Thrace must be lost Greece bl
insist upon some kind of autonomous ,
rule the?e, and. above all, an agree- '
ment that no Turkish troops shall J:
exercise dominion over the country? E
in other words, Turkish sovereignty
withour military control. la
Gen. Nider has been appointed com- J'
tnander-in-chlef of the Greek army. tc
The government hopes further to reJnforce
the army through the popular "j
all for volunteers for service until "J
the end of the conflict with Turkey,
Issued by the minister of war yes- J?
terday. ?'
Greece reels that her readiness to vi
defend Thrace mast be taken Into ac- 1*
count both in arranging the armistice
and later at the peace conference.
BANS MAINE HUNTING. [\,
AUGUSTA, Me., October 5.?Maine's ?l
hunting season which opened Monday
has come to an abrupt close by 9 de
proclamation from Gov. Baxter sua- of
pending the season and prohibiting pc
the carrying'of firearms in the woods, to
This action was taken because of a at
serious outbreak of forest fires. The mi
ban on hunting will be lifted, it or
was announced, should heavy rains vo
drench out the fires. tli
U. S. Destroyer
Reported Fired
On by the Turks
The report that an American destroyr
was bombarded by the Turks while
aking off refugees at Aivali, a town
torth of Smyrna, first carried in a
Neuter's dispatch from Athens, is related
in a dispatch from Athens recited
today by the Greek legation. The
egation dispatch gave no details.
Neither the Navy nor the State department
today had any confirmation
f the reported attack.
MOP I3UFTC GFT
h#IIWI Will II I M Mkl
24 HOURS MORE TO
ANSWERU.S. SUIT
3ichberg Charges Lack of
Good Faith on Part of
United States.
ly the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 5.?Counsel for
he striking: railway shop crafts tolay
were given another twenty-four
lours to file their answer to the government's
suit for a nation-wide pernanent
injunction.
Donald Richberg, attorney for the
hop craft leaders, criticized the attiude
of Attorney General Daugherty
tnd Solicitor General Beck and at
emptea 10 reaa lnio me ret-u?u a,
ong letter to Mr. Beck, but on obection
of Blackburn Esterline, the
issistant solicitor general. Judge
ames H. Wilkerson stopped the
eading.
Mr. Richberg suggested that the
ourt call in the other two circuit
udges to assist in trying the case,
eeerving the right to make a formal
notion to that effect later if the court
ejected the suggestion. He argued
hat the government's bill was sufficient
notice on which to call the
ther judges, within the meaning of
he law providing for the tiling of
t certificate by the Attorney General.
?he argument will be continued tonorrow.
Mr. Richbepg also served notice he
vi! 1 present a motion asking for a
ill of particulars from the governnent
before filing his answer.
Say* Good Faith Lacking.
Mr. Richberg accused the Pepartient'
of Justice of lack of good
aith in the proposal to expedite
inal disposition of the injunction
ase against the rail strike leaders.
He declared that he and associate
ounsel had "held a very unsatisfactory
conference" with Beck after a
utile attempt to see Attorney General
augherty in Washington with refrence
to an early final hearing or a
eview of the interlocutor*injunction
anded down by Judge XvTikflWfl; on
eptember 25.
The shop crafts' attorney said he
ould "seek to obtain protection of the
ights of the defendants through orders
rhich the court may enter and through
rocedure, which the court may adopt,
espite the manifest opposition of the
attorney General to the entry of any
rder or the adoption of any procedure
rhich will protect the defendants from
le abuse of official power."
Rapa Equity Procedure.
VThe use of the summary equity pro?dure
to obtain a tentative conviction
f 400,000 men of criminal conspiracy
pon evidence found solely in an undiested
mass of ex parte affidavits seeklg
with hearsay and perjury, has been
lade the means of depriving these men
f liberty and property so long as the
iterlocutory injunction remains in
>rce," the letter said.
Safeguards protecting "the vilest,
tost notorious criminal caught redanded
have been denied to 400,000 inastrious,
law-abiding citizens and their
losen leaders," the letter continued.
WOULD APPEAL DIRECT.
An invitation that an agreement
e reached between the government
nd counsel for the striking shopmen
? to the facts in the Chicago injuncon
case, was the basis of the proosal
made by the Department of
ustice to Donald R. Richberg, attorey
for the shopmen, in answer to
is request for information as to the
epartment's attitude regarding ef>rts
to expedite further judicial
>nsideration.
Solicitor General Beck, in a letter
ritten to Mr. Richberg following
le latter's appearance here early
kis week, suggested that- the shopten
counsel submit such a statetent
of stipulated facts, which the
+ 1,1 mill, ?
cpat iiiicuv nuuiu vunniuci nam u>
lew to deciding whether It was satfactory
to the government as a basis
>r further action.
XVonld Hasten Appeal.
Acceptance of such a statement. Mr.
eck pointed out. would eliminate
?e necessity of taking thousands of
ages of testimony and thus would
ave the effect of materially hastenig
the appeal.
In case counsel for the shopmen
ecllned to agree to such stipulation,
[r. Beck said, two courses only
;emed open to the government. One
as that the testimony producted in
ic preliminary hearing before Judge
"ilkerson be accepted as final testimony
for the ultimate hearing and
le appeal on constitutional grounds
e carried out. In such case, Mr.
eck said, the government would be
'tiling to lend its every assistance to
cpedlte ^ch appeal. The only remaining
course, the Solicitor General
lid, would be to proceed with the
ise In the ordinary* judical manner,
iking testimony throughout the
nlted States regarding the various
cts of alleged Illegality which foltwed
the strike call and completing
> the last detail the government's
reparation for defense of an appeal.
Favors Direct Appeal.
"It seems to the department," Mr.
eck's letter continued, "that the
st method of expediting the cause
to follow the course which would
srmit of a direct appeal to the Sureme
Court of the United States,
resumably that court will, sooner or
,ter. be called upon to consider the
sspective contentions of the parties
i this litigation; and even If,the
>urse which you suggested, of ljavor
thrnp rirr.nit luderes sit hr a rnnrt
' first instance, were now practicae,
in view of the fact that a district
idge already has taken cognizance
1 the case, the cause would not be
cpedlted, but, in our Judgment, deyed."
DISCUSS PABCEL POST.
OTTAWA, October 5.?A suggestion
om the United States postal authorise
that the present four pound six
ince weight limit on parcel post bereen
the United States and Canada be
tsed was debated yesterday, without a
cdsion being rendered, at a conference
Canadian postal offlcials called by the
istmaster general as the preliminary
a coming parley between representives
of both countries. Some officials
alntalned that If the limit were ineased
to eleven pounds, the incoming
ilurae would be Increased Ave to six
nes.
10100 DROWNED
IN SEEKING REFUGE
EROMFOREST FIRE
Victims Crowded From
Wharf While Trying to
Board Rescue Ship.
5,000 LEFT HOMELESS
BY FLAMES IN CANADA
Property Loss Will Run Into Millions;
Fire Is Still
Burning.
NORTH BAY, Ontario, October 3.?
Forest fire refugees arrived here today
from Haileybury and reported
that between 50 and 100 persons had
been drowned when they were crowded
from a dock where they were trying
to board a rescue ship.
Another report brought by the refugees
was that scores had been injured
and several trampled to death
when flames swept the Catholic
Church and caused a panic among
hundreds who had gathered there for
safety.
Among the refugees who arrived on
the boat were Michael Burns, his wife
and five children, who were rescued
from their blazing home at Haileybury,
on Hake Temiskaming. They declared
the crush at the dock was indescribable
and that many were pushed,
screaming into the water.
Train Service Crippled.
"At least fifty were drowned, and
possibly a hundred," declared A. P.
Whitlock, a traveling representative
of Swift & Co., who was badly burned
about the arms and haiids. He had
got the bums while working with a
rescue squad at North Cobalt.
The T. and N. O. railroad Is selling
"blind" passage to refugees who wish
to leave North Bay. It agrees to
take them only so far as the line
may still be found to be passable.
Motor scouters go out ahead of the ;
trains to investigate the tracks which';
in many places have been warped out |
of shape by the heat of burning freight'
cars.
The entire countryside is covered !
j with dense smoke. I
Soon after midnight George W. Lee, I
chairman of the Temlakaming and ;
Northern Ontario railway issued this j
statement concerning the Ore now raging
north country: 1
"Over wee thousand people have been
rendered homeless. The loss of life Is
considerable and is mounting*. The
towns of Haileybury, 3,500 people;
j North Cobalt, 1,000; Charlton, 500 and
Heaslip, 250, are totally destroyed, and
the town of Englehart has been partially
destroyed. That part of New Liskeard
west of the Temiskaming and Northern
Ontario tracks has been totally destroyed.
"The situation at Cobalt is clear. ,
There is a small fire burning one mile
away with a mild southwest wind j
blowing. {
"Three trains with twenty-four
cars, containing 1,400 refugees, have
left Cobalt for North Bay. Other
trains are being prepared as rapidly
as possible.
"The property loss will obviously !
run into millions of dollars. The I
fire is still burning briskly, fanned j
by a subsiding wind.
"There is no prospect of rain and
the fire will have to burn itself out.
"The T. and N. O. tracks fronting
the stations at Haileybury, North
Cobalt and Heaslip were destroyed,
the ties burned and the rails warped.
xt 10 iinijuooiuic lu ma.iiiua.iii iramc. j ,
"This is the hardest blow the north
country has ever received."
SIX TOWNS DESTROYED.
By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, October 5.?The forest
fires which have been rasing- for the
past twenty-four hours In two widely
separated regions of Canada?northern
Ontario and the valley of the St.
Maurice river, In Quebec?have cost a
number of lives, destroying six towns
and, according to reports, reaching
the Canadian capital- this morning,
now threatens other towns unless
rain comes quickly.
North Liiskeard was today added to
the list of destroyed north Ontario
towns. Two stone houses alone mark
the spot where the village had been.
It is believed several inhabitants perished.
Other Towns in Peril.
Firefighters reported that it would
be almoBt Impossible to prevent the
fire from reaching other towns along
the Temlskaming and Northern Ontario
railway.
The St. Maurice valley conflagration
was swooping down early today
from the mountains to the village of
St. Mathieu de Caxton, which was already
surrounded by flames and to
Shawlnigan, Grandmere and Grande
Piles, which were covered by a heavy
smoke pall. Quick action by fire ,
fighters saved the village of St. Lambert
in Shawlnigan.
The first relief train from -Cobalt arrived
at North Bay today with BIO j
refugees, who were immediately lodged ,
in private homes, churches and public ,
institutions.
More Trains Rushed. I
Other trains were rushed to Cobalt !
to remove thousands of homeless refu
gees, who fllocked there from the destroyed
towns. I
The sisters of Providence Hospital,
the Roman Catholic Anglican, Metho- 1
dlst, Baptist and Presbyterian !
churches and the new courthouse of
Halleybury were burned to the ground
by the flames which destroyed the
town in less than two hours. Inmates
r\t thA Vinanttol teara wammw.j ?? ? *?
mobiles to Cobalt. t
Premier Drury arrived in North Bay
early today to keep in the relief work
with George Lee, chairman of the T.
& N. O. railway.
Smoke Pall Over Montreal.
MONTREAL, October 5.?Montreal
was overshadowed with dense smoke
today from the many forest fires that
are raging throughout the eastern
portion of the province of Quebec.
The sky was hidden by a gray pall,
making the burning of electric .light
in the city's offices necessary. The
odor of burnin wood was in the air.
Ships on the St. Lawrence were
being navigated with great caution.
XT. S. ELECTRON EXPERT QUITS
Dr. Lewi* M. Hull, who for several
years has been engaged in studies of
eleotron tubes in the radio laboratory
of the bureau of standards, has reI
signed to accept a position as director
of research of the Radio frequency
Laboratories at Boonton, N. J.
i
News Note: Mrs. Senator Felt
YANKEES PIN HOPES
ON SHAWKEY'S ARM
Barnes Giants' Choice to Oppose
Huggins' Crowd in
Second Game.
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By the Associated Press.
POLO GROUNDS, N. Y.. October 5 ?
Robert Shawkey yclept "Bob the Gob"
and curveball flinger extraordinary of
the New York Yankees, faced the Giants
this afternoon in the second joust of
the world's series tournament. The
Rational Leaguers having won the
initial tilt. Manager Huggins sent
Shawkey to the pitching mound to
baffle the Giants In their course with
his mystifying hooks and fast ball.
Jess Barnes stood ready to oppose
8hawkey. The Giants, coming on the
field this afternoon as the visitor's
club, believe they have the series as
good as won.
"We have the Indian sign on the \
Yankees," said Frank Frisch, the
Giants' middle sacker, "and I think
the Yanks are beginning to thjnk so.
They have never won a series from the
Giants. You know psychology plays
an important part in the old game."
The Yanks threw off the gloom this
afternoon of their first defeat and hoped
to emerge from the batting slump
that has gripped them since the beginning
of the last five games of the
American League season.
Babe Rath Hopefnl.
"Old man psychology ain't playing
In this series," said Babe Ruth, talking
at the clubhouse about Indian
signs. "When I see him pinch hitting
for me or out there sending them
past the batters I'll give him a tumble.
Anyhow, his name is not in the
list of eligible players."
Huggins brought his players on the
Held early and put them through a
long batting practice. The mite manager
said his club would probably
start to hitting on all cylinders at
once, and there would be a batting
orgy of unrestrained violence.
Some thirty-odd thousand folk came
out to see the sport, but the earlyrush
for the unreserved sections was
missing, and the crowd filtered into
the upper stands and bleachers as
slowly as on some late September
day when the cellar champions are,
playing the home folks in foot ball
weather. *
Weather Inspires Hurlers.
The reserve stands, sold out to capacity
for the series, did not fill up
until the players took their fielding
workout. October had resurrected a
day from July's hot wave and another
sultry afternoon gave the pitchers an
incentive to turn on their speed.
Nick Altrock and A1 Schacht, buffoons
of base ball, came out to amuse
the early comers with their antics,
while a brass band whlled away the
minutes that dragged until "Babe"
Ruth and company, garbed In home
uniforms of white, broke Into the picture
through the wooden gate that
leads from the clubhouse to the playing
Held.
The bleacher crowd began to assemble
at midnight and he was still
there at 7 o'clock waiting for the
gates to open. About 6 o'clock he
had company. Eight big patrolmen
arrived and with customary vigor
saw to it that the line kept strict
order.
The crowd was Raymond Degeer of
9tamford, Conn., and he formed his
own line, held his own place and did
his own resting as the best he could,
while the policemen watched him to
see that he did not get unruly.
The batteries for today's game were
J. Barnes ana onyaer xor me vjinma \
and 9hawkey and Schang for the Yankees.
Pitchers Are Photographed.
Murray, right-hander, served up
some round-house curves for the
Yankees to hit, and It was noticed
that Ruth was choking his bat and
shortening his swing. Bob Shawkey
was the only Yankee pitcher to
Cake part In the batting practice.
The winners of yesterday's fray
with their traveling uniforms of
gray, with white stockings, were
welcomed with loud cheers as they
inarched across the field. The friendliest
feelings seem to prevail among
Che players of the opposing nines.
They hobnobbled with each other,
nade mental calculations of the size
>f the crowd and possible box office
-ecelpts, while "Irish" Meusel of the
ilanta and Wally Pipp, Yank flrstlacker,
quiently debated the relative
nerlts of their war clubs. Meanwhile
less Barnes and Bob Shawkey, prospective
pitchers, were photographed
ihaklng and wishing each other suc:ess,
perhaps
The bleachers were packed to ca>aclty
when the Giants began their
>attlng practice, while there were 4
mly a few vacant seats left in the upw
reserved stand, with the crowd
itlll pouring In.
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she may
on's successor will be elected be!
Entire Country
By Record-Bn
All records for drought have been i
broken in the District by the present 1
rainless period, as part of the penoral
widespread drought throughout
the country which the weather bu- \
reau cliaracterized as "serious" today.
Not a trace of rain has been registered
by the weather bureau here 1
since 4:30 a.m., September 12, making (
a total of twenty-three days during
which not a drop of rain has fallen
here. Fair weather, with no change
in sight, was forecast locally by the '
bureau today.
Crops Threatened.
This is tho season of the year when
droughts seem to occur, according to '
weather bureau records, but in the
past the rainless periods were not
as long in duration, nor as widespread
in the serious damage now
MONTANA POLITICS1
nnnrnn nil nivnu i
mmuit uiAun
Governor Is Storm Center, i
But Not a Candidate, in
Senate Race.
BV DAVID LAWRENCE.
HELENA. Mont.. October 5.?Politics '
In Montana, as in Iowa, Wisconsin I
and North Dakota, is topsy turvy. <
Persons?and not parties?are domin- 1
ant. There are no national issues. '
Whether a man labeled republican 1
or another labeled democrat goes to 1
the Unifed States Senate turns on 1
state issues and here, as in North
Dakota, the democratic candidate is 1
a conservative, while the man who ^
won the republican primaries is tied :
up with the radical elements to such 1
an extent that old-line republicans 1
will be found supporting the demo- '
"" I" in lnrp-p niimliprs. '
Speaking of persons, instead of
parties, Gov. Joseph Dixon is responsible
for the upheaval in Montana.
He will be remembered as having
represented th.ls state in the United
States Senate and as one of the
original insurgents who managed Col.
Roosevelt's pre-convention fight for
the presidency in 1912. He was elected
governor two years ago on the
regular republican ticket. He won
many democratic votes because he
was considered a conservative, as
compared with B. K. Wheeler, former
United States .attorney, who, with the
help of the Non-Partisan League, became
the democratic nominee for
governor.
Democrats Back Wheeler.
Today Mr. Wheeler is running for ;
the United States Senate and the old- 1
(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.)
The Worl
' A S usual, The Star will (
** Washington full and c?
lights on the world series,
will be In operation everj
street side of The Star fa
Yankees or Giants win fe
title. Each play will be
simultaneously depicted a
Grounds.
A corps of special wr
Associated Press, will als
from all angles. These
Thompson, sporting editoi
Foster, dean of the base 1
try, and Ring Lardner, w
and inimitable conceptions
; * . I -s - ,
Fore the convening of Congress.
Threatened
taking Drought
threatening- to crops in all parts of
the United States.
From Seeptember 14 to October 6,
1910. was the greateest period of
drought in the District in the past,
but on two days during that period
slight traces of rain were registered
by the instruments at the weather
bureau. In contrast to that, the j
present period has been absolutely
"bone dry." From September 13 to
October 3, last year, also was rainless.
Forced to Give Up Farming.
On account *>f the record-breaking
downpour of September 2 last, when \
5.16 inches of rain fell, the September j
rainfall here was 3.59 inches above
the average September, but this was
solely due to the big rain of September
2.
bearing first-hand information as
to the extent of the present drought
in the great gram aiaies 01 me miauie |
(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
WOULD ERECT NEW
U.S.BUJLDINGSNOW
Commission Anxious to Replace
Old War Structures
Near Potomac Park.
Early erection of modern office
buildings for the government on the
plots of land west of 17th street, north I
if B street, now occupied by temporary
government buildings, which sites are
being purchased under a special appropriation
of J1,BOO,000. is contemplated
by the Public Buildings Commission.
This commission, consisting of a
ihairman and ranking members of the
Bouse and Senate committees on public
buildings and grounds, the architects
of the Capitol, supervising archi> j
tects of the Treasury and the officer j
in charge of public grounds in the 1
:ity of Washington, is enthusiastically '
behind any public buildings bill which i
Fill give additional government-owne i
buildings In Washington to house all
goverlnment activities. It is the hope
- * ~ W ^ !
jA iiiciuuci o wi una vuiiiiiiinoivii, an
well as members of the House and
Senate committees on public buildincs
and grounds, that such a public buildings
bill for the National Capital can
be put through in the next session of
Congress.
Asks Better Car Service.
Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of :
the public buildings commission, has j
addressed a letter to the chairman j
af the Public Utilities Commission
expressing the hope that a way can'
be found to afford increased transportation
facilities for that section
bounded on the north by Pennsylva(Continued
on Page 2, Column 5.)
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' week day on the 11th
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will include Denman
r of The Star; John B.
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will give his unique
of the big battles.
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NEEDS OF PUBLIC
LIBRARY SET FORTH
BY THETRUSTEES
Annual Report Shows an Increased
Use of the Book
Collection.
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ESTIMATES FOR SUPPORT
MUST RUN THE GAUNTLET
Southeast Branch Soon to Be Opened?Mount
Pleasant Branch
Next to Be Built.
The development of the Public
j Library system, its achievements, the
extension of its service, with the support
required for its enlarging: work,
are covered in the report of the board
of trustees, filed with the District
Commissioners today.
! The report, signed by Theodore W.
Xoyes, president of the library board,
points out the increase in the use |
of the present library plant, which j
circulated from the main library and
the Takoma Park branch over a mil- j
lion volumes lasCyear; and the defi- i
nite progress that has been made to- '
ward securing additional branches for }
extending the library's usefulness.
"The southeastern branch, with site
nurrha sod hv tnunicinal armropria
i tion and with building donated by !
the Carnegie Corporation, is now
nearly completed," the report states,
"and will soon be open to the public !
; and utilized for the benefit of the
i 40,000 Washingtonians in that section
of the city.
| Mount Pleasant Branch Next.
j "For the Mount Pleasant branch, j
the next to be built, in accordance :
I
| with the librarian's plan as approved
' by the trustees, the promise of $100,;
000 for the building has been made
by the Carnegie Corporation and an i
option at a reasonable price upon a :
most desirable site has been secured, ?
and a municipal appropriation by !
Congress to purchase this site is confidently
anticipated." '
"Extension through library branches
in new school buildings is making
practical and encouraging headway.
The new Eastern High School library
j is to be opened," it Is announced, "in
February, 1923, and two other school
libraries ? in the Macfarland and,
| the Langley junior high schools?are
promised for September, 1923. The
board of education and the board of
trustees, through the superintendent
| of schools and the public librarian,
are laboring earnestly and effectively 1
to develop the proposed system of
public school branch libraries, whose
necessity and great public usefulness
are manifest.
Running the Gauntlet.
"Library development," the report
continues, "is retarded by the fact
! that the trustees' showing of library
needs and of appropriations and legislation
to meet them do not get to
Congress for consideration in their
original shape, but only in mutilated
form after running the gantlet of
cutting and slashing by Commission- j
ers and the bureau of the budget. Too
often appropriation committees have
refused even to consider any District I
appropriative proposals except those i
which have been approved and submitted
through the Commissioners,
and recently the bureau of the
budget, and too often it has resulted
from this policy that when subcommittee
hearings have been granted
the trustees they have enjoyed only
the privilege of explaining and detending
inadequate proposals, which
they have not made, in a shape they
can neither explain nor defend.
"Since the library, by the organic
act of 1S96. is declared to be a "supplement
of the educational system of
the District.' the trustees urge that
their estimates of library needs in
respect to items and amounts should
go to Congress for possible consideration
along with the estimates as altered
by Commissioners and bureau
of the budget, just as the estimates of
the board of education in respect to
the public educational system (of
which the library is a supplement)
are, under the provisions of the law,
thus forwarded."
The two primary needs and aims
which the trustees would like to take
in full to Congress are: One. strengthening
of the Central Library, (a) by
increase of pay of the force, (b) by
increasing the numbers of the force
and (c) by adequate new book accesc4r?r?c
nnri two, extension of scoDe
of library's usefulness, (a) through
branch libraries and (b) through
library stations and branches in
school buildings.
Increased Appropriation Required.
The growth of the library service
and its development through branches
have made it necessary to ask for
large increases in the appropriations,
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Area of Ten Feet
Gets Rain, Rest
Of Town Dry
Special Dispatch to The Star. ^
ALEXANDRIA, October b.?rne
residents of a ten-foot section of
Washington street have been
treated to the doubtful plea-suro
of being rained upon since Friday,
while their neighbors, only a few
feet distant, have been basking in
the bright October sunshine.
The phenomenon presents a situation
that is interesting scientists
and laymen alike. Last Friday
rain began to drizzle down upon a
section of Washington street near
Wolfe, not more than ten feet
square. It gradually increased in
volume until It reached the proportions
of a fairly heavy shower.
Since, that time the rain has continued.
sometimes heavy and at
others melting away to a barely
perceptible drizzle. But never has
the rain moved from its len-foot
area, falling there with such regularity
that one might imagine it
to be coming from a hose directed
at the spot.
Weather bureau officials, queried
concerning Alexandria's "wet
spot," declared It was "most remarkable,
indeed," adding that it
was a "physical impossibility."
The Star's correspondent, however,
is known to be a truthful as
well as abstemious man.
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DISTRICT ASSURED
FINANCIAL NEEDS
BY BUDGETBUREAU
Gen. Lord Promises Aid In
So Far as Funds Are
Available.
LIKELY TO CONFER WITH
COMMISSIONERS AGAIN
Further Meeting Promised on D. C.
Heads' Bequest for Supplementary
Allowance.
/
All needs of the District of Columbia
will be provided for in so far as
funds are available during the next
fiscal year, Gen. II. M. Lord, director
of the budget, told members of the
Twentieth Century Club, this afternoon
at a meetiag In the Cosmos Club
annex.
"The District is going to be provided
for in everything it needs as far as
funds are available," Gen. Lord said.
"I don't know how much the estimates
will total. But the general
policy will be to withhold appropriations
only where there is the least
damage done by such action."
Details Budget Bureau Work.
This substantially was the only reference
to the District of Columbia
finances made by Gen. Lord, in a halfan-hour
talk to members of the club.
He reviewed the national situation
in detail, however, defining the system
used by the budget bureau in assigning
appropriations. He reviewed
also the steps taken by the budget
bureau from the time the estimates
arrived to the final hearings upon
them in his office. His talk covered
action of the forty-two independent
offices of the government and the
action of the bureau of the budget
upon their requests for appropriations.
j nree main points ne empnasizea
regarding: the system employed in
cutting down superficial expenditures
of the government. He said that the
budget bureau was proceeding to institute
a system whereby expenditures
would be cut down, lirst, by
actual saving from current appropriation;
secondly, by postponement of
expenditures until absolutely necessary,
and, finally, by increasing revenue
from established sources.
Favors Tax Reduction.
He declared emphatically a position
against increasing taxation, but
maintained, on the contrary, that
taxes, if anything, should be reduced
"The country is now fretting under
the burden of taxation," he said.
"We should, strive now not for more
additional tastes, but for a reduction
in taxation."
The meeting was presided over by
Mrs. William H. Herron. The morning
was taken up with submission of
reports by officers and committee
chairmen. Miss Creel y, expert in
domestic architecture, delivered a
short address upon beautification of
the home, advocating the improvement
of grounds surrounding it as
one of the fine necessities for improving
domestic architecture.
The following new members were
elected: Mrs. 'Jeorge B. Richardson.
Mrs. Russell B. Taylor. Mrs. Rosalee
McCormick Smithy. Mrs. Morris B.
Sable, and Mrs. El wood G. Way.
Likely to Call Commissioners.
Officials of the bureau of the budget
probably will call upon the Commissioners
of the District or their
representatives to appear before the
whole board of estimates again, in
consideration of the District's appeal
for a supplementary allowance to the
$24,500,000 budget restriction tentatively
placed by the budget bureau.
When the Commissioners will be
called has not as yet been determined.
it was said today at the Treasury,
but in all likehood it probably
will not be before the last of next
week or the week following.
Preparing for 1024.
The general plan of the board of estimates,
which goes over the budgetary
requests of all the government departments,
is now to complete the initial
hearings, so as to get a complete
bird's-eye picture of the whole federal
financial problem for the year 1924.
Various departments are being heard
by the board of estimates, while budget
officials are holding conferences
on the side with representatives of the
department with which they are especially
charged.
Capt. Redmond D. Stephens, who has
the District and other estimates in his
fore they are asked to appear before
the whole board of estimates, but it is
the general plan, according to information
gleaned today at the Treasury-, for
the Commissioners or their representatives
to be called in after the whole
governmental "picture" has been
sketched, and comparisons made, to
put forth their claims to the additional
appropriation which the District needs.
Hearings Soon to Close.
The last of the initial hearings from
departments will probably take place
the middle of next week, it was
learned, after which officials will then
go more into detail, and be able from
their new perspective t?.get more accurate
knowledge of the comparative
value of the various needs brought
to their attention.
Officials of the budget have declined
, rt nnmmit (hdmoalvac n *
date to any course of action In the
consideration of the District budget,
except to give full and sympathetic
hearing.
When the board of estimates comes
to consider the District needs, following
the presentation of the entire fiscal
picture for the year 1924, It is
the hope of the Commissioners, that
the urgent needs of the District, especially
with regard to streets,
schools and certain other matters,
will present themselves with more
strength than before.
LENIN SAVED FROM NOISE
Room Lined With Cork and Private
Elevator Installed.
MOSCOW. October 5.? The walls of
Nikolai Lenin's sleeping room in the
Kremlin have been lined with cork
in order that he may be immune to
noises. A private elevator, to the
apartment hir been installed.
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